Lurie
Lurie is often a Jewish surname, but also an Irish and English surname. The name is sometimes transliterated from/to other languages as Lurye, Luriye (from Russian), Lourié (in French). Other variants include: Lurey (surname), Loria, Luria, Luri, Luryi, Lurier, Laurie, Lourie, Laurier. Some historians suspect that the family Luria one of the oldest family trees in the world, claiming to trace back at least to King David born c. 1037 BCE, as researched by Neil Rosenstein in his book ''The Lurie Legacy''. According to this theory, it contains many famous members such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Felix Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, Rashi, and Hezekiah. List of people with the surname * Alison Lurie (1926–2020), American novelist * Bob Lurie (born 1929), former owner of the San Francisco Giants * Boris Lurie (1924–2008), American artist * Dan Lurie (1923–2013), American body building and physical fitness pioneer * David Lurie (born 1951), South African photographer * E ...
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Bob Lurie
Robert Alfred Lurie (born 1929) is a real estate magnate, philanthropist, and former owner of the San Francisco Giants franchise of Major League Baseball from March 2, 1976, until January 12, 1993. Early life Lurie was born to a Jewish familyJWeekly: "Jewish stars of the Giants, Rangers World Series" by Andy Altman-Ohrin
October 28, 2010 in San Francisco, the son of Babette (née Greenbaum) and Louis Lurie. In 1972, he took over the real estate company founded in 1922 by his father whose name is synonymous with San Francisco real estate development during the middle part of the 20th century. The company built a number of properties a ...
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Alison Lurie
Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel '' Foreign Affairs''. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Life Alison Stewart Lurie was born on September 3, 1926, in Chicago, and raised in White Plains, New York. Her father Harry Lawrence Lurie was a sociologist, and her mother Bernice Lurie (''née'' Stewart) was a journalist and book critic. Her father was born in Latvia and her mother was born in Scotland. Her father served as the First Executive Director of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Due to complications with a forceps delivery, she was born deaf in one ear and with damage to her facial muscles. She attended a boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in ...
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Dan Lurie
Dan Lurie (April 1, 1923 – November 6, 2013) was an American bodybuilder, television personality, entrepreneur, and world record holder. He was regarded as a pioneer in physical fitness and a founding father of bodybuilding. Lurie had won the Mr. America title of "America's Most Muscular Man" four times by 1949, and in 1984 made history by arm wrestling U.S. President Ronald Reagan on the Oval Office desk in the White House. Biography Lurie was born in New York, New York, graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School and later moved to North Woodmere on Long Island where he lived until age 90. A world-class bodybuilder in the 1940s, Lurie won numerous titles in the Mr. America competitions. In 1948, he established the International Federation of Body Builders and later went on to create The World Body Building Guild. In the 1950s he went on to star as "Sealtest Dan, The Muscle Man" in a long-running CBS TV series called The Sealtest Big Top. Throughout his career, Lurie ha ...
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Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie (July 18, 1924 – January 7, 2008) was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for socially and politically involved art that would resist and combat the forces of the market. His controversial work, often related to the Holocaust, has frequently irritated critics and curators. Though he lived as a penniless artist, Lurie amassed $80 million by buying penny stocks and real estate which was used on August 8, 2009, to create the Boris Lurie Art Foundation. Early life Lurie was born in Leningrad into a Jewish family and grew up in Riga. From 1941 to 1945 he was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto, then the Lenta Arbeitslager, and then three separate concentration camps, including Salaspils, Stutthof, and the Buchenwald satellite camp at the Magdeburg Polte-Werke; his mother, grandmother and sister were murdered by the Nazis in the Rumbula massacre. In 1946 he immigrated to New York and began his career as an artist. For a short time ...
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Jacob Lurie
Jacob Alexander Lurie (born December 7, 1977) is an American mathematician who is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Lurie is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. Life When he was a student in the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School, Lurie took part in the International Mathematical Olympiad, where he won a gold medal with a perfect score in 1994. In 1996 he took first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and was featured in a front-page story in the ''Washington Times''. Lurie earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard College in 2000 and was awarded in the same year the Morgan Prize for his undergraduate thesis on Lie algebras. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under supervision of Michael J. Hopkins, in 2004 with a thesis on derived algebraic geometry. In 2007, he became associate professor at MIT, and in 2009 he became professor at Harvard University. In 20 ...
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David Lurie
David Lurie (born 1951) is a South African photographer, living and working in Cape Town."About"
, David Lurie's personal website. Lurie has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East.

Life and career

Born in Cape Town in 1951,David Lurie
, South African History Online. Lurie studied economics, politics and philosophy at the , and graduated with a BA Honours degree. He went on to teach philosophy at the University, before moving to the

Elliot Lurie
Elliot Lurie (born August 19, 1948) is an American musician who was the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the band Looking Glass from 1969 to 1974. He wrote and sang lead on their 1972 #1 hit single " Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" and their 1973 Top 40 single "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne". Biography After leaving the band in the mid-1970s, Lurie released a self-titled album and a single, "Disco (Where You Gonna Go)", both on Epic Records. Neither reached the Billboard Top 100. He later signed with Arista Records, and also worked writing songs for Chappell Music and Screen Gems Music. In the 1980s, Lurie wrote and produced music for private business use. He moved to Los Angeles in 1984, and in 1985, became head of the music department at 20th Century Fox. That year, he produced the soundtrack album for the John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis film '' Perfect''. Since then he has worked as music supervisor on numerous mainstream films, including ''Alien 3'' (1992), '' ...
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Family Tree
A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms. Representations of family history Genealogical data can be represented in several formats, for example, as a pedigree or . Family trees are often presented with the oldest generations at the top of the tree and the younger generations at the bottom. An ancestry chart, which is a tree showing the ancestors of an individual and not all members of a family, will more closely resemble a tree in shape, being wider at the top than at the bottom. In some ancestry charts, an individual appears on the left and his or her ancestors appear to the right. Conversely, a descendant chart, which depicts all the descendants of an individual, will be narrowest at the top. Beyond these formats, some family trees might include all members of a particular surname (e.g., male-l ...
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Laurie (surname)
Laurie is a surname, derived from the given name Laurence. Notable people with the surname include: * Annie Laurie (musician) (1924-2006), African-American jump blues and rhythm and blues singer *Arthur Pillans Laurie (1861-1949), Scottish chemist, pioneer of the scientific analysis of paintings *Ben Laurie, founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, core team member of OpenSSL *Cy Laurie (1926-2002), English jazz clarinettist and bandleader * Daine Laurie (born 1999), Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer *Eleanor Mary Ord Laurie (1919–2009), British mammalogist *David Laurie (1833–1897), violin collector *Greg Laurie (born 1952), Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California *Hugh Laurie (born 1959), British actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist and director *James Laurie (1811–1875), American engineer, a founder of the American Society of Civil Engineers *Jim Laurie (born 1947), American wr ...
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Luria (other)
Luria can refer to: * ''Luria'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snail * Luria gens, an ancient Roman family * ''Luria'' (play), a play by Robert Browning, published in 1846 People Luria is a surname, a variant of Lurie. It may refer to: * Alexander Luria (1902–1977), Russian neuropsychologist *Elaine Luria, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 2nd district, and former United States Navy Commander. * Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish mystic from Safed * Johanan Luria, Alsatian Talmudist * Roger de Luria (c. 1245–1305), Sicilian/Aragonese admiral * Salvador Luria (1912–1991), Italian microbiologist * Solomon Luria Solomon Luria (1510 – November 7, 1573) ( he, שלמה לוריא) was one of the great Ashkenazic ''poskim'' (decisors of Jewish law) and teachers of his time. He is known for his work of Halakha, ''Yam Shel Shlomo'', and his Talmudic commenta ...

Luri (other)
Luri may refer to: * Luri people or Lurs, an Iranian people * Luri language, Western Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs * Luri language (Nigeria), dialect of the Afro-Asiatic language Polci * Luri, Haute-Corse, commune in France * Luri (river), coastal stream in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France * Andrew Luri, Sudanese-Australian actor * Diego Luri (born 1985), Brazilian actor, singer and journalist See also *Lurie Lurie is often a Jewish surname, but also an Irish and English surname. The name is sometimes transliterated from/to other languages as Lurye, Luriye (from Russian), Lourié (in French). Other variants include: Lurey (surname), Loria, Luria, Lur ...

Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki ( he, רבי שלמה יצחקי; la, Salomon Isaacides; french: Salomon de Troyes, 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (see below), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud and commentary on the Hebrew Bible (the ''Tanakh''). Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the text in a concise and lucid fashion, Rashi appeals to learned scholars and beginning students, and his works remain a centerpiece of contemporary Jewish studies. His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud (a total of 30 out of 39 tractates, due to his death), has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s. His commentaries on the Tanakh—especially his commentary on the Chumash (the "Five Books of Moses")—serves as the basis of more than 300 "supercommentaries" which analyze Rashi's choice of langu ...
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