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Weidenfeld
Weidenfeld may refer to: People with the surname * Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881–1965), the Chief Rabbi of ''Tshebin'' (Trzebinia), Poland * Edward Weidenfeld (fl. 1971–1991), American lawyer * George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld (1919–2016), British publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist * Nick Weidenfeld (born c. 1979), American television producer and executive * Annabelle Whitestone, Lady Weidenfeld, (born c. 1946), English former concert manager Other * Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British publisher See also * * Wiedenfeld (other) * Wiesenfeld (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Berish Weidenfeld
Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881–1965) was the Chief Rabbi of Tshebin (Trzebinia), Poland, and after World War II spent his final years in Jerusalem. His principal work of Jewish law is titled "''Dovev Meisharim''". Biography Dov Berish was born in Hrimlov, Galicia (now Ukraine) on 5 January 1881 (5 Shvat 5641 in the Jewish calendar) to his father Jacob 'Yekele' Weidenfeld, rabbi of the town and author of the responsa ''Kochav miYaakov''. With Reb Yekele's death shortly before Beirish's Bar Mitzvah, the delicate task of raising a new prodigy fell to his widow – herself renowned for her genius and wit (she wrote a great number of her husband's responsa on dictation) and to her two older sons: Reb Yitzchak, who replaced his late father as Rav of Hrimlov and Reb Nachum, Rav of Dombrovo and author of the Chazon Nachum, and later celebrated as a great posek in his own right. By age 19 Reb Beirish entered by marriage into the illustrious family of Rav Yisroel Yoseif HaCh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Weidenfeld
Edward L. Weidenfeld, (July 15, 1943 – December 29, 2022) was an American lawyer. He was co-founder and co-manager, Phyto Management, LLC, a licensed medical cannabis cultivator and Co-Founder and Co-Manager of Maryland Cultivation and Processing, Washington, DC. He was also the former counsel to the United States House Committee on Insular Affairs from 1971–1973 and counsel to the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign. As the founder of the Weidenfeld Law Firm, P.C. in Washington, D.C., he was an attorney specializing in estate and asset protection law. He also served as co-chair of the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University, was a board member and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, and sat on the Advisory Board of the Bureau of National Affairs. Weidenfeld was named one of the Top 75 lawyers in Washington by Washingtonian (magazine) in 2002. Participation in government Weidenfeld was Counsel and Staff Director of the Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, prime ministers and presidents and put his connections to good use for diplomatic and philanthropic ends. Early life Weidenfeld was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1919.Oliver Marr"A man whose life has been an open book" ''The Observer'', 28 June 2009. He was born to an Austrian-Jewish family, the only son of Max and Rosa Weidenfeld. Weidenfeld attended the University of Vienna and the city's Diplomatic College. Following the ''Anschluss'' (Germany's annexation of Austria) in 1938, he emigrated to London, with limited English and a 16/6d postal order (approximately £32.46 in 2019). He began work with the monitoring service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Career By 1942, he was a political commentator for the BBC and also wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Weidenfeld
Nicholas Rabb Weidenfeld (born September 26, 1979) is an American television producer and executive who led program development for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Fox's Animation Domination High-Def programming blocks. He won producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013 for the series '' Childrens Hospital''. Since 2016, he has been the president of programming for television channel Viceland. Biography Weidenfeld was born in 1979 to Edward Weidenfeld, a Washington DC lawyer, and Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, former press secretary to First Lady Betty Ford. He grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown Day School. While there, he parlayed his interest in rap into assignments writing up interviews for little-known popular culture magazines and websites. He started the alternative magazine ''While You Were Sleeping'' in the late 1990s, and reviewed music for magazines '' Seventeen'' and ''Teen Vogue''. At Columbia University, he was a liberal arts major. He interned at the Pentagon. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Weidenfeld
Annabelle Whitestone, Baroness Weidenfeld, (born October 1944) is an English former concert manager working with classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, the English Bach Festival and Conciertos Daniel in Madrid Harvey Sachs Rubinstein: A Life The Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés, François-René Duchâble and Janina Fialkowska, as well as introducing him to the chamber music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven "with all sorts of combinations of string and wind instruments which I never even heard." In 1977, the 90-year-old Rubinstein left his wife after 45 years of marriage for Whitestone and lived with her in Geneva, Switzerland, until he died in 1982. Whitestone helped Rubinstein to write the second volume of his autobiography, ''My Many Years'', which he dedicated to her. Rubinstein's original collaborator, Tony Madigan, whom he met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1949), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It has been a division of the French-owned Orion Publishing Group since 1991. History George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson founded Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1949 with a reception at Brown's Hotel, London. Among many other significant books, it published Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita'' (1959) and Nicolson's ''Portrait of a Marriage'' (1973), a frank biography of his mother Vita Sackville-West and father Harold Nicolson. In its early years Weidenfeld also published nonfiction works by Isaiah Berlin, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Rose Macaulay, and novels by Mary McCarthy and Saul Bellow. Later it published titles by world leaders and historians, along with contemporary fiction and glossy illustrated books. Weidenfeld & Nicolson acquired the publisher Arthur Baker Ltd in 1959, and ran it as an imprint into the 1990s. Weidenfeld was one of Orion's first a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiedenfeld (other)
Wiedenfeld or Weidenfeld may refer to: * Boris Wiedenfeld, a jazz pianist and producer who has worked with Matthias Lupri * Hugo von Wiedenfeld, an Austrian Jewish architect; see Türkischer Tempel See also * * Weidenfeld (other) Weidenfeld may refer to: People with the surname * Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881–1965), the Chief Rabbi of ''Tshebin'' (Trzebinia), Poland * Edward Weidenfeld (fl. 1971–1991), American lawyer * George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld (1919–2016), ... {{disambig, surname German-language surnames Jewish surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
