Vladeck Park
Vladeck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938), American labor leader and politician *David Vladeck (born 1951), American civil servant * Judith Vladeck (1923–2007), American lawyer *Stephen Vladeck, American professor of law See also *Vladeck Houses Vladeck Houses is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Background The development is named after Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938), who was general m ...

Baruch Charney Vladeck
Baruch Charney Vladeck (born Baruch Nachman Charney; January 13, 1886 – October 30, 1938) was an American labor leader, manager of ''The Jewish Daily Forward'' for twenty years, and a member of the New York City Council. Biography Early years Baruch Charney was born January 13, 1886, in Dukor, a small village near Minsk, in what is now Belarus. His parents were Zev Volf and Brokhe Tsharni (née Hurwitz). His father, a fervent Lubavitcher Hasid, died in 1889, leaving his mother a widow with five sons (he was the fifth) and a daughter.Leyb Vaserman, "Niger, Shmuel,” in ''Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur'', vol. 6, cols. 190–210 (New York, 1965) Two of his older brothers also achieved renown: literary critic Shmuel Niger and Yiddish poet Daniel Charney. In the early 1900s, Baruch Charney was drawn to the revolutionary movement for the overthrow of the Tsarist autocracy, becoming an activist in the Jewish Labour Bund. As an underground revolutionary, open use of his ...
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David Vladeck
David C. Vladeck (born June 6, 1951) is the former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency of the United States government. He was appointed by the chairman of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, on April 14, 2009, shortly after Leibowitz became chairman. Early life and education Vladeck is a native of New York City. He comes from a family of lawyers. His father, Stephen Vladeck, founded a worker's rights firm in 1948, which his wife, Judith joined in 1957. Vladeck's sister, Anne, is a partner at the same firm, while his nephew, Stephen, is a law professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Vladeck’s brother, Bruce, headed the Health Care Financing Administration, now called the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under President Bill Clinton. Vladeck received his B.A. from New York University in 1972, and graduated with a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1976. He received an L.L.M. the from Georgetown Law ...
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Judith Vladeck
Judith Pomarlen Vladeck (August 1, 1923 – January 8, 2007) was a prominent American labor lawyer and civil rights advocate, particularly on behalf of women. She helped set new legal precedents against sex discrimination and age discrimination. Vladeck was born Judith Virginia Pomarlen in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of a newspaper distributor and a business manager for a labor union. Her parents were Joseph and Ida (Ehrlich) Pomarlen. She graduated from Hunter College in 1945 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1947. She married lawyer Stephen Charney Vladeck (son of labor leader Baruch Charney Vladeck) on February 22, 1948, and had three children. In 1957 she joined the New York City law firm of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, which her husband had helped found in 1948. She described the firm as "the last socialist law firm in America." As a trial lawyer, Vladeck had a reputation for combining courtroom flair and detailed analysis of salary histori ...
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Stephen Vladeck
Stephen Isaiah Vladeck (born September 26, 1979) is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, where he specializes in national security law, especially with relation to the prosecution of war crimes. Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States' use of extrajudicial detention and torture, and is a regular contributor to CNN. Early life and education Vladeck, the son of Fredda Wellin Vladeck and Bruce C. Vladeck (administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 to 1997, now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), was born and raised in New York City before moving to Silver Spring, Maryland with his family when his father became administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration in 1993. He is the grandson of Judith Vladeck, a labor lawyer who won major sex and age discrimination cases. He is the nephew of Georgetown University Law Center professor, and former director of the Burea ...
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