Zalman (name)
Zalman, occasionally Zalmen is a Yiddish-language variant of Solomon. The name was common among European Jews, and it still has usage in many Haredi and especially Hasidic communities.
People
Zalman
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi, author of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya. Also the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and the oldest still operating charity organization in Israel Colel Chabad.
- *The compound name "Shneur Zalman" is common among people of Hasidic Chabad affiliation, derived from their founder, Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
- Zalman Aran, Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician
- Zinovy Gerdt, Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor
- Zalman Grinberg, Lithuanian/Israeli/American doctor, Holocaust survivor
- Zalman King, American film director, writer, actor and producer
- * Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries, TV series by the above
- Zalman Kornblit, Romanian Jewish playwright
- Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, one of two Grand Rebbes of the Satmar Hasidim
- Zalman Melamed, Israeli settler Rabbi
- Zalmen Mlotek, American conductor, composer, musician, and Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
- Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi
- Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Israeli Rabbi
- Zalman Schachter, Polish-born American Rabbi
- Zalman Schocken, German Jewish, publisher
- Zalman Shazar, President of Israel
- Zalman Shoval, Israeli politician and diplomat
- Zalman Shragai, Mayor of Jerusalem
- Zalman Sorotzkin, East European Rabbi
- Zalman Usiskin, American mathematician
- Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky, Canadian rock musician
- [Vilna Gaon|Elijah ben Solomon Zalman], a Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist
Zalmen
- Zalmen Mlotek, American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
- Zalmen Zylbercweig, Yiddish author