Rabbi Wolf Gunther Plaut was a Reform rabbi and author. An important figure in the history of the Jewish community in Toronto, he served as rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple from 1961 to 1977 and later as a Rabbi Emeritus and Senior Scholar of the temple.
Born in Germany, Plaut fled persecution under the Nazis in [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Hitting milestone with the John Arpin Sheet Music Collection: 1000 down, 139,000 more to go!
Today was an exciting milestone for two of our student assistants working on inventorying sheet music from the John Arpin Archives. In collaboration with librarians and staff from Bibliographic Services, the 1000th piece of sheet music was entered into the cataloguing system. It won't appear for another few weeks in the online catalogue, but we [...]