László Nemes (February 18, 1977) is a Hungarian filmmaker. His films usually explore Jewish social and political resistance in 20th-century Hungary, featuring long takes and meticulously dressed historical sets. [Wikipedia]
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Hans Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations. [Wikipedia]
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Aharon Appelfeld (February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. Aharon Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina region of the Kingdom of Romania, now Ukraine. [Wikipedia]
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Melissa Manchester (February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. During the 1970s and 1980s, her music found widespread success and popularity, particularly in the adult contemporary market. [Wikipedia]
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Terry Gross (February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR. [Wikipedia]
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Irene Dische (February 13, 1952) is an American-Austrian author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience, alienation, and exile. [Wikipedia]
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Ray Kurzweil (February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. [Wikipedia]
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Alfred Hirsch (February 11, 1916 – March 8, 1944) was a German-Jewish athlete, sports teacher, and Zionist youth movement leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Auschwitz. [Wikipedia]
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Jerry Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. [Wikipedia]
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Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910 – March 29, 2000) was an American dancer and choreographer. Sokolow’s work is known for its social justice focus and theatricality. [Wikipedia]
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Ted Koppel (February 8, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program’s inception in 1980 until 2005. [Wikipedia]
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Max Newman (February 7, 1897 – February 22, 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world’s first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester, which produced the world’s first working, stored-program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Baby. [Wikipedia]
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Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912) and Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blün;February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) were an American couple who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Isidor was a German-Jewish businessman, politician, U.S. congressman and co-owner of Macy’s department store with his brother Nathan. [Wikipedia]
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Michael Mann (February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and producer. Best known for his stylized crime dramas, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as earned nominations for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. [Wikipedia]
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