Kook (surname)

Kook or Cook is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), Chief Rabbi in the British Mandate of Palestine, considered to be Israel's first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi

Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), son of the above, prominent Religious Zionist rabbi

Hillel Kook (1915–2001), nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, prominent Revisionist Zionism activist during World War II

Kook

Kook or KOOK may refer to:

People

Kook, a synonym for crank (person), a pejorative term for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most others consider to be ludicrously false

Kook (surname)

Kook, a slave prominent in the 1811 German Coast Uprising

Abraham Isaac Kook, (1865-1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine

Media

KOOK (FM), a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Junction, Texas, United States

KOOK-TV, a television station now known as KTVQ

Kook TV, a Saraiki language TV Channel from Pakistan

Kook (newspaper), a Saraiki language newspaper in Pakistan

Kooks, a 1988–1991 magazine and a 1994 book by Donna Kossy

Entertainment

KOOK (TV series), a hit music programme on BBC Persian TV

The Kooks, formed 2004, a British band

The Kooks (Sweden), a band formed in 1998

K.O.O.K., an album by German rock band Tocotronic

"Kooks" (song), a 1971 David Bowie song on Hunky Dory

The Kook, a 2011 American short film

Crank (person)

"Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dismiss all evidence or arguments which contradict their own unconventional beliefs, making rational debate a futile task, and rendering them impervious to facts, evidence, and rational inference.

Common synonyms for "crank" include crackpot and kook. A crank differs from a fanatic in that the subject of the fanatic's obsession is either not necessarily widely regarded as wrong or not necessarily a "fringe" belief. Similarly, the word quack is reserved for someone who promotes a medical remedy or practice that is widely considered to be ineffective; this term, however, does not imply any deep belief in the idea or product they are attempting to sell. Crank may also refer to an ill-tempered individual or one who is in a bad mood, but that usage is not the subject of this article.

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KOOK (TV series)

KOOK (Persian: کوک, from the verb "to tune") is BBC Persian TV's weekly music magazine programme. The show features both established and un-discovered music acts from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Kook recently made a series of programmes from the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. The programme has featured interviews and performances from artists such as Arash, Ebi, Dariush and others. Kook recently hosted a concert in Dubai.

In addition the programme has a sister programme called Close-Up which features in depth interviews and longer performances with key artists. The show's presenter is Behzad Bolour.