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Salant (other)
Salant may refer to: People * Henry Salant (1874–1952), New York state senator *Norman Salant (born 1953), American musician *Richard S. Salant (1914-1993), American television executive *Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem * Stephen Salant, American economist *Zundel Salant Yosef Zundel of Salant (1786–1866) (also known as Zundel Salant) was an Ashkenazi rabbi and the primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. Biography Early life and family Zundel was born on the first day of Rosh Hashana in 1786 in Salantai, ... (1786-1866), Ashkenazi rabbi Places * Salantai, also known as ''Salant'', the basis of family names of 3 famous rabbis, 2 of whom are named above. {{dab, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Salant
Henry Salant (September 13, 1874 – March 17, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was born on September 13, 1874, in Courland, Russian Empire, the son of Solomon Salant (1848–1910). The family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City where Solomon Salant opened a shirt factory, which became later the Salant Corporation. Henry attended the public schools in New York City. He graduated Ph.B. from New York University in 1895, and LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1898. In November 1912, Salant ran on the Progressive ticket, with Independence League endorsement, for the New York State Senate (19th D.). He was declared elected by a plurality of 36 votes, defeating Democrat George W. Simpson and the incumbent Republican Josiah T. Newcomb. Salant took his seat in the 136th New York State Legislature at the beginning of the session in January 1913. His election was contested by Democrat George W. Simpson who asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Salant
Norman Salant is a songwriter, saxophonist, composer and producer. Biography Early life and career Salant was born in 1953 and raised in The Bronx, New York.Michael Snyder, "Two Local Saxmen Shoot For the Big Apple," ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (''Datebook''), September 14, 1986. As a youth, he studied guitar and oboe, before teaching himself to play the saxophone as a teen.Derk Richardson, "Talking Sax: A classic mismatch,” ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', March 5, 1986. In 1973, while attending college at SUNY Buffalo, Salant joined experimental free-form rock group Charles Octet, originated by Chuck Hammer.Interview With Norman Salant, ''Another Room'', June 3, 1982. The band had difficulty finding an audience, and when the group disbanded, Salant returned to New York City, where he briefly joined a disco band. He quit and moved to San Francisco in 1977. During the late 1970s, Salant contributed saxophone to a variety of jazz, rock and avant-garde projects.Alan K. Lipton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard S
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmuel Salant
Shmuel Salant ( he, שמואל סלנט; January 2, 1816 – August 16, 1909) served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years. He was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. Early life Shmuel Salant was born in Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, to Tzvi and Raisa (their surname is unknown). After marrying Toiva (Yonah), the eldest daughter of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, he adopted his father-in-law's surname. At an early age his lungs became damaged, and he was advised to seek a warm climate. This induced him in 1840 to go with his wife and son Binyomin Beinish to Jerusalem. Jewish communal activism En route, in Constantinople, he met and gained the friendship of Sir Moses Montefiore, then on his way to defend the Jews falsely accused in the Damascus Blood Libel. Salant arrived in Jerusalem in 1841, rejoining his father-in-law and about 500 other Ashkenazim who had preceded him. From 1848 to 1851 he served as a ''meshulach'' (fund-raiser), vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Salant
Stephen W. Salant (born c. 1945) is an economist who has done extensive research in applied microeconomics (mostly in the fields of natural resources and industrial organization). His 1975 model of speculative attacks in the gold market (with Dale Henderson) waadaptedby Paul Krugman and others to explain speculative attacks in foreign exchange markets. Hundreds of journal articles and books on financial speculative attacks followed. In a series of six articles,"The proposed cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions: the case of the unbuttoned collar" (with Makoto Hasegawa), 2010 Salant has continued to focus instead on ''real'' speculative attacks. These may be divided into two categories: (1) speculative attacks induced by government policies such as total allowable catch quotas in fisheries, H1-B immigration quotas, commodity price ceilings, and most recently the proposed price-collars on tradable emissions permits; and (2) speculative attacks that are naturally o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zundel Salant
Yosef Zundel of Salant (1786–1866) (also known as Zundel Salant) was an Ashkenazi rabbi and the primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. Biography Early life and family Zundel was born on the first day of Rosh Hashana in 1786 in Salantai, Lithuania. Little is known of his early years. He descended from Rabbi Faivush Ashkenazi of Vilna (late 17th-early 18th century) and his father was Rabbi Benyamin Beinush, who was a '' shochet'' and ''hazzan'' in Salant. As a young man, Zundel studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva under Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. Following Rabbi Chaim's death in 1821, Zundel would make trips to study with Rabbi Akiva Eiger. Salant's wife was Rochel Rivkah, and they had three children, two daughters, Tziviah and Heniah, and an only son, Aryeh Leib. Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant refused to accept any rabbinical positions. He ran a small business which produced only a meager living. He chose to spend much of his time immersed in Torah studies and '' musar.'' Later lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |