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Rabbi Nachman Shemen
- 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