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Levenson
Levenson is a surname. It may be a variant of the Scottish surname Livingstone. The Livingstone are a Scottish branch of the Irish Dunleavy/MacNulty royals.John O’Hart, ''Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'', 5th edition, in two volumes, originally published in Dublin in 1892, reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976, Vol. 1, (Heremon Genealogies), p. 426 Levenson (and Levinson, Levinsohn, etc.) may also be a Jewish surname, meaning "son of Levi" - referring to one of the twelve tribes in Israel. Levenson may refer to: * Alan Levenson, American Jewish scholar * Arthur Levenson (1914–2007), American cryptographer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II * Barry Levenson, American blues musician and record producer * Barton Paul Levenson (born 1960), American science fiction writer * Boris Levenson (1884–1947), Romanian composer * Bruce Levenson (born 1949), American businessman and philanthropist * Christopher Levenson (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barton Paul Levenson
Barton Paul Levenson (born May 9, 1960) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and the macabre.''Art & Prose'', October 2007, p. 40. No. 61 Showcase Writer, Interview with B.P. Levenson He is author of eight novels and over 80 short stories, articles, reviews and other publications. Background Levenson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He started writing in 1974. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh He became a Christian in 1984. His first work of fiction was a short story, "Twenty Peasants", published in ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine'' in 1991. Levenson is a two-time winner of the "Confluence Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Contest" for "Virtual Bridges" and "Reality Forbidden". He is a long-standing member of one of Pittsburgh's oldest science-fiction and fantasy writer's workshops, Carnegie-Mellon University-based Pittsburgh Worldwrights, which includes Pittsburgh science fiction writer Kenneth Chiacchia among its m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Levenson
Bruce Levenson (born October 1, 1949) is an American businessman, former NBA team owner, and philanthropist. He was a co-owner of Atlanta Hawks, LLC (formerly Atlanta Spirit LLC), which owns and operates the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and Philips Arena. Levenson has also served as the Hawks' Governor on the NBA Board of Governors since 2004. Levenson co-founded United Communications Group (UCG) in 1977. He was a founding board member and is on the Board of Directors for the publicly traded TechTarget, an IT industry media company. Early life and education Bruce Levenson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is of Jewish descent. He later attended college at Washington University in St. Louis and graduated from law school at American University. While attending law school at night, Levenson began his journalism career at the Washington Star. Career UCG Levenson co-founded United Communications Group (UCG) with Ed Peskowitz in 1977. Based in Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Levenson
Barry Levenson is an American electric blues and Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter, singer, and record producer. In a varied career, Levenson has worked as a sideman to numerous blues musicians, toiled as a session musician, been an in-house record producer for both Kent Records, Kent and Storyville Records, played guitar with Canned Heat between 2006 and 2010, and released five albums in his own name. He has also authored two books which described playing methods for budding blues guitarists. Life and career Levenson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. His affection for the blues commenced at the age of 14, and gained more inspiration later when an older friend of his played him Buddy Guy's 1968 album, ''A Man and the Blues''. Levenson began performing in his home town's local blues scene and progressed to recording studio based work. Disillusioned, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, to study arranging at the Berklee College of Music, Berklee School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Levenson
Arthur J. Levenson (February 15, 1914 – August 12, 2007) was a cryptographer, United States Army officer and NSA official who worked on the Japanese J19 and the German Enigma codes. Biography Arthur J. Levenson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the City College of New York. He did graduate work in mathematics at New York University and Columbia University. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Levenson was a graduate of the National War College. Levenson and his wife Marjorie West (1917–2011) are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. World War II Service At the beginning of World War II, the Army called Mr. Levenson to active duty from the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He was approved for Signal Corps Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth Levenson was selected by Major William P. Bundy to be a member of the 6811th Signal Company. The 6811th Signal joined the British wartime code breaking organization at Bletc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Levenson
Silvia Levenson (born 1957, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine contemporary artist and political activist working in glass. Originally a graphic artist in her native Argentina whose political work was in direct conflict with the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, she found herself and her young family immigrating to Italy in 1980. Glass soon became the new medium in which she could best express her feelings of exile, oppression and personal tragedy. Biography Silvia Levenson was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957. Her mother was a dressmaker, her father was a social worker. Born into a time when political and social activism was encouraged, she began protesting on behalf of the Buenos Aires poor as early as 14. By the time she was 16 she was married and at the age of 19 she had her first child. She studied at Martin Garcia School of Graphic Design and after graduation worked in this field. It was during this time that the political climate in Argentina began to ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Levenson
Samuel Levenson (December 28, 1911August 27, 1980) was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist. Personal life Born in 1911, he grew up in a large Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He married Esther Levine (1910–1999) and had two children, Emily and Conrad, the latter a graduate of Columbia University, an architect, a resident of New York City, and father of four children. For fifteen years, Levenson taught high-school Spanish. Career From 1949 to 1954 Levenson was a panelist on the CBS series ''This Is Show Business'' along with playwright George S. Kaufman and Abe Burrows. In 1950 he and fellow comedian Joe E. Lewis were the first members of the New York Friars' Club to be roasted. The club has roasted a member every year since the inaugural roasting. In 1956 he hosted the game show '' Two for the Money'', having replaced fellow humorist Herb Shriner. From 1959 to 1964, he hosted ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Levenson
Ellie Levenson (born July 1978) is a freelance journalist and author in the United Kingdom. She has written for ''The Guardian'' and ''New Statesman'' among others and is an occasional columnist for ''The Independent'', writing opinion pieces and topical features on social policy and cultural theory. She also lectures part-time in journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and on the London Programme of Syracuse University. Early life and education Levenson was born in east London and raised in Walthamstow. She is Jewish. She studied for her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at Manchester University until 1999, where she wrote for the student paper, followed by a postgraduate diploma in journalism at City University London, City University in 2001. She was previously a stand-up comedian. Work She was a reporter at ''The Lawyer'' for four months in 2002, then became a travel writer for ''The Guardian'' for four months after winning the Netjetter c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Levenson
Steven Levenson (born May 1984) is an American playwright and television writer. He won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for ''Dear Evan Hansen''. Early life Levenson was raised in Bethesda, Maryland. He was raised in a Reform Jewish family. He attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School and Brown University. He originally studied theater and English but then turned to playwriting. In discussing his interests in writing, he said: "...it does seem that a lot of my work tends to move in that amilydirection. I do find the dynamics in the family to be fascinating and endlessly variable. Family is, obviously, among the most universal experiences."Traiger, Lis"Questions & answers with … Steven Levenson"washingtonjewishweek, July 29, 2015 Although he writes for television as well as the stage, he said: "Theater will always be my first love." Career Stage Levenson wrote the book for the musical ''Dear Evan Hansen'' which opened on Broadway in December 2016, after premiering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Levenson
Emanuel Levenson (August 2, 1916 – June 9, 1998) was an American classical musician most active from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s. Best known at the time as an opera director, he also taught piano and voice, performed as a concert pianist, and founded several arts organizations which survive to this day. A graduate of Columbia University who had studied piano under Joseph Adler, Levenson founded the Pennybridge Opera Company in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York and Berkshire Pro Musica in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He served as the music director of several opera companies, as director of Young Audiences, an organization that brought opera performers into schools, and he taught an opera workshop and directed numerous operas at The New School. Independently, he also taught piano as well as vocal technique. From 1960 to 1985 he commuted to New York City from Becket, Massachusetts, Becket, Massachusetts. As a pianist, Levenson made one recording, which was only releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Levenson
Thomas Levenson is an American academic, science writer and documentary film-maker. , he is Professor of Science Writing and director of the graduate program in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written six books: ''Ice Time: Climate, Science and Life on Earth''; ''Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science''; ''Einstein in Berlin''; ''The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe'' (shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016); ''Newton and the Counterfeiter'' and ''Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich''. He also writes articles and reviews for newspapers and magazines. Biography Levenson's father was Joseph R. Levenson, a professor of history at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Levenson
Alan T. Levenson holds the Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History and is the Director of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Levenson has written extensively on the modern Jewish experience for both scholarly and popular audiences. His book, ''Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932'' was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award Prize (paperback edition 2013), and his textbook, ''Modern Jewish Thinkers'', is widely used in classes on Jewish thought. He has won a number of prestigious fellowships, including an ACLS, and has lectured in the United States, Israel and Germany. Since arriving at the University of Oklahoma, he has completed four major projects: ''The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible'' (2011), a history of Bible translations/commentaries in the modern era; and, as General Editor, ''The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism'' (2012), ''Joseph: Portraits Through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Levenson (artist)
Dan Levenson (born 1972) is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. He works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. Early life and education Levenson was born in New York City. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate and the Royal College of Art for graduate school. Work Levenson's work involves a fictional Swiss art school based on the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, and the Abstraction-Création group. His work ties together themes of education, professionalization, utopia, freedom, labor, subjectivity, language, individualism, authorship, authenticity, theatricality, modernism, nationalism, and globalization. He is influenced by the legacy of institutional critique, especially the artists Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Mel Bochner, and the art historian and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Exhibitions Levenson has performed at the Hammer Museum, and has exhibited at Vielmetter Los Angeles, Praz-Delavallade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
