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Wertheimer Family
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Akiba Israel Wertheimer (1778–1835), first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein * Alain Wertheimer, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, French Jewish billionaire owners of Chanel **Wertheimer et Frère, partnership of the two brothers * Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer (1862–1937), known as Constantin Brunner, German-Jewish philosopher * Asher Wertheimer (1843–1918), British art dealer who commissioned the Wertheimer portraits * Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894–1957), Austrian and German diplomat, journalist, jurist and political scientist * Esther Wertheimer (1926–2016), Polish architect * (born 1947), French singer * Fred Wertheimer (born 1939), American political activist * Gustav Wertheimer (1847–1904), Austrian artist * Haim Ernst Wertheimer (1893–1978), German-born Israeli biochemist * Hedy Wertheimer (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer * Jack Wertheimer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally speak Yiddish, a language that originated in the 9th century, and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution. Hebrew was primarily used as a literary and sacred language until its 20th-century revival as a common language in Israel. Ashkenazim adapted their traditions to Europe and underwent a transformation in their interpretation of Judaism. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jews who remained in or returned to historical German lands experienced a cultural reorientation. Under the influence of the Haskalah and the struggle for emancipation, as well as the intellectual and cultural ferment in urban centres, some gradually abandoned Yiddish in favor of German and developed new forms of Jewish relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Wertheimer
Martha Wertheimer (22 October 1890 – June 1942) was a German journalist, writer and rescuer who came from a Jewish family. Before World War II, she oversaw the operation of the Kindertransport from south and southwest Germany. She died in the Holocaust. Life and work Martha Wertheimer was born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt, Germany. With her sister Lydia, they were the daughters of Juda Julius Wertheimer and Johanna, née Tannenbaum. In 1911 Martha was enrolled at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences (in 1914 it became Frankfurt University). She completed her studies in history, philosophy and English philology. In 1919, she became only the fourth woman to receive a doctorate from the university with her dissertation, ''The theoretical content of the correspondence between Frederick the Great and Voltaire''. From 1919, she worked as an editor for the liberal newspaper, ''Offenbacher Zeitung''; she was politically committed to women's suffrage and occasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wertheim (other)
Wertheim may refer to: * Wertheim (surname) * Wertheim (company), a company that manufactures vacuum cleaners * Wertheim (department store), a chain of German department stores * Wertheim & Co., an investment firm * Wertheim am Main, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, a protected wetlands on Long Island, New York * Wertheim Piano, an Australian brand of piano * Wertheim-Meigs operation, a surgical procedure for the treatment of cervical cancer See also * * Wertheimer, a surname * Wertheim Gallery * Wertheim effect Magnetostriction is a property of magnetic materials that causes them to change their shape or dimensions during the process of magnetization. The variation of materials' magnetization due to the applied magnetic field changes the magnetostrictive ... * Wertheim surgery {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Winter
Ella Winter Stewart (17 March 1898 – 5 August 1980) was an Australian-British journalist and activist, and champion of migrant farm workers. She was married to Hollywood screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart. Early life Ella was born Eleanora Sophie Wertheimer in Nürnberg, Germany in 1898. Her parents were Freda Lust and Adolph Wertheimer of Nürnberg, who lived in London, Melbourne, Australia, and again in London, when they changed their name to Winter (around 1910). In 1924 she married Lincoln Steffens after which she then had a son and moved to the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Their children Peter, Rosa, and Eleanora (Ella) were born in Melbourne. Fredric Wertham was a relative. She studied at the London School of Economics in England. Career Ella wrote on various topics. She and her family were also involved in controversial national campaigns, including the Scottsboro Boys Defense Fund which sought to free nine black men who wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredric Wertham
Fredric Wertham (; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer, March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in '' Brown v. Board of Education.'' Despite this, Wertham remains best known for his concerns about the effects of violent imagery in mass media and the effects of comic books on the development of children. His best-known book is '' Seduction of the Innocent'' (1954), which asserted that comic books caused youth to become delinquents. Besides ''Seduction of the Innocent'', Wertham also wrote articles and testified before government inquiries into comic books, most notably as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Wertheimer
Yair Wertheimer (, also known as Meir Wertheimer; born 3 November 1955) is an Israeli former tennis player. Tennis career Beginning in 1972, Wertheimer played for the Israeli Davis Cup team and had a 6-4 record in singles and a 5-6 record in doubles. In 1978, while ranked No. 1 in Israel, he went to the United States, on tennis scholarship from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ... and played for the tennis team. In 1997, he won the over-35 seniors tournament at Hapoel Tel Aviv. ILTF circuit finals Singles (1 runners-up) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wertheimer, Yair 1955 births Living people Israeli male tennis players California Golden Bears men's tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Wertheimer
Stef Wertheimer (; 16 July 1926 – 26 March 2025) was an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Knesset, and was known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries. In 2013, the Wertheimers were described as Israel's richest family. Background Stef (Ze'ev) Wertheimer was born in Kippenheim, Germany, to a Jewish family. His family fled to Mandatory Palestine in 1937 to escape Nazism. He studied in the Tel-Nordau School in Tel Aviv but dropped out of school at age 16 and started working in a camera repair store. At the same time, he began studying optics with Professor Emanuel Goldberg, a researcher and inventor who contributed significantly to different aspects of imaging technology in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1943, during World War II, Wertheimer enlisted in the British Royal Air Force, serving as an optical equipment technician. He was sent to Bahrain where he repaired optical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Aaron Wertheimer
Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer (November 18, 1866 – 1935), was a Hungarian rabbi, scholar, and seller of rare books. Life He was born in Bösing in 1866. In 1871 he went with his parents to Jerusalem, where he was educated. By 1890, he was residing in Cairo, Egypt, where he made a living as a rare bookseller and a collector and seller of Cairo Genizah documents. According to Arabist S.D. Goitein, he also published papers on them, but "in a somewhat unscientific way."Goitein, S.D. ''A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. Vol. I: Economic Foundations''. University of California Press, 1999, p. 2 For five years starting in 1893, he tried to sell the British Library Geniza documents for pennies on the dollar, but many were declined.Reif, Stefan C. ''A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection''. Culture and civilisation in the Middle East. Richmond, Surrey: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Wertheimer
Samson Wertheimer (17 January 1658 – 6 August 1724) was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also a powerful Austrian financier, court Jew and ''Shtadlan'' to Austrian Emperor Leopold I. With the help of Samuel Oppenheimer, he helped finance the Spanish War of Succession on behalf of the Empire. A scholar and patron of scholars, he also financed the printing of the Babylonian Talmud undertaken at Frankfurt (1712–22) by his son-in-law, Moses Kann. Wertheimer possessed numerous palaces and ten imperial soldiers guarded his house. He was known by the title of Judenkaiser (Jewish emperor). The Wertheimer family established branches in several European nations. Famous descendants include billionaire Gerard Wertheimer and billionaire Alain Weirtheimer, little is known about them according to French media. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Wertheimer
Pierre Wertheimer (8 January 1888 – 24 April 1965) was a French businessman, who co-founded Chanel with Coco Chanel. Early life Wertheimer was born 8 January 1888, the second of two sons, to Ernest Wertheimer and Mathilde Wertheimer (née Bollack). His father emigrated from Alsace to Paris in 1870.World's Richest Jews ''Jerusalem Post'' Family business In Paris the elder Wertheimer purchased an interest in the theatrical make-up company Bourjois. Bourjois, an innovator in these products for the stage, developed the first dry rouge, an improvement over the grease laden face paint customarily used. By 1920, Bourjois had become the largest and most successful cosmetic and fragrance company in France. Not restricted to the European continent, Bourjois was an international enterprise with corpora ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wertheimer
Peter Wertheimer (; 21 July 1947 – 5 January 2020) was a Romanian-Israeli jazz musician who specialised in playing the flute, saxophone and the clarinet. Biography In Romania Wertheimer was born in Satu Mare to violinist Andrei Wertheimer. He spent most of his childhood in Timișoara, where his father pioneered in jazz music within the area and was also an opera concertmaster. Wertheimer learned to play the classical violin at the age of five and began his studies at the local music school, which he was later expelled from when his family’s request to emigrate to Israel was denied. He later moved to Bucharest to continue pursuing his music studies and attend the National University of Music Bucharest. Wertheimer often performed in nightclubs, cafes, culture centres and he was eventually hired by an orchestra, which he later toured abroad with in Switzerland and Germany and performed in numerous jazz festivals. Wertheimer also made collaborations with Johnny Răducanu, Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred S
Mildred may refer to: People * Mildred (name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) * Saint Mildrith, 8th-century Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet * Milred (died 772), Anglo-Saxon prelate, Bishop of Worcester * Henry Mildred (1795–1877), South Australian politician * Henry Hay Mildred (1839–1920), a son of Henry Mildred, lawyer and politician Places Canada *Mildred River, a tributary of La Trêve Lake in Québec United States * Mildred, Kansas * Mildred, Minnesota * Mildred, Missouri * Mildred, Pennsylvania * Mildred, Texas Mildred is a town in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 399 at the 2020 census. History Mildred is located seven miles southeast of Corsicana on U.S. Highway 287 in south central Navarro County. The town was established ... Other uses * ''Mildred'', a barquentine shipwrecked at Gurnard's Head in 1912 (see list of shipwrecks in 1912) * {{disambiguation, surname, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
