|
Polak
Polak is the Polish noun for a Pole (also in several other Slavic languages). It is also a surname. In 2020 there were over 21,500 persons with the surname in Poland. Notable people with the surname include * A. Polak Daniels (1842–1891), Dutch chess master * Abraham Polak (1910–1970), Israeli historian, professor at the Tel Aviv University * Ada Polak (1914–2010), Norwegian art historian * Anna Dresden-Polak (1906–1943), née Polak, Jewish Dutch gymnast * Anna Sophia Polak (1874—1943), Jewish feminist and author * Ben Polak (born 1961), British professor of economics * Benedykt Polak (), Polish Franciscan friar, traveler, explorer and interpreter * Bojan Polak (1918–2004), Yugoslav military officer, politician, and athlete * Boris Polak (born 1954), Israeli world champion and Olympic sport shooter * Carel Polak (1909–1981), Dutch politician * Christian Polak (born 1950), French businessman and author * Clairy Polak (1956–2023), Dutch journalist * Clark Pola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Polak
Christian Philippe Polak (born August 1950) is a French businessman and author who has published several books on 19th-century Franco-Japanese relations; one ''Le Monde'' book review called him "the best specialist on this question". Career Born in Nogaro, Polak graduated from the Department of Japanese studies at INALCO, Paris, in 1971. The same year, he entered Waseda University's Institute of Language and Education as a foreign exchange student. In 1973, he entered the Law Department at Hitotsubashi University, and in 1980 completed his doctorate in law, writing his doctoral thesis on diplomatic relations between France and Japan from 1914 to 1925. After completing his doctoral studies, Polak attempted to obtain a position at a Japanese university, but, according to one source, the then-Japanese government "denied such a possibility to foreigners" despite various demonstrations and petitions. Polak abandoned his academic ambitions, and in 1981 founded in Tokyo the ''Sociét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Polak
Abraham Nahum Polak (sometimes referred to as A. N. Polak or Poliak; born 2 September 1910, died 5 March 1970) was an Israeli historian, a professor at the Tel Aviv University since its inception, professor of medieval history and founder of the department of Middle-Eastern History. His main areas of research were Jewish history, Arab history, nations of Islam and Africa and the history of the Khazars. Biography Early years and education Polak was born in Ochakiv, a small city in the southern part of the Russian Empire.''Immigration card - Avraham Poliak'' - File no. STC6, archive of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Jerusalem. There is little information on his early years or his family. In 1923 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his mother, Miriam Mindel (born Serebreni) and his elder brother, Menashe Polak. The family settled in the city of Haifa where Polak also attended high-school between the years 1924–1929 at the Hebrew Reali School. In 1930 Polak moved to Jerusa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Polak
Henri Polak (22 February 1868 – 18 February 1943) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. Polak is best remembered as a longtime president of the General Diamond Workers' Union of the Netherlands (ANDB) and as a founder of the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1894. Targeted as a Jew, a socialist, and a trade unionist, Polak was arrested by the Nazis in 1940 but died early in 1943 before he could be deported. Biography Early years Henri Polak was born 22 February 1868 in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. He was the son of a diamond cutter and jeweler named Mozes Polak and his wife, Marianne Smit.John E. Lunn, "Henri Polak," in A. Thomas Lane, ''Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders: Volume 2, M-Z.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995; pp. 765–766. He attended a Jewish primary school until the age of 13, at which time he was pulled out of school to go to work to help support his parents' large family as an apprentice diamond cutter.Frank van Vree"Henri Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clairy Polak
Clairy Ruth Polak (30 May 1956 – 31 August 2023) was a Dutch journalist and radio and television presenter. Early life Born and raised in Amsterdam, Polak was the only child of the comedians Katja Berndsen and , the stage name of Abraham Polak. Her father was Jewish, but Polak herself was raised non-Jewish. Career After high school, Polak started her media career at ''Uitkrant''. In 1988, she started working as a desk editor at the Dutch broadcaster VARA. Two years later she became a political reporter for the radio there. Later she became, among other things, presenter of the radio programme '' De Editie''. In 1995, she switched to , where she started working on 1 September. In 1998 she was named the best radio producer of that year. In 2002, Polak returned to VARA, where she became the presenter of the radio programmes and '' Ophef en Vertier''. When she was asked by VARA chairman to present the current affairs program ''NOVA,'' Polak stopped presenting ''Ophef en Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Polak
Hanna Polak (born 1967) is a Polish director, cinematographer and producer. For her short documentary film, ''The Children of Leningradsky'', about a community of homeless children living in the Leningradsky railway station in Moscow, she was nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy Award. In 2003, she was awarded Best Producer of Documentary Movies at the Kraków Film Festival for ''Railway Station Ballad''. Early life She was born in 1967 at the Polish Internet Movie Database in , . From 1987 to 1988 she worked as a stage performer in the Theatre of Entertainment, Chorzov. From 1989 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Polak
Graham Polak (born 16 June 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Fremantle career Polak began his AFL career with the Fremantle Football Club after being drafted from East Fremantle in the WAFL with the fourth selection in the 2001 AFL Draft (behind future stars of the game Luke Hodge, Luke Ball and Chris Judd.) He made his debut in round 1, 2002 in a Western Derby against the West Coast Eagles which Fremantle lost. In 2003 he had his best season to date, only missing one game (round 3) and playing in Fremantle's first ever finals match. He was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award in Round 9 and finished second in the end of year voting behind Sam Mitchell and ahead of Luke Ball and Daniel Wells. Polak only played 12 games in 2005 and failed to improve due to a pre-season injury. He was recalled in round 3 of 2006, and due to injuries to Aaron Sandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Polak
Henry Salomon Leon Polak (1882 — 31 January 1959) was a British-born lawyer, journalist and activist in South Africa who worked in collaboration with Mohandas Gandhi against racial discrimination. He served as an editor for the journal ''Indian Opinion'' and influenced by Theosophy, he believed in humanism and worked for the British Indian Association and several other causes. Life and work Polak was born in Dover, Kent in the Jewish family of Joseph and Adele Solomon Pool. He received admission to the London School of Economics but he was unable to afford studies there and after studying commerce for a while in Switzerland he attended evening classes at the Queen's Road Evening Institute in London. Here he met Millie Graham Downs, a Christian social activist. She introduced him to lectures organized at the Southgate Road Brotherhood Church by Reverend Bruce Wallace. He heard a talk by the Theosophist Annie Besant and readings on Tolstoy which influenced him. They also attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elza Polak
Elza Polak (25 May 1910 – 1 January 1995) was a Yugoslav horticulturist and gardener. She is considered one of the pioneers of modern horticulture in Croatia. Education and early career Polak was born in Ogulin on 25 May 1910. "A love for flowers and nature", as she put it, led her to study agronomy at the University of Zagreb. As a student, she became a member of Zagreb's horticultural society, where she took gardening classes. Upon graduating in 1933, Polak started working as a teacher and engineer at the School of Gardening in Božjakovina, a village near Brckovljani, the only such institution in Yugoslavia. Her colleague at the school was Ciril Jeglič, whom she much appreciated. She instructed several generations of gardeners in plant production and garden design before being appointed gardening referee by the government of the Banovina of Croatia in Zagreb in 1940. Wartime activities Being a Jews of Croatia, Jew, Polak was fired and shunned following the Nazi invas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Polak
Carel Hendrik Frederik Polak (2 September 1909 – 28 February 1981) was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist. Polak attended the Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague from May 1922 until June 1927 and applied at the Leiden University in September 1927 majoring in Law and obtaining an Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1929 before graduating with a Master of Laws degree with honors in July 1931. Polak worked as a paralegal for the Electricity Production Company South-Netherlands from July 1931 until January 1934. Polak worked as a prosecutor for the Prosecution Service in The Hague from January 1934 until November 1946. Polak worked as a professor of Agricultural law and Agricultural economics at the Wageningen Agricultural College from November 1946 until September 1951 and a professor of Administrative law and Agricultural law at the Leiden University from September 1951 until April 1967. After the election of 1967 Polak was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Eduard Polak
Jakob Eduard Polak (12 November 1818 – 8 October 1891) was an Austrian physician, born to a Jewish family from Bohemia, who played an important role in introducing modern medicine in Iran. Life Polak studied Medicine in Prague and Vienna. He was one of the six Austrian teachers invited by Amir Kabir, the Persian chief minister, as the instructors of Dar ul-Fonun, the first modern higher education institution in Iran. By his own account, he entered Iran on 24 November 1851, before the inauguration of the Dar ul-Fonun. From 1851 to 1860, he taught medicine at Dar ul-Fonun. In the beginning, he taught in French and used a translator. Soon, the incompetence of the translators motivated him to learn Persian. He learned Persian in six months, and then taught his course in Persian. In 1885, he funded Otto Stapf, a Viennese botanist, to undertake a botanical expedition to South- and Western Persia. This led to the discovery of numerous new species of plants. From 1855 to 1860, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Polak
Benjamin "Ben" Polak (born 22 December 1961) is a British professor of economics and management and former Provost at Yale University. From 1999-2001 Polak was the Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics and is now the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics. In January 2013, he became the Provost of Yale University. Polak specialises in microeconomic theory, has published 19 peer reviewed papers in leading journals, and is Associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. In 2021 it was reported that Polak was responsible for Yale's decision to terminate the Yale Boswell Editions project, founded in 1949. Courses taught In fall 2007, Polak participated in the Open Yale Courses initiative, recording the 24 lecture series and making all course materials freely available on the Internet. with Professor Benjami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Polak
Frederik Lodewijk Polak (21 May 1907, in Amsterdam – 17 September 1985, in Wassenaar) was one of the Dutch founding fathers of futures studies, perhaps best known in the field for theorising the central role of imagined alternative futures in his classic work ''The Image of the Future''. Life and work Polak was the son of Alexander Polak, violin builder and concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Janet Kiek, who founded the first Home Economics Budget Bureau. He studied law and economics in Amsterdam and, before the Second World War, was a member of the Board of Directors of a large chain of stores in the Netherlands. In 1936 he married the poet Louise Moor. As a Jew, Polak spent the war years in hiding and preparing a PhD thesis in philosophy. After the war he became a staff member and managing director of the Netherlands' Central Planning Bureau, personal advisor to the Minister of Education (Art and Science), advisor of the Dutch government for Full Employment, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
