Rosenzweig, or Rosensweig is a
German
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rose
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twig
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branch
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" and may refer to:
People
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Barney Rosenzweig (born 1937), an American television producer
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Cynthia E. Rosenzweig
Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (''née'' Ropes) (born c. 1958) is an American agronomist and climatologist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located at Columbia University, "who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture."Justin ...
, a NASA scientist and climatologist
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Dan Rosensweig
Dan Rosensweig is an American business executive who is chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of student services company Chegg. Previously, Rosensweig served as president and CEO of ''Guitar Hero''; COO at Yahoo!; president of C ...
, former Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo!
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Ferdinand von Rosenzweig, an Austrian military officer
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Franz Rosenzweig (1887–1929), German-Jewish philosopher
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Gabriel Rosenzweig Pichardo (born 1957), Mexican diplomat
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Gerson Rosenzweig (1861–1914), writer and poet
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Harry Rosen (born 1931, originally Rosenzweig), founder of the Canadian men's wear store that bears his name
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Jake Rosenzweig
Jake Rosenzweig (born April 14, 1989 in London) is an English-born American racing driver.
Career
Karting
Much of Rosenzweig's early karting career was contested in the United Kingdom, with him competing in Super 1 karting championships. In 200 ...
(born 1989), an American racing driver
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Joseph "Joe 'The Greaser'" Rosenzweig, American racketeer in the early 1900s
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Luc Rosenzweig (1943-2018), French journalist
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Mark Rosenzweig (1922-2009), performed studies showing the brain continues developing anatomically into adulthood
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Michael Rosensweig
Michael Rosensweig (born December 22, 1956) is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and the Rosh Kollel of the Beren Kollel Elyon.
Education
Michael Rosensweig studied with Joseph B. Soloveitchik ...
(born 1955), rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University
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Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
Early life
Michael Wayne Ro ...
, a British poet and children's storyteller
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Michael Rosenzweig, American ecologist at the University of Arizona
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Peggy Rosenzweig
Peggy A. Rosenzweig (born November 5, 1936) is a former member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly. She served in the Wisconsin Legislature from 1983 to 2003.
Political career
Before being elected to the Assembly, she ...
, an American politician
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Philip Rosenzweig (1954–2001), vice president with
Sun Microsystems who died on
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 as part of the September 11 attacks. Lead hijacker Mohamed Atta deliberately crashed the plane into the North Towe ...
on
9/11
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Rachel Zoe Rosenzweig, an American fashion stylist
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Robert Rosenzweig, president emeritus of the
Association of American Universities
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Ronald E. Rosensweig (born 1932), physicist, pioneer in the field of
magnetic fluids
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Roy Rosenzweig
Roy Alan Rosenzweig (August 6, 1950 – October 11, 2007) was an American historian at George Mason University in Virginia. He was the founder and director of the Center for History and New Media from 1994 until his death in October 2007 fro ...
(1950–2007), American historian
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Saul Rosenzweig Saul Rosenzweig (1907–2004) was an American psychologist and therapist who studied subjects such as repression, psychotherapy, and aggression. Rosenzweig, who, with a co-author, has been credited with being the first to attempt to "elicit repres ...
(1907–2004), American psychologist and therapist
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Viktor Rosenzweig (1914–1941), Croatian communist, poet and writer killed during
World War II
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Entertainment, fiction, awards
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Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal The Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille is an annual prize awarded since 1968 by the Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit
(DKR; German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) to in ...
, an annual prize for Christian-Jewish relations, named after
Franz Rosenzweig
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Chaim Rosenzweig
This a list of characters in the ''Left Behind'' novel series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Suhail Akbar
Suhail Akbar is a supporting antagonist in the ''Left Behind'' series. A native of Pakistan, he was a prominent member of the Glo ...
, a fictional character in the ''Left Behind'' novels
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The Sisters Rosensweig
''The Sisters Rosensweig'' is a play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play focuses on three Jewish-American sisters and their lives. It "broke theatrical ground by concentrating on a non-traditional cast of three middle-aged women." Wasserstein receive ...
, a play by
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 ...
See also
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