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Rabbi Ernest Klein
- Accession Number
- 1983-7-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1983-7-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1899-1982
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the life and career of Rabbi Ernest Klein. Records include personal as well as professional correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings and book reviews, a marriage register, bar mitzvah invitations, and Klein's birth certificate.
- Administrative History
- Ernest Klein (1899-1983) was born in Szatmar, Hungary on 26 July 1899. He studied at the University of Vienna and served as a rabbi in several countries including Czechoslovakia, Romania, and France. The Second World War brought great hardship for Klein, who survived Auschwitz and Dachau (his wife and son were killed in Czechoslovakia just before the war). After the War, Klein came to Canada, where he became rabbi of Congregation Beth Yitshak in Toronto. A polyglot and a scholar, Klein wrote three etymological dictionaries, the most famous of which was his Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (1966-67). For his work, he received honourary degrees from McMaster University and the University of Guelph in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1978. He passed away on 4 February 1983.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- USE CONDITION NOTE: Accession contains medical records that are closed to researchers until January 2034.
- MG_RG
- MG 6 D
- Subjects
- Birth certificates
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Invitation cards
- Marriage records
- Rabbis
- Name Access
- Klein, Ernest, 1899-1983
- Source
- Archival Accessions