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GORDON, Nathan.

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Collection
GORDON, Nathan.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0074
Date
1909-1938.
Scope and Content
McGill University Ph.D. thesis 1913 "Prolegomena to the Social Customs of the Mishna". McGill. M.A. thesis 1909 "Capital Punishment in the Bible and Talmud". Biographical press clippings. Kol Nidre court case summary. Letter about Mortimer B. Davis reducing annual contribution to Montreal Federatio…
Collection
GORDON, Nathan.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
McGill University Ph.D. thesis 1913 "Prolegomena to the Social Customs of the Mishna". McGill. M.A. thesis 1909 "Capital Punishment in the Bible and Talmud". Biographical press clippings. Kol Nidre court case summary. Letter about Mortimer B. Davis reducing annual contribution to Montreal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
Date
1909-1938.
Fonds No.
P0074
History / Biographical
Nathan Gordon was born in 1882. He was a lecturer on rabbinical-medieval Jewish literature and instructor in Semitic languages at McGill University; prior to becoming a barrister he was Rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El, Montreal for 10 years; acted as prosecuting attorney for the City of Montreal; took an active part in the re-organization of Canadian Jewish Congress and was President of the Eastern Division. He died in 1938.
Notes
Mostly originals, copies, press clippings.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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