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Kurtzer
Kurtzer is a German and Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daniel C. Kurtzer (born 1949), American ambassador * Yehuda Kurtzer (born 1977), American Jewish public intellectual * Ryan Kurtzer, English baseball player * Edda Blanck-Kurtzer, known as Molly Luft Molly Luft (19 March 1944 – 24 November 2010) was a German prostitute, noted for her obesity and lurid make-up. Life She was born as Edda Blanck in Pomerania and grew up in a middle-class family in West Berlin. In 1967 she got married f ... {{surname German-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Kurtzer
Yehuda Kurtzer is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He has written and lectured widely on Jewish history, Jewish memory, leadership in American Jewish life, and the relationship between American Jews, Israel and Zionism. In 2012, he was named one of the "36 under 36 young educators, thinkers, social justice activists, philanthropists and artists reinventing Jewish life" by The Jewish Week. Early life and education Kurtzer was raised as a Modern Orthodox Jew in, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Silver Spring, MD. He is a son of U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer. He studied Religion and History at Columbia College of Columbia University as an undergraduate student and graduated in 2000. He began graduate study at Brown University in early Christianity, but left that program after a year, later entering the Ph.D. program in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He completed his doctoral degree in Jewish Studies there in 2008. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Kurtzer
Ryan Kurtzer (born in Suffolk, England), is an International Baseball player who plays for the Great Britain national baseball team. He is the first and only GB baseball player to play at all levels (Juveniles, Cadets and Juniors) while not residing in Britain. 2004 Kurtzer represented Great Britain in the 2nd annual Kenko International Tournament that was held in Nettuno, Italy. During this tournament he was the only Great Britain Juvenile catcher to throw a runner out who attempted to steal and was tied on the team for the most hits for the tournament. 2006 Kurtzer represented Great Britain at the Cadet level in the 4th annual Kenko International Tournament that was held in Rho, Italy. During this tournament he was the winning pitcher when his team beat the national team from Slovenia 7-4. Kurtzer pitched six of the seven innings, giving up three earned runs and striking out five. Slovenia beat Ryan's Great Britain team earlier in the tournament by a score of 12-3 and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Luft
Molly Luft (19 March 1944 – 24 November 2010) was a German prostitute, noted for her obesity and lurid make-up. Life She was born as Edda Blanck in Pomerania and grew up in a middle-class family in West Berlin. In 1967 she got married for the first time. In 1975 she began working as a prostitute. A year later she got divorced from her first husband and married Archibald, a U.S. Army Sergeant stationed in Germany; two children were born of that marriage. In 1983 she and her husband were convicted of sexual assault of their daughter and received a suspended sentence of three years; she got divorced soon after. In the 1990s, Luft (weighing around 175 kg in her prime) began marketing herself as "Germany's Fattest Whore" and became an icon of German trash culture. She appeared in various talk shows on German TV until she got her own late-night talk on OKB, ''Im Puff bei Molly Luft'' (''At Molly Luft's Brothel''). In 1999, she appeared in the music video to the sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel C
The Wake are a British post-punk, synth-pop and later indie pop band, formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen (drums) and Joe Donnelly (bass), the latter replaced by Bobby Gillespie. Steven's sister Carolyn Allen also joined on keyboards, and remained in the band thereafter. Gillespie left the band in 1983, replaced by Martin Cunning and then by Alexander 'Mac' Macpherson. History The Wake released their first single on their own Scan 45 label, coupling together "On Our Honeymoon" and "Give Up". This single eventually caught the attention of New Order manager Rob Gretton, who helped the band sign to Factory Records in 1982 and record an LP (''Harmony'') at Strawberry Studios in Stockport. This was followed by a number of singles on Factory and its Belgian sister label Factory Benelux. In 1983, The Wake toured with New Order, and thus received critical attention but were often unfavourably compared to their more cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France ( Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland ( Upper Silesia), Slovakia ( Bratislava Region), and Hungary ( Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
