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Schaechter-Gottesman
The Schaechter-Gottesman family is a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies. Members include: * Lifshe Schaechter-Widman née Gottesman (1893-1974) – author of Yiddish autobiography, folksinger * Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920-2013) - Yiddish poet, songwriter and folksinger * Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007) - Yiddish expert, linguist, researcher, teacher, and writer * Charlotte (Charne) Schaechter née Saffian (1927-2014) - Yiddish piano accompanist and translator *Itzik Gottesman (1957-) - Yiddish journalist with The Forward; expert on Yiddish folklore * Rukhl Schaechter (1957-) - Yiddish journalist with The Forward; host of on-line cooking show, ''Est gezunterheyt'' * Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (1958-) - Yiddish poet, and editor * Eydl Reznik née Schaechter (1962-) - Yiddish teacher and choir director, as well as artist * Binyumen Schaechter (1963-) - Yiddish composer, choral conductor, piano accompanist, and translator * Reyna Schaechter (1995-) - leading ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Beyle (or Bella) "Beyltse" Schaechter-Gottesman (August 7, 1920 – November 28, 2013) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter. Biography She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine (then Cernăuți, Romania) and settled there when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child. She was brought up in a multi-lingual environment that included Yiddish, German, Romanian, and Ukrainian; she also studied French and Latin at school. They were a singing family and her mother, Lifshe Schaechter, was known for her wide folk repertoire. Schaechter-Gottesman was sent to Vienna for art lessons, but was forced to return to Czernowitz when the Germans invaded Austria in 1938. In 1941 she married a medical doctor, Jonas (Yoyne) Gottesman, and together they lived out the war in the Czernowitz ghetto, along with her mother and several other family members. After the war, Schaechter-Gottesman lived several years in Vienna, where her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukhl Schaechter
Rukhl Schaechter is the editor of the Yiddish Forverts, one of the two remaining Yiddish newspapers outside the Hasidic Jewish world (the other being Birobidzhaner Shtern in Russia, which contains 2-4 weekly printed pages in Yiddish, while the Forverts is a daily online only publication). She is the first woman, the first person born in the United States, and likely the first Sabbath observant Jew to hold that position. Early life and education Schaechter comes from a long line of Yiddishists as part of the Schaechter-Gottesman family: her father, Mordkhe Schaechter, was a Yiddish linguist who devoted his life to studying and teaching the language in the United States, while her aunt was Yiddish poet and songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. She was raised in The Bronx. She completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at Barnard College in 1979,, and then studied at Jewish Teachers Seminary in Herzliya and Bank Street College of Education. She became an Orthodox Jew as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordkhe Schaechter
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter ( yi, איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, writer, and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.Saxon, Wolfgang (February 16, 2007).Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, Leading Yiddish Linguist. ''The New York Times''. p. A21. Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe. He was also the third editor of ''Afn Shvel'' (1957–2004), a Yiddish magazine. In Europe He was born Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter in the then-Romanian town of Czernowitz (in German and Yiddish; known in Romanian as Cernăuţi, and in Ukrainian as Chernivtsi). His father was a businessman. Schaechter became fascinated with Yiddish as a student, and he decided to study linguistics at the University of Bucharest. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (born 1958) is a Yiddish-language poet and author. Early childhood and education Gitl Schaechter was born in The Bronx New York. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She attended school at the Sholem Aleichem Folkshul 21 and has degrees from Barnard College in Russian, Columbia University in nursing, and New York University in health administration. She also has a teaching diploma from the Jewish Teachers Seminary. Career She began writing poetry, much of which was published in the journals ''Yugntruf'' and ''Afn Shvel'', in 1980. Several poems were published in English and Yiddish in ''Hadassah'' magazine, the literary journal ''Five Fingers Review'', and various anthologies. While her poems range widely in subject matter, her lyric technique is remarkably consistent. She tends towards short poems of no more than two pages, exploring single incidents or observations fully but using highly compressed langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyumen Schaechter
Binyumen Schaechter (born 1963) is a conductor, music director, composer, arranger, solo performer, and piano accompanist in the world of Yiddish music. He also lectures on topics related to Yiddish music, language, and culture. Many of his songs, choral arrangements, and performances are recorded on video (see YouTube), DVD, and CD. He is a composer (known as Ben Schaechter) in the world of American musical theater and cabaret, and his songs are performed in venues worldwide. He has been music director of The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus since 1995. Early Years The youngest of four children, Schaechter was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn, NY. His father, Mordkhe Schaechter, was born in Czernowitz, Romania. (The city became part of Ukraine after World War II). His mother, Charlotte (née Saffian), was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the Bronx. Her parents came from the towns of Holoskove and Orynyn, both in Ukraine. In 1966, the Schaechter family moved to the Norwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukovina Jews
The Jews in Bukovina have been an integral part of their community. Under Austria-Hungary, there was tolerance of Jews and inter-ethnic cooperation. Life under Austria and Romania Bukovina was conquered by the Austrian Archduchy in 1774. It developed into one of the most diverse provinces in the Archduchy and later in the Austrian Empire; it was also the province with one of the highest Jewish populations. The first Austrian census reported a population of 526 Jewish families. As immigration from Galicia, Moldova, and Ukraine grew, the Austrian authorities began to deport the newcomers. Some laws against Jews were revoked in the 1810s. There was a gradual elimination of discrimination of Jews after the 1848 revolution, leading up to all laws against them being removed in 1867. Many of the Jews in Bukovina, along with Germans, immigrated to North America in the late 19th and early 20th century. Despite this, Austria's census reported over 12% Jewish population in Bukovina. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Families
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 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, the practice of Jewish (religious) la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schechter
Schachter, Schächter or Schechter (from Yiddish shochet, 'to slaughter'. Hebrew:שכטר also Shechter) is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Schachter, Schächter * Daniel Schacter, psychologist, neuroscientist, researcher in human memory * Binyumen Schaechter, composer, arranger, conductor * Carl Schachter, music theorist specializing in Schenkerian analysis * Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary * Hershel Schacter * Joshua Schachter, creator of the website ''Delicious'' * Mioara Mugur-Schächter, French specialist on Physics and Epistemology * Norm Schachter, American football official in the NFL * Oscar Schachter, international law and diplomacy professor * Rafael Schächter, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and conductor, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp * Sam Schachter, Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player * Stanley Schachter, American psychologist * Steven Schachter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottesman
Gottesman is a surname of Germanic origin meaning ''man of God''. Notable people with the surname include: * Beyle Schaechter–Gottesman, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet * Blake Gottesman, personal aide and bodyguard to President George W. Bush * Daniel Gottesman, physicist, Perimeter Institute * David Gottesman, billionaire, director of Berkshire Hathaway * David Gottesman (politician) * Dov Gottesman (1917–2011), Israeli art collector, president of the Israel Museum from 2001-11 * Irving Gottesman, psychiatric geneticist * Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946), American Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School * Michael Gottesman (lawyer), lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University * Michael M. Gottesman, biochemist, National Institutes of Health * Moshe Gottesman, rabbi, educator and community leader * Noam Gottesman (born 1961), founding partner of GLG Partners hedge fund, son of Dov * Rebecca Gottesman, neurologist and epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
