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Helfant
Helfant is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Helfant, sports executive * Edwin Helfant (1926–1978), American lawyer See also * Gelfond * Gelfand * Helfand Helfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in Yiddish language. Notable people with the surname include: * David Helfand, a U.S. astronomer * Ira Helfand, one of the co-founders and past co-president of IPPNW, as well as a member of the internationa ... {{surname Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Helfant
Adam Helfant (born c. 1964, Brooklyn) is an American sports executive and lawyer. He is the former Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) executive chairman and president who succeeded Etienne de Villiers in 2009. Helfant is an MIT and Harvard Law Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ... graduate. He spent 12 years with Nike as a senior executive and three years with the National Hockey League as an attorney. Career Helfant left the ATP at the end of 2011. He denied that he asked for more money, insisting that he was offered a long-term contract when his initial three-year deal was expiring and that he turned the offer down for personal reasons. Helfant left the ATP with in a strong financial position. He had tried to increase the amount of rest the players got. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Helfant
Edwin Helfant (12 April 1926 Margate, New Jersey – 15 February 1978 Ducktown, Atlantic City) was an American lawyer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Edwin was a New Jersey Bar Association-certified lawyer and part-time Judiciary of New Jersey judge who held court in Somers Point, New Jersey and Galloway Township, New Jersey from 1963 to 1973. He was a known associate of organized crime figure Herman (Stumpy) Orman. Helfant gained posthumous notoriety when he was murdered by Philadelphia Mafia family member Nicholas (Nick The Blade) Virgilio who was a close associate of Nicky Scarfo. His murder was suspected to be related to the murder of Giuseppe (Pepe) Leva, a Pomona, New Jersey tailor who was murdered in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey for intervening during a brawl between Leva and Phil Leonetti. His law offices were located at the Guarantee Trust Building art 1125 Atlantic Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey that she shared with Herman Orman. At the time of Helfant's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelfond
Gelfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Gelfond (1906–1968), Soviet mathematician * Michael Gelfond, American computer scientist See also * Gelfand * Helfand * Helfant Helfant is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Helfant, sports executive * Edwin Helfant (1926–1978), American lawyer See also * Gelfond * Gelfand * Helfand Helfand is a surnam ... {{surname Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelfand
''Gelfand'' is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language and may refer to: * People: ** Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move ** Alan E. Gelfand, a statistician ** Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster ** Israel Gelfand, a mathematician, ** Mikhail Gelfand, a molecular biologist and bioinformacisist, a grandson of Israel Gelfand ** Vladimir Gelfand, a Soviet-Jewish writer * Notions in mathematics (named after Israel Gelfand): ** the Gelfand representation, in mathematics, allows a complete characterization of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions ** the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction ** the Gelfand–Naimark theorem ** the Gelfand–Mazur theorem ** a Gelfand pair, a pair (''G'',''K'') consisting of a locally compact unimodular group ''G'' and a compact subgroup ''K'' ** a Gelfand triple, a construction designed to link the distribution (test function) and square-integrable aspects of functional analysis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helfand
Helfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in Yiddish language. Notable people with the surname include: * David Helfand, a U.S. astronomer * Ira Helfand, one of the co-founders and past co-president of IPPNW, as well as a member of the international steering group of ICAN, organizations that seek to prohibit nuclear weapons in the world. * Jessica Helfand, a designer, author, and educator * Lev Borisovich Helfand, a soviet diplomat * A. Litvak or Litwak, nom de plume of Khayim (Chaim) Yankl Helfand (1874–1932), social-democratic Bundist ideologue and Yiddishist See also * Gelfand ''Gelfand'' is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language and may refer to: * People: ** Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move ** Alan E. Gelfand, a statistician ** Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster ** Israel Gel ... * Gelfond * Helfant {{surname, Helfand Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elephant
Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. The order was formerly much more diverse during the Pleistocene, but most species became extinct during the Late Pleistocene epoch. Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive skin. The trunk is used for breathing, bringing food and water to the mouth, and grasping objects. Tusks, which are derived from the incisor teeth, serve both as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. The large ear flaps assist in maintaining a constant body temperature as well as in communication. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs, whereas Asian elephants have smaller ears, and convex or level backs. Elepha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Language
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably 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 is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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