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Miriam Beckerman
- Accession Number
- 2016-4-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-4-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 6 photographs : b&w and col.
- Date
- [194-]-2016
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual and graphic material documenting the family and activities of Miriam Beckerman. Included are thank you cards, certificates from Baycrest Centre and Jewish National Fund, a bat mitzvah invitation for Shira Levine, a biography of Nachman Shemen, general correspondence sent to Mirriam, a Yiddish Vinkel event flyer, a Friends of Yiddish meeting invitation, a newspaper clipping, a program for a performance by the Feuersteins, and a graduation program from the Hebrew Union College featuring Torontonian Deborah Staiman. Also included is a snapshot of Miriam with other participants at the 10th Conference of Associaton of Yiddish Clubs in New Jersey, a graduation portrait of Miriam's brother, Ubby Dashkin, an image of Miriam with other students from Central High School of Commerce on a class bicycle hike (1940s), and class photographs from Don Mills Junior High and the Overland Drive Public School. Identified in the photographs are Daniel Beckerman, Rina Beckerman, Miriam Beckerman, and Ubby Dashkin.
- Administrative History
- Miriam Beckerman (nee Dashkin) is a Yiddish literature translator. She attended the Farband Folkshule in Toronto during the 1930s and later worked as a bilingual secretary (Yiddish and English) at the Ontario Region, Canadian Jewish Congress. In 1946, she travelled to Israel where she met her husband, Moshe Beckerman, at a kibbutz. The couple and their children emigrated from Israel to Toronto in 1952. Beckerman continues to work as a Yiddish translator. She has a number of published translations, including her recent collaborative work "A Thousand Threads: A story through Yiddish letters." Her work has been recognized by the Dora Teitelboim Foundation of Coral Gables, Fla. Moshe passed away in 1993.
- Source
- Archival Accessions