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Lerer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Kenneth Lerer, American businessman and media executive *Seth Lerer (born 1955), scholar of English and Comparative Literature *Yechiel Lerer Yechiel Lerer (1910–1943) was a Yiddish poet. Lerer lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and participated in the ghetto literary activity. He was involved in the periodical '' Hamadrikh'' (Hebrew: "The Guide"). Yechiel was murdered in the Treblinka exterm ... (1910–1943), Yiddish poet {{surname, Lerer Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames ...
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Kenneth Lerer
Kenneth Lerer is an American businessman and a media executive. He was the chairman and co-founder of ''HuffPost'', an American news website acquired by AOL in 2011. He is also a managing director of Lerer Hippeau, and chairman of Betaworks and BuzzFeed. Career Lerer is a past executive vice president of AOL Time Warner and was a founding partner of corporate communications firm Robinson, Lerer, and Montgomery which is based in New York. In January 2010, Lerer and his son began a seed stage venture capital fund, Lerer Hippeau Ventures. Lerer has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University where he lectured on the media and American corporations. He was Chairman of the Public Theater in New York for 10 years, and is now its Chairman Emeritus. In June 2019, he announced he would step down as chairman of BuzzFeed after ten years at the company. Personal life Lerer is married to interior designer Kathe ...
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Seth Lerer
Seth Lerer (born 1955) is an American scholar and Professor of English. He specializes in historical analyses of the English language, and in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, particularly Geoffrey Chaucer. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as the Dean of Arts and Humanities from 2009 to 2014. He previously held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities at Stanford University. Lerer won the 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for ''Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History from Aesop to Harry Potter''. Life and career He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1976. He gained a second Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford in 1978. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the Un ...
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Yechiel Lerer
Yechiel Lerer (1910–1943) was a Yiddish poet. Lerer lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and participated in the ghetto literary activity. He was involved in the periodical '' Hamadrikh'' (Hebrew: "The Guide"). Yechiel was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Mas .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lerer, Yechiel 1910 births 1943 deaths Yiddish-language poets Warsaw Ghetto inmates Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp People from Mińsk County Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust ...
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Surnames Of Jewish Origin
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound sur ...
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