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Schlomith Frieda Flaum (18 March 1893 – 2 January 1963), 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 (2018).[1][2][3]
Biography
editSchlomith Frieda Flaum was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 18, 1893.[4]
She was educator and kindergarten teacher, searching new methods of teaching.[4]
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.[4]
She died in Israel on January 2, 1963, at the age of seventy.[4]
References
edit- ^ Lev, Shimon. "With India's Messiah - Schlomith Flaum and Mahatma Gandhi". www.mkgandhi.org. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ "Shlomith Frieda Flaum 1893-1963". www.eilatgordinlevitan.com. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ Egorova, Yulia (2008). "3. Indian attitudes towards anti-Semitism". Jews and India: Perceptions and Image. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-415-40040-4.
- ^ a b c d "Schlomith Flaum: A Name That Binds India, Israel and Lithuania Together – Lithuanian Jewish Community". 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
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