100:, who died in 1931, after learning about him from a cousin that sparked their correspondence for the last three years of his life. In 1935, Eliya's mother requested that Dalven translate her son's poetry into English as his dying wish. She made trips to Ioannina, Eliya's hometown, in 1936 and 1937, prior to the destruction of the Jewish community there. The notes and impressions she recorded eventually became the foundation for her future books and plays about the Romaniote community of Ioannina. Her translations of Eliya's poems, published in 1944 by
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Dalven's parents, Israel and Esther, moved to New York in 1909 with their two children, Joseph and Rachel, leaving their other daughter, Simcha (Sophie) with relatives in Greece due to an eye infection that would have prevented her admission to the U.S. Dalven went on to graduate from
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In addition to her older siblings, seven other children were born after the family arrived in New York. Dalven was married to Jack Negrin, also a
Romaniote Jew, but the marriage ended in divorce with no children. Her brother Joseph was the medical director of the
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The Rae Dalven Prize was awarded for the first time in 1997. NYU's
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in New York, were some of the earliest translations of modern Greek poetry published in the United States and outside of Greece. Her other notable translations include the poems of
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with an M.A. in 1941. She wrote four autobiographical plays:
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