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Weisberg
Weisberg, a variant of Weissberg, is a German surname. It derives from Weiss or Weiß (German language, German for "white") and Berg (German for "mountain"). People with the surname include: * Arthur Weisberg, (1931–2009), American instrumentalist and composer * Charles Weisberg (born 1947), American forger * Herman Weisberg (born 1966), American private investigator and security consultant * Jacob Weisberg (born 1964), American political journalist * Lois Weisberg (1925–2016), Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for Chicago * Michael Weisberg (born 1976), American philosopher and professor * Richard H. Weisberg, American law professor * Robert Weisberg, American lawyer and law professor * Steve Weisberg (born 1963), American recording artist and composer * Tim Weisberg (born 1943), American musical artist See also *Lauren Weisberger (born 1977), American author *Shatzi Weisberger (1930–2022), American activist and retired nurse {{surname Ashkenazi surnames German topon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatzi Weisberger
Joyce "Shatzi" Weisberger (née Schatzberg; June 17, 1930 – December 1, 2022) was an American death educator, activist, and nurse based in New York City. After a 47-year career in nursing, she began engaging in public death education and end-of-life advocacy. Throughout her life, Weisberger was involved in several activist movements, including the civil rights movement, anti-nuclear movement, ACT UP, and campaigns against police brutality in the United States, police brutality. In her later years, she was affiliated with the New York chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, expressing opposition to Zionism. Early life Shatzi Weisberger was born Joyce Schatzberg in Brooklyn on June 17, 1930. She did not have a close relationship with either of her parents, and was once Kidnapping, kidnapped by her father after her mother Coming out, came out as a lesbian. She grew up in a small apartment with her mother and her partner, unaware of their romantic relationship of more than 40 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. In September 2018, he left Slate to co-found Pushkin Industries, an audio content company, with Malcolm Gladwell. Weisberg was also a ''Newsweek'' columnist. He served as the editor of ''Slate'' magazine for six years before stepping down in June 2008. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner. Early life and education Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a Chicago lawyer and judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. His mother is Lois Weisberg. His brother is former CIA officer and television writer and producer Joe Weisberg. Weisberg graduated from Yale University in 1986, where he worked for the ''Yale Daily News''. When a junior, he was offered membership in Skull and Bones by then lieutenant governor of Massachusetts John Kerry. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Weisberger
Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American writer. She is author of the 2003 bestseller '' The Devil Wears Prada'', a ''roman à clef'' of her experience as an assistant to '' Vogue'' editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Weisberger worked as a writer and editor for '' Vogue'' and '' Departures'' magazines prior to writing ''The Devil Wears Prada'', which was adapted into a film of the same name in 2006. She has since published seven other novels. Early life and education Weisberger was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a school teacher mother and a department store president turned mortgage broker father. Her family is Jewish, and she was raised in Conservative Judaism and later Reform Judaism. She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. At age eleven, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother. She attended Parkland High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Weisberg
Robert I. Weisberg is an American lawyer. He is the Edwin E. Huddleson Jr. Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Weisberg is an authority on criminal law and criminal procedure, as well as a scholar in the law and literature movement. Education and career Weisberg was educated at the Bronx High School of Science, and received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1966. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Harvard University in 1967 and 1971. After graduation, he taught English at Skidmore College from 1970 to 1976. Weisberg left to attend Stanford Law School Stanford Law School (SLS) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Stanford University, a Private university, private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% i ..., where he received a J.D. in 1979 and was the Editor-in-Chief of the '' Stanford Law Review''. He then served as a law clerk for Judge J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Weisberg
Lois Weisberg (May 6, 1925 – January 13, 2016) was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011. She was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 1999 '' New Yorker'' essay, "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"; Gladwell, called Weisberg a "connector" for her ability to connect people from differing communities, and included the essay about her in his book '' The Tipping Point''. He asked, "She's a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you've never heard of her. Does she run the world?" Weisberg was appointed by Mayor Harold Washington to head the city's Office of Event Planning (in the Department of Cultural Affairs) in 1983. She helped establish the Gallery 37 program, which gathered Chicago youths to a vacant block in downtown Chicago to make art; she also created the Chicago Blues Festival, the Chicago Gospel Festival, multiple citywide neighborhood festivals, and the Chicago Holiday Sharing It Program. She launch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Weisberg
Jules Timothy Weisberg (born January 1, 1943) is an American flutist, vocalist, and record producer. A collaboration album with singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, " Twin Sons of Different Mothers," achieved platinum status from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Career In school, Weisberg wanted to play drums, but instruments were chosen in order of the students' last names. When Weisberg got his chance, his choice was bassoon or flute. He chose the latter because it was easier to carry and seemed easier to learn. He was a fan of soul music, which had been using the flute in the 1960s. He studied classical music before playing soul, jazz and pop. His first experience recording was on The Monkees' album '' The Monkees Present'' in 1969. While working as a studio musician, his debut album was released with a version of " Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues. In 1972 he recorded with The Carpenters and two years later appeared on the television programs '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Weisberg
Arthur Weisberg (April 4, 1931 – January 17, 2009) was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author. Biography Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art, majoring in bassoon and studying with Simon Kovar, and graduating in 1948. Soon after leaving Juilliard, he secured the principal chairs with the Houston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras and second bassoon with the Cleveland Orchestra, before coming back to New York City. After pursuing study of conducting with Jean Morel, he again returned to the bassoon as principal for Symphony of the Air as well as bassoonist of the New York Woodwind Quintet for 14 years. Weisberg conducted the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Sjaellands and Aalborg Symphonies of Denmark. Weisberg founded and conducted the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Weisberg also taught extensive, holding posts at the Juilliard School, State University of New York a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Weisberg
Herman Weisberg (born 1966) is an American private investigator and security consultant. He is known for handling high-end white-collar crime cases for New York's white-shoe firms. Prior to this, he was a New York City Police Department detective, serving as the top investigator under New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. The cases Weisberg investigates typically revolve around interpersonal disputes and blackmail. His specialization in sextortion cases has led various publications to refer to him as "The Mistress Whisperer." Career New York City Police Department Weisberg began his 20-year career with the New York City Police Department in the 1990s as a beat police officer in Queens. He took on various roles throughout his tenure, including working undercover on the NYPD's vice squad, serving as a narcotics investigator, and being part of the dignitary protection unit, where he was responsible for safeguarding visiting dignitaries such as Vice Preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Weisberg
Michael Craig Weisberg (born October 20, 1976) is an American philosopher of science, currently Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Deputy Director of Perry World House, directs the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance, and is a Non-resident Senior Advisor for the International Peace Institute. Professor Weisberg is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Education and career Weisberg earned both a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in philosophy in 1999 from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Philip Kitcher. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2003 at Stanford University under the supervision of Peter Godfrey-Smith. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. Weisberg is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Biology and Philosophy''. Philosophical work Weisberg is known for his research in philosophy of science, especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Weisberg
Steve Weisberg (born 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American composer, pianist, recording artist, and producer. In the 1980s, after studying with Michael Gibbs at Berklee College in Boston, Massachusetts, he recorded the XtraWatt/ ECM release "I Can't Stand Another Night Alone (In Bed With You)," produced by Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, recorded and performed with '' Karen Mantler and her Cat Arnold'', and contributed arrangements for Hal Willner's '' Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill'' (A&M). He was also a member of infamous Boston band Sons of Sappho. In addition, he has contributed music to the films '' Atlas Shrugged - Part 1,'' '' Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'', '' Don't Say a Word'', ''Impostor'', ''Runaway Jury'', ''Bewitched'', the 2006 documentary '' The Ground Truth'', '' Step Brothers'', '' The Express: The Ernie Davis Story,'' and the documentary ''Banner On The Moon''. He spent the 1990s performing with Flamin' Amy Coleman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Weisberg
"Baron" Charles Weisberg (June 5, 1947) was a US document forger who forged manuscripts, letters and signatures of celebrities and historical figures. Weisberg forged autographs and letters of celebrities like Francis Hopkinson and manuscripts of Walt Whitman and Stephen Collins Foster. He also expanded to alleged works of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and created surveys of Mount Vernon. When forging Lincoln's signature, Weisberg sometimes used original US Civil War letters and wrote an "extension" of the original. However, Weisberg created long letters when Lincoln had usually written shorter, punctual missives. Robert Spring also forged letters from Washington but tended to drop the beginning of the G in Washington's name and omit the "g" in "go". He also used modern inks. Weisberg was first arrested 1935 in New York for forgery. He was later charged with mail fraud in Pennsylvania for selling forged documents and autographs through mail. His last forgery was a Kather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weissberg
Weissberg is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, Polish-Austrian physicist *Eric Weissberg, American musician *Isaac Jacob Weissberg (1841–1904), Hebrew writer *Leib Weissberg, Polish rabbi *Peter Weissberg Peter Leslie Weissberg is a British physician. Weissberg graduated from Birmingham University with an MBChB degree in Medicine 1976 and an MD degree Medicine in 1985. Weissberg was appointed as the first British Heart Foundation Professor of C ..., British physician *Robert Weissberg, American political scientist *Roger Weissberg, American psychologist *Drossel Weissberg, a fictional character from ''Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey'' See also *Yuliya Veysberg, Russian music critic {{surname, Weissberg Ashkenazi surnames German toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
