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Halper
Halper is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin and may refer to: * Albert Halper (1904–1984), writer * Barry Halper (1939–2005), collector of baseball memorabilia * Benzion Halper (1884–1924), Lithuanian-American Hebraist and Arabist * Daniel Halper, author * Donna Halper (born 1947), Boston-based historian and radio consultant * Jeff Halper (born 1946), former professor of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, Israel * Jürgen Halper (born 1974), Austrian football manager * Katie Halper, American writer and comedian * Leivick Halper (1888–1962), Yiddish language writer * Mark Robert Halper (born 1965), photographer * Stefan Halper (born 1944), American foreign policy scholar See also * Santos L. Halper, misspelled version of Santa's Little Helper, fictional dog from ''The Simpsons'' in the episode "The Canine Mutiny "The Canine Mutiny" is the twentieth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons''. It originally air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Halper
Stefan A. Halper (born June 4, 1944) is an American foreign policy scholar and retired senior fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is a life fellow at Magdalene College. He served as a Executive Office of the President of the United States, White House official in the Richard Nixon, Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ford, and Ronald Reagan, Reagan administrations, and was reportedly in charge of the spying operation by the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, 1980, 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign that became known as "Debategate". Through his decades of work for the CIA, Halper has had extensive ties to the Bush family. Through his work with Sir Richard Dearlove, Richard Billing Dearlove, he had ties to the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Halper acted as an Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI informant during the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. A subsequent Inspector General report later named Halper as a "conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Halper
Jeff Halper ( he, ג'ף הלפר; born 1946) is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He self-identifies as a Jewish Israeli. Halper has written several books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and is a frequent writer and speaker about Israeli politics, focusing mainly on nonviolent strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a supporter of the BDS movement and the academic boycott of Israel, and considers Israel to be guilty of "apartheid" and of a deliberate campaign to "judaize" the occupied Palestinian territories. In 1997, Halper co-founded ICAHD to challenge and resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories and to organize Israelis, Palestinians and international volunteers to jointly rebuild demoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Halper
Barry Halper (December 3, 1939 – December 18, 2005) was an extensive collector of baseball memorabilia who had been a limited partner owning about 1% of the New York Yankees. During the auction of Halper's collection, Sotheby's Auction House called it the "World Series of Sports Auctions." Life Halper was born in 1939 and raised in Newark, New Jersey, living near Ruppert Stadium, home of the Newark Bears, then the Triple-A minor league farm team of the New York Yankees. Halper attended the University of Miami. He then went into his family's paper supply business, where he worked until the company closed in 1992. Barry was close friends with many baseball legends including Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Pete Rose, Don Mattingly and Tommy Lasorda, among other professional athletes, who regularly visited his home to admire the world's most impressive baseball collection. His wife Sharon would cook special meals for those who came to visit "The Cooperstown of New Jersey" in their Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Halper
Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast ''The Katie Halper Show'' and co-host of the podcast ''Useful Idiots'' with Matt Taibbi. Early life and education Halper was born in New York City. She grew up on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the Dalton School, and from Wesleyan University in 2003. She is of Jewish Eastern European ancestry and has described herself as a secular Jew. Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist. Career After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida. Halper has also taught history at her ''alma mater'', the Dalton School. Comedy She beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Halper
Donna Lee Halper (born February 14, 1947 in Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a Boston-based historian and radio consultant. Beginning in 1968, Halper worked as a radio disc jockey and music director, and is credited with discovering the progressive rock band Rush while at WMMS in Cleveland in 1974. She has taught courses in broadcasting, media criticism, and media history, and is author of a number of books, including the first book-length study devoted to the history of women in American broadcasting, ''Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting''. In March 2023, it was announced that she would be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame and receive the Pioneer Broadcaster Award. Career Halper attended Northeastern University, where she received B.A., M.A., and M.Ed. degrees. In 1968 she became the first female announcer at Northeastern's campus radio station, WNEU (now WRBB). Halper went on to a career that spanned 12 years as a rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Robert Halper
Mark Robert Halper (1965, San Francisco, California) is a Los Angeles photographer noted for the striking human images in his commercial and fine art photography. He has worked in a wide range of specialties including portrait, lifestyle, celebrity, architecture, still life, and fine art. Commercial photography Halper has worked with publications such as '' Barron's'', '' BusinessWeek'', ''Forbes'', French ''Vogue'', '' Black Enterprise'', ''CIO'', '' CFO'', '' Entrepreneur'', ''Golf'', ''Health'', '' Muscle and Fitness'', '' PC World'', '' Runner's World'', ''SmartMoney'', and ''The Wall Street Journal'', among others. Halper's celebrity subjects have included Nobel Prize winners, artists, and athletes, as well as businessmen Bill Gates and Sumner Redstone; actors Ben Stein, Tori Spelling, Randy Jackson, Mr. T, James Marsters, David Boreanaz, Jolene Blalock and Mark A. Sheppard; model Lauren Hutton, chef Wolfgang Puck, golfer John Daly, architect Frank Gehry, activist Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Halper
Albert Halper (1904–1984) was an American novelist and playwright. Life Albert Halper was born on a kitchen table on the west side of Chicago on August 3, 1904, the son of Lithuanian immigrants from Vilna. His father, Isaac, owned a series of tiny grocery stores; his mother, Rebecca, stayed at home, raising their six children. After graduating Marshall High School, young Albert worked in a factory, warehouse, and post office, all the time committed to becoming a writer. the death of his mother in 1928 eliminated his sole reason for remaining in Chicago, and when offered a promotion at the post office, he quit the next day and soon left for New York. In New York, he became a protégé of Elliot E. Cohen, the brilliant editor of the ''Menorah Journal,'' and began to publish in the American Mercury, Dial, and other prominent literary magazines. His first novel, Union Square (1933), traces the lives of Depression era New Yorkers living in that neighborhood, and was a best seller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benzion Halper
Benzion Halper (April 15, 1884 – March 21, 1924) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American Hebraist and Arabist. Life Halper was born on April 15, 1884, in Žasliai, the Vilna Governorate, Russia, the son of Abel Solomon Halper and Miriam Rosenbloom. Halper received a Heder and Yeshiva education, and he began working when he was sixteen. He immigrated to Frankfurt, Germany, to continue his studies in 1901. He left for England shortly afterwards, where he worked as a carpenter, a commercial traveller and in a Manchester factory. In 1904, he matriculated at the University of London and supported himself by teaching privately and writing for the Hebrew weekly ''Hayehudi''. He received an A.B. degree from there in 1904 (with first class honors in Semitics) and an M.A. in 1909 (with mark of distinction). In 1910, he was elected the first Gilchrist Scholar in Arabic and spent the next year studying in Egypt under the auspices of the university. He also studied in Jews' College. Halper i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Halper
Daniel Halper is an American political writer. He previously served as the online editor of the now-defunct neoconservative magazine ''The Weekly Standard'' until a management change at that publication in 2016 and from 2016 to 2017 was employed by the ''New York Post''. Halper authored '' Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine'' (), an unflattering 2014 biography of the Clinton family. In 2017, he became an editor for the Drudge Report, replacing Joseph Curl. Halper's hiring coincided with the Drudge family's retreat from the public sphere (Drudge's father sold his own site Refdesk the same year to the same company that also took over the ''Report's'' advertising account at the same time, and by 2019 unconfirmed reports had emerged that Matt Drudge had sold the ''Report'') and may have been a factor in the ''Report'' having a substantial change in editorial direction. In June 2020 Halper published the book "A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heilprin
Heilprin ( he, היילפרין) is a Jewish surname with many variants. Origins Some people with the name derive it from the town of Heilbronn, Germany. "Heilbronn" means "healing well". Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the 16th century and the present time, there are four distinct branches of the Heilprin family. The progenitor of the oldest of these was Zebulun Eliezer (b. 1541), whose son, Moses of Brest-Litovsk, was a brother-in-law of Samuel Edels (Eideles) (died 1632). The genealogy of another branch, which includes several rabbis and prominent leaders of communities and of the Council of Four Lands, is as follows: The genealogy of a third branch is that made by Belinson of the family of Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin, who went from Brody in 1821 to Odessa, where he was dayyan until 1835; he then succeeded Reuben Hardenstein in the rabbinate of Odessa, which Heilprin held until his dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Halper
Jürgen Halper (born 17 November 1974) is an Austrian football manager, currently in charge of SC Neusiedl am See 1919 SC Neusiedl am See 1919 are an Austrian association football club founded in 1919 and currently playing in the Austrian Regional League East. They were relegated from the country's top tier after finishing last in the 1983–84 Austrian Footbal .... External links * 1974 births Living people Austrian men's footballers Austrian football managers Floridsdorfer AC managers SC Neusiedl am See 1919 managers FC Braunau players Floridsdorfer AC players FC Admira Wacker Mödling players TSV Hartberg players Men's association football midfielders {{austria-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leivick Halper
H. Leivick (Yiddish: ה. לײװיק; pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 25, 1888 – December 23, 1962) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 "dramatic poem in eight scenes" '' The Golem''. He also wrote many highly political, realistic plays, including "Shop." He adopted the pen name of Leivick to avoid being confused with Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, another prominent Yiddish poet. Early life and imprisonment Leivick was born in Chervyen, Belarus, the oldest of nine children. His father was a Yiddish instructor for young servants. Leivick was raised in a traditional Jewish household and attended a yeshiva for several years, an experience he thoroughly disliked and depicted in his dramatic poem ''Chains of the Messiah.'' Leivick joined the Jewish Bund before or during the 1905 Russian Revolution. The influence of the organization helped to convince Leivick to become secular and to focus his writing on Yiddish rather than Hebrew. In 1906 Leivick was arrested by Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
