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Javitz
Javitz, Javits, Jawitz, Yavetz, Yawitz, or ''variation'', is a Jewish surname. For the Biblical sources of the name see Jacob Emden. People with this name include: People * Dan Jawitz (born 1960), South African screen producer * Jacob K. Javits (1904-1986), an American politician * Marian Javits (1925-2017), U.S. actress, arts patron, wife of Jacob K. Javits * Paul Yawitz (1900-1983), U.S. screenwriter * Romana Javitz (1903-1980), U.S. librarian * Ze'ev Yavetz (1847-1924), a Polish-Jewish historian, teacher and Hebrew linguist * Zvi Yavetz (1925-2013), Israeli historian Fictional characters * ''Javitz'' (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain; see List of Marvel Comics characters: J#Javitz See also * Jarvis (name), one way to Anglicize the Jewish surname (though not only used for the Jewish surname) * Javet (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romana Javitz
Romana Javitz (January 28, 1903–January 1980) was an American artist, librarian, and Superintendent of the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library. Biography Early life Romana Javitz was born in Russia to Polish parents and immigrated to America in 1906. Her mother, Malvine, was a hat milliner and her father, Elias, maintained an import/export business. She grew up in the Bronx and the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She studied painting at the Art Student's League and began working at the New York Public Library (NYPL) in the Children's Room in 1919. Career Javitz was interested in how libraries and museums documented folk art and brought attention to the documentation of African-American folk art at the NYPL after viewing European cities documentation in the 1920s. In 1928, she became superintendent of the Picture Collection at the NYPL. She held the position until she retired in 1968. In the 1930s she assisted Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Curator of the Library's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarvis (name)
Jarvis is a given name and English surname that derives from the personal name Gervase, the element ''geri'' meaning "spear". Other spellings of the name include Jervis, Jervoise, and Gervis. Surname * Adrian Jarvis, rugby fly-half * Affie Jarvis (1860–1933), Australian Test cricketer * Al Jarvis, L.A. radio DJ; created "The World's Largest Make Believe Ballroom" music show in early 1930s. * Andrew Jarvis, American politician and restaurateur. * Ann Jarvis (1832–1905), social activist, founder of Mother's Day holiday in the US * Anna Jarvis (1864–1948), daughter of Ann Jarvis * Chris Jarvis, several people including: ** Chris Jarvis (actor), British actor ** Chris Jarvis (presenter), British presenter of children's television programmes ** Chris Jarvis (rower), Canadian Olympic rower * Cosmo Jarvis, English singer-songwriter, musician, actor and filmmaker * D. C. Jarvis (1881–1966), American physician from Vermont * Dan Jarvis, British Labour MP, born 1972 in Nottingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Emden
Jacob Emden, also known as Ya'avetz (June 4, 1697 April 19, 1776), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement. He was acclaimed in all circles for his extensive knowledge. Emden was the son of the hakham Tzvi Ashkenazi, and a descendant of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chełm. He lived most his life in Altona (now a part of Hamburg, Germany), where he held no official rabbinic position and earned a living by printing books. His son was Meshullam Solomon, rabbi of the Hambro Synagogue in London who claimed authority as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1765 to 1780. The acronym Ya'avetz (also written Yaavetz) stands for the words Yaakov (Emden) ben Tzvi (his father's name) (Hebrew: יעקב (עמדין) בן צבי - יעב"ץ). Seven of his 31 works were published posthumously. Biography Jacob Emden (born Ashkenazi) was the 5th of his father's 15 children. Until the age of sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Jawitz
Dan Jawitz (born 1960) is a South African film and television producer. He is the co-founder of Ice Media and he with Mark J Kaplan were both producers on A Lion's Trail which won 27th annual News and documentary Emmy Award. Career Jawitz started in the industry as a publicist on the film Kini and Adams which was selected for Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival (1997) and nominated for a Palme d’Or. In 2000, he launched Ice Media with Joel Phiri in Johannesburg. More than a decade later, Jawitz and Phiri reunited to form Known Associates Entertainment. Previous partnerships include, Fireworx Media which Jawitz established in 2008 with Neil Brandt and Bridget Pickering. He managed thisproduction company as the Managing Director for 10 years, producing shows on South African television, including Keeping Score (Telenovela, SABC2) and Hustle (Drama, ETV). In 2014 he co-produced ''One Humanity'' with Tony Hollingsworth, directed by Mickey Dube, which vividly bring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob K
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's Primogeniture, birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (Genesis), Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Biblical Egypt, Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Javits
Marian Ann Borris Javits, sometimes Marion (1925 – February 28, 2017) was an American arts patron. She was married to the politician Jacob K. Javits from 1947 until his death in 1986. Early life She was born Marian Ann Borris in Detroit, Michigan. She had dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress, but instead moved to New York to work as a researcher for the Republican Party. Career Javits appeared in a few movies, including 1960's ''Who Was That Lady?'' starring Tony Curtis and Dean Martin. Later she worked for a public relations firm, Ruder Finn which handled the account of the Iranian national airline during the reign of the last Shah to occupy the throne. This all transpired while her husband served on the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and with the looming change of regime in Iran and his introduction of certain legislation it became the focus of some acrimony and controversy. Having registered as a foreign agent for the lobbying effort, amidst the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Yawitz
Paul Yawitz (1900–1983) was an American journalist and screenwriter.Blottner p.59 Selected filmography * '' Saturday's Heroes'' (1937) * '' They Wanted to Marry'' (1937) * ''The Affairs of Annabel'' (1938) * ''Little Accident'' (1939) * ''Honolulu Lu'' (1941) * ''She Has What It Takes'' (1943) * '' Louisiana Hayride'' (1944) * ''The Racket Man'' (1944) * ''The Falcon's Alibi ''The Falcon's Alibi'' is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Ray McCarey and starring Tom Conway, Rita Corday and Vince Barnett. It was the ninth film featuring Conway as The Falcon. After the following film, ''The Falcon's Adventure'', the ...'' (1946) * '' Unmasked'' (1950) * '' Walk Softly, Stranger'' (1950) * '' That Kind of Girl'' (1952) * '' The Black Scorpion'' (1957) References Bibliography * Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1900 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American journalists American male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ze'ev Yavetz
Ze'ev (Wolf) Yavetz (Jawitz, Javetz) ( he, זאב יעבץ, 26 September 1847 – 24 January 1924) was a Jewish historian, teacher and Hebrew linguist. Biography Ze'ev (Wolf) Yavetz was born in Kolno in the Russian Empire (today in Poland). He published his first historical article in '' HaShahar'', a Hebrew monthly published by Peretz Smolenskin. In 1887, at the age of 40, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine. He initially worked in a vineyard in the Yehud moshava, before being recruited by Edmond James de Rothschild to be headmaster of a school in Zikhron Ya'akov. On Tu Bishvat that year he took his students to plant trees in Zikhron Ya'akov.With Tu Bishvat near, a tree grows in Zichron Yaakov Haaretz, 25 January 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Yavetz
Zvi Yavetz (26 April 1925 – 7 January 2013) was an Israeli historian. He was a professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University. Biography Zvi Zucker (later Yavetz) was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine. When he was five years old, he was diagnosed with polio and his father committed suicide. After the German occupation in 1941, he was sent to a concentration camp. His relatives, including his mother, were murdered, but he survived the Holocaust and escaped in 1944. Arriving in Turkey, he was transferred to Cyprus and eventually reached Mandatory Palestine. Initially, Yavetz joined a kibbutz in the Jordan valley. Then he left to study modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While at university, Yavetz worked as a teacher for deaf and speech impaired children. He received a master's degree and PhD in history, classics and sociology in 1950 and 1956, respectively. In 1960, he carried out post-doctoral research at University of London and Lund University. Yavetz die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
