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Fleischer Studios People
Fleischer (or Fleisher) is a common German and Yiddish family name. Its literal meaning is "butcher". Other German family names with the same meaning include Metzger, Mezger, Fleischman, and Fleischmann. People * Amy Fleischer, American mechanical engineer * Ari Fleischer (born 1960), White House press secretary from 2001 to 2003 * Bruce Fleisher (1948–2021), American PGA golfer * Carl Gustav Fleischer, Norwegian general and the first land commander to win a major victory against the Germans in World War II * Charles Fleischer (born 1950), actor, stand-up comedian and voice artist * Dave Fleischer, American animation film director and film producer * David Marcel Fleischer, American judge currently serving on the Harris County Criminal Court in Houston, Texas. * Edytha Fleischer (1898–1957), German operatic soprano * Gerd Fleischer (born 1942), Norwegian human rights activist * Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, German * Lawrence Fleisher, American attorney and sports agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Fleisher
Martin (Marty) Fleisher (born October 12, 1958) is an American bridge player, employee benefits attorney, manager of investments in life insurance policies and investment advisor. Bridge career Having first learned bridge at the age of eight by observing his parents and uncle, Fleisher became the youngest American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Life Master from the New York metropolitan area in 1976 at age 17. At the same time, his team reached the final of the Grand National Teams knockout championship, making him the youngest player ever to reach the finals of a North American team bridge championship, a record he still holds. ''Sports Illustrated'' reported this accomplishment and featured Fleisher in its Faces in the Crowd section. Less than two years later he won the Intercollegiate regional bridge championship by the largest margin ever recorded in a pairs championship. Fleisher has won twelve national bridge championships and placed second in nine others. He and Eric Rodwel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yishai Fleisher
Yishai Fleisher (; born 1976) serves as the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron. He is a podcast host, pro-Israel advocate and political advisor. Fleisher speaks English, Hebrew and Russian and has been described as "a go-to Israel expert for international media." Early life Yishai Fleisher was born in 1976 in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refuseniks from the Soviet Union. The family emigrated to the US when he was eight. Fleisher returned to Israel and served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces and was injured in Lebanon during his military service in 1997. Fleisher returned to the US where he completed an undergraduate degree in political science at Yeshiva University, then a Juris Doctorate at the Cardozo School of Law. He received his rabbinic ordination from Kollel Agudath Achim. Early Career Advocacy for Aliyah While in law school in 1999, Fleisher co-founded the organization Kumah which advocates aliyah and encourages Jewish students t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel S
Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Bible, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although the text does not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of '' Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealogy is also found in a pedigree of the Kohathites (1 Chronicles 6:3–15) and in that of Heman the Ezrahite, apparently his grandson (1 Chron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fleischer
Richard Owen Fleischer (; December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director. His career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave. He was the son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, and served as chairman of Fleischer Studios. Though he directed films across many genres and styles, he is best known for his big-budget, Tent-pole (entertainment), "tentpole" films, including: ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1954), The Vikings (film), ''The Vikings'' (1958), ''Barabbas (1961 film), Barabbas'' (1961), ''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966), the musical film ''Doctor Dolittle (1967 film), Doctor Dolittle'' (1967), the war epic ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970), the dystopian mystery-thriller ''Soylent Green'' (1973), the controversial period drama Mandingo (film), ''Mandingo'' (1975), and the Robert E. Howard sword-and-sorcery films ''Conan the Destroyer' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Fleischer
Ruben Samuel Fleischer (; born October 31, 1974) is an American film director, film producer, television producer, music video director, and commercial director. He is best known as the director of ''Zombieland'' (2009), his first feature film, and its sequel ''Zombieland: Double Tap'' (2019). He has also directed the films ''30 Minutes or Less'', ''Gangster Squad (film), Gangster Squad'', ''Uncharted (film), Uncharted'', and 2018's ''Venom (2018 film), Venom'' featuring the Marvel Comics character of the Venom (Marvel Comics character), same name. Prior to features, he directed television commercials for such brands as Cisco, Eurostar, ESPN, and Burger King, and music videos for artists such as M.I.A. (artist), M.I.A., Electric Six, DJ Format and Gold Chains. Early life Fleischer was born and raised in Washington, D.C, the son of Karen Lee (née Samuel) and David Elliot Fleischer, who is a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and a professor of medicine. His brother, Lucas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasmus Fleischer
Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, essayist and musician. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2012 with a dissertation that was also published as a book of 640 pages: "The political economy of music: Legislation, sound media and the defence of live music, 1925–2000". He is a researcher at the department of economic history, Stockholm University, while continuing to also publishing non-academic articles and books. Since 2004 he has been running the blog ''Copyriot''. He is a frequent speaker at transmediale, addressing topics ranging from "the automation of rave" and "how money is failing" to questions about contemporary fascism and the problems of speaking about "internet freedom". He was part of a transdisciplinary team of researchers investigating the music streaming company Spotify and co-authored the book "Spotify Teardown" (MIT Press, 2019). as well as another book on Spotify, published in Swedish and Danish. Between 2019 and 2023 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofer Fleisher
Ofer Fleisher (; born March 14, 1966, in Ramat Gan, Israel) is an Israeli former basketball player who played the center position. Fleisher played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League and for the Israeli national basketball team. Biography Fleisher played the center position, and is 2.08m (6 ft 10 in) tall."Ofer Flisher" . Fleisher played in the for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Fleischer
Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer (November 3, 1887 – June 25, 1972) was a noted American boxing writer and collector. Career Fleischer was born in New York City. After he graduated from City College of New York in 1908, Fleischer worked for the ''New York Press'' while studying at New York University. He served as the sports editor of the ''Press'' and the ''Sun Press'' until 1929. Encouraged by Tex Rickard, he inaugurated in 1922 ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' magazine. In 1929 Fleischer acquired sole ownership of the magazine, which he led as editor-in-chief for fifty years, until his death at Atlantic Beach, New York in 1972."Mr. Boxing, Himself" ''Sports Illustrated'' In 1942, Fleischer began to publish the magazine's annual Ring Record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moe Fleischer
Moe Fleischer (1901 – July 10, 1987) was an American boxing trainer, matchmaker, and promoter who was involved in boxing for 70 years. Early life Moe Fleischer was born in New York, United States, in the early 1900s. He grew up on the East Side of New York. His brother was Nat Fleischer, founder and editor-in-chief of ''The Ring Magazine''. Career Fleischer's professional boxing record stood at one loss and one draw before he turned to training, managing, matchmaking, and promoting. By 1926, the native New Yorker had officially entered the business of boxing. He promoted a show at Brooklyn's Broadway Arena in 1928, featuring Allie Ridgeway and Willie Greenspan. He helped develop the careers of many fighters. He trained New Zealand boxer Tom Heeney for a championship bout in 1928 against heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. He also had been Eladio Valdés's trainer, had set up fights for Panama Al Brown, Abe Attell, and Tony Canzoneri, and had worked with Joe Gans, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fleisher
Michael Lawrence Fleisher (November 1, 1942 — February 2, 2018) was an American writer known for his DC Comics of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly for the characters Spectre and Jonah Hex. Biography Early life and career Fleisher was raised in New York City. His parents divorced when he was four years old, and Fleisher developed the foundation of his later Western writing by spending Saturdays with his visiting father at Western movie double features. "I saw two Westerns every Saturday for years," Fleisher recalled in 2010. "So it wasn't very hard to write esternsat all." Fleisher wrote three volumes of ''The Encyclopedia of Comic Books Heroes'', doing some research on-site at DC Comics. He started comic book scripting in 1972, co-writing with Lynn Marron the full-issue supernatural story "Death at Castle Dunbar" in DC's '' Secrets of Sinister House'' #5 (July 1972). He co-wrote supernatural short stories with Maxene Fabe in DC's '' House of Mystery'', and a solo story in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fleischer (mineralogist)
Michael Fleischer ( 27 February 1908 – 5 September 1998) was an American chemist and mineralogist. He worked as a geochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1939 to 1978. He published a huge number of chemical abstracts and reviews of proposed mineral names, and is known for his authoritative ''Glossary of Mineral Species'', first published in 1971. Early years (1908–39) Michael Fleischer was born on 27 February 1908 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He studied chemistry and mineralogy at Yale University from 1927 to 1933. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude in 1930 and a doctorate in physics in 1933. He graduated during the Great Depression. His first job was a chemist in a toothpaste factory. He married Helen Isenberg and they had two sons, Walter and David. From 1933 to 1934 Fleischer was a research associate at Yale's Department of Chemistry. From 1934 to 1936 he was an assistant to Professor William Ebenezer For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
