Schlomith Flaum

Schlomith Frieda Flaum, was a Lithuanian Zionist activist, who moved to Palestine in 1911. After spending two years at Shantiniketan, she returned to Jerusalem, where she established a kindergarten based on Rabindranath Tagore's ideas. There, she also published articles on Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi in the Jewish press. An account of her life is given in Shimon Lev's book titled From Lithuania to Santiniketan: Schlomith Flaum and Rabindranath Tagore.

Biography

Schlomith Frieda Flaum was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 18, 1893.
She was educator and kindergarten teacher, searching new methods of teaching.
From 1922 to 1924 she spent in Santiniketan, where she met Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu and Annie Bessant. During these two years Flaum became the informal ambassador of Tagore, Santiniketan. Her numerous stories and publications about Tagore, Gandhi and India were published as two books and more than twenty articles in Hebrew.
She died in Israel on January 2, 1963, at the age of seventy.