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COHEN, Lyon.

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Collection
COHEN, Lyon.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0037
Date
1904-1937.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of address before third Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in 1936. Press clippings and correspondence paying tribute to his public service.
Collection
COHEN, Lyon.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of address before third Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in 1936. Press clippings and correspondence paying tribute to his public service.
Date
1904-1937.
Fonds No.
P0037
History / Biographical
Born in 1868, Lyon Cohen was a businessman and a philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Jewish Times, the first anglo-Jewish periodical in Canada; treasurer of the Montreal Reform Club; former President of Jewish Colonization Association in Canada, Baron de Hirsch Institute, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Canadian Jewish Congress 1919, Montreal Va'ad Ha'ir; organized Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. He died in 1937
Notes
Mostly originals, press clippings.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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