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Group portrait, Meilach Magid addressing guests, Dedication Ceremony for New Library Building (at 4499 Esplanade), Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18254

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 000153

Date: October 4, 1953

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: October 4, 1953

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 000153

Notes: "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; Magid, Meilach.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of (l to r) J. Lightman, M. Magid, and Portrait M. Ravitch, J. I.. Segal Culture Fund Presentation, Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19484

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001518

Date: My 13, 1970

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: My 13, 1970

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001518

Notes: "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.; People in photograph identified on verso.

Subjects: Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; J. I. Segal Fund for Jewish Culture in Canada, 1967-; Lightman, Jack B.; Magid, Meilach.; Ravitch, Melech.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of (l to r) M. Husid, Chaim Spilberg, C. J. Newman, Mr. M. Magid, Mrs. Dvora Rosenfeld, M. Ravitch, Dr. Hirsch Rosenfeld, and S. Wiseman, J. I. Segal Culture Fund Presentation, Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19486

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001520

Date: May 13, 1970

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: May 13, 1970

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001520

Notes: People in photograph identified on verso.; "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Husid, M. (Mordecai), 1909-1988.; Spilberg, Chaim, 1913-; Magid, Meilach.; Rosenfeld, Dvora.; Ravitch, Melech.; Rosenfeld, Hirsch.; Wiseman, Shloime.; Newman, C. J.; Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; J. I. Segal Fund for Jewish Culture in Canada, 1967-

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Meilach Magid Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78241

Collection: Meilach Magid Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 0.2 metres of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1138

Date: 1920-1925

Scope and Content: Consists of one album containing 14 photographs and one notebook containing poems and essays, handwritten.

Collection: Meilach Magid Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 0.2 metres of multiple media

Scope and Content: Consists of one album containing 14 photographs and one notebook containing poems and essays, handwritten.

Date: 1920-1925

Fonds No.: 1138

Storage Location: 2-5F

History / Biographical: Meilach Magid (1894-1977) was a long-time teacher and principal at United Talmud Torah, beginning in the 1920s, as well as the school's first full-time educational director. He taught the first high school classes beginning in 1946 when the school opened. Born in Knyshin, Bialystock, Poland where he also began his teaching career at a Hebrew school. Magid immigrated to Canada in 1921 and joined the faculty of United Talmud Torah. From 1924-1926 he was the principal of the Regina Hebrew School in Saskatchewan. He returned to Montreal and was appointed Head Teacher in 1932. In 1935 he was named principal and shortly after appointed the first full-time Educational Director of the schools. Magid was active in the promotion of Hebrew education across Canada and was instrumental in UTT Montreal becoming the first to open a Hebrew high school in Canada. In addition to his work in education, Melech Magid was also active in Keren Hatarbut, Igud, and the Canadian Jewish Congress.