Lyon Cohen

Lyon Cohen (1868-1937) was a Jewish Canadian publisher, businessman and a philanthropist.

In 1897, Cohen co-founded with Samuel William Jacobs, the Canadian Jewish Times, the first English language Jewish newspaper in Canada, and was president of the Jewish Colonization Association in Canada.^[1]

He was elected the first president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1919 and organized the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.^[1]

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.^[2]

His grandson is singer and poet Leonard Cohen.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Cohen, Lyon Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives
^ ^a ^b Newspapers of Jewish Montreal" (page 3), Jewish Public Library Archives.

Preceded by none	President of the Canadian Jewish Congress 1919-1934	Succeeded by Samuel William Jacobs

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Name	Cohen, Lyon
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Date of birth	1868
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Date of death	1937
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