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Israel Medres

Canadian Journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ109859880 ↗
Source-derived summary

Israel Jonah Medres (Yiddish: ישראל יונה מדרש; 1894 – August 6, 1964) was a Canadian Yiddish journalist and writer.

Biography

Israel Medres was born in Lekhovich, Russian Empire, in 1894. He studied for three years at the yeshiva of Lida. At the age of 16 he immigrated to Canada, where he joined the staff of the Keneder Adler in 1922.

Publications

Montreal fun nekhtn [Montreal of Yesterday] (in Yiddish). 1947.

Tsvishn tsvey velt milkhomes [Between Two World Wars] (in Yiddish). 1964.

Editorial summary

“Israel Medres” enters the record as canadian Journalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Israel, Medres and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1894, 1964, 1922, 1947—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Israel, Medres and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Israel Medres” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Israel, Medres and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109859880. VIAF identifies the subject as 71574501. The Library of Congress control number is n2002039651. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1894, 1964, 1922 and 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “Israel Medres” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.