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Lowy
Lowy (also spelled Löwy or Lőwy) is a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. It may refer to: * Albert Löwy (1816–1908), British Hebrew scholar and religious leader * Benjamin Lowy (born 1979), American photographer * Dóra Lőwy (born 1977), Hungarian handball player * Douglas R. Lowy (born 1942), American doctor *Emanuel Löwy (1857–1938), Austrian archaeologist *Frank Lowy (born 1930), Australian businessman *Frederick Lowy (born 1933), Canadian educator *Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian Olympic swimmer *Isaac Lowy (1793–1847), Hungarian businessman *Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Hungarian rabbi *Michael Löwy (born 1938), Brazilian sociologist *Otto Lowy (1921–2002), Canadian actor and radio host *Slavko Löwy (1904–1996), Croatian architect *Steven Lowy (born 1962), Australian businessman * Yitzchak Lowy (1887–1942), Polish actor See also *Lowy Institute for International Policy *Loewy Loewy (or Löwy) is a surname, and may refer to: People * Albert Lö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lowy
Sir Frank P. Lowy ( ; born 22 October 1930) is an Australian people, Australian-Israeli people, Israeli businessman of Jewish Slovakian-Hungarian origins and the former long-time Chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco. He is a former Chairman of Scentre Group, the owner and manager of Westfield Group, Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand. With an assessed net worth of billion in 2021, Lowy was ranked as the ninth richest Australian according to the ''Financial Review Rich List''; having been the richest person in Australia during 2010. ''Forbes (magazine), Forbes Asia'' magazine assessed Lowy's net worth at billion in January 2019 and placed him fourth in its Australia's 50 Richest people. Lowy is the founder of the Lowy Institute, Australia's leading f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Lowy
Steven Mark Lowy (born 24 November 1962) is the former co-Chief Executive Officer of Westfield Corporation, a leading global shopping centre company that was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco in 2018 in what was one of the largest transactions in Australian corporate history. His principal activities now focus on investments associated with the Lowy family’s private company, Lowy Family Group, as well as a number of philanthropic and community roles including as Chairman of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Heysod-United Israel Appeal and President of the Hakoah Club. During his career Lowy has served on numerous corporate and philanthropic boards including Westfield Corporation, Australian shopping centre company Scentre Group, as Chairman of Football Federation Australia and President of the board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is a former Chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and is currently a director of foreign polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowy Institute For International Policy
The Lowy Institute is an independent think tank founded in April 2003 by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research about international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective. It is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. While the institute has alternatively been described as "neoliberal","Lowy Institute," . Retrieved 26 December 2019 "centre-right" leaningBarro, Christiane "The think ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Lowy
Benjamin Lowy (born 1979)“Benjamin Lowy,” World Press Photo. Retrieved March 24, 2014. is an American . He is best known for his work as a conflict photographer in war zones, and is one of the early adopters of and a vocal proponent for mobile photography. Early life and education Lowy was born in , a first-generation American.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Lowy
Frederick Hans Lowy, (born 1933) is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.The Bulletin, University of Toronto, July 26, 1999 - Five U of T Community Members Appointed to Order of Canada. by Ailsa Ferguson Life and career Born in Großpetersdorf, in 1933, Lowy moved to at age 13. After gradua ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meshulim Feish Lowy
Meshulim Feish Segal Lowy II ( he, משולם פייש סג"ל לאווי, Magyarized: ''Lőwy Ferencz''; 11 April 1921 – 12 August 2015) was the fourth Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty. Biography Early life Lowy was born in Nyírtass, northeastern Hungary. His father Mordecai Márton was the oldest son of Grand Rebbe Elimelech, leader of the native Tosh Hasidim, and his mother Cirel (née Fekete) had been daughter to the chief rabbi of Nyírbátor. He was named after his great-grandfather Meshulim Feish Lowy I (1821 – 1875), the founder of the sect. In 1930, Mordecai was appointed rabbi of Demecser. Upon reaching the age of twelve, the boy was sent to study at the ''yeshiva'' of his uncle, Ascher Adolf Lőwy, in Nagykálló. On 2 December 1942 his grandfather died, and Mordecai succeeded him as Grand Rebbe. In 1943, the young Lowy was drafted into the Labour Service, to which ethnic minorities and "politically unreliable elements" were recruited in lieu of regular m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzchak Lowy
Yitzchak Lowy (1887–1942), also known as Yitskhok Levi, Jizchak Löwy, Jacques Levy, Djak Levi, was a Polish Yiddish theater actor. Lowy was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1907, he joined a Yiddish theater troupe and toured Eastern and Western Europe. From October 1911 through 1912 the troupe stated in Prague, where Lowy became good friends with Franz Kafka. He was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowy, Yitzchak 1887 births 1942 deaths Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp Male actors from Warsaw Yiddish theatre performers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Lowy
Otto Lowy (1921 – May 29, 2002) was the host of CBC Radio 2's ''The Transcontinental'' for 22 years until his death. The program was introduced each week as a "musical train ride through Europe". Lowy was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to an assimilated Jewish family and was the only member of his immediate family to survive World War II as he fled the country three days before Germany invaded. In England he worked as a member of the ground crew for the Czech Air Force squadron of the RAF. In 1948, he settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and began his career with CBC Radio CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined below ..., initially as an actor in the series '' Adventures in Europe''. He went on to write radio plays, make documentaries as well as act in dramas and comedies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavko Löwy
Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was well-known Croatian architect. Background, family and education Löwy was born in Koprivnica to a respectable and wealthy Croatian Jewish family, who were engaged in trade. In Koprivnica he attended the gymnasium school, and after graduation in 1923, he was enrolled in the Vienna Technical College. After four semesters, in 1925 he continued his studies in Zagreb at the department of architecture in Royal Technical College. In 1927 he continued his education in Dresden, where he graduated in 1930. Career Löwy moved to Zagreb, in 1930, where he started working in the architectural studio of Ignjat Fischer. In 1931 in collaboration with Vlado Antolić, Löwy starts a tender for the ''city Savings Bank'' project in Sarajevo. That same year he moved into the architectural studio of Stanko Kliske. Löwy became a licensed architect in 1931, and that same year he established his own architectural studio, ''„Löwy“''. That same yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy (born 6 May 1938) is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the ''École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation theology, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994. Academic career A descendant of Jews, Jewish immigrants from Vienna, Löwy grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, becoming a committed socialist at 16 (1954), when he discovered the writings of Rosa Luxemburg. He studied at the University of São Paulo, where he studied under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Florestan Fernandes and Antonio Candido, Antônio Cândido); he got his license in Social Sciences in 1960 and lectured in sociology for a year at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dóra Lőwy
Dóra Lőwy (born June 28, 1977) is a Hungarian former handball player and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with the Hungarian national team."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 15, 2008) Achievements *: **''Winner'': 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002 * |
Lowi (other)
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Lowi may refer to: *Theodore J. Lowi (1931–2017), American political scientist * Innsbruck Airport, Austria (ICAO code: LOWI) See also *Lowy *Loewy Loewy (or Löwy) is a surname, and may refer to: People * Albert Löwy (1816–1908), British Hebrew scholar and religious leader * Alfred Loewy (1873–1935), German mathematician * Emanuel Löwy (1857–1938), Austrian classical archaeologist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
