Letter
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- October 14, 1956 (indexed as 1956)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- Letter with vertical fold in the center, illegible note written on back in blue pen. Invitation to have Isadore Lorincz read the Torah. Signed Behar Marton. Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He and his wife, Zita, lived with their cousin Eugene Lorincz when they first arrived. Isadore served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and Zita continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005. Zita was born 2 Jan 1917 in Nograd, Hungary.
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- ClergyDocumentJewish CommunityLetterLetterheadReligious CeremonySignatureSynagogueTypewrittenTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- Extent
- Letter : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20 cm
- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- Text in the image
- Lőrinc IzidorBudapestSzent István park 26.SZERTARTÁSI CSOPORT/Behar Márton/csoportvezetőFelkérjük, hogy október 20. és 27.-én, november 3.-án és november 10-én szombat délelőtt a Frankel Leo utcai templomban a Tóra olvasási teendőket ellátni szíveskedjék. Hétköznap / Hétfő és csütörtök/ nem kell kimenni a Tóra olvasásia teendőket elvégezni.Budapest, 1956 okt.14.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Hungarian
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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