Series 1 - Personal and biographical

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Reference code

UTA 1682-1

Title

Personal and biographical

Date(s)

  • 1945-2020 (Creation)

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Series

Extent and medium

0.27 m of textual records
3 folders of oversized textual records
2 artifacts
1 work of art
1 DVD

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Name of creator

(1928-2020)

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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.

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Accruals

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Files are arranged chronologically.

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Open

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      Reference number (textual)

      B2015-0011/001(01)-(22)

      Reference number (textual)

      B2019-0027/001(01)-(12)

      Reference number (textual)

      B2021-0018/001(01)-(09)

      Reference number (oversize)

      B2015-0011/007(01)-(02), /008

      Reference number (oversize)

      B2021-0018/005(01)

      Reference number (artifacts)

      B2021-0018/001ART - /002ART

      Reference number (moving image)

      B2015-0011/001M

      Reference number (artwork)

      B2021-0018/002P

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