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Assaf (name)
Assaf is both a masculine given name and a surname. This spelling in English represents two unrelated names, Hebrew אָסָף /(ʔ)aˈsaf/ and Arabic عَسَاف /ʕa.saːf/, both of which can be used as given names and surnames. Notable people with the name include: Dynasty * Assaf dynasty, the Turkmen rulers in Mount Lebanon during Mamluk and Ottoman era People with the given name * Assaf Amdursky (born 1971), Israeli singer and producer * Assaf Azo (born 1984), Israeli footballer * Assaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli film writer, director, and producer * Assaf Cohen (born 1972), American actor * Assaf Gavron (born 1968), Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician * Assaf HaRofeh, Hebrew medical writer known as Asaph the Jew * Assaf Hefetz (born 1944), commissioner of the Israeli Police * Assaf Inbari (born 1968), Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist * Assaf Kehati (born 1979), Israeli jazz guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator based in Boston * Assaf K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Language
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as ''Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assaf Naor
Assaf Naor (born May 7, 1975) is an Israeli American and Czech mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. Academic career Naor earned a baccalaureate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 and a doctorate from the same university in 2002, under the supervision of Joram Lindenstrauss.Curriculum vitae retrieved 2019-06-15. He worked at from 2002 until 2007, with an affiliated faculty position at the , and joined the NYU faculty in 2006. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Assaf
Roger Assaf (in Arabic روجيه عساف ; born in 1941) is a Lebanese playwright, director and actor. Biography Assaf was born in Lebanon, son of Joseph Assaf and Rosette Brunas. His father was Lebanese and his mother was French. He studied in Frères School, Furn el Chebbak, then in Frères Jemmayzé. He studied medicine at Université Saint Joseph (USJ) for four years, but left studies to consecrate himself to acting. At age 12, he landed an acting role in a play directed by Henri Khayyat. He established a university theatre center staging experimental plays. He collaborated in television stagings with Jean-Claude Boulos, Antoine Remé, Elias Matta and Antoine Machhour. In 1963, he received a grant from the French Embassy in Lebanon to study acting in Strasbourg, France. In 1965, he was part of the renaissance of Lebanese theatre and in 1966, he was a co-founder of the College of Arts in the Lebanese University, establishing المركز المسرحي الجامعي (C.U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rima Assaf
Rima Assaf (Arabic: ريما عساف; born March 10, 1970) is a Lebanese journalist and anchor. Early life Rima Assaf was born in Hardine, North Lebanon and raised in Chekka, North Lebanon. Her mother is a housewife and her father, now deceased, used to work in commerce. She has one brother, Antoine, and one sister, Ramza. Assaf attended Saint Famille High School, Chekka and graduated in 1992 with a diploma in Journalism from the Lebanese University. She landed her first training job in 1991 as a news anchor at Radio Free Lebanon. Personal life Rima Assaf is married to cardiologist Georges Tannous. They have two children a daughter, Rosa Maria and a son, Elia. Career Rima Assaf began her career in media during her university years as a trainee at RLL. Upon her graduation, the radio administration decided to give her a job as a bulletin editor. In 1994, Rima worked as a news anchor and bulletin editor at CVN television station for two years. Later, she joined the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Assaf
Mohammad Jaber Abdul Rahman Assaf ( ar, محمد جبر عبدالرحمن عساف; born 1 September 1989)Interview with Mohammed Assaf's mother on Sayyidati magazine is a pop singer well known for being the winner of the second season of '' Arab Idol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhayl Assaf
Mikhayl Assaf (27 October 1887 in Damascus, Syria – 10 August 1970) was the second archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. He was the successor to Archbishop Paul Salman. Life On July 20, 1912, Mikhayl Assaf became an ordained priest. His election as Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia was on 19 September 1948, and his ordination as eparch was on October 10, 1948. In his twenty years in office, Assaf was a Council Father of the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He consecrated Nicolas Naaman, SMSP, as Archbishop of Bosra and Hauran (Syria). He also assisted as co-consecrator of Gabriel Abdou-Saada to Titular of Caesarea in Palestine of Greek Melkites, Georges Haddad as Archbishop of Tyre (Lebanon), Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Melkite Church and Neemeh Simann as titular bishop of Termessus. Assaf was succeeded by Saba Youakim Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Assaf
Joseph Assaf (Arabic: جوزيف عساف; born 1944) is a Lebanese-born Australian businessman and founder of the Ethnic Business Awards. Biography Assaf was born in Hardine, a village in the Batroun District, 80 km from Beirut, Lebanon. His first language was Arabic, and he undertook his schooling in French. In 1967, at the age of 22, he migrated to Australia from Lebanon. In 1988, Assaf founded the Ethnic Business Awards. In June 2013, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the appointment of Assaf to the Civil Society 20 group – the C20 – as part of the wider engagement process for the G20 meeting in Australia in 2014. In 2008, Jascom International Pty Ltd published Assaf's book ''In Someone Else's Shoes'', a memoir detailing his experiences as a migrant in Australia. It also explores his understanding of Australian society in the context of multiculturalism. Honours and awards On 14 June 2010, Assaf was named a Member of the Order of Australia "for ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Assaf
Ami Assaf (, born Ami Vilkomitz; 22 July 1903 – 17 May 1963) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai from 1949 until 1961. Biography Born in Rosh Pinna, Assaf attended Herzliya Gymnasium. After finishing school, he worked in agriculture. One of the founders of the Kfar Yehoshua moshav, in 1936 he became secretary of the Moshavim Movement, and was a member of Mapai's central committee. Knesset website In he was elected to the first Knesset on Mapai's list. He was re-elected in |
Assaf Yaguri
Assaf Yaguri ( he, אסף יגורי, 13 February 1931 – 18 March 2000) was an Israeli soldier and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Democratic Movement for Change and Ya'ad between 1977 and 1981. Biography Born in Yagur during the Mandate era, Yaguri was a member of the central committee of the HaNoar HaOved youth movement, and was also a member of the Kibbutz HaMeuhad youth section. He became treasurer of Yagur, and joined the civil service, eventually becoming responsible for trade in the Israel Port Authority. He went on to become director of Tourist Development in southern Sinai and was director of the Neve Midbar Caravan in Sharm el-Sheikh and the Village Vacations Company. During the Yom Kippur War he commanded a tank battalion in Sinai, and was captured by the Egyptian Army. He was released after 46 days in a prisoner exchange. In 1977 he joined the new Democratic Movement for Change and was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assaf Shelleg
Assaf Shelleg ( he, אסף שלג) is an Israeli-American musicologist and pianist, a senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (2011–2014), and had taught prior to that as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2009–2011). Shelleg specializes in art music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (historical musicology, musicological historiography, cultural history, post-tonal theories, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and contemporaneity) while focusing on the cultural networks in which art music was written by or about Jews, in Europe, North America, British Palestine, and Israel. Shelleg’s award-winning first book, Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History', appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assaf Shaham
Assaf Shaham (Hebrew: אסף שחם; born 1983) is an Israeli artist. Biography Shaham was born in Jerusalem. He graduated from the Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv in 2012. While still a student he was awarded the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography A year after his graduation he was awarded the Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist from Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Shaham studied at the Maumaus program in Lisbon and got his MFA from the University of Southern California. He divides his time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions * 2012. The king is dead, long live the king!, Tempo Rubato Gallery. * 2012. ''Assaf Shaham: New ways to steal old souls,'' Tel Aviv Museum of Art. * 2014. The Vision of Division, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv. * 2015. Division of the Vision, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. Awards * 2011. Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. * 2012. The Constantiner Photography Award for and I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assaf Schuster
Assaf Schuster is an Israeli entrepreneur and professor of computer science whose works have been published in such journals as ''Computer Aided Verification'' and '' Journal of Systems and Software''. Biography Schuster was born in 1958 in the Israeli kibbutz Givat Brenner to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of Ashkenazi-Jewish origin. Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. In 1991 Schuster received a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His PhD topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of Eli Shamir. He then started working at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
