Career
She is best known for her translations of Cavafy"s works and for her books and plays about the Jews of Ioannina. She was a professor of Modern Greek literature at New York University (New York University), where a prize is offered in her name by the Associate of Science Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies. The American Jewish Yearbook 1994 (p 573) has the following obituary: DALVEN, RAE, professor, translator.
B. Preveza, Greece, April
25, 1904; daughter New York City, July 30, 1992. In United States. since 1909. Education: Hunter College, New York University (Doctor of Philosophy).
Professor, Engineering literature, and department chairman, Ladycliff College, Highland Falls, New York Translate of modern Greek poets and historian of the Jews in Greece, especially the community of pre-Sephardic Romaniotes in Ioannina. President, America Society of Sephardic Studies and educated its journal, Sephardic Scholar.
Board member, America Friends of the Jewish Museum in Greece.
Translate: Modern Greek Poetry, Complete Poems of Cavafy, The Fourth Dimension (Yannis Ritsos), and others Au.: The Jews of Ioannina (1990). A Season in #!*%, a play about Rimbaud and Verlaine.
And Our Kind of People, an autobiographical play.
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