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Silberman
Silberman or Silbermann is a German surname meaning "silver man". Notable people with the surname include: Silberman *Benedict Silberman (1901–1971), composer and conductor *Charles E. Silberman (1925–2011), American journalist *Curt Silberman (1908-2002), attorney and member of Jewish organizations in Germany and the U.S. * Jerome Silberman (1933–2016), American actor known professionally as Gene Wilder *Laurence Silberman (1935–2022), American federal judge *Linda J. Silberman, American lawyer *Neil Asher Silberman (born 1950), archaeologist and historian * Robert S. Silberman (born 1957), a U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army *Rosalie Silberman Abella (born 1946), Canadian jurist *Serge Silberman (1917–2003), French film producer *Steve Silberman, American journalist and author Silbermann *Alphons Silbermann (1909–2000), German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist *Ben Silbermann (born 1982), co-founder of Pinterest *Gottfried Silbermann ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Silberman
Laurence Hirsch Silberman (October 12, 1935 – October 2, 2022) was an American lawyer, diplomat, jurist, and government official who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1985 until his death. He was appointed in October 1985 by President Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000. On June 11, 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Silberman the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Early life and education Silberman was born to a Jewish family in York, Pennsylvania in 1935. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1957. After serving six months of active duty in the US Army (five-and-a-half years in reserve), he attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Laws degree. Career Silberman worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Silbermann
Gottfried Silbermann (January 14, 1683 – August 4, 1753) was a German builder of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and fortepianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two. Life Very little is known about Silbermann's youth. He was born in Kleinbobritzsch (now a part of Frauenstein, Saxony) as the youngest son of the carpenter Michael Silbermann. They moved to the nearby town of Frauenstein in 1685, and it is possible that Gottfried also learnt carpentry there. He moved to Straßburg in 1702, where he learnt organ construction from his brother and came in touch with the French-Alsatian school of organ construction. He returned to Saxony as a master craftsman in 1710, and opened his own organ workshop in Freiberg one year later. His second project in Germany was the "Grand Organ" in the Freiberg Cathedral of St. Mary, finished in 1714. In 1723 he was bestowed the title ''Königlich Polnischen und Churfürstlich Sächsischen Hof- und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman is an American writer for ''Wired (magazine), Wired'' magazine and has been an editor and contributor there for 14 years. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article "The Placebo Problem" discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry. Silberman's 2015 book ''Neurotribes'', which discusses the Autism rights movement, autism rights and neurodiversity movements, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize.Anders, Charlie JaneWhy do we want autistic kids to have superpowers?''io9'', January 25, 2012. Accessed 10-18-2013Pan, DeannaThe Media's Post-Newtown Autism Fail ''Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones'', December 22, 2012. Accessed 10-18-2013 Additionally, Silberman's ''Wired'' article "The Geek Syndrome", which focused on autism spectrum, autism in Silicon Valley, has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Silbermann
Jake Silbermann (; born on June 1, 1983) is an American actor, writer and producer. Biography Silbermann was born June 1, 1983, and is a native of New York City. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in theater from Syracuse University,Interview As The World Turns Jake Silbermann August 2007 where he participated in many productions including Piñata, Three Sisters and True West.Collage Jake silbermann Plays July 2008. January 2017 He played a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Silbermann
Ben Silbermann (born July 14, 1982) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Pinterest, a visual discovery engine. which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things. Early life Silbermann was born in 1982. He was raised in Des Moines, Iowa. His parents, Jane Wang and Neil Silbermann, are ophthalmologists. In 1998, Silbermann attended the Research Science Institute at MIT. He graduated from Des Moines Central Academy and Des Moines Roosevelt with the class of 1999. He then graduated from Yale University in the spring of 2003 with a degree in Political Science. Career Before Pinterest (which launched in March 2010), Silbermann worked at Google in the online advertising group. However, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with a college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their initial application, Tote, failed to gain significant traction, the cofounders teamed up with Evan Shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Silbermann
Andreas Silbermann (16 May 1678 – 16 March 1734) was a German organ builder, who was involved in the construction of 35 organs, mostly in Alsace. Andreas also established the Silbermann family tradition of organ building, training his brother Gottfried and his son Johann Andreas in the profession. Biography Silbermann was born on 16 May 1678 in Kleinbobritzsch, near Frauenstein, Saxony, the son of a joiner. He himself trained as a joiner in Freiberg under George Lampertius, but soon afterwards learnt the art of organ building, moving to Alsace in 1699. The exact timing and source of his training is unknown, with proposed names of his mentor including Friederich Ring and Daniel Übermann. During his early work in Alsace, Silbermann carried out renovation work on the organ constructed by Johann-Jacob Baldner in the church of St Léger in Bouxwiller. After this, he moved to work with Strasbourg organ builder Friderich Ring, settling permanently in the city in 1701 and rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Abella
Rosalie Silberman Abella (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021. Early life and education Rosalie Silberman Abella was born on July 1, 1946, the daughter of Jacob and Fanny (Krongold) Silberman. She was born in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany. Her father was born in Sienno, Poland, in 1910, while her mother was born in Ostrowiec in 1917. Abella's older sister was murdered in the Holocaust. Her parents both survived, Jacob Silberman was liberated from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Fanny Silberman survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Jacob had studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and was appointed head of legal services for displaced persons in the US Zone of Southwest Germany. In 1950, her family was admitted into Canada, though Jacob Silberma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Andreas Silbermann
Johann Andreas Silbermann, also known as Jean-André Silbermann (26 June 1712, in Strasbourg – 11 February 1783, in Strasbourg) was an 18th-century organ-builder, as were his father Andreas Silbermann and his paternal uncle Gottfried Silbermann. Mozart met with Silbermann during his (Mozart's) stay in Strasbourg in 1778, and played on the pipe organs in the two Lutheran churches Saint-Thomas (preserved), and Temple Neuf (destroyed in 1870), which he calls ″Silbermann's best". Pipe organs by J. A. Silbermann in their original instrumental state can be found in the following churches, among others: * St Georges, Châtenois *Jesuit Church, Molsheim The former Jesuit Church (''Église des Jésuites'') is the parish church '' Sainte-Trinité-et- Saint-Georges'' ( Alsatian: ''Sànkt-Georg- und Dreifàltigkeitskirich'') which is the main Roman Catholic sanctuary of Molsheim, France, and the pr ... * St Maurice, Soultz-Haut-Rhin * St Maurice, Soultz-les Bains * St Thomas, Stras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Silberman
Serge Silberman (1 May 1917 – 22 July 2003) was a French film producer. Early life Silberman was born in Łódź, then a part of the Regency Kingdom of Poland in a Jewish family. During World War II, Silberman survived Nazi concentration camps and eventually settled in Paris. Career One of his first works as a film producer was Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 film '' Bob the Gambler'', a precursor to the French New Wave movement. Silberman's most notable collaborations were with the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel. The pair, along with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who Silberman introduced to Buñuel, worked together on a number of films, starting with the 1964 film '' Diary of a Chambermaid''. Silberman produced most of Buñuel's late films, including the Academy Award winner ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' in 1972 and the director's last film ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' in 1977. Silberman founded his own production company, Greenwich Film Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Silberman
Curt C. Silberman (May 23, 1908 – September 9, 2002) was a German-Jewish and American attorney, community leader, and member of Jewish organizations in both Germany and the United States. Born Kurt Leo Silbermann in Würzburg, Germany, he and his wife Else fled due to the rampant antisemitism of the Nazi era and settled in New Jersey. His legal career in the United States focused on restitution work for the victims of the Nazi government. Silberman was active in many Jewish organizations. He was a co-founder of the Leo Baeck Institute, and for a period of time, the head of American Federation of Jews from Central Europe and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. " |
Benedict Silberman
Benedict Silberman, originally ''Boruch Hirsch-Benedigton Silberman'' (December 5, 1901 in Helsinki, Finland – December 11, 1971 in Hilversum, Netherlands), was a Dutch composer and conductor of Austrian Jewish descent. Silberman was the son of an Austrian violinist working in Helsinki who settled in Amsterdam. Silberman studied piano with and composition with Sem Dresden at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He wrote a piano concerto (1924) at the end of his studies. A year later he composed a violin concerto. He left for Berlin where he played as a violinist and arranged light classical musical, preferentially Viennese operettas. In 1944 he composed his own operetta ''Het Rozeneiland'' (The Island of Roses). He had contact with Franz Lehár, Robert Stolz and Emmerich Kálmán and toured Europe with the dance orchestras of Paul Godwin, Marek Weber and Dajos Bela. In 1936 he returned to the Netherlands and became pianist in the AVRO radio orchestra of Kovacs Lajos. In 1938 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Silbermann
Heinrich Silbermann (unknown — unknown), was a Romanian chess player, Romanian Chess Championship winner (1935). Biography In the mid-1930s Heinrich Silbermann was one of the strongest Romanian chess players. In 1935, in Bucharest he won Romanian Chess Championship. Heinrich Silbermann played for Romania in the Chess Olympiad: * In 1935, at first board in the 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ... (+0, =2, -6). References External links *Heinrich Silbermannchess games at 365chess.comHeinrich Silbermann (other link)chess games at 365chess.com Year of birth missing Year of death missing Romanian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
