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About Shulamis Yelin
- Shulamis Yelin (April 12, 1913 – June 24, 2002) was a Canadian Jewish writer and educator. Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents who had emigrated from Chernobyl, 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.
- During the 1960s she taught English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- 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 ma nuit (1985).
- 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.
- 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.She participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal from 1985 to 1987.
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