CAISERMAN, H.M.
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- Collection
- CAISERMAN, H.M.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.21 metres of textual records. - Env. 100 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0031
- Date
- 1914-1951.
- Scope and Content
- Articles, publications, speeches, correspondence with Le Devoir, D. Rome, etc. One file is about Nella Gutman, his adopted daughter. Also tributes, eulogy. His papers include correspondence and manuscripts in Rumanian and Yiddish as well as English. Photographs (stored in PC1/4 and oversize) includ…
- Collection
- CAISERMAN, H.M.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.21 metres of textual records. - Env. 100 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- Articles, publications, speeches, correspondence with Le Devoir, D. Rome, etc. One file is about Nella Gutman, his adopted daughter. Also tributes, eulogy. His papers include correspondence and manuscripts in Rumanian and Yiddish as well as English. Photographs (stored in PC1/4 and oversize) include family, CJC travels, Romania, Poland, Israel, South America, World Jewish Congress, also Holocaust photos.
- Date
- 1914-1951.
- Fonds No.
- P0031
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1884 in Romania, Hananiah Meyer Caiserman was the General-Secretary of Canadian Jewish Congress from its founding in 1919 through to his death in 1950. He came to Canada in 1910 and settled in Montreal. He was involved in many other Jewish organizations, and especially in early Zionist organizations, notably the Poale Zion. He was also an ardent supporter of Yiddish poetry and Jewish culture.
- Notes
- English, Yiddish, Romanian, and French.1 file.CJC Staff records DA 1 (2 m.), CJC Central file and ZA series.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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