Israeli Children's Writers: Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Gila Almagor, Uri Orlev, Alona Kimhi, Meir Shalev, Uriel Ofek, on Sarig, Hanny Nachmias

Chapters: Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Gila Almagor, Uri Orlev, Alona Kimhi, Meir Shalev, Uriel Ofek, on Sarig, Hanny Nachmias, Alona Frankel, Uri Orbakh, Tamar Adar, Eliezer Smoli, Michal Snunit, Galila Ron-Feder Amit. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (Hebrew: ) (born 1900; died 1984) was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. Her surname, Yalan, was an acronym based on her fathers name, Yehuda Leib Nissan. Miriam Yalan-Shteklis was born in the town of Potoki, near Kremenchuk, Ukraine, on September 21, 1900. She was the daughter of Hoda (Hadassah) and Yehuda Leib Nissan Vilensky, a Zionist leader descended from a long line of rabbis, and learned Hebrew as a child. After the failed Russian Revolution of 1905, the family moved from place to place: Berlin, Minsk, Petrograd, and finally Kharkov. In 1912, when she was 12, her brother Mulya (Shmuel) was sent to Palestine to study at the Herzliya Hebrew High School. Yalan-Shteklis attended high school in Minsk and Petrograd, and studied psychology and social sciences at the University of Kharkov. She also pursued Judaic studies at the Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. In 1920, she immigrated to Palestine and settled in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem. In 1928, she went to Paris to study library science. From 1929, she joined the staff of the Jewish National University Library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She headed the Slavic department for thirty years. In 1929, she married Moshe Stekelis, a professor. She died in Haifa on May 9, 1984, at the age of 84. Yalan-Shteklis published her first poem in Hebrew, aimed at adult readers, in 1922. In 1933, she turned to writing poems and stories for children, and published her work in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1071000