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Danziger
Danziger, being related to Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adolphe Danziger De Castro (1859–1959), Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer *Aharon Danziger (fl. 1976–1984), Israeli paralympic volleyball player * Allen Danziger (born 1942), American actor * Avraham Danziger (1748—1820), rabbi, posek and codifier *Cory Danziger, American actor, political activist * Fred Danziger (1906–1948), American football player * Harry Danziger (born 1938), American rabbi * Jazzy Danziger (born 1984), American poet and editor * Jeff Danziger (born 1943), syndicated political cartoonist and author * Joan Danziger (born 1934), American sculptor * Kurt Danziger, academic whose work has focused on the history of psychology * Lucy Danziger, American editor-in-chief of Self magazine * Louis Danziger (born 1923), graphic designer and educator * Max Danziger (born 1886), Southern Rhodesian politician *Nick Danziger (born 1958), British photo journalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Danziger
Louis Danziger (born November 17, 1923) is an American graphic designer and design educator. He is most strongly associated with the late modern movement in graphic design, and with a community of designers from various disciplines working in Southern California in the mid-twentieth century. He is noted for his iconoclastic approach to design, and for introducing the principles of European constructivism to the American advertising vernacular. In 1998, Danziger was awarded the AIGA Gold Medal for "standards of excellence over a lifetime of work." Danziger retired from design more than 20 years ago to work as a consultant and educator. He has held faculty positions with ArtCenter, Chouinard, CalArts and Harvard University. Early life Louis Danziger was born on November 17, 1923, in Brooklyn, and raised in The Bronx, New York. At age eleven, Danziger was enrolled in courses in art and poster design run by the Federal Art Project: "Their art classes turned me into a designer," Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Danziger
Kurt Danziger (born 3 June 1926) is a German-born academic whose work has focused on the history of psychology, particularly in the 20th century. His innovative contributions to this field have received widespread international recognition. Biography Danziger was born in Germany in 1926 and emigrated to South Africa at the age of 11. After receiving degrees in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of Cape Town, he continued his studies at the newly established Institute of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford in England. His work there involved standard 1940s psychology experiments using laboratory rats (e.g. Danziger, 1953). On completing his doctorate, he joined the University of Melbourne in Australia where he did research in developmental psychology, studying children's understanding of social relationships (e.g. Danziger, 1957). In 1954, Danziger moved back to South Africa where social psychology soon became his main area of research. Following a two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Danziger
Yitzhak Danziger (; 26 June 1916 – 11 July 1977) was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the " Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group. Early life Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916. His father was a surgeon and served in the German Army during World War I. The family settled in Jerusalem. Danziger studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1934–37. He met Marion Edie at the Slade and they later married and had a son, Jeremy. Marion's mother was Muslim and Marion's union with Danziger was happy. They remained friends after their separation. Danziger's work was influenced by his visits to the British Museum, the Anthropological Museum and the art from Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, India and Oceania and Africa. These would later on play an important role in his sculptures. Style and Technique His work centres on the need to redefine the essence of sculpture. In the course of forty years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger (August 18, 1944 – July 8, 2004) was an American children's author who wrote more than 30 books, including her 1974 debut '' The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'', for children's and young adult audiences. At the time of her death, all her books were still in print; they had been published in 53 countries and translated into 14 languages. Life Birth and family Paula Danziger was born August 18, 1944, to Samuel and Carolyn Danziger. A younger brother, Barry, was born in 1947. Education and early career The Danziger family lived in Nutley, New Jersey, and Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, before settling in Metuchen, New Jersey, when Paula was in sixth grade. In an interview with ''BookPage'', she said: "At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful. I just didn't feel y familywas supportive and emotionally generous. My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother asvery nervous and worried about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Danziger De Castro
Adolphe Danziger De Castro, also known as Gustav Adolf Danziger, Adolph Danziger, Adolphe Danziger and Adolphe De Castro, (November 6, 1859 – March 4, 1959) was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories. Life Adolphe Danziger De Castro was born Abram Dancygier, the son of Symcha Jakub Dancygier and Chaja Szarka, near Dobrzyń nad Wisłą, Congress Poland. He claimed that the ancestor of the family Dancygier was a Portuguese Jews, Portuguese Jew named Israel De Castro family (Sephardi Jewish), De Castro who migrated from Portugal to the Netherlands in the 16th century and whose descendants settled in Danzig, whence the surname Danziger originated. Danziger De Castro also claimed that he had received the rabbinical ordination by Rabbi Israel Jehoszua Trunk called 'R. Shiele Kutner' (1820–1893) around 1877 and had obtained a Ph.D. in oriental philology at the University of Bonn in 1882. In 1883 he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he first l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Danzigers
Edward J. Danziger (1909–1999) and Harry Lee Danziger (1913–2005) were American-born brothers who produced many British films and TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. According to one profile "throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, their second features and TV series seemed to be on screens everywhere, their pervasive presence forming a part of virtually every British filmgoer's and television viewer's experience during those years." Career Edward and Harry Danziger were native New Yorkers. Edward studied law and had worked on the Nuremberg Trials while brother Harry had a musical background. They operated a sound studio in New York that specialised in the dubbing of foreign films for US release. Their first feature film as producers was '' Jigsaw'' (1949). In 1952, they moved to Britain and began making television films, using resources at various facilities including London's Riverside Studios, Shepperton, Borehamwood and Nettlefold. Among their first productions was the serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Danziger
Jeff Danziger (born 1943) is an American syndicated political cartoonist and author. Biography Danziger's father is Jewish. He served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1971. An intelligence officer and linguist during the Vietnam War, Danziger was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal in 1970. In 1971, he began teaching English at Union 32 High School in East Montpelier, Vermont, where he taught specialized classes in journalism and expository writing at an advanced level. Danziger wrote a factual but comical autobiography of his years serving in the army during the war. ''Lieutenant Dangerous'' was published by Steerforth Press in 2021. Tim O'Brien, author of ''The Things They Carried'', characterized the book as "funny, biting, thoughtful, and wholly original". Work 1980s and 1990s Danziger worked for the ''Christian Science Monitor'' between 1987 and 1997. He created the comic strip ''McGonigle of the Chronicle'' (distributed by the Field Newspaper Syndicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger HonFRPS CF (born 22 April 1958) is a British photographer, film maker and travel writer. Early life Danziger was born in Marylebone, London but grew up in Monaco and Switzerland. Work Danziger attended The Chelsea School of Art in London, where he earned an MA in Fine Art. In 1982 he received a Churchill Fellowship which enabled him to spend 18 months on the ancient Silk Route from Turkey to China, disguised as a local traveller, taking photographs which resulted in his book ''Danziger's Travels''. Danziger has since travelled the world taking photographs and making documentary films. Most of his work is based on people living in difficult circumstances, particularly young people. His photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, toured museums and galleries internationally, and are held in numerous museum collections. For ''The British'', Danziger created a photographic documentary in black-and-white images. From the halls of Westminster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Danziger
Lucy Danziger is an American magazine editor and health writer. She is the former editor-in-chief of ''Self'' magazine and was the Editorial Director of The Beet, a plant-based lifestyle guide website. She has launched digital media businesses and consults on content strategy for media companies and brands. Background and career Education Danziger graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1978 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Art History from Radcliffe College in 1982. Journalism She worked as a general assignment reporter at the Star-Ledger of Newark for four years, covering everything from crime to court trials, business stories and local City Desk stories. She then became an associate editor at ''New York'' magazine and later worked at ''7 Days, a'' New York-based weekly, as the founding Managing Editor. Additionally, she served as the founding editor-in-chief of ''Women's Sports & Fitness'' from 1997 to 2000 and as an editor in the Style News Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Danziger
Sheldon H. Danziger (born September 30, 1948) is an American economist, focusing in trends in poverty and inequality, and the effects of economic and demographic changes and government social programs on disadvantaged groups, currently the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at University of Michigan and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmor ... and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the President of Russell Sage Foundation. He was the recipient of a List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. Background Danziger received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Danziger
Temple Israel is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1376 East Massey Road, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. It is the only Reform synagogue in Memphis, the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in Tennessee, and one of the largest Reform congregations in the U.S. It was founded in 1853 by mostly German Jews as Congregation B'nai Israel (Hebrew for "Children of Israel"). Led initially by Hazzan, cantors, in 1858 it hired its first rabbi, Jacob Peres, and leased its first building, which it renovated and eventually purchased. Peres was fired in 1860 because he opened a store that conducted business on Saturdays, the Shabbat, Jewish Sabbath. He was replaced by Simon Tuska, who moved the congregation from Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox to Reform practices. Tuska died in 1871, and was succeeded by Max Samfield; under his leadership, the synagogue was one of the founding members of the Union for Reform Judaism. In 1884, Children of Israel co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
