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Persoonlijke gegevens Lyon COHEN 

• Hij is geboren op 11 mei 1868 in Budwitcher, Polen.
• Beroep: Co-Founder of the Canadian Jewish Times.
• Hij is overleden op 15 augustus 1937 in Montréal, Canada, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Lazarus COHEN en Francesfraidie GARMAISE

Gezin van Lyon COHEN

Hij is getrouwd met Rachel FRIEDMAN.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 17 februari 1891, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Nathan Bernhard COHEN  1891-1944 
2. Horace Reeves COHEN  1895-1984 

Notities over Lyon COHEN

Lyon Cohen (1868–1937) was a Polish-born Canadian businessman and a philanthropist. He was the grandfather of singer/poet Leonard Cohen.

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Biography[edit]
Cohen was born in Budwitcher, Poland, to a Jewish family on May 11, 1868.[1] He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1871.[1] He was educated at the McGill Model School and the Catholic Commercial Academy in Montreal.[1] In 1888, he entered the firm of Lee & Cohen in Montreal; later became partner with his father in the firm of L. Cohen & Son; in 1895, he established W. R. Cuthbert & Co; in 1900, he organized the Canadian Improvement Co., a dredging contractor; in 1906, he founded The Freedman Co. in Montreal; and in May 1919, he organized and became President of Canadian Export Clothiers, Ltd.[1] The Freedman Company went on to become one of Montreal’s largest clothing companies.[2]

In 1897, Cohen co-founded with Samuel William Jacobs, the Canadian Jewish Times, the first English language Jewish newspaper in Canada.[3] The newspaper promoted the Canadianization of recent East European Jewish immigrants and encouraged their acceptance of Canadian customs[2] as Cohen felt that the old world customs of immigrant Jews were one of the main causes of anti-Semitism.[2] In 1914, the paper was purchased by Hirsch Wolofsky, owner of the Yiddish language Keneder Adler, who transformed it into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle.[2]

Philanthropy[edit]
He was elected the first president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1919 and organized the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.[3] Cohen was also a leader of the Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Society (later the Baron de Hirsch Institute) and the United Talmud Torahs, a Jewish day school in Montreal.[4] He also served as president of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim[2] and president of the Jewish Colonization Association in Canada.[3]

Personal life[edit]
Cohen married Rachel Friedman of Montreal on February 17, 1891. She was the founder and President of Jewish Endeavour Sewing School. They had three sons and one daughter:

Nathan Bernard Cohen, who served in the World War as Lieutenant; he married Lithuanian Jewish immigrant Masha Klinitsky and they had one daughter and one son:
Esther Cohen and
singer/poet Leonard Cohen.[4][5][6][7]
Horace Rives Cohen, who was Captain and Quartermaster of his battalion in World War I;[1]
Lawrence Zebulun Cohen, student at McGill University, and[1][8]
Sylvia Lillian Cohen.[1]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g The Quebec History Encyclopedia: Lyon Cohen retrieved April 22, 2012
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Museum of Jewish Montreal: "Lyon Cohen - Freedman Company" retrieved September 6, 2014
^ Jump up to: a b c Cohen, Lyon Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives
^ Jump up to: a b Newspapers of Jewish Montreal" (page 3), Jewish Public Library Archives.
Jump up ^ The International Who's Who 2004 retrieved April 22, 2012
Jump up ^ Cohen, Leonard (24 May 1985). "The Midday Show With Ray Martin". ABC (Interview). Interview with Ray Martin. Sydney. Archived from the original on 24 February 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2008. My – my mother was from Lithuania which was a part of Poland and my great-grandfather came over from Poland to Canada.
Jump up ^ Leonard Cohen Biography : Leonard Cohen was born to a Polish father and a Lithuanian-Jewish mother in Quebec in 1934.
Jump up ^ Canadian Jewish News: "Earliest Canadian-made chanukiyah discovered" November 26, 2012

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