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Eban (name)
Eban () is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. *Eli Eban, Israeli-American clarinetist *Katherine Eban, American investigative journalist and author Given name *Eban Goodstein (born 1960), economist, author, and public educator *Eban Hyams, Australian basketball player Fictional characters A protagonist from a 2000 film ''Eban and Charley'' See also * *Eben {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Eban
Abba Solomon Meir Eban (; ; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a History of the Jews in South Africa, South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister, Ministry of Education (Israel), Education Minister, and Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States, ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also vice president of the United Nations General Assembly and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Eban famously remarked of the Palestinians, "The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Early life Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 2 February 1915 to Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian Jewish parents. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Eban
Eli Eban () is an Israeli-American clarinetist and son of the late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban. Education Eli Eban was born in New York City and received his early musical training in Israel, studying the clarinet with Richard Lesser and Yona Ettlinger. After serving in the Israeli Army, he was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, where he studied with Anthony Gigliotti. Performance career Immediately upon graduation, he was appointed principal clarinetist of the Israel Radio Symphony under Lukas Foss. Shortly thereafter he was invited by Zubin Mehta to join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, where he spent thirteen seasons playing and recording all the major orchestral repertoire under internationally renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Georg Solti, and Klaus Tennstedt. He performed as soloist with the Israel Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Eban
Katherine Eban (born 1966/1967) is an American investigative journalist and author. Her work has focused on public health and homeland security issues. She is a contributor at ''Fortune magazine'' and '' Vanity Fair'' and writes for a variety of other national magazines. Biography Eban is the daughter of Elinor (née Fuchs) and Michael O. Finkelstein. Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the Yale School of Drama. She holds degrees from Brown University, University of East Anglia, and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Eban has written two books. ''Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating America's Drug Supply'' was one of the best books of 2005 according to ''Kirkus Reviews''. In 2019, she published ''Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom''. She has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her books. ''Bott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eban Goodstein
Eban Goodstein (born 1960) is an economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He is known for organizing national educational initiatives on climate change, which have engaged thousands of schools and universities, civic institutions, faith groups, and community organizations in solutions-driven dialogue. He is the author of three books and numerous journal articles. He and his wife, Chungin Chung Goodstein, live in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They have three daughters. Early life and education Goodstein was born and grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee. His parents were affiliated with the Highlander Research and Education Center, a networking and skills-training institute that facilitates grassroots organizing for issues of social and environmental justice throughout Appalachia and the South. In partnership with several other families, his parents helped drive the desegregation of the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eban Hyams
Eban Hyams () is an Indian-Israeli-Australian former professional basketball player. Hyams has played professionally in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) and that country's Waratah League, part of the second division Australian Basketball Association (ABA). He is the first ever player of Indian origin to play in ULEB competitions. Early life Hyams was born in Pune, India, to Jewish Indian parents. He moved to Australia at a young age and began playing basketball while attending school there. A member of the Bene Israeli community, Eban is Jewish and holds Israeli citizenship. His mother is Marilyn Hyams and his father was Erick Isaac Hyams, a well known singer and guitarist for the Indian band Sweet Slag in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Following his father's death in 1989, he attended boarding school where he excelled in sports. In 1996, his mother remarried and the family moved to Sydney. Earning a scholarship to attend Saint John Paul College in Sydney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eban And Charley
''Eban and Charley'' is a 2000 independent drama film written and directed by James Bolton. It follows the romantic relationship between Eban ( Brent Fellows), a 29-year-old gay man, and Charley ( Gio Black Peter), a 14-year-old boy. Despite being about a very controversial topic (namely, age disparity in sexual relationships), the film addresses these issues in a low-key, relaxed manner. The film also addresses the consequences that Eban and Charley's relationship provokes with their parents. Its plot is based on an incident in which one of Bolton's friends was dumped by his older boyfriend, because their parents did not approve of their age disparity. Cast * Brent Fellows as Eban * Gio Black Peter as Charley * Nolan V. Chard as Charley's father * Ron Upton as Eban's father *Ellie Nicholson as Sunshine * Drew Zeller as Kevin * Pam Munter as Eban's mother Soundtrack The soundtrack to ''Eban and Charley'' was written and recorded by The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt. The soundt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
