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Orenstein
There are several notable people with the surname Orenstein. * Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein, South African medical scientist and army general * Henry Orenstein, American poker player and entrepreneur * Henry Orenstein (painter), Canadian artist * Howard Orenstein, American lawyer and politician * Joan Orenstein, Canadian actress * Leo Orenstein, Canadian television producer and director * Peggy Orenstein, American writer * Toby Orenstein, an American theatrical director, producer, and educator * Walter Orenstein, American vaccinologist * Zigu Ornea (born ''Orenstein'' or ''Ornstein''), Romanian cultural historian See also * Orenstein and Koppel * Ornstein {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein
Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein (26 September 18797 July 1972) was a Russian-born naturalized American general and military doctor. Orenstein worked in the Panama Canal Zone and South Africa, on the eradication and treatment of tropical disease, and founded a series of lectures which bears his name. Life Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein was born in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire in 1879 to Joseph Orenstein and his wife Mary (née Jarkowsky). He became a naturalized US citizen in 1905, and two years later he married Marie G. Sabsevich in New York. In the years 190512 Orenstein worked with William C. Gorgas, General Gorgas in the Panama Canal Zone, where he assisted in the eradication of malaria and yellow fever during the building of the Panama Canal. In 1913 he was invited by Gorgas to work in German East Africa, and the next year, also with Gorgas, he worked in Johannesburg for Witwatersrand, Rand Mines Ltd. to reduce the high incidence of pneumonia and tuberculosis am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Orenstein
Henry Orenstein (born Henryk Orenstein; October 13, 1923 – December 14, 2021) was a Polish-born Jewish-American toymaker, professional poker player, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor who resided in Verona, New Jersey. A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and death camps, he immigrated to the United States as a refugee after the war, and later held more than 100 patents, including for the Transformers toyline. He made his fortune as a toy designer and manufacturer, and was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. His family includes his niece Lili Bosse, noted philanthropist and mayor of Beverly Hills, California. Orenstein played poker professionally in the US. In 2008, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame because of his consistent record and winnings. Early life Henryk Orenstein was born in October 1923, in Hrubieszów, Poland, to a Jewish family. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a grain exporter. Because he was Jewish, he was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Orenstein (painter)
Henry Orenstein (January 13, 1918 – August 8, 2008) was a Canadian artist, animator, activist, teacher, soldier and pacifist. He was best known for his contributions to the art world and for his art work - he specialized in easel paintings and murals. His work is displayed in private and public collections across Canada, most notably in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Art Gallery of Sudbury. Early life and family Orenstein was born into a Jewish family in Midland, Ontario, but later raised in Toronto. This is where he developed his lifelong interest in politics and human rights. In his youth, Orenstein fought as a foot soldier in the Second World War, an experience that led him to be a lifelong pacifist. It was during the war that he met and married his wife Joan Orenstein, a noted Canadian actress; he had five daughters: Jill, Edie, Ruth, Cia, and Sarah. His youngest child, Sarah, is a Dora Award recipient for her portrayal of a sharp-tongued feminist filmmaker in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Orenstein
Howard R. Orenstein (born November 11, 1955) was an American politician and lawyer. Orenstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University in 1978 and his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1982. Orenstein lived with his wife and family in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He practiced law in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was an assistant county attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Orenstein served in the Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the U.S. state of Minnesota's Minnesota Legislature, legislature. It operates in conjunction with the Minnesota Senate, the state's upper chamber, to write and pass legislation, whic ... from 1987 to 1996 and was a Democrat. References 1955 births Living people Minnesota lawyers Politicians from Saint Paul, Minnesota Lawyers from St. Louis Politicians from St. Louis Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Orenstein
Joan Orenstein (December 4, 1923 – October 10, 2009) was a British-born Canadian actress, primarily on stage, although she performed in other media. One of her best-known roles was in the 1997 film '' The Hanging Garden'' as the dotty old grandmother, Grace. Acting career Joan Travell was born in 1923 in London, and emigrated to Canada in the 1940s after World War II. ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia''. She acted across Canada but mostly acted for Halifax's Neptune Theatre. She also performed lead roles on most of the major Canadian stages, including the Centaur Theatre, the National Arts Centre, the Belfry Theatre, the Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, the Shaw Festival, the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Orenstein
Leo Alan Orenstein (24 July 1919 – 5 February 2009) was a Canadian director, producer and writer who worked primarily in television and theatre. At CBC Television alone, he was director or producer in over 150 works there, many of which were adaptations of works by such authors as Chekhov, Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw and Ionesco. Career Orenstein was born in Montreal, Quebec, to parents Max and Minnie Orenstein and moved to Toronto in childhood. After graduating from Central Technical School, he studied at New York City's American Artists School on a scholarship during which time he wrote for the '' Columbia Workshop'' radio series. During a second stint in New York, Orenstein wrote for The Skeptics, a nightclub group. Otherwise, his career was generally based in Toronto. He wrote and produced ''The Big Leap'', a theatre play which opened in 1952 at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre. The production was adapted for CBC Television in 1953, and its later reprise at the Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Orenstein
Peggy Orenstein (born November 22, 1961) is the author of the ''New York Times'' bestsellers ''Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex,'' ''Cinderella Ate My Daughter'' and ''Waiting for Daisy,'' as well as ''Unraveling'', ''Don’t Call Me Princess'', ''Flux'', and the classic ''Schoolgirls''. Her TED talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over 6.2 million times on the TED site and YouTube. A frequent contributor to ''The New York Times'', she was named in 2012 by '' The Columbia Journalism Review'' as one of its "40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years.” She is Jewish. Writing In books and magazine articles Orenstein writes about the politics of everyday life, usually relating to gender. Her book ''Schoolgirls'' discussed educational inequity. In ''Flux'' she explored the life choices of a generation of ethnically diverse, middle class women in their mid-20s to mid-40s. ''Waiting for Daisy'' was her memoir of inferti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Orenstein
Toby Barbara Orenstein (née Press; born May 23, 1937) is an American theatrical director, producer, and educator. She has two honorable mentions for the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre. Orenstein was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2008. Selected by Eleanor Roosevelt for her federal education project in the Harlem, Orenstein taught Dramaturgy to students in a local public school in the late 1950s. In 1972, at the request of pioneering businessman and philanthropist James Rouse, Orenstein founded the non-profit Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts through which, the nationally acclaimed theatre troupe the Young Columbians was created for the United States Bicentennial. Later, Orenstein established the award-winning Toby's Dinner Theatre in 1979. Alongside her work in theatre, Orenstein is a community and social activist, and is the president of the board of directors for the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts. She raises funds for scholarships and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |