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1936-1937, l941 (Creation)
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8 files of textual records
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Bernard Lieff (d. 1941) migrated from the shtetl of Antopol, District of Grodno, Russia in l903. “Like thousands of others, my father stole across the border into Germany...and then traveled by steerage to America”. He wanted to come to an English country, made his way to Kingston, and then settled in Ottawa by 1904. After a few years as a pedlar, he was able to teach at the Ottawa Talmud Torah and provide private lessons as well. He had studied at several Yeshivas in Russia and met his wife, Esther Malcah Pomerantz (1881-1936), when tutoring Esther and her two younger sisters. They married in Russia in 1902. They had seven children, Abe, Louis, Bessie, Hy, Max, Morris and Joseph, all born in Ottawa except Abe. Rabbi Fasman delivered the eulogy for Bernard Lieff in the same classroom of the Ottawa Talmud Torah classroom, George Street, Ottawa in which he had taught for 35 years.
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Fonds consists of letters of condolence sent to Bernard Lieff and his children Bessie, Sadie & Abe, Max, Hymie and Morris on the death of Esther Malcah Lieff and the obituary of Bernard Lieff published in an Ottawa newspaper, December 31, l941.
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Letters of condolence donated by sons, Joseph and Max Lieff, March, 2002. Obituary donated by his son, Joseph Lieff, summer, 2000.
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Related material located in Honourable Mr. Abraham Lieff fonds and Moishe Palmer fonds.