Levy Mwanawasa — Levy Patrick Mwanawasa Mwanawasa on 16 March 2006. 3rd President of Zambia In office 2 January 2002 – 19 August 2008 Vice President … Wikipedia
LEVY, DAVID — (1937– ), Israeli politician, member of the Knesset from the Seventh Knesset. Levy was born in Rabat, Morocco, receiving a traditional Jewish upbringing, studying at the Alliance school in Rabat. He immigrated to Israel in 1957 with his family,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEVY, JONAS PHILLIPS — (1807–1883), U.S. naval officer and communal leader. Levy, the brother of uriah phillips levy and the father of jefferson monroe levy , was born in Philadelphia. He took up a career in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of commander. Unlike his… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEVY, RUDOLF — (1875–1944), German painter. Levy, who was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Stettin (Pomerania), studied cabinetmaking in Berlin and Karlsruhe, and painting in Munich. In 1903 he went to Paris; he joined the group of artists who met… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LÉVY, BENNY — (1945–2003), French thinker. Lévy was born in Cairo and studied at the petit lycée of the Cairo French high school until 1957. After the Suez crisis, the family left Egypt to settle in Brussels, giving up their Egyptian citizenship. In 1962 he… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEVY, ALBERT J. — LEVY, ALBERT J. (1897–1962), editor and journalist. Levy was born in Salonika and graduated from L Ecole Normale of that city. After working as a teacher and editor of the Thessaloniki political daily El Liberal, Levy immigrated to the United… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEVY, REUBEN — (1891–1966), British Orientalist. Born in Manchester, Levy became lecturer in Persian language and literature at Oxford University (1920–23). From 1923 to 1926 he taught biblical literature at the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. On his… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Political Instability Task Force — (formerly known as State Failure Task Force) was a U.S. government sponsored research project to build a database on major domestic political conflicts leading to state failures. The project was begun as an unclassified study that was… … Wikipedia
POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Political positions of David Cameron — This article concerns the policies, views and voting record of David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.OverviewCentre right in his views, Cameron describes himself as a modern compassionate conservative and has said… … Wikipedia
Political subdivisions of Wisconsin — The definitions of the political subdivisions of the U.S. state of Wisconsin differ from those in some other countries or even other U.S. states, leading to misunderstandings regarding the governmental nature of an area. Whether a municipality is … Wikipedia