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Hochman
Hochman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Calvin Hoffman (1906–1986), American theater press agent and writer *Dayan Hochman-Vigil, American attorney and member of the New Mexico House of Representatives * Gilad Hochman (born 1982), Israeli classical music composer *Henryk Hochman (c. 1879–1943), Polish Jewish sculptor * Israel J. Hochman (c. 1875-1940), American klezmer musician *Larry Hochman (born 1953), American orchestrator and composer *Nathan Hochman (born 1963), American lawyer *Sandra Hochman Sandra Hochman (born September 11, 1936 in New York City) is an American author, poet, screenwriter, lyricist and documentary film maker. Her first autobiographical novel ''Walking Papers'' was very well received and Philip Roth called it a mas ... (born 1936), American poet, novelist, and documentary film maker * Stan Hochman (1928–2015), American sportswriter * Stanley Hochman (1924–2014), American editor and translator See also * Hoffman (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Hochman
Nathan Joseph Hochman (born November 26, 1963) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 44th Los Angeles County District Attorney, District Attorney of Los Angeles County since 2024. Hochman is a former federal prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney General. Hochman served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Tax Division, Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice in 2008. Prior to that, Hochman was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1990 to 1997, serving in the Criminal Division. Hochman also had an extensive career in the private sector, as a partner of several nationwide firms and as a leading expert in tax law, criminal defense, and environmental law, and prior to becoming district attorney, was General Counsel at Ross LLP. Hochman was president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission from 2011 to 2016. Hochman was the Republican Party (United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Hochman
Stan Hochman (October 15, 1928April 9, 2015), was a sportswriter who covered the Philadelphia Phillies for the ''Philadelphia Daily News''. He was a voting member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), whose main task is to vote on candidates for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Other newspapers Hochman worked for include the '' Brownsville Herald'', ''Corpus Christi Caller-Times'', '' Waco News-Tribune'', and ''San Bernardino Sun''. Early life Hochman was born on October 15, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1948, and his master's degree in 1949. He served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953. Hochman's career at the ''Daily News'' began on June 9, 1959, and he spent 55 years covering not just the Phillies, but everything sports, in what was to be his adopted hometown — and the town loved him back for it. Philadelphia Pro Football Hall of Fame writer Ray Didinger, himself a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Hochman
Larry Hochman (; born November 21, 1953) is an American orchestrator and composer. He has won four Emmy Awards for his original music on the TV series '' Wonder Pets!'' and a Tony Award for his orchestrations for ''The Book of Mormon''. Early life and training He studied music theory and composition at Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Mannes College of Music. Career Hochman's musical ''One Man Band'', for which he wrote the score with Marc Elliot, was produced off-Broadway in 1985, and was later staged at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida. ''The New York Times'' reviewer wrote, "The 10 musical numbers, written by Marc Elliot and Larry Hochman, and Mr. Elliot's lyrics for the songs, move the story along and provide some good comic effects...here aresome old-fashioned songs in the show that you find yourself humming afterward, and a few stay with you a long time." In 1987, Hochman worked on the short-lived Broadway stage musical '' Late Nite Comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Hochman
Stanley Hochman (November 4, 1924 – August 10, 2014) was an editor for several New York City publishing houses and also a translator of European literature and nonfiction. Hochman's final editorial position was as Senior Editor at the former Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, which was acquired by Continuum Publishing in 1985, subsequently absorbed into Bloomsbury Publishing. Earlier in his career, he had held editorial positions at McGraw-Hill, Walker and Company, and several industrial trade magazines. Hochman was the founding editor of the ''Ungar Film Library'', an extension of that firm's ''Library of Literary Criticism''. He personally edited several titles in the line, including ''American Film Directors'' (published in 1974 as the first and only volume of the projected series ''A Library of Film Criticism'') and ''From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara: A National Board of Review Anthology, 1920–1940'' (1982). For McGraw-Hill, Hochman edited the five-volume ''McGraw-Hill Enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Hochman
Henryk Herszel Hochman (1879 or 1881 in Lublin – 1942 or 1943 in Baczków near Bochnia) was a Polish Jewish sculptor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He was a student of Paweł Rosen in Warsaw, Konstanty Laszczka while in Kraków (1900–1906), and Auguste Rodin in France. Work Hochman specialized in figurative art such as sculpted portraits, the heads, and busts. Hochman is known for his bas-relief bronze entitled "Kol Nidre" (1907) in the former Town Hall of Kazimierz. He worked with marble, bronze, terracotta and majolica. During the Holocaust Henryk Hochman was deported to Bochnia Ghetto and murdered. Many of his works were lost. References Henryk Herszel Hochman, "Kol Nidre" (bas-relief, 1907)former Town Hall of Kazimierz Kazimierz (; ; ) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilad Hochman
Gilad Hochman (; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is a Berlin-based Israeli composer of contemporary classical music. Education Hochman was born to an Odessa native father and a Paris native mother and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He began his musical life at the age of 6, studying the piano, and started composing at the age of 9. At 18 he graduated from the Herzeli'ya Music Conservatory, where he studied under composer Ilya Heifets and pianist Mark Shaviner. In 2007 Hochman graduated with honors from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, studying composition under Gil Shohat, musicology and theoretical subjects under some of Israel's leading senior musicians. Reception Hochman's music was described as “written with a true artist’s hand”, “the highpoint of an exciting performance”, “sheds new light on customary expressions in music” and as “original, fascinating, unusual and colorful” by the Israeli Prime Minister Award committee in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Hochman
Sandra Hochman (born September 11, 1936 in New York City) is an American author, poet, screenwriter, lyricist and documentary film maker. Her first autobiographical novel ''Walking Papers'' was very well received and Philip Roth called it a masterpiece. She has published seven books of poetry; her first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. She has also written for The New York Times, Life (magazine), People (magazine), New York (magazine) and many more. She created the Foundation ''You're an Artist Too,'' which was an after school program held weekly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her film ''Year of The Woman'' was co-produced with Porter Bibb, the producer of The Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. Life After she graduated from the Cherry Lawn boarding school, she went on to graduate from Bennington College. She also has a master's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University. When she was living in Paris she studied at the Sorbonne. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayan Hochman-Vigil
Dayan Hochman-Vigil is an American attorney and politician, currently serving as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 15th district, which includes a portion of Bernalillo County. Early life and education Hochman-Vigil was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College, a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law, and a Master’s in Aviation and Space Law from McGill University. Career After graduating from law school, Hochman-Vigil worked as a Public Interest Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union in Denver. She also worked as a regulatory attorney in Washington, D.C., frequently interacting with the United States Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board. She also served as Treasurer of the American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary association, voluntary bar association o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Hoffman
Calvin Hoffman (1906 – February 1986), born Leo Hochman in Brooklyn, New York, was an American theater critic, press agent and writer who popularized in his 1955 book ''The Man Who Was Shakespeare'' the Marlovian theory that playwright Christopher Marlowe was the actual author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare. Like other alternate Shakespearean authorship theories, Hoffman's claims have been largely dismissed by mainstream Shakespearean scholars. Hoffman's theory Hoffman was not the first to argue that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays attributed to him, nor was he even the first to suggest Marlowe as the main candidate. In fact three people— Wilbur G. Zeigler in 1895, Henry Watterson in 1916, and Archie Webster in 1923, had beaten him to it, but he denied having known about any earlier proponent for the first twelve years of his research into the subject, and he certainly achieved far more than any of them to bring i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel J
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situated at a continental crossroad, the region experienced demographic changes under the rule of empires from the Romans to the Ottomans. European antisemitism in the late 19th century gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |