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Kogan
Kogan (russian: Ко́ган) is a Russian spelling variant of the Jewish surname Cohen. * Aleksandr Kogan — several people * Artur Kogan (born 1974), Israeli chess master * Belle Kogan (1902–2000), American industrial designer * Boris Kogan (1940–1993), Russian-American chess master * Dmitri Kogan (1978–2017), Russian violinist * Herman Kogan (1914–1989), American journalist * Igor Kogan (born 1969), Russian banker and investor. * Jacob Kogan (born 1995), young American actor * Jonathan Kogan, member of the band Area 11 * Lazar Kogan (1889–1939), Soviet secret police functionary * Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), Soviet violinist * Michael Kogan (1920–1984), Russian businessman * Pavel Kogan (other), several people * Richard Kogan (physician) * Ruslan Kogan (born 1982), Belarusian-Australian entrepreneur, founder and director of Kogan Technologies ** Kogan.com, Australian retail and services group founded by Ruslan Kogan * Yosif Arkadyevich Kogan, birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kogan (physician)
Richard Kogan is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York City; Co-Director of the Medical Center's Human Sexuality Program; and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program.Nevada Psychiatric Association, ''Course Syllabus, 18th Annual Psychopharmacology Update'', p. 217. In addition to his medical calling, Kogan is a concert pianist. This combination of accomplishments led him to develop a series of lecture-recitals that explore the role of music in healing, and the influence of psychological factors and medical conditions on the creative work of composers. Life Richard Kogan is the son of a gastroenterologist from Elizabeth, New Jersey, and the second of five children. He began piano performances in 1961 at age 6. But the medical world was never far from the family life; his father took the boy on medical rounds. His mother, for her part, enrolled him at the Juilliard School of Music Pre-college, where he studied pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruslan Kogan
Ruslan Kogan (born November 1982) is a serial entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Kogan.com as well as several other eCommerce-related companies in Australia. He was Australia's richest person under the age of 30 from 2011 to his 30th birthday in November 2012. In 2020, Kogan's net worth was estimated by the ''Financial Review'' 2020 Rich List as . Kogan holds several publicised controversial views regarding the consumer technology industry, expressing his opposition to the Australian Government's proposed internet filter as well as lambasting the government for their handling of the Set Top Box Scheme. He was also the only executive from a consumer electronics vendor in Australia to campaign against the introduction of 3DTV into homes around the world. He has written articles as both a guest and regular for several large media outlets, including a guest article for ''Forbes'' giving his views on Facebook, a guest article for ''Fast Company'' about the importance of social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Kogan
Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan (russian: link=no, Дмитрий Павлович Коган; October 27, 1978 – August 29, 2017) was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation. Early life and career Dmitri Kogan was born in Moscow, USSR, into a famous musical dynasty. His grandfather, Leonid Kogan, was an outstanding violinist, his grandmother, Elizabeth Gilels – a famous violinist and a teacher, his father, Pavel Kogan, is a conductor, and his mother, Lyubov Kazinskaya, – a pianist who graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. He began playing the violin at the age of 6 at the Central Music School of the Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. From 1996 to 1999 Kogan was a student at the Moscow Conservatory (the class of I.S. Bezrodny) and almost at the same time (1996–2000) he was a student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, studying with I.S. Bezrodny and Tuomas Haapanen. At the age of 10 Dmitri performed for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kogan
Leonid Borisovich Kogan (russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Ко́ган; uk, Леонід Борисович Коган; 14 November 1924 – 17 December 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing. Life and career Kogan was born to a Jewish family in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro), the son of a photographer. After he showed an early interest and ability for violin playing, his family moved to Moscow, where he was able to further his studies. From age ten he studied there with the noted violin pedagogue Abram Yampolsky. In 1934, Jascha Heifetz played concerts in Moscow. "I attended every one," Kogan later said, "and can remember until now every note he played. He was the ideal artist for me." When Kogan was 12, Jacques Thibaud was in Moscow and heard him p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Kogan
Belle Kogan (1902–2000) was a Russian born industrial designer and is regarded as the first prominent female in the profession in the United States (Godmother of Industrial Design) as well as one of the founders of the profession itself.- IDSA Design History Section - Belle Kogan In 1994, she was recognized as a fellow of both the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Industrial Designers Institute (IDI). Early life and education Kogan was born in Ilyashevka, Russia, on June 26, 1902 and emigrated to in 1906. From an early age, she showed an interest in art.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kogan
Kogan (russian: Ко́ган) is a Russian spelling variant of the Jewish surname Cohen. * Aleksandr Kogan — several people * Artur Kogan (born 1974), Israeli chess master * Belle Kogan (1902–2000), American industrial designer * Boris Kogan (1940–1993), Russian-American chess master * Dmitri Kogan (1978–2017), Russian violinist * Herman Kogan (1914–1989), American journalist * Igor Kogan (born 1969), Russian banker and investor. * Jacob Kogan (born 1995), young American actor * Jonathan Kogan, member of the band Area 11 * Lazar Kogan (1889–1939), Soviet secret police functionary * Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), Soviet violinist * Michael Kogan (1920–1984), Russian businessman * Pavel Kogan (other), several people * Richard Kogan (physician) * Ruslan Kogan (born 1982), Belarusian-Australian entrepreneur, founder and director of Kogan Technologies ** Kogan.com, Australian retail and services group founded by Ruslan Kogan * Yosif Arkadyevich Kogan, birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Kogan
Rita Kogan (''Hebrew: ריטה קוגן, Ritah Kogan; Russian: Рита Коган'') is a Hebrew author, poet, essayist and translator based in Tel Aviv. Born in Leningrad, she immigrated to Israel as a part of the 1990s post-Soviet aliyah, when she was only 14 years old. After being trained as an engineer, Kogan eventually turned to poetry. Kogan's poetry explores the challenges that Russian-speaking women encounter in their daily life in Israel, including ethnic discrimination, sexual abuse, and the difficulty of expressing sexuality in a patriarchal society. In addition to the underside of Russian immigrant life, Kogan’s verse also reveals the joie-de-vivre of a free Israeli literary spirit, seeking nothing but her loves and literary attachments. Early and personal life Rita Kogan was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Saint Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. In 1990, 14-year-old Kogan immigrated to Israel alongside her mother. When she arrived in Israel, she did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kogan
Michael “Misha” Kogan (January 1, 1920 – February 5, 1984) was a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Japanese video game company Taito. Early life Kogan was born in Odessa on January 1, 1920 to Riva and Kalman Kogan. His family moved to Harbin, Manchuria to escape the Russian Revolution, where he later met Colonel Norihiro Yasue, a member of the Japanese Army's intelligence services and one of the architects of the Fugu Plan, a plan to settle European Jewish refugees in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. He moved to Tokyo in 1939, where he spent most of the duration of the war studying at Waseda School of Economics. He moved to Tianjin in 1944 before returning to Japan in 1950, settling in Setagaya, Tokyo. Career Michael Kogan's founded his first business in 1944 in Shanghai - Taitung. Taitung's business dealings included natural hair wigs, floor coverings, and hog bristles. Kogan closed Taitung in 1950 after the Communist takeover of China and started his second business in Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Kogan
Jacob Pavlovich Kogan (born May 28, 1995) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 2007 psychological thriller ''Joshua'' and as the young Spock in J. J. Abrams' '' Star Trek''. Life and career Kogan was born in New York City to author and photographer Deborah Copaken Kogan and Russian-born child actor Paul Kogan. Paul emigrated from Moscow, Russia (then in the Soviet Union). Kogan has two younger siblings; a sister, Sasha (born March 1997) and a brother, Leo (born May 2006). His mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, and his father is a Russian-Jewish immigrant. He considers himself Jewish and an atheist. He attended the Dalton School in New York City during which time he was the lead singer/guitarist in a band, Flake, which released a self-titled EP in 2008. Before starring in ''Joshua'', Kogan was a regular on the comedy series, ''Wonder Showzen''. He had a supporting role in ''Lifelines'' by wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Kogan
Herman Kogan (November 6, 1914 – March 8, 1989) was an American journalist who spent fifty years covering the city of Chicago, many with the ''Chicago Daily News'' and ''Chicago Sun-Times''. Kogan, a 1936 graduate of the University of Chicago and a Phi Beta Kappa, authored several books, including ''The Great EB: The Story of the Encyclopædia Britannica]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1958); ''Yesterday's Chicago'' (E.A. Seeman, 1976); ''Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company'' (Co-autored with Lloyd Wendt, Rand McNally, 1952); ''Big Bill of Chicago'' (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt, Bobbs-Merrill, 1953); ''Lords of the Levee'' (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt; Bobbs-Merrill, 1943) and ''Chicago: A Pictorial History'' (co-authored with Lloyd Wendt; Bonanza, 1958). Kogan was the father of current ''Chicago Tribune'' journalist and WBEZ radio host Rick Kogan. Kogan was Jewish. Citations External links * Bet a million! The story of John W. Gates' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Kogan
Valentina Kogan (born 19 March 1980) is an Argentine handball goalkeeper. She plays for Vilo and the Argentina national team and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil. Biography Valentina Kogan is diabetic since the age of 10, and vegetarian since the age of 15. She started playing handball when she was in middle school at Colegio Tarbut, a Jewish private school with a trilingual education program. Kogan studied International Relations at the University of San Andrés, and is married since 2013 to Carolina Rieger. As of 2016, the couple is expecting twins, conceived by artificial insemination. Career Kogan played professionally in Spain between 2002 and 2005 for the Spanish team Vícar Goya Koppert. She is also the director of ''Club de Corredores'', a company dedicated to the organization of marathons and outdoor races. As the goalkeeper for the National squad, she won silver medals at three Pan American Games (Santo Domingo 2003, Guadalaja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Kogan
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan (russian: Ла́зарь Ио́сифович Ко́ган) (November 7, 1889 – March 3, 1939) was a Soviet secret police (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD) high-ranking functionary, chief of the Gulag (1930–1932) and deputy chief of the Gulag (1932–1936). Biography Born in Elovka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, in the Yeniseysk Governorate of the Russian Empire, he was the son of a wealthy Jewish merchant. His father was a fur trader. An active participant in the revolutionary movement, at first an anarcho-communist. In 1908, a Kiev military district court sentenced him to death for participating in looting with a gun in his hand. This punishment was then converted into a life sentence. Kogan joined the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1918. His major positions include chief of the GULAG (1930–1932), deputy chief of the GULAG (1932–1936), deputy Narkom of Forest Industry (1936–1937). Until August 1936, Kogan was the head of the construction of the Belomorsk Baltic Canal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
