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Jack Jacobson
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1978-1987
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of various newsclippings and letters written by Jacobson in response to the editors of various Toronto-based publications and individuals related to issues of Jewish identity, Orthodox Judaism, and the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 1978. Of particular note is a letter written by June Callwood to Jacobson defending her stance on recent strikes in Toronto by doctors and meatpackers and a copy of an open letter by Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel.
- Administrative History
- Jack Jacobson (1920-2007) was born in Toronto in 1920. As a youth, he belonged to Hashomer Hatzair. He was married to Lillian Jacobson.
- Descriptive Notes
- Related Material note: See accession 2018-4-7.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Name Access
- Jacobson, Jack, 1920-2007
- Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions