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Ungar
Ungar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin (Benji) Ungar (1986–), an American Épée fencer * David Ungar, an American engineer * Hermann Ungar (1893–1929), a Bohemian writer of German language and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia * Jay Ungar (1946–), an American fiddler and composer * Ruth Ungar (1976–) usually known as Ruthy, American multi-instrumentalist and singer. Member of The Mammals and daughter of Jay Ungar * Sanford J. Ungar (1945–), an American journalist and former president of Goucher College * Shmuel Dovid Ungar (1886–1945), Rav of Nitra, Slovakia * Shmueli Ungar, American singer * Simon Ungar (1864–1942), rabbi of the Osijek Jewish Community * Stu Ungar (1953–1998), a professional poker and gin rummy player * William Ungar (1913–2013), founder of the National Envelope Corporation See also *Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, a New York publishing firm founded in 1940 *Ungar (grape), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Ungar
Stuart Errol Ungar (September 8, 1953 – November 22, 1998) was an American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest gin player of all time and one of the best Texas hold 'em players. He is one of two people in poker history to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times. He is the only person to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title of its time. Additionally, he is one of only four players in poker history to win consecutive titles in the WSOP Main Event, along with Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan. Early life Ungar was born to Jewish parents Isidore (1907–1967) and Faye Ungar (1916–1979). He was raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father, Isidore ("Ido") Ungar, was a bookmaker and loan shark who ran a bar/social club called Foxes Corner that doubled as a gambling establishment, exposing Stu to gambling at a young age. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmuel Dovid Ungar
Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar (23 November 1885 – 9 February 1945), also known as Rabbi Samuel David Ungar, was the rabbi of the Hungarian city of Nyitra (now Nitra, Slovakia) and dean of the last surviving yeshiva in occupied Europe during World War II. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, and played a minor role in the Bratislava Working Group's efforts to save Slovak Jews from the Holocaust. Early life Ungar was the only son born to his father, Rabbi Yosef Moshe Ungar (1855–1897), the rabbi of the town of Pöstyén (today: Piešťany). He was a descendant of the Abrabanel. Ungar's father died when he was 11 years old,Project Witness. "Harav Shmuel David Ungar, ''Hy"d'', of Nitra". ''Hamodia'', 17 March 2011, p. C2. and he became a frequent guest at the home of Rabbi Kalman Weber, who was appointed Rav of Pöstyén in his father's place. After his bar mitzvah, Shmuel Dovid left home to study at the yeshiva in Prešov, headed by his uncle, Rabbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar
Benjamin "Benji" Nathanial Ungar (born January 19, 1986) is a US Men's Épée fencer. He was the NCAA Men's Épée Champion in 2006, and was a member of the USA Men's Épée team that won the silver medal at the 2010 World Fencing Championships. Early life Ungar is a native New Yorker, and has lived in The Bronx in New York."Undefeated Bronx Science Fencers Three-peat," ''Newsday''.FENCING US Fencers Set for 2010 World Fencing Championships in Paris /ref> He was a child actor, with film credits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ungar
William Ungar (January 21, 1913 – September 19, 2013) was a Polish-born American author, philanthropist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of the National Envelope Corporation. Biography Ungar was born to a Jewish family in Poland where he worked as a teacher in a technical high school. During World War II, he fought with the Polish Army and was wounded. He returned to his home and when it was overrun by the German Army, he was able to remain hidden thanks to identification documents given to him by a Catholic friend. He was eventually uncovered by the Gestapo and was sent to the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. He escaped and once again returned home, where he was hidden by his Ukrainian landlord in a basement crawl space for nine months. In 1944, the city was liberated by the Red Army. Ungar came to America in 1946, arriving on May 20 aboard the SS ''Marine Flasher'', the first deportee boat to reach American shores after World War II. He worked at an envelope machine m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ungar
David Michael Ungar, an American computer scientist, co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith. The SELF development environment's animated user experience was described in the paper ''Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface'' co-written with Bay-Wei Chang, which won a lasting impact award at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2004. Ungar graduated as a doctor of philosophy in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. His doctoral advisor was David Patterson and his dissertation was entitled ''The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Smalltalk System''; it won the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was an assistant professor at Stanford University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Lab, where he taught programming languages and computer architecture, from 1985 to 1990. In 1991, he joined Sun Microsystems and became a distinguished engineer. In 2006 he was recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mammals
The Mammals are a contemporary folk rock band based in the Hudson Valley area of New York, in the United States. The band tours internationally and consists of founding members and principal songwriters Mike Merenda (guitar, banjo) and Ruth Ungar (fiddle, guitar) plus Konrad Meissner (drums) and a rotating cast of players on bass, organ, and pedal steel. The Mammals sing and play in a style heavily influenced by traditional folk, soul, old-time, blues, Cajun, Celtic and rock and roll. Their lyrics sometimes address political and environmental concerns; topics such as war, social justice, and sustainability. Ungar is the daughter of fiddler/composer Jay Ungar who is best known for his composition ''Ashokan Farewell'' which the band also performs. Band history Merenda, Ungar and Tao Rodríguez-Seeger formed The Mammals in 2001. Initially a quartet with Alicia Jo Rabins on the fiddle /sup> they quickly shifted to a trio with Ungar as the sole fiddler. In 2004, they beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ungar Publishing Company
Frederick Ungar Publishing Company was a New York publishing firm which was founded in 1940. History The Frederick Ungar Publishing Company published over 2,000 titles, including reference books such as the ''Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century'' and many works on literature and cinema. The more than 200 translations published by the firm of works by such authors as Thomas Mann, including his '' Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen'' (1918) (translated as ''Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man''), Erich Fromm and Goethe helped make those works more popular in the United States.(19 November 1988)Frederick Ungar; World Literature Publisher ''Los Angeles Times'' The company was acquired by Continuum Publishing Company in 1985.McDowell, Edwin (14 September 1985)UNGAR PUBLISHING IS BOUGHT BY CONTINUUM ''The New York Times'' Frederick "Fritz" Ungar Frederick "Fritz" Ungar (born Friedrich Ungar) worked as a publisher from 1922 and co-founded the publishing houses Phaidon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Ungar
Hermann Ungar (April 20, 1893 in Boskovice – October 28, 1929 in Prague) was a Czech-Jewish writer (in the German language) and an officer in Czechoslovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Biography Ungar's father, Emil, was a cider maker who served as Mayor of Boskovice. After graduating from the public schools in Brno, Hermann Ungar went to Berlin, where he took courses in Oriental Studies until 1911, followed by legal and philosophical studies in Munich and Prague. After service in World War I, where he sustained serious injuries on the Galician Front, he passed the state examination and received his degree in 1918. At first, he worked as a lawyer and director of the theater in Cheb, where he also wrote plays. In 1922, he became the (Legation Counselor) at the new Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin. In the same year he married Margarete Weiss (born Stransky). Later he returned to Prague and became the Ministerial Commissioner at the Foreign Affairs ministry. While there, he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Ungar
Ruth Ungar Merenda was born February 19, 1976, in Mount Kisco, New York. She is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, ukulele and guitar. She is the daughter of fiddler/composer Jay Ungar and singer Lyn Hardy and a graduate of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Her song ''Four Blue Walls'', inspired by the play ''Danny and the Deep Blue Sea'' by John Patrick Shanley was recorded by Canadian band The Duhks, on their eponymous 2005 album produced by Béla Fleck and Gary Paczosa. Her song ''Simple and Sober'' was recorded by Lindsay Lou on her 2018 album Southland. /sup> Ungar resides in the Hudson Valley of NY State with her husband Michael J. Merenda, Jr and their two children, Willy and Opal Merenda. The couple produce a bi-annual music festival at the Ashokan Center called The Hoot which they launched in 2013. Bands Ungar and Merenda perform as the duo Mike + Ruthy and as founding members of the folk-rock band The Mammals. They also b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmueli Ungar
Shmueli Ungar is an American singer, songwriter and entertainer in the contemporary Jewish religious music industry. He was originally part of Shira Choir, but eventually left the group to progress his career as a solo artist. He has since released four albums, three of which charted on the ''Billboard'' World Music category. Discography *''Shmueli 2'' (2016) *''Mach a Bracha'' (2018) *''On Stage'' (2019) *''Madraigos'' (2020) *''Back Stage'' (2022) *''Shulem Aleichem'' (2024) Singles *''Yishoma'' (2016), debut single *''Rachamana'' (2016) *''Mach a Bracha'' (2018), music video/opening song to ''Mach a Bracha'' album *''The Dreidel Song'' (2019) *''Kol Hamelamed'' (2020), produced by Chasdei Lev *''Halailah Hazeh'' (2020), featurinHershy Weinberger*''Tata Mama'' (2022) *''D'Tzach'' (2022), featurinHershy Weinberger*''Chasdei Hasem'' (2022) *''Tischadesh'' (2022), featuring Hershel Rosenberg *''Unspoken Words'' (2023) *''Vekarev Pezurainu'' (2023) *''Ready to Dance!'' (live perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Ungar
Dr. Simon Ungar (1864–1942) was a doctor of oriental medicine and rabbi of the Osijek Jewish Community who was killed during the Holocaust. Ungar was born in Máramarossziget, Kingdom of Hungary (now Sighetu Marmației, Romania) to an Orthodox Jewish family. His family spoke Yiddish. After he was educated by his father, a teacher, Ungar continued studying Talmud. At the same time he also learned Hungarian language. Ungar continued his high school education in Budapest, Hungary. He also attended rabbinical seminar and studied at the Budapest Faculty of Philosophy. Ungar was fluent in Yiddish, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, German and Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the .... Upon completing his education Ungar was rabbi in Szekszárd, Hungary. In 1901 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Ungar
Jay Ungar (born November 14, 1946) is an American folk musician and composer. Life and career Ungar was born in the Bronx, New York City. He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period in the 1960s. In the late 1960s, he became a member of Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys and later, the Putnam String County Band. Although he performs with David Bromberg, he is probably best known for "Ashokan Farewell" (1982), composed as a lament,In the composer's words"''Ashokan Farewell'' was written in the style of a Scottish lament." and used as the theme tune to the Ken Burns documentary '' The Civil War'' (1990). Many of his other compositions are familiar as contradance tunes, notably "The Wizard's Walk." In 1991, Ungar married fellow musician Molly Mason. They met during the 1970s. They continue to perform as a duo, with their band, ''Swingology'', and as the ''Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band'' with Jay's daughter Ruth Ungar (her mother is Lyn Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
