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Esther Shemitz (June 25, 1900 –
August 16, 1986), also
known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs.
Whittaker Chambers," was a
pacifist American painter and illustrator...
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Shemitz is an
uncommon surname in the
United States of America. Four
descendants of
Benjamin Shemitz have
Wikipedia pages:
Nathan Levine (1918–1972), American...
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Reuben B.
Shemitz or
Reuben Bob
Shemitz (1894–1970) was an
American attorney,
older brother of
Esther Shemitz, and brother-in-law of
Whittaker Chambers:...
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Sylvan R.
Shemitz (April 18, 1925 – July 5, 2007) was an
American lighting designer best
known for his work on
Grand Central Terminal in New York City...
- into the
Soviet underground a few
years earlier; Chambers's wife,
Esther Shemitz Chambers, knew Oggins's wife,
Nerma Berman Oggins, from the Rand School...
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Alexander Calder,
Whittaker Chambers (husband of ASL
classmate Esther Shemitz),
Langston Hughes,
Meyer Schapiro, and many
other figures in the New York...
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parents were
Barnett Levine and
Sophia Shemitz (sister of
Reuben Shemitz and aunt of
Sylvan Shemitz).
Esther Shemitz later married Whittaker Chambers. Levine...
- and
later wrote more
about his
dislike of Chambers,
whose wife
Esther Shemitz his
first wife
Selma and he had
known through the Rand
School of Social...
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American esotericist Sylvan Richardson (born 1965),
British guitarist Sylvan Shemitz (1925-2007),
American lighting designer Sylvan Wittwer (1917-2012), American...
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selling magazines in New York.
There she met
Esther Shemitz, with whom she
became lifelong friends. (
Shemitz married Whittaker Chambers.) In 1926 she walked...
