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Thau (surname)
Thau is a surname. Origins As an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Thau originated either from the German word meaning "dew", from the name of the letter '' tav'' in the Hebrew script, or from some personal name which started with that letter. Tháu is also a Gan romanization of two Chinese surnames: Cao and Tao. Statistics As of 2019, there were 71 people in Denmark with the surname Thau. In the Netherlands, there were zero people with the surname Thau as of 2007, down from four in 1947. The 2010 United States Census found 457 people with the surname Thau, making it the 46,568th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 466 (43,629th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about eight-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and 13 percent as Asian. People * Martin Thau (1887–1979), Danish gymnast *Benny Thau (1898–1983). American film industry businessman *Leon Thau (1926–2010), British actor *Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkenazi Jewish Surnames
Jewish surnames are surname, family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora, as well as cultural assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen (surname), Cohen ("priest"), Levi (surname), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Cantor, Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. History Historically, Jews used Hebrew language, Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ''ben-'' or ''b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Americans
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. As of the 2020 Census, 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were white alone. This represented a national white demographic decline from a 72.4% share of the US's population (white alone) in 2010. As of July 1, 2021, United States Census Bureau estimates that 75.8% of the US population were white alone, while Non-Hispanic whites were 59.3% of the population. White Hispanic and Latino Americans totaled about 12,579,626, or 3.8% of the population. European Americans are the largest panethnic group of white Americans and have constituted the majority population of the United States since the nation's founding. The US Census Bureau uses a particular definition of "white" that differs from some colloquial uses of the term. The Bureau defines "White" people to be those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Thau
Lea Thau (born 1971) is a Peabody Award-winning producer and director. She is the host and producer of the podcast ''Strangers'' and the former Executive and Creative Director of The Moth. Biography Originally from Aarhus, Denmark, Thau moved to Paris at the age of 18, and then to New York at the age of 23 as a visiting scholar in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. While living in New York as a graduate student, Thau discovered the then-fledgling live storytelling show ''The Moth''. She began working for the organization in 2000 as a part-time employee, starting the organization's Community Outreach Program. In December 2001, she became the Executive and Creative Director, a position she held for a decade before departing in April, 2010. While in that position, she created the short-form ''Moth Podcast'' in 2008 and ''The Moth Radio Hour'' in 2009 with a broadcast launch to more than 70 public radio stations. The show won a Peabody Award in 2010. In 2011, Thau crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Thau
Zvi Yisrael Thau ( he, צבי ישראל טאו, born 1938) is a Religious Zionist rabbi, a disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem. Biography Hans (Zvi Yisrael) Thau was born in Vienna to Galician Jews parents. His father, Avraham Adolph Thau, was a banker, and his mother, Judith Yutah Meisels, was a chemist. After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany ("Anschluss"), the family left for the Netherlands, and during the Holocaust, they were hidden by a local family in Hilversum. They were saved, among other things, due to his mother's resourcefulness. His sister Eveline related: "In June 1943, there was a large ''Aktion'' ound-up of Jews to be deported and we were saved thanks to our mother, who was a chemist. She managed to disguise us as measles patients and hung a sign on the door: 'Beware. Contagious disease'." After the war, Thau studied in a public school, where he was exposed to philosophy. At the age of 17, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Thau
Marty Thau (December 7, 1938 – February 13, 2014) was an American rock 'n' roll entrepreneur and music producer. He was best known as the founder of indie punk— new wave label Red Star Records in 1977, and for being the manager of the New York Dolls and co- producer of Suicide's classic self-titled debut album. Early life Thau was raised in New York City and attended New York University, 1956–1960, studying communications."Marty Thau, Manager in Early New York Punk Scene, Dies at 75" ''New York Times'', Feb 23, 2014. Ben Sisario Career Thau was hired into the advertising department at |
Eveline Goodman-Thau
Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001. She was born in Vienna. Eveline survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the Netherlands. She was privately ordained in Jerusalem in October 2000 by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Chipman. She later led the liberal Jewish community in Vienna for one year, beginning in 2001. In 1999, she was the founding director of the Herman Cohen Academy for European Jewish Studies in Buchen, Odenwald, Germany. See also *Timeline of women rabbis This is a timeline of women rabbis. * Pre-modern figures ** 1590–1670: Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi of Jewish history by some scholars. ** 1805–1888 Hannah Rachel Verbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir) was the only ... References 1934 births Living people 21st-century Austrian rabbis Women rabbis Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Europe-rabbi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Thau
Leon Thau (8 April 1926 in Palestine – 16 May 2010 in Dorset, United Kingdom) BFI Film Forever was a British actor, TV producer and director. He played the part of Frankie Wing in the 1960 London production of the musical ''''. As an actor, he became known in the BBC TV comedy series '''' (1960–64), and also appeared in '''', '' |
Benny Thau
Benjamin Thau (15 December 1898 – 5 July 1983) was an American businessman who became vice-president of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of the Loew's theater chain. From 1928 he was in charge of casting, in the business of discovering and developing talented performers. He was known for his quiet and calming influence with often temperamental stars. Towards the end of his career he was head of the studio from 1956 to 1958. Casting director Born to a Jewish family, Thau started his career as a vaudeville booking agent for Keith's and the Orpheum Circuit. In 1927 he joined Loews as a head booker for their theatres. In 1932 he joined MGM as a casting director. He worked closely with Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and eventually became Mayer's assistant. Thau had a pleasant nature and was regarded with affection by many of the workers at MGM, but wielded considerable power. Thau belonged to Mayer's executive team, called "the college of cardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Thau
Martin Hansen Thau (28 July 1887 – 8 May 1979) was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... He was part of the Danish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event. References External links profile* 1887 births 1979 deaths Danish male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Denmark Olympic silver medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Denmark-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani, Malaysian, and Other Asian". In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population. Chinese, Indian, and Filip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 United States Census
The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census. This was the twenty-second federal census and was at the time the largest civilly administered peacetime effort in the United States. Approximately 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 2000 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 2000 census, including census forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. This was the first census in which a state – California – recorded a population of over 30 million, as well as the first in which two states – California and Texas – recorded populations of more than 20 million. Data availability Microdata from the 2000 census is freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Script
The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. It is also used informally in Israel to write Levantine Arabic, especially among Druze. It is an offshoot of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, which flourished during the Achaemenid Empire and which itself derives from the Phoenician alphabet. Historically, two separate abjad scripts have been used to write Hebrew. The original, old Hebrew script, known as the paleo-Hebrew alphabet, has been largely preserved in a variant form as the Samaritan alphabet. The present "Jewish script" or "square script", on the contrary, is a stylized form of the Aramaic alphabet and was technically known by Jewish sages as Ashurit (lit. "Assyrian script"), since its origins were alleged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
