DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
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- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1825, Alexander Abraham de Sola was the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Montreal from 1847 until his death; appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at McGill University in 1848 and raised to professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages five years later; first Jew to be awarded the honourary degrees LL.D. from McGill University in 1858; author of numerous articles on Jewish history, religion, natural history, science. He died in 1882.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MC 13.Related groups of records: Books in Archives Library, Shearith Israel records.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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