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[Bookplate for Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society]

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All printed markings in blue ink, all manuscript notes in black ink. Thin lines form a vertical rectangle with three vertically-stacked cells. The top cell contains the name of the library. The middle cell contains the seal of the institute: two concentric rings with the name and dates of the institute surrounding the inner circle, which contains a Star of David surrounding some Hebrew text. The seal has been inverted, so that it appears as white markings in a blue square. The bottom cell contains a space for presentation notes. In the last cell and above the outermost frame are manuscript notes.

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Title	[Bookplate for Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society]
Date Created	[between 1900 and 1929]
Description	All printed markings in blue ink, all manuscript notes in black ink. Thin lines form a vertical rectangle with three vertically-stacked cells. The top cell contains the name of the library. The middle cell contains the seal of the institute: two concentric rings with the name and dates of the institute surrounding the inner circle, which contains a Star of David surrounding some Hebrew text. The seal has been inverted, so that it appears as white markings in a blue square. The bottom cell contains a space for presentation notes. In the last cell and above the outermost frame are manuscript notes.
Extent	1 bookplate : relief printing ; 7 x 10.4 cm
Geographic Location	Montréal (Québec)
Person Or Corporation	Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society
Genre	Prints
Type	Still Image
File Format	image/jpeg
Notes	The Baron de Hirsch Institute was founded in July 1863 as the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society (YMHBS). Increased Jewish immigration in the 1880s put significant financial burdens on the YMHBS, so they requested assistance from the Austrian Baron Maurice de Hirsch, who gave them a substantial donation. In 1900, the YMHBS honored this donation and others from the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch by renaming the organization the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society. The Institute founded a variety of services to help recent immigrants and the Jewish community in Montreal more generally, and continues to this day as the Jewish Family Services of the Baron de Hirsch Institute. One of the services founded by the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society was a library. Created in 1900, the Library held a collection of Yiddish and Hebrew materials. The Library also held a book club. Many of these books went to the collection of the Jewish Public Library in 1914, though the Baron de Hirsch Library itself continued to exist until 1929. A copy of this ex libris is also available in the Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University. References: 1) Annuaires Lovell de Montreal et sa banlieue (1842-1999). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales Québec. http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/lovell/<br>2) Margolis, Rebecca. Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. 3) Lamonde, Yvan. Les Bibliothèques de Collectivités à Montréal (17e-19e siècle): sources et problèmes. Montréal: Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, 1979, 106. 4) 'Finding Aid to the Jewish Family Services/Baron de Hirsch Institute Fonds.' Jewish Public Library Archives. Montreal. http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/media/content/File/JFSBdeHI%20Fond.pdf<br>5) Miller, Evelyn. 'The History of the Montreal Jewish Public Library and Archives.' Canadian Archivist 2, 1 (1970), 49-55. http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/ca/article/viewFile/13029/14268<br>6) The Philippe Masson Ex Libris Collection at McGill University, from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/bookplates/
Identifier	BP MUR CAN I B376a; BP_MUR_CAN_I_B376a
Collection	RBSC Bookplates
Source	Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Morley Binder. BP MUR CAN I B376a
Date Available	2026-03-14
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
DOI	10.14288/1.0215757
Aggregated Source Repository	CONTENTdm

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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca