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Card issued by Toronto conference for the Jewish war victims, announcing "Orphans Day" on first Yahrtzeit of Y.L. Peretz
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2476
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2476
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Yahrtzeit card refers to Peretz’s communal work during WWI: "At the outbreak of World War I, Peretz threw himself into relief work. He helped establish a Jewish orphanage and wrote poems for children, one of which lay unfinished when he died of a heart attack on ol ha-mo‘ed (intermediate days of) Passover (3 April).” Source: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Peretz_Yitskhok_Leybush
- Scope and Content
- English translation of Yiddish languae Yahrtzeit card issued by Toronto Confrence of War victims announcing Orphans day is as follows: ORPHANS DAY, Toronto Conference for War Victims, photo of Y.L. Peretz,To honour the first yortsayt of the great poet, Y.L. PERETZ, Who fell in the service of Jewish war orphans, Compliments of the Dworkin Brothers.
- Notes
- From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.
- Name Access
- Peretz, I. L.
- Subjects
- Charities
- Orphans
- War victims
- Repro Restriction
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions