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Spivak
Spivak or Spivack is a surname of Ukrainian language origin, meaning ''singer''. It is also common among Ukrainian Jews, in which case it refers to cantor. The name may refer to: *Charles David Spivak (1861–1927), Russian-born American medical doctor, community leader, and writer *Charlie Spivak (1907–1982), American trumpeter and bandleader *David Spivak (born 1978), American mathematician * Elye Spivak (1890–1950), Soviet linguist *Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic and professor at Columbia University * Gordon Spivack (1928–2000), American antitrust lawyer and Justice Department official * John L. Spivak (1897–1981), American communist reporter and author * Lawrence Spivak (1900–1994), American journalist and publisher * Lori Spivak (contemporary), Canadian jurist from Manitoba *Marla Spivak (born 1955), American entomologist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship * Maryana Spivak (born 1985), Russian actress *Max Spivak (1906–1981), Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (; born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Considered as one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, Spivak is best known for her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" and her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's '' De la grammatologie''. She has also translated many works of Mahasweta Devi into English, with separate critical notes on Devi's life and writing style, notably ''Imaginary Maps'' and ''Breast Stories.'' Spivak was awarded the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world." In 2013, she received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India. In 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spivak
Michael David Spivak (May 25, 1940October 1, 2020) was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume ''A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry'', which won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for expository writing in 1985. Biography Spivak was born in Queens, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Harvard University in 1960, and in 1964 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of John Milnor, with his thesis, ''On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality''. Afterwards, Spivak taught as a full-time Math Lecturer at Brandeis University, whilst writing '' Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus'', which was later translated into Polish, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. In 1967, he won a year-long National Science Foundation fellowship to Princeton’s Institute fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak (c. February 17, 1904 – March 1, 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s. Early life According to his immigration record, Sender Spivakovsky was born around 1904 in the village of Trilisy, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He arrived with his family at Ellis Island on 31 August 1910 (age 6), bound for New Haven, Connecticut to meet his older brother. By the time of the 10 January 1920 census (age 15), his family anglicized his name into "Charlie Spivak". As a Ukrainian-Jew, recorded details of Spivak's birth are unclear. Later sources place it in 1907. His personal papers claim the latter scenario.Spivak personal papers libguides.furman.edu. Accessed December 18, 2022. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Spivak
Lawrence Edmund Spivak (June 11, 1900 – March 9, 1994) was an American publisher and journalist who was best known as the co-founder, producer and host of the prestigious public affairs program ''Meet the Press''. He and journalist Martha Rountree founded the program as promotion for Spivak's magazine, ''The American Mercury'', and it became the longest-running continuous network series in television history. During his 28 years as panelist and moderator of ''Meet the Press'', Spivak was known for his pointed questioning of policy makers.Burrell, Cassandra, "TV News Show Pioneer Dies at 93"; The Associated Press, March 10, 1994 Life and career Lawrence E. Spivak was born June 11, 1900, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. In 1921 he graduated cum laude from Harvard University and began his career in publishing as business manager for ''Antiques'' magazine. He married psychologist Charlotte Beir Ring in 1924, and together they had two children. From 1930 to 1933 Spivak worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles David Spivak
Charles David Spivak (December25, 1861October16, 1927) was a Russian-born American medical doctor, community leader, and writer. He was one of the founders of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in what is now Lakewood, Colorado. He was the editor of ''The Sanatorium'' as well as the first editor of the ''Denver Jewish News'' (now known as the Intermountain Jewish News. With Yehoash, he is also the author of what was once the premier Yiddish-English Dictionary. Early life Spivak was born Chaim Davod Spivakofsky on December 25, 1861, in the village of Kremenchuk in the Russia (now Ukraine). In 1882, he and his friend Victor Yarros emigrated to the United States as political refugees.Dr. Charles Spvak Jewish Museum of the American West. After working in New York City and Maine, Spivak moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Spivak
Sidney Joel Spivak, (May 23, 1928 – July 8, 2002) was a Manitoba politician. He was a Executive Council of Manitoba, Cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin, Walter Weir and Sterling Lyon, and was himself leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (PCs) from 1971 to 1975. Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University. He worked as a barrister and became Vice-President of Golden Age Beverages Limited and Mathers Investments Limited as well. In 1955, Spivak married Mira Spivak, Mira Steele; they had three children together. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1966. Spivak was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1966 Manitoba general election, 1966 provincial election, in the riding of River Heights (electoral district), River Heights, which was then in far southwest Winnipeg. A Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Spivak
David Isaac Spivak is an American mathematician and senior scientist at the Topos Institute. He has worked on applications of category theory, in particular ologs and operadic compositionality of dynamical systems. He authored and coauthored the introductory texts on category theory and its applications, ''Category Theory for the Sciences'' and ''An Invitation to Applied Category Theory''. Early life and education Spivak received his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2007 under the supervision of Peter Teichner and Jacob Lurie. His thesis was on derived manifolds, Spivak worked as a postdoc at the University of Oregon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Work Spivak and Robert Kent developed a human-readable categorical system of knowledge representation called ologs. These were applied, in a series of collaborations with the materials scientist Markus Buehler, to different problems in that materials science. Ologs have been also used by researchers at NIST ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marla Spivak
Marla Spivak (born 1955) is an American entomologist, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota specializing in apiculture and social insects. Career and research Spivak graduated with a B.A. from Humboldt State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She is particularly well known for her work breeding lines of honey bees that detect and quickly remove diseased larvae and pupae, which is called hygienic behavior. Spivak has extensively studied the causes and impacts of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon where honey bee hives are abandoned by their worker bees. She attributes CCD to a combination of factors, including parasites, diseases, poor nutrition, pesticide poisonings, and habitat loss. Her research aims to identify stress factors that compromise bee immune systems and develop methods to mitigate these stresses. She was instrumental in setting up the first bee Tech-Transfer Team in the United States, which continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elye Spivak
Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak (, ; 10 December 1890 – 4 April 1950) was a Soviet Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue. Biography Spivak was born to a religious Jewish family in Vasilkov, Kiev Governorate in the Russian Empire. He survived the 1919 Vasilkov pogroms, in which Symon Petliura's armies massacred over fifty Jews. Spivak worked as a teacher in various cities, including Vasilkov, Glukhov, Kiev, and Kharkov, and was appointed professor of Yiddish linguistics at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute in 1925. Spivak published some fifty Yiddish textbooks and teaching aids, in collaboration with David Hofstein and others, and co-edited the pedagogical journal ''Ratnbildung'' ('Soviet Education') from 1929 to 1931. Following Nochum Shtif's death in 1933, Spivak was appointed director of the linguistics section of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture () and editor of its journal, ''Afn shprakhfront'' ('On the Language Front'). The Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spivak Pronoun
The Spivak pronouns 'e/em/eir' are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promoted on the virtual community ''LambdaMOO'' based on pronouns used in a book by American mathematician Michael Spivak. Though not in widespread use, they have been employed in writing for gender-neutral language by those who wish to avoid the standard terms ''he'', ''she'', or singular ''they''. History The precise history of the Spivak pronouns is unclear, since they appear to have been independently created multiple times. The first recorded use of the pronouns was in a January 1890 editorial by James Rogers, who derives ''e'', ''es'', and ''em'' from ''he'' and ''them'' in response to the proposed ''thon''.Rogers, James "That Impersonal Pronoun." Editorial. Comp. William Henry Hills '' The Writer'' Boston. Jan. 1890, 4th ed.: 12-13. ''Google Books''. Google. Web. Accessed 31 July 2014 Coincidentally, Scottish author David Lindsay (novelist), David Lindsay used the similar forms ''ae'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryana Spivak
Maryana Timofeevna Spivak (; born 23 March 1985) is a Russian film and television actress known for the 2017 film ''Loveless (film), Loveless''. She is the granddaughter of actress Zhanna Prokhorenko and daughter of Timofey Spivak. and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. For director Andrey Zvyagintsev's ''Loveless'', the crew spent four months on casting the character Zhenya, though Spivak was an early candidate, eventually successful. Spivak said she took the opportunity for a starring role in a film and the chance to work with Zvyagintsev. For ''Loveless'', Spivak was nominated for Best Actress at the Russian Guild of Film Critics awards. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1985 births 21st-century Russian actresses Living people Actors from Moscow Russian film actresses Russian voice actresses Russian television actresses Russian stage actresses Actresses from Moscow Moscow Art Theatre School alumni {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
