Miriam Del Banco

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Miriam Del Banco
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Born(1858-06-27)June 27, 1858
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
DiedNovember 6, 1931(1931-11-06) (aged 64)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OccupationPoet, educator
LanguageEnglish
Alma materDePaul University

Miriam Del Banco (June 27, 1858 – November 6, 1931)[1][note 1] was a Jewish-American poet and educator.

Biography[]

Miriam Del Banco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to German-Jewish parents Johanna (née Meyer) and Rabbi Max del Banco.[2] Her father died shortly after her birth,[3] and the family moved to St. Louis. Later she was sent to her uncle Louis Meyer at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where she attended the State Normal School.[4]

After completing the course with honors, she rejoined her mother, who in the meantime had relocated to Chicago, in which city Del Banco obtained in 1885 a position as teacher in the public schools. In 1889 she became assistant principal at the , and later became principal of the Motley Public School. She would go on to receive a Ph.B. from DePaul University in 1921.[1]

Del Banco was a frequent contributor to the Jewish and general press, having written a large number of poems, both Jewish and secular. Most of her prose publications appeared in educational journals.[2] She likewise translated Meyer Kayserling's Die jüdischen Frauen in der Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst, which appeared as a serial in the columns of the Jewish Advance and was published in Chicago in 1881; and  [de]'s Ludwig Börne, which appeared in the Menorah, 1888–89. She recited her poem "White Day of Peace" at the 1893 Jewish Women's Congress, receiving a standing ovation.[5]

A collection of Del Banco's poetry was published after her death under the title Poetry and Prose.[1]

Selected publications[]

  • "Modern Yom Kippur". The Jewish Tribune. Saint Louis. 3 (6): 1. October 1, 1880.
  • "The Menorah". The Menorah. 1: 36–37. 1886.
  • "White Day of Peace". Papers of the Jewish Women's Congress. Held at Chicago, September 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1893. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1894. p. 13.
  • "Friday Night / Moses Mendelssohn / B'nai B'rith / Sir Moses Montefiore". The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co. 1917. pp. 268, 615, 691, 723.
  • Poetry and Prose. Chicago: H. L. Palmer. 1932.

Notes[]

  1. ^ June 27, 1858, according to The Jewish Encyclopedia.

References[]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Cohen, Max (1903). "Del Banco, Miriam". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 503.

  1. ^ a b c Poetry and Prose. Chicago: H. L. Palmer. 1932. p. 9.
  2. ^ a b Gilman, Agness G.; Gilman, Gertrude M. (1927). Who's Who in Illinois: Women-Makers of History. Chicago: The Eclectic Publishers.
  3. ^ Young, Mel (1991). Where They Lie: The Story of the Jewish Soldiers of the North and South Whose Deaths occurred During the Civil War, 1861–1865. University Press of America. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-8191-8109-1.
  4. ^ Markens, Isaac (1888). The Hebrews in America: A Series of Historical and Biographical Sketches. New York: New York, Pub. by the author. pp. 208–209.
  5. ^ Rogow, Faith (1993). Gone to Another Meeting: The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893–1993. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8173-0671-7.

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