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Scope and Content: Addresses and sermons (in pamphlet form) on Reform Judaism 1927-1979. Programs for Fellowship Dinners 1967-1972. Canadian Jewish Congress Brief on Divorce 1967. Catholic Youth Organization minutes and correspondence 1937-1938. Correspondence 1937-1976. Institute on Judaism 1942-1977. Press Clipping…

Scope and Content: Addresses and sermons (in pamphlet form) on Reform Judaism 1927-1979. Programs for Fellowship Dinners 1967-1972. Canadian Jewish Congress Brief on Divorce 1967. Catholic Youth Organization minutes and correspondence 1937-1938. Correspondence 1937-1976. Institute on Judaism 1942-1977. Press Clippings 1934-1984.

History / Biographical: Rabbi Stern was born in Lithuania in 1897. He came to Montreal from Pennsylvania in 1927, when he became rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Montreal's first Reform (Liberal) Jewish congregation. He was educated at University of Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (rabbinical degree) and University of Chicago; author of many essays and sermon pamphlets; wrote nine books on religious and Zionist subjects; attended First Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1936 and was elected secretary; elected to Executive Board of Central Conference of American Rabbis.