Shulamis () or Shulamit is the feminine form of the Hebrew name

Solomon Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ...

(in Hebrew, "Shlomo", ), related to the word "

shalom ''Shalom'' ( ''šālōm'') is a Hebrew word meaning ''peace'' and can be used idiomatically to mean ''hello'' and ''goodbye''. As it does in English, it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or b ...

" (), or "peace". "Shula" is a shortened form. The name

Salome Salome (; , related to , "peace"; ), also known as Salome III, was a Jews, Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New T ...

is also a related form.

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* Shulamite, the name ascribed to the female protagonist in the

Song of Songs The Song of Songs (), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a Biblical poetry, biblical poem, one of the five ("scrolls") in the ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh. Unlike other books in the Hebrew Bible, i ...

in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Shulamit Aloni Shulamit Aloni (; 27 December 1927 – 24 January 2014) was an Israeli politician. She founded the Ratz (political party), Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party, Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition from 1988 to 1990, ...

(1928-2014), Israeli politician and left-wing activist *

Shulamith Firestone Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. She was a prominent figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave ...

, Canadian-American

radical feminist Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognizing that women's experiences are also affected by other ...

writer and activist * Shulamit Goldstein (born 1968), Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast *

Shulamith Hareven Shulamith Hareven (; pen name, Tal Yaeri; February 14, 1930 – November 25, 2003) was an Israeli author and essayist. Biography She was born as Shulamith Riftin to a Zionist family. Her father, Avraham was a lawyer. They immigrated to Mandate ...

Shulamit Katznelson Shulamit Katznelson (; 1919–1999) was a pioneering Israeli educator and ulpan founder who sought to bring Jews and Arabs together through language studies. Biography Shulamit Katznelson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 17, 1919, to a ...

, Israeli educator *

Shulamith Muller Shulamith Muller (née Movshowitz, December 1922 - July 1978) was a South African lawyer, communist, and anti-apartheid activist. Muller was one of the attorneys for the 1956 Treason Trial. Biography Muller was born in Pretoria in December 192 ...

, South African activist *

Shulamith Nardi Shulamith Schwartz Nardi (; April 23, 1909 – May 3, 2002) was an American-born translator, writer, editor, and educator, based in Israel after 1950. Early life and education Shulamith Schwartz was born in New York City, the daughter of Avraham ...

, American-Israeli editor, translator, speaker *

Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran (; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize ...

Israeli-American Israeli Americans () are Americans who are of full or partial Israeli descent. The Israeli-American community, while predominantly Jewish, also includes various ethnic and religious minorities reflective of Israel's diverse demographics. This c ...

composer *

Shulamith Shahar Shulamith Shahar (; 2 November 1928 – 9 January 2025) was an Israeli historian. Shahar's 1981 study ''Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages'' was the first to specifically examine the role of women in the medieval period. The bo ...

, Israeli historian *

Shulamit Shalit Shulamit Shalit (), also known as Shulamit Shalit-Rudnik (; born in 1939) is an Israeli writer, journalist and essayist. Her writings are mostly in Russian. Biography and work She was born in Lithuania and moved to Israel in 1980. Since 1991 she ...

, Israeli writer, journalist and essayist *

Shulamit Volkov Shulamit Volkov (; born October 12, 1942) is an Israeli historian, specializing in the history of German Jews and anti-Semitism. She is professor emerita for modern European history at Tel Aviv University. Biography She was born in Tel Aviv, studie ...

, Israeli historian

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