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Rabbi Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860-1941) was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah. He was the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, rabbi of Novarodok and author of the work Arukh HaShulkhan. (references)

Daniel Mark Epstein

Daniel Mark Epstein was born in Washington, DC and studied English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (B.A. 1970). His poetry has earned him numerous awards and fellowships, notably the NEA Poetry Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome and the Robert Frost Prize. His work has been anthologized in several collections of essays and poetry. He is also a translator and biographer. (references)

Edward Jay Epstein

Edward Jay Epstein, born in 1935, is an American investigative journalist. He was an early critic of the Warren Commission. (references)

Ethan Epstein

Ethan Epstein is a writer and student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. A self described "muscular liberal," his work has appeared in K Scene Magazine, The Joongang Daily, The Quest, and The Nation. In 2003 and 2004 he wrote, produced, and performed weekly radio commentaries on WELH-FM. (references)

Giora Epstein

Giora Epstein was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and is the current modern-day "ace of aces" in shooting down jet fighters since 1970. (references)

Howard Epstein

Howard Epstein is a Canadian politician, lawyer and part-time law professor. (references)

Isidore Epstein

Dr. Isidore Epstein, an Orthodox rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England, was the longtime principal of Jews' College, London. Dr. Epstein is best known for his English translation of the Babylonian Talmud (Soncino Press, London, 34 volumes, also available on CD-ROM [http://www.davka.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?product=32). (references)

Israel Epstein

Retirement at age 70, and then editor emeritus. During his tenure at China Today, he became a Chinese citizen in 1957 and a member of the Communist Party of China in 1964. (references)

Jacob Epstein

Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 - 19 August 1959) was an American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict. (references)

Jacob Epstein (spy)

Jacob Epstein, also Jake Bermanen, was born 10 November 1903 in Brooklyn of Russian parents. He graduated from Cornell University in 1924, where he became friends with Anna Colloms, who was also a student. In 1938, Epstein volunteered for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and was badly wounded. Epstein married Ruth Wilson, whom he met while convalescing from his injuries, and both served as Soviet intelligence operatives. (references)

Kathleen Epstein

Kathleen 'Kitty' Garman (born 1926), also known as Kathleen Epstein, is the daughter of Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein, who married some time after her birth. Kathleen Epstein married painter Lucian Freud in 1948, and is mother of two of his daughters, Annie and Annabel. The marriage was over by 1953. (references)

Lorne Epstein

Lorne Epstein is the author of You're Hired! Interview skills to get the job (E3 Publishing, 2005). He is a career and job expert presenting workshops and lectures on various topics including how to interview, how to create the career and job of your dreams plus many others. Lorne grew up in Brooklyn, New York and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia. (references)

Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. As a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City, contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University, he is the author of well-respected books including Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (ISBN 0767902351). Both books deal with the difficult and counter-intuitive Eastern teachings of non-self, a concept which has sometimes proved so alien to the Western mind as to be out of reach for many western Buddhists, and certainly many other Westerners who might find the idea useful. (references)

Michael Epstein

Sir Michael Anthony Epstein (born 18 May 1921) was one of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus. (references)

Mikhail Epstein

Mikhail N. Epstein (Epshtein) (born 1950) is an American literary theorist and critical thinker of Russian-Jewish origin. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). He has authored 15 books and approximately 400 essays and articles, translated into 14 languages (in library catalogs they are listed under his Russian surname Epshtein). (references)

Moshe Mordechai Epstein

Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein was a Talmudist and the Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka Yeshiva. He authored the Levush Mordechai. His friendship with Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the yeshiva's mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual counsellor") was well known. (references)

Richard Epstein

Richard A. Epstein, born in 1943, is currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He has written on a wide variety of legal topics, and is known for a generally libertarian approach to issues in legal theory. Perhaps his most well-known work is Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain, published by Harvard University Press in 1985. Epstein is also well-known for his arguments against anti-discrimination laws. At the Law School, Epstein is known for his cheerful, talkative manner as well as his stridently libertarian views. (references)

Samuel Epstein

Doctor Samuel Epstein is a medical doctor and professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois who is perhaps best known for his contributions to environmental medicine, and his contributions towards cancer prevention. (references)

Sir Jacob Epstein

Steven Epstein (academic)

Steven Epstein is an American academic and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. (references)

Theo Epstein

Theo N. Epstein (born December 29, 1973) is the former general manager of the Boston Red Sox. In December 2002 the Red Sox made him the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball by hiring him at the age of 28. (references)

Yechiel Michel Epstein

Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829-1907), often called "the Aruch ha-Shulchan" (after his main work, Arukh HaShulkhan), was a Rabbi and posek (authority in Jewish law) in Lithuania. His surname is often preceded by ha-Levi, as he descended from a family of Levites. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Epstein

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Epstein square

Physics

Of an apparatus used for the measurement of magnetic properties of samples of magnetic sheet material, a part in which the sample, in the form of stacks of uniform flat rectangular strips, is arranged in a closed magnetic circuit around the sides of a square, each side being equipped with test windings which surround the sample. Source: European Union. (references)

Epstein symptom

Medicine

Failure of the upper eyelid to move downward on downward movement of the eye, occurring in premature and nervous infants. Source: European Union. (references)

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Extended Definition: Epstein

Epstein

The surname Epstein is one of the oldest Jewish family names in the Slavic countries. Some people with this name include:

Religion

Abraham Epstein (born 1841), Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar
Aryeh Löb Epstein ben Mordecai, Polish rabbi
Baruch Epstein, Lithuanian rabbi and the son of Yechiel Michel Epstein.
Isidore Epstein, rabbi and biblical scholar
Moshe Mordechai Epstein, rabbi and author of the Levush Mordechai.
Yechiel Michel Epstein, Lithuanian rabbi and author of the Arukh HaShulkhan.
Zelik Epstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, located in Kew Gardens, New York.

Arts

Barbara Epstein, literary editor
Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles
Daniel Epstein, pianist.
Daniel Mark Epstein, biographer and poet.
Edward Jay Epstein, author and early critic of the Warren Commission
Jacob Epstein, sculptor
Joseph Epstein is also the name of an American editor and essayist.
Julius Epstein (pianist)
Julius J. Epstein, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother of Philip G. Epstein
Leslie Epstein, novelist
Mel Epstein, film director and producer
Jake Epstein, Canadian actor
Jason Epstein, publisher who popularized the trade paperback
Jean Epstein, film director.
Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist and Emory University professor.
Howie Epstein, bass guitarist
Philip G. Epstein, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother to Julius J. Epstein.
Steven Epstein (music producer), U.S. classical music producer with Sony
Temi Epstein, child actress

Science and medicine

Anthony Epstein, pathologist and co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus
Fred Epstein, pediatric neurosurgeon
Mark Epstein, psychotherapist
Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, British pathologist. One of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus.
Samuel Epstein, doctor and professor of environmental medicine
Samuel Epstein (geochemist), Wollaston Medal winner.
Scott Epstein, Massachusetts based pulmonary doctor and current Dean of Medicine at the Tufts University Medical School.

Mathematics

David B. A. Epstein, mathematician
Paul Epstein, German mathematician
Paul Sophus Epstein, American mathematician/physicist of Polish/Russian origin and California Institute of Technology professor.
Richard A. Epstein, mathematician, game theorist

Sport

Charlotte Epstein, "Mother of Women's Swimming in America"
Mike Epstein, baseball player
Theo Epstein, Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Boston Red Sox.

Military

Giora Epstein, "ace of aces" Israeli fighter pilot.
Joseph Epstein, French resistance leader

Other

Jacob Epstein (student), alleged Soviet intelligence agent
Alex Epstein, objectivist philosopher
Howard Epstein, Canadian politician.
Israel Epstein, Polish-Chinese journalist
Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire financier
Kathleen Epstein, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman, was once married to Lucian Freud
Michael Epstein, businessman, CEO of eDimensional
Richard Epstein, law professor.
Steven Epstein (academic), sociologist

Variant surnames

David Eppstein, computer scientist
Katja Ebstein, German singer
Wilhelm Ebstein (1836–1912), German Jewish physician and nutritionist


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959).[Wordnet].
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Synonyms: Epstein
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Expression	Jacob Epstein, sir Jacob Epstein.
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Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified	爱泼斯坦 (Epstein), 爱波斯坦 (epstein), 沥青 (asphalt, bituminous, bitumen, asphalted, asphalting). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Epstein. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional	愛波史丹 (epstein), 瀝青 (asphalt, bituminous, bitumen, epstein barr virus, pez). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Epstein. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew	יחיאל מיכל הלוי אפשטין (Yechiel Michel Epstein), יעקבאפשטיין (Jacob Epstein), בריאן אפשטיין (Brian Epstein), ברוך הלוי אפשטיין (Baruch Epstein). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, Epstein. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit	יחיאל מיכל הלוי אפשטין (Yechiel Michel Epstein), יעקבאפשטיין (Jacob Epstein), בריאן אפשטיין (Brian Epstein), ברוך הלוי אפשטיין (Baruch Epstein). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, Epstein. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese	エプスタイン (Epstein), セオ・エプスタイン (Theo Epstein), ジャン・エプスタン (Jean Epstein). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Epstein. (volunteer & more translations)
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Language	Translations for “Epstein” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag	Athagepstathagein (Epstein). Additional references: Athag, Epstein. (volunteer)
Double Dutch	Agepstagein (Epstein). Additional references: Double Dutch, Epstein. (volunteer)
Leet	*£\|5+£!{\}** (Epstein). Additional references: Leet, Epstein. (volunteer)
Oppish	Opepstopein (Epstein). Additional references: Oppish, Epstein. (volunteer)
Pig Latin	Epsteinway (Epstein). Additional references: Pig Latin, Epstein. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi	Ubepstubein (Epstein). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Epstein. (volunteer)
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Definition: Epstein