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Rev. Dr. Herman Abramowitz
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31777
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 144cm of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 1
- Date
- 1890-1978
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, sermons and speeches, financial and legal documents, diary of an overseas trip in 1913, correspondence, school report cards and certificates pertaining to his children, postcards, calendar diaries, 1908-1934; manuscript thesis; reference pamphlets and photographs.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 144cm of multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, sermons and speeches, financial and legal documents, diary of an overseas trip in 1913, correspondence, school report cards and certificates pertaining to his children, postcards, calendar diaries, 1908-1934; manuscript thesis; reference pamphlets and photographs.
- Date
- 1890-1978
- Fonds No.
- 1034
- Series No.
- 1
- Storage Location
- Bay 9
- History / Biographical
- Rabbi Herman Abramowitz was born in Russia in 1880, and came to America in 1890. He was educated at the public schools, the College of the City of New York (from which he graduated in 1900 with a Bachelor of Arts) and at the Jewish Theological Seminary. From 1900 to 1903, he took a post-graduate course in philosophy at Columbia University. In 1907 he received the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature from the Seminary, being the first graduate to receive this honour. In 1903, he accepted a call from the Shaar Hashomayim Congregation, Montreal. Dr. Abramowitz developed the congregational Sunday School, and Hebrew Day School; the Women's Auxiliary; the Young Peoples' Society and other activities. He was active in all communal enterprises ofa philanthropic and educational character and in 1910 personally raised from subscriptions the entire cost of the building of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium for tubercular patients. He was also in charge of the organization which raised annual subscriptions for the maintenance of the Sanatorium. His part in the Plamondon case was as a key witness in this infamous anti-Semitic libel case in Quebec City in 1913. In 1909, Dr. Abramowitz visited the Jewish agricultural colonies in the western provinces of Canada to establish religious schools and other institutions. He was invited to become a member of the Canadian Committee and in 1913 was sent to Paris to confer with the Jewish Colonization Association heads. He also represented Canada at the Congress held later that year in Vienna. Shortly after the outbreak of the World War I, Dr. Abramowitz was appointed Jewish Chaplain in the Canadian Army with the rank of Captain. He was also active on the speakers' team in all the Victory Loan campaigns and relief drives held during the war. He was Vice-President of the United Synagogue of America; Director, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Montreal; Director, Montreal United Talmud Torahs; and a life Governor of the Montreal General Hospital. Dr. Abramowitz married in 1911 to Theresa Bokar and had one son, David Lester and one daughter, Judith.
- Subjects
- Abramowitz, Herman.
- Abramowitz, Judith
- Abramowitz, David Lester
- Abramowitz, Tess (nee Bokar)
- Shaar Hashomayim Congregation -- Montreal (Quebec).
- Rabbis -- Canada.
- World War, 1914-1918
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Militaria
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31812
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 1; 00002
- Date
- 1917-1945
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1917-1945
- Fonds No.
- 1034
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00002
- Storage Location
- 9-5D
- Ctn.026
- Subjects
- Abramowitz, Herman.
- Rabbis -- Canada.
- Shaar Hashomayim Congregation -- Montreal (Quebec).
- World War, 1914-1918
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
D. Rohold, memoir
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17224
- Collection
- D. Rohold Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1164
- Date
- 1942
- Scope and Content
- Consists of a memoir written by a "D. Rohold" recounting his early childhood in Palestine, beginning in 1902, his being placed in an orphanage, surviving World War I and his struggle to get an education in England and Canada.
- Collection
- D. Rohold Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of a memoir written by a "D. Rohold" recounting his early childhood in Palestine, beginning in 1902, his being placed in an orphanage, surviving World War I and his struggle to get an education in England and Canada.
- Parallel Title
- Recollection of Early Palestine: 1902-1942
- Date
- 1942
- Fonds No.
- 1164
- Storage Location
- 7-6C, SC2
- Creator
- Rohold, D.
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Palestine - Jews
- Orphans
- Palestine - Emigration and immigration
- Personal narratives
- World War, 1914-1918
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Manuscripts, Hershman H., First World War Orphans
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17854
- Collection
- Hirsh (Harry) Hershman Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1239; 006
- Collection
- Hirsh (Harry) Hershman Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1239
- File No.
- 006
- Storage Location
- 4-6E, Ctn.001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Group portrait of men and women in soup kitchen and shelter during World War I, Poland.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn26520
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 008863
- Date
- n.d.
- Scope and Content
- Reproduction; original created [1914-1918].
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- Reproduction; original created [1914-1918].
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 008863
- Notes
- Location and event identified on verso.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Interior portrait of "Capt. Harry Plotkin 24 years old when died in the war in France" possible member of Harry Hershman's family.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn28174
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 14 x 19.7 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 010358
- Date
- [c1914]
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 14 x 19.7 cm
- Date
- [c1914]
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 010358
- Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Album of Jewish Legion Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33481
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 9 files of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 9 files of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- Storage Location
- Ctn.001
- History / Biographical
- The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established by the British Army as the 38th and 39th Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War, in Palestine who fought for the liberation of Erez Israel [region] from the Turkish rule. It was formed when Britain began his war against the Ottoman Turks. At the same time, Zionist [A Jewish political movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a sovereign Jewish homeland in Palestine.] around the world saw an opportunity to promote the idea of a Jewish National Homeland in Palestine; therefore, some Jewish people raised the idea of the formation of a Jewish unit that would participate to conquer Palestine. At the beginning of the war, the British government opposed the participation of such as group of people in Palestine, but in 1917 ultimately, the formation of a Jewish regiment was officially announced. The Legion also named the Zion Mule Corps, made up Jewish from different countries such as Britain, Russia, the United States and Canada, served on the Gallipoli front in 1915-1916, and also in the Jordan Valley in 1918. The Jewish Legion was a unique regiment who had been awarded, in the late 1919, a distinctive cap badge; a menorah. After the war, some of the members returned to their respective countries while others settled in Palestine to realize their Zionist aspirations.
- Language
- English
- Access Restrictions
- Some privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some Copyright restrictions may apply
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Album of Jewish Legion A
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33482
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file of multiple records
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file of multiple records
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Language
- English
- Notes
- From Arons, Jack to Chaitm, Benjamin.
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction laws may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some Copyright laws may apply
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Arons, Jack.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33499
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_1
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_1
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Member of the first group of legionnaires from Toronto. Served as instructor in 40 Bn Royal Fusiliers. After demobilization returned to Toronto and, entered catering business. Born on March 21, 1895 in Braila, Roumania.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Caiserman, Maishe.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33535
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_10
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_10
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Chaitman, Benjamin.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33582
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_11
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_11
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Bay, Aaron.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33512
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_2
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_2
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Bereskin, Myer.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33517
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_3
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_3
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Bernbaum, Joseph.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33520
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 8 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_4
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 8 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_4
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Bookman, Harry.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33527
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_5
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_5
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Brainin, Joseph.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33530
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_6
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_6
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Brainin, Moses.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33532
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 8 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_7
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 8 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_7
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Bradis, Pascal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33533
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_8
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_8
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Cadesky, William.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33534
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w; 7.5 x 11.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_9
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w; 7.5 x 11.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00001
- Item No.
- 1257_001_1_9
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Material Details
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Album of Jewish Legion B
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33484
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and photographs
- Fonds No.
- 1257; 00002
- Collection
- Album of Jewish Legion Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and photographs
- Fonds No.
- 1257
- File No.
- 00002
- Storage Location
- Container 1
- Language
- English
- Notes
- From Cheifetz, Leon to Feldman, Jack.
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction laws may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some Copyright laws may apply
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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