David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

Vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova.

Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman () into a family of Jewish lineage in Białystok, Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire.

Most of Vertov's early work was unpublished, and few manuscripts remain after the Second World War, though some material survived in later films and documentaries created by Vertov and his brothers, Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman.

The so-called " Council of Three ," a group issuing manifestoes in LEF, a radical Russian newsmagazine, was established in 1922 ; the group's " three " were Vertov, his ( future ) wife and editor Elizaveta Svilova, and his brother and cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman.

Vertov's brother Boris Kaufman was a noted cinematographer who worked much later for directors such as Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet in America.

Coordinating the spectacle as road manager was Phil Kaufman, who had served time with Charles Manson on Terminal Island in the mid-sixties and first met Parsons while working for the Stones in 1968.

Gershwin, along with George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, was a recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Of Thee I Sing.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

A working ion thruster was built by Harold R. Kaufman in 1959 at the NASA Glenn Research Center facilities.

Kaufman was fired by producer Bob Daley under Eastwood's command, resulting in a fine reported to be around $ 60, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) from the Directors Guild of America — who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director.

Filming was done at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens ; it was the last film the brothers would make in New York.

It was directed by Victor Heerman and adapted from a successful 1928 Broadway musical of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, also starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont.

Universal scrambled to appear responsive: a spokesman told a UCLA Daily Bruin reporter that the studio was " delighted " by the interest, and that " we have negotiated with the heirs of the writers ( Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman ), but they were asking much more than we wanted to spend.

An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.

" NARTH was founded in 1992 by Joseph Nicolosi, Benjamin Kaufman, and Charles Socarides.

The peak was discovered in 1871 and originally named Mount Kaufmann after Konstantin Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Turkestan.

Andrew Kaufman praised it, saying that it was Heinlein's crowning achievement.

The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, who regularly wrote with others, notably Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber.

The character was based on Kaufman and Hart's friend, critic Alexander Woollcott.

The same year, a building at the old Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York, where she had made ten films in early career, was renamed in her honor.

* Napoleon Kaufman ( born 1973 ), American football player

* Bel Kaufman ( born 1911 ), American teacher and author, best known for writing the novel Up the Down Staircase

They also have twin sons, Jim and Andy ( born 1999, named for comics Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman ), and reside in Connecticut, USA.

Bob Zmuda ( born December 12, 1949 ) is an American writer, comedian, producer and director best known as the sidekick, co-writer and friend of cult personality Andy Kaufman.

Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman ( born 21 June 1930 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) since 1970, first for Manchester Ardwick, and then subsequently for Manchester Gorton.

The youngest of six children, Kaufman was born in Leeds to Louis and Jane Kaufman.

Vertov — born David Abelevich Kaufman — was an early pioneer in documentary film-making during the late 1920s.

December 15 )-Nikolai N. Kaufman ( born 1834 ), Russian botanist.

Charles Stuart " Charlie " Kaufman ( born November 19, 1958 ) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director.

He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx.

Lloyd Kaufman ( born December 30, 1945 ) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor.

Kaufman was born Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. in New York City, New York, the son of Ruth ( née Fried ) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Sr. a lawyer.

Durant was born in Proskurov ( now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine ) as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman.

Philip Kaufman ( born October 23, 1936 ) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Kaufman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Elizabeth ( Brandau ) and Nathan Kaufman.

Angus Gilchrist Wynne, Jr. ( born January 9, 1914 in Kaufman County, Texas-died March 12, 1979 in Dallas ) was an American businessman.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

* Sletcher, Michael, " North American Indians ", in Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson, eds., Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 2 vols.

The writers were present during the show's taping, which for the first twenty-four years of the show took place in Manhattan, and after 1992, at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, to make last-minute revisions when necessary.

* Kaufman: Annals of Italian Opera: Verdi and his Major Contemporaries ; Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1990.

Kaufman then comes back, and, in his normal voice, claiming he " had to get rid of the people who don't understand me, and don't want to try ", he proceeds to show the story of his life on a film projector, starting with his childhood home in Great Neck, New York, circa 1957.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: " After this declaration of ethics, it will be impossible to dismiss Mr Kaufman and Mr Hart as clever jesters with an instinct for the stage.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

The flip side, " Ring-A-Ling ", was a favorite of New York disc jockey Murray Kaufman.

George S. Kaufman, co-author of Dinner at Eight, various Marx Brothers films, and two George Gershwin plays, came from New York to meet with Thalberg.

Kaufman was found to have claimed £ 115, 109 in additional costs allowances on his London flat between 2001 and 2008, and submitted a claim for three months ' expenses totalling £ 14, 301. 60 in June 2006, which included £ 8, 865 for a 40-inch LCD television and £ 1, 461. 83 for a luxury rug imported from New York City ( plus £ 389. 91 in customs expenses ), which violated regulations forbidding claims for luxury furnishings.

The next was in 1948 by the violinist Louis Kaufman, mistakenly credited as the ' first ' recording, made during the night in New York using ' dead ' studio time and under pressure from a forthcoming musicians strike.

* Kaufman: Annals of Italian Opera: Verdi and his Major Contemporaries ; Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1990.

The song was first performed publicly by Irving Kaufman in 1912 at The College Inn in New York City after he had stumbled across a draft of sheet music on a shelf at the Leo Feist offices.

In 1969 she was engaged for a short time to George Kaufman, a New York real estate heir.

The New York scenes were shot after a monthlong break, in early 1986, at Kaufman Astoria Studios and various locations.

Started by activists, such as Michael Kaufman and Toronto politicians like the late New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, it has now spread to over 57 countries around the world.

Blalock has a supporting role as Stacy in the William Kaufman action thriller Sinners And Saints, set in post-Katrina New Orleans, premiering in Los Angeles on June 30, 2010.

From 1923 to 1926, he was at The New York Times backing up George S. Kaufman in the drama department and soon after became the first regular theatre critic for The New Yorker, writing a weekly column during 1925 and 1926.

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman cast Morton as Hazel in Synecdoche, New York, with a cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams and Emily Watson.