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Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta

JAHSENA

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The Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta (JAHSENA) was founded in 1996 by Uri Rosenzweig, the first President. He created a committee to write a history of the Edmonton Jewish Community entitled, "The First Century of Jewish Life in Edmonton and Northern Alberta, 1893-1993.". The Society was incorporated in 1998 and published the book in 2000. Debby Shoctor was hired as the first Archivist for the Society in 2001. The archives is located inside the Edmonton Jewish Community Centre. In 2004, the second president of the Society, Dan Kauffman, produced a documentary film for the Society entitled, "From Pedlars to Patriarchs: A Legacy Remembered." The Society joined the Archives Society of Alberta in 2002.

Shnitka, Abraham

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Abraham Shnitka was born in Libau, Courland- Latvia (Russia) in 1894. During his youth in Libau, Mr. Shnitka trained as a printer's apprentice before immigrating to Canada and settling in Calgary with his family in 1911. After working in the printing trade in Calgary for two years, in 1913 he started Franklin Press, the first Jewish Job Printing Shop in Western Canada, with a full range of hand and linotype machine-set Hebrew alphabet type. Jewish institutions and organizations that were his clients included the Peretz Institute, Calgary Jewish Literary Club, Calgary Talmud Torah and others. In 1935, Mr. Shnitka sold the Franklin Press and became the King's and later Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta from 1935 until his retirement in 1958. In 1939, he founded and was named director of the Alberta Government Purchasing Department, a position he held until 1942. In 1951, he was the organizer and Chairman of the Queen's Printers' Association of Canada. Upon his retirement in 1957, Mr. Shnitka resigned as director of the association and was named an honourary president. Upon retirement, Mr. Shnitka worked as a sales representative for printing equipment for Sydney R. Stone Ltd., Toronto. He was also an active member of several Jewish organizations and was a passionate supporter of Zionist causes. Mr. Shnitka and his wife Pearl (nee Friefeld) had one son, Theodore, a doctor in Edmonton. Mr. Shnitka passed away in 1972.

Schloss, Eric

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Dr. Eric Schloss was born in Edmonton in ca. 1938, and grew up in Camrose. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in 1959 and a MD in 1963 before completing a two-year family practice internship at several prominent hospitals in Canada, the United States and Bermuda. Dr. Schloss continued his education with a four-year residency at University of Alberta Hospital, received a F.R.C.P. (C) in General Pathology in 1969. Dr. Schloss practiced Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Dr. S. Hanson and associates in Edmonton and as Chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Edmonton General Hospital. Dr. Schloss married Elects Conn of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The Schlosses have two children, Robin and J.J. In 1975, Dr. Schloss decided to pursue his interest in Dermatopathology at New York University and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. Since 1978, he has practiced Dermatology and Dermatopathology in Edmonton. He has served as head of the Division of Dermatology and is a Clinical Professor of Pathology and Dermatology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta. Along with his professional accomplishments, Dr. Schloss has been actively involved in numerous Jewish organizations, and has served as chairman or president for many organizations including the United Jewish Appeal, the Canadian Israel Committee of Edmonton, the Beth Israel Synagogue and the Edmonton Jewish National Fund. An avid book collector, in 1989 and 1992 Dr. Schloss donated over 12 000 monographs from his personal collection to the University of Alberta. Dr. Schloss and his wife Elexis Schloss were the honourees of the 1995 Negev Dinner.

Aaron, Ted

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Ted Aaron was born in 1918 in Edmonton to Abe Aaron, a fur trader from Lithuania, and Julia Grausbord of Oxbow, Saskatchewan. Ted obtained his BSc and MD degrees from the University of Alberta, and left to study in the United States, where he specialized in allergy research at Roosevelt and Mt. Sinai Hospitals in New York, and was later awarded a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the first Jewish doctor hired in Boston at the Lahey clinic. He later returned to Edmonton as the first allergist in Western Canada and became a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. He published over 50 professional papers and wrote three chapters in Medical texts. He was selected as one of the 100 Physicians of the Century by the Alberta Medical Association in 2005. In addition to his professional activities, he served on the Board of the Beth Shalom Synagogue, the Alberta Boy Scout Association, the Edmonton Symphony, was President of the Alberta Ballet, and President of the Association of Christians and Jews. Dr. Aaron married Gloria Shapiro in 1947, and they have three children: Dr. Stephen Aaron, Arlene Morin and Susan Aaron.

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