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Woldenberg Institute Of Southern Jewish Life
Woldenberg may refer to: Geography * German name of Dobiegniew Dobiegniew () is a town in western Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Strzelce-Drezdenko County. As of December 2021, the town has 3,004 inhabitants. It is situated on the Mierzęcka Struga River and southern shore of Wielgie Lake. History The are ..., a town in western Poland * Woldenberg Park, a park in New Orleans, Louisiana People * Lords (Counts) of Woldenberg ("Von Wolhdenberg") * José Woldenberg Karakowski (born 1952, Monterrey, Nuevo León), Mexican sociologist * Malcolm Woldenberg (1896-1982), Canadian-born American businessman and philanthropist * The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life See also * * Waldenberg, Waldenberger {{DEFAULTSORT:Woldenberg ...
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Dobiegniew
Dobiegniew () is a town in western Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Strzelce-Drezdenko County. As of December 2021, the town has 3,004 inhabitants. It is situated on the Mierzęcka Struga River and southern shore of Wielgie Lake. History The area formed part of Greater Poland in Piast-ruled Poland. The settlement was mentioned in 1250, when Duke Przemysł I of Greater Poland granted it to Cistercians from Owińska. In 1280 it was mentioned under the Latinized name ''villa Dobegneve'' in a document of Przemysł II of Poland. It was granted town rights in 1298. In 1333 the town's name is mentioned as ''Waldinborg''. In 1373, along with the region it became part of the Czech Crown Lands, ruled by the Luxembourg dynasty. In 1402, the Luxembourgs reached an agreement with Poland in Kraków, according to which Poland was to purchase and re-incorporate the region, but eventually the Luxembourgs sold it to the Teutonic Order. It was captured by joint Polish-Czech forces in 1433, dur ...
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Woldenberg Park
Woldenberg Park is a park in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was created in the late 1980s on land that had been occupied by old wharves and warehouses along the Mississippi Riverfront, in the upper French Quarter, first opening as a park in October 1989. It is named after philanthropist Malcolm Woldenberg (1896–1982) who helped fund its construction. The upriver end of the park is at Canal Street and the Aquarium of the Americas. It continues downriver to connect with the riverfront "Moon Walk" across from Jackson Square. Woldenberg Park is occasionally the location of live music performances, especially during the French Quarter Festival. The park includes several art installations. The New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Sculpture, created by Yaacov Agam, sits near the middle of the park. The sculpture presents several different images from various angles, including a Star of David The Star of David (, , ) is a symbol generally recognized as representing both Jewish ide ...
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Counts Of Woldenberg
{{short description, Noble family The Counts of Woldenberg, of Wohldenberg, formerly lords of Wöltingerode, were a prosperous noble family of the High Middle Ages situated northwest of the Harz Mountains. They take their name from Wohldenberg Castle, which was constructed between 1153 and 1160. In 1174 they converted their previous ancestral seat, Wöltingerode Castle, into a Benedictine monastery, thereby founding Wöltingerode Abbey. In 1383, their property fell to the Bishopric of Hildesheim on the extinction of the family. Prominent members * Adelheid von Woldenberg (died 1208/09), first Abbess of the St. Aegidii Monastery in Münster * Burkhard I von Woldenberg (died 8 February 1235 in Constantinople) * Heinrich II von Woldenberg (died 1318 in Avignon), Bishop of Hildesheim * Otto II von Woldenberg (died 1331 in Hildesheim), Bishop of Hildesheim * Mechthild II von Wohldenberg (died 1316), Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey Gandersheim Abbey () is a former house of secular c ...
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José Woldenberg
Isaac José Woldenberg Karakowski (born 8 September 1952) is a Mexican political scientist and sociologist who served as the first president of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and currently works as director of ''Nexos'' magazine. Early life Woldenberg was born in Monterrey into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Eastern Europe. His father, originally from Poland, arrived in Veracruz at the age of two and lived a few years in San Luis Potosí, while his mother was born in the northern state of Chihuahua into a family originally from Lithuania. He graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a bachelor's degree in Sociology (1975), a master's degree in Latin American Studies (1987) and began a doctorate in Political Science (1993-1995), but didn't complete it. During his college years he also studied film-making at the ''Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos'' (1972-1975), but dropped out after three years. Career He was drawn ...
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Malcolm Woldenberg
Malcolm C. Woldenberg (5 May 1896 - 21 September 1982) was an American businessman. Early life Woldenberg was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of Jewish immigrants from Europe. His family moved to the US when he was a child. Career He started working as one of the Canadian distillers Seagram's first employees in the US. In the course of his work, he met Newman Goldring, and together they moved to New Orleans in 1941 to start a wholesale liquor business. In 1944, Woldenberg founded the Magnolia Marketing Company with Goldring and his son Stephen Goldring, his long-time business partners. It later became Republic National Distributing Company, and is today known as the Sazerac Company. Woldenberg was an active civic leader in New Orleans's Jewish community. Personal life He was married to Dorothy Woldenberg. Woldenberg is buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3 in New Orleans. Legacy The 14-acre Woldenberg Park in New Orleans is named in his honour, and contains a statue of ...
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Goldring / Woldenberg Institute Of Southern Jewish Life
Goldring may refer to: * Goldring (surname), a surname * USS ''Goldring'' (SS-360), a ''Balao''-class submarine * ''The Gold Ring''; A group (ring) of conspirators who manipulated the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869, aka Black Friday * Mount Goldring, Antarctica * Goldring or gold-ring, a former common name for the white crappie The white crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. Alternate common names for the species include goldring, silver perch, white perch and sac-a-lait. is named for the fish ... (''Pomoxis annularis'') * Goldring (audio company), an audio equipment manufacturing company * Goldring, a former name for lands near Rosemont in Helenton Loch, Symington, South Ayrshire, Scotland * Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport, at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada See also

* Gold ring (other) * Goldring danio, ''Danio tinwini'' * Golden Ring (other) * G ...
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Waldenberg
Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (; December 10, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was a rabbi, posek, and dayan in Jerusalem. He is known as a leading authority on medicine and Jewish law and referred to as the Tzitz Eliezer after his 21-volume halachic treatise covering a wide breadth of halacha, including Jewish medical ethics, and daily ritual issues from Shabbat to kashrut. Biography Waldenberg was born in Jerusalem in 1915 to Rabbi Yaakov Gedalya who immigrated from Kovno, Lithuania to Jerusalem, then in the Ottoman Empire, in the early 1900s. He studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and was a student of the rosh yeshiva, Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer. Waldenberg wrote his first book, ''Dvar Eliezer'', at age 19 in 1934. For many years, Waldenberg served as a community rabbi at a small synagogue on Jaffa Road adjacent to the Shaare Tzedek Hospital. Many doctors prayed at the synagogue and brought their questions to the rabbi. Waldenberg began to answer their questions about Jewish law and its ap ...
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