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1906-1996 (Creation)
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42 cm of textual records
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Hyman Edelstein was born in Dublin Ireland, 1889. He attended Trinity College before he emigrated to Ottawa in 1912. He married Elsie Hornstein in 1914. They had two sons, Nat and Ray. In 1916, his Canadian lyrics and other poems was the first book of verse published in English by a Canadian Jewish poet. He was an editor for The Canadian Jewish Chronicle from 1914 – 1917 and The Jewish Standard in 1931. He was active in numerous organizations. He founded the Jewish Literary and Dramatic Society in Ottawa in 1913, and the Jewish People’s Institute in 1923. He was also an officer of the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Author’s Association. During both World Wars he worked as a code breaker and interpreter for the Canadian government. He wrote eleven books of poetry including Spirit of Israel which won an award from the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1950. He also had six other works published including the 1957 English translation of Leon Glazer’s From Moscow to Jerusalem. Hyman Edelstein died of a heart attack in December 1957. At the time of his death he was working on an anthology of writings of Jewish interest by non-Jewish poets and authors.
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Fonds consists of Hyman Edelstein’s publications, writings and articles, (1906 – 1957); critiques and articles on Edelstein and his writings, (1913 – 1996); and personal material ( 1908 – 1987).
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One copy of Selected poems donated by Judge Horwitz, Nov. 6, 1996.
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Biographical material obtained from the article, “Little-known poet promoted social justice” by Esther Safer Fisher in The Canadian Jewish News, April 17, 1980.
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His pseudonym was Don Synge.