Famous People with Name Menahem

Menahem Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Menahem Stern: Israeli historian, one of the greatest researchers of the period of the Second Temple. He received the Israel Prize for History of the Jewish people in 1977.Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in Bialystok, Poland. His father was a Lithuanian Jew of the "opposition" (to the Hasidic movement), while his mother came from the south from a Hasidic family. In his childhood he studied Hebrew and theology, while at school he acquired a general education including Latin. I

Menahem Pressler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Menahem Pressler: a German-born Israeli pianist.Menahem Pressler is the founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, an ensemble widely considered to be the world's leading piano trio for more than 50 years. Pressler currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife Sara. There he teaches at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and holds the Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music. His musical precision and vast knowledge of piano and chamber music literature have gained him an international reputation as a remarkable teacher.