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Rabinovitch
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch (Рабино́вич, רבינוביץ), is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi" or "son of Rabin". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz. People People bearing the surname include: *Abraham Rabinovich, American historian and journalist *Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Russian chess player *Adolphe Rabinovitch (1918–1944), American Special Operations Executive agent executed by the Germans in World War II * Birth name of Aharon Yariv ( 1920 – 1994), Israeli general and politician *Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 1945), Russian-born composer *Aviva Rabinovich (1927-2007), professor of botany, chief scientist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, environmental activist. *Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinovich (1913–1999), Chassidic Rabbi *Daniel Rabinovich (1943–2015), Argentine musician and humorist, founding member of Les Luthiers *Dina Rabinovitch (1963–2007), British journalist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahum Rabinovich
Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch ( he, נַחוּם אֱלִיעֶזֶר רָבִּינוֹבִיץּ׳; 30 April 1928 – 6 May 2020), born Norman Louis Rabinovitch, was a Canadian-Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi and ''posek''. He headed the London School of Jewish Studies from 1971 to 1982, and the ''hesder yeshiva'' Birkat Moshe in Ma'ale Adumim from 1982 until his death. Early life and education Nahum Rabinovitch was born in Montreal, Quebec to Sarah (née Weiner) and Sam Rabinovitch. After completing an eight-year course of studies under Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, Rabinovitch received ''semicha'' from Montreal's Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah in the city's first rabbinical ordination ceremony. After obtaining an honours degree in commerce from Sir George Williams College, he left for Baltimore to pursue a Master of Science degree in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. While there, he studied at Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, where he received a second ordination from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Rabinovitch
Gérard Rabinovitch (born 1948, Paris) is a French philosopher and sociologist. He is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), member of the Center for Research on Sense, Ethics, Society and of the Center for Research on Psychoanalysis, Medicine and Society, at the University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot. He is also a regular visiting faculty member at the University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Biography Gérard Rabinovitch was born in Paris, France in 1948. He is the son of the resistance fighter Léopold Rabinovitch (1922-2009) who was a member of the FTP-MOI group, Compagnie Carmagnole-Liberté, deported as a Résistant to Dachau in 1944, and of Anna née Portnoï, who was a hidden child in France during WWII. Since 2008, Gérard Rabinovitch has been the Secretary General of the Prix Francine and Antoine Bernheim for Arts, Letters and Sciences. Philosophy Gérard Rabinovitch situates his work and writings in the Weberian tradition and in cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Rabinovitch
Jack Rabinovitch (24 June 1930 – 6 August 2017) OC, O.Ont was a Canadian philanthropist best known for founding the Giller Prize which is named after his late wife, Doris Giller, who was a literary columnist for the ''Toronto Star''. Life and career Rabinovitch was born and raised in Montreal to Isaac Rabinovitch and Fanny Shulman, then graduated from McGill University with a BA in English. Rabinovitch was a reporter and speechwriter who later turned to business (working for Sam Steinberg of food retailer Steinbergs) and made his fortune in food retailing and real estate. He joined real estate developer Trizec Corporation in the 1970s and was an executive who helped develop six million square feet of hotel, commercial and retail space. He was ''Maclean's'' magazine's man of the year in 1999 and was a recipient of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Personal life Rabinovitch and Giller moved to Toronto in 1985, where he remained until his death. Death and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Rabinovitch
Dina Rabinovitch (9 June 1962 – 30 October 2007) was an American-born British journalist and writer who wrote a column for ''The Guardian''. Early life and education Born in Charleston, South Carolina, she was the fifth of six children born to the Halakhist Rabbi, Nahum Rabinovitch. The family later moved to Toronto for a short period before settling in London. Rabinovitch was educated at Hasmonean High School and Henrietta Barnett School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1993 and Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2000. Career After graduating from the London School of Economics, Rabinovitch worked as a freelance journalist before joining ''The Independent''. After the birth of her first child, Rabinovitch returned to freelance writing, specializing in interviews. Rabinovitch later joined ''The Guardian'', writing a regular column for the ''G2'' blog. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rabinovitch
Robert Rabinovitch (born March 1, 1943) is a Canadian public servant and businessman who was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting CorporationRobert Rabinovitch CBC/Radio Canada Board of Directors. Retrieved 2007-12-12. from 1999 to 2007. Biography A graduate of the at and the Wharton School of the |
Adolphe Rabinovitch
Adolphe Rabinovitch (27 May 1918 – 1944), also known as Alec Rabinovitch, was a Special Operations Executive officer in France during the Second World War. He rose to the rank of captain. Life Born to a family of Jewish extraction in Russia and raised in Egypt, he studied in Paris and lived in the United States before the outbreak of the war. He was a junior wrestling and boxing champion in his youth, and has been described as a "giant of a man." In 1939 he volunteered in the French Foreign Legion. He was taken prisoner by the Germans in June 1940 but escaped after three months. He then escaped to Britain via Spain and became an SOE agent. Rabinovitch was described by a trainer as argumentative and humourless, an "enigma." He was first parachuted into France on 27/28 August 1942 north of Grenoble. He was dropped in the wrong place and became a radio operator for the SPINDLE network (codename "Arnaud"), with Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom, and managed to evade capture when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Rabinovitch
Victor Rabinovitch was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (2000 – 2011), which is responsible for two of Canada’s national museums: the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. Before joining the Corporation, Rabinovitch was Assistant Deputy Minister, Income Security Programs, at Human Resources Development Canada, a department of the federal government. This Branch is responsible for the administration of the national public pension programs in Canada's social security system (Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, the Canada Pension Plan and the CPP Disability pension). From 1995 to 1998, Rabinovitch served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Cultural Development and Heritage, in the Department of Canadian Heritage. He was responsible for policies and programs in broadcasting, cinema, publishing, sound recording, copyright, museums and performing arts. He led the departmental team responsible for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 30 March 1945) is a Russian-born composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism (from 1969); "La Belle Musique N.3" (1977) is the first work for orchestra in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland. He has collaborated with numerous musical artists, notably with the pianist Martha Argerich, with whom he has recorded works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms. Selected works Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky defined his musical conceptions as . Rabinovitch-Barakovsky's main works are all part of a global work-in-progress called "Anthology of Archaic Rituals – In Search of the Center". * "Les mots de Andrei Biely" (1969) cantata * "Le point d'appui trouvé" (1970) chamber music * "Happy end"" (1972) electro-acoustic piece * "La Belle Musique n°2" (1974) chamber music * "Perpetuum mobile?" (1975) amplified violin solo, amplified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Rabin (artist)
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, (20 June 1903 – 20 December 1991) was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist. Family and early life Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. He was the son of Jacob Rabinovitch (1872–1962) and Sarah Rabinovitch (née Kraselschikow, 1879–1961), both Imperial Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus). His father was a cap cutter and later a wholesale milliner; his mother was a jewellery assembler. During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itamar Rabinovich
Itamar Rabinovich ( he, איתמר רבינוביץ; born 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the former president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007). Currently he is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, distinguished global professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Biography Itamar Rabinovich received a B.A. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Academic career Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University's faculty since 1971, and served as Ettinger Professor of the Contemporary History of the Middle East, chairman of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, director of thMoshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabinowitz
Rabinowitz (also Rabinowicz) (רבינוביץ), is a Polish-Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "''son of the rabbi''". The Russian equivalents are Rabinovich or Rabinovitch. It may refer to: People * Loren Galler-Rabinowitz (born 1986), US figure skater * Avraham Yissachar Dov Rabinowicz (1843–1892), Polish, second Radomsker Rebbe * Shlomo Rabinowicz (1801–1866), Polish, first Radomsker Rebbe * Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz (1882–1942), Polish, fourth Radomsker Rebbe * Yechezkel Rabinowicz (1864–1910), Polish, third Radomsker Rebbe * Alan Rabinowitz (1953–2018), US zoologist * Azriel Rabinowitz (1905–1941), Lithuanian rabbi & Rosh Yeshiva * Chaim Rabinowitz (1856–1930), Lithuanian rabbi & Rosh Yeshiva * David L. Rabinowitz (born 1960), US astronomer * Dorothy Rabinowitz (active 1957-2013), US journalist * Erick Elias Rabinowitz (born 1980), professional name "Erick Elías", Mexican actor * Gamliel Rabinowitz (active 2005-6), Israeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Rabinovich
Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich (russian: Илья Леонтьевич Рабинович; 11 May 1891 – 23 April 1942) was a Russian and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940. His best result was a shared first place in the 9th Soviet Championship of 1934-35. He was also a chess writer. Biography Rabinovich was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1911 he tied for first place with Platz in Saint Petersburg. In 1912 he tied for 4th-5th in Vilnius (''Hauptturnier''; Karel Hromádka won). Interned in Germany In July–August 1914 he played in Mannheim, Germany at the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament, 19th DSB Congress. When the chess congress had to be interrupted upon the outbreak of World War I, Rabinovich was tied for 2nd-3rd places in the ''Hauptturnier A''. After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven players from the Russian Empire (Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Fedor Bogatyrchuk, Alexander Flamberg, N. Koppelma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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