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Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

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Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

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Schlesien Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

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Adam Schlesinger Adam Lyons Schlesinger (October 31, 1967 – April 1, 2020) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was a key songwriting contribu ...

(1967–2020), American composer and musician *

Adolf Martin Schlesinger Adolf Martin Schlesinger (4 October 1769 – 11 October 1838) was a German music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century. Career Schlesinger was Jewish, and was born Aaron Moses Schlesing ...

(1769–1838), German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung *

Alan Schlesinger Alan Schlesinger, (aka Alan Gold) (born January 4, 1958) is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Florida. He has previously served as the Mayor of Derby, Connecticut from 1994 to 19 ...

(born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006 *

Alice Schlesinger Alice Schlesinger ( he, אליס שלזינגר; born May 26, 1988) is an Israeli-British retired judoka and sambo competitor. Born in Israel, she competed for that country until 2014, but following a dispute with the national federation she ha ...

(born 1988), Israeli Olympic judoka * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), American historian and professor at Harvard University * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), son of the above, American historian, social critic and former John F. Kennedy associate * Bruno Schlesinger (1876–1962), American German-born conductor and composer who changed his name to "Bruno Walter" in 1911 * Carl Schlesinger (1813–1871), Austrian cellist *

Christina Schlesinger Christina Schlesinger (born November 19, 1946) is an American painter and muralist. Daughter of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., she sought independence from her family's fame, practiced “protest art”, and came out as a lesbian. She made s ...

, American artist *

Cory Schlesinger Cory Michael Schlesinger (born June 23, 1972) is a former American football fullback of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska. Early y ...

(born 1972), American football player *

David Schlesinger David Schlesinger (April 15, 1960 - ) is the founder and Managing Director of the media and China independent consultants Tripod Advisors, a D.A. Schlesinger Limited company, based in Hong Kongwww.tripodadvisors.com/about He is the former Chairman ...

(born 1960), American journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters *

Don Schlesinger Donald Schlesinger is a gaming mathematician, author, lecturer, player, and member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame who specializes in the casino game of blackjack. His work in the field has spanned almost five decades. He is the author of the book ...

, American gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and famous blackjack player * Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi *

Frank Schlesinger Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer. His work concentrated on using photographic plates rather than direct visual studies for astronomical research. Biography Schlesinger was born in New York City and a ...

(1871–1943), American astronomer *

Hanan Schlesinger Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, along with Ali Abu Awwad and Shaul Judelman, cofounded Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative dedicated to understanding nonviolence and transformation, where he currently rem ...

, Israeli rabbi *

Hermann Irving Schlesinger Hermann Irving Schlesinger (October 11, 1882 – October 3, 1960) was an American inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry. He and Herbert C. Brown discovered sodium borohydride in 1940 and both were involved in the further development of bo ...

(1882–1960), American chemist *

James R. Schlesinger James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior ...

(1929–2014), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973–1974) and first Secretary of Energy (1977-1979) *

Joe Schlesinger Josef Schlesinger, (May 11, 1928 – February 11, 2019) was a Canadian foreign correspondent, television journalist, and author. Early life and career Schlesinger was born to a devout Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, 1928. He was ra ...

(born 1928), Canadian television journalist and author *

John Schlesinger John Richard Schlesinger (; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Midnight Cowboy'', and was nominated for the same award for two other films ('' Darling'' an ...

(1926–2003), British film director *

Katharine Schlesinger Katharine Schlesinger (born 29 April 1963) is a British actress, the niece of the film director John Schlesinger and great-niece of Dame Peggy Ashcroft. She starred as Catherine in the 1987 film adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Northanger Abbey'' ...

, British actress *

Kathleen Schlesinger Kathleen Schlesinger (1862, in Holywood, Ireland – 1953, in London) was a British music archaeologist and curator of musical instruments at the British Museum.A. R. Meuss, ''Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C'', 2004 p. 27/ref ...

, British musicologist (1862 Holywood near Belfast - 1953 London) *

Kurt Schlesinger Kurt Schlesinger (17 December 1902 – 3 August 1963) was a German Jewish administrative director of Westerbork transit camp during World War II. Early life Kurt Schlesinger lived in his hometown Schmalkalden until 1939. He married Thea F ...

(1902-1964), a war criminal, head of the Jewish Security Service in

Westerbork transit camp Camp Westerbork ( nl, Kamp Westerbork, german: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: ''Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk'' ), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, d ...

Leon Schlesinger Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant r ...

(1884–1949), American Looney Tunes producer *

Leonard Schlesinger Leonard A. (Len) Schlesinger is an American author, educator, and business leader. He is currently the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and President Emeritus of Babson College where he served as the college's 12th President f ...

, American economist *

Ludwig Schlesinger Ludwig Schlesinger (Hungarian: Lajos Schlesinger, Slovak Ľudovít Schlesinger), (1 November 1864 – 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Biography Schlesinger att ...

(1864–1933), Hungarian-German mathematician * Marcus Schlesinger, Israeli swimmer * Piero Schlesinger (1930–2020), Italian banker and lawyer *

Rudolf Schlesinger Rudolf Berthold Schlesinger (1909 – November 10, 1996) was a German American legal scholar known for his contributions to the study of comparative law, a discipline that examines the differences and similarities among the legal systems of nation ...

(1909–1996), German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project * T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, American engineer and physicist *

Walter Schlesinger Walter Schlesinger (April 28, 1908, Glauchau – June 10, 1984, Weimar-Wolfshausen, near Marburg) was a German historian of medieval social and economic institutions, particularly in the context of German regional history ("Landesgeschichte"). Sch ...

(1908–1984), German historian Things that are named after people with this surname: *

Leon Schlesinger Productions Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was ...

, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger *

Schlesinger (crater) Schlesinger is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. The crater Esnault-Pelterie overlies the western part of the rim and the outer rampart of that crater has covered about half the interior floor, leaving a crescent-shaped feature ...

, a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon *

Schlesinger Building The Schlesinger Building, also known as Wesbank Centre or Sanlam Centre, is a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1965 to a height of . It has 21 floors. The building is named for John Schlesinger, a Johannes ...

, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa *

Schlesinger institute The Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research was founded in Israel in 1966 under the auspices of Shaare Zedek Medical Center. It is named after the hospital's second director-general. The institute is dedicated to the halachic (Jewish la ...

, Research institute for Jewish medical ethics, named after Falk Schlesinger M.D. *

Schlesinger Library The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. According to Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, ...

, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.

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