Shoshana

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Shoshana (Shoshánna(h),

Ge'ez: ሶስና, ሦሥና) 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,[1] is still commonly used by Jews and in contemporary Israel, often shortened to Shosh or Shoshi. In Biblical times shoshaná referred to a lily (from Lilium family);[citation needed] 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 (Hebrew: שושנה ארבלי-אלמוזלינו, 1926–2015), former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health between 1986 and 1988
  • Shoshana Bean (born 1977), American stage actress and singer known for her roles in Broadway musicals during the 2000s
  • Shoshana Bush (born 1988), American actress
  • Shoshana Damari (Hebrew: שושנה דמארי, 1923–2006), Yemenite-Israeli singer known as the queen of Hebrew music
  • Shoshana Felman (born 1942), Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University
  • Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss (born 1975), American fashion designer
  • Shoshana Johnson (born 1973), Panamanian former United States soldier, the first black female U.S. prisoner of war
  • Shoshana Kamin (Russian: Шошана Камин, Hebrew: שושנה קמין; born 1930) Soviet-born Israeli mathematician
  • Shoshana Chagall Gungurstein (born 1989), American politician,[2] financier, actress
  • Shoshana Lew (born 1983), executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation
  • Shoshana Netanyahu (Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה נְתַנְיָהוּ, 1923–2022), Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
  • Shoshana Persitz (Hebrew: שושנה פרסיץ, 1892–1969), Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician
  • Shoshana Ribner (Hebrew: שושנה ריבנר, 1938–2007), Israeli Olympic swimmer
  • Shoshana Riseman (born 1948), Israeli music educator, stage director and composer
  • Shoshana Rudiakov (1948–2012), Latvian pianist
  • Shoshannah Stern (born 1980), American actress
  • Shoshana Zuboff (born 1951), professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
  • Shoshana Leone Sarchar (Born 1977-1998) miss Fitness Denmark

Fictional characters

See also

  • Susannah (given name)
  • Shoshana Foundation, non-profit organization founded in 1986 upon the death of Richard F. Gold who was a long time administrator at both the New York City Opera and Chamber Opera Theater of New York
  • Sookie, a given name that is derived from Shoshana

References

  1. ^ "Shoshana". BehindTheName.com.
  2. ^ https://ballotpedia.org/Shoshana_Gungurstein