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Soskin
Soskin (russian: Соскин) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Soskina. It may refer to * Betty Reid Soskin (born 1921), American Park Ranger * Mark Soskin (born 1953), American jazz pianist * Paul Soskin (1905–1975), Russian-born British screenwriter and film producer * Renee Soskin (1916–1998), British teacher and politician * Selig Soskin (1873–1959), Israeli agronomist {{surname Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Reid Soskin
Betty Reid Soskin ( Charbonnet; born September 22, 1921) is an American retired ranger with the National Park Service, previously assigned to the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. Until her retirement on March 31, 2022, at the age of 100, she was the oldest National Park Ranger serving the United States. She released the memoir ''Sign My Name to Freedom'' in February 2018. Early life Betty Charbonnet was born in 1921 in Detroit to Dorson Louis Charbonnet and Lottie Breaux Allen, both Catholics and natives of Louisiana. Her father came from a Creole background, and her mother from a Cajun background. Her great-grandmother had been born into slavery in 1846. She spent her early childhood living in New Orleans, until a hurricane and flood destroyed her family's home and business in 1927, when her family then relocated to Oakland, California."Oldest National Park Ranger Shares 'What Gets Remembered'," NPR Wisdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Soskin
Mark Samuel Soskin (born 1953) is an American jazz pianist based in New York City. Discography As leader * ''Rhythm Vision,'' Prestige (1980); * ''Overjoyed,'' Jazz City (1991); * ''Views From Here,'' King (1992); * ''Calypso & Jazz Around the Corner,'' King (1993); * ''Live at Vartan Jazz,'' Vartan Jazz (1996); * ''Five Lands: Cinqueterra,'' TCB Records (1998); * ''Homage To Sonny Rollins,'' White Foundation (2003); * ''17 (Seventeen),'' TCB Records (2007); * ''One Hopeful Day,'' Kind of Blue (2007); * ''Man Behind The Curtain,'' Kind of Blue (2009); * ''Nino Rota, Piano Solo,'' Kind of Blue (2012); * ''Mark Soskin Quartet Live At Smalls,'' (2015) smallsLive sl-0049 * ''Hearts and Minds,'' (2017) SteepleChase * ''Upper West Side Stories,'' (2018) SteepleChase * ''Everything Old Is New Again,'' (2020) SteepleChase [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renee Soskin
Renee Rachel Soskin JP (''née'' Beloff; 16 December 1916 – 8 July 1998) was a British teacher, company director and Liberal Party politician. Background Soskin was daughter of merchant Semion (Simon) Beloff (born Semion Rubinowicz) and his wife Maria (Marie) Katzin, who were Russian Jews who had moved to England in 1903. She was one of five children. She was a younger sister to Max Beloff the historian and member of the House of Lords. She was older sister to John Beloff the psychologist. Her sister Anne later married German-born Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Ernst Boris Chain in 1948. Her paternal great-grandmother was Leah Horowitz-Winograd, the sister of Eliyahu Shlomo Horowitz-Winograd and a descendant of the Hasidic master, Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg (1726–1778). She was educated at King Alfred School, London, and the Royal Academy of Music and trained for the stage. She married Moses G. Soskin. Professional career She was a speech and drama teacher. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selig Soskin
Selig Soskin ( he, זליג סוסקין, 1873–26 February 1959) was an Israeli Agronomy, agronomist and an early member of the Zionism, Zionist movement. Biography Soskin was born in 1873 in Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire. He was active in the Zionist movement while in Russia, and immigrated to Palestine (region), Ottoman Palestine in 1896, after studying agronomy in Germany. He was one of the founders of the settlement of Be'er Tuvia (until then known as Qastina, after the neighboring Palestinians, Palestinian village of the same name), and worked on the planting of eucalyptus to drain the swamps of Hadera In 1898, Soskin accompanied Theodor Herzl during his visit to Palestine, and subsequently assisted in research to examine the possibilities for agriculture in different regions in the country. In 1903, he participated in the Sixth Zionist Congress, where he was elected to the Committee for the Study of Eretz Israel, along with Otto Warburg (botanist), Otto Warb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Soskin
Paul Soskin (23 February 190515 July 1975) was a Russian Empire-born British screenwriter and film producer. Soskin was born in Crimea. His first few films in Britain were low-budget quota quickies, but his breakthrough came with the 1941 comedy '' Quiet Wedding'' starring Margaret Lockwood. In 1948 he produced director Roy Ward Baker's drama '' The Weaker Sex'' for Two Cities Films''.Mayer p.193-94 His daughter Tatiana married Roddy Llewellyn. Filmography * '' Ten Minute Alibi'' (1935) * '' While Parents Sleep'' (1935) * '' Two's Company'' (1936) * '' Quiet Wedding'' (1941) * '' The Day Will Dawn'' (1942) * '' The Weaker Sex'' (1948) * '' Waterfront'' (1950) * '' High Treason'' (1951) * '' Top of the Form'' (1953) * ''All for Mary ''All for Mary'' is a 1955 British comedy film brought to the screen by Paul Soskin Productions for the Rank Organisation. It was based on a successful West End play by the English husband and wife team of Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
