Yalom (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
: יהלום or יאלום, meaning:
Diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
Early life and education
Yalom was born in Wa ...
(born 1931), American existential psychiatrist
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Marilyn Yalom
Marilyn Yalom (March 10, 1932 – November 20, 2019), born Marilyn Koenick, was an American feminist author and historian. She was a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and a professor of French. She ...
(1932–2019), American writer and historian
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Hebrew-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin