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  • They lived in a land which we call Shomer and which they themselves called Kengi, which means the "country of the reeds" and which shows us that they had dwelt among the marshy parts of the Mesopotamian valley.

    Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913

  • Enid Shomer is a thoughtful and intelligent writer whose Tourist Season is nonetheless hard to love.

    2007 May 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Shomer Rothenberg performed from the 1910s through the 1950s, singing songs of Jewish interest for Jewish philanthropic and cultural organizations.

    Personal Information for Anna Rothenberg Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • Shomer Rothenberg performed from the 1910s through the 1950s, singing songs of Jewish interest for Jewish philanthropic and cultural organizations.

    Personal Information for Anna Rothenberg 2010

  • She submitted her Ph.D. in 1965 and together with colleagues from Tel ha-Shomer founded the human genetics department at the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.

    Batsheva Bonne-Tamir. 2009

  • Born Manya Shaikevitsch in Odessa on November 25, 1882, she was the daughter of the well-known novelist and playwright Nokhem Mayer Shaikevitsch (Shomer) and Dinneh Bercinsky.

    Miriam Shomer Zunser. 2009

  • Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir was born to an anti-Zionist family in Poland but became a committed Zionist who immigrated to Israel as a member of Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir, abandoning her goal of writing in Polish to become instead a beloved writer of Hebrew poetry and children's literature.

    Anda Pinkerfeld Amir. 2009

  • Later in life, Zunser began a career as a Yiddish playwright, usually in collaboration with her sister Rose Shomer Bachelis.

    Miriam Shomer Zunser. 2009

  • In 1909 she participated in the founding meeting of the Jewish self-defense organization Ha-Shomer in Meshah (Kefar Tavor) and was accepted as a member of this prestigious group.

    Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi. 2009

  • In fact, she devoted most of her energy to clandestine efforts to procure weapons for Ha-Shomer (The Watchman), the Jewish self-defense organization of the Palestine labor movement.

    Pioneer Women in the United States. 2009

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