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Date:1903-1979.Reference:R1929-0-4-E, MG30-D275Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:103229Date(s):1903-1979.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:20 cm of textual records.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of personal papers, as well as correspondence, memoranda, notes, and publications relating to B.M. Weiner's involvement in the educational, religious, and intellectual life of the Montreal Jewish community, including the United Talmud Torah of Montreal, and the Va'ad Ha'ir.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Weiner, Benjamin Mark, 1887-1980 : Benjamin Mark Weiner, community leader, was born in Oniksti, Lithuania, and was educated at the Slobodka Yeshiva in Lithuania. Evading conscription into the Czarist army, he escaped to Berlin where he entered the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary. He immigarated to Canada in 1907, but left to continue his studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He returned in 1908, to settle in Montreal where he became a teacher at a Talmud Torah. He entered into the tobacco business and later became a builder and contractor.
He played an important role along with Herschel Wolofsky, publisher of the Keneder Alder, Ha Rav Zvi Hirsch Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Montreal, and Lyon Cohen, community leader, in the establishment of the Montreal Va'ad Ha'Ir in 1922, a democratic community organization whose main purpose was to finance religious education, and to systematize the practice of Kashrut and religious life in the community.
He served for many years as vice-president and hon. vice-president of the Montreal Va'ad Ha'Ir, and throughout his life was actively involved with the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (est. 1916), serving as chairman and hon. chairman of its Hebrew Educational Committee for over fifty years.Additional information:General note:Received in 1980 from Mrs. B.M. Weiner of Montreal, Que.Subject heading:- Benjamin Mark Weiner - Correspondence, 1903-1979 United Talmud Torah (Montreal, Quebec), 1903-1979
- Montreal (Quebec) - Jewish leadership, 1903-1979 Va'ad Ha'ir, 1903-1979
- Jews - Canada, 1903-1979
- Jews - Canada - Education, 1903-1979
- Jews - Canada - Religious worship, 1903-1979
- Montreal (Quebec) - Jews
- Montréal (Quebec) - Jewish community
- Jewish Canadians
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