page_title: Gurion Hyman
hierarchical_section_title: Gurion Hyman
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Gurion Joseph Hyman, circa 2008
context_page_description: Gurion Joseph Hyman was a Canadian anthropologist, linguist, pharmacist, composer, artist and translator. Primary contributions have been liturgical compositions for the Passover Haggadah and Sabbath prayer service, translations into English as well as the setting to music of several internationally acclaimed Yiddish poets, an project to write an etymological dictionary of Yiddish, and proprietor of the second branch of Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe.
context_section_description: Gurion Joseph Hyman (January 9, 1925 - December 2, 2017) was a Canadian anthropologist, linguist, pharmacist, composer, artist and translator. Primary contributions have been (a) liturgical compositions for the Passover Haggadah and Sabbath prayer service, (b) translations into English as well as the setting to music of several internationally acclaimed Yiddish poets, (c) an (ongoing) project to write an etymological dictionary of Yiddish, and (d) proprietor of the second branch of Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe.
caption: Gurion Joseph Hyman, circa 2008
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