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Horovitz
Horovitz is one of the variants of a surname originating in the Jewish community of Bohemia – bearers of that surname apparently migrated in the middle ages from a small town Hořovice in Bohemia (today the Czech Republic). For detailed historical background see the Horowitz page. It can also be a non-Jewish surname as well. It may refer to: *Ad-Rock (born 1966), stage name of Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys *Adam Horovitz (poet) (born 1971), British poet * Béla Horovitz (1898–1955), Hungarian-born British publisher *David Horovitz (born 1962), an author and political commentator (cousin of Alex Horovitz) *Frances Horovitz (1938–1983) English poet and broadcaster *Gillian Horovitz (born 1955), English long-distance runner * Hannah Horovitz (1936–2010), British classical music promoter *Israel Horovitz (1939–2020), American playwright and screenwriter *Joseph Horovitz (1926–2022), Austrian-English composer *Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), English poet * Robert Horovitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Horovitz
Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz (4 April 1935 – 7 July 2021) was a German-born British poet, editor, visual artist and translator who was a leading part of the Beat Poetry scene in the UK. In 1959, while still a student, he founded the "trail-blazing" literary periodical ''New Departures'', publishing experimental poetry, including the work of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and many other American and British beat poets. Horovitz read his own work at the 1965 landmark International Poetry Incarnation, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, deemed to have spawned the British underground scene, when an audience of more than 6,000 came to hear readings by the likes of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Characterised as an early champion of oral and jazz poetry, Horovitz in the following decades organised many "Live New Departures" events featuring poetry and jazz performances by a range of writers and musicians, including Adrian Mitchell and Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after ''The New York Times'' reported allegations of sexual misconduct. Early life and career Horovitz was born to a Jewish family in Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offer ..., the son of Hazel Rose (née Solberg) and Julius Charles Horovitz, a lawyer. At age 13, he wrote his first novel, which was rejected by Simon & Schuster but complimented for its "wonderful, childlike qualities." At age 17, he wrote his first play, entitled ''The Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Horovitz
Joseph Horovitz (26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata '' Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo'', which achieved widespread popularity in schools. Horovitz also composed music for television, including the theme music for the Thames Television series ''Rumpole of the Bailey'', and was a prolific composer of ballet, orchestral (including nine concertos), wind band and chamber music. He considered the fifth string quartet (1969) to be his best work. Biography Horovitz was born in Vienna, Austria, into a Jewish family who emigrated to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. His father was the publisher Béla Horovitz, the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press. His sister was the classical music promoter Hannah Horovitz (1936-2010). After completing his schooling at The City of Oxford High School Horovitz studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, where his teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Horovitz
David Horovitz ( he, דוד הוֹרוֹויץ; born 12 August 1962) is a British-born State of Israel, Israeli journalist, author and speaker. He is the founding editor of ''The Times of Israel'', a current affairs website based in Jerusalem that launched in February 2012. Previously, he had been the editor-in-chief of ''The Jerusalem Post'' and ''The Jerusalem Report''. Biography David Horovitz was born in London. He is the great-grandson of Rabbi Márkus Horovitz. Horovitz aliyah, immigrated to Israel in 1983. He served in the Education and Youth Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces. He and his wife Lisa have three children. Journalism career David Horovitz worked for the ''Post'' from 1983 to 1990. He then worked at ''The Jerusalem Report'', where he was the editor from 1998 and publisher from 2001. In October 2004, Horovitz rejoined the ''Post'' as editor-in-chief. David announced he was leaving ''The Jerusalem Post'' in a postscript to his final editor's notes column on F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ad-Rock
Adam Keefe Horovitz (born October 31, 1966), popularly known as Ad-Rock, is an American rapper, guitarist and actor. He was a member of the hip-hop group Beastie Boys. While Beastie Boys were active, Horovitz performed with a side project, BS 2000. After the group disbanded in 2012 following the death of member Adam Yauch, Horovitz has participated in a number of Beastie Boys-related projects, worked as a remixer, producer, and guest musician for other artists, and has acted in a number of films. Early life and education Horovitz was born and raised on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York, the son of Doris (''née'' Keefe) and playwright Israel Horovitz. His sister is film producer Rachael Horovitz. His father was Jewish, whereas his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Roman Catholic. He had a secular upbringing. Career Horovitz began his music career with a stint in the punk rock band The Young and the Useless, who often performed with Beastie Boys. In 1982, Beastie Boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Horovitz
Frances Margaret Horovitz ( Hooker; 13 February 1938 – 2 October 1983) was an English poet and broadcaster. Life and work Frances Margaret Hooker (who adopted and wrote under the surname of her first husband, Michael Horovitz) was born in Walthamstow, London, in 1938 but moved with her family to Nottingham in 1942 when her father was appointed manager of a munitions factory there. In 1947 they returned to London and Frances attended Walthamstow School for Girls. She went on to Bristol University to study English and Drama and then to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. As a reader and presenter for the BBC, she acquired a reputation for care of preparation and quality of delivery. Her poetry has been described as "not that of the 'age' but of the earth" by Anne Stevenson. However, according to Peter Levi, such is her economy of means in the poems "that one runs the risk of not noticing how effective they are"; the effect of her writing is cumulative and "adds up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Horovitz (poet)
Adam Horovitz (born 1971) is a British poet. He is the son of the poets Michael Horovitz and Frances Horovitz. Biography Born in London in 1971, he moved with his parents to Stroud, Gloucestershire, the same year. He has been active as a poet since the 1990s but has been writing since childhood. He released his first pamphlet, ''Next Year in Jerusalem'', in 2004 and a second, ''The Great Unlearning'', in 2009. He was the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival's official website in 2009 and was voted onto the Hospital Club 100 in 2010 as an emerging talent. He was the poet in residence for the county of Herefordshire between 2015 and 2016 and for the Pasture-fed Livestock Association from 2016 to 2017. His debut collection, ''Turning'', was released by Headland in 2011. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2012. His second book, released by the History Press in June 2014 to coincide with the Laurie Lee centenary celebrations, was ''A Thousand Laurie Lees'', which dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Horovitz
Béla Horovitz (8 April 1898 – 8 March 1955) was a Hungarian-born British publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press. Bela Horovitz was born in Budapest. He was the co-founder in Vienna in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider and Frederick "Fritz" Ungar, of the publishing house Phaidon Verlag. In 1938, following the rise of the Nazis, Horovitz and his wife, Lotte, and their children moved to London. Phaidon Verlag was re-established there as Phaidon Press. Their youngest child was the classical music promoter Hannah Horovitz. Their son Joseph Horovitz Joseph Horovitz (26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata '' Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo'', which achieved widespread popularity in schools. Horovitz also comp ... was a composer and conductor. In 1949, their daughter Elly married Harvey Miller, who joined Phaidon Press, and after Horovitz's death in 1955, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Horovitz
Hannah Horovitz (21 October 1936 – 4 March 2010) was a British classical music promoter. Hannah Horovitz was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter and youngest child of the publisher Béla Horovitz and his wife Lotte. Her brother Joseph Horovitz was a composer and conductor. Her father had co-founded Phaidon Press in Vienna in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, but with the rise of Nazism, they moved to London in 1938. She started Hannah Horovitz Management in 1971, and her clients included the pianists András Schiff, Craig Sheppard and Ilana Vered, the Cleveland Quartet and the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century." Biography Ea .... References 1936 births 2010 deaths Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss Music p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Horovitz
Gillian Pamela Horovitz (née Adams) (born 7 June 1955 in Bromley, Kent) is an English female retired long-distance runner. Athletics career She competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the women's marathon (sport), marathon and won the 1980 Paris Marathon. She represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, England in the marathon, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Personal life Born as Gillian Adams she was married to American screenwriter Israel Horovitz, author of more than 50 produced plays. Achievements References athlinks 1955 births Living people British female long-distance runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horowitz
Horowitz ( he, הוֹרוֹביץ, yi, האָראָװיץ) is a Levitical Ashkenazi surname deriving from the Horowitz family, though it can also be a non Jewish surname as well. The name is derived from the town of Hořovice, Bohemia. Other variants of the name include Harowitz, Harrwitz, Harwitz, Horovitz, Horvitz, Horwicz, Horwitz, Hourwitz, Hurewicz, Hurwicz, Hurwitz, Gerovich, Gurovich, Gurevich, Gurvich, Gourevitch, Orowitz and Urwitz. List of people with the surname Horowitz Rabbis * Aaron HaLevi ben Moses of Staroselye *Isaiah Horowitz, Prague-born rabbi of Germany, Austria, Prague and Palestine, Kabbalist, and author, 1555–1630 *Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, Bostoner rabbi, 1921–2009 *Mayer Alter Horowitz (born 1946), Bostoner rabbi in Har Nof *Moses ha-Levi Hurwitz (d. 1820), Lithuanian rabbi * Moshe Meshullam Halevy Horowitz (1832–1894), Galician rabbi *Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner rabbi of Boston *Pinchas Horowitz (c.1731–1805), German rabbi and Talmudist *Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horvitz
Horvitz is one of the variants of an Ashkenazi Jewish surname (for historical background see the Horowitz page). It is also a non Jewish surname as well. It may refer to: * Daniel G. Horvitz (1921-2008), statistician *David Horvitz (born ca 1982), artist *H. Robert Horvitz (born 1947), biologist known for his work on c. elegans *Richard Horvitz (born 1966), actor, voice actor, and comedian *Wayne Horvitz (born 1955), composer and keyboardist * Wayne L. Horvitz (1920-2009), labor negotiator See also *Horowitz *Horovitz *Horwitz *Hurwitz Hurwitz is one of the variants of a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin (for historical background see the Horowitz page). Notable people with the surname include: *Adolf Hurwitz (1859–1919), German mathematician ** Hurwitz polynomial **Hurwitz m ... {{surname Jewish surnames Surnames of Czech origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
