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Broder Singers
Broder or Bröder is a surname. Notable people with the surname Broder / Bröder include: *Andrei Broder (born 1953), Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo! *Andrew Broder (1845–1918), Ontario farmer and merchant, member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1911 *Annie Glen Broder (1857–1937), Canadian musician *Berl Broder (1817–1868), Ukrainian Jew and the most famous of the Broder singers *David S. Broder (1929–2011), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist for ''The Washington Post'', and professor at the University of Maryland *Gavin Broder (born 1959), former chief Rabbi of Ireland *Henryk Broder (born 1946), German journalist, columnist for the daily newspaper ''Die Welt'' *Melissa Broder (born 1979), poet and writer *Mirko Bröder (1911–1943), Hungarian–Serbian chess master *Samuel Broder, co-developer of anti AIDS drugs and former Director of the National Cancer Institute See also *Broda (other) *Brod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Broder
Andrei Zary Broder (born April 12, 1953 in Bucharest) is a distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he was a research fellow and vice president of computational advertising for Yahoo!, and before that, the vice president of research for AltaVista. He has also worked for IBM Research as a distinguished engineer and was CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Education and career Broder was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1953. His parents were medical doctors, his father a noted oncological surgeon. They emigrated to Israel in 1973, when Broder was in the second year of college in Romania, in the Electronics department at the Bucharest Polytechnic. He was accepted at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in the EE Department. Broder graduated from Technion in 1977, with a B.Sc. summa cum laude. He was then admitted to the PhD program at Stanford, where he initially planned to work in the systems area. His first adviser was Prof. John L. Hennessy. After r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Broder
Andrew Broder (April 16, 1845 – January 4, 1918) was an Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure. He represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1886 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1911 as a Conservative member. He was born in Franklin, Huntingdon County, Canada East in 1845, the son of Irish immigrants. He was educated at academies in Huntingdon and Malone, New York. Broder served in the militia during the time of the Fenian raids. He settled at West Winchester, Ontario in 1868 and set up in business there as a merchant. His election in 1875 was appealed but he was reelected in the by-election that followed and represented Dundas in the provincial assembly for eleven years. Broder was a customs agent at Morrisburg from 1892 to 1896, resigning this post to run for a seat in the House of Commons. He married Caroline Summers and his son Fred later became customs collector at Morrisburg. He was the maternal uncle of Aaron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Glen Broder
Annie Glen Broder ( – 19 August 1937), born in India and educated in England, was a teacher, singer, pianist, composer, lecturer and writer. She became a leading musician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Early life and career She was born Eliza Ann Glen in Agra, India, a daughter of the Reverend William Glen, a missionary, and Eliza Harriet Davis. She was educated in England, and won a scholarship to the National Training School for Music, of which the principal was Arthur Sullivan; she was educated there as singer and pianist."Glen, Annie (baptized Eliza Ann) (Broder)" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 7 March 2019. In the 1880s and 1890s she gave singing recitals, and performed as an accompanist. She gave lectures about piano accompaniment, with musical examples, in many cities in England, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berl Broder
Berl Broder (1817–1868), born Berl Margulis, was a Ukrainian Jew born in Podkamen,https://archive.org/details/nybc207372 Dray doyres̀: lider fun Berl Broder (Margulies), feliṭonen fun Yom Hatsyoni (Yitsḥaḳ Margulies), poemen un lider fun Ber Margulies (1957) the most famous of the Broder singers (19th century Jewish singers comparable to the troubadours or Minnesänger) and reputed the first to be both a singer and an actor.Bercovici 1998. His nickname is the origin of the term ''Broder singer''.Roskies 1999, p. 94. Thirty of his songs survive; of these, 24 are in the form of dialogues, usually between craftsmen such as tailors or shoemakers; his songs are seen as a precursor to Yiddish theater. His childhood was taken up with religious studies at home, until his father's death when he was 16. A handsome, bright young man with a good voice, he taught himself the violin. He worked briefly as a brushmaker; his co-workers became his first audience, calling him "Berl der vertl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David S
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
