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Moishe (other)
Moishe is a masculine given name, the Yiddish version of Moses. It may refer to: Given name * Moishe Broderzon (1890–1956), Yiddish poet and theater director * Moishe Finkel (c. 1850–1904), Romanian-born American Yiddish theater actor and manager who attempted to kill his wife * Moishe Hurvitz (1844–1910), also known as Moses Horowitz, Austro-Hungarian-born American Yiddish theater playwright and actor * Moishe Levy, birth name of Morris Levy (1927–1990), American music industry entrepreneur, convicted extortionist and swindler * Moishe Lewis (1888–1950), Jewish labour activist * Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940), Ukrainian–Polish chess master * Moishe Mana (born 1956), Israeli-born American businessman and real estate developer * Moishe Miller, birth name of Robert Merrill (1917–2004), American operatic baritone and actor * Moishe Oysher (1906–1958), American cantor, recording artist and actor * Moishe Postone (1942–2018), Canadian historian and social theorist * Moish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses (given Name)
Moses (),from Latin and Greek Moishe (),from Yiddish Moshe (),from Modern Hebrew Musa (name), Musa (Arabic: موسی),from Arabic or Movses (Armenian language, Armenian: Մովսես) from Armenian is a male given name, after the Bible, biblical figure Moses. An Egyptian language, Egyptian root ('child of') has been considered as a possible etymology, arguably an abbreviation of a theophoric name, as for example in Egyptian names like Thutmose ('child of Thoth') and Ramesses I, Ramesses ('child of Ra'),Hays, Christopher B. 2014''Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East'' Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, Presbyterian Publishing. p. 116. with the god's name omitted. However, biblical scholar Kenneth Kitchen argued that this – or any Egyptian origin for the name – was unlikely, as the sounds in the Hebrew do not correspond to the pronunciation of Egyptian in the relevant time period. Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Broderzon
Moishe Broderzon (; 23 November [Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. 11 November] 1890 – 17 August 1956) was a Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary society, literary group ''Yung-yidish''. Personal life He was born 1890 in Moscow, but his family was among the Jews expelled in 1891. His father moved to Łódź; his mother took her children to her father's home in Nesvizh (now in Belarus). In 1900, the family was reunited in Łódź.Rozier, Gilles (February 18, 2011).Broderzon, Moyshe. ''YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. Retrieved 2017-05-04.Zalmen Zylbercweig, Zylbercweig, Zalmen (1931).Broderzon, Moyshe . ''Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater''. Volume 1. New York: Farlag Elisheva. Columns 215-216. He became a bookkeeper and began writing short narratives in the Yiddish press in Łódź. In 1914 he issued a collection of his poems called ''Shvartse fliterlekh (Black Spangles)''. He was a founder of ''Yung-Yidish'' artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Finkel
Moishe Finkel (c. 1850 – June 7, 1904) (also known as MorrisJones 2006. or Maurice Finkel) was a prominent figure in the early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greatest Yiddish star of the generation)Bercovici and, for a time, was married to prima donna Annetta Schwartz. Together, they dominated Yiddish theatre in Bucharest in the early 1880s and in New York City in the late 1880s and into the 1890s, with a repertoire based mainly in the works of Joseph Lateiner and Moses Horowitz.BercoviciAdler After divorcing Schwartz, who returned to Europe, Finkel, then in his 40s, married 16-year-old Emma Thomashefsky, sister of one of the most powerful figures in Yiddish theatre, Boris Thomashefsky. They had two children, but their relationship was always troubled and eventually Emma Finkel left her husband and began divorce proceedings. Her suit mentioned examples of spousal cruelty including violence. She be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Hurvitz
Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz (February 27, 1844Baker 1998. – March 4, 1910), also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater.Bercovici, ''O sută de ani…'' Jacob Adler describes him as an "authorit on dramaturgy", but also remarks that before being part of the Yiddish theater in London in the mid-1880s he had "wandered in different lands, involved himself in various undertakings, and then moved on often leaving, it is said not altogether pleasant memories behind him." He was one of the few figures in the early years of Yiddish theater who did ''not'' participate in the boom years in Imperial Russia (1879–1883). Famous for the speed with which he turned out his plays (usually in no more than three days), he would sometimes start actors rehearsing the first two acts of a play while he wrote the third backstage. Life Horowitz was born in Stanislau, eastern Galicia (then a province of Austria-Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Levy
Morris Levy (born Moishe Levy; August 27, 1927 – May 21, 1990) was an American entrepreneur in the fields of jazz clubs, music publishing, and the independent record industry. Levy was cofounder and owner of Roulette Records, founding partner of the Birdland jazz club and the Roulette Room. He was a prominent subject of investigations into organized crime and the music industry, and was convicted of extortion shortly before his death. At the peak of his business career, Levy owned more than 90 companies employing 900 people, including record-pressing plants, tape-duplicating plants, a distribution company, a prominent New England chain of 81 record stores (Strawberries), and many record labels. Levy, who went by "Moishe" or "Mo" within the record industry, was described by ''Billboard'' magazine as "one of the record industry's most controversial and flamboyant players" and by '' Variety'' as "The Octopus", for his far-reaching control, disproportionate to the size of his co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Lewis
Moishe Lewis (born Losz, sometimes known as Morris Lewis, 1888–1950) was a Jewish labour activist in eastern Europe and Canada. Life and work A tanner by trade, he was born and raised in the Svisloch shtetl in the Russian Empire (later part of Poland and now Belarus). Moishe Losz was the chairman of the Jewish Labour Bund in Svisloch.Smith, Cameron, ''Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family''. Toronto: Summerhill Press. (1989) , page 111 The Bund was both an active political party and a Jewish, Socialist labour movement.Smith, p.127 It was preoccupied in changing the system that was at the roots of low pay and dangerous, harsh working conditions. When the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War were at their fiercest, in the summer of 1920, Poland invaded, and the Bolshevik Red Army counter-attacked. Svisloch was on the Polish-Russian border and was occupied by the Soviets in July 1920. Moishe Losz openly opposed the Bolsheviks and would later be jailed by them for his opp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Lowtzky
Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master. Biography He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kyiv (3rd RUS-ch). The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden ( Paul Saladin Leonhardt won). In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg (14th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier''). In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg. In 1910, he took 3rd in Hamburg ( Zsigmond Barász won). In 1910, he tied for 1st-3rd with Leonhardt and Mörig in Leipzig. In 1911, he won in Cologne (Masters tournament). In 1911, he took 2nd, behind Hans Fahrni, in San Remo. In 1911, he took 2nd in Leipzig (Valentiner won). In 1912, he took 5th in Abbazia ( Rudolf Spielmann won). In 1912, he took 16th in Breslau (18th DSB–Congress). The event was won by Oldřich Duras and Akiba Rubinstein. In 1912, he took 12th in Pistyan (Pöstyén, Piešťany). The event was won by Rubi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Mana
Moishe Mana (; born 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and real estate developer. Originally from Israel, Mana emigrated to the US in 1983, where he founded his first business, Moishe's Moving Systems. He started further businesses including: GRM Document Management, the country's third largest document storage business; Milk Studios, a media and entertainment conglomerate; and Mana Contemporary, an art center. Early life Moishe grew up in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, the second of five children in a poor family. His parents were Iraqi-born immigrants who worked in various businesses, including real estate. After serving as an intelligence officer in the IDF, he studied law at Tel Aviv University for a year before leaving to pursue business in the private sector. Career New York Moishe moved to New York City in 1983 with little money. He slept on park benches, and his first job was as a dishwasher in Greenwich Village. He transitioned into the constructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill (June 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993. Early life Merrill was born Moishe Miller, later known as Morris Miller, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of tailor Abraham Miller, originally Milstein, and his wife, Lillian (née Balaban), Jewish immigrants from Pultusk, Poland, near Warsaw. His paternal grandparents were Berl Milstein and Chana (née Mlawski), both from Pultusk, Poland. His mother claimed to have had an operatic and concert career in Poland (a fact denied by her son in his biographies) and encouraged her son to have early voice training: he had a stutter, which wasn't apparent when singing. Merrill was inspired to pursue professional singing lessons when he saw the baritone Richard Bonelli singing Count Di Luna in a performance of '' Il Trovatore'' at the Metropolitan Opera, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Oysher
Moishe Oysher () (March 8, 1906 – November 27, 1958) was an American cantor, recording artist, and film and Yiddish theatre actor.Zalmen Zylbercweig, ''Leksikon fun Yidishn teater'', Book 3, 2407. During the 1940s and 1950s he was one of the top Hazzans and his recordings continue to be appreciated due to his rich, powerful voice and creative arrangements. Biography Early life Oysher was born in Lipcani, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire on March 8, 1906. He was born to a Jewish family that traced six generations of . He told writer Khaver-Paver that his grandfather sang folk songs and workers' songs to his students when Moyshe was young, and the heartfelt tunes were ''in my blood,'' and that it was from his other grandfather "" and his father "" that he inherited his gift as a . Oysher's father departed for America when Moyshe was young, leaving him with his grandfather. He started acting in school and played a few roles in the poet Eliezer Steinberg's ''Der Berditcheve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Postone
Moishe Postone (17 April 1942 – 19 March 2018) was a Canadian historian, sociologist, political philosopher and social theorist. He was a professor of history at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the Committee on Jewish Studies. Life and career Postone was born on 17 April 1942, the son of a Canadian rabbi. He received his PhD from University of Frankfurt in 1983. His research interests included modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; 20th-century Germany; antisemitism; and contemporary global transformations. He was co-editor with Craig Calhoun and Edward LiPuma of '' Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives'' and author of '' Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory''. He was also co-editor with Eric Santner of ''Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century'', a collection of essays that consider the meaning of the Holocaust in twentieth-century hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moishe Rosen
Martin "Moishe" Rosen (April 12, 1932 – May 19, 2010) was an American minister and the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, a Christian missionary organization that focuses on evangelism to Jews. Biography Rosen was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Ben Rosen and Rose Baker. He was raised in Denver, Colorado. According to Rosen, his mother's parents were Reform Jews from Austria and his paternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew. Although his father regularly attended an Orthodox synagogue, Rosen describes him as irreligious and viewing religion as a "racket". Rosen married Ceil Starr on August 18, 1950, and they became Christians in 1953. After graduating from Northeastern Bible College, Rosen made a commitment to be a missionary to Jews. He was ordained as a Conservative Baptist (now Venture Church Network) minister in 1957. He led Hebrew Christian congregations and worked for 17 years for the American Board of Missions to the Jews (ABMJ), (now cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
