Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman fonds
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- Collection
- Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 6.5 cm. of records, audio reel and 2 b&w photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0194
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of pamphlets After Fifty Years, an Optimist written by Oscar Z. Fasman, and In memory of Archibald Jacob Freiman, eulogy delivered by Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman; In memoriam Lillian Freiman an estimate by Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman, Nov. 13, 1940; correspondence as Canadian Army Chaplain, 1…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 6.5 cm. of records, audio reel and 2 b&w photographs.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of pamphlets After Fifty Years, an Optimist written by Oscar Z. Fasman, and In memory of Archibald Jacob Freiman, eulogy delivered by Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman; In memoriam Lillian Freiman an estimate by Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman, Nov. 13, 1940; correspondence as Canadian Army Chaplain, 1942-1945; correspondence with Mizrachi Organization of Canada, Montreal, (1944-1945), audio reel of Rabbi Fasman’s Talmudic dissertation at Beth Shalom Synagogue, March 21, 1988, on acceptance of Jews of all denominations of Judaism as brothers; and 2 b&w photographs of Rabbi Fasman.
- Date
- 1979
- Fonds No.
- I0194
- History Biographical
- Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1908, one of four children born to European immigrants. The only member of his family to become an observant Jew, he was ordained by the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago in September 1929. He also attended the University of Chicago. He started his career at the Congregation Bnei Emunah in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1931. Rabbi Fasman moved to Ottawa on March 18, 1940, where he became spiritual leader of the Dominion capital. He was received by a large delegation of communal leaders. Rabbi Fasman was formally introduced to his new congregation at a service sponsored by the Vaad Ha’Ir on March 22 at Aduth Jeshurun Synagogue, when he spoke on the topic “ A new Rabbi looks at his community.” During his time in Ottawa, Rabbi Fasman was actively involved in the Mizrachi Organization of Canada and edited the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. He was also an army chaplain with the Canadian Chaplain Service during World War II for the Ottawa area. Rabbi Fasman left Ottawa in 1946 to serve as dean and president of the Hebrew Theological College at Stokie, in the greater Chicago area. He served in that capacity until 1964. Rabbi Fasman then founded the Congregation Yehuda Moshe in Lincolnwood where he remained for over 25 years. Rabbi Fasman was considered a leading spokesman for modern Orthodox Judaism. He was honored with a Doctor of Divinity from Yeshiva University in 1955 and the Yeshiva high school which he founded at Stokie was named after him. Rabbi Fasman was married in 1932 and has four children.
- Custodial History
- Mizrachi correspondence transferred from the National Archives, July, 1966.
- Notes
- 1. Biographical material taken from Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, April 18, 1940 and March 4, 1988.
- Related Material
- 1. Related material found in the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa fonds, Correspondence Series, Ad Hoc Committees Series; Mizrachi Organization of Canada Ottawa Branch fonds. Correspondence series; Ottawa Jewish Bulletin fonds. Issues April 18, 1940, October 31, 1952 and March 4, 1988; Hy Bloom fonds. Audio cassette of Cantor Rabin’s choir with Rabbi Fasman, circa 1941 2. Associated photographs in the Beth Shalom fonds. Photographs 5-243 and 5-244. 3. See also vertical subject file, Rabbis and Cantors.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
