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Weingarten (surname)
Weingarten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Carl Weingarten, musician and photographer *Gene Weingarten (born 1951), humor writer and journalist *Johnny Wayne (born Louis Weingarten) (1918–1990), Canadian comedian and comedy writer *Joe Weingarten (born 1962), German politician *Julius Weingarten (1836–1910), German mathematician *Lawrence Weingarten (1897–1975), film director *Mordechai Weingarten, Jewish leader in Jerusalem from 1935 to 1948 *Paul Weingarten (1886–1948), Moravia-born pianist *Randi Weingarten (born 1957), president of the United Federation of Teachers *Romain Weingarten Romain Weingarten (5 December 1926 – 13 July 2006) was a French playwright. He was born in Paris, and grew up in Brittany and Château-Thierry. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was strongly influenced by the work of Antonin ...
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Carl Weingarten
Carl Weingarten is an American guitarist, photographer, and founder of the independent music label Multiphase Records. He is best known for his atmospheric sound and use of the slide guitar and Dobro. Weingarten has played a significant role in progressive underground music for over 40 years, recording several solo and collaborative instrumental albums and signing various musicians to his label. Biography Before acquiring a taste in music, Weingarten gained an interest in photography early on; at seven years old, he received his first camera as a Christmas gift. By junior high, Weingarten moved on to shooting Super 8 films, and was awarded two Honorable Mentions in the Kodak Teenage Movie Awards. However, in high school, he also aspired to teach himself how to play slide guitar after his first exposure to blues. Weingarten later earned a degree in cinema production which would go hand in hand with the atmospheric music he would later become known for. According to Weingarten, "Th ...
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Gene Weingarten
Gene Norman Weingarten (born October 2, 1951) is an American journalist, and former syndicated humor columnist for ''The Washington Post.'' He is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. Through September 2021, Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway," was published weekly in ''The Washington Post'' magazine and syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group, which also syndicates '' Barney & Clyde,'' a comic strip he co-authors with his son, Dan Weingarten, with illustrations by David Clark. Early life and education Gene Norman Weingarten was born on October 2, 1951, in New York City. He grew up in the southwest Bronx, the son of an accountant who worked as an Internal Revenue Service agent and a schoolteacher. In 1968, Weingarten graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and attended New York University, where he started as a pre-med student but ended up majoring in psy ...
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Johnny Wayne
Johnny Wayne (born Louis Weingarten; May 28, 1918 – July 18, 1990) was a Canadian comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster. The son of a successful clothing manufacturer who spoke several languages and the eldest of seven children, Johnny Wayne was born in downtown Toronto and attended Harbord Collegiate Institute, where he met his future comedy partner, and later attended the University of Toronto. Wayne and Shuster began working together in the 1930s and continued their successful collaboration on stage, radio, and television until Wayne's death from brain cancer in 1990. He is buried at Holy Blossom Cemetery, in his home town of Toronto. Wayne was a curling enthusiast and was a commentator alongside Alex Trebek and Doug Maxwell during the 1968 CBC Curling Championship. He also had musical talents and was a successful songwriter in the 1950s, including co-writing Bobby Gimby's 1958 hit "Jim ...
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Joe Weingarten
Joe Weingarten (born 17 March 1962, in Bad Kreuznach) is a German Social Democratic Party of Germany politician and has been a member of the Bundestag since 1 November 2019. In parliament, he serves on the Defense committee as well as on the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Other activities A * Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), Member of the Advisory Board (since 2022)Advisory Board
Federal Academy for Security Policy The Federal Academy for Security Policy (german: Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, BAKS) is the Federal Republic of Germany’s interministerial institution for advanced studies, education and tr ...
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Julius Weingarten
Julius Weingarten (2 March 1836 – 16 June 1910) was a German mathematician. He received his doctorate in 1864 from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations The Weingarten equations give the expansion of the derivative of the unit normal vector to a surface in terms of the first derivatives of the position vector of a point on the surface. These formulas were established in 1861 by the German mathematic .... Notes References * External links * * 19th-century German mathematicians 1836 births 1910 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians {{Germany-mathematician-stub ...
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Lawrence Weingarten
Lawrence Weingarten (December 30, 1897 – February 5, 1975) was an American film producer. He was best known for working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and producing some of the studio's most prestigious films such as ''Adam's Rib'' (1949), ''I'll Cry Tomorrow'' (1955) and ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958). During his career, Weingarten was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award in 1959 and was given the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1974, which was presented by Katharine Hepburn in her first and only appearance at the Oscars ceremony to present the award to her long time friend Weingarten. Whenever she won an Oscar, she always had either the presenter or another person associated with her film accept it on her behalf. Upon taking the stage, she received a standing ovation, to which she replied ''"I'm living proof that a person can wait forty-one years to be unselfish."'' Early life and career Weingarten was born in Chicago, Illinois o ...
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Mordechai Weingarten
Mordechai Weingarten ( he, מרדכי ויינגרטן; 1896-1964) was a Jewish community leader in Jerusalem during the British Mandate. Mordechai Weingarten was born in the Old City of Jerusalem to a family which had lived in the courtyard of the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter for five generations. In 1912, he married Esther Toibe Rosenthal (1898-1973), who had also been born in Jerusalem to a family which was long-established in the city. They had five daughters. Weingarten was the mukhtar of the Jewish Quarter from 1935 to 1948. His family had lived in the courtyard of the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue, on the way to the Armenian Quarter, for five generations. His wife's family arrived in the city from Lithuania in 1740, they were the first Ashkenazi Jews to settle in the Jewish Quarter. Weingarten's own family moved to the Old City in 1813. As mukhtar of the Jewish Quarter he was responsible for the distribution of funding from the Jewish Agency, which by ...
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Paul Weingarten
Paul Weingarten, Ph.D. (20 April 1886, in City of Brünn, Margravial Moravia, Imp.&R. Austria – 11 April 1948, in Vienna, Second Republic of Austria) was a Moravia-born pianist and music teacher. He studied Music History at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1910. He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. Among his teachers were Emil von Sauer (piano), Robert Fuchs (theory), Guido Adler. After traveling through Europe as a concert pianist, he became a piano teacher at the Vienna Music Academy. On his return to Austria, in March 1938, from a concert tour in Japan, German troops were advancing in Austria. He taught at the , Shitaya Dist., Tokyo Metropolis. He left Austria to return in 1945 to give a piano masterclass at the Vienna Academy of Music. Jazz keyboardist Joe (Josef) Zawinul reports he was taught by Weingarten at the Vienna Conservatory in 1939 before Weingarten "had to leave." He was married with Anna Maria Josefa Elisabeth von Batthyá ...
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Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten (born December 18, 1957)''Who's Who in America'', 2007. is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. She is president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a member of the AFL–CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers. Early life Rhonda "Randi" Weingarten was born in 1957 in New York City, to a Jewish family, Gabriel and Edith (Appelbaum) Weingarten. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother a teacher.Wadler, Joyc"Hoping to Continue Education as Union Head", ''The New York Times'', January 20, 1998. Weingarten grew up in Rockland County, New York, and attended Clarkstown High School North in New City, New York. A congregant of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, she considers herself a deeply religious Jew.Nathan-Kazis, Josh"The Leading Jew in Labor Wears Pearls" ''The Forward'', May 12, 2010.Chan, Sewell"Teachers' Union Chief Discusses Gay Identity", ''The New York Times'', October 12, 2007. Weingarten ...
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