Famous People with Name Berman

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne: is a Canadian heavyweight boxer of Haitian descent.Stiverne was Canadian superheavyweight silver medallist in 2005. In 2003 and 2004 he won bronze. In international competition he beat Robert Helenius (points) and David Price (boxer) (KO). His record was

Boris Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Boris Berman: a Russian pianist and pedagogueHe was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965. He joined an early music ensemble, at the time the only one in Russia, as a harpsichordist. At the same time he worked with contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov. He played in the first Russian performances of works by Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and György Ligeti.

Lazar Naumovich Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Lazar Naumovich Berman: was a Soviet Russian classical pianist.Berman was born to Jewish parents in Leningrad. His mother, Anna Lazarevna Makhover, had played the piano herself until ear problems stopped her. She introduced the boy to the piano, and he entered his first competition at the age of three, and recorded a Mozart fantasia and a mazurka that he had composed himself at the age of seven, before he could even read music. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world". When Lazar was nine

Adolf Avraham Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Adolf Avraham Berman: was a Polish-Israeli activist and politician.During World War II he was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto, and a member of the presidium of the Underground National Committee. He also served as general secretary of Zegota, the Polish Council for Jewish Aid whose aim was to rescue Jews from the Holocaust, and Tsetnum, a children's aid society in Warsaw.[1]After the war ended, he became a representative of the Sejm, and in 1947 became chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jewry.

Jakub Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jakub Berman: Berman was a Polish communist politician, and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo where he was in charge of State Security Services (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953.He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University, and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. Ludwik Krzywicki. He was working on the doctoral thesis but was never to finish it. Member of the Communist Youth Union and from 1928 Communist Party of Poland. After the break out of the Polish-German-Soviet War in September 1939, he fled to the Soviet Union-occupied eastern part of Poland, first to Bialystok,

Karel Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Berman: was a Jewish Czech opera singer, composer and opera director.After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a singer, composer and director. On 11 July 1944, for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry" by Pavel Haas for the first time. Later he was also imprisoned in Kaufering and Auschwitz. He survived the camps and later became famous as an opera singer. In 1953, he joined the Prague National Theatre opera. Berman is also remembered as an opera director, having directed more than 70 operas[1]. He also as taught at the Prague Conservatory from 1961-1971, and from 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.