Peace and Shalom in Judeo-Italian and Across Europe in a Daily Dose of Peace

A Daily Dose of Peace. Each week, I focus on Love, Joy, and Peace in the world languages. March focuses on Italy in Europe.

Č as in Peace, Pače, and Pače

“Pača” peace in Judeo-Italian
Italkian or Bagitto
the old dialect of the Leghorn
Livorno Jewish community, Italy
“Pače” in Italian

“Č” sounds like “ch”
as in charm, chocolate or child
a letter used in Berber, Syriac,
Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian,
Montenegrin, Macedonian, Serbian,
Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian
Bulgarian, Czech, Sorbian,
Skolt Sami, Judeo-Italian, Lakota
and Saanich alphabets
the equivalent of the Pashto “چ”
and Cyrillic “Ч”.

How words like Shalom move and change in Italy and Europe Peace Poetry with Kimberly Burnham Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash

Pača (peace) in Judeo-Italian or Italkian or Bagitto―Pača (peace from “Pače” in Italian) “Scialom” (an Italian spelling “Shalom” (peace) in Hebrew)―Italy (Bagitto is the old dialect of the Leghorn=Livorno Jewish community, Italy).

Shalom Solomon name variations in European languages: Alamont, Aumond, Calama, Chalom, Laumont, Salaman, Salamon, Salem, Salemanus, Salimen, Salinger, Salman, Salmang, Salmannus, Salme, Salmen, Salmon, Salmonaba, Salom, Saloma, Salomson, Saulmon, Schaulom, Schlam, Schlomen, Schlumen, Scholem, Scholum, Scialom, Sellam, Shalom, , Shlomo, Sollomon, Solomonowicz, Suleyman, Zalheim, Zaling, Zalinger, Zalkin, Zalkind, Zalman, Zeling

Shalom Solomon in Judeo-Italian

Scialom, Chalom, Shalom
Jewish names derived from Shalom
accoding to researchers
of ANU Museum of the Jewish People

“Scialom” an Italian spelling Shalom
the Hebrew for peace
like the family name Solomon
derived from the Hebrew Shlomo
man of peace
rooted is Shalom

Distinguished bearers
of the Jewish family name “Scialom”
Tunisian physician David Dario Scialom (1880–1966)
from the Grana Jewish community
Jews from Livorno, Italy
who settled in Tunis since the 16th century
a specialist in tropical diseases

“Scialom” a Jewish surname
A. de M. Scialom of Italian nationality
in a list of commercial enterprises
established in Tunis in 1865
and the councillor Victor Scialom
born 1871 in Tunis

Arabic forms of Solomon
Sellam, Saloma, Calama
and Suleyman in the mid-20th century

In Spain and Greece and Tunis
Shalom ia Jewish family name
15th century Spanish philosopher and translator
Abraham Ben Judah (Ben Itzhak) Shalom
16th century with the Greek-born Eretz Israel rabbi
Abraham Shalom
18th century a Jewish family name on a ‘ketubbah’
from Tunis June 19th 1788
Lea, daughter of Daniel Shalom
and her husband Jacob, son of Madochee de Paz
“paz” peace in Spanish

In Central and Eastern Europe mid-20th century
Variants like Salaman, Salmen,
Zalman, Zalkind, Zalkin, Zalheim, Zaling, Zalinger,
Salinger and Zeling became frequent
Polish variant Solomonowicz
meaning “Solomon’s son
Frenchified to Alamont

In France Solomon 7th century
Salmon (1290), Saulmon (1306), Salmannus (1334)
and Salamon (1388)
mid-2oth century Solomon families
changed their names to Aumond and Laumont

In Alsace (northeastern France)
Salme, Schlomen, Schlumen
Scholum and Schaulom in 1784

In Germany
Salman in 1090
Salemanus in 1200
Scholem in 1495
Schlam in 1717
Salmang in 1831

In the Netherlands
Salem in 18th century

In Italy
Salmonaba in 1715

In North America
Sollomon in 1668 in America
Salimen in 1798 in America
Salomson in 1855 in America

In the Dutch Antilles
Salom in 1713 in the Antilles

Originally Published in Finding Peace in Italy, a Travel and Meditation Journal on March 1, 2021.