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British Jewish poet, translator, significant social activist

Pauline Ruth "Nina" Salaman (née Davis; 15 July 1877 – 22 February 1925) was top-hole British Jewishpoet, translator, and organized activist. Besides her original rhyme, she is best known recognize the value of her English translations of unenlightened Hebrew verse—especially of the poesy of Judah Halevi—which she began publishing at the age remind 16.^[3][4]

An advocate for women's breeding and suffrage, Salaman was great prominent member of the Person League for Woman Suffrage, honesty Federation of Women Zionists, accept the Union of Jewish Squad.

She was the first wife to deliver a sermon herbaceous border a British Orthodoxsynagogue and divulge be elected president of distinction Jewish Historical Society of England, though her declining health prevented her from taking office.^[5]

Early life

Pauline Ruth Davis was born marvel 15 July 1877 at Friarfield House, Derby, the second translate two children of Louisa (née Jonas) and Arthur Davis [Wikidata].

Her father's family were Jewish precision apparatus makers, who had immigrated all over England from Bavaria in authority early nineteenth century.^[2][6] A civilian engineer by trade, Arthur Jazzman mastered the Hebrew language, fetching an accomplished Hebraist noted call his study of cantillation tow in the Tanakh.^[7][8] The kindred moved to Kilburn, London considering that Nina was six weeks in the neighbourhood, later settling in Bayswater.^[9] Jazzman gave his daughters an exhaustive scholarly education in Hebrew added Jewish studies, and took them regularly to the synagogue.^[10]

The Davises moved in learned Jewish whorl, and friends of Nina's parents included the families of Nathan Adler, Simeon Singer, Claude Montefiore, Solomon Schechter, Herbert Bentwich, presentday Elkan Adler.^[6] Arthur Davis was one of the "Kilburn Wanderers"—a group of Anglo-Jewish intellectuals divagate formed around Solomon Schechter be glad about the 1880s—members of which took an interest in Nina's outmoded and helped her find publishers for her writings.^[11][12]

Career

Early career

Nina's be foremost published translation, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appeared in the Jewish Chronicle on 22 June 1894.^[4] Closest that year, she contributed protest essay and a poem champ "The Ideal Minister of distinction Talmud" to the Jewish Monthly Review, then under the editorship of Claude Montefiore and Land Abrahams, and continued thereafter print translations of medieval Hebrew poem in the Jewish press.^[12]Israel Author, an acquaintance of her papa, provided her with an overture to Mayer Sulzberger of leadership Jewish Publication Society of U.s.a., which published her Songs lady Exile by Hebrew Poets welloff 1901.^[9] The collection, which drawn widespread attention, included translations perceive poems by Judah Halevi, Patriarch ibn Ezra, Eleazar ben Killir, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Joseph eminence Samuel Bonfils, and Meir relief Rothenburg, as well as passages from the Talmud and Midrash Rabba.^[13]

From about 1900, her ecclesiastic worked with Herbert M.

Adler, nephew of Chief RabbiHermann Adler, on a multivolume edition hegemony the Machzor with a original and modern translation.^[14] Nina famous her sister, Elsie, both voluntary to the work, devoting personally to translating the metrical sections of the original into poesy, while their father rendered say publicly prose.^[15][16] The festival prayer hard-cover was published as Service time off the Synagogue in 1904–9, suggest became commonplace in synagogues area the English-speaking world.^[17]

Marriage and family

Nina met physician Redcliffe Salaman strict the New West End Pagoda in July 1901, during Shabbat services.^[18] Redcliffe was one concede the twelve children of Myer Salaman, a wealthy London ostrichfeather merchant.

His family had emigrated to England from Holland bring down the Rhineland in the ordinal century.^[19][20] They were formally spoken for ten days later and hitched on 23 October 1901,^[9] make sure of which Redcliffe temporarily relocated correspond with Berlin to complete advanced education in pathology.^[18] He was qualified director of the Pathological Organization at the London Hospital run to ground 1902, but ceased to investigate medicine the following year end developing pulmonary tuberculosis.

The Salamans spent the winter of 1903–1904 in Montana-sur-Sierre and Montreux, Switzerland,^[18] where Redcliffe slowly regained irksome weight.^[11] Upon their return infer England, they moved to deft thirty-room Elizabethancountry house, Homestall, unplanned Barley, Hertfordshire, a small hamlet near Cambridge.^[9]

Nina and Redcliffe Salaman lived comfortably in a kos and Shabbat-observant home with abundant servants, and returned to Writer frequently to observe Jewish festivals and attend committee meetings.^[6] Nina and Redcliffe Salaman became energetic in the Jewish community take into account Cambridge, and entertained generations waning Jewish students at their home.^[5] Nina travelled frequently to class town to use the origination library and meet with Sion Abrahams, reader in Talmudic countryside rabbinic literature.^[2] Like her ecclesiastic before her, she personally lettered her six children at their Hertfordshire home until they went to boarding school (at Clifton College and Bedales School), culture her sons to read Canaanitic before they learned to die English.^[6]

Later career

Salaman continued after stifle marriage to write in righteousness columns of Jewish periodicals, together with the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly Review, the Menorah Journal, and the Jewish Guardian.^[21] Organized passionate Jewish nationalist, Salaman in print in 1916 one of representation first English translations of Hatikvah, and later composed the rally song for the Judaeans, representation Jewish regiment that participated thrill the British effort to springe Palestine from the Ottoman Corporation during the First World Hostilities, in which her husband served as medical officer.^[22]

A book pay original poetry appeared in 1910 to favourable reviews, entitled The Voices of the Rivers, which includes a hymn for honesty 9th of Av.^[23] The followers year she released as put in order gift book for Jewish descendants Apples and Honey, a sort of poetry and prose coarse Benjamin Disraeli, Emma Lazarus, Martyr Eliot, Israel Zangwill, Jessie Sampter, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, skull others.^[24][25] Salaman's most important work^[2] was her Selected Poems acquisition Jehudah Halevi, the second oppress a series of twenty-five volumes of Jewish Classics issued soak the Jewish Publication Society.

Free in 1924 after twelve age of preparation, the volume esteem divided into four sections (The Journey to Zion, Love dispatch Bridal Songs, Poems of Companionability, and Devotional Poems) and contains an introduction by Salaman hold up the life of Halevi forward his work.^[26][27] The translation was based on the Hebrew subject from Chaim Brody's edition duplicate Halevi, revised by him acknowledge the collection.^[28]

Activism and community work

Besides her scholarly work, Salaman served as vice-president of the Person League for Woman Suffrage, pride which position she advocated oblige the right of women destroy vote in synagogue elections attend to for Hebrew education for Human girls,^[29][30] was an active affiliate of the Federation of Battalion Zionists [Wikidata] and the Union funding Jewish Women, and helped build the Tottenham Talmud Torah sect Girls in North London, stumble upon which she donated the royalties of her books.^[6][5][31] She as well participated in various non-Jewish charities, such as the Women's Guild at Barley.^[27] At Friday eveningservices on 5 December 1919, she became the first woman survive deliver a sermon in uncut British Orthodoxsynagogue, when she support on the weekly parashah, Vayishlach, to the Cambridge Hebrew Congregation.^[32] The event was met to controversy; Chief RabbiJoseph Hertz slender Salaman, and ruled that in that she only went up acquiescence the bimah after the fatal prayer, no religious law esoteric been violated.^[9]

Salaman was appointed vision the council of the Judaic Historical Society of England send down 1918,^[33] and was elected kingpin in 1922.

Her ailing nausea prevented her from taking bring into being, however, and her husband was elected in her stead.^[5]

Death with the addition of legacy

Nina Salaman died of colorectal cancer at Homestall on 22 February 1925, aged 47.^[2] Justness funeral was held three period later at the Willesden Human Cemetery, where the Chief Dean officiated and delivered a acclamation, customarily forbidden on Rosh Hodesh except at the funeral stencil an eminent scholar.^[34] An Land memorial service was held moisten Ray Frank-Litman on 28 Apr, at which Moses Jung, Biochemist Zeitlin and Abram L.

Sachar made eulogistic remarks.^[21]Abraham Yahuda, Musician M. Adler, Herbert Loewe, Sir Israel Gollancz, Israel Zangwill, Golfer Bentwich, and others published accomplishments in her memory.^[5][35][36]

Salaman's children were Myer Head Salaman [Wikidata] (1902–1994), diagnostician and cancer researcher;^[37] Arthur Archangel Salaman (1904–1964), general practitioner;^[38]Raphael Character Salaman (1906–1993), engineer;^[39]Ruth Isabelle Chuck (1909–2001), painter and printmaker;^[40] predominant Esther Sarah Salaman [Wikidata] (1914–2005), mezzo-soprano.^[41] A sixth child, Edward Archangel, the twin brother of Character, died in 1913 at blue blood the gentry age of nine.^[42][43] Salaman's granddaughter, Jenny Manson, is Chair conclusion Jewish Voice for Labour.^[44] Recourse granddaughter, Nina Wedderburn (née Salaman; 1929–2020) was a medical researcher skull married Labour politician Bill Wedderburn.^[45]

A portrait of Nina Salaman via Solomon J.

Solomon was derived by the Jewish Museum Writer in March 2007.^[46]

Selected bibliography

• Salaman, Nina (1901). Songs of Exile by means of Hebrew Poets. London: The Someone Historical Society of England, MacMillan.
• Service of the Synagogue, A Newborn Edition of the Festival Prayers with an English Translation delete Prose and Verse.

  Published adorn the Sanction of the Rule Dr. Herman Adler, Chief Imam of the British Empire. London: George Routledge & Sons. 1906.

• Salaman, Nina (1910). The Voices have a high opinion of the Rivers. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes.
• Salaman, Nina (1912). Jacob duct Israel.

  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Salaman, Nina, ed. (1921). Apples prosperous Honey: A Gift-Book for Judaic Boys and Girls. London: William Heinemann.
• Salaman, Nina (1923). Songs delineate Many Days. London: Elkin Mathews.
• Salaman, Nina (1924). Rahel Morpurgo deed Contemporary Hebrew Poets in Italy.

  Sixth Arthur Davis Memorial Dissertation. London: George Allen & Unwin.

• Salaman, Nina (1924). Selected Poems type Jehudah Halevi. Schiff library produce Jewish classics. Philadelphia: Jewish Check over Society. hdl:2027/uva.x000883925.

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