unknown mostly agian people eating at SAA Conf. Victoria B.C.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15.5x10.5cm
- 020086
- Date
- 1995
Shulamis Yelin sitting on undefined background.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 13x9cm
- 1032; 020062
- Date
- [between 1990-2002]
The picture of cafe"NewYork" in Sitka, Alaska
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15.5x10.5cm
- 1032; 020090
- Date
- July 1995
Shulamis Yelin is standing next to one middle age and one golden age women
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 020006
- Date
- July 1960
Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- sound recording
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 8.00 metres of textual records + ca. 125 audio cassettes + ca. 1300 photographs + other material
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- 1926-2000
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- sound recording
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 8.00 metres of textual records + ca. 125 audio cassettes + ca. 1300 photographs + other material
- Date
- 1926-2000
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Shulamis Yelin was born in Montreal on April 12, 1913 to Aaron and Vichna (Dobkin) Bordodensky. Educated at Jewish Peretz Scholl, 1925-1928, Baron Byng High School, 1927-1930, MacDonald College School for Teachers, 1939-1940, Sir George Williams University, B.A., 1954-1957, and Universite de Montreal, M.A. (Cum Laude) 1961. Married Ezra Yelin, 1941. Had one daughter, Gilah. During her 35 years of teaching, she taught every grade from nursery to university, the latter at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Much of her teaching was done with gifted children. In 1968, she was named Master Teacher by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. She contributed essays, reviews, poems, short stories and literary cirticisms to periodicals such as the Reconstructionist, Zynergy, Viewpoints, Canadian Author and Bookman, Jewish Digest, Montreal Times, Crossroads and Jewish Dialogue. Her published books include; Creative Camping in Jewish Life, 1954; The Jew In Canada 1760-1960; Seeded in Sinai, 1975; Shulamis: Stories From a Montreal Childhood, 1983; Au Soleil de Ma Nuit, 1985; Many Mirrors May Faces, 1986; Une Enfance Juive A Montreal, 1998; Where All Her Wars Are Marked, 2002. Her awards included The Bronfman Graduate Fellowship, 1957; LA Med Literary Prize, 1962; Certificate of Honour from Le Ministre Des Affaires Culturelles du Quebec, 1972; Canadian Confederation Medal, 1993. She served as Vice-President of the Canadian Authors Association, Cultural Chair for the Pioneer Women - Na'amat Organization and Judge of the J.I. Segal Literary Award. She died in Montreal on June 24, 2002.
- Language
- English, French, and Yiddish
- Custodial History
- Donated directly by Shulamis Yelin
- Arrangement
- Arranged by series according to material in fonds.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail
Unknown couple standing in front of the synagogue's door inside of the building.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographs: col.; 10.5x15cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- [between 1990-2002]
Unknown middle age Jewish man standing with a torah scroll on his right hand and holding his young child by using left hand.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15.3x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- [between 1990-2002]
Shulamis Yelin is standing in front of monument in undefiend place with a walking cane. A bunch of unknown people standing near the monument too.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 13x9.3cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- [between 1990-2002]
A picture of Butchart park Victoria B.C. Some unknown people are there.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15.2x10.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- July 1995
Shulamis Yelin and Shala Martindale are in Harbor
Tower's dining room at Saa Conf. Victoria B.C.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15.3x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032
- Date
- 1995
Holocaust Memorial, Washington DC, exhibit of "Images of Internment" by Josef Nassy.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020000
- Date
- [between 1990-2000]
Q spell Writers Prize giving (?) Mrs. Mappin of Double Hook, Syd Wisebord and Shulamis Yelin
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020001
- Date
- December 2001
Shulamis Yelin with Russian actor and his wife, actress Mina Berg at KlezKanada.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020002
- Date
- August 2001
Gilah Yelin and Ruth Pressman on Shulamis Yelin's birthday party
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020003
- Date
- April 11, 1995
Shulamis Yelin holds a young baby and sits next to baby's mother.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col., 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020004
- Date
- [between 1990-2000]
Shulamis Yelin and her woman friend sitting in the restaurant
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col., 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020005
- Date
- [between 1990-2000]
Shulamis Yelin wearing hat standing with two unknown women.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 9.2x6.8
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020006
- Date
- July 1960
Shulamis Yelin standing in front of shelf that is holding some art work as well as a newspaper article with her image on it.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 15x10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020007
- Date
- [between 1970 -1980]
Shulamis Yelin with Sol and Ninsa Silver at their home in Los Angeles, Pesach. Gilah Yelin on left.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 9.5x6.7cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020008
- Date
- 1968
Shulamis Yelin standing with unknown woman.
- Collection
- Shulamis Yelin Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col.; 9x9.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1032; 020009
- Date
- [between 1970-1980]