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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- November 30, 1936 (indexed as 1936)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Letter : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 8,25 in. x W: 4,75 in.
- Scope & content
- 1 page, double-sided. Paper has separated along vertical fold crease in centre and is now in 2 pieces. Pages numbered in Arabic numerals at top right corners. Document is a letter from Fischel (Fiszke) Cüker in Horochów, Poland to Rachel Eisenberg, Esplanade Avenue, Montreal. Information about sender and recipient on envelope (accession 2011X.43.01). Letter mentions difficulties of life in Poland for the sender and contains many words of affection for the recipient. Narrative: The donor, Rochel (Rochl, Rachel) (Eisenberg) Ravitch was born Rochel Eisen in Horochów, Poland. She immigrated to Montreal with her parents in 1923 and worked in the Jewish Public Library (JPL) from 1926-1954, where she began to go by Rochel (Rochl) Eisenberg. She was married to the renowned Yiddish poet Melech Ravitz (Zekharye-Khone Bergner), who was instrumental in establishing the Yiddishe folks universitet (YIFO), the education programming at the JPL. The couple left Montreal in 1954.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenLetterPostmarkTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- 30/11/36Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Yiddish
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_43_02.jpg
- imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_43_02a.jpg