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Dina (Fraiden) Galkin Fonds

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Collection
Dina (Fraiden) Galkin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
2 files textual material
Fonds No.
1112
Date
ca19??-2002
Scope and Content
Consists of Yiddish poetry manuscripts as well as English translations.
Collection
Dina (Fraiden) Galkin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
2 files textual material
Scope and Content
Consists of Yiddish poetry manuscripts as well as English translations.
Responsibility
Translations by Pearl Krupit
Date
ca19??-2002
Fonds No.
1112
Storage Location
7-5C
Creator
Galkin, Dina
History / Biographical
Dina Fraiden (Frieden) Galkin was born in 1890[?] in Tzarei, Russia and died in Montreal in 1988. Galkin arrived in Montreal in 1902. Galkin married Isaac Galkin (b. 1884, near Vitebsk, Russia, arrived in Montreal in 1904) in Montreal in 1908. She had two children, Shmuel Mordechai, a baseball pitcher potentially scouted by the Montreal Royals, and Lillian Galkin Rosen (Faigel Laike). Galkin wrote poetry in Yiddish, which was translated into English by a friend, Pearl Krupit.
Language
Yiddish; English
Name Access
Galkin, Dina
Krupit, Pearl
Subjects
Galkin, Dina
Poetry
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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