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Shapero
Shapero is a surname (see Shapiro). Notable people with the surname include: * Harold Shapero (1920–2013), American composer * Rich Shapero (born 1948), American venture capitalist and author See also *Shapiro (surname), main article; variants: ** Schapira, list ** Schapiro, list ** Shapira, list **Tristram Shapeero, English TV director *Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the r ..., city in Germany {{surname, Shapero Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames Jewish toponymic surnames ...
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Harold Shapero
Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer. Early years Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era jazz band. He was more interested in classical music. In his teens some of his teachers included Nicolas Slonimsky (editor of Baker's ''Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'') in 1936 and Ernst Krenek in 1937. At 18 he entered Harvard, where he became friends with Leonard Bernstein and studied composition with Walter Piston in 1938. He also studied with Paul Hindemith at the Berkshire Music Center in 1940–41. Shapero was one of the first students at Tanglewood following its founding in the 1940s. When Igor Stravinsky was Norton Professor at Harvard in 1940, Shapero showed Stravinsky his ''Nine-Minute Overture'' ...
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Rich Shapero
Rich Shapero (born 1948) is an American venture capitalist, self-published novelist, and musician. He is the founder of TooFar Media and the recipient of the 2015 Digital Book World Award for Best Adult Fiction App. Biography Shapero grew up in Los Angeles and attended UC Berkeley where he graduated in 1970 with a degree in English literature. Prior to founding TooFar Media, he was a partner at the venture capital firm Crosspoint and a board member at AristaSoft and New Edge Networks. TooFar Media Rich Shapero founded TooFar Media in the mid 2000s to produce and distribute his multimedia stories and future works. He collaborates with a team of artists to create his projects, and TooFar Media publishes and distributes them across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. TooFar Media App After the founding of TooFar Media, an app was released combining Shapero's novels with the visual art and accompanying music normally provided on CDs. The stories included in the ...
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Shapiro
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Spiro, Sapiro, Szapiro/Szpiro in Polish and Chapiro in French (more at "See also"), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derived from Spira, the medieval name of Speyer in Germany; compare with Spire, the French name for that city. Other name variants based on the city name "Spira" include Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spear, Szpir, Szpiro, Spero, Sapir, Sapiro, Chapiro and Sprai.(Kaganoff, 1977) Source: Saul Zeichner, 27 November 2000, Revised 10 April 2009 http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/nameorigin.htm The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, referred to as the , an acronym based on the names of the cities of Speyer/Spira, Worms and Mainz. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well-known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to Eng ...
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Schapira
Schapira is a surname (see Shapiro). Notable people with the surname include: * Eliezer Isaac Schapira (1835–1915), Hebrew writer and publisher * Pierre Schapira (politician) (born 1944), French politician *Pierre Schapira (mathematician) (born 1943), French mathematician * David Schapira (born 1980), American politician See also *Shapiro (surname), article; variants: ** Shapira, list ** Schapiro, list **Shapero, list *Speyer, city in Germany; name Shapira etc. based in it * Schaap, surname * Schaper, surname *Michiel Schapers Michiel Schapers (; born 11 October 1959) is a former tennis player and coach from the Netherlands. Tennis career Turning professional in 1982, Schapers represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated ... (b. 1959), Dutch tennis player * Schaps, surname * Schäfer/Schaefer/Schafer/Schaeffer etc., surname {{Surname Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames Jewish toponymic surnames ...
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Schapiro
Schapiro is a surname (see Shapiro), and may refer to: * Alexander Schapiro: see Sascha Schapiro * Andrew H. Schapiro (b. 1963), US Ambassador * Boris Schapiro (1909–2002), British bridge player * J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), American historian * Leonard Schapiro (1908–1983), British historian * Lillian Milgram Schapiro (1902–2006), American pediatrician * Mary Schapiro (b. 1955), American SEC chair (2009-2012) * Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), American art historian * Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015), Canadian-born American artist * Morris Schapiro (1903–1996), American chess master * Morton O. Schapiro (b. 1953), American economist and university president * Sascha Schapiro (1882/83–1946), Russian anarchist who fought in Ukraine and Spain * Steve Schapiro (1934–2022), American photojournalist See also *Shapiro, surname (main article); variants: **Schapira, list ** Shapira, list **Shapero, list *Tristram Shapeero, English TV director *Speyer Speyer (, older ...
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Shapira
Shapira is a surname (see Shapiro), and may refer to: * Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner and track and field coach killed in the 1972 Munich massacre * Amos Shapira, Israeli former President of El Al Airlines, Cellcom, and the University of Haifa * Anita Shapira, Israeli historian * Avraham Shapira, rabbi * Benjamin Shapira, Israeli biochemist * Berechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik Shapira, 17th-century rabbi * Dan Shapira, American physicist * David Shapira, American businessman * Haim-Moshe Shapira, Israeli politician * Isaiah Meïr Kahana Shapira (1828–1887), Polish-German rabbi and author * Moshe Shmuel Shapira, rabbi * Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830–1884), Jerusalem-based antiquities dealer  * Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli swimmer * Omer Shapira (born 1994), Israeli racing cyclist * Rachel Shapira, Israeli songwriter and poet * Yitzhak Shapira, author of The King's Torah * Yosef Shapira, Israeli judge and State Comptroller of Israel * Shapira (Tel Aviv ...
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Tristram Shapeero
Tristram Shapeero is an English television director and producer who has worked on both British and American comedy series. Early life Shapeero was born in Somerset and spent his childhood in Bath, where he attended St. Stephen's School and Beechen Cliff School. Career Shapeero started his career as a show runner on Channel 4's '' Norbert Smith: A Life'' and then worked on ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' He went to New York in 1991 to direct a few television comedy episodes. After moving back to the UK, he continued to direct television comedy, such as all episodes of '' Pulling'', half of the episodes of '' Green Wing'', and two seasons of ''Peep Show''. He also directed episodes of shows such as ''Brass Eye'', ''I'm Alan Partridge'', and ''Absolutely Fabulous''. He has been nominated for a BAFTA eight times: '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' and '' Brass Eye Special'' (two nominations) in 2002, '' Bremner, Bird and Fortune'' in 2003, ''Green Wing'' in 2005 and 2007, ''Peep Show'' in 2006, an ...
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Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lies south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans as a fortified town on the northeast frontiers of their Roman Empire, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. Speyer Cathedral, a number of other churches, and the ("old gate") dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman Emperors and List of German monarchs, German kings. The city is famous for the 1529 Protestation at Speyer. One of the ShUM-cities which formed the cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages, Medieval / Middle Ages, Speyer and its Jewish courtyard, Speyer, Jewish courtyard was inscribed on the UNESCO (United ...
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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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Yiddish-language Surnames
Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish has traditionally been written using the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, there were 11–13 million speakers. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hamburg: Buske, 1984), p. 3. leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and ''a ...
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