WEINER, Benjamin Mark.
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- Collection
- WEINER, Benjamin Mark.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 23 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0166
- Date
- [1913-1997].
- Scope and Content
- The collection includes photographs, certificates, clippings(y, h, e), tribute album, books(h, e, y, s), letters about his 90th birthday (e, h). Photos include Canadian Hebrew educators conference 1942, visit of N. Sokolov to Montreal, 1913. Certificate from Canadian Jewish Congress, United Talmud …
- Collection
- WEINER, Benjamin Mark.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 23 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The collection includes photographs, certificates, clippings(y, h, e), tribute album, books(h, e, y, s), letters about his 90th birthday (e, h). Photos include Canadian Hebrew educators conference 1942, visit of N. Sokolov to Montreal, 1913. Certificate from Canadian Jewish Congress, United Talmud Torah of Montreal, Vaad Ha'ir. 1 plaque United Talmud Torah.
- Date
- [1913-1997].
- Fonds No.
- P0166
- History / Biographical
- Benjamin Mark Weiner was born in Oniksti, Lithuania, and educated at the Slobodka Yeshiva in Lithuania. Evading conscription into the Czarist army, he escaped to Berlin, where he entered the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary. He emigrated to Canada in 1907 but left to continue his studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He returned in 1908 to settle in Montreal, where he became a teacher at a Talmud Torah. He entered into the tobacco business and later became a builder and contractor. He played an important role along with Hirsch Wolofsky, publisher of the Keneder Alder, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Cohen, chief rabbi of Montreal, and Lyon Cohen, community leader, in the establishment of the Montreal Vaad Ha'Ir in 1922, a democratic community organization whose main purpose was to finance religious education and to systematize the practice of kashrut and religious life in the community. He served for many years as vice-president and honorary vice-president of the Montreal Vaad Ha'Ir and throughout his life was actively involved with the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (est.1916) serving as chairman and honary chairman of its Hebrew Educational Committee for over fifty years. He died on February 28, 1980, survived by his wife Jennie (aged 101 in 1999).
- Custodial History
- The papers were donated by relative Jeanne Schacter.
- Notes
- Many of the photos in poor condition.P99/01.English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Spanish.Other papers of B.M. Weiner were donated at an earlier date to the National Archives of Canada.Biography from the archive description of the Ethnic Archives of Canada by Lawrence Tapper.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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