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Miriam Beckerman
- Accession Number
- 2014-4-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-4-2
- Material Format
- moving images
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 videocassettes : VHS
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1960]-[ca. 1975]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of home movies documenting the activities of Miriam Beckerman and her family. Included is footage of winter activities, birthday parties and family celebrations, a children's Halloween party, and family trips to Montreal, the United States, Israel, and Niagara Falls. Also included are two greeting cards received by Miriam.
- 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