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Kushner
The surname Kushner is an English-based transliteration of the Yiddish name קושנער, a variant of קושניר ( Kushnir), an occupational name stemming from קירזשנער (kirzshner), a furrier. This is related to the German word Kürschner and the Ukrainian word ''кушнір'' (kushnir), with the same meaning. People Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Kushner, Russian poet * Bernard Kouchner, French politician and physician * Boris Kushner, mathematician, poet, and essayist * Burton J. Kushner, ophthalmologist * Dave Kushner, U.S. guitarist * David Kushner, writer * David Howard Kushner, American gynecologist-obstetrician and infertility specialist * Donald Kushner, American film producer * Ellen Kushner, U.S. fantasy author * Eva Kushner, Canadian scholar * Eva Bella Kushner, American child actress and voice actress * Harold (Samuel) Kushner, Conservative rabbi and author * Harold J. Kushner, U.S. applied mathematics professor at Brown Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Kushner
Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He served as a senior advisor to 45th U.S. president Donald Trump, his father-in-law. Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm that derives investment from, among other sources, the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund. Kushner is the son of the former real-estate developer Charles Kushner and is married to businesswoman Ivanka Trump, former President Trump's daughter and fellow advisor. As a result of his father's conviction and incarceration for fraud, he took over management of his father's real estate company Kushner Companies, which launched his business career. He later also bought Observer Media, publisher of the ''New York Observer''. He is the co-founder and part owner of Cadre, an online real-estate investment platform. He is also the co-founder of WiredScore, a company that rates the quality and resilience of digital infrastructur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Kushner
Joshua Kushner (born June 12, 1985) is an American billionaire businessman, heir and investor. He is the founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital, co-founder of Oscar Health, and the son of billionaire real estate developer Charles Kushner. His brother is Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and former senior advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump. He is a minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. Early life Kushner grew up in a American Jews, Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey to Charles Kushner, Charles and Sheryl Kushner. Kushner graduated from Harvard College in 2008, and from Harvard Business School in 2011. Career Early career During his sophomore year, Kushner was founding executive editor of ''Scene'', a new Brooks Brothers-sponsored student-publication that aimed to be "Harvard University, Harvard's version of ''Vogue'' and ''Vanity Fair''". According to ''The Harvard Crimson'', ''Scene'' "faced blistering criticism upon its release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work ''Angels in America'' which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' and '' Angels in America: Perestroika''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical ''Caroline, or Change'' which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. He has collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivanka Trump Kushner
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (; born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman and the first daughter of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. She was a senior advisor in his administration, and also was the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. She is the daughter of Trump's first wife, Ivana, and is the first Jewish member of an American first family, having converted before marrying her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner. She was an executive vice president of the family-owned Trump Organization. She was also a boardroom judge on her father's TV show, ''The Apprentice''. Starting in March 2017, Trump left the Trump Organization to become a senior adviser in her father's presidential administration alongside Jared Kushner. After ethics concerns were raised about her having access to classified material while not being held to the same restrictions as a federal employee, Trump agreed to voluntarily file " financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kushner Family
The Kushner family is an American family involved in real estate development. The family originated from Novogrudok, Second Polish Republic, Poland, and is based in the New York metropolitan area. After surviving the Holocaust and settling in the United States, Joseph Kushner developed a portfolio of 4,000 apartments. He left the business to his sons, Murray Kushner, Murray and Charles Kushner, who worked together before having a falling out over business and personal matters. Charles owns Kushner Companies and Murray owns the Kushner Real Estate Group. The net worth of Charles' family has been estimated at over $1 billion. Jared Kushner, Charles' son, was Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, senior advisor to President of the United States, President Donald Trump. Family history First generation Rae Kushner was born in 1923 to a Jewish family in Novogrudok, Second Polish Republic, Poland. Her father, a furrier, owned two stores and the family lived comforta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is an American real estate developer, former federal inmate, and disbarred former attorney. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2005, he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering and was sentenced to two years imprisonment, which he served in the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. As a convicted felon he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a federal pardon issued by President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020. His son Jared Kushner is the husband of Ivanka Trump and son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, during whose presidential administration he served as senior advisor from 2017 to 2021. He has 3 other children including Joshua Kushner and he is the father-in-law of Karlie Kloss. Early life Charles Kushner was born on May 16, 1954, to Joseph Berkowitz and Rae Kushner, Jewish Holocaust survivors born in eastern Poland who came to America from the USSR in 1949. At birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner (born 1968) is an American writer, known for her novels ''Telex from Cuba'' (2008), ''The Flamethrowers'' (2013), and '' The Mars Room'' (2018). Early life Kushner was born in Eugene, Oregon, the daughter of two Communist scientists, one Jewish and one Unitarian, whom she has called "deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation." Her mother arranged after-school work for her straightening and alphabetizing books at a feminist bookstore when she was 5 years old, and Kushner says "it was instilled in me that I was going to be a writer of some kind from a young age." Kushner moved with her family to San Francisco in 1979. When she was 16, she began her bachelor's degree in political economy at the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis on United States foreign policy in Latin America. Kushner lived as an exchange student in Italy when she was 18; upon completing her Bachelor of Arts, she lived in San Francisco, working at nightclubs. At 26, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Kushner
David Kushner (born November 16, 1966) is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro's solo band, Sugartooth, Zilch while he has also recorded with Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko and more recently collaborated with Scars on Broadway guitarist Franky Perez releasing songs under the pseudonym of DKFXP, a combination of the initials of Perez and Kushner, as well as working with Indian singer and actress Shruti Haasan. Kushner has also been writing and composing music for films and television, most notable the theme for FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'', titled "This Life", where he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2009 while in 2010 he received an ASCAP Award for the theme. He collaborated with composer John O'Brien on the music for the movies ''Four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Kushner
Murray Kushner is an American real estate developer. Early life Kushner's parents, Joseph Kushner and Rae Kushner were Jews born in eastern Poland and Holocaust survivors, who came to America from the USSR by way of Italy in 1949. His father worked as a construction worker and concurrently as an independent builder, while investing in real estate, eventually building a portfolio totaling 4,000 New Jersey apartments.Elkies, Lauren (November 1, 2007)"The Closing: Charles Kushner". '' The Real Deal''. Retrieved September 28, 2011."Charles Kushner" ''Cityfile''. . Retrieved September 28, 2011. The |
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Kushner (born October 6, 1955) is an American writer of fantasy novels. From 1996 until 2010, she was the host of the radio program '' Sound & Spirit'', produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International. Background and personal life Kushner was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Barnard College. She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Delia Sherman. They held a wedding in 1996 and were legally married in Boston in 2004. Kushner identifies as bisexual. Career Kushner's first books were five Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks. During that period, she published her first novel, '' Swordspoint'' in 1987. A sequel set 18 years after ''Swordspoint'', called ''The Privilege of the Sword'', was published in July 2006, with a first hardcover edition published in late August 2006 by Small Beer Press. ''The Fall of the Kings'' (2002) (co-authored by Sherman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kushner (writer)
David Kushner is a writer who has contributed to many publications, including ''Wired'', ''The New York Times'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Spin'', ''IEEE Spectrum'' and '' Salon''. Career From 1994 to 1996, Kushner worked as a senior producer and writer on the SonicNet website. Works The first edition of Kushner’s non-fiction book, ''Masters of Doom'', was published in 2003. His second non-fiction book, '' Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids'', was published in 2005. Kushner's book, ''Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb'', was published in 2009. ''Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto'' In 2012, his narrative non-fiction book '' Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto'' was published. ''Jacked'' provided an inside look at the inner-workings of the video game company Rockstar Games, makers of the controversial ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, and attorney Jack Thompson's attempt to destroy it. The book serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Kushner
Marc Charles Kushner (born September 27, 1977) is an American architect, entrepreneur and author. He was a partner at the New York City based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and co-founded Architizer. Early life and education The son of Lee Kushner and real estate developer Murray Kushner, Marc Kushner was raised Modern Orthodox Jewish in Livingston, New Jersey. Kushner graduated from The Frisch School before attending the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science and Contemporary Vernacular Architecture as Cultural Artifact. Kushner then attended Harvard Graduate School of Design and received a Master of Architecture.New York Times: "A Kushne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
