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Levy (surname)
Levy or Lévy is almost always a surname of Hebrew origin. It is a transliteration of the Hebrew meaning "joining". Another spelling of the surname—among multiple other spellings—is Levi (surname), Levi or Lévi. The surname usually refers to a family claiming Levite descent, which implies a specific social status in the structure of a traditional Jewish community. ''Levy'' and ''Coen'' are “Gaelic Irish surname(s) which have a foreign appearance but are nevertheless rarely if ever found indigenous outside Ireland” according to Edward MacLysaght. Levy can also be—though it is very rarely—a surname of French, Scottish, and Welsh language, Welsh origin. It is then a Lowlands' shortening of the Irish language, Irish ''Mac Duinnshléibhe'' (anglicized Donlevy). When eastern Ireland's kingdom of Ulaid fell to John de Courcy in 1177, many of the MacDonlevy (dynasty), MacDonlevy dynasty sought asylum in the Highlands of Scotland. Variant spellings of the Scottish surname L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In addition to being the official language of Poland, it is also used by the Polish diaspora. There are over 50 million Polish speakers around the world. It ranks as the sixth most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional dialects and maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, honorifics, and various forms of formalities when addressing individuals. The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet has nine additions (''ą'', ''ć'', ''ę'', ''ł'', ''ń'', ''ó'', ''ś'', ''ź'', ''ż'') to the letters of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet, while removing three (x, q, v). Those three letters are at times included in an extended 35-letter alphabet, although they are not used in native words. The traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Levy (psychologist)
David Levy is an American psychologist, professor, author, stage director, and actor. He is a professor of psychology at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology of Pepperdine University, near Malibu, California. He has co-authored a textbook on cross-cultural psychology and critical thinking, and has appeared on radio and television. Education Levy has a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he won a Hugh O'Brian Acting Award. He has an MA from Pepperdine University, and a second MA and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Psychotherapist Levy holds professional licenses both in psychology and in marriage and family therapy. Media consultant Levy has appeared on television and radio programs to provide psychological perspectives on current events, examine issues and trends in the mental health field, and provide sport psychology analyses of the Los Angeles Lakers for the ''Los Angeles Times''. Author Levy has written numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Levy (pianist)
Daniel Levy (born 1947) is a classical pianist from Argentina. He is also an author, radio broadcaster and educator. Early life Levy was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began playing the piano at age six and received a musical education under the tutorship of Ana Gelber and Vincenzo Scaramuzza, whose former pupils include Martha Argerich and Bruno Leonardo Gelber. He gave his debut performance at age 16, playing a piano recital with works by Bach, Chopin and Schumann. In 1967 he won the piano competition and in 1969 was announced the winner of the Mozarteum piano competition. Professional career Levy has recorded extensively over a 43-year career, with a catalogue of over 50 recordings for the Nimbus Records, Edelweiss Emission and Syntony record labels. His recording career has included a number of notable collaborations with artists that include Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Holzmair and Franco Maggio Ormezowski. Levy has performed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Levy (journalist)
Dan Levy (born Daniel Jason Levy; born February 11, 1978) is an American national sports journalist who was the national lead writer for ''Bleacher Report'', one of the world's leading sports websites, as well as a radio host on ''The Morning B/Reakaway'' on SiriusXM's ''Bleacher Report Radio''. He has appeared as a guest analyst on numerous TV and radio programs — from CNN to the NBC Sports Network. Levy (no relation to the actor or comedian of the same name or the current chairman of Premier League football side Tottenham Hotspur) was born and raised in Marlton, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University, where, as part of the sports information office, he began his career. Levy is also a graphic designer, whose work includes the creation of the Rutgers Athletics logo. Bleacher Report Levy was national lead writer at ''Bleacher Report'' from 2011 to 2015. He was the first hire of ''Bleacher Reports Lead Writer initiative. During that period, he amassed more than 20.6 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy (; ; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the " Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years. Life and career Early life and career Lévy was born in 1948 in Béni Saf, French Algeria, to an affluent Sephardic Jewish ( Algerian-Jewish) family. His family moved to Paris a few months after his birth. He is the son of Dina (Siboni) and André Lévy, the founder and manager of a timber company, Becob, and became a multimillionaire from his business. His father participated in the battle of Monte Cassino during World War II. He is the brother of Philippe Levy and . After attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, Lévy entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1968 and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1971. His professors there i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an English author best known for the novels '' Small Island'' (2004) and ''The Long Song'' (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities. Early life Levy was of primarily Afro-Jamaican descent. She had a Jewish paternal grandfather and a Scots maternal great-grandfather. She said in a 2004 article: "Jews went to Jamaica in the 1600s. My paternal grandfather was born Orthodox Jewish, from a very strict family, but after fighting in the First World War he became a Christian and came back and married my grandmother. His family disowned him, so I don't know much about them." Her father came to Britain on the in 1948, with her mother following later that year on a banana boat. Levy was born in Archway, north London, "the fourth, and baby, of the family, by a long way". She grew up on a council estat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Levy (actor)
William Gutiérrez-Levy (born August 29, 1980) is a Cuban-American actor and former model. Early life and education Levy was born in Cojimar, Cuba. His maternal grandfather was Jewish (the origin of his surname, ''Levy''), although he grew up in a non-religious household. He was raised by his single mother, Barbara Levy. His family, including his brother Jonathan Gutierrez Levy and sister Barbara Gutierrez Levy, emigrated to Miami, Florida when he was 14. He attended Barbara Goleman Senior high school, located in the suburb of Miami Lakes. After attending high school, he studied business administration on a baseball scholarship at St. Thomas University for two years. He later went to Los Angeles to study acting, and continued his acting studies in Miami and Mexico City. Career Levy worked as a model for the Next Models agency, and was featured in two reality shows broadcast by Telemundo: ''Isla de la Tentación'' and ''Protagonistas de Novela 2''. In 2005 he performed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Levy
Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian film director, film producer, actor, and founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. He has worked across genres and is perhaps best known as the director of the ''Night at the Museum'' film franchise and primary producer of the Netflix series ''Stranger Things.'' Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like ''Big Fat Liar'' and ''Just Married'' before subsequently helming the ''Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther'', and ''Night at the Museum'' film franchises. In the early 2010s, he directed films including ''Date Night'' and ''Real Steel'', developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the ABC sitcom '' Last Man Standing''. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film ''Arrival'', which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series ''Stranger Things.'' He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven (wrestler)
Scott Levy (born September 8, 1964) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Raven. He is known for his appearances with professional wrestling promotions including Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Widely recognized as "one of the best talkers in wrestling", Raven is known for his "psychological heel tactics" and grunge-inspired gimmick. His feud with The Sandman in the mid-1990s has been described as "one of the most emotional rivalries in professional wrestling's history". He is one of the most decorated wrestlers in history, with 37 title reigns between WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA, including being a three-time World Champion and having a record 27 reigns as WWF/E Hardcore Champion. After having an eight plus year career in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) now known as Impact Wrestling, Raven was inducted into the Impa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bern
Paul Bern (born Paul Levy; December 3, 1889September 5, 1932) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became the assistant to Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932; two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Various alternative theories of his death have been proposed. MGM writer and film producer Samuel Marx believed that he was killed by his Common-law marriage in the United States, ex-common-law wife Dorothy Millette, who jumped to her death from a ferry days afterward. Early life and career Bern was born Paul Levy in Wandsbek, which was then a town in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (now a district of the city of Hamburg). He was one of six children of Julius and Henriette (née Hirsch) Levy, a Jewish couple. Julius worked as a clerk for a shipping company before opening a cand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Levy
Jane Colburn Levy ( ; born ) is an American actress. After attending the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she debuted as the original Mandy Milkovich on the Showtime comedy-drama '' Shameless'' (2011). Levy left ''Shameless'' following its first season to portray the lead of the ABC sitcom ''Suburgatory'' from 2011 to 2014. Transitioning to film, Levy collaborated with director Fede Álvarez as the lead of the horror films ''Evil Dead'' (2013) and ''Don't Breathe'' (2016). She returned to television with series regular roles on the Hulu comedy-drama '' There's... Johnny!'' (2017) and horror fantasy '' Castle Rock'' (2018), in addition to headlining the Netflix thriller miniseries '' What/If'' (2019). From 2020 to 2021, Levy portrayed the title character of the NBC musical comedy-drama ''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'', for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Early life Jane Colburn Levy was born in Los Angeles, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassia Levy-Agron
Hassia Levy-Agron ( he, חסיה לוי־אגרון; 2 December 192322 August 2001) was an Israeli dancer, choreographer, and educator. Early life Hassia Levy was born in Jerusalem on 2 December 1923, to Elisheva Rivlin and Hayyim Leib Levy, a board member of the Anglo-Palestine Bank. A seventh-generation Jewish Jerusalemite, she was descended from two prominent families: her paternal grandfather co-founded Tel Aviv, and this line of the family had immigrated from Russia in the First Aliyah, while her mother was part of the Rivlin family. Levy-Agron began dancing in 1928, attending a kindergarten with rhythmic classes run by Levin Kipnis. She then joined the Lemel school, where she received instruction from dancers based in Tel Aviv; these instructors "were certain that hewas born to dance". Reflecting on her childhood lessons in 1989, Levy-Agron said that she learned a lot of creativity and improvisation. However, at the time most dance teachers were immigrants who worked in Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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