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Zuckerman Museum Of Art
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 fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Language
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hambu ... [...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] |
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] |
Gregory Zuckerman
Gregory S. Zuckerman (born September 7, 1966) is a special writer at ''The Wall Street Journal'' and a non-fiction author. Education and family Gregory Zuckerman grew up in Rhode Island and was graduated from Brandeis University, magna cum laude in 1988. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. He works at the New York City bureau of ''The Wall Street Journal''. Career Zuckerman started his journalism career as managing editor of ''Mergers and Acquisitions Report'', a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He left that position to write for the ''New York Post'' covering media companies. In 1996, Zuckerman joined ''The Wall Street Journal'' as a financial reporter. At The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerman covered credit markets and wrote the widely read "Heard on the Street" column. As a special reporter in the Money and Investing section, he covers financial trades, hedge funds, private equity firms, the energy revolution, and other investing and busines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Zuckerman
Gregg Jay Zuckerman (born 1949) is a mathematician at Yale University who discovered Zuckerman functors and translation functors, and with Anthony W. Knapp classified the irreducible tempered representations of semisimple Lie groups. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Some character identities for semisimple Lie groups", under the supervision of Elias M. Stein Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician who was a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He was the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, w .... Publications * * References * External linksYale page {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuckerman, Gregg 1949 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Princeton University alumni Yale University faculty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Zuckerman
George Zuckerman (August 10, 1916 – September 30, 1996) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Zuckerman began his career writing short stories for ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Collier's Weekly'', and '' Esquire'' in the 1940s. He wrote the stories for the 1947 films '' The Fortress'' and '' Whispering City'' before completing his first screenplay, '' Trapped'', in 1949. Additional credits include ''Border Incident'' (1949), B-movies like '' Spy Hunt'' (1950) and '' The Square Jungle'', and his best known works, ''Written on the Wind'' (1956) and ''The Tarnished Angels'' (1958), both collaborations with director Douglas Sirk (who also directed the 1954 film ''Taza, Son of Cochise'', co-written by Zuckerman). Zuckerman's published novels include ''The Last Flapper'' (1969), loosely based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald and ''The Potato Peelers'' (1974). Zuckerman died in Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County ... [...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] |
Eli Zuckerman
Eli Zuckerman (אלי צוקרמן; also "Zukerman"; born February 8, 1973) is an Israeli competitive sailor. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is Jewish. When Zuckerman competed in the Olympics he was 5-9.5 (177 cm) tall, and weighed 132 lbs (60 kg). Sailing career In 1991, he came in 4th in the 420 - Open Scottish Power - International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championships in Largs, Scotland. In 1999 Zuckerman and Eldad Ronen came in 9th in the Men's / Mixed 470 World Championship, in Melbourne, Australia. They were ranked Number 9 in the world during 1999. That year, he won the bronze medal in the 470 - Men XXIV International 470 Spring Cup in Narbonne-Plage, France. In 2000 he came in 4th in the 470 - Men Kiel Week, in Kiel, Germany. That year he won the bronze medal in the 470 - Men XXV International 470 Spring Cup in Les Sablettes, La Seyne sur Mer, France. Zuckerman, at the age of 27, and Eldad Ronen competed for Israel at the 2 ... [...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] |
Denali (drag Queen)
Denali Foxx (or simply Denali) is the stage name of Cordero Matthew Zuckerman (born April 1, 1992), an American drag performer, figure skater, and choreographer most known for competing on the thirteenth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Born to Jeffrey Alan Zuckerman and Jo Ann Hernandez on April 1, 1992, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Zuckerman was raised by parents of Mexican descent. Zuckerman graduated from University of Utah in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Language and Literature and minor in comparative literature and Korean. Career Zuckerman is a double gold medalist in the U.S. Figure Skating moves and freestyle category and a PSA certified coach. He has skated with Cirque du Soleil, SeaWorld, and Royal Caribbean Productions and choreographed for Team USA figure skaters Mariah Bell, Amber Glenn, and Ashley Cain-Gribble/Timothy LeDuc. Denali competed on the thirteenth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. She was the first contestant from Alaska a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Zuckerman
Constantin Zuckerman (; born 1957) is a French historian and Professor of Byzantine studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Biography Academic rank: professor. Highest degree: doctorate. Job title: The Deputy Director of the Centre for History and Civilization of Byzantium, Collège de France. Zuckerman is the author of numerous articles about the Byzantine Empire, the Goths, the Armenians, the Huns, the Turkic peoples, the Khazars, the Magyars and the early Rus, among other peoples. In "On the Date of the Khazars' Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus Oleg and Igor," Zuckerman used Khazar documents (the Kievian Letter, Khazar Correspondence, and Schechter Letter) to call into question the traditional dates for early Kievan Rus leaders. In the same article he asserted that the Khazars converted to Judaism in 861, during the visit of Saint Cyril. Bibliography *La Crimee entre Byzance et le Khaganat khazar. Ed. Constantin Zuckerman. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Zuckerman
Robert D. "Bob" Zuckerman (born December 19, 1960) is an American politician, community activist, progressive reformer and a small business advocate and owner. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Executive Director of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation and Gowanus Canal Conservancy. From 2010 to 2013 he served as Executive Director of the Lower East Side Business Improvement District in New York City. From 2013 to 2019 he served as Executive Director of the South Orange Village Center Alliance In South Orange, New Jersey. From 2016 to 2019 he served as a member of the South Orange Performing Arts Center Board of Governors. Since 2019 he has served as an elected member of the South Orange Board of Trustees, the town's governing body, where he was the top vote-getter in a field of nine candidates. Since January 2020 he has also served as President oDowntown New Jersey a non-profit organization and currently serves as Executive Director of thDowntown Westfield Corporationin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
