Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1945-2020 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
0.27 m of textual records
3 folders of oversized textual records
2 artifacts
1 work of art
1 DVD
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Series consists of records relating to Dr. Rakoff’s personal life and career. Records include CVs, degrees and certificates, diaries from trips to Israel and Russia, records pertaining to his honorary degree from U of T including a DVD of his address, and various memorabilia. 2 files pertain to the education and early adulthood of two of his children (David and Ruth, both authors). Series also includes a copy of “A psychiatrist’s odyssey,” an article on Dr. Rakoff by Robert Fulford, published in Saturday Night in February 1984.
Files from B2019-0027 include additional certificates, his medical school diploma and letters of reference, birthday cards on the occasion of his 60th birthday, tributes on the occasion of his retirement from the Clarke Institute in 1990, and a file relating to his application for American citizenship.
Files from B2021-0008 include a diary of a trip to Israel in 1977, certificates and medals for the Life Fellow award from the American Psychiatric Association (1996) and the Order of Canada (2015). Finally, there are two files of condolence cards and letters received by his Gina following his death in October 2020. Also included is one hand coloured print of Convocation Hall by David Crighton. The print is entitled Convocation Hall – “Rakoff” and was presented to him by the Department of Psychiatry on the occasion of him being awarded an Honorary Degree in 2008.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Files are arranged chronologically.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open