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Levitan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Avri Levitan (born 1973), Israeli violist * Boris Levitan (1914–2004), Soviet-American mathematician * Dan Levitan, American businessman * Félix Lévitan (1911–2007), Tour de France organiser * Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian painter * Israel Levitan (1912–1982), American abstract expressionist sculptor * Jerry Levitan (born 1954), Canadian known as "the kid who interviewed John Lennon" * Nadav Levitan (1945–2010), Israeli film director, screenwriter, writer and songwriter * Richard M. Levitan, American emergency medicine physician and businessperson * Solomon Levitan (1862–1940), treasurer of Wisconsin * Steven Levitan (born 1962), director * Tina Levitan (1922–2014), American writer * Yuliya Levitan (born 1973), American chess player * Yuri Levitan Yuri Borisovich Levitan (russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан, 2 October 1914 – 4 August 1983) was the primary Soviet radio a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avri Levitan
Avri Levitan (born 1973) is an Israeli violist based in Berlin. He conceived the nonprofit Musethica with Carmen Marcuello in 2009 and launched it in 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain. Levitan has received nominations at the ''BBC Music Magazine'' Awards in 2009 and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in 2012. Early life and education Levitan was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is of Polish descent. His parents introduced him to classical music, and he began taking viola lessons at the age of five. As a youth, he found practicing the viola to be challenging, as he preferred football. He told ''China Daily'', "But when I stopped playing music, after one or two days, I realized that I cannot live without music." In an interview published by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Levitan states that he was inspired, while growing up in Israel, by artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Pnina Salzman, and also Haim Taub, with whom he studied. Levitan studied at the Rubin Tel Aviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Levitan
Boris Levitan (7 June 1914 – 4 April 2004) was a mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering. Life Boris Levitan was born in Berdyansk (south-eastern Ukraine), and grew up in Kharkiv. He graduated from Kharkov University in 1936; in 1938, he submitted his PhD thesis "''Some Generalization of Almost Periodic Function''" under the supervision of Naum Akhiezer. Then he defended the habilitation thesis "''Theory of Generalized Translation Operators''". He was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II in 1941, and served until 1944. From 1944 to 1961 he worked at the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy, and from 1961 until about 1992 at Moscow University. In 1992 Levitan emigrated to the United States. During the last years of his life, he worked in the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Levitan
Dan Levitan is a former investment banker turned venture capital investor. He is co-founding partner at Maveron, which invests in consumer-only businesses centered on technology-enabled products and services in commerce, education, and health and wellness. Early life Levitan is the son of Minna and Milton Levitan.New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Stacey Winston, Dan Levitan" November 8, 1998 Levitan is . He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Lévitan
Félix Lévitan (12 October 1911 in Paris – 18 February 2007 in Cannes), a sports journalist, was the third organiser of the Tour de France, a role he shared for much of the time with Jacques Goddet. Lévitan is credited with looking after the financial side of the Tour while Goddet concentrated on the sporting aspect, but in the end Lévitan was fired while Goddet simply retired. Background Félix Lévitan was born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris eight years after Maurice Garin won the first edition of the race he would eventually organise. Lévitan's parents were shopkeepers. He played soccer as a child and tried cycle-racing after working at the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Parc des Princes cycle tracks ( velodromes) in the city. The Vél' d'Hiv' was the city's indoor track and the Parc the outside stadium where the Tour de France finished. The racing inspired Lévitan to become a journalist. It was 1928 and he was 17. He started at the cycling magazine, ''La Péda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; – ) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow. In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class. Levitan's teachers were the famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Levitan
Israel Levitan (June 13, 1912 – May 17, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Known as a sculptor, he also produced paintings, graphics and fine art works on paper. The art critics of ''ARTnews'' selected his 1959 exhibition at the Barone Gallery in New York City, as one of the 10 best one-man exhibitions of the year. After World War II Levitan was involved in the New York art community, and participated in numerous exhibitions. Biography Levitan left home at an early age to travel around the United States, Canada and Mexico. During his travels he lived for a time with Montana's Blackfoot Native Americans. In 1934 Levitan settled in Detroit, Michigan where he took a job as an auto worker. While living in Detroit, Levitan became interested in boxing and with union sponsorship, became Michigan State Amateur Welterweight Boxing Champion under the pseudonym Jack Myers. In 1939 after a successful career in boxing, Levitan began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Levitan
Jerry Levitan (born 1954) is a Canadian best known as "the kid who interviewed John Lennon". He produced and starred in the animated short ''I Met the Walrus'' about his meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1969. Though only 14 years old, Levitan beat the world media and conducted an exclusive 30-minute interview with them about peace, The Beatles, and their music. The film won a Daytime Emmy in 2009 in the category of New Approaches, Daytime Entertainment. It was also nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for best animated short, and won Best Animated at the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the American Film Festival and the Middle East International Film Festival. He is the author of the best selling, autobiographical book, ''I Met The Walrus'' published May 2009 by HarperCollins. It is the account of Levitan's childhood growing up in the sixties, his love for the Beatles, and traces in detail the day he spent with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In 2010, Levit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadav Levitan
Nadav Levitan ( he, נדב לויתן; 21 April 1945 – 9 January 2010) was an Israeli film director, screenwriter, writer, and songwriter. He directed nine films between 1981 and 1999. His film '' Stalin's Disciples'' (in Hebrew ''Stalin's Children'', ילדי סטאלין), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. He was married to Israeli musician Chava Alberstein, who recorded many of his songs. Levitan died on 10 January 2010 of an undisclosed lung ailment. Filmography * '' An Intimate Story'' (1981) * '' Ha-Kala'' (1985) * '' Banot'' (1985) * '' Stalin's Disciples'' (1986) * ''Groupie'' (1993) * '' Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing'' (1995) * ''No Names on the Doors'' (1997) * ''Aviv Aviv ( he, אביב) means "barley ripening", and by extension "spring season" in Hebrew. It is also used as a given name, surname, and place name, as in Tel Aviv. The first month of the year is called the month of Aviv in the Pentateuch. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard M
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", " Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Levitan
Solomon Levitan (November 1, 1862 – February 27, 1940) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the treasurer of the state of Wisconsin on two occasions, once from 1923 to 1933, and again from 1937 to 1939. Biography Levitan was born in Tauroggen, East Prussia in 1862. A Jewish man, Levitan moved to Wisconsin and settled in the New Glarus, Wisconsin area in 1881 after antisemitism broke out in his native country. He later moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1905. Levitan died in 1940. Career Levitan twice ran unsuccessfully for treasurer before being elected in 1922. He served from 1923 to 1933 and again from 1937 to 1939. In 1924, he was delegate to the Republican National Convention. The convention nominated incumbent Calvin Coolidge for President of the United States, who would run against Democratic Party nominee John W. Davis of West Virginia and Progressive Party nominee Robert M. La Follette Sr. Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Levitan
Steven E. Levitan (born April 6, 1962) is an American television producer, director, and screenwriter. He has created such television series as ''Just Shoot Me!'', ''Stark Raving Mad (TV series), Stark Raving Mad'', ''Stacked'', ''Back to You (TV series), Back to You'', ''Modern Family'', and ''Reboot (2022 TV series), Reboot''. Early life and education Levitan was raised American Jews, Jewish in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Glenbrook South High School and University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1980 to 1984, graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Career Levitan worked as a WKOW-TV on-air news reporter and morning anchorman in Madison, Wisconsin, and as a copywriter at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago. He moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood in 1989. As executive producer, Levitan won an Emmy Award in 1996 for ''Frasier'' in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. He was also nominated in that same year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Levitan
Tina Nellie Levitan (December 19, 1922 – June 9, 2014) was an American writer, who wrote mainly about topics related to Jewish history. Early life Levitan was born in Boston and attended the Boston Hebrew College Prozdor (High School). At age 17 she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y. with her parents. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1944, winning the Jane Fischel Memorial Prize for the Best Essay on the "Philosophy of Traditional Judaism". She also received a Bachelor’s of Education degree from the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Seminary in New York. Writer and columnist Levitan’s books consistently explored the intersection of some aspect of history, usually American history, with Judaism. In 1967, when preparing ''The Laureates: Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize'', Levitan wrote to Richard Feynman, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, requesting a biographical sketch and a black and white photograph, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
