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Karfunkel
Karfunkel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aaron Karfunkel (died 1816), Bohemian rabbi *George Karfunkel (born 1948/49), American businessman See also *Garfunkel Garfunkel is a Jewish surname that derives from Yiddish גאָרפֿינקל (gorfinkl), German Karfunkel, both ultimately from Latin Carbuncle (an archaic term for a number of red gemstones, usually red garnet), and may refer to: * Art Garfunkel ... {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Karfunkel
George Karfunkel (born 1948/1949) is an American businessman, the co-founder of companies including AmTrust Financial Services, and a survivor of Operation Entebbe. Early life George Karfunkel was born in Hungary, the son of Louis Karfunkel (1914-1997), a religious scholar and fishmonger, and his wife Clara. The family migrated to the US in the late 1950s, after the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and lived in the Orthodox community of Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York City. His older brother Michael Karfunkel, died in April 2016, aged 72. Career In 1971, he co-founded American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC. In 1998, AmTrust Financial Services was founded by brothers George and Michael Karfunkel. Karfunkel has been a director of Kodak since September 2013. On July 29, 2020, Karfunkel and his wife Renee donated 3 million of their 6.3 million Kodak shares to Congregation Chemdas Yisroel, a tax-exempt religious organization, and they will be able to claim this donat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Karfunkel
Aaron Karfunkel (also known as Aaron ben Judah; in Hebrew, Aharon ben Yehudah ha-Kohen; in Yiddish, Aaron Löb (died 1816) was a Bohemian rabbi of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After having successively filled the rabbinates of Gawartschew, Łask, Dasparschi, and Widowa, he was called in 1801 to Náchod, where he remained until 1806. From 1807 to 1816 he was chief rabbi of Silesia. Karfunkel was the author of ''She'eltot Abiyah'', containing dissertations on Talmudic subjects, and divided into twelve parts, having for their respective titles the names of the precious stones in the high priest's breastplate. Of these parts only two have been published (Berlin, 1806). They are divided into "kelalim", subdivided into paragraphs, with glosses entitled ''Millu'at Eben'' and dissertations called ''Meshuah Milhamah.'' Karfunkel was the author also of ''Tzanif Tahor'', a commentary on Ecclesiastes, a manuscript of which is in the British Museum. ReferencesBroydé, Isaac andSol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |