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Zuckerman
Zuckermann or Zuckerman is a Yiddish or German surname meaning "sugar man". Zuckermann * Ariel Zuckermann (born 1973), Israeli conductor * Benedict Zuckermann (1818–1891), a German scientist born at Breslau * Ghil'ad Zuckermann (born 1971), an Israeli/Italian/British linguist * Hugo Zuckermann (1881–1914), Jewish-Austrian poet * Isidor Zuckermann (1866–1946), Austrian director timber and wood industrial company * Wolfgang Zuckermann (1922–2018), German/American harpsichord maker Zuckerman * Adrian Zuckerman, British legal scholar * Adrian Zuckerman (attorney) (born 1956), Romanian lawyer * Allison Zuckerman (born 1990), American artist * Andrea Zuckerman, fictional character * Andrew Zuckerman (born 1977), American filmmaker * Angela Zuckerman (born 1965), American speed skater * Barry Zuckerman, American non-fiction writer * Baruch Zuckerman (1887–1970), American-Israeli Zionistic activist, and early proponent of Yad Vashem * Ben Zuckerman (1890-1979), American fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Zuckermann
Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann (11 October 1922 – 30 October 2018) was a German-born American harpsichord maker and writer. He was known for inventing a highly popular kit for constructing new instruments and wrote an influential book, ''The Modern Harpsichord''. As a social activist, he authored books including ''The Mews of London'' and ''The End of the Road''. Early life Zuckermann was born in Berlin to Jewish parents in an academic family, and was named Wolfgang after Goethe and Mozart.Zuckermann (1968) He had an elder brother, Alexander, who later became a city planner and bicycle advocate in Oakland, California, and a younger brother named Michael. At age eight he began studying the cello, an instrument he continued to play in adulthood. The male family members formed a string quartet, with Alexander playing first violin, the father second, Michael viola, and Wolfgang cello. With the advent of the Nazis in Germany, Zuckermann's family had to flee the country; they settled in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Zuckerman
Barry S. Zuckerman is Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. He started the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston City Hospital and was one of 12 founders of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He was appointed chair of Pediatrics in 1993 and was asked to be First Medical Director of Boston Medical Center when Boston City Hospital merged with University Hospital. He is a co-founder of Reach Out and Read, a national childhood literacy program in the United States, founder of Medical-Legal Partnership, and co-founder of Health Leads, Healthy Steps, and the Nutrition & Fitness for Life pediatric obesity program, all of which have transformed pediatric care for low-income families. Most recently, along with colleagues, he developed a free app for pediatric primary care calledSmall Moments, Big Impact to promote the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Ghil'ad Zuckermann ( he, גלעד צוקרמן, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia.Sarah Robinson, March 11, 2019, The LINGUIST ListFeatured Linguist: Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, accessed May 4, 2020 He is the president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies. Overview Zuckermann was born in Tel Aviv in 1971 and raised in Eilat. He attended the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic in 1987–1989. In 1997 he received an M.A. in Linguistics from the Adi Lautman Program at Tel Aviv University. In 1997–2000 he was Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar at St Hugh's College, receiving a D.Phil. (Oxon.) in 2000. While at Oxford, he served as president of the Jewish student group L'Chaim Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Zuckerman
Andrew Zuckerman (born 1977) is an American filmmaker and photographer. He is best known for creating hyper-real images set against stark white backgrounds. His subjects have included birds, endangered species of animals, politicians, humanitarians, artists, and entertainers. Zuckerman received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1999. He began his career as a commercial still life photographer, before releasing the book, ''Creature'', a portrait series of animals, in 2007. He has since published four additional volumesWisdom(2008)Bird(2009)Music(2010), anFlower(2012). Wisdom and Music were also realized as feature length, interview-format documentary films. In 2006, Zuckerman co-founded the companyLate Night and Weekends through which he released the acclaimed documentary, ''Still Bill'', about the life of Blues musician, Bill Withers, and created campaigns for brands including Puma and Gap. He produced and directed his first short narrative film''High Falls'' starring Maggi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Zuckerman (attorney)
Adrian Zuckerman (born September 22, 1956) is a Romanian-born American lawyer and former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Romania from 2019 to 2021. Early life and education Zuckerman was born in Bucharest, in the Romanian People's Republic, and is still fluent in Romanian. His parents were Romanian Jews who worked as medical researchers. The family emigrated from Romania when he was nine years old, spending nine months in Rome, Italy before arriving in New Haven, Connecticut in May 1966, when his father started work at the Yale School of Medicine. Zuckerman graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School in 1975. He earned a B.S in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.S in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his J.D. from New York Law School in June 1983. While at MIT, Zuckerman became a brother of the Lambda Phi Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Career Zuckerman was a real estate lawyer and partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Zuckerman
Diana M. Zuckerman (born 16 June 1950) is an American health policy analyst who focuses on the implications of policies for public health and patients' health. She specializes in national health policy, particularly in women's health and the safety and effectiveness of medical products. She is the President of the National Center for Health Research (formerly National Research Center for Women & Families) and the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. Early life and education Zuckerman earned her B.A. in psychology from Smith College and then obtained a Ph.D in psychology from the Ohio State University in 1977. At Yale Medical School she was a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology and public health from 1979 to 1980. Career She was on the faculty at Vassar College and Yale University, and directed a longitudinal study of college students as director of the Seven College Study at Harvard University, publishing books and articles on the impact of media on children, the impact of rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Zuckerman
Harriet Anne Zuckerman (born July 19, 1937) is an American sociologist and professor emerita of Columbia University. Zuckerman specializes in the sociology of science. She is known for her work on the social organization of science, scientific elites, the accumulation of advantage, the Matthew effect, and the phenomenon of multiple discovery. Zuckerman served as the Senior Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1991 to 2010, overseeing the Foundation's grant program in support of research, libraries and universities. She is known as an authority for her studies of educational programs, and her support of research universities, scholarship in the humanities, graduate educational programs, research libraries, and other centers for advanced study. Education Harriet Zuckerman received her A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1958 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965. She held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from 1958-1959. Career Zuckerman was a Lecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman (born 1973) is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. He was the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, and Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT until May 2020, and the author of the 2013 book '' Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection,'' which won the Zócalo Book Prize. In 2020, he became an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts. Education Zuckerman is a graduate of Williams College, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1993. He then spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Legon, Ghana and the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, where he studied ethnomusicology and percussion. Career Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com, one of the first successful "dot com" enterprises, where he worked from 1994 to 1999. There, he was in charge of the design and the implementation of the websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Zuckerman
Allison Zuckerman (born 1990) is an American contemporary artist and painter. Zuckerman's pop-surrealist work fuses painting with digital printing techniques and appropriates various art historical tropes and references to "recast the submissive, romanticized female muses painted by male artists throughout Western art history as commanding, empowered figures." Zuckerman creates an alternative narrative by remixing the female sitters of prominent male artists into a feminist 21st century. Early life and education Zuckerman grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Zuckerman attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2011. Work and exhibitions Zuckerman's first solo exhibition, "Act Natural", opened at Kravets Wehby Gallery in 2017. Zuckerman was the artist-in-residence at the Rubell Family Collection during the summer of 2017. During this time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Zuckerman
Heidi Zuckerman (born 1967 or 1968) is an American museum director and curator who is CEO and director of the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, California. Zuckerman was previously a curator for the Jewish Museum in New York and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California. From 2005 to 2019, she was director and chief curator of Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, during which the museum opened a new building designed by Shigeru Ban and shifted from exhibiting mainly local artists to international contemporary artists. She assumed her current position at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2021, managing the construction of its new building. Early life and education Heidi Ellen Zuckerman was born in 1967 or 1968. Zuckerman's mother, Helen, lived in Huntington, New York, and her father Matthew was from Palo Alto, California; she first lived in New York and grew up in Palo Alto. Her interest in art started in her childhood. In an interview with ''Cultured'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baruch Zuckerman
Baruch Zuckerman ( he, ברוך צוקרמן; June 26, 1887 – December 13, 1970) was a leading American-Israeli Zionist, one of the leading proponents of Yad Vashem, editor of '' Yiddishe Kempfer'', and a leading figure in the Farband and Histadrut campaigns, and president of the Labor Zionist Organization of America. Early life Baruch was born into a poor family in the Hassidic village of Kurenitz, near Vilnius (then in Russia), the son of a peddler. His parents were Vigdor Chait and Sara, nee Levin. Most of the family later immigrated to the United States and changed their surname to Zuckerman. Yitzhak Zuckerman, one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, wrote in his memoirs that Baruch Zuckerman was his relative. When Zuckerman was 15, he began to feel the first stirrings of Zionism. He became seriously interested in this fledgling ideology in August 1903 when he heard Theodor Herzl speak in Vilnius. Emigration to United States In 1904, aged 16, Zuckerman arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zuckerman
Ben Zuckerman (July 29, 1890 – August 9, 1979) was a Romanian born, American fashion designer known particularly for his high-quality tailored coats and suits. He made clothes for Jacqueline Kennedy while she was First Lady of the United States. Early life Ben Zuckerman was born in Romania on 29 July 1890, and immigrated along with his family when he was still a child. The family settled in New Jersey, where Zuckerman left school aged 15. Career The young Zuckerman started out as a floor sweeper for a dress factory, but built up his skills, until, aged 21, he was able to launch his first business in partnership with Joseph Hoffman. In the late 1920s, the company was succeeded by a new one, Zuckerman & Kraus, which lasted until 1949. After travelling Europe and touring the United States, Ben Zuckerman came back to New York and launched his eponymous company "Ben Zuckerman" in 1950. His head designer was a former boxer and gas-pump attendant, Harry Shacter, who was also Zucke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
