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Josef Karas (actor)
Josef Karas may refer to: *Josef Karas (athlete) Josef Karas (born 20 August 1978 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a Czech male decathlete and beauty pageant titleholder. He previously represented Canada. He set his personal best score (7922 points) in the men's decathlon on ... (born 1978), Czech decathlete * Joža Karas (1926–2008), Polish-born, Czech-American musician and teacher * Josef Karas (politician) (1867–1943), Czech and Czechoslovak lawyer, politician and interwar senator {{hndis, Karas, Josef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Karas (athlete)
Josef Karas (born 20 August 1978 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a Czech male decathlete and beauty pageant titleholder. He previously represented Canada. He set his personal best score (7922 points) in the men's decathlon on 20 June 2007 in Kladno. Karas is a two-time national champion in the men's decathlon (2005 and 2006). On 11 February 2010 he was elected Mister Czech Republic 2010 and will represent his country at the worldwide male beauty pageant Mister World 2010 to be held in South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ... on 27 March 2010. Achievements References * 1978 births Living people Czech decathletes Sportspeople from Olomouc Czech male athletes World Athletics Championships athletes for the Czech Republic Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joža Karas
Josef "Joža" Karas (May 3, 1926 – November 28, 2008) was a Polish-born, Czech-American musician and teacher who located and made public music composed by inmates who worked at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt during World War II. He was the author of ''Music in Terezín 1941-1945'' (1985). Musical career Born to Christian parents in Warsaw, Karas emigrated to the United States in 1948 via Colombia and Canada. A violinist and music historian by vocation, he taught at the Hartt School of Music for more than 50 years. He also performed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra until his retirement in 2006. He spent years searching for the World War II era musical compositions made by Jews in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1970 he read that some musical compositions and fragments had been found at the Terezin concentration camp and been donated to Prague's Jewish State Museum, including a version of Hans Krasa's children's opera, '' Brundibar'', which was performed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |