What is "judith"

fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yehudith, fem. of Yehudh "Jewish, Jewess," from Yehudha (see Judah). Judy is a pet form of it.

Judith may refer to:

In names:

• Judith (given name), female given name

In people:

• Queen Judith (disambiguation), a number of women in the medieval period with this name
• Judith (Hebrew Bible), name of one of the wives of Esau in Genesis
• Judith of Bavaria (died 843), a Frankish queen
• Judith of Friuli, daughter of Eberhard
• Judith of Flanders, Princes of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
• Judith of Schweinfurt, wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
• Gudit, a 10th-century queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
• Zewditu I, a 20th-century queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"

In literature:

• Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament
• Judith (homily), an Old English homily by Aelfric of Eynsham
• "Judith" (poem), an Old English poem about the heroine of the Book of Judith
• Judita, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić
• "Judith", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven
• Judith (novel), by Irish author Brian Cleeve
• Judith (Van Herk novel), a 1978 novel by Aritha Van Herk
• Judith (Mosley novel), a 1986 novel by Nicholas Mosley

In theater:

• Judith (Hebbel) an 1841 tragic play by Friedrich Hebbel about the Biblical heroine
• Judith (Giraudoux), a 1931 play by Jean Giraudoux
• Judith, a 1962 adaption of the play above by Christopher Fry

In art:

• Judith (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, circa 1504
• Judith I, a painting more completely titled Judith and the Head of Holofernes, by Gustav Klimt, 1901.

In film:

• Judith (1923 film), a 1923 Dutch film
• Judith (1966 film), a 1966 film set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate
• Judith (TV series), a 2000 Swedish TV series

In music:

• Judith (oratorio), the 1761 oratorio by Thomas Arne
• Judith, an 1888 work by Hubert Parry
• Judith (Serov), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov
• Judith (Matthus), a 1984 opera by Siegfried Matthus
• Judith (ballet), a 1949 ballet by William Schuman
• "Judith" (song), by A Perfect Circle from their 2000 album Mer de Noms
• Judith (album), released by singer Judy Collins

In Fiction

• Judith Myers, a character in the Halloween films

In video games:

• Dr. Judith Mossman from Half-Life 2.
• Judith from Tales of Vesperia.

In astronomy:

• 664 Judith, a minor planet orbiting the Sun

In geography:

• Judith River, a river in Montana

Judith , the feminine form of Judah.

Judith is the name of one of the two Hittite wives of Esau in the Book of Genesis 26:34. Reportedly, Esau's two wives were a great deal of annoyance to his parents Isaac and Rebekah. It is written that when Esau was age forty, he took Judith, a Hittite and the daughter of Beeri, as his wife along with Bashemath, another Hittite and the daughter of Elon. The two wives were a grief of mind unto Isaac and Rebekah as written in Genesis 26:35.

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The Old English poem Judith describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia. It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem Beowulf, the Nowell Codex (London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV), dated ca. 975-1025. The Old English poem is one of many retellings of the Holofernes–Judith tale as it was found in the Book of Judith, still present in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Bibles. Most notably, Ælfric of Eynsham, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer, composed a homily (in prose) of the tale.

Judith is a 1966 drama film made by Command Productions, Cumulus Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Kurt Unger from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the story by Lawrence Durrell. The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the cinematography by John Wilcox.

The film stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins.

Judith (, Yudíf – stress on second syllable), is an opera in five acts, composed by Alexander Serov during 1861–1863. Derived from renditions of the story of Judith from the Old Testament Apocrypha, the Russian libretto, though credited to the composer, has a complicated history (see below). The premiere took place in 1863 in Saint Petersburg. This stage debut, supplemented with his next opera Rogneda, made Serov the most important Russian opera composer of the 1860s.

Judith is the third in a series of historical novels set in late eighteenth-century England written by the Irish-based author Brian Cleeve. Like its predecessors, Judith features as its protagonist a young independent-minded woman who tries to make her way in a largely inhospitable and sometimes terrifying world. It was among Cleeve's most financially successful novels, especially in the USA.

Judith is American singer and songwriter Judy Collins' 12th studio album, released in 1975 by Elektra Records in both stereo (7E-1032) and CD-4 quadraphonic (EQ-1032) versions. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and is her best-selling studio album to date, achieving Platinum status in the mid 1990s.

Collins received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's " Send in the Clowns". Sondheim won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year that same year, based on the popularity of Collins' performance of the song on this album. The single peaked at No. 36 on Billboard's Pop singles chart in 1975, and then reentered the chart in 1977, reaching No. 19; it spent a total of 27 non-consecutive weeks on this chart.

The album also includes material by Steve Goodman, Danny O'Keefe, Wendy Waldman, Jimmy Webb, the Rolling Stones, and the 1930s standard " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", as well as three of Collins' own compositions- "Houses", "Song for Duke", and "Born to the Breed".

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1975, for sales of over 500,000 copes. It was later certified Platinum in 1996, for sales of over 1,000,000 copes.

Judith is a homily written by abbot Ælfric of Eynsham around the year 1000. It is extant in two manuscripts, a fairly complete version being found in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 303, and fragments in British Library MS Cotton Otho B.x, which came from the Cotton Library.

The homily is written in Old English alliterative prose. It is 452 verses long. The story paraphrases the Biblical original closely. Ælfric ends the homily with a detailed exegetical interpretation of the story, which he addresses to nuns.

In the first 190 lines, Ælfric introduces king Nebuchadnezzar and Holofernes, the leader of his army, whom he charges with conquering the land of the Jews. Holofernes complies and subdues most countries to the west of Assyria, except Bethulia, a Jewish town which resists the invader. At this point Judith is introduced.

As in the Bible, Judith is depicted as a wealthy, independent widow, who after the death of her husband has chosen to remain single and lead a clean and chaste life (lines 203-207). In his exegesis, Ælfric again stresses Judith's cleanness and chastity (lines 391-394). Judith is depicted as pious and steadfast in her traditions, even bringing her own food to the Assyrian's tent (lines 270-272). Ælfric thus represents Judith as a figure of identification for the nuns.

Ælfric also stresses Judith's eloquence. She talks her way into the Assyrian's camp (lines 237-241), she talks Holofernes into drinking too much and falling asleep (lines 248-277) and after she has beheaded Holofernes she motivates the Bethulians to fight (lines 312-354).

"Judith" is a song by American rock band A Perfect Circle. It was released as the first single from their debut album Mer de Noms. The single was released as a 1-track compact disc single in North America, and a 4-track single on both disc and vinyl format in Australia.

Judith is a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, executed around 1504. It is one of the few authentic works by Giorgione owned by the Russian Hermitage Museum. The painting, originally attributed to Raphael, came to the Hermitage in 1772 from Paris. Like many other paintings, it refers to the Judith and Holofernes motif.

Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית or Yehudit, meaning "woman of Judea". Judith appeared in the Old Testament as the wife of Esau and in the Apocryphal Book of Judith.

The name was among the top 50 most popular given names for girls born in the United States between 1936 and 1956. Its popularity has since declined. It was the 893rd most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2012, down from 74th place in 1960.

Judith is a 1923 Dutch silent film directed by Theo Frenkel.

' Judith ' is a play written in 1931 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

Judith is an oratorio composed by Thomas Arne with words by the librettist, Isaac Bickerstaff. It was first performed on 27 February 1761 at Drury Lane Theatre. It depicts the story of Judith, taken from the Book of Judith of the Old Testament. It was first published in 1761 and republished with edits in 1764. The piece is divided into three acts, with a total of 28 movements including nine choruses, two duets, an overture, and 16 arias.

Judith is a solo work created by dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. William Schuman composed the music. Charles Hyman designed the original set, which was replaced almost immediately by one conceived by Isamu Noguchi. He also added jewelry and a headdress. Jean Rosenthal provided the lighting. The piece premiered on January 4, 1950, at the Columbia Auditorium in Louisville, Kentucky.

Judith is a play written in 1840 by German dramatist Friedrich Hebbel.

The play, composed at Hamburg, was Hebbel's first tragedy. The following year it was performed in Hamburg and Berlin, making the German poet known throughout Germany.

Based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, Hebbel's adaptation presents a heroine who oversteps the boundaries of proper womanhood as defined by his 19th-c upbringing. Changing the political plot of the biblical story into a psychological investigation, he invests Judith with a sexuality and beauty that proves fatal to the men around her: she is left a virgin on her wedding night since her beauty (or so she believes) renders her husband Manasses impotent, and when in Holofernes's tent, she subconsciously exercises her repressed sexual desire, leading Holofernes to rape her and her to subsequently behead him. "Holofernes prefigures the misogynist ideology of the fin-de-siecle", and while Judith resists the traditional female role she is given, she cannot transcend these restrictions.