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Wolpe
Wolpe is a locational surname of German origin, named after the medieval County of Wölpe. Notable people with the surname include: * AnnMarie Wolpe (1930–2018), South African sociologist, wife of Harold *Berthold Wolpe (1905–1989), German visual designer *David Wolpe (born 1958), American rabbi *Harold Wolpe (1926–1996), South African economist, husband of AnnMarie * Howard Wolpe (1939–2011), American politician *Irma Wolpe (1902–1984), Romanian-born composer * Joseph Wolpe (1915–1997), South African psychiatrist *Lenny Wolpe (born 1951), American actor *Paul Root Wolpe (born 1957), American sociologist *Sholeh Wolpé, Iranian-born American poet, literary translator and playwright *Shalom Dov Wolpo, also Sholom Ber Wolpe (born 1948), Israeli rabbi *Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972), American composer See also *Volpe *Wölpe, a river in Germany *County of Wölpe The County of Wölpe (german: Grafschaft Wölpe) was the territorial lordship of a noble family in the Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold Wolpe
Berthold Ludwig Wolpe (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after the Nazis came to power in 1935 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1947. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1959, awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art in 1968 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983. He died in London in 1989. Career Wolpe began his career as an apprentice in a firm of metalworkers, followed by four years as a student of Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach Kunstgewerbeschule. In 1932 he visited London and met Stanley Morison, who invited Wolpe to design a printing type of capital letters for the Monotype Corporation. The typeface, Albertus, was first shown in 1935 and completed in 1940. When World War II was declared Wolpe, along with other German nationals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wolpe
Joseph Wolpe (20 April 1915 in Johannesburg, South Africa – 4 December 1997 in Los Angeles) was a South African psychiatrist and one of the most influential figures in behavior therapy. Wolpe grew up in South Africa, attending Parktown Boys' High School and obtaining his MD from the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1956, Wolpe was awarded a Ford Fellowship and spent a year at Stanford University in the Center for Behavioral Sciences, subsequently returning to South Africa but permanently moving to the United States in 1960 when he accepted a position at the University of Virginia. In 1965, Wolpe accepted a position at Temple University. One of the most influential experiences in Wolpe's life was when he enlisted in the South African army as a medical officer. Wolpe was entrusted to treat soldiers who were diagnosed with what was then called "war neurosis" but today is known as post traumatic stress disorder. The mainstream treatment of the time for soldiers was based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wolpe
David J. Wolpe (born 1958) is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. Wolpe became the focus of international controversy when he gave a Passover sermon that questioned the historicity of the Exodus from Egypt. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York in 1987, Wolpe is a leader in Conservative Judaism. Career Wolpe has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, and served as assistant to the Chancellor of that institution; at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University) in Los Angeles; and at Hunter College in New York. He frequently is featured on documentaries on Biblical topics produced by A&E Networks ( A&E, The Biography Channel, History Channel and History Channel International). Wolpe has written a regular weekly column for the New York Jewish Week for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He lived and worked in Berlin (1902–1933) until the Nazi seizure of power forced him to move first to Vienna (1933–34) and Jerusalem (1934–38) before settling in New York City (1938–72). In works such as ''Battle Piece'' (1942/1947) and "In a State of Flight" in ''Enactments for Three Pianos'' (1953), he responded self-consciously to the circumstances of his uprooted life, a theme he also explored extensively in voluminous diaries, correspondence, and lectures. His densely eclectic music absorbed ideas and idioms from diverse artistic milieus, including post-tonality, bebop, and Arab classical musics. Life Wolpe was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Wolpe
Irma Wolpe Rademacher (March 15, 1902 – January 6, 1984), née Schoenberg, was a Romanian-born American pianist and teacher. Life and career She was born in 1902 in Galați, Western Moldavia, Romania, into a bourgeois Jewish family, the third of four children. In 1910 the family moved to Iași (Jassy), where her father, Jacob Schoenberg (1864–1930), was offered the position of vice president with the newly formed Banca Moldova. Her mother, Rachel Schoenberg née Segall (1879–1943), conversant in many languages, was a gifted essayist and poet. Both parents were Zionists and eminently active in the Jewish community life. They were closely connected with leading Zionists, including the presidents of the World Zionist Organization Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow. Rachel Schoenberg was a member of the Women's International Zionist Organization and a sought-after speaker at its European congresses. Jacob and Rachel Schoenberg were engaged in establishing agricultural stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AnnMarie Wolpe
AnnMarie Wolpe (1 December 1930 – 14 February 2018, née Kantor) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, sociologist and feminist. Her husband Harold Wolpe was also a South African anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela. She fled South Africa after being arrested and interrogated. She wrote of her ordeal and she was among the initial editorial collective of ''Feminist Review'' when it was founded in 1979. Early life AnnMarie Kantor was born 1 December 1930 in Johannesburg, daughter of Abraham and Pauline (née Braude) Kantor. Her brother was James Kantor, arrested but acquitted in the Rivonia Trial. She studied at University of the Witwatersrand, and there met Harold Wolpe (1926-1996); they married in November 1955, and had three children. South Africa before exile Wolpe worked for the Transvaal clothing industry medical aid society, and later ran a bursary fund for African students. Harold Wolpe was arrested in July 1963 along with Nelson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Wolpe
Howard Eliot Wolpe (November 3, 1939 – October 25, 2011) was an American politician who served as a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He returned to the State Department as Special Advisor to the Secretary for Africa's Great Lakes Region. Previously, he served as Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. While at the Center, Wolpe directed post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia. A specialist in African politics for ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Wolpe
Lenny Wolpe (born March 25, 1951) is an American musical theatre actor who has appeared in Broadway musicals including '' Wicked'' and '' The Drowsy Chaperone''. Early life Wolpe was born in Newburgh, New York. Wolpe majored in American history at George Washington University and was active in the university's theater department. Upon graduation, Wolpe attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota to teach theater. Career Wolpe made his Broadway debut in '' Onward Victoria'', which closed on opening night. Other Broadway appearances include '' Copperfield'' (Mr. Dick), '' Into the Light'' (Peter Vonn), and '' The Sound of Music'' (replacement for Max Dettweiler). While in a national tour of ''Little Shop of Horrors'', Wolpe was asked to audition for '' The Drowsy Chaperone'' by producer Roy Miller, with whom he had worked at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. Wolpe was cast as Feltzeig, a producer. Wolpe created the role of the Wizard in '' Wickeds original w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholeh Wolpé
Sholeh Wolpé ( fa, شعله ولپی) is an American poet, playwright, and literary translator. She was born in Iran, and lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years, before settling in the United States. Biography Sholeh Wolpé was born in Tehran, Iran, and spent most of her teen years in Trinidad and the United Kingdom before settling in the United States. She attended George Washington University and received a B.A. degree in Radio/TV/Film. Followed by studies at Northwestern University and received a M.A. degree in Radio/TV/Film and Johns Hopkins University and received a MHS in Public Health. The Poetry Foundation has written that “Wolpé’s concise, unflinching, and often wry free verse explores violence, culture, and gender. So many of Wolpé’s poems deal with the violent situation in the Middle East, yet she is ready to both bravely and playfully refuse to let death be too proud.” Wolpe's literary translations have garnered several pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Root Wolpe
Paul Root Wolpe (born February 26, 1957), is an American sociologist and bioethicist. He is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics and a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Wolpe served for 15 years as the Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), and is Editor-In-Chief of AJOB Neuroscience, the official Journal of the International Neuroethics Society (INS). Wolpe is also a member of the board of directors Executive Committee of the INS. He is the brother of David Wolpe. History Wolpe was born on February 26, 1957, in Charleston, South Carolina. He completed his undergraduate degree in the sociology and psychology of religion at the University of Pennsylvania. Wolpe earned an M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. He spent 3.5 years in the Department of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College. Wolpe returned to the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe (14 January 1926 – 19 January 1996) was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. He was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex between 1972 and 1991 when he moved back to South Africa with his wife to direct the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. White rule ended three years later. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1996. Life Harold Wolpe was born in 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian-Jewish family. He graduated from the Witwatersrand University with a BA in social science and an LLB. He married AnnMarie Kantor in 1955 and they had three children - Peta, Tessa and Nicholas. He was a leading member of the struggle against apartheid and a friend of both Joe Slovo and Nelson Mandela. His legal work was centrally connected with the South African struggles unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wölpe
Wölpe is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about long and a left tributary of the Alpe. The Wölpe has its source in a depression southeast of , a village in the borough of Nienburg and flows towards the northeast. In front of Rethem the ''Weiße Graben'' ("White Ditch") links the Wölpe with the Alpe. The ''Alpe-Wolpe-Umfluter'' then discharges into the Aller near Wohlendorf in the borough of Rethem. The waterway has been considerably straightened. It flows through woods, grassland and cultivated fields. According to the 2000 Water Quality Chart issued by the NLWKN it is critically polluted throughout ( quality class II−III). History At about from the source near the Nienburg village of Erichshagen-Wölpe the Wölpe flows by the mound on which the former castle of the counts of Wölpe stood. During the Middle Ages the waterway was widened into a moat for the security of the fortified position and flowed around the castle built in the 12th century. After the dest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
