''Zalman'' (), occasionally Zalmen is a Yiddish-language variant of

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. The name was common among

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, and it still has usage in many

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and especially

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communities.

People

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Shneur Zalman of Liadi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, (; September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S. / 18 Elul 5505 – 24 Tevet 5573) commonly known as the Alter Rebbe or Baal Hatanya, was a rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism. He ...

, author of the

Shulchan Aruch HaRav The ''Shulchan Aruch HaRav'' (; also romanized ''Shulkhan Arukh HaRav'') is especially a record of prevailing halakha by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), known during his lifetime as '' HaRav'' (Hebrew for "The Rabbi") and as the firs ...

and Tanya. Also the founder of the

Chabad Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...

Lubavitch movement and the oldest still operating charity organization in Israel

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(established 1788). **The compound name " Shneur Zalman" is common among people of Hasidic Chabad affiliation, derived from their founder, Shneur Zalman of Liadi. *

Zalman Aran Zalman "Ziama" Aran (; 1 March 1899 – 6 September 1970) was a Zionist activist, educator and Israeli government minister. Biography Zalman Aharonowitz (later Aran) was born in Yuzovka in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire (no ...

(1899–1970),

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activist, educator and

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i politician (also Zalman Aranne) *

Zinovy Gerdt Zalman Afroimovich Khrapinovich (21 September 191618 November 1996), known by the pseudonym Zinovy Yefimovich Gerdt, was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. Biography Early life and education Ger ...

(born Zalman Khrapinovich, 1916–1996), Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor *

Zalman Grinberg Zalman Grinberg (; September 29, 1912 – August 8, 1983) was a medical doctor who served as the chairman for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American sector of Germany and Austria after World War II. Early life Zalman Grinberg was ...

(1912–1983), Lithuanian/Israeli/American doctor, Holocaust survivor *

Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Early life Zalman Kin ...

(1941–2012),

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film director, writer, actor and producer ** ''

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'', TV series by the above * Zalman Kornblit,

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ish playwright *

Zalman Leib Teitelbaum Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (III), known by the Yiddish colloquial name Zalman Leib (born 23 December 1951), is one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar. He leads the dynasty's Williamsburg, Brooklyn faction, which is based at the community's cent ...

(born 1951), one of two Grand Rebbes of the

Satmar Satmar (; ) is a group in Hasidic Judaism founded in 1905 by Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), in the city of Szatmárnémeti (also called Szatmár in the 1890s), Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary (now Satu Mare in Romania). The group is a b ...

Hasidim Ḥasīd (, "pious", "saintly", "godly man"; plural "Hasidim") is a Jewish honorific, frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods. It denotes a person who is scrupulous in his observance of Jewish ...

(full name

Zalman Leib Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (III), known by the Yiddish colloquial name Zalman Leib (born 23 December 1951), is one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar. He leads the dynasty's Williamsburg, Brooklyn faction, which is based at the community's cent ...

) *

Zalman Melamed Zalman Baruch Melamed (; born 1937) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the rosh yeshiva of the Beit El yeshiva in Beit El. He founded the Arutz Sheva radio station and served as neighborhood rabbi in Beit El until 2013. Background Zalman Baruch M ...

, Israeli settler Rabbi (full name

Zalman Baruch Melamed Zalman Baruch Melamed (; born 1937) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the rosh yeshiva of the Beit El yeshiva in Beit El. He founded the Arutz Sheva radio station and served as neighborhood rabbi in Beit El until 2013. Background Zalman Baruch ...

) *

Zalmen Mlotek Zalmen Mlotek (; born June 15, 1951, in the Bronx, New York) is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), the longest continuous running ...

(born 1951), American conductor, composer, musician, and Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre

Folksbiene The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish theater, Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous sup ...

Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki Shneur Zalman Moishe HaYitzchoki, usually known familiarly as Reb Zalman Moishe, (c. 1872-3 Shvat, 1952), was an Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi in pre-war Europe, and towards the end of his life, in the Land of Israel. He served as a Ma ...

(c. 1872–1952),

Chabad-Lubavitch Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...

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(known familiarly as " Reb Zalman Moishe") *

Zalman Nechemia Goldberg Zalman Nechemia Goldberg (; 28 January 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Ashkenazi rabbi, posek (decider on points of religious law), and rosh yeshiva (dean) in Israel. He was a son-in-law of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. Goldberg was an authority on h ...

(1931–2020), Israeli Rabbi *

Zalman Schachter Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (August 28, 1924 – July 3, 2014), commonly called "Reb Zalman" (full Hebrew name: ), was an American Rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecu ...

(1924–2014), Polish-born American Rabbi (full name

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (August 28, 1924 – July 3, 2014), commonly called "Reb Zalman" (full Hebrew name: ), was an American Rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecu ...

) *

Zalman Schocken Salman Schocken (; October 30, 1877August 6, 1959) or Shlomo Zalman Schocken () was a History of the Jews in Germany, German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his ci ...

(1877–1959), German Jewish, (later Israeli) publisher *

Zalman Shazar Zalman Shazar (; November 24, 1885 – October 5, 1974) was an Israeli politician, author and poet. Shazar served as the president of Israel for two terms, from 1963 to 1973. Biography Shazar was born Shneur Zalman Rubashov to a Hasidic family o ...

(1889–1974), President of Israel *

Zalman Shoval Zalman Shoval (; born 28 April 1930) is an Israeli banker, politician and diplomat. He is also active in Israel's economic life. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United States in the years 1990–1993 and 1998–2000, and an active member of ...

(born 1930), Israeli politician and diplomat *

Zalman Shragai Shlomo Zalman Shragai (; 1899–1995) was an Israeli politician and West Jerusalem's first elected mayor after it came under Israeli control following the 1948 Palestine War. Biography Shlomo Zalman Shragai was born into a Polish Orthodox Jewish ...

(1898–1995), Mayor of Jerusalem * Zalman Sorotzkin (1881–1966), East European (later Israeli) Rabbi * Zalman Usiskin, American mathematician * Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky (1944–2002), Canadian rock musician * Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), a

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

ist,

halakhist ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is based on biblical commandments ('' mit ...

, kabbalist

Zalmen

(born 1951), American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene *

Zalmen Zylbercweig Zalmen Zylbercweig (Yiddish: זלמן זילבערצווייג ; Ozorkow, 1894-Los Angeles 1972) was a historian of Yiddish theater. He is best known as the author of the six-volume '' Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' (Lexicon or Encyclopedia of the ...

(1894–1972), Yiddish author

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