Shulamit Shoham was born to Yiddish-speaking parents on July 29, 1918, in Providence, Rhode Island. Her parents, Yitzhak and Feigel (Magence) Shoham, were immigrants from Lithuania and Poland. Her father, the product of a rabbinical family, was a professional Hebrew school principal who presided over schools in Providence, Chelsea, Boston, and New York. Her mother was also a member of one of the leading rabbinical families in the "shtetl" of Suwalk, Poland, one of whose members emigrated from Europe to lead and serve as the chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Santiago, Chile. Mrs. Peck's first cousins, Gilbert Shoham of Overland Park, Kan. and Sidney Shoham of Montreal and Florida, are both prominent Orthodox rabbis.

She was particularly interested in music, theater, and Jewish culture. She composed a cantata to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Jews in America in the 1950s that was performed at Temple Sinai in Tenafly, New Jersey. At the Hebrew Senior Life residence at 100 Centre St., one of her last residences, she led a Yiddish group and participated in other gatherings on such themes as current events.

After skipping two grades in school, Mrs. Peck graduated in her teens from Brooklyn College around 1937. She later received a Master of Social Work degree from Smith College, and a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Later in her career, she earned clinical and training credentials from the International Transactional Analysis Association. She studied object relations theory with Dr. James Masterson in the 1980s and studied in many additional courses and seminars. She also trained other therapists under the auspices of the ITAA.

She married Dr. Harris B. Peck in 1941 and the marriage produced five children. They divorced in 1975.

She lived in Providence, Boston, and Brooklyn as a child; in New York City during the first years of her marriage; in Leonia, N.J. from 1953 to 1969; in Los Angeles from 1969 to 1971, and in the Boston area from 1971 until her death. She is survived by a daughter, Ann Peck Reisen, a freelance television producer of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; four sons--Yoav, an organizational psychologist of Jerusalem, Israel; Jonathan, an attorney, of West Hartford, Conn.; Joshua, a legal public relations specialist of Elkins Park, Pa.; and Joel, an evolutionary biologist, of Cambridge, England. Her grandchildren are Tal Peck, of Jerusalem, Noa Peck Talshir of Jerusalem, Abraham Walker of New York City, Sara Walker, who is serving in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, Dvora Walker of West Hartford, Conn., Eliana and Ari Peck of Elkins Park, Pa., and Miriam, Jacob, and Moshe Peck of Cambridge, England. Her three great-grandchildren reside in Jerusalem.

Her brother, Leo Shoham of Englewood, N.J., and sister Muriel Shoham of New York City, predeceased her.

-Submitted by Joshua Peck