Shulamis Yelin

An influential teacher and writer, Shulamis Yelin was born in Montreal on April 12, 1913. She was named a Master Teacher by the Protestant School Board of Montreal. In 1963 she won the LaMed Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture (USA). Author of Seeded in Sinai (1975) and Shulamis: Stories from a Montreal Childhood (1983), Shulamis Yelin died in 2002.