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Miriam Roth
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli writer and scholar of children's books”. Today it says “preeminent pioneer of israeli preschool education”.
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Miriam Roth ( Hebrew : מרים רות ; January 16, 1910 – November 13, 2005) was a preeminent pioneer of Israeli preschool education , author and scholar of children's literature , with a long career as a kindergarten teacher and educator. Many of the children's books she wrote became Israeli best-selling classics.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli writer and scholar of children's books”. Today it says “preeminent pioneer of israeli preschool education”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
israeli writer and scholar of children's books
Now
preeminent pioneer of israeli preschool education
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