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Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn2
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
Fonds No.
CJC0001
Date
1765-present.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in C…
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in Canada in the late 18th century.
Date
1765-present.
Fonds No.
CJC0001
History / Biographical
Canadian Jewish Congress was founded in Montreal in March 1919. "The Parliament of Canadian Jewry," CJC was constituted as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada, serving as the community's vehicle for defence and representation. Committed to preserving and strengthening Jewish life, CJC acted on matters affecting the status, rights and welfare of the Canadian Jewish community, other Diaspora communities and the Jewish people in Israel. CJC combatted antisemitism and racism, promoted human rights, fostered interfaith, cross-cultural relations and worked towards tolerance, understanding and goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The organization spoke on a broad range of public policy, humanitarian and social-justice issues on the national agenda that affected the Jewish community and Canadian society at large. Through its charitable operations, CJC provided domestic and international relief aid on a non-sectarian basis, following natural disasters and to isolated Jewish communities in need. The Archives department also fell under the mandate of CJC Charities Committee. In 1999 the CJC national office relocated to Ottawa, with three regional CJC offices (Quebec, Ontario and Pacific), as well as affiliated offices across the country. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), along with the Canada-Israel Committee, the Quebec-Israel Committee, National Jewish Campus Life and the University Outreach Committee. CJC and its charitable wing were formally disbanded in late 2015. Since that time the CJCCC National Archives, renamed the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives as of January 2016, functions under the aegis of Jewish Federations Canada UIA.
Custodial History
Both the national headquarters and the Quebec Jewish Congress (formerly Quebec Region, Eastern Region) offices of the Canadian Jewish Congress were located in Montreal until 1999, when most of the national office relocated to Ottawa. The National Archives is the repository of records created and received in these offices. The collection also includes materials from the National Office in Ottawa, as well as the national records of Manuel Prutschi, Bernie Farber, and other national departments based in Toronto and Vancouver. The regional offices of Canadian Jewish Congress outside Quebec are little represented in the collection, aside from correspondence from across the country and certain publications which were addressed to the national office.
Notes
General note: The number of paper records in this collection is subject to change, due to additions to Documentation Series Z as well as the ongoing weeding of duplications. Most of the material was created after 1919, with the exception of Series Z, which includes photocopies and a small number of originals dating back as far as 1765.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
Fonds No.
I0048
Date
1909-1990.
Scope and Content
National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (194…
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
Scope and Content
National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (1948-1949, 1973). Board member list (1971). Other membership lists. Pamphlets on International Council of Jewish Women. Biennial conventions (ICJW & NCJW). Minutes & information (1953-1973). Publications, flyers, invitations, seminar notes. Convention information, lecture notes and agendas. Gerontology conference notes (1968). Bulletin (1946). Magazines (1963-1973 with gaps). Programs & services materials (foster homes, Project Canada, School for Citizen Participation 1970), field service (1964-1965), workbooks, the elderly, National Theatre for Canada (1961-1963), overseas service (1954-1960), public affairs (1965-1967), leadership). Booklet on history of NCJW (1967). Material on "Canadian Women of the Century 1867-1967" (1967). Scrapbooks. Clippings (1940s-1990 and photocopies of 1909, 1912 articles). Photos, including slides of events, services, programs in Israel & Canada (1914-1975) - collection PC 3. Sound recordings of meetings and lectures (1950s-1970s).
Date
1909-1990.
Fonds No.
I0048
History / Biographical
The National Council of Jewish Women was established in the United States in 1893, to help new Jewish immigrants. A Canadian branch began in Toronto in 1897. In Montreal the Baron de Hirsch Institute covered immigrant aid at that time, and the Montreal NCJW chapter was only founded in 1918. The International Council was formed in 1912. NCJW is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general community, locally, nationally, and internationally. They do and did so through scholarships, summer camps, libraries, aiding immigrants, volunteer work, pre-and post-war refugee aid, gerontology research, services to the elderly, support of the Golden Age Association, shipments of play and school materials to Israel and North Africa, lobbying for equal pay and other human rights bills, and opening a shelter for battered Jewish women. Their members across Canada and the world both fundraise and volunteer.The National office of NCJW Canada moved from Montreal to Toronto in the mid-1950s before settling in Winnipeg in the early 1990s where it remained until 2015.
Custodial History
The collection is divided into three parts: an original donation of material relating to the National office in Montreal and other locations up to 1978; National material donated in 2015 by the Winnipeg National headquarters office (1943-2009); and (see Series A) material relating to the Montreal Chapter office (1926-1999)
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4, PC 3.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn52
Collection
PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
Fonds No.
I0050
Date
1925-2010.
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These…
Collection
PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These papers include: Constitution and by-laws (1972). Minutes (1977). Report (1975). Membership lists. Correspondence (1930s and 1940s). Year book/directory (1949-1958, 1976). Bulletins (1962-1991). Kovod books (1971-1977). Convention agenda (1975). Souvenir programs (1936-1948, 1953, 1975-1976). Receipt book. 50th anniversary booklet (1975). Flyers, invitations, pamphlets, fundraising correspondence and information. Revivim Chapter Cookbook, with ring binding, undated. Programming information booklet, clippings (1941-1942, 1986-1989). (Some letters, clippings, flyers and invitations from 1940s, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto). Addition 2014: 35 large red binders of papers and photographs, the greater part of a corpus of 41 binders formerly housed at the Na'amat office. An index was supplied for the first 31 binders, going up to 1992. The material dates from 1925-2010, with the earliest material belonging to a section on the initial separation and autonomy of the group. Other material in the binders consist of: Brochures, information on conventions, circulars and reports, Israel-based projects such as community centres and day cares, Minutes of the Metropolitan Board and the National Board, publications, information on presidents and executive directors, scripts of skits, background materials. Also 'Portfolios' on various dossiers, such as Canadian Affairs and Social Action, Membership and Dues, and fundraising. Addition 2015: 2 red binders of historical documents, (Binder 3, cards and certificates; and Binder 31, skits), filling gaps in the collection donated in November 2014. Also 1 album of newsclippings (now disassembled into a folder for preservation purposes.) Two binders containing photographs; one black and white mostly 8" by 10" prints from 1981 (51 of them), with 31 contact sheets, and one of colour snapshots of a trip to Israel, presumed to be from 1978 because as it includes an Inuit art exhibit from that year which is described elsewhere (299 colour images).
Date
1925-2010.
Fonds No.
I0050
History / Biographical
Pioneer Women (now called Na'amat) was founded in America and Montreal in 1925. This women's organization, part of the Labour Zionist movement, raises funds which provide half of all social services for Israeli women, youth and children. Affiliated with Israel's Moetzet Hapoalot, they sponsor a nurses training school, children's homes, day cares, vocational and agricultural schools, and community centres which help Jewish and Arab Israelis. Aside from fundraising, they run educational and cultural activities to encourage women to be active in Israeli and Canadian affairs. Pioneer Women/Na'amat was affiliated with their American counterpart until the late 1960s, when they became an independent Canadian group. They support the Habonim-Dror Zionist youth movement, and are active in promoting women's issues, in Israel and elsewhere, by their members throughout Canada and in twelve other nations.
Custodial History
Addition was made in 2014 and 2015 by Vivian Reisler for Na'amat
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P14/18 and P15/13.Related groups of records: Photos in PC 1. There are also 1.6 meters (13 small boxes) of Pioneer Women / Na'amat documents in collection JPL-JC-Z. These Jewish Canadiana Zionist records from the Jewish Public Library were transferred to CJCNA in 2001 as a permanent loan. The initial box of Na'amat materials described above is now housed with this JPL-JC Pioneer Women / Na'amat collection.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn81
Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Fonds No.
I0079
Date
1935-1998.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harv…
Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harvard Law School Research for Israel's Legal Development, 1952, 1953. Black Binder with complete minutes from 1952 to 1966. Booklet of the concert by OSMONT, Ochestre Symphonique de la Montérégie, for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, 1998. Booklet from the Congregation Dorshei Emet 'Celebrating 36 years of Jewish Renewal,' 1996. Booklet; Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge, 'Program of Study', 1979. 4 notorized copies of the Hart family (2 marriage certificates and 2 death certificates), 1959 (Originals 1843-1857). Minutes of the Montreal Hebrew Free Loan Association (copy), 1911. Diploma from Hebrew University of Jerusalem given to the Lord Reading Law Society, 1979. 2 booklets of the Lord Reading Law Society's 50th anniversary, 1998. 8 photos. 1 Baseball cap. Added in 2012 and 2014: 2009 templates of prenuptial contracts for Jewish couples, with accompanying correspondence via printed e-mails; membership lists and dues contracts; dinner meeting and Montefiore Club event information, Bureau de Quebec conference materials; internal and external correspondence, including some in the form of printed e-mails; meeting agendas and minutes; By-laws; News clippings. Correspondance 2009-2010 on subjects such as Jewish prenuptial agreements, Jewish holidays, Haiti, Bill 94, Young Bar, Notaries Cle. Hanukah and New Year's cards; flyers; photographs (9) with associated correspondence and guest list for student dinner 2009; Photographs (21 with duplicates) of dinner for Allan M. Stein, 2010; 119 photographs of one or more dinner events, one possibly with Lucien Bouchard, CD of 44 small images plus duplicates, titled 'LRLS Season 2005-2006' (428 K); album containing 43 colour photographs.Books: Gottesman, Dr. Eli. Who's Who in Canadian Jewry; 1967. Montreal; Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada; [1965].Joseph, Anne. Heritage of a Patriarch: A Fresh Look at Nine of Canada's Earliest Jewish Families. Sillery; Les Editions du Septentrion, 1995.Langlais, Jacques and David Rome. Jews & French Quebecers : Two Hundred Years of Shared History/ translated by Barbara Young. Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.
Date
1935-1998.
Fonds No.
I0079
History / Biographical
The Lord Reading Law Society was founded as a vehicle for lawyers of the Jewish faith "both as a study group and as a representative body." The Society was named after Rufus Daniel Isaacs, a British jurist who later became Lord Reading. The political and social climate of the late 1930s and early 1940s was the impetus for the creation of Society. The Society first formalized its structure in 1948 and has been meeting regularly since then. The first president was the late Mr. Justice Benjamin Robinson. Originally the Society was known as the Reading Society. It changed its name to the Reading Society of Montreal on September 25, 1952. It is not certain exactly when the society changed its name to the Lord Reading Law Society, possibly in 1958.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Morton Bessner in 3 increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P00/01, P12/11, P14/09.Location of originals :The books are stored in the Library.General note :In the collection there are 4 original copies of marriage certificates and death certificates of the Hart Family.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn96
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Fonds No.
I0094
Date
1900-1993.
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Date
1900-1993.
Fonds No.
I0094
History / Biographical
The CJC Archives Jewish summer resort collecting mission, undertaken in the early 1990s by Archives volunteer Ricci Rosenthal, contains an impressive number of rare and interesting Laurentian area photos, oral histories and memorabilia. Ricci owed her particular interest in this subject to her memories of happy times spent at the hotels, and the nostalgia she shared with many of her contemporaries, who would always say to her: "I wish there were still someplace to go."
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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SPANIER family

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn249
Collection
SPANIER family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0143
Date
c.1851-2022.
Scope and Content
Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to hi…
Collection
SPANIER family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
Scope and Content
Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy about refused entry at port of Poole, also list of names from family prayer book. Addition 2004: 165 photos, colour and black and white, of Spanier family including Germany, including a housefront/ storefront boarded after Kristalnacht, also family in USA and Canada and Beverly Spanier teaching career and friends. Also 1 cm. Beverly career documents. Addition 2009: Macdonald College Faculty of Education McGill University Class of 1969 history booklet written by B. Spanier for the 40th Reunion. List of volunteer work of B. Spanier. Addition 2010: 80th birthday biographical tribute to Miriam Roland. Additions 2011-2022: McGill University Class of '67 Arts and Science 45th Reunion Booklet, compiled by and edited by B. Spanier. Obituary of B. Spanier's second cousin, John Winston Spanier. Newspaper clippings from 2013-2021 concerning the patient advocacy work and activities of B. Spanier, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and upon her receiving the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal in 2021. B. Spanier autobiography 'Reflections on my Life' April 1, 2014 (91 pp. approx. 95 images; also includes digital copy). Material relating to B. Spanier's 69th and 70th birthdays. Booklets written by B. Spanier including 'Tears, Suffering and the Helping Hand' 2016 (20 pp. incl. 11 images of original art by B. Spanier) and 'A Patient's View of Covid-19 From Inside a Quebec Chronic-Care Facility' April 3, 2021, (22 pp, 8 images incl. of original art by B. Spanier). 75th birthday biographical tribute to Lloyd Brereton (2022) and 70th birthday biographical tribute to Panaiota Zaphiratos (2022).
Date
c.1851-2022.
Fonds No.
P0143
History / Biographical
Beverly Spanier was born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from McGill University in Honors Economics and Political Science in 1967. She was a high school teacher in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 to 1997, and was involved with religious programming at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount, Quebec. Beverly is a long-time patient-rights advocate and has been outspoken on behalf of patients in long-term and chronic care during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially at Maimonides Geriatric Centre. In 2021, she was honoured by MNA David Birnbaum for her activism and received the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal. Family members highlighted in the collection are her brother, the late Allen Spanier, formerly a McGill professor of medicine, surgeon, researcher, and Director of Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, and her late father Albert, formerly a businessman in textiles and a synagogue leader. Albert Spanier was born on January 4, 1914 in Enger, Germany and was one of four children born to Amalia and Adolph. Albert, Gertrude, Irwin and Werner were raised in Enger in the largest home in the town. In 1938 the family fled Nazi Germany to scatter abroad and eventually reunite in Hartford, Connecticut where they were all members of Tikvoh Chadoshah Synagogue. Albert Spanier died on November 17, 1995 while living in West Hartford Connecticut. Dr. Allen Spanier died on April 27th, 1999 in Montreal at the age of 52. Allen and Beverly's mother Sybil, the first wife of Albert, passed away in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in July 8th 2002.
Custodial History
Part of this collection was transferred from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, at the request of the donor, Beverly Spanier. Several additions to the collection were made after the initial transfer in 1994.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P94/10 +adds. P98/03+adds. P14/05+adds. P15/17+adds. P16/08+adds.General note :Mostly originals, incl. photographs.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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STEIN, Mania Brodsky

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn251
Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0145
Date
1922-1986.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and busin…
Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and business cards. The majority of the correspondence comes from family members and friends in the former USSR, including letters postmarked from Moscow, Kiev, and Riga. Some correspondence was sent within Canada (Toronto, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts), or from the USA (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio), Israel (receipts and acknowledgment letters from charitable organizations) and a DP camp in US-occupied Germany. One small file contains some of Julius Stein's papers and correspondence including letters from the Canadian government regarding his citizenship. While there is a small amount of English-language correspondence, the majority of the letters are handwritten in Russian and Yiddish. An initial assessment completed when the collection was donated notes that the content deals largely with the domestic life of Brodsky-Stein's family and friends in the USSR. Further research by scholars of Yiddish and Russian is needed to obtain more detailed information on the content of most of the correspondence, however it can be assumed that the letters, including envelopes and stamps, would be of interest to researchers interested in the lived experience of Jewish families in the USSR during the 20th century.
Date
1922-1986.
Fonds No.
P0145
History / Biographical
Mania Brodsky Stein (Mania Brodsky/ M. Stein/Mary Stone) was born March 15, 1900 in Uman, Kiev, then part of Russia. Brodsky-Stein emigrated from the former USSR to Canada in the 1920s, along with her brother J. (Jacob/Yaacov) Brodsky, settling in Montreal, Québec. She was married to Julius Stein (born May 3, 1901 in Cologne, Germany, died in 1948, Montreal, Québec). She maintained correspondence with family in the USSR until her death in Montreal in 1986. The collection was donated to the Archives by her son, Henry Stone. A summary from a Yiddish-language profile in the New York paper Der Algemeiner Journal by Jacob Rabinovitch, June 22, 1984, page 12 states: Miriam Stein was a religious woman, well known in the Jewish community for her charitable works/philanthropy, though she was not one to seek recognition. As a young woman in the 1920s, she worked as a housekeeper in other observant religious households. During the post-war period she had a large house on Park Avenue in Montreal, which was open to all. She focused her efforts on new immigrants to North America, particularly young religious men who had trouble finding work due to religious practices such as being unable to work on the sabbath, a number of whom, including individuals who went on to become rabbis, would later remember her support.
Custodial History
The correspondence was kept by Mania Brodsky Stein, as she received them from the 1920s until the 1980s. The collection was donated to the Archives in 1986 by her son, Henry Stone, after her death.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P86/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn266
Collection
LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
sound recording
textual record
book
Physical Description
165 photographs. - 678 sound elements. - 0.43 metres of textual records. - 1 other fixed image. - 1 book.
Fonds No.
P0161
Date
1925-2016.
Scope and Content
The initial fonds consisted of a total of 250 sound cassettes containing 578 interviews as of September 1998. These were added to several times per year since 1998, and totaled 639 cassettes with 1302 interviews as of August 2014. Including the last interview done in 2016, the total number of inter…
Collection
LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
sound recording
textual record
book
Physical Description
165 photographs. - 678 sound elements. - 0.43 metres of textual records. - 1 other fixed image. - 1 book.
Scope and Content
The initial fonds consisted of a total of 250 sound cassettes containing 578 interviews as of September 1998. These were added to several times per year since 1998, and totaled 639 cassettes with 1302 interviews as of August 2014. Including the last interview done in 2016, the total number of interviews in the collection is 1408, on 678 cassettes. The interviews cover a vast range of Jewish, usually Canadian-Jewish subject matter, including the arts, Jewish life in communities outside Montreal and outside Canada, contemporary Montreal and world Jewish community issues, and Jews in non-mainstream circles (such as Jewish gays and lesbians, Communist party members). Each interview is approximately 20 minutes long, although many run for half an hour; adding up to over 469 hours of material. The fonds also contains background materials assembled at the time of many of the interviews, as well as photographs of former synagogue sites, another of Mr. Lutsky's areas of interest.Addition 1998: 17 cassettes containing a total of 33 interviews were added to the fonds.Addition 1999: 9 cassettes were added to the fonds.Addition 2000: 21 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 55 interviews.Addition 2001: 22 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 45 interviews.Addition 2002-2005: The total number of interviews as of April 2005 was 833, with approximately 2 interviews per cassette. 12 photos of Canadian synagogues.Addition 2005-2006: 26 cassette tapes containing a total of 58 interviews were added to the collection between Oct. 2005 to Oct. 2006, bringing the number of interviews to 940. Additional photos of Canadian and American synagogues and former synagogue sites were donated this year as well (appox. 30 photos, about 20 of which were Canadian).Addition 2007: 17 photos of synagogues in Ottawa and Oshawa, Ontario; Burlington, Vermont, Lithuania, and Dublin. 3 cassettes. 26 pages of photocopies (information on the Burlington synagogue and photos of other synagogues, includes San Francisco and Scotland.) 1 prayer book from Paperman's Funeral Home while still located on Cote des Neiges Blvd., containing numerous photographs.Added in 2008: 18 cassette tapes with 2 interviews per tape, for a total of 36 interviews. Also 18 photos of present and former synagogues in Montreal, Sydney N.S., Saskatchewan, and Albany, New York, as well as various documents, 1925-1990c about the Glace Bay and Sydney Jewish communities, collected by Arlene Zimmerman.Addition 2008-2009: 3 new interview tapes from Jewish Digest, 21 photos of former synagogue sites in Winnipeg and the Maritimes. Neturei Karta in Montreal, etc., February 11, 2009: 4 additional tapes, including Israel lecture moved from Federation CJA to McGill University location. 3 additional tapes donated April 1, as well as an Israel Apartheid Week poster (March 2009) in colour that was banned from the York University campus. This copy is stamped Concordia University. Produced for the group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Addition 2009: 16 tapes. 7 photos.Addition 2010: 18 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 5 photos.Addition 2011: 18 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 17 photos. 1 photocopied document, approximately 20 pages, titled LGBTQ Seder - Passover haggadah, Congregation Dorshei Emet. The document was for a Gay, lesbian, Transsexual and etc. seder held at Dorshei Emet synagogue, March 31, 2010.Addition 2012: 15 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 14 photos.Addition 2013: 30 tapes and 34 photographs. 2014-2017, 39 additional tapes, 19 images, 33 cm. of documentation
Date
1925-2016.
Fonds No.
P0161
History / Biographical
Beginning in 1987, Montreal journalist Leslie Lutsky conducted interviews for his Montreal Radio Centreville show "Jewish Digest", which was on the air weekly from 1988 to late 2016. The interviews, which Lutsky collected on a volunteer basis in locations which ranged from private homes and lecture halls to factories, and even prisons, contain information which cannot be found in written form. The collection was donated in multiple increments on a regular basis from 1998 to 2017, culminating in a corpus of over 1400 interviews.
Custodial History
Donated by Mr. Leslie Lutsky of Radio Centreville, in multiple increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P88/54, P97various, P99/add, P00/add, P01/add, P02/02, P02/11, P03/16, P03/16add, P05/, P06/Lutsky add, P07/06, P07/16a, P07/22, P08/03, P09/01, P09/27, P10/06, P10/06, P10/add, P11/02, P11/19, P12/02, P12/02add, and P12/23.
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Canadian Jewish Archives
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DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn268
Collection
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
Fonds No.
P0164
Date
1860?-1922.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriag…
Collection
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriage documents, memorabilia including war medals of Mrs. Maude de Sola; file of correspondence 1870-1920, including 3 envelopes addressed to Rev. A. de Sola (1870-1873), a letter from "Mummy" in Cleveland (1901), a letter from Clarence to his aunts (1901), 3 letters from Clarence to his wife, (1914 and 1920, with envelopes), and one letter to son Rafael, 1914. The three letters dated August 1914 are written from Montreal and make reference to the outbreak of WWI.
Date
1860?-1922.
Fonds No.
P0164
History / Biographical
Born in Montreal on August 15, 1858, Clarence de Sola was the third son of the renowned Victorian rabbi Rev. Alexander Abraham de Sola of the Shearith Israel synagogue of Montreal. He married Belle Maud Goldsmith of Cleveland in 1901. He was a contractor and served in the consular service as well as a leader of the social and communal life of Canadian Jewry, a founder and long-time president of the Federation Societies of Canada; and the author of numerous articles on Jewish history. He died in May 1920. His father Abraham de Sola was the first Jewish professor to teach Hebrew at McGill University, was rabbi of the Shearith Israel, Montreal's oldest congregation from 1848 until his death. Meldola gained widespread recognition as the cantor at the Shearith Israel.
Custodial History
The documents are on permanent loan from Ms. Gillian Mosely, in May 1998 (The documents were placed on permanent loan in May, 1998). These items belonged to Lady Jessica Mellor, who had the diaries microfilmed for the National Archives of Canada. Gillian Mosely, her niece, took care of her and received these items upon her death.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P98/01.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0164ClarencedeSolaletterOutbreakWWI-Aug1914

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BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn280
Collection
BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.52 metres of textual records. - Env. 218 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0178
Date
1915-2021.
Scope and Content
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986);…
Collection
BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.52 metres of textual records. - Env. 218 photographs.
Scope and Content
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986); the letters are summarized and in many cases translated by the donor. Immigration papers (1936). Yeshiva registration, (1932). Purse that had contained letters (1930s). Declaration of name change (1943). Marriage certificate (1925). Affidavit declaring removal of Grocery store (1963). Folder of the White Star ship containing postcards (1920s and 1930s). Booklet about founding of Kibbutz Ein Hashofet (1937-1938). Various other documents. Assorted stamps. Approximately 190 photographs of family (Lithuania, Canada, Israel) dating from circa 1890 to the 1990s. There are also 2 composite class photos; Morris Winchevsky School 1946, Baron Byng High School 1950. Several additions have been made to the collection since the intiial donation. In 2010, addition of copies of previously untranslated letters dating from 1949-1982, with translations from Yiddish into English attached. From 2013-2017 most of the additions consist of writings by Shirley Sarah Bloomstone Angrist. Added in 2013, a 23 page story 'Malca the Queen,' about Bloomstone Angrist's aunt, based on the translated letters; in 2013, a 3-page essay titled 'Vignettes From World War II', concerning Bloomstone Angrist's childhood recollections of living in Montreal during WWII. The 2014 addition consists of 24 additional family photographs. Added in 2015: Mini-memoir written 2015 about the period 1918-1979 (12 pages). Added in 2017: Four short anecdotal memoir stories written in 2017, mainly about Montreal about the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, titled 'The Sweetness and Sadness of Home', 'Books Forever', 'Hints of Discrimination', and 'Family Holocaust Letters' (a total of 9 pages).Addition 2020: Documents associated with Pauline Zlatis Bloomstone: Booklet of Yiddish songs, collected in the 1940s; A Yiddish poem about the value of studying Torah; Pamphlet titled 'Who needs Yiddish?'; condolence card upon her death, 1964, from Pioneer Women's Organization. Also copies of drawings of Ponevezh Lithuania done by Montreal family friend Abrasha Bogen, given to donor in 2004.Addition 2021:Story About Moshe Blumshtein (1910 - 1984)." As the introduction explains, the story is about our uncle's major work in developing the Kibbutz movement from the 1930s forward, as well as the family's arduous travels when they were expelled from Lithuania during World War I. Also the original Hebrew version that served as the basis of this history.Addition 2022: 3 photos of de la Savane cemetery grave sites, described by donor Sarah Angrist as: "My Father, Velvel Bloomstone standing next to Great-Grandfather Avraham Blumshtein's gravestone in circa 1935, and the gravestones of my parents Pessl (Pauline) Bloomstone d.1964 and Velvel (William) Bloomstone d. 1967." Photocopied photograph of a school class in Lithuania circa 1900, including faculty and students; "My grandfather, Dovid Itzik Blumshtein, born circa 1877 is shown with the teachers in the second row, one seat from the right. I'm guessing he was about 20 in this picture." 1931 certificate for Sarah Angrist's mother's purchase of a sewing machine from the T.Eaton Company, "an object she and I used for years with great pleasure and productivity". Illustrated document by Sarah Angrist, dated May 2022, approximately 20 pages, detailing the Bloomstone-Angrist family descendants, including a one-page genealogy, assorted colour laser copied photos, names, and dates over four generations.
Date
1915-2021.
Fonds No.
P0178
History / Biographical
The earliest Bloomstone family members to immigrate to Montreal arrived in the mid 1920s, including the donor's father Velvel (Wolff, or William) Bloomstone, born 1902 in Keidan, Lithuania. The donor's mother Pessl (Zlatis) Bloomstone, born 1904 in Ragola, Lithuania, arrived in Montreal in 1927. The Bloomstone-Zlatis collection contains letters written before and after the Holocaust by family members who had remained behind in Lithuania, and also by relatives who later moved to Israel. Family photographs and various official documents from their immigration and life in Canada are also included in the collection. This material formed the basis for the history-based writings of the donor, Shirley Sarah Bloomstone Angrist, a resident of Pittsburgh at the time of the initial donation in early 2001.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Shirley Bloomstone Angrist in several increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P2001/02, P10/15, P12/09, P14/13, P15/25, P17/13, P20/12, P21/12 and P22/11.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Ilizarov, Asaf

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Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0183
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du H…
Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) à Rome. La collection comprend des documents qui tiennent des renseignements personnels et sur sa famille, de I'autobiographie, des textes qui demontrent ses vues politiques, des échanges personnels, des certificats de droit d'auteure, des agendas et des albums des photographies correspondant à chacun de ses voyages avec la discription, des cartes d'affaire, des coupures de presse, des cartes et des objets professionnels et personnels. De plus, Ie fonds comprend beaucoup de photographies (dont 992 negatives), de sa vie personnelle et de ses activités professionnelles.The document portion of this fonds is made up of biographical material about its creator, of professional correspondence with different academics, and of lesson plans. The fonds includes letters exchanged with the Royal Canadian Legion, the ambassador of Canada and the manager of HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) in Rome. It includes documents containing personal and biographical information about lIizarov and his family, autobiographical writings, texts which show his political views, personal exchanges, copyright certifications, agenda books, business cards, and press clippings. The photographic portion of the fonds (of which 992 are negatives) includes photograph albums corresponding to each of his trips, photographs of his personal life, and many photographs of his professional and political activities. This portion of the fonds also includes a few professional and personal artifacts.
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Fonds No.
P0183
History / Biographical
Asaf lIizarov est né à Bakou, URSS, Ie 6 mars 1922. En 1945, il a été admis au " Military University of the Ministry of Defence" et à la fin de ses études, iI est devenu traducteur de la langue russe, arabe, persane, turque, anglaise et francaise. Au URSS, entre 1957 et 1975, Asaf lIizarov a été engagé comme l'interprète officiel dans les conferences internationales, surtout pour les élégations des pays arabes. Le 28 septembre 1975, il a quitté I'URSS pour venir à Vienne (Autriche). De 1975-1976, il a enseigné I'anglais à Rome. En 1976, il est arrive au Canada. En 1980, Asaf lIizarov a reçu sa citoyenneté canadienne. À Ottawa, il a était professeur de la langue russe à l'école des Forces armées canadiennes. De plus, iI a participé dans des organisations publiques et professionnelles : Ie Canada-Israël Cultural Fondation, the Royal Canadian Legion. II était un linguiste se spécialisant dans I'enseignement de langues, la traduction et la terminologie d'interprétation. Ses intérêts incluent la Soviétologie, les problèmes actuels dans Ie Moyen-Orient, et la position des Juifs dans les pays Soviétiques. Asaf lIizarov was born in Baku, USSR, on March 6th, 1922. In 1945, he was accepted into the Military University of the Ministry of Defence, and at the end of his studies, he became a translator of Russian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English and French. In USSR, in 1957-1975, Asaf lIizarov was hired as the official interpreter of an international conference, especially for the delegations of the Arab countries. On September 28th, 1975, he left USSR to come to Vienna (Austria). From 1975 to 1976, he taught English in Rome. In 1976, he arrived in Canada. In 1980, Ilizarov received Canadian citizenship. In Ottawa, he was professor of the Russian language at the Canadian Armed Forces school. In addition, he participated in public and professional organisations: the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Royal Canadian Legion. He was a linguist, specialising in language education, translation and terminology of interpretation. His interests included Sovietology, current problems in the Middle East, and the situation of Jews in Soviet countries.
Custodial History
Le fonds d'archives Ilisarov, Asaf a été transférée en 2001 des Archives nationales du Canada par contrat de donation signé par le directeur de la division des manuscrits aux Archives nationales du Canada. The collection was transferred from the National Archives of Canada. The donor of these material is Mrs. Jackie Gordon, the widow of Robert S. Gordon, who was director of the manuscript division at the National Archives for many years.
Notes
Physical description: Les documents en général sont en bon étant. Certaines photographies sont très fragiles et collées sur un papier, des coupures de presse acides et jaunies.Conservation: Les documents qui portent des renseignements nominatifs sont accessibles 100 ans après leur date de création.Accompanying material: Some documents with biographical information on Asaf lIizarov.Alpha-numeric designations: P01/10, MC P0183, PC P0183.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ABER, Ita

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn285
Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0184
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organiza…
Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organization of Canada 1949-1950. Material on the Jewish Child's Day Appeal. Clippings and ephemera re: Zionism, Child's Day, and actor William Shatner, a former Montrealer. 9 Photos of Montreal scenes. Material about Montreal's Talmud Torah, Jewish Artists at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Additions 2001: 2 photos (snapshots) of Camp Hashomer Hadati in Bronte, Ontario, Hebrew textbook and prayer book dated 1979, photo of a 9th-grade class of Baron Byng High School including Ita Aber, Clippings, 2 Videos. Additions post 2001 (passim): Articles written by Ita Aber, information about her artwork and recent exhibitions. Addition 2015: Autobiographical audio interview of Ita Herscovitch Aber recorded in New York January 9, 2015 by Renata Stein; WAV file, 56 minutes, provided on CD. Transcript of interview, done by her daughter Mindy Aber Barad via email correspondence from Israel, 30 pages. Themes covered in the interview include her early life in Montreal, art education at Baron Byng high school with teacher Ann Savage, religious background, mother's involvement in charitable efforts such as the Milk Fund, help given to a German Jewish internee and a Jewish refugee, Ita Aber's work for the Israeli consulate in Montreal in the early 1950s, her establishment in New York circa 1953, her career as a textile artist, encounters with Martin Luther King, and Judy Chicago, art groups such as the Pomegranate Guild, Jewish motifs in artwork.
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Fonds No.
P0184
History / Biographical
Ita Aber was born in Montreal, in 1932 and grew up in a family dedicated to Zionist and charitable causes. She later moved to New York, where she made her name as an artist. As described in a 2001 article; "Ita Aber is an artist who delights in unconventional formats that provide unique and startling insights into Jewish Life. Her work is found in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the fabric arts, which is by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber, the fabric arts explode in scale to include the diverse skills of embroidering, beadwork, sewing, appliqué, silkscreen, jewelry design, weaving, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. The stunning range of her talents is reflected in the vast array of work and Judaic objects she has produced, from wall hangings, jewelry, and sculpture to Torah covers, etrog boxes, and Purim masks." Ita Aber is also known as a conservator of textiles, an art historian, a curator, teacher, and the author of The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and Contemporary designs (Scribner 1979).
Custodial History
This collection was donated by Mrs. Ita Aber.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P01/12, P93/08, and subsequent additions (ongoing to P15/04.). Associated material: Clippings by and about Canadian-born journalist Sam Orbaum (1956-2002), a Jerusalem Post humour columnist (donated by Ita Aber and filed under his name.) General note: The biography is from an article published in The Artists Proof, Spring 2001.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn297
Collection
WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.09 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0196
Date
1884-2017.
Scope and Content
McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typica…
Collection
WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.09 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs.
Scope and Content
McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typical Jewish women of her time: World War II, poverty, the Holocaust, aging, Israel, her children. Also one portrait photograph of the poet (copy of 1920 original taken circa 1920). Added in August 2017: Six small groups of family history documents consisting of, in the donor's words: 1) Five laminated pages of notes covering family history, 2) Three original pages of notes, including on the first page, "mention of the fact that Greenblatt enjoyed Leah's singing voice, which my mother described as being clear as a bell, and having an enormous range"; 3) A 1965 Yiddish document of around 13 notebook pages that (inserted translator's note) include a lexicon of Hebrew words and their Yiddish equivalents as well as some Yiddish phrases, interspersed with a few of Leah Bas Alchanan's autobiographical reflections; 4) Two anecdotes and a poem about Leah, written by the donor's mother (Leah's daughter); 5) One additional photocopy of a 1940 poem by Leah, with translation - original not found. and 6) two documents, (inserted translator's note) one with the dates from 1869, 1875 and 1884, (mostly in Hebrew) and the other apparently recording births (in German) for Avrom (1905), Mordecai (1906) and Leah (1910). Added in December 2017: Additional family material about ancestors and descendants, 1910-2017, information about the Alexander family surname, family trees, various birth, marriage and death certificates, and three photographs including an old studio portrait from Budapest. A brief inventory is included with the latter group of documents.
Date
1884-2017.
Fonds No.
P0196
History / Biographical
Leah (Golub) Wiseman, was born in Chernigov, Ukraine, in 1889 or 1890. She came to Canada around 1907, at the age of 17, settling in Montreal. Married to Joseph Wiseman and a mother, she was active in various Jewish organizations, especially Talmud Torah. She had a very good singing voice. Her poems, written for herself and her family and signed Leah bas Alchanan, were likely never published. She died in Montreal at age 99, in December 1990. (Biography written by her son, Sidney White).
Custodial History
The collection was donated by her grandson Herb Alexander on August 28, 2003, with additions in August and December 2017.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P03/17, P17/12.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn301
Collection
BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - 0.3 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 4 sound elements.
Fonds No.
P0201
Date
1934-2006 Scancopy.
Scope and Content
Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially receive…
Collection
BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - 0.3 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 4 sound elements.
Scope and Content
Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially received and scanned by Tatiana Jour in the context of her Russian Jewish Archives Project. It was noted at the time of the donation to the Archives that further materials on UNRAA (postwar aid to refugees) and Na'amat could be donated by the Borods at a later date. Added in 2007: Materials in prose, poetry and song pertaining to the history of Pioneer Woman Na'amat and Revivim, composed by Layah Surchin Borod. Binder of publicity clippings and ephemera of Na'amat. Binder of songs. Binder of Layah's memoirs, in verse, 1923-1960. Shaare Tzedek synagogue bulletins with material written by Layah or about Sam. Biography of Sam Borod written by Layah, including pre-war and wartime experiences. 4 cassette tapes of Revivim events. 2 original 1940s portrait photos, one each of Layah and Sam, Sam's portrait autographed to Layah. Small WWII Jewish serviceman's calendar and notebook, both with addresses as well as Japanese phrases.
Date
1934-2006 Scancopy.
Fonds No.
P0201
History / Biographical
Born in 1914, Sam Boroditsky of Montreal (the name was later changed to Borod) was a veteran of the European front in WWII. He was a paratrooper in Italy and the Aleutian Islands during WWII, earning many Canadian service decorations. He later worked in UNRAA, helping refugees overseas. His wife Laya (Surchin) Borod, born in 1922, was the daughter of Chaya Surchin, an early Zionist activist in Montreal. Layah was the first national executive director of Naamat Pioneer Women Canada and was the editor of their magazine. She was also the only Canadian president of the Pioneer Women Na'amat of America. Laya Borod worked in the office of CJC during the war, rising to office manager at age 19. She was active in Na'amat until her death in 2006. Sam Borod died in Montreal on May 8, 2012.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Sam Borod on May 26, 2005. The Borod collection came to CJCNA after Sam Borod approached Tatiana Jour at the Jewish Veteran's talk given by Jour. Addition 2007 was donated by Sam Borod on April 12, 2007.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P05/08, P07/11.General note: Historical materials pertaining to women's involvement in Zionist organization, women's personal history, literary creations, also wartime experiences of a Canadian paratrooper.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0201-SamBorod-diary-WWII-allpages

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ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn314
Collection
ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
7 photographs. - 0.04 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0214
Date
1925-1990c.
Scope and Content
Circumcision certificate from Rabbi J. L. Colton for Harry Zimmerman (the donor's father) in 1925. New Years cards printed for his family. From Reuven Zimmerman: documents relating to his work at Via Rail and small slide-photo of him in his railway car, photos with his taxi, work identification car…
Collection
ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
7 photographs. - 0.04 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Circumcision certificate from Rabbi J. L. Colton for Harry Zimmerman (the donor's father) in 1925. New Years cards printed for his family. From Reuven Zimmerman: documents relating to his work at Via Rail and small slide-photo of him in his railway car, photos with his taxi, work identification cards, birth certificate information and death notice, portrait photos.Addition 2021: 6 black and white photos, ca. 1950s. 1 colour phot, 1976. 1 colour photo keychain. Taxi driver permit Reuben Zimmerman, 1954. Reuben Zimmerman Via Rail and CN Rail documents, 1967-1984. RCAF and National Defense documents Reuben Zimmerman, 1945-1960. 4 B'nai Brith buttons, ca. 1940s. 1 file Aberdeen school documents Harry Zimmerman, 1935-1938. 1 file Baron Byng High School documents Harry Zimmerman, 1943-1944. 1 file McGill documents Harry Zimmerman, 1944-1955. Ministry of Health correspondence for work, 1952
Date
1925-1990c.
Fonds No.
P0214
History / Biographical
Harry Zimmerman was born in Montreal in 1925. He attended Aberdeen Elementary School in the 1930s and Baron Byng High School in the early 1940s, both schools in the Protestant School system. Documents in this collection attest to his interest in athletics and in science. Upon graduating in Science from McGill in 1949 and after a brief period working for the Ministry of Health as a biochemist, he returned to McGill University to study accounting and subsequently became a bookkeeper, working for many years at Export Scoville. He died in 2017. Reuven, who died in 2005, was Harry's brother. Reuven was born in 1925. He worked as a Via Rail conductor and as a taxi driver. Never married, he was companion to Marie-Flore Lortie for 30 years, until her death from cancer.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Arlene Zimmerman on Aug. 3, 2007. An addition was made on August 17, 2021 by Arlene Zimmerman
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P07/16 and P21/04.General note: Certificate relates to Colton collection - we did not have a complete certificate of Colton's prior to this. Other documents show life and work in Montreal in a milieu not often documented in our collection.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn320
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
object
Physical Description
5.9 metres of textual records. - Env. 495 photographs. - 7 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0220
Date
1828-2005.
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into five series. The first series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century, transcripts of the diary by Annette Wolff, and original pre-1900 materials pertaining to Abraham Joseph and other members of his family. The second series consists in large …
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
object
Physical Description
5.9 metres of textual records. - Env. 495 photographs. - 7 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into five series. The first series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century, transcripts of the diary by Annette Wolff, and original pre-1900 materials pertaining to Abraham Joseph and other members of his family. The second series consists in large part of correspondence between Martin Wolff and Irene Joseph Wolff, before and after their marriage, and letters to their daughters. The third series consists primarily of correspondence between the Wolff sisters. The fourth series contains correspondence from Annette Wolff to her family and friends, letters received from soldiers during World War II, and documents and memorabilia relating to her education, employment, and travels. The fifth series consists of Wolff and Joseph family photographs. The last series is composed of sound elements. It contains 7 cassette tapes, each 90 minutes in duration, of interviews of Annette Wolff by Eiran Harris
Date
1828-2005.
Fonds No.
P0220
History / Biographical
The Joseph family was one of the earliest Jewish families to settle in Quebec. Irene Joseph (1885 1940), a writer and community worker, married Martin Wolff, (1881 1948) engineer and historian, and they had six daughters. The lives and thoughts of all these individuals are reflected in this fonds. The earliest portions of the fonds contains considerable information about the life of Abraham Joseph (1815-1886), a successful businessman involved in numerous commercial enterprises, including leadership roles in the Quebec Board of Trade and the Banque Nationale. The greater part of this portion of the fonds is connected to Abraham Joseph's diaries, which are a valuable early record of Jewish life and material culture in Quebec. Much of the material in the later series of the fonds documents the life of the Wolff family in Montreal and Quebec in the early 20th century until the late 1940s, and includes information about quotidian life and religious and social customs as practiced by a middle-class Jewish family of that era. Though observant Jews, the Wolff family members mixed with and were accepted by the larger community, making this fonds a source of information on many aspects of Canadian society as well as that of Great Britain. The fonds includes a special emphasis on the work and writings of Annette Wolff, who took on the role of family historian. The Joseph and Wolff family fonds contains material of potential interest to historians, students of Jewish life in Canada and women's studies, social scientists, psychologists, journalists, and authors.
Custodial History
The majority of this fonds was donated in increments, over a period of several years, by sisters Annette Wolff, Rosetta Wolff Elkin, and Esther Wolff Blaustein, with the greatest part of the collection coming from Annette Wolff. A small percentage of the material was donated by Rachel Wolff Esar, and a few files were deposited much earlier by Martin Wolff.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LYUBMAN, Alexander

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn489
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.1 metres of textual records. - 5 photographs. - 1 record in electronic form.
Fonds No.
I0088; 52
Date
1996-2013.
Scope and Content
The collection includes approximately 50 manuscripts of works written by Alexander Lyubman on the subject of the Second World War, Israel, and life in Canada. also prose publications and poems written as Alexander Lyubman, and also under his pseudonym Avrum Kravirora. The collection also contains p…
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.1 metres of textual records. - 5 photographs. - 1 record in electronic form.
Scope and Content
The collection includes approximately 50 manuscripts of works written by Alexander Lyubman on the subject of the Second World War, Israel, and life in Canada. also prose publications and poems written as Alexander Lyubman, and also under his pseudonym Avrum Kravirora. The collection also contains press clippings, including one regarding an interview which he gave to a Russian newspaper in Montreal. There are 2 photographs of his daughters, and photocopies of portrait photographs of the donor. There is 1 CD containing 3 phographs of Alexander Lyubman; 2 in colour and one black and white (jpgs, 3000KB).
Date
1996-2013.
Fonds No.
I0088
Series No.
52
History / Biographical
Alexander Lyubman was born in Bershade (Ukraine) in 1949. In 1967, he completed his studies at a Medical College in Odessa, where he later taught. He was a deputy with regard to the reconstruction of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Soon after his immigration to Montreal, beginning in 2000 he worked as a medication consultant in a pharmacy. In his leisure time he was the leader of a chess club for Jewish children at JIAS Montreal. A writer of poetry and articles, he has been published in the local Russian Jewish newspaper 'The Voice of the Community'.
Custodial History
Alexander Lyubman donated this collection on Oct.18, 2004.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P04/01-45.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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STE. AGATHE CHALET HOTEL : Ste. Agathe, Quebec

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn513
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Fonds No.
I0094; 09
Date
1945c-1965c.
Scope and Content
16 photos of Chalet owners/family, partners, guests, staff, identified by R. Rosenthall. 1 newspaper clipping, March 25, 1999
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Scope and Content
16 photos of Chalet owners/family, partners, guests, staff, identified by R. Rosenthall. 1 newspaper clipping, March 25, 1999
Date
1945c-1965c.
Fonds No.
I0094
Series No.
09
History / Biographical
The Ste. Agathe Chalet was jointlly owned by four owners: Oscar Handelman, Abraham Handelman, Arthur Fasman, and Isaac Shapiro.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Laike HANDELMAN (widow of Abie) & Rebecca Bea SHAPIRO via R. Rosenthall on September 8, 1993.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P93/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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PHOTOGRAPHS

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn543
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 300 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0220; E
Date
[1800-1998].
Scope and Content
This series comprises the diverse photographs from each of the above series. It includes Abraham Joseph family photos from the 1800s as well as some photos taken by Martin Wolff during his forestry work in Quebec prior to World War I.
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 300 photographs.
Scope and Content
This series comprises the diverse photographs from each of the above series. It includes Abraham Joseph family photos from the 1800s as well as some photos taken by Martin Wolff during his forestry work in Quebec prior to World War I.
Date
[1800-1998].
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
E
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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WOLFF, Annette = Additions from Rosetta Elkin

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn545
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - 129 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0220; G
Date
1920s-2008.
Scope and Content
Articles and journals by Annette Wolff, news clippings, photos, material about ship industry. Also 4 signed copies of Rosetta Elkin's just-published illustrated booklet about the life of her father, Martin Wolff, building on research done by her sister Annette. One additional folder added Nov. 24 c…
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - 129 photographs.
Scope and Content
Articles and journals by Annette Wolff, news clippings, photos, material about ship industry. Also 4 signed copies of Rosetta Elkin's just-published illustrated booklet about the life of her father, Martin Wolff, building on research done by her sister Annette. One additional folder added Nov. 24 containing small Annette Bermuda photo album 1969, 2 or 3 additional old family photos (Joseph family) 2 ephemeral items from 1880s, and documentation relating to Rosetta Elkin setting up JIAS fund in honour of Rosetta Joseph.
Date
1920s-2008.
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
G
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Rosetta Elkin for Annette Wolff on Nov. 10 and Nov 24, 2008
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P08/19.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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