A rose by any other name would smell as sweet? In Hebrew it would definitely be sweeter. Ancient Hebrew has many more phonemes than English does, though the same cannot be said for modern Hebrew. The Hebrew name for a Rose happens to be Shoshana, which rolls off the tongue much sweeter than Rose, don’t you think? Just as the name Rose is fairly popular in English, so too is the name Shoshana in Hebrew. In fact, many Jewish women are named Shoshana, and the name is even leaking into American culture as well.

The Hebrew pendant for the name is the perfect form of Jewish jewelry, especially if your name just so happens to be Shoshana or you know someone whose name is Shoshana.

The Hebrew letters of Jewish jewelry can be in the form of two basic scripts: either old Hebrew or Assyrian Hebrew. Old Hebrew is reserved for ancient style pendants and unless you are familiar with ancient scripts you’ll have a hard time reading it even if you know Hebrew. Assyrian Hebrew is the Hebrew that most of us are familiar with today, and any Jewish jewelry that you are interested in actually reading will be in the form of this script.