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Moskowitz
Moskowitz (also Moskovitz, Moskovits, Moscovitch, Moskovich, Moszkowicz, and other variants) is an Eastern Ashkenazic Jewish surname. A Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic of the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe. Moscovici is the Romanian form. People Moschcowitz * Eli Moschcowitz (1879–1964), Hungarian-born American doctor Moscovich * Ivan Moscovich (1926–2023), Yugoslav-Dutch designer of games, puzzles, toys, and educational aids * Maurice Moscovich (1871–1940), Russian-American actor Moscovitch * Dylan Moscovitch (born 1984), Canadian Olympic medalist pair skater * Hannah Moscovitch (born 1978), a Canadian female playwright * Morris Moscovitch, the Max & Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Moscowitz * Jennie Moscowitz - (1867/1868 - 1953), American actress Moshkovich * Zelman Moshkovich Chernyavsky (russian: Зельман Мошкович Чернявский; 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Moskowitz
Eva Sarah Moskowitz (born March 4, 1964) is an American politician and education reform leader, who is the founder and CEO of the Success Academy Charter Schools. A member of the Democratic Party, Moskowitz served on the New York City Council, representing the 4th district on the Upper East Side, from 1999 to 2005.''ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I'', as accessed June 25, 2012, page for ''Naming the Problem: How Popular Culture and Experts Paved the Way for "personal politics"'', Md.: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1992 (ProQuest document ID 303994013) Moskowitz interviewed to be Donald Trump's Secretary of Education, but decided not to pursue the position. Moskowitz has advocated for the promotion of charter schools as a key component of education reform in the United States. She claims that they are instrumental in closing the educational disparity between disadvantaged and elite students. As one of the most prominent leaders for education reform, Moskowitz has clashed with the Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Moskowitz
Belle Moskowitz (October 5, 1877 – January 2, 1933) was an important Progressive reformer political influencer in the early 20th century. In her obituary, the ''New York Times'' referred to her as the most powerful woman in United States politics. She worked as a political advisor and publicist to New York Governor and 1928 Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith. Early life Belle Lindner was born in 1877 in Harlem in New York City, to watchmaker Isidor Lindner and Esther Freyer. Both parents were immigrants from East Prussia in Germany. She attended the Horace Mann School, a laboratory school of Teachers College, and in 1894 she attended Teachers College, Columbia University, but stayed for only one year. Early in her life, Belle worked as an actress. She studied Oral Interpretation of Literature in school and performed for private events. She later taught acting and elocution to children and considered work as a professional actress before going into politics. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Moskowitz
Abraham Moskowitz (born c. 1880 in Slobozia, Ialomița County, Romania, died 1956 in New York City) was a Yiddish language baritone and tenor, Yiddish theater actor and recording artist of the early twentieth century who recorded mainly between 1917 and 1927. His most successful recordings were made in collaboration with the klezmer bandleader and composer Abe Schwartz. Biography Early life and family Little has been written about Moskowitz's early life, although he was apparently born outside of Bucharest, Romania around 1880. The exact date is unclear; on his First World War draft registration card he stated he was born on May 15, 1878, but based on the age he gave in different census years, he could also have been born between 1880 and 1885. His father was born in Romania but that his mother was born in Russia. Although some sources states that he emigrated to the United States in 1913, in census and immigration documents he gave various years including 1905 and 1906 He marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shulem Moshkovitz
Shulem Moskovitz (23 November 1877 – 14 January 1958), known as the Shotzer Rebbe, was a Romanian hasidic Rabbi. He was a descendant of the famed chasidic Rebbe Yechiel Mikhl of Zlotshov. Background Moskovitz emigrated to London, England, before World War II, settling in Stamford Hill, a part of London where not many hasidic Jews lived then. In London, he became known as the ''Shotzer Rebbe''. He established a ''Beis Medrash'' affiliated to the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. Rabbi Shulem was the son of Shotz (Hasidic dynasty)#Outline of the Shotz dynasty, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Moshe of Sulitza. He married Shlomtza, his first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, Rabbi Meir, and his first wife, Dinah. The Shotzer Rebbe wrote several volumes of Torah commentaries named ''Daas Sholom'', are arranged according to the order of ''Perek Shira''. He was a genius both in the revealed Torah and in Kabbala, and lived a lifestyle of holiness and simplicity. Among the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Ted Moskowitz
Barry Ted Moskowitz (born August 17, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Education and career Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Moskowitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law–Newark in 1975. He was a law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1975 to 1976. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1976 to 1982. He was in private practice in Wayne, New Jersey from 1982 to 1985, and was then again an Assistant United States Attorney, this time in the Southern District of California, from 1985 to 1988. Federal judicial service From 1986 to 1995, Moskowitz was a United States magistrate judge of the Southern District of California. On June 30, 1995, Moskowitz was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is a food and wine writer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Personal life Dara Moskowitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1988. She got her start in the world of food as a dishwasher. She graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1992. She lives with her family in Minneapolis and is a senior writer for ''Mpls.St.Paul Magazine''. Writing Originally focusing on fiction writing, she won two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, a fellowship from the Loft McKnight foundation, and the Tamarack Award in 1994. She was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates for the anthology ''American Fiction, Volume Nine: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors''. Her primary outlet for food writing from 1995 to 2008 was in the '' City Pages'', a Minneapolis-St. Paul alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media. Currently, she works for MSP Communications, where she writes for both ''Delta Sky Magazine'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscovici
Moscovici is a surname, the Romanian spelling of '' Moskowitz''. Notable people with the surname include: * Ariel Moscovici (born 1956), Romanian-born French sculptor * Ilie Moscovici (1885-1943), Romanian socialist activist and journalist * Josef Moscovici, an occasional alternate spelling of Joseph Moskowitz (1879-1954), Romanian-American musician and restaurateur * Zeilic Moscovici/Virgiliu Monda (1898–1991), Romanian poet and novelist * Pierre Moscovici (born 1957), French politician * Serge Moscovici Serge Moscovici (June 14, 1925 in Brăila, Romania as ''Srul Herş Moscovici'' – November 15, 2014 in Paris) was a Romanian-born French social psychologist, director of the '' Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale'' ("European Laboratory ... (1925-2014), Romanian-born French social psychologist * Ghiță Moscu, also known as Gelber Moscovici and Alexandru Bădulescu (1895–1938), Romanian socialist and communist activist * Alexandru Toma, also known as Solomon M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avigdor Moskowitz
Avigdor Moskowitz (born 4 February 1953) is a former Israeli basketball player, playing as a point guard. He was a member of the Israeli national basketball team, which won a gold medal at 1974 Asian Games after defeating South Korea 92–85 in a final match. He represented his country four times in the European Championships and in 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ... he won a silver medal. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moskowitz, Avigdor Israeli men's basketball players Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Israel Asian Games medalists in basketball Basketball players at the 1974 Asian Games 1953 births Living people Point guards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Aaron Moskovitz (; born May 22, 1984) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta) with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found AsanaRosenstein, Justi"Reply on Quora to: Who is the CEO of Asana?" Quora, February 8, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2011. with Justin Rosenstein. In March 2011, ''Forbes'' reported Moskovitz to be the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, on the basis of his 2.34% share in Facebook. As of November 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$11.3 billion. Early life Moskovitz was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in Ocala, Florida. He is Jewish. He attended Vanguard High School, graduating from the IB Diploma Program. Moskovitz attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before he moved with Mark Zuckerberg to Palo Alto in order to work full-time on Facebook. Career Facebook (2004-2008) Four people, three of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobra Kai
''Cobra Kai'' is an American martial arts comedy-drama television series and a sequel to the original ''The Karate Kid'' films by Robert Mark Kamen. The series was created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, and is distributed by Sony Pictures Television. The series was released on YouTube Red / YouTube Premium for the first two seasons, before moving to Netflix starting with the third. The series stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, who reprise their roles as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence from the 1984 film ''The Karate Kid'' and its sequels, ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986) and ''The Karate Kid Part III'' (1989). The first season launched on YouTube Red on May 2, 2018, with a second season following on April 24, 2019. After production of season three was completed, YouTube decided to stop producing scripted original programming, leaving the show without a home. Netflix acquired the series in June 2020, and has helmed production and release of the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Moshkovitz
Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson ( he, דנה מושקוביץ) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include approximation algorithms and probabilistically checkable proofs. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Education and career Moshkovitz completed her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her dissertation, ''Two Query Probabilistic Checking of Proofs with Subconstant Error'', was supervised by Ran Raz, and won the 2009 Haim Nessyahu Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union for the best mathematics dissertation in Israel. After postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Moshkovitz became a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She moved to the University of Texas as an associate professor in 2016. Personal life Moshkovitz is married to American theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson Scott Joel Aaronson (born May 21, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Merriam
Eve Merriam (July 19, 1916 – April 11, 1992) was an American poet and writer. Writing career Merriam's first book was the 1946 ''Family Circle'', which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, ''The Inner City Mother Goose'', was described as one of the most banned books of the time.Biography of Eve Merriam at the Academy of American Poets poets.org. Accessed November 6, 2022. It inspired a 1971 called ''Inner City'', later revived in 1982 under the title ''Street Dreams''. In 1956, she pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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