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Ashkenazy
Ashkenazy is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the name include: * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Dimitri Ashkenazy, (born 1969), clarinetist * Severyn Ashkenazy (born 1936), American hotelier and philanthropist * Vladimir Ashkenazy, (born 1937), pianist and conductor * Vovka Ashkenazy, (born 1961), pianist and teacher Businesses * Ashkenazy Acquisition, a private real estate investment firm See also * Ashkenazi (surname) Ashkenazi is a surname of Jewish origin. It is most commonly found in countries with large Jewish populations such as the United States, Russia and Israel. The surname is sometimes spelled "Ashkenazy". People *Abraham Ashkenazi, 19th-century rab ... References {{surname Jewish surnames Surnames of Russian origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He is originally from Russia and has held Icelandic citizenship since 1972. He has lived in Switzerland since 1978. Ashkenazy has collaborated with well-known orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large repertoire of classical and romantic works. His recordings have earned him five Grammy awards and Iceland's Order of the Falcon. Early life Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), to pianist and composer David Ashkenazi and to actress Yevstolia Grigorievna (born Plotnova). His father was Jewish and his mother came from a Russian Orthodox family. Ashkenazy was christened in a Russian Orthodox church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Ashkenazy
Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69) is an American billionaire real estate developer. He is the founder, CEO, and majority owner of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, which has a $12 billion property portfolio. Early life Ashkenazy was born in Israel, and grew up in Lawrence, Long Island, New York, the son of Izzy Ashkenazy, also a real estate businessman. Career Ashkenazy bought his first property at the age of 18. He attended night classes at Adelphi University, but did not graduate. In 1987, he founded Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation. In 2013, his company bought London's Old Spitalfields Market, but later sold it. In July 2017, the company bought London's Grosvenor House Hotel for about $750 million. His company holds a long-term lease agreement with the City of Boston for Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, leases Washington DC's Union Station, and has a $70 million stake in New York's Plaza Hotel. In November 2019, his company purchased the 83,923-square-foot Ferndale S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Ashkenazy
Dimitri Thor Ashkenazy (born October 8, 1969 in New York City) is an Icelandic clarinetist living in Switzerland. He is the son of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and has toured Europe with him, as well as performing under him with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Biography Dimitri Ashkenazy was born into a musically successful family: he is the son of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and Þórunn Jóhannsdóttir, and his brother Vovka is also a professional pianist. In 1978 he moved with his parents from his native Iceland to Switzerland, where he has lived ever since. At the age of 9, he was involved in a waterskiing accident in Greece when one of his legs was slashed by the propeller of a speedboat, severing the sciatic nerve. He was brought to Sydney to Professor Earl Owen, a pioneer in microsurgery, to have the leg rebuilt. Ashkenazy received music lessons on the piano from the age of six, and at the age of 10 he switched to the clarinet. He won numerous pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Severyn Ashkenazy
Severyn Ashkenazy (born 1936) is a Polish-born American hotelier. Early life Severyn Ashkenazy was born in 1936 in Tarnopol, then part of Poland, now in Western Ukraine.The Prince of Barter : For hotel magnate and art collector Arnold Ashkenazy, every day's a high-stakes swap meet '''', July 16, 1989 He has a brother, Arnold. Their father, Izador Ashkenazy, was an art collector who owned paintings by |
Ashkenazi (surname)
Ashkenazi is a surname of Jewish origin. It is most commonly found in countries with large Jewish populations such as the United States, Russia and Israel. The surname is sometimes spelled " Ashkenazy". People * Abraham Ashkenazi, 19th-century rabbi, Chacham Bashi of Jerusalem * Adi Ashkenazi (born 1975), Israeli actress, comedian and television host *Amir Ashkenazi (born 1971) Israeli businessman * Bezalel Ashkenazi, 16th-century rabbi and Talmud scholar *Dan Ashkenazi (13th century), German Talmudist *David Ashkenazi (1915–1997), Russian pianist, accompanist and composer *Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–1585), rabbi, Talmudist, and physician * Gabi Ashkenazi (born 1954), former Chief of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff *Goga Ashkenazi (born 1980), Kazakh-Russian businesswoman *Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), rabbi and author of the ''Tseno Ureno'' * Israel Sarug Ashkenazi (16th century), pupil of Isaac Luria * Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov (1770� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Surnames
Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora, as well as cultural assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. History Historically, Jews used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ''ben-'' or ''bat-'' ("son of" and "daughter of," respectively), and then the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames Of Russian Origin
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
