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1927-1943 (Creation)
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3 folders of textual records 16 photographs : b&w 1 scrapbook 1 trophy
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Adolphe Sherman (1888-1943) was born near Minsk, and spent his early years in Kiev before coming to Ottawa around 1905. He started in the tailoring and fur fashioning business by working as a cutter and designer for his uncle, R. H. Miller, ladies tailor and furrier. Then he opened his own small shop at 390 Somerset Street and later opened A Sherman: ladies tailor and furrier at 216 Bank Street. Adolphe Sherman was President of the B’nai Jacob Congregation and was directly responsible for rebuilding the James Street synagogue. He laid the cornerstone for the synagogue in 1931. He was also active in other Ottawa Jewish organizations, including Vice-President of the Ottawa Talmud Torah Board, vice-chairman of the Keren Hayesod Campaign for 1933, and an active member of the Hebrew Benevolent Society. During leisure time, Adolphe Sherman enjoyed taking his family on motor trips to New York and Philadelphia to visit relatives. He also undertook an extended business and pleasure trip in the winter of 1932 to New York, the Caribbean, Panama and parts of South America.
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Fonds consists of a scrapbook and news clippings detailing Adolphe Sherman’s Jewish community life.
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Donated by Sylvia Friedman, daughter of Adolphe Sherman, in 1991.
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Trophy from the Uptown Ladies Auxilliary of B’nai Jacob Congregation to A. Sherman, 1931.