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Hersh
Hersh () is a given name and surname. People with the name include: Given name * Hersh Leib Sigheter (1829-1930), Hungarian Yiddish writer * Hersh Wolch (1940-2017), Canadian lawyer * Hersh Goldberg-Polin (2000-2024), American-Israeli hostage and terrorism victim Surname * Arek Hersh, concentration camp survivor and writer (born 1928) * Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter (born 1966) * Mayer Hersh, Polish concentration camp survivor (1926–2016) * Patricia Hersh, American mathematician (born 1973) * Peter Hersh, American ophthalmologist * Reuben Hersh, American mathematician (1927–2020) * Seymour Hersh, American journalist (born 1937) See also * Herschel (other) * Hersch * Hirsh * Hirsch (other) * Hertz (name) * Herzl {{given name, type=both Surnames of Jewish origin Jewish given names Yiddish-language surnames Yiddish-language given names Given names derived from animals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for ''The New York Times'', also reporting on the Operation Menu, secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation CHAOS, program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for ''The New Yorker''. Hersh has won five George Polk Awards, and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including ''The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House'' (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Hersh's reporting alleged that S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hersh
Peter S. Hersh is an American ophthalmologist, researcher, and specialist in LASIK eye surgery, keratoconus, and diseases of the cornea. He co-authored the article in the journal ''Ophthalmology'' that presented the results of the study that led to the first approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the excimer laser for the correction of nearsightedness in the United States. Hersh was also medical monitor of the study that led to approval of corneal collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus. He was the originator, in 2015, of CTAK (corneal tissue addition keratoplasty) for keratoconus, patent holder, and co-developer. Life and career Hersh grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, and graduated from Columbia High School. Hersh graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in biochemistry, where he was awarded the Senior Thesis prize for his work on messenger RNA. He received his medical degree (M.D.) from Johns Hopkins University and completed his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Hersh
Martha Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, 50FootWave. She has released eleven solo albums. Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. Hersh's lyrics have a Stream of consciousness, stream-of-consciousness style, reflecting her personal experiences. Early life Hersh was born in Atlanta. She moved to Newport, Rhode Island with her family, when she was six years old. Her father was a professor at Salve Regina University and her mother was a special educational needs teacher. Kristin was interested in music at an early age; her father gave her a guitar when she was nine. Kristin's parents separated when Hersh was 11, and her mother married the father of her best friend Tanya Donelly. Hersh talked Donelly into starting a band, then called The Muses, when they were 14. Musical career Throwing Muses and early so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hersh Goldberg-Polin
As part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, 23-year-old American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin () was wounded and abducted by Hamas during the Re'im music festival massacre. He was Gaza war hostage crisis, held hostage for almost 11 months, until his body was recovered from a tunnel in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on 31 August 2024. It was later revealed that Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages with him were executed by Hamas. His autopsy indicated he was likely shot from "close range" 1–2 days before his body was found. Biography Goldberg-Polin was the son of Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Pollin, Rachel Goldberg, both originally from the Chicago area. Born circa 2000 in Berkeley, California, he lived in Richmond, Virginia, before aliyah, immigrating to Israel with his family in 2008. Goldberg-Polin has two younger sisters. Goldberg-Polin was reportedly working with an initiative that was using soccer to bring Israeli and Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arek Hersh
Arek Hersh, (born 13 September 1928) is a Polish survivor of the Holocaust and war veteran. Early life and World War II Arek Hersh (Herszlikowicz - הרשליקוביץ׳) was born in Sieradz, Poland on 13 September 1928. He was the son of a bootmaker for the Polish army and a homemaker. At the age of eleven, following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, he was taken to his first concentration camp. The camp started out with 2,500 men; eighteen months later only eleven were alive. Hersh was moved around several camps before being taken to Auschwitz. Even as a young boy at the time, Hersh deduced that those who were placed in a group with sick, young or old people were considered by the Nazis to be of no use and would be killed. Consequently, while Jews were standing in two queues of fitter and weaker people before entering the camp, Hersh crossed to the fitter queue during a commotion near the rear of the line (SS officers tried to take a child from its mother), and in doing so, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben Hersh
Reuben Hersh (December 9, 1927 – January 3, 2020) was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life he sometimes used the name Reuben Laznovsky in recognition of his father's ancestral family name. His work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics. Education After receiving a B.A. in English literature from Harvard University in 1946, Hersh spent a decade writing for ''Scientific American'' and working as a machinist. After losing his right thumb when working with a band saw, he decided to study mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. In 1962, he was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University; his advisor was P.D. Lax. He was affiliated with the University of New Mexico since 1964, where he was professor emeritus. Academic career Hersh wrote a number of technical articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayer Hersh
Mayer Hersh MBE (31 August 1926 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish Jew who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Born in Sieradz to a family of six siblings, only Mayer and his brother Jakob survived. his father, mother and three other siblings were murdered in Chełmno extermination camp. After World War II, Hersh lived in Manchester, England. He was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education. Mayer died on 8 October 2016, at the age of 90. See also * List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of independent secondary sourcing exists. This list represents only a very small portion of the 1.1 ... References 1926 births 2016 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Sieradz Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hersh
Patricia Lynn Hersh (born 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics and other fields of mathematics. Education and career Hersh graduated ''magna cum laude'' with an A.B. in mathematics and computer science from Harvard University in 1995,. with a senior thesis supervised by Persi Diaconis. She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Richard P. Stanley; her dissertation was ''Decomposition and Enumeration in Partially Ordered Sets''. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Washington, University of Michigan, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, she joined the faculty at Indiana University Bloomington in 2004, moved to North Carolina State University in 2008, and then to the University of Oregon in 2019. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hersh Wolch
Hersh Wolch (April 18, 1940 – July 17, 2017) was a prominent Canadian lawyer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wolch's primary practice was in the area of criminal law where he conducted precedent-setting criminal litigation at all levels of court. He was featured in the inaugural issue of The Best Lawyers in Canada. He was selected to be a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and was a member of the International Society of Barristers. Wolch was a past president of the Manitoba Trial Lawyers’ Association and was Director of Education for the Law Society of Manitoba. His clients included politicians, celebrities, musicians, professional athletes, police, lawyers, and judges. Wolch was formerly of the firm Wolch, Pinx, Tapper, Scurfield in Winnipeg, where many now-prominent lawyers and judges began their legal careers as students. He was later based in Calgary, Alberta, at the firm of Wolch deWit Watts & Wilson. Wolch was also general counsel to Tarrabain & Company, a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hersh Leib Sigheter
Hersh Leib Sigheter (1829–1930Dicker, p. 26), pen name of Hersh (Hirsch) Leib Gottlieb גוטליב (or Gottlieb גאטטליעב) was a Hungarian Jew from today's Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania ( or ) who, even before the advent of what is generally considered to be professional Yiddish theater, wrote satirical Yiddish-language Purim plays on an annual basis and hired boys to play in them. Although often objected to by rabbis, these plays were popular, and were performed not only on Purim but for as much as a week afterwards in various locations. ercovici, 1998, 28/ref> Under his own name, Gottlieb was also a famous translator, journalist and editor of newspapers in Sziget and Kolomyia (now in Ukraine). He founded what was effectively the first Hungarian weekly in Hebrew in 1878 in Sziget called "The Sun" (השמש). As of 1887, after having been expelled by Rabbi Chananyah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum of Sziget, he continued to publish it, in Kolomyia, alternating between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirsch (other)
Hirsch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Afua Hirsch (born 1981), Norwegian-born British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister * Alex Hirsch (born 1985), American animator, screenwriter and voice actor * August Hirsch (1817–1894), German physician and medical historian * Burkhard Hirsch (1930–2020), German politician and civil liberties advocate * Cal Hirsch, 19th century American retailer * Corey Hirsch (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player * Daniëlle Hirsch (born 1968), Dutch politician * David Hirsch (other), several people * Ed Hirsh (fl. from 1980), special effects artist * Edward Hirsch (born 1950), American poet and critic * E. D. Hirsch (born 1928), American educator and literary critic * Eike Christian Hirsch (1937–2022), German journalist, author and television presenter * Elroy Hirsch (1923–2004), American football player * Emanuel Hirsch (1888–1972), German Protestant theologian * Emil G. Hirsch (1851–1923), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertz (name)
Hertz is an Anglicized name of German origin, with 'herz' literally meaning 'heart' in English. This alternate spelling of 'Herz' with an additional 't' primarily arose during the 19th and 20th centuries as German-speaking immigrants travelled to English-dominant regions like North America. 'Hertz' was easier to pronounce in English, and approximated the proper German pronunciation of the word. It is primarily a surname but it has also been used as a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), German musician * Arne Hertz (born 1939), Swedish racer * Carl Hertz (1859–1924), American performer * Carl Hellmuth Hertz (aka Carl Helmut Hertz) (1920–1990), German-born medical researcher * Carmen Hertz (born 1945), Chilean lawyer and politician * Fanny Hertz (1830–1908), German-born British educationalist and feminist * Garnet Hertz (born 1973), Canadian artist, designer and academic * Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), German physicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
