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Weisberg
Weisberg, a variant of Weissberg, is a German surname. It derives from Weiss or Weiß ( German for "white") and Berg (German for "mountain"). People with the surname include: * Arthur Weisberg, (born 1931), American instrumentalist and composer * Charles Weisberg (born 1947), American forger * Herman Weisberg (born 1966), American private investigator and security consultant * Jacob Weisberg (born 1964), American political journalist * Lois Weisberg (1925–2016), Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for Chicago * Michael Weisberg (born 1976), American philosopher and professor * Richard H. Weisberg, American law professor * Robert Weisberg, American lawyer and law professor * Steve Weisberg (born 1963), American recording artist and composer * Tim Weisberg (born 1943), American musical artist See also * Lauren Weisberger (born 1977), American author *Shatzi Weisberger Joyce "Shatzi" Weisberger (; June 17, 1930 – December 1, 2022) was an American death educator, activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatzi Weisberger
Joyce "Shatzi" Weisberger (; June 17, 1930 – December 1, 2022) was an American death educator, activist, and nurse in New York City. Weisberger turned to death education in her later life after a 47-year career as a nurse, during which she also became associated with various activist groups and movements. Her involvement in activism spanned the civil rights movement, the anti-nuclear movement, ACT UP, opposition to police brutality in the United States including through Black Lives Matter, and anti-Zionism as a member of Jewish Voice for Peace. Born in 1930 to a lesbian mother and a homophobic father, Weisberger grew up in Brooklyn and was not close with either of her parents. She was married for 18 years and adopted two children, but broke off the marriage after reading ''The Feminine Mystique''; her children cut contact with her for the next several decades. Weisberger later identified as a political lesbian. As a nurse, Weisberger focused on obstetrics and end-of-life car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. In September 2018, he left Slate to co-found Pushkin Industries, an audio content company, with Malcolm Gladwell. Weisberg was also a ''Newsweek'' columnist. He served as the editor of ''Slate'' magazine for six years before stepping down in June 2008. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner. Background Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a Chicago lawyer and judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. His mother is Lois Weisberg. His brother is former CIA officer and television writer and producer Joe Weisberg. Weisberg graduated from Yale University in 1986, where he worked for the ''Yale Daily News''. When a junior, he was offered membership in Skull and Bones by then lieutenant governor of Massachusetts John Kerry. But he declined the of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Weisberger
Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller '' The Devil Wears Prada'', a ''roman à clef'' of her experience as an assistant to ''Vogue'' editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Early life and education Weisberger was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a school teacher mother and a department store president turned mortgage broker father. Her family is Jewish, and she was raised in Conservative Judaism and later Reform Judaism. She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. At age eleven, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother. She attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township near Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she was involved in intramural sports, some competitive sports, extra projects, and organizations. She graduated from Parkland High School in 1995 and attended Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Weisberg
Robert I. Weisberg is an American lawyer. He is an Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and an expert on criminal law and criminal procedure, as well as a leading scholar in the law and literature movement. Weisberg was educated at Bronx High School of Science, and received his B.A. from City College of New York in 1966. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Harvard University in 1967 and 1971. After graduation, he taught English at Skidmore College from 1970 to 1976. Weisberg left to attend Stanford Law School, where he received a J.D. in 1979 and was the Editor-in-Chief of the ''Stanford Law Review''. He then served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, followed by Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1980 Term. In 1981, he joined the faculty at Stanford Law School, where he has won numerous teaching awards, served as special assistant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Weisberg
Lois Weisberg (May 6, 1925 – January 13, 2016) was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011. She was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 1999 ''New Yorker'' essay, "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"; Gladwell, who called Weisberg a "connector" and included the essay about her in his book ''The Tipping Point'', asked: "She's a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you've never heard of her. Does she run the world?" Weisberg was appointed by Mayor Harold Washington to head the city's Office of Event Planning (in the Department of Cultural Affairs) in 1983. She helped establish the Gallery 37 program, which gathered Chicago youths to a vacant block in downtown Chicago to make art; she also created the Chicago Blues Festival, the Chicago Gospel Festival, multiple citywide neighborhood festivals, and the Chicago Holiday Sharing It Program. She launched Chicago's Cows on Parade exhibit, the first in the US. Befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Weisberg
Arthur Weisberg (April 4, 1931 – January 17, 2009) was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author. Biography Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art, majoring in bassoon and studying with Simon Kovar, and graduating in 1948. Soon after leaving Juilliard, he found notable success securing the principal chairs with the Houston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras and second bassoon with the Cleveland Orchestra, before coming back to New York City. After pursuing study of conducting with Jean Morel he again returned to the bassoon as principal for Symphony of the Air as well as bassoonist of the New York Woodwind Quintet for 14 years. In the realm of conducting he has conducted the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Sjaellands and Aalborg Symphonies of Denmark. Weisberg founded and conducted the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Weisberg also extensively taught, having held posts at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Weisberg
Herman Weisberg (born 1966) is an American private investigator and security consultant. He is known for handling high-end white-collar crime cases for New York's white-shoe firms. Prior to this, he was a New York City Police Department detective, serving as the top investigator under New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. The cases Weisberg investigates typically revolve around interpersonal disputes and blackmail. His specialization in sextortion cases has led various publications to refer to him as "The Mistress Whisperer." Career New York City Police Department Weisberg began his 20-year career with the New York City Police Department in the 1990s as a beat police officer in Queens. He took on various roles throughout his tenure, including working undercover on the NYPD's vice squad, serving as a narcotics investigator, and being part of the dignitary protection unit, where he was responsible for safeguarding visiting dignitaries such as Vice Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Weisberg
Jules Timothy Weisberg (born January 1, 1943) is an American flutist, vocalist, and record producer. Career In school he wanted to play drums, but instruments were chosen in order of the students' last names, and when Weisberg got his chance, his choice was bassoon or flute. He chose the latter because it was easier to carry and seemed easier to learn. He was a fan of soul music, which had been using the flute in the 1960s. He studied classical music before playing soul, jazz, and pop. His first experience recording was on The Monkees' album ''The Monkees Present'' in 1969. While working as a studio musician, his debut album was released with a version of "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues. In 1972 he recorded with The Carpenters and two years later appeared on the television programs '' The Midnight Special'' and ''Don Kirshner's Rock Concert''. His song "A Hard Way to Go" appeared in Woody Allen's movie ''Annie Hall''. He had a hit song, "The Power of Gold", on ''Twin S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Weisberg
Steve Weisberg (born 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American composer, pianist, recording artist, and producer. In the 1980s, after studying with Michael Gibbs at Berklee College in Boston, Massachusetts, he recorded the XtraWatt/ ECM release "I Can't Stand Another Night Alone (In Bed With You)," produced by Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, recorded and performed with ''Karen Mantler and her Cat Arnold'', and contributed arrangements for Hal Willner's '' Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill'' (A&M). He was also a member of infamous Boston band Sons of Sappho. In addition, he has contributed music to the films '' Atlas Shrugged - Part 1,'' '' Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'', ''Don't Say a Word'', ''Impostor'', ''Runaway Jury'', ''Bewitched'', the 2006 documentary ''The Ground Truth'', '' Step Brothers'', '' The Express: The Ernie Davis Story,'' and the documentary ''Banner On The Moon''. Through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, he performed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Weisberg
"Baron" Charles Weisberg (June 5, 1947) was a US document forger who forged manuscripts, letters and signatures of celebrities and historical figures. Weisberg forged autographs and letters of celebrities like Francis Hopkinson and manuscripts of Walt Whitman and Stephen Collins Foster. He also expanded to alleged works of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and created surveys of Mount Vernon. When forging Lincoln's signature, Weisberg sometimes used original US Civil War letters and wrote an "extension" of the original. However, Weisberg created long letters when Lincoln had usually written shorter, punctual missives. Robert Spring also forged letters from Washington but tended to drop the beginning of the G in Washington's name and omit the "g" in "go". He also used modern inks. Weisberg was first arrested 1935 in New York for forgery. He was later charged with mail fraud in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Weisberg
Michael Craig Weisberg (born October 20, 1976) is an American philosopher of science, currently Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-directs the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance. He is also Senior Faculty Fellow and Director of Postgraduate Programs for Perry World House and a Non-resident Senior Advisor for the International Peace Institute. Education and career Weisberg earned both a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in philosophy in 1999 from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Philip Kitcher. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2003 at Stanford University under the supervision of Peter Godfrey-Smith. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. Weisberg is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Biology and Philosophy''. Philosophical work Weiseberg is known for his research in philosophy of science, especially the relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weissberg
Weissberg is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, Polish-Austrian physicist * Eric Weissberg, American musician *Isaac Jacob Weissberg (1841–1904), Hebrew writer *Leib Weissberg, Polish rabbi *Peter Weissberg, British physician *Robert Weissberg, American political scientist *Roger Weissberg, American psychologist *Drossel Weissberg, a fictional character from '' Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey'' See also *Yuliya Veysberg Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg (Yuliya Rimskaya-Korsakova) (Julia Weissberg) (b. , d. March 1, 1942) was a music critic and composer. Life and career Yuliya Veysberg was born in Orenburg, Russian Empire. She studied at the Women's University, and in 1 ..., Russian music critic {{surname, Weissberg Ashkenazi surnames German toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
