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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
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P0201-SamBorod-diary-WWII-allpages

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Comunitea Evreilor din Bucuresti

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78150
Collection
Comunitea Evreilor din Bucuresti
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 album : 50 x 35cm ; 57 photographs
Fonds No.
1350
Date
c. 1938
Scope and Content
Consists of one album with 57 black and white photographs depicting Jewish life in Bucharest, ca. 1938. Created by the Bucharest Jewish Community Religious, Cultural and Social Assistance Institutions.
Collection
Comunitea Evreilor din Bucuresti
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 album : 50 x 35cm ; 57 photographs
Scope and Content
Consists of one album with 57 black and white photographs depicting Jewish life in Bucharest, ca. 1938. Created by the Bucharest Jewish Community Religious, Cultural and Social Assistance Institutions.
Parallel Title
[Bucharest Jewish Community]
Date
c. 1938
Fonds No.
1350
Storage Location
1-2D
JPL
Creator
Institute de Cult, Cultura si Asistenta Sociala
Physical Condition
Excellent.
Language
Romanian
Notes
Full text of photograph headings translated from Romanian to English.
Subjects
Bucharest (Romania)
Romania -- Jews.
Halberthal, Lazar
Halberthal, Suzette
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44053
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds No.
SH-01
Date
[1700-2002].
Scope and Content
The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archiva…
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CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Fonds
Scope and Content
The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archival holdings are comprised of an extensive collection of photographic and textual records, including a photographic collection documenting Jewish life in Canada and Europe, and textual records of institutional and personal provenance, comprised of correspondence, synagogue bulletins and other papers, official acts, and birth and wedding certificates. The Archives houses video and audio interviews with congregation members and staff as well as recordings of public lectures. The Shaar Hashomayim Archives also houses minute books, birth, marriage, and death registers of Montreal Jewry from 1857. Researchers wishing to learn more details about the minutes and registers portions of the collection must contact the synagogue directly. The Library holdings include a Judaic rare book collection. The Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives holdings are thematically divided into four categories of information: Archives, Decorative arts, Fine Arts, and Human History. The Archives division includes Prints and drawings, Manuscripts, Films and videos, Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual records, as well as Artifacts pertaining to Canadian Jewish life. The Decorative Arts collection includes Moroccan and Ethiopian Jewish folk art, American Jewish folk art, European Jewish folk art, ceramics, porcelain, pottery, glass, metalwork, silverwork, goldwork, textiles, and tapestries. The Fine Arts collection includes oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestry, sculpture, watercolor, lithographs, diverse collections of Jewish artists covering a range of subjects, i.e. Holocaust, portraiture, Biblical renditions etc. The Human History collection is related to Jewish communal and religious life in Canada and includes archaeological objects, ceremonial objects, costumes and accessories, currency, furniture and furnishings, household objects and domestic technology, film, photographs, video, manuscripts, medals, memorabilia, religious and liturgical objects.
Date
[1700-2002].
Fonds No.
SH-01
History / Biographical
The Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, which is the second oldest synagogue in Canada as well as the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue, was founded in Montreal in 1846 by English, German and Polish Jews. Having been members of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, they decided that they wanted to be able to attend Ashkenazi services. Thus, the congregation began its life in a rented room on St. James Street, and after several moves, it obtained land at Kensington Avenue and Côte St. Antoine in Westmount in 1920. This new synagogue was completed in 1922, and the congregation has worshipped at this location ever since. Throughout its early history, the congregation continued to have ties with the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, but in 1918 the name Congregation Shaar Hashomayim was incorporated and it in turn separated from the former. After the Second World War a school was added to the congregation and because so many families had joined the synagogue it was further expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative.Additional historical information about the Congregation can be seen in the attached PDF document (5179K.)
Notes
General note:The items shown on this website were digitized in 2001 for the Canadian Jewish Virtual Museum and Archives project (CJVMA) funded by CHIN (The Canadian Heritage Information Network). They were previously displayed on a website located at www.cjvma.org. All the displayed items from this collection are copyright the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and 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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E. Phillip Schachter.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48210
Collection
E. Phillip Schachter.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 807 photographs. - 0.02 textual records. - 30 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0242
Date
1900-2006.
Scope and Content
The documents portion of the collection consists of a file of correspondence sent home from overseas by serviceman E. Phillip Schachter, in 1945, as well as his 2006 obituary, with a brief biography written by his son. There are four family photograph albums, respectively containing 310, 232, 56, a…
Collection
E. Phillip Schachter.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 807 photographs. - 0.02 textual records. - 30 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The documents portion of the collection consists of a file of correspondence sent home from overseas by serviceman E. Phillip Schachter, in 1945, as well as his 2006 obituary, with a brief biography written by his son. There are four family photograph albums, respectively containing 310, 232, 56, and 209 photographs, as well as a few clippings, ephemeral items, cards, notes, and lists. The album chronologically span the years 1900-1954, with the two earliest albums respectively documenting the families of Phillip Schachter's father and mother, Harry Aaron Schachter and Ada Ethel Haid, and the subsequent one covering the early years of Phillip Schachter's parents' life together. These earlier albums include pictures in uniform from the first World War. The last album includes images from Phillip Schachter's service in the World War II and his own marriage and family after the war. The locations of the subjects in the albums are primarily of Winnipeg and St. Andrews, Manitoba, the prairies of Saskatchewan (Readlyn Sask, about 1920), New York and California. The artifacts portion of the collection is comprised of a small wooden box holding pins, buttons and other small memorabilia (26 items), as well as a set of military dog-tags and 3 shoulder patch insignia badges
Date
1900-2006.
Fonds No.
P0242
History / Biographical
E. Phillip Schachter was born on September 22, 1922 in Winnipeg. After obtaining a commerce degree in 1943 he volunteered for the Canadian army, and was sent overseas in January 1945, eight months before the end of WWII. After the war he took over the family business. In 1947, Philip married Lee Nitikman and they had four children (Harry, Seema, Miral and Saul). In time, he opened a clothing store and started a mail-order business selling western wear across Canada. In 1965, he went back to school to become a lawyer. He loved his second career as a lawyer and highly-regarded Crown prosecutor in Manitoba. Philip Schachter passed away on October 21, 2006
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Harry Schachter, son of E. Phillip Schachter
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0242-Schachter-Londonletter1945

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Franz Kafka Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn92924
Collection
Franz Kafka Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.2m multiple media
Fonds No.
1445; 1
Date
1994
Scope and Content
The collection consists of approximately 97 photographs within 18 folders as well as the corresponding panel text used in the exhibit. The collection consists of photographs of Prague, Franz Kafka, his family, his friends, books covers, and drawings.
Collection
Franz Kafka Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.2m multiple media
Scope and Content
The collection consists of approximately 97 photographs within 18 folders as well as the corresponding panel text used in the exhibit. The collection consists of photographs of Prague, Franz Kafka, his family, his friends, books covers, and drawings.
Date
1994
Fonds No.
1445
Series No.
1
Storage Location
JPL Stacks
History / Biographical
The Franz Kafka collection was created to make available the series of photographs used for the March 1994 exhibit entitled "Franz Kafka and his Prague." The exhibit commemorated the seventieth anniversary of Czech writer Franz Kafka's death. The exhibit calls attention to Kafka's relationship with his native city, Prague, city of "strange men and visionaries the impatient heart of Central Europe."
Language
English French
Custodial History
The photographs were donated for the March 1994 exhibit "Franz Kafka and his Prague" by The Comenius Institute Montreal and Dr. Vlasta J. Vrana with support of the Thomas Hecht Family.
Arrangement
The exhibit consisted of 18 series each with a set of photographs. Each folder within the collection corresponds to the original series.
Reproduction Restrictions
Reproduction restrictions may apply
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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GALLAY, Dr. Wilfred : Scientific articles and biographical materials.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89995
Collection
GALLAY, Dr. Wilfred : Scientific articles and biographical materials.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.011 metres of textual records. - 2 electronic images.
Fonds No.
P0268
Date
1928-1973.
Scope and Content
The main part of the collection consists of a large scrapbook compiled by Wilfred Gallay's wife Birdie (Silver) Gallay which includes academic articles and works written by Dr. Gallay from 1928 to approximately 1973. Among the early articles are documents printed by the National Research Council of…
Collection
GALLAY, Dr. Wilfred : Scientific articles and biographical materials.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.011 metres of textual records. - 2 electronic images.
Scope and Content
The main part of the collection consists of a large scrapbook compiled by Wilfred Gallay's wife Birdie (Silver) Gallay which includes academic articles and works written by Dr. Gallay from 1928 to approximately 1973. Among the early articles are documents printed by the National Research Council of Canada and reprinted from the Canadian Journal of Research. Gallay's research at this time pertained primarily to aspects of physical and colloid chemistry as they applied to various compounds and solutions. From 1950 onward the album includes articles written by Dr. Gallay that are more oriented towards the chemistry of pulp and paper, the focus of his career. In these, Gallay writes primarily about his research findings related to improving the technology and science of paper-making. A pamphlet from a conference that Gallay presented at is included. All of the articles are in English except for one in German. The collection also includes a folder of papers assembled by Wilfred Gallay's son Ralph Gallay, Ph.D.. that features Wilfred Gallay's academic bibliography compiled by his wife Birdie (Silver) Gallay (see PDF link below), various curriculum vitae, and newsclippings and obituaries containing biographic information about both Wilfred and Birdie Gallay. In addition, 2 digital photographs; one of Wilfred Gallay and his wife Birdie (then Birdie Silver) at the time of his Ph.D. graduation from McGill University in 1930, and one of Wilfred and Birdie Gallay in 1977. Both images were computer enhanced by Wilfred's grandson Michael Gallay and were donated via email.
Date
1928-1973.
Fonds No.
P0268
History / Biographical
Dr. Wilfred Gallay was an internationally known scientist. He was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario in 1906, the fifth of six children of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. The family moved to Calgary, where he received his elementary schooling, completed Grade 13 and graduated from the Provincial Normal School in Calgary with a First Class Teacher's Certificate at the age of fourteen. In rural Alberta schools Wilfred Gallay taught pupils who were often older than he was and became principal of the Blairmore School when he was only sixteen. He attended the University of Alberta for a year, and then entered McGill University, earning his passage east guarding cattle on the CPR. He earned a B.A. from McGill with First Class Honours in Chemistry (1927), an M.Sc. (1928) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1930). Dr. Gallay received Post-Ph.D. training in Colloid and Surface Chemistry at the University of Leipzig and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. After marrying Birdie Silver in 1932, the couple had four children: Tilya (Mrs. Eric Helfield BCL), Pauline (Mrs. Jerome Becker DDS, MS), Ralph Gallay Ph.D., and Susan (Mrs. Michael Newman). Dr. Wilfred Gallay was head of the Section on Colloids and Plastics at the National Research Council of Canada from 1932 to 1944 where some of his research involved the development of superior war materiel. He later served as a consultant to various industries in Canada and the U.S. and as an expert witness in patent litigation cases. From 1953 to 1972, he was Director of Research and a Member of the Board of Directors of the E.B. Eddy Co. in Hull, Quebec. Dr. Wilfred Gallay wrote approximately 85 scientific papers on various aspects of colloid and surface chemistry primarily as it applied to the manufacture of pulp and paper as well as chapters in books, and held a number of patents. Many of Dr. Gallay's publications were jointly authored with his staff he mentored and supervised, graciously featuring their names before his own. Most of his published papers were assembled into an album by his wife Birdie who also typed the original manuscripts. This album is a featured part of the present collection. Wilfred was a frequent and widely invited lecturer and featured speaker at numerous professional conferences on this continent and in Europe. Dr. Gallay served as Vice-President of the Society of the Plastics Industry. He was Chairman of the Research, Patent and Industrial Advisory Committees, and a Member of the Executive Council, Technical Section, of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. He was Chairman of the Pulp and Paper Section of the Applied Chemistry Division, President of the Applied Chemistry Division and Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from 1971 to 1975, with a permanent staff in Oxford, England. He represented IUPAC as a member of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Chairman of the SCOPE Commission on Determination of Pollutants, a member of its Commission on Global Monitoring and Chairman of the Canadian National Committee for SCOPE. Dr. Gallay earned numerous educational, scholarly and professional medals and awards in the course of his education and career. He died in 1995 in Toronto, where he lived the last two years of his life which was spent mostly in Ottawa. (This text was extracted from documents created throughout Dr. Wilfred Gallay's life and was provided by his son Ralph Gallay, Ph.D.)
Custodial History
The collection was donated on June 21, 2019 by his son Ralph Gallay, Ph.D..
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P19/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0268-DrWilfredGallayPublications-excludingPatents

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Hananiah M. Caiserman Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33287
Collection
Hananiah M. Caiserman Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
5cm of textual records
Fonds No.
1087
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of six files of documents relating to the work of Hananiah Caiserman within the Canadian Jewish Congress and as a political candidate and activist. Materials include manuscript and typescript drafts of correspondence and publications, political campaign materials and publications…
Collection
Hananiah M. Caiserman Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
5cm of textual records
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of six files of documents relating to the work of Hananiah Caiserman within the Canadian Jewish Congress and as a political candidate and activist. Materials include manuscript and typescript drafts of correspondence and publications, political campaign materials and publications of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Fonds No.
1087
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Many older documents are britte and flaking
Conservation
Some items laminated
Language
English
Yiddish
Notes
Selection of material from fonds digitized. To consult the entire file, please contact the JPL-A directly.
Name Access
Caiserman, Hananiah M.
Subjects
Caiserman, Hananiah M.
Canadian Jewish Congress
Political elections
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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JACOBSON, Percy and Joe

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn200
Collection
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0094
Date
1907, 1928-1955.
Scope and Content
The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association progra…
Collection
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association programs, minutes and reports. There are also documents relating to the sale and copyright of his plays, including contracts and information on the Copyright act. There are some publications among the papers; mostly magazines and newsletters containing articles by Percy Jacobson. There are also some newsletters and a number of newsclippings. The collection includes a portrait photo of Percy Jacobson.The Percy Jacobson papers added to this collection in 2012 includes 1 cm. of clippings about Percy Jacobson and 18 additional cm. of plays, correspondence, and various published writings by Percy Jacobson; sympathy letters and clippings about Percy Jacobson (mostly on fragile oversize scrapbook paper), one file about May Jacobson's pre-war children's bookstore, and a folder of background material clippings collected by Percy during WWII which informed his writing then.The following Percy and May Jacobson papers were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and family in October 2013: a diary of Percy Jacobson for 1950 while in England, France and the Netherlands, on the occasion of attending a PEN conference in Edinburgh as a Canadian delegate. Two bound, handwritten diaries by May Jacobson from the years 1930 and 1950 (in one volume), and 1954; the 1930 diary covers a trip to England and Belgium with her family, and the 1950 segment covers same trip as that of her husband in 1950. The 1954 diary was written during a trip to England, the Netherlands and Scandinavia while a delegate to a NCJW conference on education in Scandinavia. One file containing 19 typed short stories by Percy Jacobson, one of which references a refugee couple who stayed with the family in 1938. A CD of all these documents in PDF format were donated by Peter Usher along with the originals.The Joe Jacobson portion of the collection includes Joe Jacobson's prewar and wartime diaries, several folders of pre-war and wartime letters, as well as 1 folder (1 cm.) of sympathy letters received by his family at the time of his death. An additional Joe Jacobson diary from 1937, and two letters by Joe Jacobson written on Twin Lake stationary in summer 1939 prior to his enlistment were donated in 2013 by Janet Jacobson Smith and family, along with digital copies made by Peter Usher.
Date
1907, 1928-1955.
Fonds No.
P0094
History / Biographical
The Jacobson family of Westmount, Quebec was composed of Percy Jacobson, his wife May, and four children; Edith (m. Low-Beer, d. 2007), Joseph (Joe) d. 1942, Janet (m. Smith), and Peter, d. 1937, of leukemia. Born in 1886, Percy Jacobson was a businessman dealing in office equipment, as well as a writer and a leader in the writers' association PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists). From 1939 to 1949 Percy Jacobson typed a nearly daily diary in which he portrayed Montreal's view of the World War II era along with his comments on the news, overheard conversations, his son Joe's involvement in the armed forces, and the Holocaust. A prolific playwright, Jacobson often wrote on historical themes, and saw some of his plays published and performed. He was involved in various Jewish organizations, such as the CJC Rehabilitation Committee for war veterans. He died in 1952. Born in 1918, Joseph (Joe) Jacobson enlisted for service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1940 after graduating from McGill University, where he played for the football team and was a member of a fraternity. He received his military training at Toronto, Ontario; Regina and Mossbank, Saskatchewan; and Rivers, Manitoba. In May 1941 he went overseas with the first large group of men trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and was attached to R.A.F. bomber squadron No. 106. Joe Jacobson notified his parents of his promotion from sergeant observer to Flight Sergeant only two days before he was reported missing and presumed dead on January 28, 1942. He had completed 23 operations on enemy targets. His Montreal friends Montague (Monty) Berger and Gerald Smith enlisted in the RCAF in 1941, and Herbert Rosenstein (Ross), also of Montreal, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. These friends had met at McGill University in ca. 1937, and styled themselves as the 'Pony Club' in ca. September 1939. 'Pony' was an anagram for Preston, Ontario, and New York City, where club members were located during the winter of 1939-1940 when they began their correspondence. Joe's parents, Percy and May Jacobson, were made honorary members of the club in ca. late 1941.
Custodial History
The initial portion of the Percy Jacobson papers was donated in 1990 by Edith Jacobson Low-Beer, through Monty Berger. The Percy and Joe Jacobson papers donated in 2012 were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and her children Jo-Anne and Peter Kwass; and the children of Edith Low-Beer, Susan and Jane Low-Beer, via Peter Usher. The digital versions of the Joe Jacobson papers, as well as a folder of Jacobson letters previously in the possession of Monty Berger, were donated by Peter Usher. Additions to the Joe Jacobson papers were made by the family in May and October 2013, along with additional digital copies by Peter Usher.
Notes
Availability of other formats: Almost the entire Joe Jacobson portion of this collection has been digitized and is available in PDF document format. Researchers are encouraged to consult these digital copies instead of the fragile originals.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44614
Collection
LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0241
Date
2002-2011.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of novel Sin and Retribution - two versions, approximately 150 and 158 pages each, differing in their ending. Based on the author's experiences testifying at the war crimes trial of Julius Viel, the novel was written between 2002 and 2011. It had not been published at the time of donatio…
Collection
LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of novel Sin and Retribution - two versions, approximately 150 and 158 pages each, differing in their ending. Based on the author's experiences testifying at the war crimes trial of Julius Viel, the novel was written between 2002 and 2011. It had not been published at the time of donation.
Date
2002-2011.
Fonds No.
P0241
History / Biographical
Of French Huguenot origin, Adalbert Lallier was born in 1925 in Hungary. He was forcibly drafted into the German army during World War II at the age of 17, along with his brother, who perished in the course of the war. While Lallier was a 19-year-old Waffen SS officer-in-training with the detail overseeing the work party in Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia, he witnessed his immediate superior, an SS lieutenant, Julius Viel, randomly shoot seven Jews. After WWII, Lallier first worked at the International Refugee Organization in Vienna expediting the processing of East-European refugees, most often Hungarian Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Three years after immigrating to Montreal in 1951, he was admitted to the Honours programme in economics and political science at McGill University, graduating with an Honours B.A. In 1958 he was admitted to Columbia University, New York City, on a two-year graduate fellowship, to study economics and at the Russian Institute, obtaining an M.A. in economics, a Graduate Diploma in International Politics, and qualifying as a Ph.D. candidate. In 1960 he was engaged as a lecturer in economics and politics at Loyola College. He became Dean of Loyola's Evening Division in 1962, creating their evening degree programme. During his long career at what then became Concordia University, he was one of the seven recipients of the John O'Brien Award for Teaching Excellence, and was eventually promoted to full professor. While teaching full-time, he resumed his graduate studies, in France, at the Sorbonne/ParisII, and was awarded a doctorat en sciences économiques, following which he did post-doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the early 1970s, he was also Director of Lay Studies at Yeshiva Gedolah Markaz Hatorah, where he accommodated the mostly religious orthodox programme of this institution with Quebec's official policy concerning high-school education. From 1998-2000, Lallier testified four times before the Nazi war crimes court in Germany about what he saw during the Julius Viel incident, being the principal witness in the case against Viel, who was arrested on the strength of Lallier's evidence. In the aftermath of the publicity surrounding the trial, Lallier resigned from the University in 2001 and currently lives on a farm outside Montreal.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Adalbert Lallier on Aug. 31, 2011
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P11/13.Restrictions :Open for consultation, but only portions may be reproduced or quoted, with credit to author. Researchers may contact the author to obtain a copy of the full version.General note :Reflects the perceptions of a non-Jew with a particular insider's point of view vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the rise of Neo-Nazism.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

Lallier-Sin-and-Retribution-excerpted-Chapter-CJCCCNA

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LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80
Collection
LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
Fonds No.
I0078
Date
[1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
Scope and Content
The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal gover…
Collection
LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
Scope and Content
The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal government). Also included are documents related to negotiations about original site building and later renovations. Most of the documentary portion of the collection was preserved by Henry Vineberg in black 3-ring binders. The approximately 1550 print photos, negatives, and slides (ca. 300) in the fonds depict Club activities, boats and boating events, the Club buildings and grounds through time, and persons associated with the Club. The majority of the photos were originally arranged in albums and were inter-filed the paper based records but are now housed in two distinct photo-boxes. The plans in the fonds show renovations and locations of buildings. The fonds also includes a few personal items about Henry C. Vineberg, Club archivist and historian. Of particular interest is a framed replica of the ketuba (marriage contract) of his grandparents, dated 1863 and prepared in Montreal by Rabbi Abraham de Sola.
Date
[1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
Fonds No.
I0078
History / Biographical
The Lord Reading Yacht Club was founded by a group of Jewish Montrealers at a time when Jews were not welcome in boating clubs around the Island of Montreal. The club founders encountered initial opposition from the City of Beaconsfield, where it was located. Henry Vineberg, long-time member and self-appointed archivist of the club, made documenting the Club's history and activities the mission of his later years. His archival collection included documents and photographs from the earliest days of the organization. The Archives of the LRYC were housed in his Snowdon-area home in Montreal until his death, in November 1999.
Custodial History
The Lord Reading Yacht Club Archives were in the possession of Club archivist and historian Henry C. Vineberg until his death in November 1999. At that time they were donated, with the permission of the Club, to CJC Archives under the authority of his executor and friend, Jack Stein
Notes
P99/11.The fonds is not yet processed.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Matzah Bakery Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn73506
Collection
Matzah Bakery Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
39 photographs: 20cm x 25cm ; b&w; 3 flyers
Fonds No.
1279
Date
March 1995
Scope and Content
Photographic essay by Liliane Aberman depicting the making of 'Shmura Matzo' at a Montreal factory. Three flyers advertising 'Shmura Matzos.'
Collection
Matzah Bakery Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
39 photographs: 20cm x 25cm ; b&w; 3 flyers
Scope and Content
Photographic essay by Liliane Aberman depicting the making of 'Shmura Matzo' at a Montreal factory. Three flyers advertising 'Shmura Matzos.'
Of her work, the artist states, "In March 1995, a few days before Passover, I was introduced to the matza factory. The factory, prepares Shmura matza and was at this time in the accellerated tempo of full production. I was fascinated by the sights and sounds of this industrious place especially because it seemed to emerge out of a bygone era. Everything here is done by hand, untouched by the mechanization of the western world.
As I observed the work in progress, it seemed to me that I was a spectator at a ballet of sorts where each individual fit into a perfectly orchestrated series of steps. There are no extraneous movements and no wasted time, as each batch of matza must be prepared within 14 min. These photographs are a selection of the images taken at the matza factory and record the process of preparing the matza." - Liliane Aberman
Responsibility
Liliane Aberman
Date
March 1995
Fonds No.
1279
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Liliane Aberman
History / Biographical
Liliane Aberman (nee Shouela) is a phtographer and artist working in Montreal.
Acquisition Source
Liliane (Shouela) Aberman
Custodial History
Donated by creator.
Reproduction Restrictions
Copyrighted material. Contact the JPL Archives for more information.
Accession No.
12-001
Subjects
Matzo
Passover
Labour
Food
Bakeries
Places
Montreal (Quebec)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Millman Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17194
Collection
Millman Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1146
Date
1943-1944
Scope and Content
Consists of approximately 30 letters all to Ben and Sarah Millman from various Canadian Armed Forces servicemen.
Collection
Millman Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Consists of approximately 30 letters all to Ben and Sarah Millman from various Canadian Armed Forces servicemen.
Parallel Title
Correspondence, World War II
Date
1943-1944
Fonds No.
1146
Storage Location
7-5C, SC1
Physical Condition
Some letters extremely fragile, others in multiple pieces.
History / Biographical
The Millmans opened a table tennis shop on Fairmount near Park Avenue in 1938 and later converted it into a general store with a pinball machine, candies, etc. They resided at the back of the store. It remained open until 1948 when Mr. Millman purchased a taxi. He remained a taxi man for 40 years. The kids who used to gather at the shop grew up and joined the Armed Forces. They wrote letters and in turn received news of the neighborhood from the Millmans.
Language
English
Acquisition Source
Sarah Millman
Finding Aid
Finding aid is available with fonds level control.
Subjects
Millman, Ben
Millman, Sarah
World War, 1939-1945 - Canada
Veterans, Jewish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Nathan Dlusy and Family

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101077
Collection
Nathan Dlusy and Family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
book
object
Physical Description
0.12 textual records. - 84 photographs. - 2 books. - 4 medals. - 8 artefacts. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs) (1 disc containing 76 image files (346 MB)).
Fonds No.
P0296
Date
ca. 1920-2019.
Scope and Content
The collection contains portraits and candid snapshots of the Dlusy family and Nathan's RCAF training, service, and gravestone, including 4 oversized framed photographs, 5 framed B&W photographs, 47 B&W photographs, 28 colour photographs, 12 artifacts, 2 cm of oversized certificates, and 10 cm of t…
Collection
Nathan Dlusy and Family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
book
object
Physical Description
0.12 textual records. - 84 photographs. - 2 books. - 4 medals. - 8 artefacts. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs) (1 disc containing 76 image files (346 MB)).
Scope and Content
The collection contains portraits and candid snapshots of the Dlusy family and Nathan's RCAF training, service, and gravestone, including 4 oversized framed photographs, 5 framed B&W photographs, 47 B&W photographs, 28 colour photographs, 12 artifacts, 2 cm of oversized certificates, and 10 cm of textual materials including correspondence, and news clippings (about Nathan Dlusy, the Dlusy family's work to obtain posthumous citizenship, family obituaries, WWII veterans), and research materials accumulated by Gerald Rudick from 1942-2017 including photocopies of military service documents, news clippings, photocopies of correspondence, ID card, World War II documents, photographs, 1 disk with digital photographs of the original copies of Nathan Dlusy's military records. There are two reference books, an RCAF flight log, WWII medals, and other artifacts.
Date
ca. 1920-2019.
Fonds No.
P0296
History / Biographical
This collection contains materials related to the life and death of Flight Sergeant Nathan Dlusy, and the personal and professional lives of his parents and brother. Israel and Regina (nee Cynamon) Dlusniewski emigrated from Poland to Germany in 1920. In Berlin Israel worked as a tailor in his own retail shop, establishing a successful men's clothing manufacturing business which sold products in multiple German haberdasheries and department stores. Their sons Nathan (1921-1944) and Jon (1928-2022) were both born in Berlin before the family fled the anti-semitism of Nazi Germany in 1938. The family settled in Montreal where Israel obtained employment in the clothing manufacturing industry, eventually establishing Earl Clothing with a partner. Nathan followed his father into the same business, but decided to enlist in the Canadian armed forces in 1941. Initially turned down due to his lack of Canadian citizenship, Nathan successfully passed the entrance requirement examinations in 1941 and enlisted in the Canadian air force. In 1942 Nathan officially changed his name from Dlusniewski to Dlusy. Once his training was completed, he was sent to Scotland to join a coastal command squadron. While returning from a patrol mission in poor weather conditions, Nathan and the rest of the 10-person crew crashed into a mountain, killing all on board the plane. At the air base, Nathan Dlusy's funeral was organized by a Jewish air force chaplain, who was a rabbi from Glasgow, and the entire Jewish community from the nearby town attended, as documented by various photographs and news clippings in this collection. At the time of his death, Nathan Dlusy was not a Canadian citizen. His brother Jon continued to request a posthumous declaration of Canadian citizenship from the government. Nathan Dlusy's sacrifice was recognized in Quebec's National Assembly, and the House of Commons in Ottawa in 2019. The collection also includes various instances of Nathan Dlusy's name honoured through donations, the Nathan Dlusy Chapter of Hadassah, and the Nathan Dlusy Respiratory Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. Jon Dlusy died at 94, in March of 2022.
Custodial History
The collection was donated on March 15, 2023 by Shawn Apel, estate executor for the Dlusy Family collection.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P23/04.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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P0296-Nathan-Dlusy-Family-Presentation

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The Organizer

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38373
Collection
Organizer Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
9 p.
Fonds No.
1266
Collection
Organizer Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
9 p.
Parallel Title
L'Organisation
Publication
Montreal, QC : Joint Council Cloak and Dressmakers Union
Fonds No.
1266
Storage Location
SC3
Creator
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Language
English
French
Acquisition Source
Urian Family
Related Material
Lea Roback Collection
Accession No.
10-009
Subjects
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
Labour movement
Labour unions
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38716
Collection
ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.02 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0237
Date
1913-1943.
Scope and Content
Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fra…
Collection
ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.02 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fragile Canadian naturalization certificate of W.G. and donor's paternal grandfather, 1913. Photograph of W.G. in military group (large rolled photo) and photo of military tombstone with Hebrew lettering. 5 medals and pin used in wearing them, as well as information about the medals. Silver band from Canada inscribed "died in his country's service", with name and death date.
Date
1913-1943.
Fonds No.
P0237
History / Biographical
W. G. Rosenthal was born on November 3rd, 1922 in Montreal. Gunner Rosenthal of Montreal enlisted in the army in February 1942 and went overseas with the Royal Canadian Artillery in June of the same year. Prior to his enlistment, he had worked for the Canadian Press and had been an editor of the Fortnightly Review. In one of his last reports to the YMHA Beacon, he had written: "And when the air is once again clear from the smoky dust of fire, and when the blood of the dead and the wounded is dry, and the stench of human bodies is pure, the men who are alive after victory is achieved, with God's aid, will return... For they (the dead) shall not have fallen in vain. Not in a world where our holy sanctuaries are safe and unmolested, in a world where organizations, institutions of culture and learning and education are respected and upheld and supported. No price is too great to pay. No life too precious, to enforce our beliefs and ideals." Rosenthal was killed in action in Sicily on July 25, 1943. He was buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Agira. Citations received were the 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, War Medal 1939-1945, and Memorial Bar GRVI. (Excerpted from CJCCC Canadian Jewish Casualties database)
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Larry Rosenthal, younger brother of William Guy Rosenthal, on Dec. 22, 2010.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P10/22.Language: Yiddish and English.General note: Testimony to Jewish sacrifices for the War Effort during WWII. Original soldier's diary from the battlefield.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Sara and Abram Barac Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn92955
Collection
Sara and Abram Barac Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Fonds No.
1446
Date
1947 - 1949
Scope and Content
These seven records document Sara and Abram Barac's transition from Germany to Canada after the Second World War. The documents and issuing authorities included are as follows:
Collection
Sara and Abram Barac Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Scope and Content
These seven records document Sara and Abram Barac's transition from Germany to Canada after the Second World War. The documents and issuing authorities included are as follows:
Two Certificates of Identity for the Purpose of Immigration [to Canada] issued by The International Refugee Organization (U.S. Zone of Germany)
One Provisional Marriage Certificate and two Birth Certificates issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupation Zone in Germany
A Certificate for Professional Qualification [as an electrician] issued by the International Refugee Organization (I.R.O) Displaced Persons Professional Testing Board
One Certificate from the Jewish religious congregation of Bytom, Poland, attesting to the identity of Abram Barac and his role in the congregation as the head of the ritual bath
Date
1947 - 1949
Fonds No.
1446
Storage Location
JPL Stacks
Language
English
Polish
Acquisition Source
Donated by Aline Bank, August 2021
Custodial History
Stacey Bank was a close friend and the Executor of Sara and Abram Barac's estate. After Sara and Abram passed away, Stacey retained their documents (the family had declined them). When Stacey Bank passed away, he entrusted these documents to his wife, Aline Bank, who reached out to the JPL Archives in the Summer of 2021 to donate the materials.
Accession No.
21-009
Name Access
Barac, Abram.
Barac, Sara (nee Baum).
Subjects
Immigrants
Immigrants, Polish - Canada
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer Album

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn71340
Collection
Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer Album
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 album (19 photographs + textual material)
Fonds No.
1300
Date
September 1943
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs, correspondence, budgets and other committee documents as well as newspaper clippings all related to the September 1942 visit of Prof. Solomon Michoels and Lt. Col. Itzik Fefer, Soviet Delegates to the United States and Canada.
Collection
Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer Album
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 album (19 photographs + textual material)
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs, correspondence, budgets and other committee documents as well as newspaper clippings all related to the September 1942 visit of Prof. Solomon Michoels and Lt. Col. Itzik Fefer, Soviet Delegates to the United States and Canada.
Parallel Title
Montreal Welcomes Jewish Delegates from the U.S.S.R.
Date
September 1943
Fonds No.
1300
Storage Location
JPL
Language
English
Yiddish
French
Notes
Selection of contents digitized (pages with newspaper clippings excluded). To consult the entire file, please contact the JPL-A directly.
Subjects
Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957.
La Gaurdia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Curran, Joseph Edwin, 1906-1981
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946
Feffer, Itzik, 1900-1952
Michoels, Solomon, 1890-1948
Soviet Union - Jews
World War, 1939-1945
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn317
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Fonds No.
P0217
Date
2004-2007.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creatio…
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creation, artist?s name, approximate measurements, media used, and subject description. Information thus far has been gathered from synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish community buildings, in towns and cities of all the provinces of Canada, including numerous small communities as well as the major centres. Holocaust memorials are a developing feature of this collection.The data accompanying the photographs was imported from a Filemaker database residing on the donor's computer to a similarly structured database at CJCCCNA. The initial corpus of photographs was donated in increments on 9 CDs, with some supplementary images added by email. Additional data related to the images was donated by Weiser in Excel format or in text form, both of which have now been imported to Filemaker Pro. The entire corpus of images was copied to the CJCCCNA network drive and backed up on a Master DVD.The project is ongoing, with support from the Marvin A. Drimer Foundation.
Date
2004-2007.
Fonds No.
P0217
History / Biographical
Barbara Weiser has a Masters degree in Judaic Studies from Concordia. Her research consists of the study of Jewish art in synagogues and Jewish public buildings across Canada. She has donated her corpus of image material to serve as a databank at the CJCCC National Archives for the use of other researchers. It was also used as source of images for the website Canadian Jewish Museum and Archives (www.cjvma.org), which was coordinated by CJCCCNA from 2004-2010.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0217-Weiser-Jewish-Art-in-Public-Spaces

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WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn259
Collection
WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.07 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0153
Date
1920c-1985c.
Scope and Content
Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 corresponde…
Collection
WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.07 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 correspondence from relatives describing conditions in Poland. Pre-WWII photos of Lipton, Sonnenfeld, Hoffer Jewish farm families and Winnipeg family, post-WWII family photos from Montreal, photos (including colour) of pastry store in East End Montreal
Date
1920c-1985c.
Fonds No.
P0153
History / Biographical
Born in Poland, Rebecca Dresher Werner immigrated to Canada as a child in 1928. Her family first settled in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, a Western colony set up by the Jewish Colonization Association. An older sister moved to Winnipeg during the 1930s. After World War II, the Dresher parents moved to a farm in Repentigny, Quebec. Mrs. Werner and her husband settled in Montreal after the war and opened a pastry shop, the Patisserie Montreal, in the city's east end, at St. Catherine and Plessis Streets.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P93/16.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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