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For instance, "my father used to always tell me that I needed to show my face as much as possible when trying to sell a job," says Mr. Kessner, 30, chief executive of New York Floorman LLC and New York Paintman LLC.

For You, Graduate, Some Start-Up Capital Rosalind Resnick 2011

Berlioz himself arranged the work in five parts, which Upbeat Live pre-concert lecturer Daniel Kessner correctly identified, to the confusion of the assembled who saw a three-part description in their programs.

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

For instance, "my father used to always tell me that I needed to show my face as much as possible when trying to sell a job," says Mr. Kessner, 30, chief executive of New York Floorman LLC and New York Paintman LLC.

For You, Graduate, Some Start-Up Capital Rosalind Resnick 2011

Richard Kessner , a New York painting and flooring contractor, says he regularly receives tips from his father and grandfather, industry veterans who helped him launch his business in 2003 and continue to act as unofficial advisors.

For You, Graduate, Some Start-Up Capital Rosalind Resnick 2011

Berlioz himself arranged the work in five parts, which Upbeat Live pre-concert lecturer Daniel Kessner correctly identified, to the confusion of the assembled who saw a three-part description in their programs.

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

Richard Kessner , a New York painting and flooring contractor, says he regularly receives tips from his father and grandfather, industry veterans who helped him launch his business in 2003 and continue to act as unofficial advisors.

For You, Graduate, Some Start-Up Capital Rosalind Resnick 2011

Berlioz himself arranged the work in five parts, which Upbeat Live pre-concert lecturer Daniel Kessner correctly identified, to the confusion of the assembled who saw a three-part description in their programs.

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

But Kessner did not get excited about her intellectual venture until she met the Yiddishist Joseph Landis, who encouraged her to drop the high art of Milton for the analysis of the down-to-earth Jewish immigrant novel before 1917.

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

Energized by a gallery of self-reliant, creative Jewish women, from the seventeenth-century memoirist Glueckel of Hameln to Marie Syrkin and Cynthia Ozick, Kessner pursued an academic career specializing in Jewish American literature.

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

Confined to her home in a New York suburb, Kessner became increasingly depressed.

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009