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Zoia
Zoia is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian mathematician *Zoia Duriagina (born 1950), Ukrainian scientist *Zoia Gaidai (1902–1965), Soviet Ukrainian opera soprano *Zoia Horn (1918–2014), American librarian *Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky (1903–1999), Russian-Swedish artist *Zoia Ovsii (born 1994), Ukrainian Paralympic athlete *Zoia Skoropadenko (born 1978), Ukrainian contemporary mixed-media artist Surname *Clyde Zoia (1896–1955), American football player *Luigi Zoia (born 1948), Italian karateka {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Horn
Zoia Markovna Horn (née Polisar; March 14, 1918July 12, 2014), born in Ukraine, became in 1972 the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Horn, an outspoken member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, worked at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists. Early life Horn was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1918,Bryant 2004 to a secular Jewish family of small businessmen and shopkeepers. She emigrated with her family to Canada in 1926 at the age of 8, then to New York City where she attended Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute Library School. She first began working at a library in 1942. In 1964, she won a Humanities Fellowship to the University of Oregon where she became active in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
