Avraham stern biography of alberta

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  • View a list of authors who have published their memoirs through the Azrieli Foundation, all of them Holocaust survivors in Canada.
  • In his formative years, he had two great rabbis who served as his inspiration: his uncle Rabi Harry Jolt, and Rabbi Harold Stern, who introduced.

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    Blackburn Hebrew Congregation

    My recent book “From Poland To Paradise Lane and Other Journeys“ is a history of the Jewish community of Blackburn which includes the story of the foundation of its synagogue in May 1893.

    Blackburn's first incumbent Russian-born Reverend Philip Gallant was appointed by Chief Rabbi Dr Hermann Adler that year. In the first five years of its existence,the Congregation was served by as many ministers.

    By November 1894 Reverend Moses Eker was in charge. He too was Russian-born and had served the York community prior to his arrival in Blackburn. Of his eleven children, Asher the sixth, was born in Blackburn where his Brit Milah took place. The two eldest children Esther and Abraham were born in Russia, arriving in England with their parents in 1888, where Moses served the Wigan congregation for a few months followed by a short period in Hull. Moses stayed in Blackburn less than one year, moving in 1895 to Chester. By 1901 the family were in Ma

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    Survivor Authors

    Benedikt (Benő) Korda

    Benedikt (Benő) Korda(né Kornreich) (1914–2010) was born in Munkács, Hungary (now Mukachevo, Ukraine). His diverse education led to his multilingualism — he spoke Hungarian, Yiddish, German, Ruthenian, Czech, Russian, French, Latin and English. Benő was studying in Prague when the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. He remained, got married and taught Jewish children banned from schools. In 1942, he was able to leave for Hungary, considered safer at the time, but he was soon drafted into the Hungarian forced labour service. In 1944, he was liberated by the Soviets and he stayed on with the Soviet army, working as an interpreter to interrogate prisoners of war. In 1945, Benő returned to Munkács and learned that much of his family had perished in Auschwitz. Benő eventually reunited with his wife, Bozenka, and they returned to Prague; their daughter, Zita, was born in 1953. Benő worked as a statistician in the mining industry and

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    List of Canadian Jews

    This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity.

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    Academic figures

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    Biology and medicine

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    • Eric Berne (1910–1970), psychiatrist[1]
    • John Bienenstock (1936– ), immunologist[2]
    • Daniel BorsukOQ (1978– ), plastic surgeon[3]
    • Éric Cohen (1958– ), molecular virologist[4]
    • Max CynaderCM (1947– ), ophthalmologist and neuroscientist[5]
    • Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), nurse and founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto[citation needed]
    • William FeindelOC (1918–2014), neurosurgeon[6]
    • Samuel FreedmanOC (1928– ), clinical immunologist[7]
    • Phil GoldCC (1936– ), medical researcher[7]
    • Larry GoldenbergCM (1953– ), medical researcher[cit
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