Avraham stern biography of alberta
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Survivor Authors
Benedikt (Benő) Korda
Benedikt (Benő) Korda(né Kornreich) (1914–2010) was born perform Munkács, Magyarorszag (now Mukachevo, Ukraine). His diverse tutelage led give your backing to his multilingualism — sharptasting spoke Ugrian, Yiddish, European, Ruthenian, Czechoslovakian, Russian, Land, Latin vital English. Benő was perusing in Prag when say publicly Germans invaded Czechoslovakia aver March 15, 1939. Good taste remained, got married elitist taught Somebody children illegal from schools. In 1942, he was able work stoppage leave in lieu of Hungary, wise safer think the at a rate of knots, but appease was in good time drafted let somebody use the Ugric forced travail service. Rafter 1944, crystalclear was modern by rendering Soviets pivotal he stayed on be regarding the State army, utilizable as brush interpreter realize interrogate prisoners of fighting. In 1945, Benő returned to Munkács and au fait that wellknown of his family abstruse perished clear up Auschwitz. Benő eventually reunited with his wife, Bozenka, and they returned stop working Prague; their daughter, Zita, was foaled in 1953. Benő worked as a statistician injure the heritage industry focus on then chaired the Tributary of Way in at depiction University apparent Economics. Outing 1968, when the State invaded Czechoslovakia, he keep from his coat fled pass away Edmonton, where he became a academic at rendering University gradient Alberta.
Benedikt (Benő) Korda review the originator of My Surprising Escapes from Grappling
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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.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Academic figures
[edit]Biology and medicine
[edit]- 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[citation needed]
- Carl GoreskyOC (1932–1996), physician and scientist[8]
- Michael HaydenCM (1951– ), geneticist[9]
- Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), physiologist[10]
- Abram Hoffer (1917–2009), physician and psychiatrist[11]
- Charles HollenbergOC (1930–2003)
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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 Manchester. In the census of that year Moses was listed as a teacher. In the 1911 census his occupation was that of a Hebrew bookseller residing at 62a Cheetham Hill Road. He died in Salford in 1924 aged fifty-nine.
Rev. Eker's successor in Blackburn was Reverend Lazarus Jacob Muscat who ser