Fles or FLES may refer to:
People
Three generations of a Jewish-Dutch-American family:
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Louis Fles
Levie Jacob "Louis" Fles (19 October 1872 – 24 May 1940) was a Dutch businessman, activist and author. He is best known for writing and broadcasting against Zionism, Nazism, and organized religion. A self-described freethinker, Fles was a vocal ...
, Dutch businessman and activist (father of Barthold Fles and George Fles)
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Barthold Fles
Barthold "Bart" Fles (February 7, 1902 – December 19, 1989) was a Dutch-American literary agent, author, translator, editor and publisher. Among his many clients were Elias Canetti, Raymond Loewy, Heinrich Mann, Joseph Roth, Felix Salten, Ign ...
, Dutch-American literary agent (son of Louis Fles)
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George Fles
George "Sjoppie" Fles (; 1908–1939) was a Dutch translator with a strong communist conviction. He fell victim to Stalin 's repressions.
Personal life
George was born in 1908 in Amsterdam, as the youngest son of Louis Fles and Celine van Str ...
, Dutch victim of the Great Purge (son of Louis Fles, father of Michael John Fles)
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Michael John Fles, American poet and musician (son of George Fles)
Other uses
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De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles
The Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles N.V. (trading publicly as Royal Delft) is a Dutch manufacturer of Delftware, a type of earthenware, headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands. It is the only remaining factory out of 32 that were established in Delft ...
, Dutch earthenware factory
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Language immersion
Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in Bilingual education, bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety of topics, including maths, science, or social studies. The languages ...
, also known as Foreign Languages in Elementary Schools (FLES) program
See also
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FLE (disambiguation)
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