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Tova
Tova is a given name, nickname and a surname. Notable people with this name include: Given name * Saint Tova of Thorney (died ), Anglo-Saxon martyr * Tova of the Obotrites (, Slavic princess and queen consort of Denmark * Tova Beck-Friedman (born 1938), American artist, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and child survivor of the Holocaust * Tova Ben-Dov, Israeli Zionist * Tova Ben Zvi (born 1928), Israeli singer * Tova Borgnine (1941-2022), Norwegian-born American businesswomman * Tova Hamilton, Jamaican politician * Tova Hartman (born 1957), Israeli scholar and social entrepreneur * Tova Ilan (1929–2019), Israeli educator and politician * Tova Magnusson (born 1968), Swedish actress and filmmaker * Tova Milo, Israeli computer scientist * Tova Mirvis (born 1972), American novelist * Tova O'Brien (born 1982/1983), New Zealand journalist, host of radio show ''Tova'' * Tova Sanhadray (1906–1993), Israeli politician * Tova Traesnaes (born 1941), Norwegian-American business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Borgnine
Tova Traesnaes Borgnine (born Tove Traesnaes; November 17, 1941 – February 26, 2022) was a Norwegian-born American businesswoman. She was the founder of Beauty by Tova cosmetics and the widow of Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine. Early life Tova was born in Oslo, Norway; her father was a graphic artist and her mother was a translator at the U.S. Embassy.) Following her parents' separation, she moved to the United States with her mother, at around age 8; though she did not speak English at the time. Career Tova studied acting in Manhattan, but she developed a fondness for applying makeup. After marrying a New Jersey businessman in 1965, she opened a makeup center. When the marriage failed, she moved her business to Las Vegas to be near her mother. In Las Vegas, in 1975, Tova learned of a cactus-based face cream made from a formula by a Mexican family and bought worldwide distribution rights. By 1977, the revenues for her company, then called Tova9, were about $500,000; by 1981, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Traesnaes
Tova Traesnaes Borgnine (born Tove Traesnaes; November 17, 1941 – February 26, 2022) was a Norwegian-born American businesswoman. She was the founder of Beauty by Tova cosmetics and the widow of Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine. Early life Tova was born in Oslo, Norway; her father was a graphic artist and her mother was a translator at the U.S. Embassy.) Following her parents' separation, she moved to the United States with her mother, at around age 8; though she did not speak English at the time. Career Tova studied acting in Manhattan, but she developed a fondness for applying makeup. After marrying a New Jersey businessman in 1965, she opened a makeup center. When the marriage failed, she moved her business to Las Vegas to be near her mother. In Las Vegas, in 1975, Tova learned of a cactus-based face cream made from a formula by a Mexican family and bought worldwide distribution rights. By 1977, the revenues for her company, then called Tova9, were about $500,000; by 1981, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antun Stipančić
Antun "Tova" Stipančić (Duga Resa, 18 May 1949 – Zagreb, 20 November 1991) was a highly accomplished Croatian / Yugoslav professional table tennis player. Table Tennis career He was one of the most renowned personalities in the history of the competition, earning him the nickname "the golden left hand of Croatian sport". A table tennis child prodigy who was proclaimed "Best Croatian Sportsman" in 1975, he was National Championship winner numerous times, three times European Champion in doubles, World Champion in men's doubles in 1979 (Stipančić– Šurbek), and World Championship silver medalist in singles in 1975. Early years Antun Stipančić was born in Duga Resa, a small industrial town in central Croatia's Karlovac County (at the time of his birth, and until summer-autumn 1991, Croatia was one of six republics constituting Yugoslavia). His family of five — father Ivan, a janitor at the football club, mother Franca and two younger brothers, Marijan and Iv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Beck-Friedman
Tova Beck-Friedman is an American artist, sculptor, writer and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Australia, Israel, Europe, and Japan. Her work is in the collection of Grounds For Sculpture, Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum, Sculpture Garden, the Shoah Film Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. Early life and education Beck-Friedman holds a BA in Fine Arts from Purdue University and an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1982 she pursued a graduate student research studies at the Tama University of Art in Tokyo. Career Beck-Friedman's work has been exhibited and shown at The International Artists' Museum for the 50th Venice Biennale, New Jersey State Museum, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, Sculpture Biennale in Beersheba, Israel, The Newark Museum and Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland. Her artwork has been installed and is part of Grounds For Sculpture, the Yes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Mirvis
Tova Mirvis is an American novelist. She is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and holds an masters of fine arts degree in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. Mirvis' family has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, since 1874 when her German-born grandmother moved there at age two. Wendy Shalit essay Mirvis was the subject of a 2005 essay by Wendy Shalit entitled "The Observant Reader" in ''The New York Times Book Review'' which accused Mirvis, an Orthodox Jew, of writing ostensibly "'insider' fiction (that) actually reveals the authors' estrangement from the traditional Orthodox community." Mirvis defended herself in an essay in ''The Forward ''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ...''. Writings Mirvis's published works include: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova O'Brien
Tova O'Brien (born ) is a New Zealand political journalist. She hosts the ''Tova'' breakfast show on New Zealand news and talk radio station Today FM, and previously led the team of political reporters for ''Newshub''. Early life and education O’Brien was born in Papua New Guinea. Her mother, a British journalist, and her father, a New Zealand helicopter pilot, had met while working in the country. When O'Brien was six months old, the family moved to New Zealand. Her parents separated when she was three and O'Brien was raised by her mother in Wellington. After high school, she started a degree at the University of Otago in film and psychology. She did not complete the degree, instead going overseas to work in Melbourne and London in hospitality. In 2006 she decided to train as a journalist and completed a qualification at Massey University. Her first journalism role after graduating was at Radio Active in Wellington. Career O'Brien was a reporter in the parliamentary pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Magnusson
Tova Dorothea Magnusson (born 18 June 1968), also credited under her former married name as Tova Magnusson Norling, is a Swedish film and television actress; comedian; and film director. She is best known outside Sweden for her role in the Danish-Swedish series The Bridge'' (2013). Biography She was born in Huddinge and raised in Sorunda, both in Stockholm County, Sweden. She was married to fellow Swedish actor and director Figge Norling from 1992 until their divorce in 2004. They have two children. Career Theatre In 1997, with Simon Norrthorn, Malin Cederblad and Figge Norling, she formed "Gruppen" ("The Group"). Their first production, ''Clownen luktar bensin'', was performed on Boulevardteatern and later moved to radio on Sveriges Radio P3. Theatre work *''Clownen Luktar Bensin'' (Boulevardteatern) *''Speed the Plow'' by David Mamet (Boulevardteatern, 1999) *''Skitungen — En Omöjlig Gosse'' (Teater Plaza, 2000) Film and television work Magnusson has appeared in ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Milo
Tova Milo is a full Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences. She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2014. Milo is the head of the data management group in Tel Aviv University, and her research focuses on Web data management. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 1992 under the supervision of Catriel Beeri, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and INRIA, France, prior to joining Tel Aviv University. Milo has co-authored over 200 papers in top database conferences and journals, as well as a book on business processes, with over 11,000 citations and H-Index 55 (computed by Google Scholar). Milo is one of the most prolific authors in the premier Symposium on Principles of Database Systems and was the first (and only, as of 2015) woman to be a keynote speaker at this symposium. In 2010, Milo and her co-authors Victor Vianu and Dan Suciu won the Alberto O. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Tova Of Thorney
Saints Tancred, Torthred, and Tova were three Anglo-Saxon siblings who were saints, hermits and martyrs of the Ninth century. Their feast day was celebrated on 30 September at Thorney and Deeping. Lives The brothers Tancred and Torthred, with their sister Tova lived at Thorney, Cambridgeshire, at the time little more than a collection of hermit cells in the Fens, rather than a monastic institution. They, like many hermits at Thorney, were killed by the Danes in 870.Nothing other than their martyrdom is known of them. Provenance The story of their martyrdom rests on the ''chronicle of Pseudo-Ingulf'', an oft unreliable document which includes sources older than the 12th century. They were, however, venerated in Thorney Abbey by the year 1000AD, as witnessed by R.P.S., C.S.P. and William of Malmesbury, and were among the many saints whose bodies were translated by Ethelwold. The first record of their existence dates 973 AD when they were installed in the abbey at Thorney. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tova Ben-Dov
Tova Ben-Dov (Hebrew: טובה בן-דב) Honorary Life President of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO), the largest women's Zionist organization in the world. Elected as President of World WIZO Executive from 2012-2016. In her Capacity as President of World WIZO, she was also Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, a board member of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a board member of the International Alliance of Women. International Alliance of Women
The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically t ...
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Theresa Tova
Theresa Tova (born 1955) is a Canadian actress, singer and playwright."Tova, Theresa" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', 2009. She is most noted for her play ''Still the Night'', which won several in 1997"Hit musical captures seven awards. A great time for Ragtime". '''', September 30, 1997. and was a shortlisted finalist for the |
Tova Ben Zvi
Tova Ben Zvi (born 1928) is an Israeli singer. She is also a survivor of the Holocaust. Biography Ben Zvi was born in Łódź where she lived in the ghetto. Her father was a Jewish cantor. After the ghetto began to be emptied, she was sent to Auschwitz. Later she would find out that she was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. After World War II ended, she went to study literature at the University of Jerusalem. Ben Zvi released her first album in 1959. She sings folk music in Yiddish and many of her songs are about reconciliation. In 2009, ''Świat Tovy'', a Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ... documentary about her life, was released. The thirty-minute film was directed by Michał Bukojemski. Ben Zvi was awarded the title of ''Człowiek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
