Yanofsky
Yanofsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), leading American geneticist *Daniel Yanofsky, OC, QC (1925–2000), Canada's first chess grandmaster *Joel Yanofsky, Canadian novelist and literary columnist *Nikki Yanofsky (born 1994), Canadian jazz-pop singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec * Saul Yanofsky or Saul Yanovsky (1864–1939), American Jewish anarchist and activist *Zal Yanofsky Zalman Yanovsky (December 19, 1944 – December 13, 2002) was a Canadian folk-rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky and teacher Nechama Yanovsky (née Gemeril), who died in 1958. He played lead guit ...

Nikki Yanofsky
Nicole Rachel "Nikki" Yanofsky (born February 8, 1994) is a Canadian jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec. She sang the CTV Olympic broadcast theme song, " I Believe", which was also the theme song of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. She also performed at the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics and at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games. She has released three studio albums to date, including ''Nikki'' in 2010, '' Little Secret'' in 2014, and '' Turn Down the Sound'' in 2020. Early life Yanofsky was born and raised in a "close-knit Jewish family" in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her parents are Elyssa (née Rosenthal) and Richard Yanofsky. She has two older brothers, Michael and Andrew. Yanofsky graduated from St. George's School of Montreal. Recordings Yanofsky recorded the Ella Fitzgerald song "Air Mail Special" for Verve Records and it was released in June 2007 on the album '' We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song''. Produced by ...
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Daniel Yanofsky
Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000), commonly known as Daniel Yanofsky or Abe Yanofsky, was a Canadian chess player, chess writer, chess arbiter, and lawyer. He was Canada's first Grandmaster and an eight-time Canadian Chess Champion. Early life Yanofsky was born to a Jewish family in Brody, Poland (now western Ukraine), and moved to Canada when he was eight months old, settling with his family in Winnipeg. Life in chess Early successes He learned to play chess at the age of eight. Yanofsky won his first Manitoba provincial championship at age 12 in 1937, also making his debut in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship that same year in Toronto. In 1939, just 14 years old, he played for Canada at the Buenos Aires Olympiad. Yanofsky was the sensation of the tournament, making the highest score on second board. He won his first Canadian Chess Championship in 1941 at age 16, at home in Winnipeg. He won at Ventnor City 1942 with 6.5/9, and tied 1st-2nd w ...
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Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925 – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon. Education and early life Charles Yanofsky was born on April 17, 1925 in New York. He was one of the earliest graduates of the Bronx High School of Science, then studied at the City College of New York and completed his degree in biochemistry in spite of having had his education interrupted by military service in World War II including participation in the Battle of the Bulge. In 1948, having returned and completed college, he took up graduate work towards his master's degree and PhD, both granted by Yale University. He pursued postdoctoral work at Yale for a time, completing work sta ...
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Joel Yanofsky
Joel Yanofsky (26 September 1955 – 23 December 2020) was a Canadian novelist and literary columnist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Montreal Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street. Yanofsky's reviews and articles have appeared in '' The Village Voice'', '' Canadian Geographic'', ''Chatelaine'', ''The Globe and Mail'', ''The Toronto Star'' and '' The Montreal Gazette'', among others. He earned the dubious honour of having once been evicted from the Ritz Carlton bar in Montreal in the company of John Updike. He was also a journalism instructor at Concordia University. His published works include ''Jacob's Ladder'', ''Homo Erectus: And Other Popular Tales of True Romance'', and ''Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind''. ''Mordecai and Me'' was a shortlisted nominee for the 2003 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize."Literary awards announce finalists". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and M ...
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Saul Yanofsky
Saul Yanovsky (1864–1939) was an American anarchist and activist. He is best remembered as the editor of the periodicals ''Freie Arbeiter Stimme'' (1890–1977), Arbeter Fraynd (1885-1914), '' Di Abend Tsaytung'' (1906) and the monthly literary publication ''Die Fraye Gezelshaft'' (1910–11). He was a member of the jewish-anarchist group Pioneers of Liberty The Pioneers of Liberty (Pionire der Frayhayt) was the first Jewish anarchist organization in the United States. The group was known for its Yiddish-language publications and antireligious social events, such as Yom Kippur balls. Their club's mo .... References Further reading * * Philosophical anarchists American anarchists American Jews 1939 deaths 1864 births Jewish anarchists Editors of Fraye Arbeter Shtime {{Judaism-bio-stub ...
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