- Accession Number
- 1993-7-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-7-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 75 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records created and collected by Rabbi Nachum Shemen. Included are correspondence, newsclippings, writings, and organizational records.
- Among the organizational records are subject files including: Vegetarianism (1944); Warsawer-Lodzer mutual Benefit Association; Rabbi Berel Wein; Kurt Weinberg; Weizmann Institute of Science; Windsor; Anselm Wise obituary (1977); Attitudes Toward Women; World Jewish Congress; Rabbi Dr. W. W. Wurzburger; Yad Vashem; Yavneh - Nir-Etzion Projects; Yeshiva Gedorah Ateres Yaakov, Yeshiva of Staten Island; Yeshiva Torah Chaim; Yeshiva Tiferes Shmiel D'Aleksander; Yeshiva University; Yeshivas; Yiddish Cultural Council; Yizkor Fund; Yivo Institute; York University; Rabbi Aaron Zimmerman; Zionist Organization of Canada; Zionist Revisionist organization of Canada; Rabbi Zolty; Louis Zuker.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Rabbis
- Yeshivas
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-10
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1930-1989
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of various lettters, one in Polish and others in Hebrew and Yiddish. One of the letters appears to have been addressed to Rabbi Shemen's mother (Gitl), although undated, it appears to be from the late 1920s or early 1930s. A letter in Yiddish is addressed to the Boimoil family of Chodel, Poland. Boimol was the original last name of Rabbi Shemen.
- Custodial History
- It appears that the documents came directly from Rabbi Nachman Shemen
- Administrative History
- Rabbi Shemen was a Rabbinic scholar, author and Jewish civil servant. He held the following positions: Executive secretary of the Canadian Federation of Polish jews (1940-1993), Director of Orthodox Division of CJC, Ontario (1950-1992). Rabbi Shemen died in 1993.
- Subjects
- Families
- Letters
- Rabbis
- Name Access
- Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1466
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1466
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1964]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- On right: Rabbi J. Wohlgelenter, principal.
- Name Access
- Eitz Chaim (Toronto, Ont.)
- Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993
- Wohlgelenter, Rabbi J.
- Subjects
- Rabbis
- Students
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4334
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4334
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 11 Apr. 1980
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Right to left: Rabbi Yitzchok Kerzner; Rabbi Gedalia Felder; Rabbi Zolty, chief rabbi of Jerusalem; Yitz Feldman; and Rabbi Nachman Shemen.
- Name Access
- Felder, Gedalia, 1922-1991
- Feldman, Yitz
- Kerzner, Yitzchok
- Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993
- Zolty, Yaacov Bezalel, 1920-1982
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Rabbis
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1987-12-9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions