The Yiddish Book Center (formerly the National Yiddish Book Center), located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent.
Stanley Yetnikoff was born in Montreal, where he was President of two Jewish youth organizations and has served in executive capacity on others. In July 1962, he presented a brief to the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Education in the Province of Quebec.
Mr. Yetnikoff was a practicing Chartered Accountant and Management Consultant and he used to lecture at Sir George Williams University.
Mr. Yetnikoff published two books: one entitled "Jewish Education in Quebec" and other more recently entitled "Discrimination".
Mr. Yetnikoff was a member of the National and Regional Councils of the former Canadian Jewish Congress. Under CJC, he was a member of the Education Committee, the Constitution Committee and Religious Affairs Committee. Yetnikoff was also Education Chairman of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. He was one of the founders and Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Tax Supported Jewish Schools.
Shulamis Yelin was a Canadian Jewish writer and educator. She 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.
Yehoash was a Yiddish poet and translator. In 1923 the New York Times wrote that he was "generally recognized, by those familiar with [Yiddish] literature, as its greatest living poet and one of its most skillful raconteurs" (New York Times, June 24, 1923).