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Gertz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 1939), Mexican politician and lawyer * Alison Gertz (1966–1992), AIDS activist * Bill Gertz, (born 1952), American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times * Elmer Gertz (1906–2000), American lawyer, writer and civil rights activist * Irving Gertz (1915–2008), American composer * Jami Gertz (born 1965), American actress *Marc Gertz, American criminologist * Nurith Gertz (born 1940), Israel professor of Hebrew literature and film *Wanda Gertz (1896–1958), Polish army officer See also *Gertz (department store) Gertz was a New York-based department store, headquartered in Jamaica, Queens. Founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along with his five sons, the company was acquired by Allied Stores in 1941. Gertz had branch stores in Douglaston, Flushing, Gr ... * Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. * Gertze {{surname ...
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Alejandro Gertz Manero
Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and current Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of Vicente Fox's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico The State of Mexico ( es, Estado de México; ), officially just Mexico ( es, México), is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Commonly known as Edomex (from ) to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is .... Controversies * In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015. * He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra. * He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, Nu ...
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Alison Gertz
Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 – August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Early life Gertz was born in Manhattan and was raised in an apartment on Park Avenue. She was the only child of Jerrold Gertz, a real estate executive, and his wife Carol, the co-founder (with Adriana Mnuchin, wife of Robert Mnuchin) of a woman's clothing store chain, ''Tennis Lady''. She attended the Horace Mann School, and later studied art at Parsons The New School for Design. Diagnosis In summer 1988, Gertz developed a persistent fever and chronic diarrhea. She was hospitalized and underwent testing to determine the cause of her illness. Gertz was never tested for AIDS because doctors did not consider her to be in a "high-risk group" for the disease. Two weeks later, she developed pneumonia. A bronchoscopy revealed that Gertz had AIDS. Gertz later found out that she had contracted HIV from a 27-year-old man named Cort ...
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Bill Gertz
William D. Gertz (born March 28, 1952) is an American editor, columnist and reporter for ''The Washington Times''. He is the author of eight books and writes a weekly column on the Pentagon and national security issues called "Inside the Ring". During the administration of Bill Clinton, Gertz was known for his stories exposing government secrets. Biography Gertz was born on Long Island, New York. He has attended Washington College and George Washington University. He has also written for ''National Review'', ''The Weekly Standard'' and ''Air Force Magazine''. He has lectured on defense, national security, and media issues at the Defense Department’s National Security Leadership Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the FBI National Academy, the National Defense University, and the CIA. He has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He lives in Maryland. In 2008, Gertz was subpoenaed ...
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Elmer Gertz
Elmer Gertz (September 14, 1906 – April 27, 2000) was an American lawyer, writer, law professor, and civil rights activist. During his lengthy legal career he won some high-profile cases, most notably parole for notorious killer Nathan Leopold and the obscenity trial of Henry Miller's novel ''Tropic of Cancer'', a book published in France but banned in the United States because of its "candid sexuality" in describing the author's life in Paris. In addition to accounts of his cases and career, he also reviewed books and edited a collection of works by Frank Harris, whom he represented as literary agent for a while. He is best remembered in the legal world, however, for a case in which he was not an advocate but a plaintiff: '' Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.'', a libel action he brought against the John Birch Society in 1969 after it accused him of being part of a Communist conspiracy to discredit local police departments. He prevailed, but only after a 14-year battle that saw the cas ...
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Irving Gertz
Irving Gertz (May 19, 1915 – November 14, 2008) was an American composer recognized for his compositions for many fantasy and horror B-movies and TV series of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Gertz was born on May 19, 1915, in Providence, Rhode Island, and played the clarinet, piano, string bass and tuba as a youth, and attended the Providence College of Music. Gertz studied composition privately with composer and music theorist Walter Piston. He was hired by Columbia Pictures in 1938, but left to serve in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. After his military service, he studied with composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Filmography Amongst his most recognized works are the music for the westerns ''Top Gun'' (1955) and ''Badman's Country'' (1958), and many horror films (often uncredited), such as ''The Alligator People'' (1959), ''Curse of the Undead'' (1959) and ''The Leech Woman'' (1960). His later film scores included '' Hell Bent for Leather'' (1960), '' ...
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Jami Gertz
Jami Beth Gertz (born October 28, 1965) is an American actress. Gertz is known for her early roles in the films ''Crossroads'', ''The Lost Boys'', '' Less than Zero'' and '' Quicksilver'', the 1980s TV series ''Square Pegs'' and 1996's ''Twister'', as well as for her roles as Judy Miller in the CBS sitcom '' Still Standing'' and as Debbie Weaver in the ABC sitcom '' The Neighbors''. Along with husband Tony Ressler, she is a part-owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Early life Gertz was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lived in the suburb of Glenview. She attended public schools, graduating from Maine East High School. Her parents are Sharyn and Walter Gertz, who was a builder and contractor, and she has two brothers, Michael and Scott. Gertz, who is Jewish, was raised in Conservative Judaism. Career She was discovered in a nationwide talent search by Norman Lear and studied drama at NYU. As a child actor, Gertz was in one episode of ''Diff'rent St ...
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Marc Gertz
Marc G. Gertz is an American criminologist and professor at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research includes an influential 1995 survey he conducted with his Florida State University colleague, Gary Kleck, on the frequency of defensive gun use. He has also researched the arrest rate among National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major ... players relative to the general population, as well as the relationship between the number of penalties these players receive during games and the number of times those players are arrested. References External linksGertz's faculty page
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Nurith Gertz
Nurith Gertz ( he, נורית גרץ, born 1940) is an Israeli Professor Emerita of Hebrew literature and film at The Open University of Israel. She served as head of the theoretical track at the Department of Film and Television, at Tel Aviv University, and heads the Department of Culture and Production at Sapir College. Biography Nurith Gertz was born in Jerusalem and attended Hebrew Gymnasium and the Kanot Agricultural School. In 1969 she received a B.A. in Literature and Political Science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and in 1973 an M.A. in Poetics and Comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University. She received a doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1979; her dissertation engaged with the topic ‘Generation Shift in Literary History: The Generation of the Sixties in Hebrew-Narrative Prose’, supervised by Prof. Benjamin Hrushovski (Harshav). Gertz married Israeli author Amos Kenan, with whom she has two daughters, journalist Shlomzion Kenan and poet and songwrite ...
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Wanda Gertz
Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz". She subsequently served in the Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet (Women's Voluntary Legion) of the Polish Armed Forces during the Polish–Soviet War. In the interwar period she became a reserve officer but faced discrimination and was stripped of her officer rank. She worked closely with Marshal Piłsudski and remained an activist in the cause of women in the military. With the outbreak of World War II her experience and skills in Special operations were ultimately recognised by military men and having joined the resistance in 1939 under codename, "Lena", she became an officer and commander of an all-female battalion in the Home Army. She was awarded the highest Polish military honours, a singular rarity for any woman of her generation to achieve. Early ...
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Gertz (department Store)
Gertz was a New York-based department store, headquartered in Jamaica, Queens. Founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along with his five sons, the company was acquired by Allied Stores in 1941. Gertz had branch stores in Douglaston, Flushing, Great Neck, Hicksville, Massapequa, Bay Shore, Lake Grove, and East Hampton. The 300,000 square foot Hicksville location was opened in 1956 in the Mid-Island Plaza, known today as Broadway Commons; that store would eventually become Sterns in 1983, followed by Macy's in 2001. Currently the building is vacant as of Macy's closing in the spring of 2020. In 1981, Gertz opened at two former Korvette's locations in Douglaston and Lake Grove, but that year, changing demographics caused the company's first store closure, its flagship Jamaica location. Later, the Bay Shore location was converted to a Stern's and then a Macy's. After Macy's closed the location, the building was demolished and a Lowe's Lowe's Companies, Inc. (), often shor ...
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Gertz V
Gertz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 1939), Mexican politician and lawyer * Alison Gertz (1966–1992), AIDS activist * Bill Gertz, (born 1952), American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times * Elmer Gertz (1906–2000), American lawyer, writer and civil rights activist * Irving Gertz (1915–2008), American composer * Jami Gertz (born 1965), American actress *Marc Gertz, American criminologist * Nurith Gertz (born 1940), Israel professor of Hebrew literature and film *Wanda Gertz (1896–1958), Polish army officer See also *Gertz (department store) Gertz was a New York-based department store, headquartered in Jamaica, Queens. Founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along with his five sons, the company was acquired by Allied Stores in 1941. Gertz had branch stores in Douglaston, Flushing, Gr ... * Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. * Gertze {{surname ...
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