Gurion Hyman [SEP] educated at
Art Shoppe.
Early life.
Gurion Joseph Hyman was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lived above his parents’ bookstore on Spadina Avenue, Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe, until marrying Ruth Alice Warner in 1952. The son of prominent Jewish community activists, Ben Zion Hyman and Fannie Konstantynowski (a descendant of Rabbi Shabbatai ha-Kohen), Gurion Hyman graduated from the Pharmacy program at the University of Toronto in 1946. During his early years, Gurion Hyman was exposed to multiple languages and developed
, Bonnie and Shulman, Jaclyn, eds. "Voices from the Heart: A Community Celebrates 50 Years of Israel". Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1998. (See section "412 Spadina: From a Conversation with Gurion Hyman." pp. 90–91).
- Metro Page. "Little Jewish library moves its 30,000 books." "The Toronto Star", October 28, 1983, p. A6.
- Ontario Jewish Archives. "Gordon Perlmutter and Gurion Hyman at the Ostrovtzer Synagogue