Sylvia Shlifer Levine was born in Berdichev, a tiny shtetl in the Ukraine. Fleeing the pogroms in 1913, the family moved to the United States, where Levine attended Radclife College (A.B. 1928). She was employed by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration where she was part of a team that produced American Portraits, 1620-1825, Found in Massachusetts (published in 1939). In 1943 she married Leo Levine, a Latvian journalist. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts, where he ran an import-export business. Their daughter Helena lived in Sharon, Massachusetts, and was a poet and piano teacher.
From the description of Papers of Sylvia Shlifer Levine, 1939-2008 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 428960184
