Sulamith
Sulamith (also Schulamit , Schulamith or Shulamith ) is a female given name of Hebrew origin. He is best known for one of the Old Testament (from the Song of Solomon , Chapter 7 verse 1), the other from the Death Fugue by Paul Celan .
Origin and meaning of the name
Hebrew שׁוּלַמִּית - the peaceful, peaceful.
Name bearers
First name
- Schulamit Aloni (1928–2014), Israeli lawyer, human rights politician, writer and politician
- Shulamit Arnon (* 1929), Israeli teacher and author
- Shulamit Bat-Dori (1904–1985), director, dramaturge and theater actress
- Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), Canadian-American sociologist and feminism theorist
- Schulamit König (* 1930), Israeli human rights activist
- Schulamit Lapid (* 1934), Israeli writer
- Shulamit Ran (* 1949), Israeli-American composer and music teacher
- Shulamith Shahar (* 1928), Israeli historian
- Shulamit Volkov (* 1942), Israeli historian
- Sulamith Wülfing (1901–1989), German artist and illustrator
Fictional characters
- Sulamith, the beloved in the Song of Songs of Solomon
- Sulamith, in Paul Celan's fugue of death, the representative for the Jewish victims
- Sulamith, name of a Jewish girl who is addressed in the poem "About the burned Jewess" by the Polish poet Halina Poświatowskas
- Sulamith, main character in the German film of the same name (1917) by Eugen Illés with Ica von Lenkeffy in the role of Sulamith
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painting
- Sulamith and Maria , panel by the German painter Franz Pforr from 1811
Web links
- http://www.celan-projekt.de/verweis-sulamith.html - explanations about the name Sulamith