American and Canadian Rabbis in the Samuel Ephraim Tiktin Collection

Introduction

The following table contains a listing of American and Canadian rabbis found in the Samuel Ephraim Tiktin Collection in the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York (Record Group 495, 1.6 linear feet). The collection, dating from circa 1930 to 1949, is written in Yiddish and includes several hundred biographies of rabbis compiled by Tiktin for a Universal Rabbinical Biographical Encyclopedia, which he planned to publish. Biographies include rabbis from the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Palestine, Poland, and other countries, including the Middle East. Also included are photographs of and correspondence with the subjects. Tiktin was a Yiddish and Hebrew writer who was born in Jerusalem in 1878 and came to the United States in 1912.

The list of 205 American and Canadian rabbis was compiled by a professor of Jewish history who visited the YIVO Archives several years ago and contributed the list after reviewing the collection. The list does not include rabbis from other continents. Further information may be obtained from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Sources

Many thanks to Stephen Falk for obtaining the list and to Fruma Mohrer, Acting Chief Archivist at YIVO, for granting kind permission to reproduce it and for providing resource information.

• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

• Researching Rabbis at the Center for Jewish History (in PDF format; download free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections