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Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz, also written as Levkowitz or Lewkowicz, is a surname of German-Jewish & Polish-Jewish origin, meaning "son of Levko". Notable people with the surname include: * Abraham Lefkowitz (1884–1976), Hungarian-born American labor union leader and teacher * Bernard Lefkowitz, author, sociologist, and professor of journalism * Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, American jazz saxophonist * David Lefkowitz (1875–1955), American rabbi in Texas * Glyph Lefkowitz, American open-source software programmer * Hank Lefkowitz (1923–2007), American professional basketball player * Irving Lefkowitz (1921–2015), American control engineer, professor * Jay Lefkowitz (born 1962), American lawyer and Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea * Joseph Lefkowitz (1892–1983), later known as Joseph Leftwich, British critic and translator of Yiddish literature into English * Louis J. Lefkowitz (1904–1996), American lawyer and politician in New York * Mary Lefkowitz, professor at Wellesley Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics. She is the Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she previously worked from 1959 to 2005. She has published ten books over the course of her career. Lefkowitz studied at Wellesley College before obtaining a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College in 1961. During the 1980s much of her research focused on the place of women in the Classical world. She attracted broader attention for her 1996 book ''Not Out of Africa'', a criticism of Afrocentric claims that ancient Greek civilization derived largely from that of ancient Egypt. She argued that such claims owed more to an American black nationalist political agenda than historical evidence. That decade, she also entered into a publicised argument with Africana studies scholar Tony Martin. She served on the advisory board of the conservative advocacy group the National Association of Schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (; 1913 – 27 June 2011) was an Israeli Haredi Torah leader and rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak for over 70 years. He was a '' maggid shiur'' at Yeshivas Tiferes Tzion from 1940 to 2011 and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponovezh L’Tzeirim from 1954 to 2009, raising thousands of students. He was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah, a member of Mifal HaShas, and ''nasi'' (president) of the Acheinu kiruv organization, and played a leading role in the fight for Torah-true education in yeshivas and Talmud Torahs in Israel. In addition to his own Torah works, he published the teachings of his rebbi, Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, in the two-volume ''Chiddushei Shlomo''. Early life He was born in Valozhyn, Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1913 to Moshe Dovid and Chaya Lefkowitz. This was the second marriage for both his parents. His father was almost 80 years old when he was born. The family lived in great poverty. Moshe Dovid had children from a previous marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Lefkowitz
Jay Lefkowitz (born 20 November 1962) is an American lawyer. He is a senior partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm, and he also served as President George W. Bush's Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. Career Lefkowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Law School. Earlier in the George W. Bush administration, Lefkowitz was general counsel in the Office of Management and Budget and later deputy director of domestic policy at the White House. He crafted Bush's policy on stem cell research. After leaving the White House in 2003, he was twice offered West Wing jobs. Lefkowitz also serves as a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, in which capacity he teaches a seminar on the Supreme Court. This seminar uses a simulation method whereby students act in the roles of Supreme Court justices hearing cases and writing opinions in cases pending before the Court. Lefkowitz was also director of cabinet affairs and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lefkowitz
Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University. Early life Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Max and Rose Lefkowitz. Their families had emigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 19th century. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959, he attended Columbia College from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry in 1962. At Columbia, Lefkowitz studied under Ronald Breslow. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lefkowitz
David Lefkowitz (April 11, 1875 – June 5, 1955) was a rabbi who led Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas from 1920 to 1949, after having worked at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio.Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael, ''The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook'' Greenwood Publishing, 1996, pp. 340-341 He opposed the rise of the , which had been revived in 1915; it was strongly opposed to immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who were Jews and Catholics. He was a Founding Executive Committee Member of the Dayton Branch of the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Lefkowitz
Nat Lefkowitz (July 24, 1905 – September 4, 1983) was an American talent agency executive who served as co-chairman of the William Morris Agency. Biography Lefkowitz was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Brooklyn. He attended New York City public schools and was a graduate of City College of New York and the Brooklyn Law School. After school, he worked as an accountant and then went to work for the William Morris Agency in 1927 where he held a number of positions including comptroller, treasurer, executive vice president, president, and the chairmanship in 1976. His brother Julius Lefkowitz ran the outside accounting firm that William Morris agency used. In 1980, he was replaced by his protégé Morris Stoller after an acrimonious power struggle at the agency. He was named as chairman emeritus. Lefkowitz was active in served as the chairman of the Jewish Theatrical Guild, as an executive with the United Jewish Appeal, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the Actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochelle Lefkowitz
Rochelle Lefkowitz is president and founder of Pro-Media Communications, a bicoastal public interest public relations firm. Education She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Latin American studies and a master of arts degree in education from Boston University. Overview Lefkowitz co-edited the 1986 book ''For Crying Out Loud: Women and Poverty in the United States'' with Ann Withorn. Writers and activists that contributed to the book included Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox Piven and Linda Burnham. In that same year, she founded Pro-Media Communications to help organizations, non-profits and individuals enact social change. Since its founding the organization has worked on a range of social issues, from the death penalty to poverty issues to gay rights. Lefkowitz coined the term "Fuels from Heaven, Fuels from Hell," which was cited by Thomas Friedman in his book ''Hot, Flat, and Crowded''. Lefkowitz is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. Prior to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born January 31, 1942) is an American historian and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College. Early life and education Horowitz was born on January 31, 1942, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Jr. and Leona Atlas Lefkowitz. Rabbi David (1911–1999) served as rabbi at Temple B'nai Zion in Shreveport and Leona (1917–2014) was a tutor in math, informal college counselor, civic worker, community board member, and housewife. David Lefkowitz is her paternal grandfather. Horowitz was educated in Shreveport, and graduated from C. E. Byrd High School in 1959. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1963 and earned a Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University in 1969. Career Horowitz taught at MIT, Union College, Scripps College, the University of Southern California, Carleton College, and University of Michigan. Her last position was at Smith College, where she is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyph Lefkowitz
Glyph Lefkowitz is an American open-source software programmer and creator of the Twisted network programming framework for Python. His work on asynchronous programming techniques influenced the core Python language, as well as the JavaScript Promises ecosystem, through Dojo and Mochikit. He is a frequent speaker at developer conferences and was elected a fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2009. Between 2009 and 2013, he was one of the primary contributors of Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...'s Calendar and Contacts Server (CCS) software. In 2017, the PSF awarded Lefkowitz their Community Service Award for his influence on the direction of the Python language and community, including his role in pioneering asynchronous programming models. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Lefkowitz
Bernard Lefkowitz (1937/1938 – May 21, 2004) was an American author, sociologist, journalist and investigative reporter. A reporter and assistant editor at the ''New York Post'', Lefkowitz worked for the Peace Corps before becoming an author. He wrote many books, including ''The Victims'', ''Break-time: Living Without Work in a Nine-to-Five World'', and ''Tough Change: Growing Up on Your Own in America'', and ''Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb''. ''Our Guys'' dealt with the Glen Ridge Rape of a mentally disabled girl by a group of popular high school students and the town (Glen Ridge, New Jersey) that rallied around them. Lauded by ''The New York Times'' as a notable book of the year, as well as an Edgar Award finalist, ''Our Guys'' was made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz. Lefkowitz taught journalism at City College, Duke University and Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown (known as Chad LB) (born September 8, 1989) is a New York-based saxophonist and recording artist recognized for his work as a soloist in the genres of jazz and pop music. He was a member of the multi Grammy winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) and has toured with popular music icon Taylor Swift. Known for his virtuosic skill, speed and intricate lines as a jazz improviser, he is also an educator and is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory as a visiting artist for The Roots, Jazz and American Music program. Background LB started playing the saxophone at the age of 9, taught by his father, a music teacher and multi instrumentalist. Home schooled by his father, he initially didn't enjoy playing and working out of method books. His interest was sparked when his father taught him ways he could improvise and ignited a love of jazz music by playing records, particularly featuring saxophone players. He later benefited from books written by Jerry Bergonzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Lefkowitz
Henry A. Lefkowitz (August 31, 1923 – April 21, 2007) was a professional basketball player. He played for the Cleveland Rebels of the Basketball Association of America (now known as the National Basketball Association). High school career Hank played high school basketball for Cleveland Heights High School, where he led the 1941 team to a Lake Erie League championship and earned All Lake Erie League honors. College career Hank played college basketball at Western Reserve University (now known as Case Western Reserve University) where he was twice named co-captain and was named to the first All-Mid-American Conference team in 1946. Professional career Hank played in 24 games for the Cleveland Rebels during the 1946–47 BAA season The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament (the 1947 BAA Playoffs) at its conclusion, ended with the Phila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |