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Rabbi Gringorten
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w and sepia ; 21 x 26 cm
- Date
- [between 1940 and 1947]
- Scope and Content
- The accession consists of two photographs of Reverend Saul Wolf Gringorten and his wife Rachel.
- Administrative History
- Saul Wolf Gringorten and his wife Rachel Gringorten (née Melnick) were born in Poland in 1876 and 1881 respectively. They moved to Canada in 1910 with their eldest child. They subsequently had five more after their arrival.Their children included Morris, Jennie, Jacob, Esther, Louis, and Isaac.
- Rabbi Gringorten served as spiritual leader, teacher, shochet, and mohel for the Brantford Jewish community after his arrival for thirteen years. He then moved to Toronto during the early 1920s and became the principal of a Jewish school. The family lived at 26 Cecil Street at that time and then moved to 393 Markham Street during the late 1920s or early 1930s. He became active in the Jewish community, serving as vice-president of the Sons of Jacob, a board member of the Folks Fareign, and the first trustee of the Old Folks Home.
- Rabbi Gringorten and his wife moved to California during the 1940s in order to live in a climate that was better for their health. Rachel passed away in 1947, and the rabbi followed in 1959.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- Rabbis
- Name Access
- Gringorten, Saul, Rabbi, 1876-1959
- Source
- Archival Accessions