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Sakowitz was a men's clothing store which grew into a small chain of family-owned high-end department stores based in Houston, Texas.It operated from 1902 until 1990. Sakowitz was responsible for launching many of the now-famous European fashion designers in America - among them Andre' Courreges, Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche, Zandra Rhoades, Givenchy, and Erminegildo
Miriam Weiner (/ ˈ w iː n ər /) [1] is an American genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in the research of Jewish roots in Poland and the former Soviet Union. [2] [3] Weiner is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary Jewish genealogy through her work to open up archives [4] [5] and is described as a trail-blazing, highly respected guide and leading authority on ...
Noteworthy donations of the organization include: $50 million to the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus, another $67 million in total was donated to their Medical Research Foundation, and $33 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation, and $13 million toward paying for the promotional trips to Israel, Jerusalem and the Golan ...
Miriam Adelson (née Farbstein; born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, and political donor. She and her husband Sheldon Adelson , to whom she was married from 1991 until his death in 2021, became philanthropists through the Adelson Foundation , giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Jewish and Israel causes.
Miriam Edna Saphira née Gibson CNZM is a New Zealand lesbian activist, poet, artist and psychologist. Saphira founded New Zealand's only museum of lesbian culture, the Charlotte Museum . Saphira was awarded a New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal , a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal , and in 2022 was appointed a Companion of the New ...
ʻĀinahau, one of the homes of the Oʻahu chiefs, was part of the 10-acre (40,000 m 2) estate inherited by Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani.Originally called Auaukai, Princess Likelike named it ʻĀinahau or "Cool Land" when she lived there with her husband, Archibald Scott Cleghorn, who turned it into a botanical garden.
With his wife Miriam, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the namesake of Columbia's Wallach Hall and Wallach Art Gallery.
Miriam's father David [2] was born in Ukraine. He opened a Jewish school in Radomsko where he taught Hebrew. This school was later active in the ghetto. Miriam's brother Nahum was born in 1929. [3] Miriam was a 15-year-old gymnasium student and a member of a Zionist youth movement when the war began.