📖 À propos Leora
Leora est un prénom hébreu signifiant 'ma lumière', enraciné dans le or (lumière) de la Genèse — le premier acte créateur de Dieu; c'est un prénom distinctement israélien dans la tradition du renouveau de l'hébreu moderne, rendu célèbre dans la littérature américaine comme l'épouse dévouée dans le roman Pulitzer de Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith.
📍 Détails
- OrigineHebrew
- Genre♀ Féminin
- SignificationVariant of Liora. My light
🔀 Variantes et Prénoms Associés
⭐ Personnes Célèbres
- Leora Arrowsmith (literary character) — The wife of the protagonist in Sinclair Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Arrowsmith (1925); consistently praised by critics as one of the most loveable and genuinely good female characters in American literature — devoted, practical, and honest; Lewis dedicated the novel to her model, Paul de Kruif's wife Rhea; Leora's death from plague on a Caribbean research island is one of the most affecting scenes in American fiction.
- Liora (Israeli pop singer) — Israeli singer who has represented Israel in international competitions; one of the prominent bearers of the Leora/Liora name family in contemporary Israeli popular culture; the name's association with light gives it a warm, luminous quality that has made it enduringly popular in Israel.
- Leora Batnitzky — American Jewish studies scholar, professor at Princeton University; author of How Judaism Became a Religion (2011) and other influential works on modern Jewish thought and philosophy; a prominent contemporary bearer of the name in American intellectual life.
- Or (divine light in Kabbalah) — In Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah, or (light) is the primal divine energy that flows from the Ein Sof (the infinite God) into all of creation; the Zohar describes creation as a process of divine light being channelled through sefirot (emanations); naming a daughter Leora ('my light') invokes this foundational metaphysical concept.