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Zuckermann or Zuckerman is a Yiddish language, Yiddish or German language, German surname meaning "sugar man". Zuckermann * Ariel Zuckermann (born 1973), Israeli conductor * Benedict Zuckermann (1818–1891), German scientist * Ghil'ad Zuckermann (born 1971), Israeli/Italian/British linguist * Hugo Zuckermann (1881–1914), Jewish-Austrian poet * Isidor Zuckermann (1866–1946), Austrian director of timber and wood industrial company * Wolfgang Zuckermann (1922–2018), German/American harpsichord maker Zuckerman * Adrian Zuckerman, British legal scholar * Adrian Zuckerman (attorney) (born 1956), Romanian lawyer * Allison Zuckerman (born 1990), American artist * Andrea Zuckerman, fictional character from ''Beverley Hills, 90210'' * Andrew Zuckerman (born 1977), American filmmaker * Angela Zuckerman (born 1965), American speed skater * Barry Zuckerman, American non-fiction writer * Baruch Zuckerman (1887–1970), American-Israeli Zionistic activist, and early proponent of Yad Vashe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Language
Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew language, Hebrew (notably Mishnaic Hebrew, Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish has traditionally been written using the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, there were 11–13 million speakers. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hamburg: Buske, 1984), p. 3. leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Jewish ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baruch Zuckerman
Baruch Zuckerman (; June 26, 1887 – December 13, 1970) was an American-Israeli Zionist, one of the leading proponents of Yad Vashem, editor of '' Yiddishe Kempfer'', and a leading figure in the Farband and Histadrut campaigns, and president of the Labor Zionist Organization of America. Early life Baruch was born into a poor family in the Hasidic village of Kurenitz, near Vilnius (then in Russia), the son of a peddler. His parents were Vigdor Chait and Sara, nee Levin. Most of the family later immigrated to the United States and changed their surname to Zuckerman. Yitzhak Zuckerman, one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, wrote in his memoirs that Baruch Zuckerman was his relative. When Zuckerman was 15, he began to feel the first stirrings of Zionism. He became seriously interested in this fledgling ideology in August 1903 when he heard Theodor Herzl speak in Vilnius. Emigration to United States In 1904, aged 16, Zuckerman arrived in the USA, where he initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Zuckerman
George Zuckerman (August 10, 1916 – September 30, 1996) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Zuckerman began his career writing short stories for ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Collier's Weekly'', and ''Esquire'' in the 1940s. He wrote the stories for the 1947 films '' The Fortress'' and '' Whispering City'' before completing his first screenplay, '' Trapped'', in 1949. Additional credits include ''Border Incident'' (1949), B-movies like '' Spy Hunt'' (1950) and '' The Square Jungle'', and his best known works, '' Written on the Wind'' (1956) and '' The Tarnished Angels'' (1958), both collaborations with director Douglas Sirk (who also directed the 1954 film '' Taza, Son of Cochise'', co-written by Zuckerman). Zuckerman's published novels include ''The Last Flapper'' (1969), loosely based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald and ''The Potato Peelers'' (1974). Zuckerman died in Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman (born January 4, 1973) is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. He was the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, and Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT until May 2020, and the author of the 2013 book '' Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection,'' which won the Zócalo Book Prize. In 2020, he became an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts. Education Zuckerman is a graduate of Williams College, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1993. He then spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Legon, Ghana and the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, where he studied ethnomusicology and percussion. Career Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com, one of the first successful "dot com" enterprises, where he worked from 1994 to 1999. There, he was in charge of the design and the implementatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Zuckerman
Eli Zuckerman (; also "Zukerman"; born February 8, 1973) is an Israeli competitive sailor. Early and personal life He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is Jewish. When Zuckerman competed in the Olympics he was tall, and weighed . His daughter with his wife Shani Kedmi, who represented Israel at both the 1996 Atlanta Olympics (coming in 12th) and the 2000 Sydney Olympics (coming in 4th) in Women's Two Person Dinghy with Anat Fabrikant, is Gal Zuckerman, who competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's Formula Kite in Marseille, France, and came in eighth. Sailing career In 1991, he came in 4th in the 420 - Open Scottish Power - International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championships in Largs, Scotland. In 1999 Zuckerman and Eldad Ronen came in 9th in the Men's / Mixed 470 World Championship, in Melbourne, Australia. They were ranked Number 9 in the world during 1999. That year, he won the bronze medal in the 470 - Men XXIV International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Zuckerman
Diana M. Zuckerman (born 16 June 1950) is an American health policy analyst who focuses on the implications of policies for public health and patients' health. She specializes in national health policy, particularly in women's health and the safety and effectiveness of medical products. She is the President of the National Center for Health Research (formerly National Research Center for Women & Families) and the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. Early life and education Zuckerman earned her B.A. in psychology from Smith College and then obtained a Ph.D. in psychology from the Ohio State University in 1977. At Yale Medical School she was a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology and public health from 1979 to 1980. Career She was on the faculty at Vassar College and Yale University, and directed a longitudinal study of college students as director of the Seven College Study at Harvard University, publishing books and articles on the impact of media on children, the impact of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zuckerman (TV Producer)
David J. Zuckerman (born August 28, 1962) is an American film and television producer and writer and is best known as the original showrunner and executive producer of the animated comedy series ''Family Guy'', as well as the creator of the American adaptation of the Australian television series of the same name, '' Wilfred''. A native of Danville, California, Zuckerman is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. Zuckerman first wrote for the sitcom ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', and then went on to write and produce episodes for the Fox animated series ''King of the Hill.'' In 1999, along with writer and producer Seth MacFarlane, he developed another Fox animated series, entitled ''Family Guy''. He subsequently worked on MacFarlane's second series, ''American Dad!'', before adapting the Australian live action series '' Wilfred'' and producing it under the same name for FX. Early life and education Zuckerman was born and raised in Danville, California, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zuckerman (computer Scientist)
David Zuckerman is an American theoretical computer scientist whose work concerns randomness in computation. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Biography Zuckerman received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1987, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1986. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 advised by Umesh Vazirani. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hebrew University of Jerusalem before joining the University of Texas in 1994. Zuckerman was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2013, and a Simons Investigator in 2016. Research Most of Zuckerman's work concerns randomness in computation, and especially pseudorandomness. He has written over 80 papers on topics including randomness extractors, pseudorandom generators, coding theory, and cryptography. Zuckerman is best known for his work on randomness extractors. In 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zuckerman (politician)
David E. Zuckerman (born August 16, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 84th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 2023 to 2025. He previously served two terms as the 82nd lieutenant governor of Vermont, from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Vermont Progressive Party, he previously served in the Vermont House of Representatives for seven terms (1997–2011), and the Vermont Senate for two (2013–2017). In 2020 Vermont gubernatorial election, 2020, Zuckerman was a candidate for governor of Vermont. He ran with the support of both the Progressive Party and the Vermont Democratic Party, Democratic Party, but lost to incumbent governor Phil Scott in the general election. In 2016 Vermont elections#Lieutenant governor, 2016, Zuckerman ran for lieutenant governor as a Progressive, and also received the nomination of the Democratic Party by defeating Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives Shap Smith and Representative Kesha Ram in the Democratic primary. He defeated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denali (drag Queen)
Denali Foxx (or simply Denali) is the stage name of Cordero Matthew Zuckerman (born April 1, 1992), an American Drag (clothing), drag performer, Figure skating, figure skater, and Choreography, choreographer best known for competing on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 13), thirteenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10, tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Early life Born to Jeffrey Alan Zuckerman and Jo Ann Hernandez on April 1, 1992, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Zuckerman was raised by parents of Mexicans, Mexican and History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jewish descent. Zuckerman graduated from University of Utah in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Language and Literature and a minor in comparative literature and Korean. Career Zuckerman is a double gold medalist in the U.S. Figure Skating moves and freestyle category and a Professional Skaters Association, PSA certified coach. He has skated with Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Zuckerman
Constantin Zuckerman (; born 1957) is a French historian and Professor of Byzantine studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Biography Academic rank: professor. Highest degree: doctorate. Job title: The Deputy Director of the Centre for History and Civilization of Byzantium, . Zuckerman is the author of numerous articles about the Byzantine Empire, the Goths, the Armenians, the Huns, the Turkic peoples, the Khazars, the Magyars and the early Rus, among other peoples. In "On the Date of the Khazars' Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus Oleg and Igor," Zuckerman used Khazar documents (the Kievian Letter, Khazar Correspondence, and Schechter Letter) to call into question the traditional dates for early Kievan Rus leaders. In the same article he asserted that the Khazars converted to Judaism in 861, during the visit of Saint Cyril. Bibliography *La Crimee entre Byzance et le Khaganat khazar. Ed. Constantin Zuckerman. Paris: Associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Zuckerman
Robert D. "Bob" Zuckerman (born December 19, 1960) is an American politician, community activist, progressive reformer and a small business advocate and owner. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Executive Director of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation and Gowanus Canal Conservancy. From 2010 to 2013 he served as Executive Director of the Lower East Side Business Improvement District in New York City. From 2013 to 2019 he served as Executive Director of the South Orange Village Center Alliance In South Orange, New Jersey. From 2016 to 2019 he served as a member of the South Orange Performing Arts Center Board of Governors. Since 2019 he has served as an elected member of the South Orange Board of Trustees, the town's governing body, where he was the top vote-getter in a field of nine candidates. Since January 2020 he has also served as President oDowntown New Jersey a non-profit organization and currently serves as Executive Director of thDowntown Westfield Corporationin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
