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Meyer Bubis
- Accession Number
- 2010-5-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-5-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 16 x 24 cm (sight) on board 21 x 31 cm
- 1 letter
- Date
- 12 Oct. 1940
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a photograph documenting the first Yom Kippur celebration for servicemen stationed in Iceland. Identified is Meyer Bubis (middle row, second from right) and Lionel Cohen (middle row, far left). Also identified in the photo is Maxwell London (back row, seond from left) and Alfred Conway (formerly Abraham Cohen) of the British military (to the left of the table in the white kippah and tallit).
- Accession also includes is a letter written by Meyer Bubis to his father, Solomon Bubis, on an envelope regarding the accompanying photograph.
- Administrative History
- Lance Corporal Meyer Bubis was born on 12 September 1914 in Philadelphia to Solomon Bubis and Ida Bubis. His mother died soon after he was born, and his father remarried Sarah Bubis (née Sane). Meyer immigrated with his family to Ontario during the First World War. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Army. His unit was the Royal Regiment of Canada, RCIC. He died in the Dieppe raid on 19 August 1942.
- 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.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Canada--Armed Forces
- Religion
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Bubis, Meyer, 1914-1942
- Places
- Iceland
- Source
- Archival Accessions