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Abramowitz
Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews,''A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location'', McFarland, 13 May 2004 for whom it is commonly Hebraized to ''Ben-Avraham'' (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel. A similar surname of peoples from the former Yugoslavia is Abramović. Some people with these names include: Abramowicz (Polish) * Andrzej Abramowicz (died 1763), Polish-Lithuanian nobleman. * Danny Abramowicz (born 1945), American football player * Daria Abramowicz (born 1987), Polish sports psychologist * Dawid Abramowicz (born 1991), Polish footballer * Kazimierz Abramowicz (1889–1936), Polish mathematician * Leo Abramowicz (1889–1978), Jewish Austrian painter * Manuel Abramowicz (born 1967), Belgian reporter * Michel Abramowicz (born 1950), French cinematographer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Ber Abramowitz
Dov Ber Abramowitz (; 1860 – 1926) was an American Orthodox Rabbi and author. Born in Vabalninkas, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire, (today part of Lithuania), he moved with his family to Jerusalem in 1870, at the age of ten. After being ordained by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, he served as a district rabbi in Jerusalem. In 1894, he immigrated to the United States. A few years later he was appointed as the chief '' dayyin'' of St. Louis. He was one of the founders of the Agudath Harabbinim. He formed the first branch of Mizrachi in the United States in St. Louis and served as president of the American Mizrachi. He died in Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine. His grandson was Abraham Leon Sachar. Name The Yiddish name דוב-בער ''Dov-Ber'' literally means "bear-bear", traceable back to the Hebrew word דב ''dov'' "bear" and the German word ''Bär'' "bear". Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. //ref> It is thu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz
Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz (, , 1902 – 18 October 1995) was known as the ''Ribnitzer Rebbe'' (), and considered a great Hasidic ''tzadik'' from Rybnitsa (present-day Transnistria, Moldova). Others, including singer Mordechai Ben David, who was one of the rabbi's close disciples, said that he was born in 1893 and was 102 when he died. Abramowitz was a prominent follower of Rabbi Avrohom Matisyohu of Shtefanesht. nishmas.org; accessed 31 October 2016. References External links Profile ; accessed 22 June 2017. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz (; born 24 July 1914, died 20 April 2007) was an Israeli rabbi and politician. He served as general secretary of Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981. One of his achievements was the introduction of legislation requiring drivers of vehicles to wear seat belts. Early years Abramowitz was born in Konstantynów Łódzki in Congress Poland, part of the Russian Empire to Tzvi Yitzchok Abramowicz, who had been the ''shochet'' for Rav Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, the Rebbe of Alexander, and had been a chosid of the '' Chidushei Harim'' of Ger. When he was just nine months old his father died; he was orphaned of his mother as a teenager. Shortly afterwards, he was accepted as a student in the prestigious Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. When Rabbi Meir Shapiro introduced the Daf Yomi, he dispatched the students of his yeshiva to deliver Daf Yomi lectures. Abramowicz was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Abramowicz
Leon Abramowicz (born 18 March 1889 in Czernowitz; died 15 February 1978 in Vienna) was a Jewish Austrian painter who emigrated from Nazi Austria. Early life Abramowicz was born into a Jewish family in Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. His father worked as a butcher. His brother was Serge Abranovic (stage name; died 1942 in Warsaw), celebrated as the "Caruso of operetta". Abramowicz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and from 1912 to 1914 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Raupp and Ludwig von Herterich. Career as an artist After serving in the First World War as a soldier in the Austrian army, Abramowicz lived in Switzerland and France and, from the 1920s, in Vienna, where he worked as a freelance painter. From 1933 to 1935, he studied at the Vienna Academy under Karl Sterrer. He then settled in Vienna as a freelance painter and graphic artist. He was soon successful and received commissions from the US, especially for portra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebraization Of Surnames
The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; ) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew language, which was natively spoken by Jews and Samaritans until it died out of everyday use by around 200 CE. For many diaspora Jews, immigrating to the Land of Israel and taking up a Hebrew surname has long been conceptualized as a way to Negation of the Diaspora, erase remnants of their diaspora oppression, particularly since the inception of Zionism in the 19th century. This notion, which was part of what drove the Zionist revival of the Hebrew language, was further consolidated after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Hebraizing surnames has been an especially common practice among Ashkenazi Jews; many Ashkenazi families had acquired permanent surnames (rather than patronyms) only when surnames were forced upon them by Emperor Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire following an official decree on 12 November 1787. Sephardic Jews often ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908 – September 12, 2004) was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz. Life Abramovitz was the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduated in 1929 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture. While at Illinois, Abramovitz was a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. He later received an M.S. from Columbia University's architecture school in 1931. He also was the recipient of a two-year fellowship at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before returning to the US and becoming partners with Wallace Harrison from 1941 to 1976. In 1961, he was an invited resident (RAAR) of the American Academy in Rome. Abramovitz died in September 2004 in Pound Ridge, New York, at the age of 96. His drawings and archives are held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Abramovitz also received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Petinatti
Freddy Nieuchowicz Abramovich (born 30 March 1968), known professionally as Orlando Petinatti, is a Uruguayan radio personality, businessman, and television presenter. He is best known for hosting the radio program '' Malos Pensamientos'' since 1991, which is the program with the largest audience on radio in Uruguay. Early life Petinatti was born in Montevideo, on March 30, 1968, to Aída Abramovich and Bernardo Nieuchowicz. His family is Jewish and descends from Lithuanian Jewish immigrants on his mother's side and Polish Jews on his father's side. He grew up in the Palermo neighborhood, and attended the Jewish Yavne Institute, where his parents worked, and was a member of the basketball team of the Hebraica Macabi. Career Radio His beginning in the media were in El Dorado FM 100.3, in 1987 on the radio program ''El Subterráneo'' hosted by Daniel Figares, where he played a comic character who interrupted the normal broadcast of the program. In 1991 he created the progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Abramovich
Luis Abramovich (born 1962) is an Argentine former footballer. While playing for Boca Juniors he won many titles including the Recopa Sudamericana, Supercopa Sudamericana The Supercopa Libertadores (English: ''Libertadores Supercup''), also known as the Supercopa Sudamericana, Supercopa Libertadores João Havelange, Supercopa João Havelange or simply Supercopa, was a football club competition contested annually be ... and the Supercopa Masters. He played a total of 200 games for Boca in all competitions, scoring 5 goals. He was never a soccer coach, but he has always dreamed of directing. Apparently, he had the opportunity in the minor divisions of his hometown. But his aspirations transcend and he seeks to demonstrate his experiences as a player in a first-class team. He is an accredited technician according to the AFA. External links * 1962 births Living people Argentine men's footballers Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent Men's association football defender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Abramovich
Mario Abramovich (31 October 1926 – 1 December 2014) was an Argentine violinist and composer, considered an important figure linked to the music of tango. He acted from a young violinist with excellent figures of tango integrating prestigious ensembles dedicated to the genre and has composed pieces. He was a member of the group Sexteto Mayor since its founding in 1973, until his death in 2014. Career When Abramovich was six years old, he studied violin performance with Martin Llorca and later won a contest and became a violinist in the Teatro Colón. In 1943 he began his relationship with the tango. Worked as first violin with Osvaldo Fresedo, Miguel Caló and Argentino Galván, he joined the orchestra for 23 years of Héctor Varela and made recordings with Juan d'Arienzo and Aníbal Troilo. In 1987, Abramovich performed on Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and songwriter. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (born 24 October 1966) is a business oligarch and politician. He is the former owner of Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, a Premier League football club in London, England, and is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC, Millhouse. He has Russian, Portuguese and Israeli citizenship. He was formerly Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug from 2000 to 2008. According to ''Forbes (magazine), Forbes'', Abramovich's net worth was 14.5 billion in 2021, making him the List of Israelis by net worth, second-richest person in Israel, Since then, his wealth decreased to $6.9 billion (in 2022) before rising again to $9.2 billion in 2023. Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia's controversial Loans for shares scheme, loans-for-shares privatization program. Abramovich is considered to have a good relationship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Abramovitch
Raphael Abramovitch Rein (Рафаил Абрамович Рейн; 21 July 1880 – 11 April 1963), best known as Raphael Abramovitch, was a Russian socialist, a member of the General Jewish Labour Union, General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund), and a leader of the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDRP). Abramovitch emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1920, landing in Berlin, where he was a co-founder of the long-running Menshevik journal ''The Socialist Courier'' . After 1940, with the rise of fascism in Europe, he made his way to the United States, where he lived his final years. Biography Early years Raphael Abramovitch Rein was born in Daugavpils (Dvinsk) on 7 July 1880. As a student at Riga Polytechnic he became involved in revolutionary politics and became a convinced Marxist. Revolutionary activity In 1901 he joined the General Jewish Labour Union, Bund and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP). After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vsevolod Abramovich
Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Abramovich (; August 11, 1890 – April 24, 1913) was a pioneering aviator. Biography Abramovich was born on August 11, 1890, in Odessa, son of poet Mikhail Solomonovich Abramovich, Mikhail Abramovich and grandson of the Yiddish writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). In 1911, he earned a pilot's licence. He began working for the Wright brothers' German subsidiary, Flugmaschinen Wright in Johannisthal Air Field, Johannisthal, and became their chief test pilot. In 1912, Abramovich built his own aircraft, the Abramovich Flyer, based on what he had learned at the Wright factory. He flew it to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to participate in a military aircraft competition. The same year, he set a world altitude record of 2,100 meters (6,888 feet) and an endurance record for carrying four passengers for 46 minutes and 57 seconds. He was killed in an aviation accident while instructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
