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Rachel is the second wife of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.

Rachel may also refer to:

People

  • Rachel (given name), a female name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
  • Rachel Bluwstein, a Hebrew-language poet often referred to simply as Rachel or Rachel the Poetess
  • Rachel Ros, a French singer and representative of France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
  • Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, a 1st-century CE resident of Judea who is mentioned in the Talmud and Aggadah

Media and entertainment

Films

  • Rachel (film) (2009), a 2009 documentary about the death of Rachel Corrie
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968), a 1968 film starring Joanne Woodward and directed by Paul Newman

Literature

  • Rachel (play), 1916 play by Angelina Weld Grimké
  • Rachel (Animorphs), a character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
  • Rachel (story), a short story by Erskine Caldwell, included in We Are the Living (1933)
  • My Cousin Rachel (1951), a novel by Daphne du Maurier
  • Rachel, in the novel Moby-Dick (Chapter 128) a whaling vessel that solicits Captain Ahab's aid in finding the lost son of the Rachel's captain; Ahab refuses. In the novel's last lines, the Rachel rescues Ishmael.

Music

Other media and entertainment

  • Rachel Green (e), a fictional character on Friends
  • Rachel, the lead soprano role in the 1835 opera La Juive

Places in the United States

Other uses

See also

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rachel is the second wife of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.

Rachel may also refer to:

People

  • Rachel (given name), a female name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
  • Rachel Bluwstein, a Hebrew-language poet often referred to simply as Rachel or Rachel the Poetess
  • Rachel Ros, a French singer and representative of France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
  • Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, a 1st-century CE resident of Judea who is mentioned in the Talmud and Aggadah

Media and entertainment

Films

  • Rachel (film) (2009), a 2009 documentary about the death of Rachel Corrie
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968), a 1968 film starring Joanne Woodward and directed by Paul Newman

Literature

  • Rachel (play), 1916 play by Angelina Weld Grimké
  • Rachel (Animorphs), a character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
  • Rachel (story), a short story by Erskine Caldwell, included in We Are the Living (1933)
  • My Cousin Rachel (1951), a novel by Daphne du Maurier
  • Rachel, in the novel Moby-Dick (Chapter 128) a whaling vessel that solicits Captain Ahab's aid in finding the lost son of the Rachel's captain; Ahab refuses. In the novel's last lines, the Rachel rescues Ishmael.

Music

Other media and entertainment

  • Rachel Green (e), a fictional character on Friends
  • Rachel, the lead soprano role in the 1835 opera La Juive

Places in the United States

Other uses

See also


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