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Kikoin
Kikoin (feminine: Kikoina) is a Russian Jewish family name. Its transliteration into French is Kikoïne. Some, including Konstantin Berkovich, son of Abram Kikoin, suggest that the surname originated from the name of an obscure biblical plant kikayon. Konstantin claims that according to his genealogical research the surname ascends to a Gomel rabbi, who decided to change his mundane surname Schmidt.Анна МИСЮКУниверситант и лирофизик ''Migdal Times'', no. 122, 2013 Notable people with the surname include: * (1914-1999), Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet physicist * (born 1977), French actress * (born 1946), French film director and producer * Isaak Kikoin (1908-1984), Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet physicist *Jakob Kikoïne, birth name of Jacques Yankel (1920-2020), French painter, sculptor, and lithographer *Michel Kikoine (1892-1968), Lithuanian-Jewish French painter * Gina Kikoine, also credited as Gina X, German singer and lyricist, the namesake of Gin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaak Kikoin
Isaak Konstantinovich (Kushelevich) Kikoin (; 28 March 1908 – 28 December 28, 1984), , was a Soviet physicist of Lithuanian origin and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. Biography Kikoin was born in the town of Novye Zhagory (now Žagarė in Lithuania), Russian Empire. Kikoin was a Lithuanian Jew (orthodoxy) whose patronymic was also written as Kushelevich (Кушелевич; "son of Kushel"); and his parents were school teachers. During the World War I, his family was relocated from Latvia to Russia where he entered in ''gymnazium'' in Pskov, and upon graduation, he went to study physics at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1925. In 1930-31, he earned his specialist degree in physics and successfully defended his thesis on Photomagnetism for his ''Doktor Nauk'' in 1936. He taught physics at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and his early work investigated the electrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Kikoine
Michel Kikoïne ( be, Міхаіл Кікоін; russian: Михаил Кико́ин, ''Michail Kikóin''; 31 May 1892 – 4 November 1968) was a Lithuanian Jewish-French painter. Life Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, present-day Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaïm Soutine, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. At age 16, he and Soutine were studying at the Vilnius Academy of Art and in 1911 he moved to join the growing artistic community gathering in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. This artistic community included his friend Soutine as well as fellow Belarus painter, Pinchus Kremegne who also had studied at the Fine Arts School in Vilnia. For a time, the young artist lived at La Ruche while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1914, he married a young lady from Vilnia with whom he h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina X Performance
Gina X Performance (commonly abbreviated as GXP) was a German dance-rock/electropop project from Cologne, Germany, consisting of singer and lyricist Gina Kikoine and writer and producer Zeus B. Held, accompanied by various studio and live musicians. The band has released four studio albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were frequently played in North American and European dance clubs at the height of their popularity. Their best-known songs are the singles "No G.D.M." (covered by Erasure as the B-side to their single " Blue Savannah"), and "Nice Mover". Biography Zeus B. Held had previously been a member of the rock band Birth Control since the early 70's, before splitting in 1978 to record on his own, and worked on two solo albums before meeting Gina Kikoine the same year. Their collaboration bore their first fruits in 1978 with the release of the single "''No G.D.M.''", dedicated to the English writer Quentin Crisp, whom Kikoine knew in person. The song was a great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Yankel
Jacques Yankel, born Jakob Kikoïne (14 April 1920 – 2 April 2020) was a French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Biography Five years after his sister, Claire, Yankel was born at the Boucicaut Hospital in Paris. His parents were Michel Kikoine and Rosa Bunimovitz. Yankel grew up in La Ruche (residence), La Ruche in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, where his family stayed until 1926. That year, his father acquired a house in Annay-sur-Serein, and the family moved to Montrouge. They then moved to Montparnasse in 1933. After poor performances in school, Yankel was denied from the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art (ENSAAMA) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA). During World War II, he held temporary jobs in printing and engraving workshops. In 1941, he moved to Toulouse, in the Zone libre, and became an apprentice geologist. That year, he married Raymonde Jouve, with his parents crossing the demarcation line to be pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Kikayon
Mordehai Kikayon ( he, מרדכי קיקיון, also transliterated as Mordechai Kikion) (1915-1993) was one of the founders of the computer industry of Israel, the organizer and first head of Mamram. Before and after Mamram he was with the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.Mamram over the Years a mamram archive Mordechai Kikayon was born in and immigrated to the land of Israel in 1924. He was appointed to be the first commander of Mamram by head of '' |
Kikayon
Kikayon (קִיקָיוֹן ''qîqāyōn'') is the Hebrew name of a plant mentioned in the Biblical Book of Jonah. Origins The first use of the term ''kikayon'' is in the biblical book of ''Jonah'', Chapter 4. In the quote below, from the Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917, the English word 'gourd' occurs where the Hebrew has ''kikayon.'' 6 And the God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: ‘It is better for me to die than to live.’ 9 And God said to Jonah: ‘Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?’ And he said: ‘I am greatly angry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomel
Gomel (russian: Гомель, ) or Homiel ( be, Гомель, ) is the administrative centre of Gomel Region and the second-largest city in Belarus with 526,872 inhabitants (2015 census). Etymology There are at least six narratives of the origin of the city's name. The most plausible is that the name is derived from the name of the stream Homeyuk, which flowed into the river Sozh near the foot of the hill where the first settlement was founded. Names of other Belarusian cities are formed along these lines: for example, the name Minsk is derived from the river Menka, Polatsk from the river Palata, and Vitsebsk from the river Vitsba. The first appearance of the name, as "Gomy", dates from 1142. Up to the 16th century, the city was mentioned as Hom', Homye, Homiy, Homey, or Homyi. These forms are tentatively explained as derivatives of an unattested ''*gomŭ'' of uncertain meaning. The modern name for the city has been in use only since the 16th or 17th centuries. History Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schmidt (surname)
Schmidt is a common German occupational surname derived from the German word "Wikt:Schmied, Schmied" meaning "blacksmith" and/or "metalworker". This surname is the German equivalent of "Smith (surname), Smith" in the English-speaking world. Schmidt German immigrants migrated to England and developed an understanding of English culture. Schmidt was commonly used in the English world as "Smith". Travelers would grow accustomed to the English, Irish, and Scottish change of lifestyle and eventually their names also changed. German migration to England was very common. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname ''Schmidt'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:113), 18.2% of the United States (1:1,809), 3.7% of Brazil (1:5,058), 1.7% of Canada (1:1,936), 1.5% of Austria (1:503), 1.3% of Denmark (1:398), 1.1% of South Africa (1:4,469), 1.1% of Argentina (1:3,635) and 1.0% of France (1:6,167). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
