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Preminger
Preminger ( he, פרמינגר) is a surname of Jewish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Eliezer Preminger (1920–2001), Israeli politician *Erik Lee Preminger (born 1944), American writer and actor *Ingo Preminger (1911–2006), American film producer *Noah Preminger (born 1986), American musician *Otto Preminger (1905–1986), American film director *Tanya Preminger Tanya Preminger ( he, טניה פרמינגר), is an artist working in various media: environmental art, site-specific art, ephemeral art, sculpture, installation and photography. She is mostly known for her land art projects and large-scale s ... (born 1945), Israeli sculptor {{surname Ashkenazi surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as '' Laura'' (1944) and ''Fallen Angel'' (1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with themes which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (''The Man with the Golden Arm'', 1955), rape (''Anatomy of a Murder'', 1959) and homosexuality (''Advise & Consent'', 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had several acting roles. Early life Preminger was born in 1905 in Wischnitz, Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Vyzhnytsia, Ukraine), into a Jewish family. His parents were Josefa (née Fraenke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Preminger
Noah Preminger (born ) is an American jazz saxophonist. Music career Born in 1986, Preminger grew up in Canton, Connecticut. While in high school, he studied with saxophonist Dave Liebman. He released his debut album, ''Dry Bridge Road'', after graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music. The album was a sextet session with Ben Monder, pianist Frank Kimbrough, trumpeter Russ Johnson, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Ted Poor. Preminger's second album as a leader, ''Before the Rain'', came in 2011 from Palmetto, featuring a quartet with Kimbrough, Hébert and drummer Matt Wilson. Preminger has played with Billy Hart, Dave Holland, Fred Hersch, Dave Douglas, Victor Lewis, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Billy Drummond, George Cables, Roscoe Mitchell, and Eddie Henderson. Critical reception Of Brooklyn-based saxophonist Noah Preminger, the ''Hartford Courant'' said: "Playing with the grace and expressiveness of a jazz veteran, the young man with a horn mixes cool re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Preminger
Tanya Preminger ( he, טניה פרמינגר), is an artist working in various media: environmental art, site-specific art, ephemeral art, sculpture, installation and photography. She is mostly known for her land art projects and large-scale stone sculptures. Her diverse body of work has been displayed internationally in numerous exhibitions and symposiums. Biography Tanya Preminger Novozilova was born in Taganrog, Russia. Her father was Nikolay Novozilov, a scientist and winner of the Lenin award, and her mother was Inna Prochaska, an engineer and a lecturer at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Tanya earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia. She married Osip Preminger, and the couple has 4 daughters. Since 1972 she lives, works and teaches in Israel. Preminger works mainly in natural materials. Her early sculptures were done from clay, wood, and stone, and later she begun including earth, grass, water, snow and other m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Lee Preminger
Erik Lee Preminger (born December 11, 1944) is an American writer, actor, and producer. Early life Preminger's birth name was Eric Lee Kirkland. His true paternity was not known to him until he was an adult. He was named by his mother Gypsy Rose Lee and her then-husband, Alexander Kirkland. His father was film director Otto Preminger. He was the only nephew of actress June Havoc June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick; November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist. Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, ..., Gypsy Rose Lee's younger sister. Personal life He wrote an autobiography about his relationship with his mother: ''Gypsy & Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee'' (Little, Brown - 1984, ) which was later re-issued as ''My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee'' (). In 1967, he married flight attendant Barbara van Nattem, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo Preminger
Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger (25 February 1911 – 7 June 2006) was a film producer. He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was the brother of actor-director-producer Otto Preminger. Biography Preminger was born to a Jewish family 12 June 2006 and studied law and worked as a lawyer in Vienna before emigrating to the due to the rise of . He was nominated for an |
Eliezer Preminger
Eliezer Preminger (, 13 April 1920 – 15 September 2001) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki, the Hebrew Communists and Mapam between 1949 and 1951. Biography Born in Vienna in 1920, Preminger made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1939. He joined the Palestine Communist Party, but in 1945 was one of the leaders of a group that left in order to form the ''Hebrew Communists'' party. In 1948 he joined Maki, and was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 on the party's list. During his period in the Knesset, Preminger held the following functions: Chair, Subcommittee on Distribution of Raw Materials, Observer, Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Member of Economic Affairs Committee, Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Committee for Public Services. Knesset Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
