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Libowitz
Libowitz is a surname. People with the surname include: People * Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz (1862–1939), Hebrew scholar and author * Sig Libowitz (born 1968), American lawyer and actor Fictional characters * Mr. Libowitz, one of the characters in the movie 3 Strikes (film) See also *Surnames from the name Leib {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sig Libowitz
Sigmund Georg Libowitz (born March 1, 1968) is an American lawyer, actor, film executive, writer, producer, and professor. He is currently the director of the Graduate Film and Media program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Libowitz is notable for writing, producing, and acting in the film ''The Response (film), The Response'', which he wrote after reading the transcripts from the Guantanamo detainees' Combatant Status Review Tribunals. Education Libowitz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and politics from New York University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2007. One of Libowitz's professors at law school distributed Guantanamo transcripts to his class. Libowitz decided the transcript could be turned into a script. Career From 2007 to 2012, Libowitz worked for the law firm Venable LLP. Libowitz was a vice president of acquisitions and co-productions at Paramount Pictures. Prior to that, he was an executive at F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz
Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz (; January 3, 1862 – June 12, 1939) was a Polish-American Hebrew scholar and author. Born in Kolno, he studied Talmud under Rabbi Elijah Chasid and then under his own father, Isaac Libowitz; in addition he devoted himself to Hebrew literature, reading especially works on criticism. In 1881, he immigrated to the United States and settled in New York, where he split his time between business and literature. Publications Libowitz is the author of: *''Iggeret Bikkoret'' (New York, 1895), against I. H. Weiss; *''Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Modena'' (Vienna, 1896; 2d ed., New York, 1901), his most important work, a collection of materials for a biography of Leon of Modena Leon of Modena (, 1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France. Life He was an intelligent child and a respected rabbi in Venice. However, his reputation wi ...; *'' Ephraim Deinard'' (ib. 1901), a harsh c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Strikes (film)
''3 Strikes'' is a 2000 American comedy film written and directed by DJ Pooh, and starring Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love and David Alan Grier. Despite some commercial success, it was negatively received by critics. The title refers to California's Three-strikes law, habitual offender law, whereby three convictions confer an automatic life sentence. Plot Rob Douglas has just been released from jail for the second time. Fearing a third conviction, which will result in a life sentence, he decides to go straight and leave the street life. His friend J.J. picks him up. However, the police show up and he learns that J.J. was driving a stolen car. When his friend J.J. is wounded from a shot to the buttocks and is taken into custody, Douglas learns he has been implicated in the shooting. He reaches out to his probation officer for help in proving his innocence, but is told that his best option is to simply turn himself in. J.J. is planning to have Douglas take the fall for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames From The Name Leib
Leib is a given name, and (less often) a surname usually of Jewish origin. ''Leib'' often stems from לייב (''leib''), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב (lev, leb) and with the diminutives Leibel/Leibl and Leibele, or from the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is ''Löwe''; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are ''Löw'', ''Loew'', ''Löb'', ''Leb'' and ''Leib''. Surnames derived from the name " Leib" may itself be a surname. There are a number of patronymic surnames derived from the name and its variants based on East Slavic patronymic suffix ''-ich/-icz''. * Labovich, Lebovitz, Leibovich, Leibovici, Leibovitch/Leybovitch, Leibovitz * Lebowitz, Leibowitz, Lejbowicz, Libowitz, Liebowitz Given name * Aryeh Leib, multiple persons * Leyb ben Oyzer (died 1727), shamash ha-kehilla (beadle or sexton of the congregation), trustee, and secretary or notary, of the Jewish community in Amsterdam *Isaac Leib Goldberg (1860–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |