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Shoshana Ashkenazi
Shoshana (''Shoshánna(h)'', ) is a Hebrew feminine first name. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible and, via (), it developed into such European and Christian names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Susie, Suzie, Sanna and Zuzana. In Ethiopia ( gez, ሶስና, ) it became Sosie, Sosina, Sosena, while in North Africa it yielded Sawsen and Sawsan. The original Hebrew form Shoshana, from which all these are derived, is still commonly used by Jews and in contemporary Israel, often shortened to or . In Biblical times referred to a lily (from Lilium family); in modern Hebrew it refers to a rose. Notable people with the name include: * Soshana Afroyim (1927–2015), Austrian painter who adopted the name (with a variant spelling) during her stay in Israel * Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino ( he, שושנה ארבלי-אלמוזלינו, links=no, 1926–2015), former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health between 1986 and 1988 * Shoshana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soshana Afroyim
Soshana Afroyim (born Susanne Schüller; September 1, 1927 – December 9, 2015) was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy. Life Childhood Soshana Afroyim was born in 1927 as Susanne Schüller in Vienna, Austria, into a Jewish middle-class family. Her younger brother Maximilian was born two years later. Her father, Fritz Schüller, owned a cufflink factory and her mother, Margarethe Schüller, was a sculptor. Shoshana first went to the Rudolf Steiner School, but soon changed to the alternative Schwarzwald School. She started to paint and draw at a very young age. Her mother supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Riseman
Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman, he, שוש רייזמן; born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer. Biography Riseman was born in Cyprus while her parents were traveling, and graduated from the Tel Aviv Academy of Music in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff, Leon Shidlovsky and Yosef Dorfman at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with Hans Heimler, at Guilford University in England, and Ralph Shapy, Chicago University in the USA. She also studied electroacoustic music with Sanday and voice with Mira Zakai and Hanna Hacohen at Tel Aviv University. She teaches theater arts at Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ..., and is known as a composer of theater music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Ribner
Shoshana Ribner (also "Rivner", he, שושנה ריבנר; February 20, 1938 – 29 June 2007) was an Israeli Olympic swimmer. Biography Shoshana Ribner was born in Vienna, Austria. Her family immigrated to Israel when she was an infant. Ribner began competing as a swimmer at the age of 13. Her trainer, 24-year-old Nachum Buch, swam for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Ribner's son, Damon Fialkov, was Israel's 200-meter backstroke champion in 1981. Swimming career Ribner joined the Brit Maccabi Atid swimming club of Tel Aviv at the age of 13. She won gold medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter crawls at the 1953 Maccabiah Games. She competed for Israel at the 1956 Summer Olympics, when she was 18 years old, in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Persitz
Rosalia Gillelovna "Shoshana" Persitz (née Zlatopolsky; 16 November 1892 – 22 March 1969), also known as Shoshana Persitz ( he, שושנה פרסיץ), was a Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician. Biography Rosalia Gillelovna Zlatopolsky was born in 1892 in Kiev in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the daughter of Hillel Zlatopolsky (1868–1932), a Zionist leader, philanthropist and co-founder of Keren Hayesod, and his wife, Fania (née Mirkin), a homemaker. Hillel Zlatopolsky had been decorated by France with the order of the Legion of Honor for his contributions to business. Persitz's brother Moshe died in Israel in 1956. In 1909, she became active in "Tarbut” ("Culture"), an organization for the dissemination of Hebrew culture throughout the Jewish diaspora. In 1917, she founded the publication ''Omanut'' (''Art'') in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, with her husband, Itzhak-Yosef Zelikovich-Persitz. In 1920, Persitz served as a delegate to the Zionist Congress in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Netanyahu
Shoshana Netanyahu ( he, שׁוֹשַׁנָּה נְתַנְיָהוּ; 6 April 1923 – 7 October 2022) was an Israeli judge and lawyer who was a justice at the Supreme Court of Israel. She was married to mathematician Elisha Netanyahu (1912–1986), who was the uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel. Biography Netanyahu was born Shoshana Shenburg in 1923, in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). She immigrated to Palestine with her family in 1924, and settled in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa. She graduated from the Reali High School in Haifa 1941, and took British Mandate-operated legal classes. Netanyahu worked at the law firm of S. Horowitz, and then spent a year serving as assistant prosecutor in the Israel Air Force. She returned to her previous position, and two years later moved to the advocate firm, Friedman and Komisar. In 1949, she married professor Elisha Netanyahu; their elder son was born in 1951. In 1953 the family left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Lew
Shoshana M. Lew (born 1983) is a career government administrator currently serving as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew. Career The Colorado Senate confirmed Lew's appointment to the position of executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) on February 5, 2019. Prior to heading the Colorado Department of Transportation, Lew worked from April 2017 to January 2019 as the chief operating officer of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. Before her appointment to Rhode Island's Department of Transportation, Lew worked for eight years in the Obama administration. The federal government positions she held were Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Transportation, Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, U.S. Department of Transportation, Senior Adviser, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Policy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Kamin
Shoshana Kamin (russian: Шошана Камин, he, שושנה קמין) (born December 24, 1930),See reference . born Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya (russian: Сусанна Львовна Каменомостская), is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equations and related mathematical physics problems. Biography Shoshana Kamin graduated from Moscow University in 1953 and earned her "candidate of science" degree from the same university in 1959, under the supervision of Olga Oleinik. She and her two sons left the Soviet Union in the early 1971. After that she became a professor in Tel Aviv University, where she is now professor emeritus. Contributions In the late 1950s, she gave the first proof of the existence and uniqueness of the generalized solution of the three-dimensional Stefan problem. Her proof was generalised by Oleinik. Later, she made important contributions to the study of the porous medium equat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Johnson
Shoshana Nyree Johnson (born January 18, 1973) is a Panamanian-born former United States soldier, and the first black female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States. Johnson was a Specialist of the U.S. Army 507th Maintenance Company, 5/52 ADA BN, 11th ADA Brigade. During the Battle of Nasiriyah, she suffered bullet wounds to both of her ankles and was captured by Iraqi forces. She was held prisoner in Iraq for 22 days along with five other members of her unit. She was freed in a rescue mission conducted by United States Marine Corps units on April 13, 2003. Life and career Johnson, a second-generation U.S. Army veteran, is a native of Panama. She moved to the United States with her family when she was a child. She is the eldest child of retired Army Sergeant First Class Claude Johnson and wife Eunice. In 1991, Johnson was in the JROTC program at Andress High School. Although she did not plan a career in the military, she wanted to attend culinary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
Shoshanna Lonstein-Gruss (born May 29, 1975) is an American writer and fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the fashion label Shoshanna, which was launched in 1998. Early life Shoshanna Lonstein was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, to a Jewish family. She attended Nightingale-Bamford School for girls in New York City's Upper East Side, graduating in 1993. While still a 17-year-old high school student, she met then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in a public park. At that point, Seinfeld got her phone number. Lonstein later came to public attention by dating Seinfeld, who was at the time starring in his eponymous sitcom. Early in their relationship, ''Spy Magazine'' referred to her as "a legal voter", since she had turned 18 by then. They dated for approximately four years, from 1993 to 1997, before the relationship ended. She transferred from GW to UCLA, in part to be with Seinfeld, and cited missing New York City and constant press coverage as reasons for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Felman
Shoshana Felman is an American literary critic and current Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University. She was on the faculty of Yale University from 1970 to 2004, where in 1986 she was awarded the Thomas E. Donnelly Professorship of French and Comparative Literature. She specializes in 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, and law and literature. Felman earned her Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble in France in 1970. Work Felman works in the fields of psychoanalytic literary criticism, performativity theory, feminism, Holocaust testimony, and other areas, though her writings frequently question, ironize, or test the limits of the very critical methods being employed. Often in her writing a reversal will occur so that the critical vocabulary gets subjected to and converted into the terms of the literary or cultural object being scrutinized rather than simply settling the meaning of the object; thus in Felm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Damari
Shoshana Damari ( he, שושנה דמארי; March 31, 1923 – February 14, 2006) was a Yemeni-Israeli singer known as the "Queen of Hebrew Music." Biography Shoshana Damari was born in Dhamar, Yemen. Her family immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 and settled in Rishon LeZion. From a young age Damari played drums and sang accompaniment for her mother, who performed at family celebrations and gatherings of the Yemenite community in Israel. At age 14, her first songs were broadcast on the radio. She studied singing and acting at the Shulamit Studio in Tel Aviv, where she met Shlomo Bosmi, the studio manager who became her personal manager. They wed in 1939 and had a daughter, Nava. Damari died in Tel Aviv after a brief bout of pneumonia. She died whilst ''Kalaniyot'' was sung by her family and friends who had been sitting in vigil during her final few days. She was buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. Music career In 1945, Damari joined Li-La-Lo, a revue thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
