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Leib
Leib is a given name and (less often) a surname that are usually of Jewish origin. Baby Names Pedia Leib often stems from ''לייב'' (leib), the Yiddish word for lion. The word for lion is ''Löwe'', other - partly dialectal - German forms of the word are ''Löw'', ''Loew'', ''Löb'', ''Leb'' and ''Leib''. In Standard German, ''Leib'' means "body", but that is in general not the source for the Yiddish name. Leib may also be connected to the Hebrew word ''לב'' (lev or leb), meaning "heart". Given name * Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), Polish rabbi * |
Gary Leib
Gary David Leib (October 29, 1955 – March 19, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist, animator, and musician. Best known for the comic book '' Idiotland'' (a two-man anthology produced with Leib's long-time collaborator, Doug Allen), Leib's work also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''Musician Magazine'', ''The New York Observer'', ''RAW'', ''BLAB!'' and as weekly features in ''New York Press'' for many years. His animation work was featured in films like ''American Ultra'', ''American Splendor'', and ''Happiness''.Dean, Michael"Gary Leib: 1955 – 2021,"''The Comics Journal'' (March 23, 2021). Leib was a founding member of the Grammy Award-nominated band Rubber Rodeo, which recorded two albums for Mercury Records. He created original music for independent and feature films, including the critically acclaimed '' Ironweed''. Biography Leib was born in Chicago, Illinois, the eldest of four children, and grew up in Lincolnwood. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leib Ostrow
Leib Ostrow is an American music producer and the founder and president of Music for Little People record label. Early years Leib was born in Detroit in 1951 and developed a keen love of music at an early age. During his childhood, his mother actively supported his musical interests with outings to see artists such as Theodore Bikel and Pete Seeger, and Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Orchestra. At age 13, Leib was given a guitar for his birthday. He played guitar in a rock band throughout junior high school, transitioning into a Dylan-esque folk singer during high school. At this time, Leib began teaching guitar in a music store and within a few weeks was managing it. At nineteen, while attending Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Leib opened a tiny musical instrument shop. Within three years, with the help of his brother Laury, he expanded to a chain of four stores located across southern Michigan, becoming the largest Martin guitar dealer in the Midwest. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman ( he, אהרן יהודה לייב שטינמן), also Shtainman or Steinman (November 3, 1914 – December 12, 2017), was a Haredi rabbi in Bnei Brak, Israel. Following the death of Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in 2012, he was widely regarded as the Gadol HaDor (Leader of the Generation), the leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi Jewish world. Along with several other rabbis, Shteinman is credited with reviving and expanding the appeal of European-style yeshivas in Israel. Early life Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteiman was born in Kamyenyets (Kaminetz), the son of Noach Tzvi and Gittel Faiga, and raised in Brest (Brisk), then part of the Russian Empire. He studied in Yeshivas Toras Chessed in Brest, headed by a rabbi known as the Imrei Moshe. He attended ''shiurim'' (Torah lectures) given by Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rav). He also studied in Kletzk under Aharon Kotler. Upon reaching draft age in 1937, Shteinman was subject to the Polish dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryeh Leib Malin
Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962) was a Polish-born American Haredi Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Mussarist who taught the Torah and spread rabbinical education in Europe, China, Japan, and the United States. Early life and education Aryeh Leib Malin was born in Mileitzitz near Białystok, in Poland. His father, Rabbi Avraham Moshe, served as a '' dayan'' (rabbinical court judge) in Mileitzitz. In his early years, Malin learned in Grodno under Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Later he learned under Rabbis Elchonon Wasserman and Baruch Ber Lebowitz. As an older student, he was educated in the Mir Yeshiva of Belarus, where he gained a reputation as a prototype-follower of ''lomdus'' (in-depth study) and a model of '' mussar''. In the study of ''mussar'' methodology and literature, Malin became a prominent student of Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, and he edited the second volume of Rabbi Levovitz's book ''Daas Chochma U'Mussar''. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein, a son-in-law of Rabbi Yitzcho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Leib
Michael Leib (January 8, 1760December 22, 1822) was an American physician and politician from Philadelphia. He served as a surgeon in the Philadelphia Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He served as a Democratic-Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives three times; from 1795 to 1798, 1806 to 1808 and 1817 to 1818. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1799 to 1803 and for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1803 to 1806. He served as a member of the United States Senate for Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1814. He also served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district from 1818 to 1821. Biography Leib was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George and Dorothea Leib. He studied and practiced medicine in Philadelphia, received a commission as a surgeon in the Philadelphia Militia in 1780 and served during the American Revolutionary War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Leib Goldberg
Isaac Leib Goldberg ( he, יצחק לייב גולדברג, 7 February 1860 – 14 September 1935) was a Zionist leader and philanthropist in both Ottoman Palestine and the Russian Empire, and one of the principal founders of Rishon LeZion, the first Zionist settlement founded in the Land of Israel by the New Yishuv. An early member of the Hovevei Zion movement (1882), he also founded the Ohavei Zion society. Goldberg was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress and the founder of two Hebrew newspapers, Ha'aretz (today Israel's oldest daily newspaper) and Ha'am. Biography Isaac (Yitzchak) Leib Goldberg was born on 7 February 1860 in Szaki, Congress Poland (present-day Šakiai, Lithuania) to Alexander Sander HaLevi Goldberg and Liba Segal. His brother was Boris Goldberg. In his early years, Goldberg studied at Kovno Yeshiva and settled in Vilnius, Lithuania. His wife was Rachel Pinnes and they had five children, Hannah Tolkowsky (wife of Shmuel Tolkowsky), Shulamit Hochfeld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leib Gurwicz
Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906–20 October 1982) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years. He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before moving to England to get married in 1932. This move saved him from the Holocaust under the Nazis. Early life and education He was born Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky in the small town of Molėtai, Russian empire (nowadays Lithuania), where his father, Rabbi Moshe Aharon Kushelevsky served as rabbi. His mother was a direct descendant of the Vilna Gaon. His brother was Rabbi Eliyahu (Elya) Kushelevsky (1910–1992), who later served as '' av beis din'' (head of the rabbinical court) of Beersheba. At the age of thirteen he left home to learn in yeshiva. He sneaked across the border into Lithuania and went to learn at the Vilkomir yeshiva ketana, where he prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Leib Maimon
Yehuda Leib Maimon ( he, יהודה לייב מימון, 11 December 1875 – 10 July 1962, also known as Yehuda Leib HaCohen Maimon) was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religions. Biography Yehuda Leib Fishman (later Maimon) was born in Mărculești, in the Soroksky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate (then part of the Russian Empire, now in Moldova), Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of the Aruch HaShulchan. He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902. By this time Maimon had moved to the Russian Empire, where he was arrested several times for Zionist activity. He was a delegate to the ninth Zionist Congress in 1909, and attended every one until Israeli independence in 1948. In 1913, Maimon immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire), but was expelled during World War I. He moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryeh Leib Schochet
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet ( he, אריה לייב שוחט) was a Ukrainian rabbi who emigrated to the United States in 1906. He published a book on Hasidic philosophy titled '' Lekutim Yekarim''. Biography Aryeh Leib was born in Balta, now in Ukraine in 1845. His mother Tziporah was the daughter of Rabbi Yoseph Zev Wolf Segal of Balta, his father was Yaakov Nissan. He grew up in a town mostly occupied by Chasidim of Rabbi Refoel of Bershad, though he was a student of Rabbi Dovid Twersky of Tolna and Rabbi Yitzchok Yoel Rabinowitz of Kantikaziva. In his book, he related how his uncle Reuven Wolf Segal took care of Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Abba Shapiro of Slavuta, while he recuperated from being lashed 1,500 times by the Russian government. Avraham and his brother Pinchas Shapiro, both grandchildren of Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, were the owners of the Slavuta printing house, which had been founded by their father, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro. As was common, the text of published books had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Leib
Karl Leib was a German SS officer. Leib was son-in-law of the head if the SS-Hauptamt Gottlob Berger, and served as a SS officer in that office during World War II. In 1940 he was appointed as head of the SS office ''Ergänzungstelle Norwest'' in the Hague in the Netherlands. With the rank of ''SS-Sturmbannführer'' (Major), Leib was in charge of the Norwegian recruitment and propaganda office ''Germanische Leitstelle'', at Drammensveien in Oslo. His office also published '' Germansk Budstikke'' and '' SS-Heftet'', which was the Norwegian edition of '' SS-Leitheft''. The recruiting footwork was done by the Norwegian ''SS-Untersturmführer''s Felix Thoresen and Brun Evers from Haugesund. The latter was killed in 1944 at Narva, fighting in 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. Before that Evers was said to have recruited the third company of the Norwegian skijegerbatallion, which became part of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord. Leib had broad contacts in Norwegian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter ( he, יהודה אריה ליב אלתר, 15 April 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the ''Sfas Emes'' (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or ''Sefat Emet'' (Modern Hebrew), was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the ''Av beis din'' (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim. Biography Early years He was born in 1847 (5608) and named Yehudah Leib; he was known to family and friends as Leybl. His father, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, died when Yehudah Leib was only eight years old, and his mother Mrs. Esther Alter (née Landsztajn) died before that. Orphaned of both parents, he was brought up by his grandparents, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter (known as the ''Chiddushei Harim'') and his wife. When he was about ten years old, his grandfat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Leib
Ethan J. Leib (September 15, 1975) is a law professor at Fordham Law School. He is the author of several books, including ''Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government''. Leib was raised in Riverdale, Bronx. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Yale University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and a M.Phil. from Cambridge University. Leib clerked for Chief Judge John M. Walker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before arriving at Fordham, Leib litigated at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City and taught at University of California, Hastings College of the Law The University of California, Hastings College of the Law (UC Hastings) is a public law school in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, UC Hastings was the first law school of the University of California as .... References External links * "Prawfsblog- law professors' blog including contributions by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
