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Solomon Ettinger (Yiddish: שלמה עטינגער, 1802–1856) was a 19th-century Yiddish- and Hebrew-language playwright, poet and writer of songs and fables whose emblematic play Serkele has remained a classic of the Yiddish theatre.
Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York.
Haym Salomon (also Solomon; April 7, 1740 – January 6, 1785) was a Polish-born American merchant best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he was the prime financier to the Continental Congress.
After Solomun was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia (today Bosnia and Herzegovina), [2] he moved to Hamburg with his family, where he grew up. As a young boy, he worked for his father in construction. [3]
Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. [2] He has been called "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul", [3] and was known for his "prodigious output". [4 ...
Born in Guyana and raised in London, England, Pam Fraser Solomon holds a master's degree from Middlesex University. [2] Her early career included work in fringe and repertory theatre, with venues such as the Sheffield Crucible, the Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Haymarket Theatre, and as a director for theatre companies Temba and BTC (Black Theatre Co-operative) in the 1980s. [3]
Solomon married Mamie Sutten, a chorus girl at the Casino Theatre, in 1887. They had one son together, William Frederick Solomon, who was born in 1888. [ 2 ] In 1888 the Casino staged his comic opera Yulee (libretto by Frank Dupree, later retitled King Kaliko for 1892 Broadway revival), and that same year the burlesque star May Howard toured in ...
Solomon Gbadegesin Ilori (born c. 1934) is a Nigerian drummer and percussionist who moved to New York City in 1958 and collaborated with jazz artists such as Art Blakey and Harry Belafonte before recording his debut album for Blue Note Records in 1963.