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Dow Marmur fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1939-2014.

Reference:

R3641-0-5-E, MG31-F19

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107204

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Dow Marmur fonds
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Fonds includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1939-2014.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

13.37 m of textual records.
101 photographs : b&w.
10 audio cassettes (ca. 8 hrs 20 mins).
2 videocassettes.

Language of material:

English

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Rabbi Dow Marmur [multiple media]

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Fonds consists of correspondence files 1981-1992, files of past president of the Holy Blossom Temple Abraham L. Feinberg 1966-1967, records relating to the activities of the Holy Blossom Temple 1961-1992, and various subject files 1962-1992.

The fonds also contains photographs of various influential North American rabbinical leaders and Jewish luminaries, including Robert Fulford, Rabbi Dr. Harry J. Stern, Rabbi David Polish, Jerôme Choquette, John A. Geller of the Holy Blossom Temple, Mary Simmons, Maureen Forrester, Sandi Rinaldo, Dr. Paul Steinhauer and Professor Gregory Baum. Organized by Rabbi Marmur in biographical files within the textual material in the fonds and used for publication.

Fonds also contains sermons and lectures from 1954-2012, including sound recordings of lectures given by Rabbi Marmur, and a recording of a radio interview on CBC Radio's Tapestry. His complete journals from 1956-2004 are included and organized chronologically.

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Marmur, Dow, 1935-2022

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Marmur, Dow, 1935-2022 : Rabbi Dow Marmur was the Rabbi Emeritus of Canada's largest and most influential Reform congregation, Holy Blossom Temple of Toronto, having served there from 1983 to 2000.

Born in Poland in 1935, he spent the years of World War II in various parts of the Soviet Union, returning to Poland in 1946 and, together with his parents, emigrated to Gothenburg, Sweden in 1948. In 1954 he met Fredzia Zonabend, who would eventually become his wife. In 1962 he began his studies for the rabbinate and was ordained by the Leo Baeck College in London, England.

He served two Reform congregations in London, England, before he was appointed spiritual leader of Holy Blossom in 1983. Following in the tradition of great rabbinical leaders at Holy Blossom, including Maurice Eisendrath, Abraham Feinberg and Gunther Plaut, Rabbi Marmur is recognized as one of the preeminent and influential spokesman of Reform Judaism in North America and Europe.

In 1980 he served as the founding chairman of ARZENU, an international organization for the political representation of Reform and Progressive religious Zionist communities in Israel and fourteen other countries. He is a past Chairman of the Council of Reform and Liberal Rabbis of Great Britain and Ireland, and a past President of the Toronto Board of Rabbis. He has also served as Interim Executive Director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism in Jerusalem, and was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College and Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto.

A frequent commentator in the Canadian media in both secular and religious publications, he has written six books and edited two. His articles - on Liberal Judaism, Zionism, Israel, marriage and Jewish-Christian relations - have appeared in Jewish and non-Jewish publications in Britain, Canada and elsewhere.

Rabbi Marmur passed away in 2022 in Jerusalem.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list in pdf format and is also described at lower level for volumes 1 to 63. MSS2092 (18: Restricted)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000622.pdf

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General note:

Received from Rabbi Dow Marmur in 1994, 1999, 2007, and 2014.
Subject heading:

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Zionism

Jewish Organizations Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)

Jews Abraham L. Feinberg

Judaism - Canada

Reform Judaism
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020220-1
122-020018-2
122-020137-5
1990/0004
1994/0172
1994/0249
1996-02618-6
1997-026 DAP
1999-00070-6
2007-00258-2
2015-01218-4
96-242
MG31-F19

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MG31-F19
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000719.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 2092] 152

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Box [MARMUR, DOW 1997-026] 7446

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Sound recordings

[Consultation18 Restricted]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright is expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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