Collection search - Samuel Cass fonds [multiple media]

Record information – Brief
1
Samuel Cass fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1914-1975.

Reference:

R2605-0-1-E, MG30-D225

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Maps and cartographic material, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102777

Context of this record:

Show detail Hide detail

Samuel Cass fonds
Link to this record

Add to My Research

Link to this record

This link identifies the web page describing this particular record. Unlike the temporary link in your browser, this link will allow you to access, and reference, this page in the future. To link to this descriptive record, copy and paste the URL where ever needed (wiki, blog, document).

Sign in

Sign in to start saving records using My Research

Sign in
Record information – Details
Fonds includes:

40 lower level description(s)
View lower level description(s)

Date(s):

1914-1975.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10.82 m of textual records.
3943 photographs.
9 badges.
4 buttons.
1 token.
2 pins.
2 spoons.
2 tiles.
1 desk plate.
3 audio discs.
3 audio reels (3 h, 29 min).
3 maps.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

Show detail Hide detail

Fonds consists of the textual records, 1914-1975: personal and family correspondence; Jewish Theological Seminary of America; chaplaincy; Hillel directorship; social work; resource material; sermons; cards; diaries; scrapbooks; "Hillelights".

Fonds also contains photographs, ca. 1930-1969, depicting activities of Rabbi Cass; service in the Canadian Army during the Second World War; various visits to the Middle East; travels in Canada.

Fonds also contains medallic items and other objects: badges, buttons, brooches and other items awarded to or given to Rabbi Cass, primarily during the Second World War.

Fonds also consists of sound recordings of Jewish religious music [ca. 1939], a discussion by Arnold Toynbee (1961), and a public debate on Jewish history between Toynbee and Yacov Hertzog, Israel Ambassador to Canada, in Montreal in 1961.

Fonds also contains two maps of Israel, 1949, 1950; and one map of the Middle East, 1969.

Provenance:

Show detail Hide detail

Cass, Samuel, 1908-1975
Additional name(s):

Show detail Hide detail

Cass, Samuel, 1908-1975

Cass Family

Cass (Famille)

Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Biography/Administrative history:

Show detail Hide detail

Cass, Samuel, 1908-1975 : Rabbi Samuel Cass was born in Toronto, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1929, and studied Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was ordained in 1933, served as Rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation, Vancouver, 1931-1941 and of Herzl Conservative Congregation, Seattle, Washington, 1941-1942. He was Senior Jewish Chaplain in the Canadian Army and Navy from 1942 to 1946, and attained the rank of Major. Cass assisted in the reorganization of Jewish communities in Belgium and the Netherlands as they were liberated by the Canadian forces and worked with survivors of concentration camps.

In 1946 he became director of the McGill University B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation working as Rabbi, counsellor and lecturer. He was President of the Board of Jewish Ministers of Greater Montreal and National Chairman, Academic and Awards Committee of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, and served as Chairman, or executive member of various other Jewish organizations. He was a chaplain and advisor on Jewish matters to the Boy Scouts of Canada as well as an Honorary Chaplain, Dominion Command, Royal Canadian Legion. During his tenure as director of the McGill Hillel he expanded the activities to encompass Macdonald College and Sir George Williams University.

After his resignation from the Hillel Foundation in 1967, Cass enrolled in a Masters of Social Work program at McGill and then worked for the Miriam Home for the Exceptional, a school for differently abled Jewish children, from 1971 to 1974. Rabbi Cass and his family were killed in an automobile accident enroute from Montreal to Toronto in 1975. Shortly before his death he began research for a projected study of the Jewish Chaplaincy services in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Finding aid:

Show detail Hide detail

Textual records (Paper) File list with an index. MSS1017 (90: Open)

Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1017 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000155.pdf

Badges, buttons, token, pins, spoons, tiles, plate (accession 1976-046 MED): (Paper) Medal inventory numbers: 7410 to 7419, 7427 to 7435, 7967.

Badges, buttons, token, pins, spoons, tiles, plate (accession 1976-046 MED): (Electronic) Item-level descriptions available in MINISIS.

B'nai B'rith blazer insignia, n.d. (accession 1976-033 MED): (Paper) Medal inventory number: 6399.

B'nai B'rith blazer insignia, n.d. (accession 1976-033 MED): (Electronic) Item-level descriptions available in MINISIS.

Sound recordings: (Paper) See AV collection files for item-level descriptions.

Additional information:

Show detail Hide detail

General note:

Received in 1975.

Availability of other formats note:

Copy negative numbers from accession 1976-272 (NPC) are as follows: C-88098 to C-88100 (DAPDCAP).

Associated material note:

Publications, including The Temple Emanu-El story; 1882-1960: Transferred to the Public Archives Library., 106 objects, including badges and buttons, some of which may be duplicates of objects here: Transferred to the Canadian War Museum, 4 November 1976.
Subject heading:

Show detail Hide detail

World War, 1939-1945

Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945

Military chaplains Canada

Aumôniers militaires Canada

Rabbis Canada

Rabbins Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

Show detail Hide detail

(1973-05-29)
1976-0119 MISA
1976-0184 MISA
1976-033 MED
1976-046 MED
1976-272 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

Show detail Hide detail

MG30-D225

Other accession no.:

Show detail Hide detail

78902/4634 CA
78902/4635 CA
78902/4636 CA
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Show detail Hide detail

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1017] 93

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

Show detail Hide detail

Photographs (accession 1976-272 NPC): Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Badges, buttons, token, pins, spoons, tiles, brooches, desk plate (accession 1976-046 MED): Copyright: Unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada / Accession 1976-046 MED.
Sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders.
B'nai B'rith blazer insignia, n.d. (accession 1976-033 MED): No donor restrictions. Copyright: Unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada / Accession 1976-033 MED.
Maps (CA accessions 78902/4634, 78902/4635, 78902/4636): No donor restrictions.

You can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.

Cannot visit us on site? You can purchase a copy to be sent to you. Some restrictions may apply.