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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- November 24, 1937 (indexed as 1937)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Envelope : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 6,75 in.
- Scope & content
- 1 envelope. 1 side is torn open. On recto, the address of recipient is handwritten. On verso, return address is handwritten on flap. Postage stamps have been removed, and some traces of the paper appear at point of flap. Contained a letter in Yiddish from Fischel (Fiszke) Cüker in Horochów, Poland to Rachel Eisenberg, Esplanade Avenue, Montreal, postmarked November 24, 1937. Letter is accession 2011X.43.08. 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 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.
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- DocumentEnvelopeHandwrittenJewish CommunityLetterMontrealPostmarkTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- Miss. R. Eisenberg.4099Esplanade AvenueMontreal.Canada14 II 1937cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_43_07.jpg
- imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_43_07a.jpg