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Spira (family Name)
Spira is a surname with a variety of origins. In Germany, the surname Spira is a form of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland. The surname found particular historical significance among the Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe, with many notable Rabbis claiming this name. The Spira family directly descends from 11th century rabbi Rashi, and therefore is in the Davidic line. Additionally, the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hassidic Judaism, is said to have claimed that the Spira family is one of three pure lineages of among the Jewish nation (being Israelites), the others being the Horowitz family (who are Levites) and the Rappaport family (who are Kohanim).Dynner, Glenn (1997).Yikhus and the Early Hasidic Movement (PDF). Department of Jewish Studies at McGiII University. Other forms of the name include Spiro, Shapira, and Shapiro. Notable people with this name include: Surname * Camilla Spira (1906–1997), German film actress * Chaim Elazar Spira (1868–193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lies south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans as a fortified town on the northeast frontiers of their Roman Empire, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. Speyer Cathedral, a number of other churches, and the ("old gate") dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman Emperors and List of German monarchs, German kings. The city is famous for the 1529 Protestation at Speyer. One of the ShUM-cities which formed the cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages, Medieval / Middle Ages, Speyer and its Jewish courtyard, Speyer, Jewish courtyard was inscribed on the UNESCO (United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Spira
Elijah Spira (1660–1712) (alternatively, "Shapira" or "Shapiro", Hebrew: אליהו שפירא) was son of Benjamin Wolf Spira. He was a brother-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Reischer, Rabbi David Oppenheim and a student of Rabbi Avraham Gombiner. He was rabbi at Tiktin, and afterward preacher and director of a large Talmudic academy in his hometown of Prague. He died at Prague April 14, 1712. His works include ''Eliyahu Zutta'', a commentary on that part of Mordecai Yoffe's ''Levush'' relating to the ''Shulhan Arukh'', ''Orach Chaim'' (Prague, 1689, 1701). His best-known work was Eliyahu Rabbah' (Sulzbach, 1757), containing discussions on ''Orach Chaim''. It was printed posthumously by his son, whose name is not given. Originally intended as a commentary on the ''Levush'' (like Eliyahu Zutta), it was printed as commentary on the Shulchan Aruch and became known as such. ''Shishah Shittot,'' containing novellæ on six Talmudic tractates, was published by his grandson Elijah ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Nata Spira
Nathan Nata Spira (; 1585 – 20 July 1633) was a Polish rabbi and kabbalist, who served as Chief Rabbi of Kraków. A student of Meir Lublin, Spira played an important role in spreading Isaac Luria's teachings throughout Poland. Spira was the author of a number of works, most notably the ''Megaleh Amukot''. Biography Spira descended from a rabbinical family, which traced its lineage as far back to Rashi, the noted 11th-century French commentator. He was named after his grandfather Nathan Nata Spira, who was rabbi in Hrodna Grodno, or Hrodna, is a city in western Belarus. It is one of the oldest cities in Belarus. The city is located on the Neman River, from Minsk, about from the border with Poland, and from the border with Lithuania. Grodno serves as the ad ... and author of ''Mevo Shearim'' (1575) and ''Imrei shefer'' (1597). His father was Solomon Spira. Spira had seven children, three sons and four daughters. While serving as Chief Rabbi of Kraków, Spi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spira
Dr Michael Spira (born 24 April 1944) is a British medical doctor and GP with a special interest in weight management. Career Spira was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham. After training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he entered general practice and became a senior partner in a large NHS The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ... general practice. He was also a visiting physician at Bupa Wellness, London. He was a member of the Counterweight Project, the government-funded multi-centre obesity programme to evaluate the management of obesity in primary care, and of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Working Party on Obesity. He is a member of the National Obesity Forum. He has been adviser to several leading slimming organisations and publications and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Spira
Lotte Spira (; 24 April 1883 – 17 December 1943) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in supporting roles in around seventy films. She was married to the Austrian actor Fritz Spira in 1905. In 1934 she divorced her Jewish husband under duress from the Nazi authorities. During the Second World War she signed a statement swearing Spira was not the real father of her daughter Camilla Spira, who was being held at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.Baer p. 118 Shortly after Lotte Spira received news of her ex-husband's death in a concentration camp in Yugoslavia, she died of natural causes, aged 60. Her other daughter Steffie Spira, also an actress, managed to escape into exile. Selected filmography * ''Hallig Hooge'' (1923) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * '' Waltz of Love'' (1930) * '' Love's Carnival'' (1930) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1931) * '' Impossible Love'' (1932) * ''Scandal in Budapest'' (1933) * '' The Lost Valley'' (1934) * '' Hermine and the Seven Up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Spira
Julie Spira is an author and media personality on the subjects of online dating, social media, mobile dating, and netiquette. She wrote ''The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online''. Spira has written about the intersection of love and technology for numerous publications. Early life Spira was raised in Glen Rock, New Jersey and attended Glen Rock High School. She graduated from the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where she received a B.S. in Television-Radio. Career Broadcasting and technology While attending Ithaca College, Spira, then known as Julie Evans, became the first female on-air personality and voice-over talent at WAAL-FM in Binghamton, NY. Spira's digital career began when she worked for RKO Radio Networks as manager, Affiliate Relations in New York City. She relocated to Los Angeles, where she opened the west coast Affiliate office for RKO and was promoted to Director, Affiliate Rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Spira
Jonathan B. Spira (born 1961) is a researcher and industry analyst known for his work in the area of collaboration and knowledge sharing and the problem of information overload. Early life Spira was born in New York and grew up in New York City and Vienna, the son of photographic pioneer Fred Spira and his wife Marilyn (née Hacker). He studied Central European History at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and conducted his graduate studies at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität) Career Spira began his career in business and technology while still in high school when he became involved in the management of office systems at Spiratone, a company founded and run by his father, Fred Spira. After completing his studies in 1983, he founded a research and IT advisory firm, Basex (originally called The Basex Group) in 1983, that focused on helping organizations understand how knowledge workers work and what they c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Spira (businessman)
Joel Solon Spira (March 1, 1927 – April 8, 2015) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business magnate. He invented a version of the light-dimmer switch for use in homes around the United States and led his Lutron Electronics Company into the production of lighting controllers. Early life and education Spira was born in New York City in 1927 to a Jewish family. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1948 and later sponsored, along with his wife, The Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Teaching at Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering. Career In the 1950s, Spira worked for an aerospace company, where he was assigned to develop a reliable trigger for atomic weapons. Suggested by others at the laboratory, he used designs based on the thyristor, a solid-state semiconductor switch. During his research, he recognized that the device could also be employed to vary the intensity of light pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Spira
Joel Boris Spira (born 18 July 1981) is a Swedish film, television, and theatre actor. Personal While studying biology at the Stockholm University Spira decided to give acting a chance. After just spending one semester at Spegelteatern in Stockholm he applied to the well respected Malmö Theatre Academy where he got immediately accepted. He graduated in 2007. Career Theatre Spira has since graduating from Malmö Theatre Academy appeared in several plays. He played Mowgli in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book at Länsteatern in Västerås, Sweden. He later appeared in Lejonets unge at Länsteaten in Örebro. He is since 2009 part of the cast of The Brothers Lionheart at the Stockholm City Theatre where he plays the secondary lead character Jonathan. Film Spira made his movie debut in the 2009 short film ''Travemünde Trelleborg''. His first appearance in a feature film was in the 2010 movie ''Snabba cash'' (English translation "Easy Money") by Swedish director Daniel Espinos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Spira
Howard Spira (born 1959) is an American gambler who was central to Fay Vincent's decision to ban George Steinbrenner from baseball during the 1990s. In 1991 he was convicted of trying to extort $110,000 from Steinbrenner and spent over two years in prison. Early life and education Howard Spira was born in 1959 in the Bronx to poor parents. Spira attended New York University, studying broadcast journalism, but dropped out in 1980. FBI informant During the 1980s, Spira was an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation against the Five Families. Steinbrenner and Winfield In the late 1980s Spira, working as an unpaid publicist for Dave Winfield's foundation was in debt and contacted Steinbrenner, who was in a conflict with Winfield over payments to Winfield's charitable foundation. Spira offered to provide proof Winfield was misusing charitable funds in exchange for Steinbrenner paying him $150,000, giving him a job, and providing him a room in a hotel owned by Joan Steinbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Spira
Henry Spira (19 June 1927 – 12 September 1998) was an American activist for socialism and animal rights, who is regarded by some as one of the most effective animal advocates of the 20th century.Singer, in Spira and Singer 2006, pp. 214–215. Working with Animal Rights International, a group he founded in 1974, Spira is particularly remembered for his successful campaign in 1976 against animal testing at the American Museum of Natural History, where cats were being experimented on for sex research, and for his full-page advertisement in 1980 in ''The New York Times'' that featured a rabbit with sticking plaster over the eyes, and the caption, "How many rabbits does Revlon blind for beauty's sake?" Life and work Early life Spira was born in Antwerp, Belgium, to Maurice Spira and Margit Spitzer Spira. Maurice and his father had worked in the diamond trade; his mother's father, in Hungary, had risen to become chief rabbi of Hamburg. The family was comfortable financially; Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Spira
Harold Roger "Harry" Spira BVSc MRCVS MACVSc HDA (21 June 1923 – 17 October 1991) was an Australian veterinarian, geneticist and dog fancier who was instrumental in the development of dog breeding programs which used artificial insemination and frozen semen. Born in Vienna, Austria, he became an author and respected dog-show judge, he was active in the Australian National Kennel Club and proposed an alternative system of dog breed grouping. Career Among his myriad activities, Spira participated in the promotion of the Afghan Hound in Australia and was an outspoken opponent of breed-specific legislation against the German Shepherd The German Shepherd, also known in Britain as an Alsatian, is a German Dog breed, breed of working dog of medium to large size. The breed was developed by Max von Stephanitz using various Old German herding dogs, traditional German herding dog ... dog. His book ''Canine Terminology'', which has come to be considered a standard text on the subj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
