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Yalan-Shteklis Miriam
(1900–1984)
Books for children

Miriam Yalan-Stekelis (b. Kremenchug, Russia), daughter of a Zionist leader who was a descendant of a long line of rabbis, learned Hebrew as a small child. After the failed 1905 revolution, the family traveled from one place to another: Berlin, Minsk, Petrograd, and Kharkhov. Yalan-Stekelis studied Humanities at the University of Kharkhov, continued at the College of Judaic Studies in Berlin and in 1928 she studied Library Science in Paris. In 1920 she settled in Jerusalem and after returning from her studies in France in 1929, she joined the National University Library. She spent the next 30 years as director of the Slavic department. Yalan-Stekelis established herself as a children's writer in 1939. She wrote poetry, prose and songs, edited, and translated from Russian, Yiddish and English to Hebrew. She received the 1956 Israel Prize for Children's Literature.

Israel, 1995, Harry, Run, Dwarfs ( Miriam Yalan-Shteklis)