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Alex Mosoff
- Accession Number
- 2017-10-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-10-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1943-1951
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of three pamphlets for Mount Sinai Lodge events. Included are: a 1943 pamphlet for Birthday Night, a 1943 pamphlet for Inspection Night, and a 1951 pamphlet for Master Masons' Night. The Inspection Night pamphlet contains a list of Past Masters that includes a number of prominent individuals in the Jewish community including then-future Mayor of Toronto Nathan Philips.
- Custodial History
- Gloria Roden, daughter of Alex Mosoff, donated the records.
- Administrative History
- Alexander Elliott "Alex" Mosoff (1904-1998) was born in Szydlowiec, Poland on 12 April 1904. Mosoff came to Toronto in 1906. It was there that he married his wife, Fay Layefsky, on 23 March 1924; the two would stay married for 74 years, during which time they had two children: a son, Harold, and a daughter, Gloria.
- Mosoff worked for a wholesale groceteria for a time before joining Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1924, eventually becoming a manager at a time when it was unusual for a Jewish person to go beyond the position of salesperson. In all, Mosoff spent 44 years at MetLife, retiring in 1968.
- Mosoff passed away on 27 April 1998. He was 94 years old.
- Subjects
- Freemasons
- Name Access
- Mosoff, Alex, 1904-1998
- Mount Sinai Lodge
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions