Birnbaum
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Birnbaum may refer to:
- Birnbaum an der Warthe and Kreis BirnbaumKreis BirnbaumKreis Birnbaum was a county in the southern administrative district of Posen, in the Prussian province of Posen. It presently lies in the Polish regions of Greater Poland Voivodeship and Lubusz Voivodeship.-Court system:...
(today MiędzychódMiedzychódMiędzychód is a town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, about 75 km west of Poznań. It is the capital of Międzychód County. Population is 10,920 .-Notable residents:* Manuel Joël , philosopher...
), a city and county in Posen district, Poland - Birnbaum (Frankenwald), an unincorporated area in the district of KronachKronach (district)Kronach is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Hof, Kulmbach, Lichtenfels and Coburg, and the state of Thuringia .-History:...
, Bavaria, Germany - Birnbaum (Gummersbach), a district of GummersbachGummersbachGummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street...
, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Birnbaum (Lesachtal), a village in the municipality LesachtalLesachtalThe Lesachtal is a valley in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is the uppermost part of the valley formed by the Gail River, and stretches from the border between East Tyrol and Carinthia to Kötschach-Mauthen ....
, Carinthia, Austria - Birnbaumer Wald, the German name for HrušicaHrušica (plateau)Hrušica is a plateau at the northern end of the Postojna Gate. The plateau can be viewed as the end or extension of the Trnovski gozd, to the west is the Nanos mountain. The limestone plateau reaches an altitude of 1,080 m, while the road crosses it at 883 m...
, an elevated plain on the edge of the Alps in Slovenia
As a surname
Birnbaum is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname that can refer to:- Alfred BirnbaumAlfred BirnbaumAlfred Birnbaum is an American translator.Alfred Birnbaum was born in the United States and raised in Japan from age five. He studied at Waseda University, Tokyo, under a Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship, and has been a freelance literary and cultural translator since 1980.From March...
, translator - Allan BirnbaumAllan BirnbaumAllan Birnbaum was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics....
, statistician - Amy BirnbaumAmy BirnbaumAmy Birnbaum is an American voice actress, who works on the properties of 4Kids Entertainment.She has done many voiceovers for cartoons, mainly dubbing for English versions of anime. Her works can be found in anime dubs such as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Sonic X , Magical...
, voice actress - Daniel BirnbaumDaniel BirnbaumDaniel Birnbaum is the director of the Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm.-Life and career:Birnbaum studied at the Stockholm University, the Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University in New York. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Stockholm University in 1998. In 1998, he...
, curator - Frank BirnbaumFrank BirnbaumWilliam Franklin "Frank" Birnbaum was a well-known 20th century chazzan within Conservative Judaism in the United States. Serving congregations and performing concerts across America, his music was well-known for its eclectic and melodious nature...
, cantor - Heinrich BirnbaumHeinrich BirnbaumHeinrich Birnbaum , also known as De Piro , was a pious and learned Carthusian German monk....
, monk - Jeffrey BirnbaumJeffrey BirnbaumJeffrey H. Birnbaum is an American journalist and television commentator. He previously worked for the Washington Post and Washington Times. He also regularly appears as a political analyst for the Fox News Channel and long appeared as a regular panelist on Washington Week...
, columnist - Jeremiah BirnbaumJeremiah BirnbaumJeremiah Birnbaum is a singer/songwriter falling mostly in the Americana vein; in press his music has also been described as a combination of folk, blues, country, and compared to such artists as Sheryl Crow, Mark Kozelek, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce and Van Morrison...
, singer/songwriter - Karl BirnbaumKarl BirnbaumKarl Birnbaum was a German-American psychiatrist and neurologist....
(1878-1950), German neurologist - Menachem BirnbaumMenachem BirnbaumMenachem Birnbaum , was an Austrian Jewish book illustrator and portrait painter.- Life :Birnbaum was the second son of the Jewish philosopher Nathan Birnbaum and his wife Rosa Korngut. Birnbaum later married Ernestine Esther Helfmann, with whom he had two children: Rafael Zwi and Hana...
, book illustrator and portrait painter. - Nathan BirnbaumNathan Birnbaum----Nathan Birnbaum was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: Zionist phase ; Jewish cultural autonomy phase which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase...
, Jewish philosopher - Norman BirnbaumNorman BirnbaumNorman Birnbaum is an American sociologist. He is an emeritus professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a member of the editorial board of The Nation. He was educated in New York City's public schools, at Williams College, and has a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University...
(born 1926), US sociologist - Solomon BirnbaumSolomon BirnbaumSolomon Birnbaum, also Salomo, Solomon A or Solomon Asher, was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew paleographer.-Career:...
, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum - Uriel BirnbaumUriel BirnbaumUriel Birnbaum was an Austrian painter, caricaturist, writer and poet....
, painter, caricaturist, writer and poet - Philip BirnbaumPhilip BirnbaumPhilip Birnbaum was an author and translator, best known for his translation and annotation of the siddur , first published in 1949.-Biography:...
, translator of Jewish prayer book - Yaakov (Jacob) BirnbaumYaakov (Jacob) BirnbaumYaakov Birnbaum is the founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and many other human rights organizations. Because SSSJ was the first initiative to address the plight of Soviet Jewry, he is regarded as to be the father of the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry. He is a son of Solomon Birnbaum...
, human rights activist - George BurnsGeorge BurnsGeorge Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became...
(born Nathan Birnbaum)