John Joseph Sweeney
John Joseph Sweeney 1934-, U.S. labor leader, b. New York City. An official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 1960, he became president of the SEIU in 1980. As president, he emphasized organizing new workers and nearly doubled the union's membership. In 1995 he led dissatisfied labor leaders who challenged American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations president Lane Kirkland . After Kirkland resigned, Sweeney defeated Thomas Donahue , who had been appointed interim president, for the presidency of the AFL-CIO in the first contested such election in the organization's history. An unsuccessful challenge to his continued leadership resulted in 2005 in a split in the AFL-CIO, and several large unions with a total of more than 5 million members left the organization.
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Marking centennial of Nobel Prize winner, I.B. Singer
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 7/23/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, who had become...shared with his brother. Israel Joshua was also the catalyst...brought the two elder Singer brothers to America...the Holocaust. The Singers had an older sister...
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Acclaimed writer Isaac Singer dies // Nobel laureate wrote about ghetto Jews
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/25/1991; 700+ words
; MIAMI Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel...Wednesday. He was 87. Mr. Singer had been ill in a nursing...called his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, his "spiritual...son. They wound up in Israel after World War II. After...
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Deconstructing Bashevis; In Search of Singer's Last Words
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...for Texas, in search of Singer's last word. What I found were 60-plus boxes of Singer material that had been...but I did come across Singer's Carte de Presse from...siblings Esther Kreitman and Israel Joshua Singer; his friend Aaron...
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Singer The Complex: First full biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 5/23/1997; 700+ words
; ...Jewish Week 05-23-1997 Singer The Complex: First full biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer captures triumphs, limitations...his older brother writer Israel Joshua singer, whom he looked...translators, friends, his son Israel Zam
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Poised between the ancient and the new.(Isaac B. Singer: A Life)(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ISAAC B. SINGER: A Life. By Florence...brother, the writer Israel Joshua Singer, Isaac increasingly...Wiesel was offended by Singer characters who were...so far as to call Singer's Nobel "a great...those by his son, Israel Zamir, and his nephew...
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Singer at 100
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/25/2004; 560 words
; ...direct it," Isaac Bashevis Singer said in an interview in 1978...anything." As it turned out, Singer was wrong about writers. For...brought here by his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, and Israel's boss, Forward editor Abraham...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Master Storyteller
Magazine article from: Humanities; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...America, Isaac Bashevis Singer said, "When I came to...the Holocaust." When Singer arrived in New York in...transition. Although Singer was already established...well-known novelist Israel Joshua Singer, who had been...
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Nobel Laureate Isaac B. Singer Dies at Age 87
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/25/1991; 437 words
; Isaac Bashevis Singer, the fragile, impish...followed his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, into a career...his wife, who moved to Israel with their 5-year-old...is survived by a son, Israel Zamir, and four grandchildren...
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Vivian Singer, 70; helped form Jewish congregation
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/20/2000; 502 words
; ...of families. Mrs. Singer hosted dinners, planned...taking young people to Israel," said her son, Joshua. She took perhaps 20 trips to Israel by herself and with...in River Forest. The Singers made their home in Highland...Hillel Singer and Joshua Singer; a sister...
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How Isaac Bashevis Singer Became an American Writer: A Life of the
Newspaper article from: Forward; 5/16/1997; 700+ words
; ...1997 How Isaac Bashevis Singer Became an American Writer...Womanizer Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life By Janet Hadda...and womanizer, I.B. Singer. What makes this tale...the eldest son, Israel (Joshua Singer) and the middle...
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Israel Joshua Singer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Israel Joshua Singer 1893-1944, Polish-American novelist...Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer . Living variously in Poland and Russia...York publisher Abraham Cahan, who hired Singer as Polish correspondent to his Yiddish...
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Singer, Israel Joshua
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Singer, Israel Joshua (1893–1944),Polish‐born Yiddish novelist...Cahan . The next year he was followed by his brother Isaac Bashevis Singer . In the U.S. he wrote The Brothers Ashkenazi (1936), a saga of...
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904–91...of rabbis, like his elder brother, Israel Joshua Singer , turned from a rabbinical background...Poland to New York. In Shosha (1978) Singer returned to treat the ghetto life of...
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