Hollywood Jews Names (Approx Matches) (Displaying 18 Results) 1. Elzbieta Kazmierczak-Hauk (Production Manager, Córka albo syn (1979) (TV)) 2. Barbara Kazimierczak (Costume Designer, Sekret Enigmy (1979)) 3. Julian Kazmierczak (Actor, Kurfrieden (2005)) 4. Waclaw Kazmierczak (Director, Requiem dla 500 tysiecy (1963)) 5. Jakub Miszczak (Director, "Sex FM" (2007)) 6. V. Kazimierczak (Cinematographer, Jewish Life in Bialystok (1939)) 7. Wlodzimierz Kazimierczak (Sound Department, Mój Nikifor (2004)) 8. Anita Kazmierczak (Miscellaneous Crew, "McLeod's Daughters" (2001)) 9. Anna Kazmierczak (Actress, Yesterday (1985)) 10. Wieslaw Kazmierczak (Camera and Electrical Department, Mój Nikifor (2004)) 11. Piotr Kazimierczak (Actor, Swiadek koronny (2007)) 12. Joanna Kazmierczak (Actress, Bagman - Profession: Meurtrier, Le (2004) (V)) 13. Sébastien Kazmierczak (Actor, Bagman - Profession: Meurtrier, Le (2004) (V)) 14. Jakub Wierciak (Actor, Klopotliwy gosc (1971)) 15. Eldo (Self, Blokersi (2001))  birth name "Leszek Kazmierczak" 16. Wiktor Kazimierczak (Actor, 30 karatów szczescia (1936)) 17. Monika Kazmierczak (Actress, Lódz plynie dalej (2004)) 18. Poitr Kazmierczak (Self, "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution': Corruption (#1.4)" (2005))   Suggestions For Improving Your Results There may be additional matches in special interest areas that are only available to users choosing to see them. Enable adult titles/names in the search.     More Searches for: Jakub Kaźmierczak

Cardinal Keeler to Receive Honorary Degree at Spring Commencement
His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters during graduation Sunday, May 12 at the La Crosse Center.
Cardinal Keeler was appointed archbishop of Baltimore by Pope John Paul II in 1989 and appointed to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II in 1994. An influential participant in a wide range of national and international issues, Cardinal Keeler was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the U.S. Catholic Conference in 1992.
As part of his work with the NCCB, Cardinal Keeler has developed a reputation for effectively building interfaith bonds. He is particularly noted for his work in fostering an effective Catholic-Jewish dialogue and is the Episcopal moderator of Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. As chair of the NCCB’s Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligous Affairs from 1984?87, he helped arrange the Pope’s meetings with Jewish leaders in Miami and with Protestant leaders in Columbia, S.C. during the 1987 papal visit. In 1994, Cardinal Keeler was appointed to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. He is the vice president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and a member of the Black and Native American Missions Board.
Among his many honors, he has received the Elizabeth Ann Seton Award from the national Catholic Educational Association, the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Lifetime Achievement Award, the Mahmound Abu Saud Excellence Award from the American Muslim Council.
Also at this year’s commencement, which begins at 10 a.m., Earl Madary ’88, president of the Faculty Assembly, will be the master of ceremonies; Sarah Klitzke ’02 will present the senior address, and Rose Ann Kazmierczak ’61 will give the alumni welcome. The benediction will be given by Rev. Raymond L. Burke, Bishop to the Diocese of La Crosse.

KAZIMIERZ - KUSMISZ
To: jenglennie@hotmail.com, who wrote:

...HI, My last name is Kusmisz. My family is from Poland (Warsaw and Kaszimierz). The last name may have been changed, originally being Kaszimierz. Uncertain. Any info is appreciated, or help with how to find any information on my Polish relatives or where the name derives...

There are a couple of other names Kusmisz could conceivably come from, but if you have reason to believe it was originally Kaszimierz, that is certainly plausible. Actually the standard Polish spelling is Kazimierz, and it's an ancient Slavic name dating back to when the Poles were pagans and gave their children names formed by joining two root-words to express a kind of hope or prophecy for their children. So Kazimierz comes from the root kazi-, "to destroy" + mir, "peace" -- thus naming a child Kazimierz was expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a destroyer of peace, i. e., a great warrior ("peace" as ancient Slavs thought of it was not necessarily the wonderful thing we consider it, they gloried in war).

Kazimierz is an extremely popular first name in Poland, and has been for a long time -- it's one of the few Polish names that is even used in English, in the Latinized form Casimir. It is not all that common as a surname -- as of 1990 there were only about 202 Polish citizens with Kazimierz as a surname. But other names formed from it are extremely popular -- for instance, Kazimierczak (5,095), Kazmierczak (28,198) [both of which mean "son of Kazimierz"), and Kazmierski (5,240). The latter basically means "of, pertaining to, belonging to Kazimierz," and in many cases probably means "coming from Kazimierz" -- there are several places by that name in Poland.

So to some extent the questions in your case are, what was the original form, and when and where was it changed? As of 1990 there was no Polish citizen with the name Kusmisz, and only 8 with the name Kusmirz (in this case the RZ and SZ are pronounced the same, like our "sh"). I think you'll have to answer those questions before you can make much progress. Part of the problem is, surnames from this name are too common for the name itself to do you much good.

 

This Jewish surname of KAZMIERCZAK was an occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue. The name was derived from the Hebrew CHAZAN, and it also spelt CHASAN, HAZZAN, KHAZAN, CHASINOFF, KHAZONIVCH and CHASINS, to name but a few. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today.

A notable member of the name was Elia KAZAN originally KAZANJOGLOUS, born in 1909, the Turkish-born American stage and film director, born in Constantinople. He founded (with Lee Strasberg) the Actors Studio in 1947 with its emphasis on 'Method Acting'. His Broadway productions include the works of Wilder, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. His films include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951) 'East of Eden' (1954) and 'The Last Tycoon' (1976). Between 1880 and 1914, almost three million Jews left Eastern Europe, representing the most extensive migration in Jewish history since the expulsion of Jews from Spain at the end of the 15th century. Most of the emigrants fled from Russia, where pogroms had raged, and where the laws of Czar Alexander III had oppressed Jewish life. Most of the emigrants departed from Hamburg and went to the United States, but some emigrated to Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada and South Africa. While the vast majority of the immigrants to America came through Ellis Island from 1907 to 1914 thousands of East European Jews participated in a little known episode in American Jewish history. They migrated through the port of Galveston, Texas and then were routed to towns throughout the Midwest where lodging and jobs awaited them.