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  5. Interior group portrait, McGill University rare book librarian Elizabeth Lewis [centre] peruses one of the 3,000 Yiddish books donated to McGill by the family of the late Yossef Fishstein of New York City. With her are Fishtein's daughters Ruth Coleman [left] and Clara Laufbaum with her husband Bernard Laufbaum, and Prof. Eugene Orenstein [left] of the McGill Jewish studies program.
Interior group portrait, McGill University rare book librarian Elizabeth Lewis [centre] peruses one of the 3,000 Yiddish books donated to McGill by the family of the late Yossef Fishstein of New York City. With her are Fishtein's daughters Ruth Coleman [left] and Clara Laufbaum with her husband Bernard Laufbaum, and Prof. Eugene Orenstein [left] of the McGill Jewish studies program.
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Interior group portrait, McGill University rare book librarian Elizabeth Lewis [centre] peruses one of the 3,000 Yiddish books donated to McGill by the family of the late Yossef Fishstein of New York City. With her are Fishtein's daughters Ruth Coleman [left] and Clara Laufbaum with her husband Bernard Laufbaum, and Prof. Eugene Orenstein [left] of the McGill Jewish studies program.

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Dates
[between 1980 and 1990] (indexed as 1980–1990)
Level
item
Scope & content
Inscribed on verso in pen: Prof. Eugene Orenstein, Jewish studies program, Ruth Coleman, daugher, Yossef Fishstein, Elizabeth Lewis, rare book Librarian, Clara Laufbaum - daughter, Bernard - husband. Label on verso: Howard Kay Photography / 5145 Montclair Ave. / Montreal, Quebec H4V 2K9 / Tel: (514) 481-3222
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BookBookshelfEyeglassesGroup PortraitInterior ViewJacketJewish CommunityLibraryManPortraitSuitWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Location
  • 5145 avenue Montclair · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “5145 Montclair Ave.”
  • McGill University · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “mcgill university”

Where

5145 avenue MontclairCorrect the locationNearby on the big map

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Extent
1 photograph : b&w ; 25.9 x 20.3 cm
Subjects
Orenstein, Eugene; Libraries
Genre / form
Graphic material
Format
Photograph
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