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Shulamis Yelin
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'''Shulamis Yelin''' (April 12, 1913-June 24, 2002) was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Jewish]] writer and educator.
Born in [[Montreal]] to parents who had emigrated from [[Chernobyl]],<ref name="jwa.org"></ref> Yelin was an alumna of [[Macdonald College]], from which she graduated in 1932; she then studied at [[Columbia Union Teachers College]] before completing an MA at the [[University of Montreal]] in 1961. At varying times during her career she taught students at every level, from early childhood to university. In 1941 she established the first day school [[kindergarten]] at the J. Peretz School, and from 1953 until 1954 she was assistant principal of the Young Israel Day School.<ref name="LindleyStebner2008"></ref> During the 1960s she taught English at the [[Hebrew University in Jerusalem]].<ref name="jwa.org"/> She was among the founders of the [[Reconstructionist]] synagogue in Montreal. As a writer Yelin won a number of awards for her work, which reflected her experiences growing up in Montreal's Jewish community and the ''[[yiddishkeit]]'' by which she had been surrounded from childhood. Her poetry collection ''Seeded in Sinai'' was published in 1975; other works include ''Shulamis: Stories from a Montreal Childhood'' (1983) and ''Au Soleil De Me Nuit'' (1985).<ref name="LindleyStebner2008"/> She also developed a syllabus, ''The Jew in Canada: 1760 - 1960'', for use in Canadian schools, and she was a frequent guest on Canadian radio and television programs.<ref name="jwa.org"/> She suffered for much of her career from mental illness, a condition documented in the book ''Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin'', which was published in 2014.<ref></ref>
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Born in [[Montreal]] to parents who had emigrated from [[Chernobyl]],<ref name="jwa.org"></ref> Yelin was an alumna of [[Macdonald College]], from which she graduated in 1932; she then studied at [[Columbia Union Teachers College]] before completing an MA at the [[University of Montreal]] in 1961. At varying times during her career she taught students at every level, from early childhood to university. In 1941 she established the first day school [[kindergarten]] at the J. Peretz School, and from 1953 until 1954 she was assistant principal of the Young Israel Day School.<ref name="LindleyStebner2008"></ref> During the 1960s she taught English at the [[Hebrew University in Jerusalem]].<ref name="jwa.org"/> She was among the founders of the [[Reconstructionist]] synagogue in Montreal. As a writer Yelin won a number of awards for her work, which reflected her experiences growing up in Montreal's Jewish community and the ''[[yiddishkeit]]'' by which she had been surrounded from childhood. Her poetry collection ''Seeded in Sinai'' was published in 1975; other works include ''Shulamis: Stories from a Montreal Childhood'' (1983) and ''Au Soleil De Me Nuit'' (1985).<ref name="LindleyStebner2008"/> She also developed a syllabus, ''The Jew in Canada: 1760 - 1960'', for use in Canadian schools, and she was a frequent guest on Canadian radio and television programs.<ref name="jwa.org"/> She suffered for much of her career from mental illness, a condition documented in the book ''Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin'', which was published in 2014.<ref></ref>
==References==
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