Moshe Sadeh collection
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- Collection
- Moshe Sadeh collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.04 metres of textual records. - 137 photographs : 117 b&w, 20 col. - 1 compact disc (DVD-ROM) (movie).
- Fonds No.
- P0298
- Date
- 1946-2015.
- Scope and Content
- The collection includes Israeli documents and numerous photographs dating from 1946 through the 1960s attesting to Moshe Sadeh's experiences in the Palmach, the Israeli army, on kibbutz, in the Israeli Freemasons, and as an employee of the Dan Hotel, including its two year contract in Rangoon, Burm…
- Collection
- Moshe Sadeh collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.04 metres of textual records. - 137 photographs : 117 b&w, 20 col. - 1 compact disc (DVD-ROM) (movie).
- Scope and Content
- The collection includes Israeli documents and numerous photographs dating from 1946 through the 1960s attesting to Moshe Sadeh's experiences in the Palmach, the Israeli army, on kibbutz, in the Israeli Freemasons, and as an employee of the Dan Hotel, including its two year contract in Rangoon, Burma. The earliest photographs, from 1946, show life and friends in Abu Kir, a hachsharach / Zionist kibbutz training farm in Egypt. The Canadian documents and news articles relate to committee activities such as Magen David Adom, the Canadian Zionist Federation, the Sephardi Federation, and an Association of Egyptian-born Montrealers. There are also examples of letters to the editor and other writings, many of them autobiographical. A small notebook details Sadeh's impressions during a B'nai Brith trip to Germany led by Frank Diamant in the 1990s, on the theme of the country's refusal to grant citizenship to Turkish immigrants. Among the later photographs are numerous views of Montreal B'nai Brith events, as well as pictures of Moshe Sadeh with the mayor of Cote-St-Luc, and the Israeli Ambassador. A few pictures of Moshe and his wife Shelley, as well as pictures taken at his business are also included. There is 1 DVD reated by the USC Shoah Foundation: The Institute for Visual History and Education consisting of an interview with Moshe Sadeh (2015).
- Date
- 1946-2015.
- Fonds No.
- P0298
- History / Biographical
- Born in Egypt in 1928, Moshe (Maurice) Sadeh (originally Sadi, then Saadi) was from a Sephardic family that had immigrated from Smyrna, Turkey in the early 1920s. The family spoke Ladino, and then French, in Cairo. He trained for aliyah on a Hachsharah farm in Alexandria, and, after having illegally made aliya to the Land of Israel at the age of seventeen, served in the Palmach before and during the Israeli war of Independence. He served again in the Israeli army (IDF) from the early 1950s until 1955, when he began working for the Dan Hotel in Israel. He was co-founder of Kibbutz B'ror Ha'yil in the Northern Negev, whose group was formed by HeHalutz from Egypt. He later lived on a moshav. After immigrating to Montreal in 1964 he founded a textile import company. In Montreal he was active and on the executives of many Zionist and Jewish organizations in Montreal, among them Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel, the Zionist Federation, the Sephardi Federation, the B'nai Brith League of Human Rights, and AJOE (association des Juifs originaires d'Egypte). He was a frequent commentator on current affairs, particularly with regard to Israel and the Arab world. He died in Montreal in October 2018. (Biography based on details from Shelley Corrin and from his obituary in the Montreal Gazette, October 9, 2018.)
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Shelley Corrin, Moshe Sadeh's widow, on September 5, 2019
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P19/19.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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