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Gurvich Museum
Gurvich, Gurovich, Gurwich, Gurwitch, Gurwitsch or Gurevich is a Yiddish surname, a Russian form of the surname "Horowitz" (''Гу́рвич''), see the latter article about its etymology. The surname may refer to: Gurvich * Abram Gurvich (1897–1962), Russian chess composer. * Jose Gurvich (1927–1974), Lithuanian-Uruguayan plastic artist. *Alexander Gurwitsch (1874–1954), Russian biologist *Aleksandr Gurevich (1930–2023), Russian physicist. *Aron Gurevich (1924–2006), Russian medievalist. *Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973), Lithuanian-American philosopher. *Georges Gurvitch (1894–1965), Russian-French sociologist. *Liubov Gurevich (1866–1940), Russian editor, translator, author, and critic. *Leib Gurwicz (1906–1982), influential Orthodox Rabbi. * Naum Gurvich, Soviet-Jewish inventor of defibrillator *Fedor Dan (born Gurvich) (1871–1949), Russian revolutionary and Menshevik. Gurevich * Aharon Gurevich, Chief Rabbi of Russian Army. *Anatoly Gurevich Soviet espionage agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish
Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew language, Hebrew (notably Mishnaic Hebrew, Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish has traditionally been written using the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, there were 11–13 million speakers. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hamburg: Buske, 1984), p. 3. leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Jewish ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Michail Gurevich
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (also Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, or Hurevych; 23 February 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a Soviet wrestler. The figure of Boris Gurevich served as a model for the allegorical sculpture of the Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich "Let's Forge Swords into Plowshares", installed in 1957 in New York near the UN building. Gurevich, who was Jewish, was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Career Gurevich won the 1968 Summer Olympic Games freestyle middleweight (191.5 lbs; 82 kilograms) gold medal in Mexico City. He finished ahead of silver medalist Jigjidiin Mönkhbat of Mongolia and bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria. He won a silver medal at the 1961 World Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, a gold medal at the 1967 World Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, and a gold medal at the 1969 World Wrestling Championships at 90 kilograms. He won a gold medal at the 1967 European Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, and a gold medal at the 1970 Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurwitch Products
Gurwitch Products is a Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of Shiseido that produces, manages, and markets cosmetics and skincare products. Gurwitch produces and markets products under two brands, Laura Mercier Cosmetics and RéVive Skincare. Company history Gurwitch Products was founded by Janet Gurwitch, the former executive vice president of Neiman Marcus, and Gary M. Kusin in 1995. With makeup artist Laura Mercier, Gurwitch and Kusin licensed Laura Mercier's name and created the Laura Mercier Cosmetics brand in 1996. Gurwitch's former employer, the Neiman Marcus Group, purchased a 51 percent stake in the company in 1999. In August 2006, Gurwitch Products, which was valued more than $120 million at that time, was acquired by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alticor Alticor is a privately owned American corporation run by the DeVos and Van Andel families. It was established in 1999 to serve as the parent company for a handful of business ventures, most notably the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Gurwitch
Janet Gurwitch (born 1954) is an American businesswoman and investor. She is the founder of Gurwitch Products, the manufacturer of Laura Mercier Cosmetics. She founded the company in 1995 and launched the Laura Mercier line in March 1996. Biography A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States, and graduate of the University of Alabama, Gurwitch began her career at Foley's department store in Houston, Texas, rising to the position of senior vice president of merchandising. She then moved to Neiman Marcus and served as the executive vice president from 1992 to 1995. As EVP, she was responsible for the merchandising strategy for all 35 stores. She founded Gurwitch Products in 1996 in order to market a boutique line of cosmetics carrying the name of French make-up artist Laura Mercier. She sold Laura Mercier to Alticor in 2006 and remained CEO until 2008. From 2009 to 2019, Gurwitch served on the boards of Drybar, Urban Decay, Tatcha, First Aid Beauty, La-Z-Boy and Dollar Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabelle Gurwitch
Annabelle Gurwitch is an American author, actress and television host most recognizable from her stint as a hostess on '' Dinner and a Movie'' on TBS, and an activist associated with environmental issues and secular humanism. She also was recognized as one of the 100 Influential Women in Oncology by OncoDaily. Early life Gurwitch was born to a Jewish family in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in Florida, graduating from Miami Beach High School in 1980. While there, she took acting classes with Jay W. Jensen. After high school, she attended The Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University. Career Gurwitch began working as an actress Off-Broadway in New York City, including productions with ''Theater for a Young Audience'' at Henry Street Settlement, ''The Public Theater'', the 20th Anniversary production of ''Uncommon Women'' ''and'' ''Others'' at Lucille Lortel. Her first long-running television role was as Gina Daniels on ''The Guiding Light'' in the mid 1980s. Gurwitch's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Gurevitch
Jessica Gurevitch is a plant ecologist known for meta-analysis in the fields of ecology and evolution. Education and career Gurevitch has a B.S. from Cornell University (1973) and earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1982. She was a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the University of Chicago before moving to the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. For two years starting in 1992, Guervitch worked at the National Science Foundation before returning to Stony Brook where she was promoted to professor in 2000. From 2015 to 2016, Gurevitch was president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Research Gurevitch's research interests are centered on biological invasions and meta-analysis in ecology. Her research on grasses perennial plants, and trees relied on a combination of experimental manipulations and observation data. Her interest in biological invasions includes investigations into the invasive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Gurevich
Yuri Gurevich, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, is an American computer scientist and mathematician and the inventor of abstract state machines. Gurevich was born and educated in the Soviet Union. He taught mathematics there and then in Israel before moving to the United States in 1982. The best-known work of his Soviet period is on the ''classical decision problem''. In Israel, Gurevich worked with Saharon Shelah on Monadic predicate calculus, monadic Second-order logic, second-order Theory (mathematical logic), theories. The ''Forgetful Determinacy Theorem'' of Gurevich–Leo Harrington, Harrington is of that period as well. From 1982 to 1998, Gurevich taught computer science at the University of Michigan, where he started to work on various aspects of computational complexity theory including average case complexity. He became one of the founders of the emerging field of finite model theory. Most importantly, he became interested in the problem of what an algo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Solomonovich Gurevich
Valery Solomonovich Gurevich, a Russian politicianis the vice-governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Leadership in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Gurevich both organized, and participated in, the 2004 70th anniversary celebrations of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (founded in 1934). During this time Gurevich assisted in the opening of the Birobidzhan Synagogue which was coordinated along with the 70th anniversary celebrations Political history Gurevich is the highest ranking Jewish politician in the oblast. His official title is "Vice-chairman of the Government He is in the line of succession after the vice-chairman of the Government, Viktor Gozhy, who follows Governor Nikolay Mikhaylovich Volkovbr> Jewish heritage Gurevich is the son of Jewish settlers who arrived in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the 1930sGurevich is interested in developing the region's Jewish identity [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gurevich (psychiatrist)
Mikhail Osipovich Gurevich () (September 18, 1878, the village of Sosnytsia, Chernigov Governorate — November 16, 1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet psychiatrist, one of leaders of Russian psychoneurology, honoured worker of science of the RSFSR, and a full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Biography Gurevich was born on 18 September 1878 in the village of Sosnytsia, Chernigov Governorate. In Chernigov, he finished public school as a recipient of a gold medal for academic excellence. In 1902, he graduated from the medical faculty of the Moscow University and was left as a resident doctor of its psychiatric clinic directed by Vladimir Serbsky since 1900. For his successes he was encouraged by being sent abroad where he familiarized himself with organization of psychiatric care in various countries and worked in Emil Kraepelin, Kraepelin’s clinic in Munich. In 1904, he began to write his doctoral thesis ''On Neurofibrils and Their Changes in Some Pathological Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft Designer)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich () ( – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet Union, Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25. Life and career Born to a Russian Jews, Jewish family his father was a winery mechanic in the small township of Rubanshchina (Kursk Oblast, Kursk region in Russia). In 1910 he graduated from gymnasium in Okhtyrka (Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv region) with the silver medal and entered the Mathematics department at Kharkiv University. After a year, for participation in revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gurevich (chess Player)
Mikhail Gurevich (; born 22 February 1959) is a Soviet-born Belgian chess player. He was a top ten ranked player from 1989 to 1991. Gurevich became an International Grandmaster in 1986, and is currently an FIDE arbiter and senior trainer. Chess career Early years Gurevich won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 1984 and became USSR Champion in 1985, controversially taking the title from co-winners Alexander Chernin and Viktor Gavrikov on tiebreak points' This was after a three-way playoff had been organized and all the game results were draws. He was not allowed to leave the country, however, to participate in the Interzonal, and Gavrikov and Chernin went in his place. According to Gurevich, a Jew, the KGB prevented his journey to the West while they expected he would defect to Israel. Gurevich was awarded the International Master title in 1985, and became an International Grandmaster in 1986. In 1987 he was first at Moscow ahead of Oleg Romanishin and Sergey Dolmatov. He f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Gurevich
Michelle Gurevich is a Canadian singer-songwriter, also known by her former stage name Chinawoman. Her music is influenced by her Russian heritage, and has been described as slowcore rock and "lo-fi pop". She performed regularly in Russiand her largest fanbase is in Eastern Europe. Life Gurevich was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Russian-Jewish immigrants and was raised with Russian as her first language. Her father was an engineer in Soviet Leningrad and her mother a Kirov ballerina (the subject of Gurevich's "Russian Ballerina"). Gurevich originally wanted to become a filmmaker and worked ten years in the industry before turning to music. "I eventually tried to write a song and found it was not only cheaper but much easier to get a good result." Gurevich began her career recording in her bedroom. The stage name "Chinawoman" was chosen as a spur-of-the-moment joke when GarageBand prompted her for a band name. After receiving criticism for being a non-Chinese woman inappropriate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
