"An influential teacher and writer, Shulamis Yelin was born in Montreal on April 12, 1913. She was named a Master Teacher by the Protestant School Board of Montreal. In 1963 she won the LaMed Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture (USA). Author of Seeded in Sinai (1975) and Shulamis: Stories from a Montreal Childhood (1983), Shulamis Yelin died in 2002.
Gilah Yelin Hirsch is a multidisciplinary artist and Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles.
Nancy Marrelli is archivist emerita, Concordia University, and the author of Stepping Out: The Golden Age of Montreal Night Clubs and Burgundy Jazz: Little Burgundy and the Story of Montreal Jazz.
Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., FRCPC, is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University.
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