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COHEN, Bernard Lande.

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Collection
COHEN, Bernard Lande.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.11 metres of textual records. - 12 sound elements.
Fonds No.
P0157
Date
1900, 1927-1997.
Scope and Content
The documents in the collection include a hand-written autobiography, unpublished and published manuscripts including clippings of published articles, notes on philosophy/ideology of capital punishment, Jews in society, comparative religion, and a complete unpublished typescript on comparative reli…
Collection
COHEN, Bernard Lande.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.11 metres of textual records. - 12 sound elements.
Scope and Content
The documents in the collection include a hand-written autobiography, unpublished and published manuscripts including clippings of published articles, notes on philosophy/ideology of capital punishment, Jews in society, comparative religion, and a complete unpublished typescript on comparative religion. The fonds also includes cassette and reel to reel tapes of lectures or radio interviews, on the subjects of capital punishment, and the character "Shylock". 2 books by Bernard Lande Cohen were added to the books already at CJC to complete the collection of his published books. 3 photocopies of photos show Lande in group photos of 1920s while a student.Addition 1998 from Mrs. Alyse Cohen: booklet issued by Hadassah (1922) with enamel pin on front, containing 10 JNF (Jewish National Fund) certificates made out in honour of Alyse Cohen
Date
1900, 1927-1997.
Fonds No.
P0157
History / Biographical
A controversial speaker and philosopher, Bernard Lande Cohen was born in Montreal on June 6, 1902 and married Alyse Cohen Dec. 6, 1942. He graduated in Civil Law from McGill University, was a Montreal barrister/lawyer, a member of the Zionist youth group Habonim, and a Mason (pre-1942) He lectured across the U.S.A. on capital punishment, with numerous appearances on TV and radio. He died on Sept. 6, 1997.
Custodial History
This collection was referred to CJCNA from the National Archives of Canada by Myron Momryk, Ethnic Collections, Manuscripts Division.
Notes
P98/04.English (and one newspaper in Yiddish).
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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