Fonds 1031 - Mordechai Ginzburg Fonds

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Mordechai Ginzburg Fonds

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CA JPL-A 1031

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  • [ca. 193-]-1966 (Creation)
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    Ginzburg, Mordecai, 1894-1966

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1.6m textual material

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(1894-1966)

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Reverend Mordecai Ginzburg was a productive journalist who wrote essays for over twenty Yiddish journals and newspapers. Hewas born in Slonim, Poland on October 15, 1894. He received a Jewish and secular education. At the age of fifteen, Ginzburg entered the teachers seminary where he studied for four years.

He started his literary activities with writing poems in Russian. After World War I he went to Lodz, where he wrote poetry, and in 1919, he published a book of collection of Jewish poetry.

In 1924 Ginzburg came to Brzesc where he published a Yiddish weekly which appeared under various titles until 1930, the same year that he emigrated to Canada. He was on staff of the Keneder Adler newspaper for the remainder of his life.

Ginzburg died on February 25, 1966.

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Consists of manuscripts, clippings and biographical materials.

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  • Hebrew

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