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[190-]-1982 (Creation)
- Creator
- Grossman, Jacob, 1899-1982
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0.05 m of textual records and photographs
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Jacob Grossman was born in Wolkowysk, Poland, and received a good Jewish and secular education. He attended a yeshiva and studied humanities at the Vilna University. He married Rivka Grossman. Grossman was a teacher in secular Jewish schools in Vilna and active in the Bund. After Russia occupied Lithuania in 1940 and many Bund activists were arrested, Grossman left Vilna. He arrived in Canada in 1941 after spending some time in Japan. In Montreal Grossman was active in Bund, Workmen's Circle, YIVO, Jewish Public Library, the Reisen School where he was principal. Most of all he was active in the Yiddish Committee, whose Bulletin he wrote and published for many years. Grossman wrote essays and articles in the Keneder Adler and in several Yiddish journals. He published two books of essays and monographs. Jacob Grossman died on March 31, 1982 in Miami.
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The fonds consists of photographs, textual records and datebooks belonging to Jacob Grossman and Rivka Ettinger Grossman. The fonds is divided into seven files in addition to the two datebooks. The fonds includes legal and government documents issued by the Polish, Ukranian, Canadian and United States governments.
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Conditions range from fair to poor
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- English
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
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Many of the photographs in the fonds appear to have been removed from scrapbooks and are not individually encapsulated