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Miriam Roth (Hebrew: מרים רות; February 1910 – November 13, 2005) was an Israeli writer and scholar of children's books, kindergarten teacher, and educator.〔 Many of the children's books she wrote became Israeli best-selling classics. She was a pioneer of Israeli children's literature and preschool education.〔 ==Biography== Miriam Roth was born in 1910 to Hala and Yaakov Roth. She was born in the town of Nové Zámky (Érsekújvár), where Hungarian was spoken,〔 in what later became known as Czechoslovakia, and then Slovakia.〔〔 Her father, who had fought in World War I and been a prisoner of war in Siberia, was the principal of the local Jewish elementary school.〔〔 She studied psychology and earned a bachelor's degree in pedagogy and natural sciences at Brno University in Moravia,〔〔 where classes were taught in German.〔 She immigrated to pre-state Israel alone in 1931.〔〔〔 There, she studied at the Seminar Hakibbutzim Teachers College in Tel Aviv, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.〔 In 1937, Roth was one of the founders of Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan, in what was then Palestine, where she worked as a kindergarten teacher and lived for many years.〔 During the Holocaust, her parents, two sisters, and two young nieces who were still in Europe were sent to Auschwitz, and none survived.〔 During the Israeli War of Independence, she recalled, "the Arabs burned Sha'ar Hagolan and my personal archive was burned and I lost all the letters and family photographs that I'd received."〔 In 1960, Roth went to New York to study at the Bank Street College of Education, and later, she earned a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, and an MA in pedagogy from City College of New York.〔〔〔〔 Roth was married to Pesach Ivry, who died in 1978.〔 The couple had three sons, 14 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.〔 Her middle son Adam Ivry lives in Sha'ar Hagolan.〔〔 In 1991, her youngest son, Yaakov, a 45-year-old father of four, drowned in a diving accident in Sinai.〔 Her eldest son, Eitan, died of a heart attack.〔 In 2005, she was reunited with a long-lost relative. Her cousin Neuwald Falcon, a documentary filmmaker in Seattle, had survived the Holocaust, but lost touch with Roth.〔〔 Falcon's daughter searched the computer database of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem.〔〔 There, she learned that her mother's family had died at Auschwitz, but also learned information that led her to find and re-connect with Roth.〔 Her great-granddaughter, Amit Ivry, is an Israeli Olympic swimmer, Maccabiah Games champion, and national record holder.〔 Roth died of pneumonia on November 13, 2005, at Kibbutz Sha'ar Hagolan, at the age of 95. 〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miriam Roth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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