100 Notable alumni of
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Brooklyn College is 216th in the world, 95th in North America, and 92nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from CUNY Brooklyn College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bernie Sanders
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. He was the U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. Before his election to Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
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James Franco
- Occupations
- television actorplaywrightpoetteacherscreenwriter
- Biography
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James Edward Franco is an American actor, filmmaker, and writer. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films, such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
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Mel Brooks
- Occupations
- film actorfilm directorlyricisttelevision producerjournalist
- Biography
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Mel Brooks is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a creator of broad farces and parodies widely considered to be among the best film comedies ever made. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. With Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970).
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Jimmy Smits
- Occupations
- film actoractorfilm producertelevision actor
- Biography
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Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family (1995), and as ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter. He also appeared as Bail Organa in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and Rogue One. From 2012 to 2014, he joined the main cast of Sons of Anarchy as Nero Padilla. Smits also portrayed Elijah Strait in the NBC drama series Bluff City Law.
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Alan Dershowitz
- Occupations
- screenwriterlawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013 he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
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Don Lemon
- Occupations
- opinion journalist
- Biography
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Don Lemon is an American television journalist. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon then worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News, after which he joined CNN in 2006, also as a correspondent. He later achieved prominence as the presenter of CNN Tonight beginning in 2014. Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards. He is the host of Don Lemon Tonight.
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Al Sharpton
- Occupations
- film actorhuman rights activistpoliticiantelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, talk show host and politician. Sharpton is the founder of the National Action Network. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes frequent appearances on cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings.
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Shirley Chisholm
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
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Philip Zimbardo
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Studied in 1954
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerpsychologistsocial psychologist
- Biography
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Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.
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Dominic Chianese
- Occupations
- actorexecutive produceranimatorproducersinger
- Biography
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Dominic Chianese is an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II (1974), and Leander in Boardwalk Empire (2011–2013).
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Barbara Boxer
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- In 1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- newspaper editorpoliticianstockbrokernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Barbara Sue Levy Boxer is an American politician and a former member of the United States Senate, where she represented California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.
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Linda Sarsour
- Occupations
- political activistcommunity organizerhuman rights activistwriter
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Linda Sarsour is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She and her Women's March co-chairs were profiled in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" in 2017.
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Steve Schirripa
- Occupations
- writertelevision produceractor
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Steven Ralph Schirripa is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos and Detective Anthony Abetemarco on Blue Bloods. Schirripa is a producer and host of two Investigation Discovery series: Karma's A B*tch! and Nothing Personal. He was a regular cast member of The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the voice of Roberto in the Open Season series.
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Herb Edelman
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Herbert Edelman was an American actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. One of his best-known roles was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak (played by Beatrice Arthur) on The Golden Girls. He also had a recurring role on the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere.
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Daniel Keyes
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- writerscreenwriterjournalistuniversity teacherscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Daniel Keyes was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
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Larry Sanders
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lawrence Sanders is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator and two-time U.S. presidential candidate.
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Sara Shepard
- Occupations
- writernovelistchildren's writer
- Biography
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Sara Shepard is an American author. She is known for the bestselling Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game book series, both of which have been turned into television shows on Freeform.
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Necro
- Occupations
- rapperrecord producermusician
- Biography
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Ron Raphael Braunstein, better known by his stage name Necro, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York City.
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Alan Vega
- Occupations
- singerpaintermusician
- Biography
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Alan Bermowitz, known professionally as Alan Vega, was an American vocalist and visual artist, primarily known for his work with the electronic protopunk duo Suicide.
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Ocean Vuong
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for his poetry. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant the same year.
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Paul Mazursky
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm actorautobiographer
- Biography
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Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards: three times for Best Original Screenplay, once for Best Adapted Screenplay, and once for Best Picture for An Unmarried Woman (1978). His other films include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Blume in Love (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986).
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Sylvia Fine
- Occupations
- actorcomposerfilm producerlyricistsongwriter
- Biography
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Sylvia Fine Kaye was an American lyricist, composer, and producer. Many of her compositions and productions were performed by her husband, comedian Danny Kaye. Fine was a Peabody Award-winner and was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Emmys during her career.
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Benjamin Brafman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin Brafman is a prominent American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based firm Brafman & Associates, P.C. Brafman is known for representing many high-profile defendants, including celebrities, accused Mafia members, and political figures.
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Sharon Jones
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life, releasing her first record when she was 40 years old. In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want.
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Bruce Morrow
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Bruce Morrow is an American radio performer, known for professional purposes as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker 'Cousin' while in the lobby of his mid-town Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. The name stuck for six decades.
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Charlie Shrem
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- 2008-2012 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Charles Shrem IV is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. In 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison in 2016. In 2017, he joined Jaxx and served as its chief operating officer, and founded cryptocurrency advisory CryptoIQ.
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Iris Weinshall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Iris Weinshall is the chief operating officer of The New York Public Library, former vice chancellor at the City University of New York and a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation. Weinshall was appointed Chief Operating Officer by the Library in July 2014, and she began her tenure on September 1, 2014. She is the wife of U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Ira Rennert
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Ira Leon Rennert is an American billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Renco Group.
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Paul Beatty
- Occupations
- novelistpoet
- Biography
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Paul Beatty is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker.
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Gata Kamsky
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.
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Jumaane Williams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jumaane D. Williams is an American activist and politician who has served as the New York City Public Advocate since 2019. He is a former member of the New York City Council from the 45th district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Marine Park, and Midwood in Brooklyn.
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Marvin Kaplan
- Occupations
- voice actorfilm actorscreenwritertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Marvin Wilbur Kaplan was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Best known as Henry Beesmeyer in ‘’Alice’’ (1978-1985).
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Mousa Kraish
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Mousa Hussein Kraish is an American actor and director, who has appeared in several Hollywood films including Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich.
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Malachi Throne
- Occupations
- actorvoice actortelevision actorstage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Malachi Throne was an American stage and television actor, noted for his guest-starring roles on Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Batman, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Mission: Impossible, and The Six Million Dollar Man, and best known as Noah Bain on It Takes a Thief.
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Mike Garson
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Michael David Garson is an American pianist, who has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent, Duran Duran, Free Flight and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Sandy Baron
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Sandy Baron was an American actor and comedian who performed on stage, in films, and on television.
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Donald Kagan
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writeracademichistorian
- Biography
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Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history.
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Walter Block
- Occupations
- businesspersonphilosophereconomist
- Biography
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Walter Edward Block is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He currently holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, and is a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He is best known for his 1976 book Defending the Undefendable, which takes contrarian positions in defending acts which are illegal or disreputable but Block argues are actually victimless crimes or benefit the public.
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Stanley Cohen
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry and zoology
- Occupations
- university teacherbiochemistphysiologistendocrinologist
- Biography
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Stanley N. Cohen was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor. He died in February 2020 at the age of 97.
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Mark Lane
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- conspiracy theoristlawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Lane was an American attorney, New York state legislator, civil rights activist, and Vietnam war-crimes investigator. He is best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. From his 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, Rush to Judgment, to Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, published in 2011, Lane wrote at least four major works on the JFK assassination and no fewer than ten books overall.
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Glenn Thrush
- Occupations
- political journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Glenn Thrush is an American journalist, pundit, and author. He is a reporter for The New York Times, formerly a White House correspondent. He is also a contributor for MSNBC, and was previously chief political correspondent at Politico and a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine.
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Annie Baker
- Occupations
- playwrightteacher
- Biography
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Annie Baker is an American playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and The Aliens. She was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2017.
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Elliot Tiber
- Occupations
- artistwriterpainterscreenwriterlibrettist
- Biography
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Elliot Michael Tiber was an artist, professor, and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.
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Israel Kirzner
- Occupations
- ethicistrabbiwriteruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Israel Meir Kirzner is a British-born American economist closely identified with the Austrian School.
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Fran Fraschilla
- Occupations
- basketball coachhead coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Francis John Fraschilla is an American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach.
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Sid Rosenberg
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Sidney Ferris Rosenberg is an American radio personality. He is currently a co-host of The Bernie and Sid in the Morning and "Sid Sports Sunday" plus sports reporter on 77 WABC in New York City.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Occupations
- Bhikkhu
- Biography
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Bhikkhu Bodhi, born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in Sri Lanka and currently teaching in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
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Marty Markowitz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Markowitz is an American politician who served as the borough president of Brooklyn, New York City. He was first elected in 2001 after serving 23 years as a New York State Senator. His third and final term ended in December 2013.
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Novella Nelson
- Occupations
- film actorsingerstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Novella Christine Nelson was an American actress and singer. She established her career as a singer, both on the off-Broadway and Broadway stage and in cabaret-style locales.
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Peter Nero
- Occupations
- conductorpianistmusician
- Biography
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Peter Nero is an American pianist and pops conductor. He directed the Philly Pops from 1979 to 2013, and has earned two Grammy Awards.
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Joel Zwick
- Occupations
- film producertelevision directorfilm directortheatrical director
- Biography
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Joel Zwick is an American film director, television director, and theater director. He worked on the television series Perfect Strangers, Full House, and Family Matters, and directed the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Second Sight, and Fat Albert.
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Robert A. Daly
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Robert Anthony Daly is an American business executive who has led organizations such as CBS Entertainment, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Sam Levenson
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Samuel Levenson was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist.
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Rachelle Vinberg
- Occupations
- skateboarderactor
- Biography
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Rachelle Vinberg is an American skateboarder and actress. She is best known for starring as Camille, a fictionalized version of herself, in the film Skate Kitchen and the TV series Betty inspired by the real group of female skaters she is a part of.
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Gloria Naylor
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Gloria Naylor was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988).
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Alfred Drake
- Occupations
- playwrighttelevision actortheatrical directorstage actorsinger
- Biography
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Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.
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Vera Katz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vera Katz was an American Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 49th mayor of Portland, Oregon's most populous city. She grew up in New York City, moving to Portland in 1962, and was elected to the Oregon House in 1972. She served as mayor from 1993 to 2005.
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Naren Weiss
- Occupations
- stage actor
- Biography
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Naren Weiss is an actor, playwright, and former model. He played Osama bin Laden in Kamal Haasan's film on terrorism Vishwaroopam, Dekker in the ABC series Deception, and is known for his work in theatre in India and the United States.
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Tuli Kupferberg
- Occupations
- singerpoetsongwriterwriter
- Biography
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Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher, and co-founder of the band The Fugs.
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Michael Salzhauer
- Occupations
- plastic surgeon
- Biography
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Michael Salzhauer is an American celebrity doctor who practices plastic surgery. He is active on social media as Dr. Miami, has been on reality TV, has recorded a song, and written a children's book. He runs a plastic surgery practice in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
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Jack B. Weinstein
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Jack Bertrand Weinstein was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Until his entry into inactive senior status on February 10, 2020, he maintained a full docket of cases.
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Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
- Occupations
- novelisttheologianwriterbiographerpoet
- Biography
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Satsvarupa das Goswami is a senior disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement. Serving as a writer, poet, and artist, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is the author of Bhaktivedanta Swami's authorized biography, Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta. After Prabhupada]]'s death, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami was one of the eleven disciples selected to initiate future disciples. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, (Sanskrit: [sɐtˈsʋɐɽuːpɐ daːsɐ ɡoːˈsʋaːmiː]), is one of the first few Westerners ordained by Bhaktivedanta Swami in September 1966. He is a Vaishnava writer, poet, and lecturer, who published over a hundred books including poems, memoirs, essays, novels, and studies based on the Vaishnava scriptures.
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Dmitry Chaplin
- Occupations
- dancerchoreographer
- Biography
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Dmitry Chaplin is a Russian dancer and Emmy nominated choreographer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance (Season 2). He was famous for performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt.
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Izzy Young
- Occupations
- writermanufacturermusic journalist
- Biography
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Israel Goodman Young, known as Izzy Young, was a noted figure in the world of folk music, both in America and Sweden. He was once the owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, and from 1973 until his death, owned and operated the Folklore Centrum store in Stockholm.
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Walter Yetnikoff
- Occupations
- record producer
- Biography
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Walter Yetnikoff was an American music industry executive who was the president of CBS Records International from 1971 to 1975 and then president and CEO of CBS Records from 1975 to 1990.
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Leonard Lopate
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Leonard Lopate is an American radio personality. He is the host of the radio talk show Leonard Lopate at Large, broadcast on WBAI, and the former host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, and then later on WBAI, before moving to WNYC.
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Roya Hakakian
- Occupations
- journalistreporterwriterbiographerpoet
- Biography
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Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American Jewish poet, journalist, and writer. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including a collection of poetry in Persian, an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No (Crown), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Grove/Atlantic) and A Beginner's Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curios (Knopf).
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Young Jean Lee
- Occupations
- writeracademicfilm directoruniversity teachercreator
- Biography
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Young Jean Lee is an American playwright, director, and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018 production of Straight White Men at the Hayes Theater, Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
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Robert Katz
- Occupations
- journalistnovelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Robert Katz was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author.
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Stanley Aronowitz
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Stanley Aronowitz was a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2012, Aronowitz was awarded the Center for Study of Working Class Life's Lifetime Achievement Award at Stony Brook University.
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Greg Grandin
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Greg Grandin is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University. He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. A more recent book, entitled, Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?, focuses on the treatment of the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. His 2014 book, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, is a study of the factual basis for the novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville.
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Edward Taub
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Edward Taub is a behavioral neuroscientist on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is best known for his involvement in the Silver Spring monkeys case and for making major breakthroughs in the area of neuroplasticity and discovering/developing constraint-induced movement therapy; a family of techniques which helps the rehabilitation of people who have developed learned non-use as a result of suffering neurological injuries from a stroke or other cause.
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Paul Tripp
- Occupations
- film actorstage actorvoice actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Paul Tripp was an American children's musician, author, songwriter, and television and film actor. He collaborated with a fellow composer, George Kleinsinger. Tripp was the creator of the 1945 "Tubby the Tuba", a piece of classical music for children that has become his best-known work. He authored several books, including Rabbi Santa Claus and Diary of a Leaf.
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Naomi Ragen
- Occupations
- writeractivistchildren's writer
- Biography
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Naomi Ragen is an American-Israeli modern-Orthodox Jewish author and playwright. Ragen lives in Jerusalem, and writes in English. A recurring theme in her fictional works is injustice against women in the Haredi Jewish community. Ragen has been the subject of various lawsuits over claims of plagiarism.
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Arturo O'Farrill
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teacherjazz musiciancomposerconductor
- Biography
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Arturo O'Farrill is a jazz musician, the son of Latin jazz musician, arranger and bandleader Chico O'Farrill, and pianist, composer, and director for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He is best known for his contributions to contemporary Latin jazz (more specifically Afro-Cuban jazz), having received Grammy Awards and nominations, though he has trained in other forms such as free jazz and experimented briefly with hip hop.
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Bill Baird
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Bill Baird is a reproductive rights pioneer, called by some media the "father" of the birth control and abortion-rights movement. He was jailed eight times in five states in the 1960s for lecturing on abortion and birth control. Baird is believed to be the first and only non-lawyer in American history with three Supreme Court victories.
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Steve Malzberg
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Stephen D. Malzberg is an American television and radio host, syndicated columnist, and political commentator. He hosted The Steve Malzberg Show, a cable news and opinion show on Newsmax TV. He has also hosted The Steve Malzberg Show and various other radio shows on WABC Radio in NYC and on WOR Radio, also in NYC where his show was syndicated on the WOR Radio Network.
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Yossi Klein Halevi
- Occupations
- activistjournalisthistorianwriteropinion journalist
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Yossi Klein Halevi is an American-born Israeli author and journalist.
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Stanley Shapiro
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- writerscreenwriterfilm producer
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Stanley Shapiro was an American screenwriter and producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films.
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Paul Davidson
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Paul Davidson is an American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the post-Keynesian school in economics. He is a prolific writer and has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, developing countries' debt) from a position critical of mainstream economics.
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Robert Rosenthal
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- prosecutorlawyer
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal was an American lawyer and bomber pilot. A highly decorated officer of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, he received sixteen awards including the Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against the enemy," the Silver Star (with oak leaf cluster) for "gallantry in action," the Distinguished Flying Cross (with oak leaf cluster) for "heroism or extraordinary achievement during aerial flight", the Air Medal (with seven clusters) and the Purple Heart (with cluster), as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross from Great Britain and the Croix de Guerre from France.
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Sante D'Orazio
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- fashion photographerphotographer
- Biography
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Sante D'Orazio is an American photographer.
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Aleksandr Lenderman
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- chess player
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Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman is an American chess grandmaster. He won the 2005 World Under-16 Championship in Belfort with a score of 9/10 (+8 −0 =2), becoming the first American to win a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championship since Tal Shaked won the World Junior Championship in 1997.
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Melvin Konner
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- anthropologistpsychiatrist
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Melvin Joel Konner is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He also has a PhD from Harvard University (1973) and a MD from Harvard Medical School (1985).
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Reed Farrel Coleman
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- novelist
- Biography
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Reed Farrel Coleman is an American writer of crime fiction and a poet.
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David Weiss Halivni
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- rabbieducatortalmudisttheologian
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David Weiss Halivni is a European-born American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences, and Professor of Talmud. He serves as Reish Metivta of the Union for Traditional Judaism's rabbinical school.
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R. O. Kwon
- Born in
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South Korea - Occupations
- novelistuniversity teacher
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R. O. Kwon is a South-Korean-born American author. In 2018, she published her nationally bestselling debut novel The Incendiaries with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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Shosha Goren
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- actorstage actor
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Shosha Goren is an Israeli actress and comedian of Iraqi Jewish descent. She immigrated to Israel in 1951. While on a visit to the United States, she abandoned her position as teacher of Hebrew Literature and Language and went on to pursue her acting career at Brooklyn College in New York. However, in 1980, she returned to Israel with her family.
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Lotti Golden
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- composersingersinger-songwriter
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Lotti Golden is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, poet and artist. Golden is best known for her 1969 debut album Motor-Cycle, on Atlantic Records.
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Joel Lebowitz
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- In 1952 graduated with Bachelor of Science
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- mathematicianuniversity teacherphysicist
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Joel Louis Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics.
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Tom Kahn
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- trade unionist
- Biography
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Tom David Kahn was an American social democrat known for his leadership in several organizations. He was an activist and influential strategist in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a senior adviser and leader in the U.S. labor movement.
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Richard L. Sandor
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 82)
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- economist
- Biography
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Richard L. Sandor is an American businessman, economist, and entrepreneur. He is chairman and CEO of the American Financial Exchange established in 2015, which is an electronic exchange for direct interbank/financial institution lending and borrowing. The AFX flagship product, the AMERIBOR benchmark index, reflects the actual borrowing costs of thousands of regional and community banks across the U.S. and is one of the short-term borrowing rates, along with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, vying to replace U.S. dollar Libor as a benchmark in the U.S.
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Esther M. Conwell
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- Studied in 1938-1942
- Occupations
- engineerphysicist
- Biography
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Esther Marley Conwell was a pioneering American chemist and physicist, best known for the Conwell-Weisskopf theory that describes how electrons travel through semiconductors, a breakthrough that helped revolutionize modern computing. During her life, she was described as one of the most important women in science.
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John Yau
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- journalistwritercuratorpoetauthor
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John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism.
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Mark Rappaport
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- In 1964 studied literary studies
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- film editorfilm producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Mark Rappaport is an American independent/underground film director and film critic, who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s.
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Jackson Mac Low
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- university teachercomposerperformance artistprintmakerpoet
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Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death.
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Eliezer Waldman
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- rabbipolitician
- Biography
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Eliezer Waldman was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990. Rabbi Waldman was the co-founder and President of Yeshivat Nir Kiryat Arba.
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Hy Cohen
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Hyman Cohen was an American baseball pitcher who played seven games for the Chicago Cubs in one season of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1955. He batted and threw right-handed and served as a relief pitcher.
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Stanley Deser
- Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Stanley Deser is an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. Currently, he is emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a Senior Research Associate at California Institute of Technology.
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Harold Norse
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- translatorautobiographerwriternovelistpoet
- Biography
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Harold Norse was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. One of the expatriate artists of the Beat generation, Norse was widely published and anthologized.
