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Gelber
Gelber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexis Gelber, Goldsmith Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government * Arthur Gelber, CC (1915–1998), Canadian philanthropist * Beatrice Gelber, American psychologist *Bruno Leonardo Gelber (born 1941), Argentine classical pianist *Dan Gelber (born 1960), former prosecutor, member of the Florida Senate *Dan Gelber (game designer), co-creator of the ''Paranoia'' role-playing game *Jack Gelber (1932–2003), American playwright known for his 1959 drama ''The Connection'' *Jordan Gelber (born 1975), American actor * Lady Henrietta Gelber (born 1958), English interior decorator and founder of Woodstock Designs * Lee Gelber (1938–2020), American tour guide and urban historian *Lionel Gelber, Canadian diplomat who founded the Lionel Gelber Prize in 1989 * Mark H. Gelber (born 1951), American-Israeli scholar of German-Jewish literature and culture *Marvin Gelber (1912–1990), Liberal party member of the Canadian H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Gelber
Daniel Saul Gelber (born November 26, 1960) is an American politician and former prosecutor. He served in the Florida Legislature from 2000 to 2010 and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Florida in 2010. From 2017 to 2023, he served as mayor of Miami Beach, Florida. Gelber represented the 106th district in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, also serving as House Minority Leader in his last term. He then served in the Florida Senate, representing the 35th district from 2008 to 2010. He ran for Attorney General of Florida in 2010, losing the general election to Republican Pam Bondi. In 2012, he co-founded the law firm of Gelber Schachter & Greenberg, P.A. along with Adam Schachter and Gerald Greenberg. The firm handles complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense cases in Florida and across the country. Gelber was reelected mayor, without opposition, on September 6, 2019, after no other candidate qualified to challenge him by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Gelber Prize
The Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary award for English non-fiction books on foreign policy. Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize honors "the world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues." A prize of , is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Recipients are judged by an international jury of experts. In 1999, ''The Economist'' called the award "the world's most important award for non-fiction". Past winners have included, Lawrence Wright, Jonathan Spence, David McCullough, Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Kinloch Massie, Adam Hochschild (a two-time winner), Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, Walter Russell Mead, Chrystia Freeland, and Steve Coll. Lionel Gelber Lionel Gelber was a Canadian author, scholar, historian, and diplomat. During his car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gelber
Jack Gelber (April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama ''The Connection (play), The Connection'', depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians. The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations. Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the Master of Fine Arts, MFA program in playwriting. In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in theatre. Early life and education Jack Gelber was born April 12, 1932, in Chicago, the first of three sons of Molly (Singer) and Harold Gelber, a Jewish American couple of Russian and Romanian descent. Harold was a Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, sheet metal worker, a trade the younger Gelber w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wylie Gelber
Wylie Gelber (born May 13, 1988) is an American musician, luthier, and craftsman. A founding member of the band Dawes, Gelber played bass in the band from 2009 to 2023, touring and playing on the band's first eight albums. As of 2025, Gelber runs ''Gelber & Sons,'' a Los Angeles-based studio that makes guitars, furniture, and other items. Career Simon Dawes Gelber dropped out of high school to tour as the bassist in the post-punk band Simon Dawes. The band broke up in 2007 when guitarist Blake Mills left. Dawes Following the break up of Simon Dawes, Gelber and former bandmates Griffin and Taylor Goldsmith formed the folk rock band Dawes, which released its first album, '' North Hills'', in 2009. The band tours extensively and has released eight full-length studio albums. In February 2023, it was announced on social media that Gelber would be departing the lineup following the band's spring tour dates to focus on other projects, including Gelber & Sons. After playing with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Gelber
Jordan Gelber (born 1975) is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway in the musical '' Avenue Q'', in ''All My Sons'' and in '' Elf the Musical'', among other shows. He has also performed in many off-Broadway productions. He has a recurring role in the CBS TV show '' Elementary'' and in other television shows. Early life and education Gelber is the son of Donald and Barbra Gelber. He was born in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, and grew up in Woodmere, Long Island.(20 August 1995)Path to Success Starts With Internship For college students, ''Newsday'' ("Jordan Gelber, a Woodmere native spent this summer interning at Dateline NBC in Manhattan. When he returns for his junior year at Stanford...") Gelber has a younger sister, Marielle. Gelber is Jewish. In 1993, he graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in Hewlett, Long Island. He attended the National Theater Institute. He is a 1997 graduate of Stanford University, where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Gelber (game Designer)
''Paranoia'' is a dystopian Science fiction, science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber (game designer), Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg (game designer), Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games. Since 2004 the game has been published under license by Mongoose Publishing. The game won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1984 and was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame in 2007. ''Paranoia'' is notable among tabletop games for being more competitive than co-operative, with players encouraged to betray one another for their own interests, as well as for keeping a light-hearted, tongue in cheek tone despite its dystopian setting. Several editions of the game have been published since the original version, and the franchise has spawned several spin-offs, novels and comic books based on the game. Premise The game is set in a dystopian future city controlled by the Computer (also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Leonardo Gelber
Bruno Leonardo Gelber (born 19 March 1941) is an Argentine people, Argentine classical pianist. Biography Gelber is an Argentine pianist born in Buenos Aires, with Austrian and France, French-Italy, Italian descent. His father was a violinist, his mother a pianist. He made his first public appearance at age 5, and commenced studies with Vincenzo Scaramuzza (the teacher of Martha Argerich) at age 6. He was confined to bed for a year with poliomyelitis at age 7, but made his formal recital debut when he was 8 years old. He retains a slight limp but does not need crutches. When he was aged 15, Gelber played the Piano Concerto (Schumann), Schumann Concerto under Lorin Maazel in his native Buenos Aires, attracting considerable attention. At age 19 he went to Paris to study under Marguerite Long, and the following year he won 3rd Prize in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, Long-Thibaud Competition. Gelber's career since then has taken him all over the world, and he has appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelber Stern (Hildesheim)
Gelber Stern is a historic street in Hildesheim, a city in Lower Saxony in Germany. Location and Length ''Gelber Stern'' is a street with 135 m in length in the Southern part of the city center. Lappenberg, the middle of the former Jewish community, is close by. History In a document dating from 1650 the street was mentioned for the first time. Its name was then "Geiler Stert", but the meaning of this name remains unknown. The present name "Gelber Stern" has been used since the beginning of the 19th century. Literally translated it means "Yellow Star", but most probably this name does not refer to the Star of David as the street was not a part of the Jewish community. In the Second World War, Gelber Stern and the streets and lanes around received comparatively little damage. Some houses were lightly damaged during air raids on 22 February 1945 and on 22 March 1945, but the damage could be repaired preserving the original style after the war. Sights and Architecture Gelber S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Gelber
Lee Peter Gelber (February 8, 1938 – January 19, 2020) was an American tour guide and urban historian whose primary expertise was New York City and its environs. Early life Gelber was born in Bronx, New York, where he was raised in the Fordham neighborhood by his parents Max Gelber and Rebecca Spiegel. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and from Queens College, where he majored in history. He initially worked as a toy industry executive before going into the tour business following the occasion of the firm that he was working for having been subsumed by a larger entity in a merger. Professional career With an earlier tenure as a Big Apple Greeter under his belt, he became a tour guide for Gray Line in 1994. His breadth of knowledge and tour guide finesse soon led him to become a trainer of other guides for Grayline and then a subsequent series of other outfits. Therein he was popularly known as the so-called (New York City) "Dean of Guides" and was referred to as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Gelber
Beatrice Gelber is an American psychologist best known for her work on associative learning in protozoa, suggesting that synaptic plasticity is not an essential neurochemical mechanism for learning and memory. Education and career She received a doctorate in psychology at Indiana University Bloomington under Roland Clark Davis.Samuel J. Gershman, Petra EM Balbi, C. Randy Gallistel, Jeremy Gunawardena"Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells" accessed from the National Library of Medicine website, published January 4, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2024. She held a professorship at University of Chicago until 1960, when she left to found the Basic Research Institute of Health. Research Gelber is known for her research on the intracellular mechanisms of learning and behavior. She demonstrated that ''Paramecium aurelia'' could form associations after training, reminiscent of associative learning in multicellular organisms. She suggested that these behavior modification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber (; born September 25, 1943) is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 and studied world and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an expert on the history of the Israel Defense Forces. Tom SegevHis colleagues call him a traitor (Haaretz ''Haaretz'' (; originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , , ) is an List of newspapers in Israel, Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper is published in Hebrew lan ..., 23 May 2002). Gelber is also known to have been a vocal opponent of Ilan Pappé when the latter was employed by the University of Haifa, and a defender of the Alexandroni Brigade in the Tantura massacre case. In 1973 Gelber served as the academic and military assistant to the Agranat Commission, and in 1982 participated in the off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gelber
Arthur Ellis Gelber, (June 22, 1915 – January 1, 1998) was a Canadian philanthropist. Educated at Upper Canada College, from 1977 to 1980, he was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Arts Centre. In 1989, he established the Lionel Gelber Prize in honour of his brother. In 1972, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ... and was promoted to Companion in 1994. In 1995, he was awarded the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts. Gelber was committed to supporting the arts and served on the boards of more than sixty cultural organizations. Gelber was recognized by the Canadian government for his "strong and generous leadership" in these cultural organizations. He was married to Esther S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
