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Blumenfeld
Blumenfeld is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Blumenfeld, American actor * Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American writer and comedian * Anat Blumenfeld, Israeli biochemist * Benjamin Blumenfeld (1884–1947), Russian chess player * Daniel Blumenfeld, American Grammy-winning music producer * Erik Blumenfeld (1915–1997), German politician * Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969), German-American photographer * Fannie Zeissler (born Blumenfeld) (1863–1927), Austrian-American pianist * Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931), Russian composer, conductor, and pianist * Hugh Blumenfeld (b. 1958), American folk musician * Isadore Blumenfeld (commonly Kid Cann, 1900–1981), American mobster * J. C. Blumenfeld (–), Polish-British poet * Samuel Blumenfeld, American author and educator * Simon Blumenfeld (1907–2005), English columnist, novelist, playwright and editor * Simon Blumenfeldt (1760 or 1770 – 1826), Russian Hebrew calligrapher See also * Blumfeld * Bloo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amir Blumenfeld
Amir Shmuel Blumenfeld (; ; born January 18, 1983) is an Israeli-American comedian, actor, writer, Television presenter, television host, and member of the American comedy duo, Jake and Amir. Born in Israel, he moved to Los Angeles when he was two, and was hired by the New York City-based CollegeHumor in 2005. As well as contributing to its books and articles, he has written and starred in original videos for the comedy website—appearing in series such as ''Hardly Working'' and ''Very Mary-Kate''—and was a cast member on its short-lived MTV program ''The CollegeHumor Show''. Amir first came to national prominence in 2004 when he was a semi-finalist during Yahoo's inaugural national IM Live contest, losing to the eventual champions. Now, he is best known for appearing in the web series ''Jake and Amir#Jake and Amir (web series), Jake and Amir'' with Jake Hurwitz, in which he plays an annoying and exaggerated version of himself. Originally made by Hurwitz and Blumenfeld in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kid Cann
Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian-born Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades. He remains the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota. He was associated with several high-profile crimes in the city's history. He was tried and acquitted for the 1924 murder of cab driver Charles Goldberg. Blumenfeld was also present at the scene of the attempted murder by Verne Miller of Minneapolis Police Department officer James H. Trepanier. Blumenfeld was also tried and acquitted for personally firing the murder weapon, a Thompson submachine gun, in the globally infamous December 1935 contract killing of Twin Cities investigative journalist Walter Liggett. He was also unsuccessfully prosecuted in Federal Court for both conspiracy and racketeering in the mobbed up hostile takeover and dismantling of the Twin City Rapid Transit streetcar system during the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Life'' and American ''Vogue''. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation. History Blumenfeld was born in Berlin on 26 January 1897, to atheistic Jewish free-thinker parents. As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry. In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz. In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead; this image was later used in Allied pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hugh Blumenfeld
Hugh Blumenfeld (born October 11, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University. He also helped to edit the ''Fast Folk Musical Magazine'' (now part of the Smithsonian-Folkways collection) and recorded songs for a dozen issues. After earning his PhD in 1991, he worked as an English professor until 1994, when he began writing and performing full-time. Over the next 10 years he toured mainly in the Northeast and Midwest, with several short tours in Europe and one in Israel. In 1999 he was appointed Connecticut State Troubadour. In the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Felix Blumenfeld
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (; – 21 January 1931) was a Russian and Soviet composer and conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher. He was born in Elisavetgrad, which was in 2016 renamed to Kropyvnytskyi (in present-day Ukraine), Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld, of Austrian Jewish origin, and Maria Szymanowska. Blumenfeld studied with Gustav Neuhaus, married to his older sister. Then he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911. The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner's opera ''Tristan und Isolde''. In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera '' Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Simon Blumenfeld
Simon Blumenfeld (25 November 1907 – 13 April 2005) was a British columnist, novelist, playwright, theatre critic, editor and Communist. Although he described himself as Jewish, he was born to a family of Sicilian refugees, who eventually settled in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. In the late 1930s he authored four books beginning with ''Jew Boy'' (1935), "the first in what became a genre of East End-based 'proletarian novels". During World War II he served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as an expert in German munitions, before becoming a scriptwriter for ''Stars in Battledress'', an army talent show. At the end of the war he founded the entertainment magazine ''Band Wagon'',Named for the radio show ''Band Waggon''. with Norman Kark. He adopted a number of pseudonyms for his writing, including Sidney Vauncez (the Yiddish word for moustache), CV Curtis, and Peter Simon. He founded the ''Weekly Sporting Review'', which collapsed when sued for libel by the managers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Samuel Blumenfeld
Samuel Blumenfeld (born 1926 in New York – 2015 in Waltham) was a phonics advocate and conservative writer. He frequently lectured in favor of systematic phonics instruction in the teaching of reading and wrote over a dozen books on education. Blumenfeld's critiques against having psychologies in the U.S. public education system is often quoted by Church of Scientology in their publications, and he serves in the Board of Commissioners of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Scientology affiliated lobbying organization. Biography Growing up in the South Bronx, Blumenfeld saw combat in Italy during World War II and later graduated from the City College of New York. He published multiple books on education and spent much of his career investigating the decline in American literacy, the rise in learning disabilities in American children, sex and drug education, and other topics related to education. Blumenfeld was an advocate of homeschooling.He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Benjamin Blumenfeld
Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Vilkaviškis – 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. He was born in Vilkaviškis, in the Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania). In 1905/06 he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein, behind Gersz Salwe, in St. Petersburg (the fourth Russian championship). In 1907 he tied for second/third with Georg Marco, behind Mikhail Chigorin, in Moscow. In 1920 he took eighth in Moscow (Russian Chess Olympiad, 1st URS-ch). The event was won by Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian .... In 1925 he tied for second/third with Boris Verlinsky, behind Aleksandr Sergeyev, in the Moscow championship. He invented the Blumenfeld Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nf3 b5). In 1945 Blumenfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Simon Blumenfeldt
Simon Blumenfeldt (; 1760 or 1770 – 1826), also known as Simon Sofer (), was a Russian Hebrew calligrapher and writer. He possessed the gift of writing in characters so small that they could be read only by the aid of a microscope. The Lord's Prayer was thus written by him nine times on a piece of paper the size of a square inch. He could write readable letters and words even on the very edge of ordinary vellum paper. He was also a skilful draftsman, and he used to embellish his excellent pencil sketches with all kind of verses and sentences. He traveled extensively through Europe, and received rewards from many sovereigns. Blumenfeldt presented numerous script portraits to Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and a Torah, of the size of a finger, to Pope Pius VII Pope Pius VII (; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823) was head of the Catholic Church from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. He ruled the Papal States from June 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alan Blumenfeld
Alan Blumenfeld (born September 4, 1952) is an American character actor, best known for his role in NBC's TV series ''Heroes (U.S. TV series), Heroes'' as Maury Parkman, the telepathy, telepath father of Matt Parkman played by Greg Grunberg, and as Bob Buss in the telefilm ''2gether''. He has played Greg Grunberg's father in both ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'' and ''Heroes''. Life and career Blumenfeld has been acting since the age of 7 in his first grade, and has appeared in prime time television shows such as ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''JAG (TV series), JAG'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Without a Trace'', and ''Judging Amy''. He has also appeared in movies, including ''The Ring (2002 film), The Ring'', ''In Her Shoes (2005 film), In Her Shoes'', and ''Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives''. He was also the voice of Glottis and Boyd Cooper on the cult video-games ''Grim Fandango'' and ''Psychonauts'' respectively. Blumenfeld currently lives in Los Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bloomfield (other)
Bloomfield may refer to: People * Bloomfield (surname) Places Australia * Bloomfield, Queensland, a town and locality in the Shires of Cook and Douglas * Bloomfield River, in Queensland Canada * Bloomfield, Carleton County, New Brunswick * Bloomfield, Kings County, New Brunswick * Bloomfield, Newfoundland and Labrador * Bloomfield, Ontario * Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island ** Bloomfield Provincial Park United Kingdom * Bloomfield (Bangor suburb), Northern Ireland * Bloomfield, Belfast, an electoral ward of East Belfast, Northern Ireland United States * Bloomfield, Arkansas, in Benton County * Bloomfield, California * North Bloomfield, California, former name Bloomfield * Bloomfield, Connecticut * Bloomfield (St. Georges, Delaware), a historic home listed on the National Register of Historic Places * Bloomfield, Indiana, a town in Greene County * Bloomfield, Jay County, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Bloomfield, Spencer County, Indiana, an unincorporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fannie Zeissler
Fannie is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Fannie Fern Andrews (1867–1950), American lecturer, teacher, social worker and writer * Fannie Barrios, Venezuelan bodybuilder * Fannie Birckhead (1935–2022), American community organizer, judge, and politician * Fannie Lee Chaney (1921–2007), American baker turned civil rights activist * Fannie Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American writer, magazine editor * Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946), American writer, ornithologist and folklorist * Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), American culinary expert and author * Fannie Flagg (born 1944), American actress, comedian and author * Fannie Gaston-Johansson (1938–2023), American professor of nursing * Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), American voting rights activist * Fannie Hillsmith (1911–2007), American cubist painter * Fannie Hurst (1885–1968), American novelist * Fannie Kauffman (1924–2009), Mexican comedian and actress * Fannie Heaslip Lea (1884–1955), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
