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Edelstein
Edelstein is the German word for "gemstone". Edelstein is also a surname of German origin which means "noble stone" or in its literal sense "precious stone". Surname: * People with this surname include: ** Arnold Edelstein, Austrian-American cartoonist known as Ed Arno ** David Edelstein, American film critic ** Erez Edelstein, Israeli basketball coach ** Eric Edelstein, American actor ** Frances Edelstein, American businesswoman ** Gershon Edelstein, Israeli rabbi ** Gordon Edelstein, American theatre director ** Jakob Edelstein, the first Judenältester (Jewish Elder) in the Theresienstadt ghetto ** Joseph Edelstein, American Yiddish Theater Theatrical Manager and Theater Owner and Director. ** Pauline Edelstein, American Yiddish Theatre actress and wife of Joseph Edelstein. ** Lisa Edelstein, American actress ** Ludwig Edelstein, German-born American classical scholar and historian of medicine ** Melville Edelstein, sociologist ** Morris Michael Edelstein, American lawyer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Edelstein
Oscar Edelstein (born 12 June 1953) is a contemporary composer from Argentina. Known for creativity and inventiveness, frequently he is described as leading Latin America's avant-garde. He is also a pianist, conductor, and researcher. Biography Edelstein was born in La Paz, Argentina in the province of Entre Ríos. He spent his childhood in Paraná, Entre Rios's capital, a city known for its river Paraná, South America's second-longest river, and its name is drawn from the Tupi language, meaning "like the sea" due to its width. Entre Rios is literally the province "between rivers" (''entre'' = "inter") and for a short time it was an independent republic – a spirit it has maintained to this day and that has influenced Edelstein. Edelstein is from a family of musicians but his father, a road engineer, inspired him also with a love of machines and technology. He triggered Edelstein's desire to compose by a birthday present at the age of five of a Geloso portable tape rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoel Edelstein
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein ( he, יוּלִי־יוֹאֵל אֵדֶלְשְטֵיין, russian: Ю́лий Ю́рьевич Эдельште́йн, link=no, uk, Ю́лій Ю́рійович Едельште́йн, born 5 August 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 2020 to 2021. One of the most prominent refuseniks in the Soviet Union, he was the 16th Speaker of the Knesset from 2013 until his resignation on 25 March 2020. Early life Yuli Edelstein was born in Chernivtsi in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine) to a Jewish family. His mother, Anita Edelstein, was Jewish, while his father, Yuri Edelstein, is the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother. Both converted to Christianity, and Yuri is now a Russian Orthodox priest in Karabanovo of Kostroma Oblast named Father Georgy. While his parents taught at universities in the countryside, Edelstein was raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandfather had taught himself Hebrew at the age of 70 and used t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Edelstein
Jakob Edelstein (AKA Yacov, Yaakov, Jakub Edelstein or Edlstein; 25 July 1903 – 20 June 1944) was a Czechoslovak Zionist, social democrat and the first Jewish Elder in the Theresienstadt ghetto. He was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Life and work Jakob Edelstein was born into a devout Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ... family in Horodenka at that time in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. His parents were Motl and Mattil Edelstein, he had a sister called Dora. During World War I, the family fled Horodenka in 1915 to Brno in Moravia to avoid the Russian army, that organised a pogrom against the Jewish people of the town, nine Jews were hanged in the main street of Horodenka. When his family returned after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is a freelance American film critic who has been the principal film critic for ''Slate'' and ''New York'' magazine, among others, and has appeared regularly on NPR's ''Fresh Air'' and ''CBS Sunday Morning'' programs. Over a long career, Edelstein has published more than 2000 film reviews. In 2021, Colin McEnroe called Edelstein "America's greatest living film critic". Career Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard University in 1981. He is often associated with close friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael. He is also credited with coining the term "torture porn," a genre to describe such movies as ''Hostel'' and ''Saw''. He has previously been a film critic for ''Slate'' (1996–2005), NPR's ''Fresh Air'' (2002-2018), ''New York'' (2006-2020), the ''New York Post'', ''The Village Voice'', and ''The Boston Phoenix''. His work has also appeared in ''The New York Times'' Arts & Leisure section, ''Rolling Stone'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershon Edelstein
Gershon Edelstein (born 18 April 1923) is ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, president of the Vaad Hayeshivos, and the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party in Israel. He is widely considered to be the Gadol Hador by the Litvish community Biography Early Life Edelstein was born in the town of Shumyatch (Shumyachi), near Smolensk, in the Soviet Union, to Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Edelstein, the rabbi of the city and the son of Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein, author of the book "Ben Aryeh" on Shas, and Miriam, daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Mobshovich, rabbi of Malstovka ( Krasnopillia). His mother obtained fake birth certificates with the wrong date of birth for her sons so that they would be registered as three years younger than their real age and would not attend a school under the supervision of the Yevsektzia, the extremely anti-religious Jewish branch of the Communist Party. He learned Torah from Rabbi Zalman Leib Estolin, in exchange for his father Rab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Edelstein
Dr Melville Leonard Edelstein (1919June 16, 1976) was born to Nachum and Rose Edelstein in King William's Town. His Litvak parents had first travelled to the UK and then Cape Town in 1896 before joining the masses of " boere-Jode" frikaner or farmer Jewswhere his parents had settled and Nachum started and ran a successful business. Edelstein was the grandson of Michael Edelstein who established the first synagogue at King William's Town. Work Edelstein was a sociologist and respected academic and had devoted his efforts to humanitarian and social welfare projects in Soweto. Serving as Deputy Chief Welfare Officer, Edelstein instituted many projects aimed at assisting youth, disabled, poor, and marginalized communities within Soweto, where he worked for some 18 years. A practicing Orthodox Jew, Edelstein was apolitical & dedicated to serving the good of mankind. He was also a pacifist who refused to enlist for World War II. While employed as a social worker for the Welfare Sect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Michael Edelstein
Morris Michael Edelstein (February 5, 1888 – June 4, 1941) was a Polish-born Congressional Representative and lawyer from the state of New York, serving from 1940 to 1941. Biography Edelstein was born in Meseritz (Międzyrzec Podlaski), Poland. At three years of age immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in New York City. He attended public schools and Cooper Union College in New York. He graduated from the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University, in 1909, and was admitted to the bar in 1910 and practiced law in New York. Edelstein lived with his mother until the end of his life, having never married. His mother was 85 at the time of his death. Congress Edelstein was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William I. Sirovich. He was reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress and served from February 6, 1940, until his death on June 4, 1941, in the cloakroom of the House of Represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Edelstein
Victor Edelstein (born 10 July 1946) is a British former couturier best known for his fashion designs for Diana, Princess of Wales, in the 1980s. In 1989 he was described as the English equivalent to Oscar de la Renta, and "the master of the English thoroughbred look". He now works as a painter. Early career Edelstein was born in London. In 1962 he began working as a trainee designer for Alexon. As well as Alexon and Salvador, he worked for Nettie Vogues, Clifton Slimline, and Biba. In 1970 he launched his own label although it was short-lived. He then went on to spend three years working for the London branch of Christian Dior S.A. Christian Dior SE (), commonly known as Dior (stylized DIOR), is a French luxury fashion house controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH, the world's largest luxury group. Dior itself holds 42.36% shares ... under the direction of Jorn Langberg, before re-establishing his label in 1978. In 1982, Edelst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Edelstein
Neal Edelstein is an independent film producer and is known as an early technology adopter. Biography Early life Neal Edelstein was born in Winnetka, Illinois, USA. He graduated from the New Trier High School. Career Edelstein began his film career in Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s. In 1997, he produced David Lynch's segment in the French film '' Lumiere and Company'', shot with the original Lumiere brothers's camera. After completion of the film, Edelstein and Lynch became partners in ''The Picture Factory'', where Edelstein produced ''The Straight Story'' and ''Mulholland Drive'', as well as worked with Lynch to conceive and launch the website DavidLynch.com. Later, Edelstein formed ''Macari/Edelstein Filmed Entertainment'' with New Line Cinema executive Mike Macari. Their first project together was the American remake of the Japanese horror film '' The Ring'', followed by the sequel ''The Ring Two''. Edelstein was instrumental in creating the viral marketing campa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Edelstein
Frances Edelstein (April 18, 1926 – September 24, 2018), born Frima Trost, was a Polish-born American businesswoman, owner (with her husband) of the Cafe Edison in New York City's theatre district from 1980 to 2014. She was a survivor of the Holocaust. Early life Frima Trost was born in Komorów, Poland in 1926, the daughter of Hersz Trost and Chaja Trost. The Trosts were Jewish; her father was a butcher. Frima Trost learned traditional recipes from her mother. Most of the Trost family, except for Frima and her brother Moishe, were killed in the Holocaust. Frima and Moishe Trost escaped to the forest with childhood friends Harry Edelstein and his brother; the four orphaned youths slept in barns and hid from capture for five years. Harry and Frima (who took the name Frances) married in Warsaw in 1945, and moved to the United States in 1947, with their first child. Career The Edelsteins ran a chicken farm in New Jersey, then coffee and candy shops in Brooklyn. In 1980, Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Edelstein
Ludwig Edelstein (23 April 1902 – 16 August 1965) was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. Personal life and career Edelstein was born in Berlin, Germany, to Isidor and Mathilde Adler Edelstein. He attended the University of Berlin from 1921 to 1924 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. He was married to Emma J. Levy on 25 Oct. 1928. Because he and his wife were Jewish, Edelstein lost his academic position and had to flee from Germany in 1933 when the Nazis came to power.*Rütten, Thomas, ''Ludwig Edelstein at the Crossroads of 1933. On the Inseparability of Life, Work, and Their Reverberations'', Early Science and Medicine, Volume 11, Number 1, 2006, pp. 50–99(50PDF/ref> Upon his arrival in the US in 1934, he took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he resigned rather than sign the Levering Act loyalty oath. He the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erez Edelstein
Erez Edelstein (born August 23, 1961) is an Israeli basketball coach. Coaching career In 2014, Edelstein was hired as a head coach of the Israel national basketball team. On June 9, 2016, Edelstein was announced as the new head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. On October 22, 2016, he parted ways with the club. On September 13, 2017, Edelstein parted ways with the Israel national basketball team after a disappointing Eurobasket EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the E ... campaign. References 1961 births Living people Israeli expatriate basketball people in Greece Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. coaches Israeli basketball coaches Israeli expatriates in Greece Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. coaches People from Migdal HaEmek {{Israel-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
