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Shelly Liebowitz. Shelly Liebowitz [1] (February 2, 1946 – March 12, 2019) was an American record executive, promoter, producer, and manager. He was the CEO of SRI Label Group, a Los Angeles-based, independent record company that specializes in modern and classic jazz, blues, country and rock.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Hebrew: ישעיהו ליבוביץ ; 29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath. He was a professor of biochemistry , organic chemistry , and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , as well as a prolific writer on Jewish thought and western philosophy.
In the book it clearly states that Leibowitz originally sought shelter from the mobs by hiding out at a Christian monastary. Then, when he became convinced that his wife was really dead, he took monastic orders, and became a priest, at which point he sought and received permission from the Church to found the new order in the southwestern desert.
The book was among the earliest theoretical treatises on Schoenberg's twelve-tone method of composition; Leibowitz (like Humphrey Searle) was among the first theorists to promulgate the term "serialism". The book attracted hostile criticism from composers on various points of the modernist continuum.
His experience with Cotler, about which he wrote a book, [6] and as a member of the New York Press Photographers Association motivated Liebowitz to pursue a career in copyright law. [ 7 ] After graduating from Hofstra University Law School , he was admitted to the New York bar in 2015, [ 8 ] established his practice in New York and filed his ...
Parnassus was founded by Herbert Leibowitz as editor and Stanley Lewis, the original publisher, in New York City.In 1976, Leibowitz set up the nonprofit Poetry in Review Foundation to sustain publication of the magazine, and he became publisher as well as editor.
Nechama Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz.The family moved to Berlin in 1919. In 1930, Leibowitz received a doctorate from the University of Marburg for her thesis, Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.