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Trachtenberg
Trachtenberg (Russian/ Ukrainian: Трахтенберг, yi, טראַכֿטנבערג; he, טרכטנברג, is a surname of several notable people, typically an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, especially Bessarabian and Ukrainian. Sometimes the name is transliterated to Trachtenburg, whilst Jews from Argentina often spell the name Trajtenberg according to Spanish spelling norms. Some more recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union have had the name transliterated as Trakhtenberg when entering the US. Trachtenberg, literally "a mountain of costumes" (in German), or "a mountain of thoughts" (in Yiddish), is actually the former German name of a town in Silesia now called by the Polish name Żmigród, where Jews were a significant part of the population until the Second World War and the Holocaust. Jews who bear this name are usually descendants of families who moved from Trachtenburg, Silesia, to another place in central or eastern Europe (and then elsewhere, later on), and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Trachtenberg
Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (23 November 1884 – 26 December 1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York. He was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and later in the Communist Party USA. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee. During the period of McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the Smith Act; the convictions were overturned, the first by recanting of a government witness and the second by a US Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 1958. Biography Early years Alexander Leo Trachtenberg, later known to his friends as "Alex" or "Trachty," was born on November 23, 1885, of Jewish parents in the city of Odessa, part of the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Trachtenberg (; born October 11, 1985) is an American actress and model. Trachtenberg began her career at age three, appearing in a number of commercials, films, and television series as a child. Her starring role on the Nickelodeon television series '' The Adventures of Pete & Pete'' (1994–1996) as Nona Mecklenberg was also her first credited role. She starred in the Nickelodeon Movies comedy film '' Harriet the Spy'' (1996) as the film's eponymous character and in the CBS sitcom ''Meego'' (1997) as Maggie, both of which she won two Young Artist Awards for. Trachtenberg found further success on the WB supernatural drama television series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (2000–2003) as Dawn Summers, the younger sister of the show's eponymous protagonist, a role which won her another Young Artist Award and earned her three Saturn Award nominations. She also earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her role as the host of the Discovery Kids series ''Truth or Scare' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (born December 14, 1937) was the 15th President of the George Washington University, serving from 1988 to 2007. On August 1, 2007, he retired from the presidency and became GW's President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Background Trachtenberg is a native of Brooklyn, New York who graduated from James Madison High School in 1955. He graduated from Columbia University in 1959, and earned a J.D. from Yale in 1962 and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1966. At the beginning of his career, he served as the special assistant to the U.S. Education Commissioner for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He began his career in higher education at Boston University and later became President at the University of Hartford. From there he went to The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Trachtenberg
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host.Rachel Kurland, Scare Tactics Pay off for Cheltenham’s Dan Trachtenberg'. The Jewish Exponent. March 14, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2017. He is best known for directing the films ''10 Cloverfield Lane'' (2016) and ''Prey'' (2022)'','' the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. In 2019, he directed the pilot episode of the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys'', and in 2021 directed the pilot episode of the Peacock series ''The Lost Symbol'', on which he also served as an executive producer. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of ''The Totally Rad Show'' podcast and was a former co-host of the ''Geekdrome'' podcast. He also directed episodes for the ''Ctrl+Alt+Chicken'' podcast. All three programs were hosted at Revision3. He also directed the 2011 short film '' Portal: No Escape'', an episode of ''Black Mirror'' entitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trachtenberg System
The Trachtenberg system is a system of rapid mental calculation. The system consists of a number of readily memorized operations that allow one to perform arithmetic computations very quickly. It was developed by the Ukrainian engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being in a Nazi concentration camp. The rest of this article presents some methods devised by Trachtenberg. Some of the algorithms Trachtenberg developed are ones for general multiplication, division and addition. Also, the Trachtenberg system includes some specialised methods for multiplying small numbers between 5 and 13 (but shown here is 2–12). The section on addition demonstrates an effective method of checking calculations that can also be applied to multiplication. General multiplication, Trachtenberg math theory The method for general multiplication is a method to achieve multiplications a\times b with low space complexity, i.e. as few temporary results as possible to be kept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trachtenberg School Of Public Policy And Public Administration
The Trachtenberg School, officially the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (TSPPPA), is the graduate school of public policy and public administration in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. The Trachtenberg School offers Master of Public Policy, Master of Public Administration, and a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration. History Long requested by George Washington, education in public service and government began at George Washington University with the construction of the Hall of Government in 1927. The university gradually expanded its offerings in the field, and by 1950, public administration courses were offered in the School of Government, Department of Business, and the Department of Political Science. In 1953, the Department of Political Science organized these offerings into a Master of Arts in Public Administration degree. To address the call for professional trainin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Trachtenberg
Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946) is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : ''Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923'' (Columbia University Press, 1980), ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement'', 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), ''History and Strategy'' (Princeton University Press, 1991) and ''The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method ''(Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966–1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983–1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994–1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Trachtenberg
Alan Zelick Trachtenberg (March 22, 1932 – August 18, 2020) was an American historian and the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and professor emeritus of American Studies at Yale University. Born in Philadelphia, Trachtenberg attended Temple University, and earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, writing his dissertation on the Brooklyn Bridge in American literature. Trachtenberg taught at Penn State for eight years, then spent a year at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, before joining the faculty at Yale in 1969. He resided in Hamden, Connecticut with his wife Betty (née Glassman), pianist and college administrator, was Dean of Students at Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ... from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakow Trachtenberg
Jakow Trachtenberg (17 June 1888 – 26 October 1951) was a mathematician who developed the mental calculation techniques called the Trachtenberg system. He was born in Odessa, in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine). He graduated with highest honors from the Mining Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg and later worked as an engineer in the Obukhov arms factory. While still in his early twenties, he became Chief Engineer with 11,000 men under his supervision. The Tsarist government gave him the responsibility of supervising the formation of a well-developed navy. Trachtenberg was a dedicated pacifist. When war broke out in 1914, he was instrumental in organising a society known as the Society of Good Samaritans. The idea was to train Russian students to take care of the wounded. It also had a special recognition from Tsar Nicholas II. He was against violence of any sort despite having a leading position in tsarist arms production. After the Russian Revolutions of 1917, Trachte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Trachtenberg
Joshua Trachtenberg (1904–1959) was a reform Rabbi based in the United States of America. He had a notable career as a congregational Rabbi and scholarly writer. Biography Trachtenberg was born in London but travelled to America at aged three. He received his rabbinical ordination at Hebrew Union College (1936), and went on to serve at multiple congregations. He worked in many areas of Jewish scholarship including a survey of religious conditions in Israel (1951–52), which was sponsored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Trachtenberg was also active in the field of community work. In Easton he was the president of the Jewish Community Council (1939–46), and as an ardent Zionist, he was identified with the Labour Zionist movement. His most notable work ''Jewish Magic and Superstition'' (1939, repr. 1961 and again 2004 with a foreword by Moshe Idel) was his Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University Columbia Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devorah Rose
Devorah Rose, born Deborah Denise Trachtenberg, is the Editor-in-Chief of ''Social Life Magazine'', a television personality and entrepreneur. In 2011, ''The New York Observer'' named Rose one of the top 50 Media Power Bachelorettes. Rose has been described by ''The New Post'' as a “real life Blair Waldorf” and by ''The New York Times'' as “One part Lily Bart, one part Holly Golightly.” Early life and education Rose was born Deborah Denise Trachtenberg in Plano, Texas, to a Venezuelan mother and Guatemalan father. She moved to Venezuela when she was three months old and moved back to the States when she was six or seven. Rose was raised primarily in Newton, Massachusetts. Rose graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree in English and later worked towards her MFA in Columbia University's creative writing program. Career ''Social Life Magazine'' Rose is the Editor-in-Chief of ''Social Life Magazine''. The magazine has featured stars such as Sasha Pieterse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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