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Weintraub is a Jewish German surname meaning "wine grape". It is cognate with the Yiddish name Vayntrub. Notable people with the surname incllude: * Jacqueline Vayntrub, American biblical scholar * Milana Vayntrub, American actress * Aharon Ze'ev Weintraub, birth name of Aharon Ze'ev (1900–1968), Israeli poet, writer (including writing for children), editor, and educator * Abraham Weintraub, World Bank Group, Executive Director and former Minister of Education of Brazil (2018–20) * Annette Weintraub, American artist and writer * Amir Weintraub, Israeli tennis player * Carl Weintraub, American actor * David Weintraub (official), an official of the U.S. government * E. Roy Weintraub, American economist * Fred Weintraub, American producer * Harold M. Weintraub, American biological scientist * Jerry Weintraub, American film producer * Jessica Weintraub (born 2007), Australian Olympic rhythmic gymnast * Joseph Weintraub, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1957–73) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Weintraub
Jessica Weintraub (born 20 March 2007) is an Australian Olympic Rhythmic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnast. She represents Australia in international competitions. She competed for Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic group all-around, Women's rhythmic group all-around at the Adidas Arena on 9–10 August. Early life Weintraub was born in East St Kilda, Australia, and is Jewish. She and her family relocated from Melbourne to Brisbane, Australia, when she was 14. She attends Brisbane State High School. Rhythmic gymnastics career Weintraub trained at Prahran Rhythmic Gymnastics when she was a junior. Her family relocated so that Weintraub could join Aspire Gymnastics Academy to pursue her career in rhythmic gymnastics. At first she was focused in being successful as an individual gymnast, winning medals at nationals. Weintraub is coached by Iuliia Iakovleva and Tania Belan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weinrib
Weinrib is a surname meaning "wine" in Yiddish. Notable people with the surname include: * David Weinrib (1924–2016), American sculptor and artist of ceramic art * (born 1972), American filmmaker and TV producer * Geddy Lee Weinrib (born 1953), known as Geddy Lee, Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush * |
Sy Weintraub
Sy Weintraub (May 28, 1923 – April 4, 2000) was an American film and television producer best known for his series of Tarzan films and television episodes between 1959 and 1968. Weintraub broke with the Johnny Weissmuller formula of portraying Tarzan as a pidgin-speaking noble savage who lives in a treehouse with Jane and Boy. Instead, his Tarzan was an educated depressed loner, much closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs's original conception of the character and Boy is replaced by a young orphan named Jai. Weintraub also produced two Sherlock Holmes films for television and was an owner of Panavision. Career After World War II service in the US Army, he formed Flamingo Films with David L. Wolper, who acquired the television rights to Eagle-Lion Films in 1951. Starting in 1958, Weintraub took over the Tarzan franchise from Sol Lesser and began producing Tarzan films made on actual locations (most previous Tarzan films had been shot on studio sets, with stock jungle footage edited in) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Weintraub
Stanley Weintraub (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American historian and biographer and an expert on George Bernard Shaw. Early life Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended South Philadelphia High School, and then he attended West Chester State Teachers College ( West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at Temple University where he received his master's degree in English "in absentia," as he was called to duty in the Korean War. He received a commission in the Army as a second lieutenant, and served with the Eighth Army in Korea, receiving a Bronze Star. After the war, he enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation "Bernard Shaw, Novelist" was accepted on May 6, 1956. Personal life He married Rodelle Horwitz in 1954; they had three children, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Weintraub (economist Born 1922)
Sidney Weintraub (; 18 May 1922, New York City – 10 April 2014, Cuernavaca, Mexico) was an economist, foreign service officer, professor, non-fiction author, and novelist. After leaving U.S. government service, he was the Dean Rusk Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from 1976 to 1994; emeritus thereafter) and holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 2011. Early life Sidney Weintraub was born 18 May 1922 in New York City to Reuben and Anna (Litwin) Weintraub. He studied at City College where he obtained a B.B.A. in 1943. He earned his M.A. in journalism at the University of Missouri in 1948 and his M.A. in economics at Yale University in 1958. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics at American University in 1966. He did his military service in the U.S. Army during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. Career Beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Weintraub (economist Born 1914)
Sidney Weintraub (; April 28, 1914 – June 19, 1983) was an American economist, one of the most prominent American members of the Post Keynesian economics school. He was the co-founder and co-editor of ''The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics'' (1978). His views included criticism of monetarism and the neoclassical synthesis, and promotion of the tax-based incomes policy (TIP). Biography After a year at the London School of Economics in 1938–39, Weintraub received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1941, and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until 1943, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. In 1945 he joined the faculty of St. John's University in Brooklyn, New York. In 1950 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1957 he was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to travel to Europe. In 1969–70 he taught at the University of Waterloo. In 1972–3 he wrote a weekly column for the ''Philadelphia Bulletin''. During his career he gave over 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Weintraub
'' Big Brother'', the American version of the worldwide television show, features contestants (called ''houseguests'') that compete against each other to be the last Big Brother house resident and win $500,000, later $750,000. The series first aired in 2000, and 26 seasons have been completed as of 2024. ''Big Brother'' contestants are chosen by the show's producers through an application process that includes a videotape submission, semi-final interviews at select cities, and a final interview in Los Angeles. Contestants are also recruited through various means but then follow the same subsequent interview process to appear on the show. As of season 26, a total of 349 participants have competed in ''Big Brother'', ''Big Brother: Over the Top'', and ''Big Brother Reindeer Games'' and 45 of them have competed in multiple seasons. A total of 34 participants have competed in ''Celebrity Big Brother'', which increases the total number of ''Big Brother'' participants to 367. '' Big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell J
Russell may refer to: People * Russell (given name) * Russell (surname) * Lady Russell (other) * Lord Russell (other) ** Bertrand Russell *Justice Russell (other) Places *Russell Island (other) *Mount Russell (other) Australia *Russell, Australian Capital Territory *Russell Island, Queensland (other) **Russell Island (Moreton Bay) **Russell Island (Frankland Islands) *Russell Falls, Tasmania *A former name of Westerway, Tasmania Canada * Russell, Ontario, a township in Ontario *Russell, Ontario (community), a town in the township mentioned above. *Russell (Ontario federal electoral district), which existed from 1867 to 1968 *Russell, Manitoba *Russell Island (Nunavut) New Zealand * Russell, New Zealand, formerly Kororareka *Okiato or Old Russell, the first capital of New Zealand Solomon Islands *Russell Islands United States *Russell, Arkansas *Russell City, California, formerly Russell *Russell, Colorado *Russell, Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Weintraub
Philip Weintraub (October 12, 1907 – June 21, 1987) was an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. Weintraub played for 13 minor league teams, for whom he had an aggregate batting average of .337, as well as for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Philadelphia Phillies in Major League Baseball. He was primarily a reserve outfielder in the majors, though he was platooned at first base in the last few years of his career. He posted a .295 career batting average in the major leagues, and a .398 on-base percentage. In one game in 1944, Weintraub had 11 RBIs, one fewer than the major league record, and he still has as of , the third- most runs batted in ( RBIs) in a single game (11, behind Jim Bottomley and Mark Whiten) in Major League history. Author Joe Cox, writing in ''The Immaculate Inning: Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), observed: "The biggest mystery of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maia Weintraub
Maia Mei Weintraub (born October 24, 2002) is an American Foil (fencing), foil Fencing, fencer. She won the 2019 and 2023 USA Fencing Women's Foil National Championships, was ranked second in the world in 2021 in women's foil in the juniors, and won the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA national women's foil championship. Weintraub represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics, United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil, Women's team foil, where she won a gold medal. Early life Weintraub was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is Jewish, and is the daughter of Elizabeth Surin, a retired immigration attorney, an immigrant from Singapore, and Jason Weintraub, an entomologist, who specializes in moths and butterflies. Weintraub attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia. Fencing career Weintraub fences at the Fencers Club, the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia, and Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Weintraub
Leon Weintraub (born 1 January 1926) is a Polish-born Swedish physician. Weintraub survived the Holocaust in Poland and gives lectures on the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Early life Leon Weintraub was born in Łódź, Poland on 1 January 1926, as the fifth child to a Jewish family. His father died in 1927. Therefore, his mother had to raise him and the four sisters in poverty and under difficult conditions. At the age of 13 Leon witnessed the invasion of the German Wehrmacht and the Nazi occupation of Poland. In 1940, the whole family was detained and forced to live in the Łódź Ghetto. Life in the Second World War In order to survive the boy had to work in a galvanization factory which produced for the German Reich. After the invaders were defeated at the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, liquidations and deportations began in the ghetto. First the family tried to hide themselves, but they were detected and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Leon was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
