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Shulamith Nardi
Shulamith Schwartz Nardi (; April 23, 1909 – May 3, 2002) was an American-born translator, writer, editor, and educator, based in Israel after 1950. Early life and education Shulamith Schwartz was born in New York City, the daughter of Avraham Shmuel Schwartz and Fannie Masliansky Schwartz. Her father was a physician and a poet; her maternal grandfather Zvi Hirsch Masliansky was a leader of the Zionist Organization of America. She graduated from Barnard College in 1928. She earned a master's degree at Columbia University. Career Shulamith Schwartz was national president of Junior Hadassah from 1931 to 1933. She moved to Tel Aviv with her new husband in 1934. She taught high school English, and wrote for the ''Jewish Frontier'' periodical. She spoke about Palestine in Montreal in 1936, and was a delegate to the Twentieth Zionist Congress in Zürich in 1937. During World War II, she lived in New York again, where she was editor of the ''Hadassah Newsletter'' and a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (June 6, 1856 – January 11, 1943) was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, lecturer, and Zionist. Early life Masliansky was born on June 6, 1856, in Slutsk, Minsk Governorate, Russia, the son of Chaim Masliansky and Rebecca Papok. Masliansky began studying in the Mir Yeshiva when he was twelve. His father died when he was fourteen, at which point he went to Parichi and studied with the local rabbi, Yekhiel-Mikhl Volfson. In 1875, he moved to Pinsk and began working as a teacher in Talmud Torahs in Pinsk and Karlin. In 1881, following a wave of pogroms and anti-Jewish decrees, he began working as a teacher and eventually became a well-known sermonizer. He initially spoke in Pinsk and exerted an influence among the Pinsk youth, including Chaim Weizmann, who later became the first President of Israel. Masliansky then travelled around the cities and towns of the Pinsky Uyezd on behalf of Hibat Tsyion. He was arrested at one point while in Noblye near Pinsk due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahman Avigad
Nahman Avigad (; September 25, 1905 – January 28, 1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Zavaliv, Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist. Biography Avigad studied architecture in what is now the town of Brno, Czech Republic. Avigad emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1926. He married Shulamit (née Levin) Avigad in 1928. He worked in the excavations of the Beth Alpha synagogue and the Hamat Gader synagogue. Avigad earned his PhD in 1952, with a dissertation on the tombs of the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem. He taught at Hebrew University from 1949 and until his retirement in 1974. He directed the dig at Beit She'arim beginning in 1953. Avigad also worked on the excavations of Masada, the mountaintop complex built by Herod the Great. He was involved in the exploration of caves in the Judean desert, and published one of the Dead Sea scrolls. In 1969, Avigad was invited to undertake the excavation of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, deva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia University Alumni
Columbia most often refers to: * Columbia (personification), the historical personification of the United States * Columbia University, a private university in New York City * Columbia Pictures, an American film studio owned by Sony Pictures * Columbia Sportswear, an American clothing company * Columbia, South Carolina * Columbia, Missouri Columbia may also refer to: Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest * Columbia River, in Canada and the United States ** Columbia Bar, a sandbar in the estuary of the Columbia River ** Columbia Country, the region of British Columbia encompassing the northern portion of that river's upper reaches *** Columbia Valley, a region within the Columbia Country ** Columbia Lake, a lake at the head of the Columbia River *** Columbia Wetlands, a protected area near Columbia Lake ** Columbia Slough, along the Columbia watercourse near Portland, Oregon * Glacial Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard College Alumni
Barnard is a surname of Old English origin, derived from the Anglo-Saxon given name "Beornheard". It is composed of two elements: "Beorn," meaning "young warrior" or "bear," and "heard," meaning "hardy," "brave," or "strong." In some cases, Barnard is a version of the surname Bernard, which is a French and West Germanic masculine given name and surname. The surname means as tough as a bear, Bar(Bear)+nard/hard(hardy/tough) __NOTOC__ People Some of the people bearing the surname Barnard in England are thought to have arrived after the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), Changing their surnames from Bernard to Barnard. Some of whom, it has been suggested, can be traced back to Hugo Bernard. Some of the Barnard family in England may have been Huguenots who fled from the Atlantic coast region of France ''circa'' 1685 (the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes) or earlier than that date. By contrast, the Barnard family in Holland (the western provinces of the Netherlands) c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Expatriates In Israel
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Births
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Maimon
Ada Maimon (; 8 October 1893 – 10 October 1973) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1955. Biography Born Ada Fishman in Mărculești in Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Moldova), Maimon made aliyah to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1912, and was followed by her older brother, Yehuda Leib Maimon, Yehuda the following year. She worked as a teacher, and opened a Hebrew school for girls in Safed. Having joined a youth movement associated with Hapoel Hatzair, she became a member of the Hapoel Hatzair central committee in 1913, remaining on it until 1920. A participant in its founding convention, she also served on the executive committee of the Histadrut trade union. In 1921 she was amongst the founders of the Women's Workers Movement, and was its secretary until 1930. In that year she established the Ayanot study centre in Ness Ziona. Between 1946 and 1947 she served as head of the Histadrut's aliyah d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
