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Sidney Ofner Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16718
- Collection
- Sidney Ofner Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual material ; 1 CD
- Date
- 1992-1995
- Scope and Content
- Contains the publication Sidney Ofner: A Soldier’s Story, 1942-1944, compiled by Suzan Horovitch, as well as copies of the letters written by Sidney Ofner and a CD copy of the book.
- Collection
- Sidney Ofner Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual material ; 1 CD
- Scope and Content
- Contains the publication Sidney Ofner: A Soldier’s Story, 1942-1944, compiled by Suzan Horovitch, as well as copies of the letters written by Sidney Ofner and a CD copy of the book.
- Date
- 1992-1995
- Storage Location
- 7-3C
- Creator
- Suzan Horovitch
- History / Biographical
- In 1993 Suzan Horovitch (née Green) began the task of typing out her uncle Sidney Ofner’s letters, written home to Montreal during his station in Europe in World War II. Sidney Ofner was in Italy when he was killed supporting a trench on January 15, 1944. Suzan Horovitch and her husband Art spent several years compiling into a book the letters as well as official Canadian Forces correspondence regarding Sidney. The Horovitch’s also tracked down and contacted several veterans whom had served with Sidney in order to gather all information possible on his time in the army and his death. Sidney Ofner was the only son of Alexander and Tillie Ofner, both of Montreal. Mr. Ofner ran a women’s ready-to-wear garment store, in which Sidney also worked. He was a graduate of Strathcona Academy. Sidney enlisted in the Victoria Rifles of Canada in 1942, going overseas in 1943. He was later stationed to North Africa with a reinforcement regiment and then with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Italy in the fall of 1943. Sidney’s sister Marjorie, mother of Leona (mentioned in the letters) and Suzan) saved all of the letters from her brother.
- Custodial History
- Transferred to the JPL-A by Suzan Horovitch
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Helfield/Gallay Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16735
- Collection
- Helfield/Gallay Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.33m textual records ; 200 photographs ; 60 artefacts
- Date
- ca189[?]-ca198[?]
- Scope and Content
- Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefact…
- Collection
- Helfield/Gallay Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.33m textual records ; 200 photographs ; 60 artefacts
- Scope and Content
- Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefacts documenting the spiritual, domestic and professional life of members of the Helfield and Gallay families over more than a century.
- Date
- ca189[?]-ca198[?]
- Storage Location
- Bay 3
- History / Biographical
- Tylia Helfield Tylia Helfield was born in Montreal in 1934. She received her (BFA) from Concordia University in. She is a writer, printmaker and artist. Eric Sidney Helfield Eric Sidney Helfield was born in Montreal in 1931. (where he lived and went to school) He was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in 1952 and a (BCL, 1955) from McGill University. He was a barrister and served for 14 years, between 1976 and 1990, as councilor of the former City of Côte-Saint-Luc. Eric Helfield died 3 October 1992 in Montreal. Marks Ellis Marks Ellis was born in Lithuania in 1873. A tailor by trade, he immigrated via London to Montreal in 1895, accompanied by his wife Mary. He established Bellingham Cleaners in the 1930s, at the corner of Bellingham and Maplewood streets (now rue Vincent-d’Indy and boulevard Edouard-Montpetit) and operated the business for two years. He worked as a tailor during the Second World War for Sterling Clothing on Park Avenue, and at Scott’s Clothing. In 1927, Ellis was involved in the founding of the United Commercial Loan Syndicate, formed by Jewish businessmen who gave loans at low interest rates to Jewish immigrants. He was also one of the founders of the Congregation Shaare Zedek in Montreal. He retired in 1956 at the age of 82 and died in Montreal on 26 December 1965. Ellis was the maternal grandfather of Eric Helfield. Children: Barnett, Mildred, Samuel. Brother of Bluma Ellis. Wilfred Gallay (Dr) Wilfred Gallay was born 10 June 1906 in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He went to elementary school and later obtained a First Class Teacher’s Certificate in Calgary, Alberta. Gallay studied chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1930. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Leipzig and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. On his return to Canada, he worked at the National Research Council in Ottawa, becoming head of the Section on Colloids and Plastics. From 1944 to 1953, he was a consultant to Canadian and American firms and from 1953 until his retirement in 1971, he was Director of Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the E. B. Eddy Company in Hull, Quebec. In the course of his career, Gallay published some 85 scientific papers chiefly in the field of colloid or surface chemistry and was the recipient of several fellowships, awards and honours, including the Bolton Award the Technical Section Medal from the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the Plummer Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Gallay was also involved with several scientific organizations and served namely on various committees of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and as Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Ottawa. Wilfred Gallay married Birdie Silver in 19xx, and was the father of Tylia Helfied. He died in Toronto.
- Language
- English, Yiddish, Hebrew
- Custodial History
- Donated by Tilya Helfield
- Notes
- Further accurals expected.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17146
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.5 m textual material
- Date
- 1934-2008
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, speeches, articles and ephemera dealing with the Segals' professional and personal lives. Also contains numerous historical articles and speeches written and presented by Charles Segal. Numerous photographs illustrating this work also containe…
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.5 m textual material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, speeches, articles and ephemera dealing with the Segals' professional and personal lives. Also contains numerous historical articles and speeches written and presented by Charles Segal. Numerous photographs illustrating this work also contained within the fonds.
- Date
- 1934-2008
- Storage Location
- 5-5G
- Creator
- Charles and Ninel Segal
- History / Biographical
- Charles Segal was born in Montreal on November 27, 1921 to Hyman Manuel Segal and Fanny (Moscovitch). Mr. Segal's fonds includes numerous details of his decades of work in the political world - from his days of journalism here in Canada and in the U.S., to his role in Histadrut, his meetings with President Truman and work with Oscar Ewing, his work with fair employment practices with the Construction Fund of the State University of New York and so on. Segal married his wife Ninel (Bercovitch) in 1979 and she also has been heavily involved in work in Congressman Mike McNulty. More details are available within the fonds.
- Custodial History
- Transferred directly from Charles Segal to the JPL-A starting in 2006. Further accurals expected.
- Notes
- Fonds also includes photographs, currently awaiting arrangement and description into the JPL Photograph Database.
- Access Restrictions
- Restriction on File 006, manuscript of Mr. Segal's biography, marked as so on file.
- Subjects
- Veterans, Jewish - Canada
- Segal, Charles
- Segal, Ninel (Bercovitch)
- Israel
- Israel - Foreign public opinion
- Israel - Foreign relations
- United States. Congress.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18200
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 4 m of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1908-current
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abra…
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 4 m of textual records and other material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abraham Reisen Schools Series VI – Workmen’s Circle Loan Syndicate Series VII – Workmen’s Circle Choir Series VIII – Workmen’s Circle, New York Series IX – Correspondence Series X – Scrapbooks and Artefacts
- Date
- 1908-current
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Creator
- Workmen's Circle
- Physical Condition
- Excellent.
- History / Biographical
- The Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring) of Montreal (now Worker’s Circle) celebrated its 100th Anniversary in the city in 2007. The organization, which was originally founded in New York in 1892 by mainly Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing Czarist pogroms, conducted itself as an “irretrievable part of the radical labour movement.” An advocate for change, the Workmen’s Circle also provided education, enlightenment, health benefits, open forums, a library, clubs and cemetery plots for its members. The work of the group extended to emergencies such as operating a soup kitchen during the Depression or organizing the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry in the late-1980s and early 1990s to aid immigration. Their involvement in politics saw support for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and candidates such as A.M. Klein, David Lewis and Kalman Kaplansky. In 1940, two Workmen’s Circle members from Branch 151 were elected to the Montreal municipal council, Michael Rubenstein and Albert Eaton. The first Workmen’s Circle building was completed in 1936 after several years of planning and a hold due to the Depression. The building was located at 4848 St. Laurent and served the Workmen’s Circle’s business and social activities as well as one of the schools. Like most other Jewish organizations, the Workmen’s Circle moved from the once-traditionally Jewish Main area and re-located to Isabella closer to the Jewish community campus. The Worker’s Circle is still housed there although the organization is shrinking and serves an aging population.
- Language
- Yiddish, English, Russian
- Acquisition Source
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal
- Custodial History
- Transferred directly from the Workmen's Circle, first date of transfer unknown, accural of new materials in November 2007.
- Arrangement
- Current arrangement based on an older system of description used by the JPL-A during the 1970s and 1980s. The finding aid was up-dated to RAD standards in March 2008.
- Related Material
- Jewish Labour Committee Fonds
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle Schools (Montreal, Quebec)
- Labour and labouring classes
- Workmen's Circle - Eugene Debs Branch no. 204
- Workmen's Circle - Meyer London Branch no. 151
- Workmen's Circle - Moishe Lewis Branch
- Workmen's Circle, New York
- Workmen's Circle - Vladeck Branch
- Workmen's Loan Syndicate (Montreal)
- Labour movement
- Labour unions
- Women in the labour movement - Canada
- Workmen's Circle - Ladies' Vladeck Branch
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Witness to History Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60296
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 536 video recordings
- Date
- 1994-Present
- Scope and Content
- The Witness to History program consists of a growing collection of interviews (as of January 20, 2014). The collection counts 536 testimonies: 511 Holocaust survivors (A Holocaust survivor is anyone who suffered and survived persecution for racial and religious, reasons while under Nazi or Axis con…
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 536 video recordings
- Scope and Content
- The Witness to History program consists of a growing collection of interviews (as of January 20, 2014). The collection counts 536 testimonies: 511 Holocaust survivors (A Holocaust survivor is anyone who suffered and survived persecution for racial and religious, reasons while under Nazi or Axis control between 1933 and May 8, 1945; or who was forced to live in hiding; or to flee Nazi or Axis onslaught before and during World War Two in order to avoid imminent persecution.); 15 World War Two veterans; 6 Holocaust survivors who are also World War Two veterans; 1 Rescuer; 3 Others. Testimony has been taken from survivors of the ghettos, hidden children, labour camp, concentration camp and death camp prisoners, partisans, liberators, and rescuers. The records accurately reflect the personal history of each of the interviewees, and become a priceless resource for further research and teaching related to Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.
- Date
- 1994-Present
- History / Biographical
- The Witness to History project was developped by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. The first interviews were conducted in the spring of 1994. The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre’s objective in inaugurating this programme was to record and document as many of the survivors’ histories and experiences as resources permitted. Videotaped interviews are conducted by trained interviewers with emphasis on the survivors’ Holocaust experiences as well as their pre-war lives and their often remarkable post-war efforts to reconstruct normality into their lives in Canada. The Centre’s objective is to continue the Project and provide the facility for those of the Montreal area survivors still willing to come forth and record their experiences towards the education of future generations.
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- French
- Hungarian
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Accession No.
- 2014X.02.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Committees
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16772
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.4m textual records
- I
- Date
- 1954-1988
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of documentation and finance records of the City committee and cultural committee of the Workmen's Circle of Montreal. Included in containers 001-004.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.4m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of documentation and finance records of the City committee and cultural committee of the Workmen's Circle of Montreal. Included in containers 001-004.
- Date
- 1954-1988
- Series No.
- I
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Creator
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Branches
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16773
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.2m textual records
- II
- Date
- 1908-1989
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of the organization documents (minutes, correspondence, notices, membership information) specific to the individual branches of the Workmen's Circle of Montreal. Consists of containers 005-014 and 017.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.2m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of the organization documents (minutes, correspondence, notices, membership information) specific to the individual branches of the Workmen's Circle of Montreal. Consists of containers 005-014 and 017.
- Date
- 1908-1989
- Series No.
- II
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle - Eugene Debs Branch no. 204
- Workmen's Circle - Ladies' Vladeck Branch
- Workmen's Circle - Meyer London Branch no. 151
- Workmen's Circle - Moishe Lewis Branch
- Workmen's Circle - Vladeck Branch
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Workmen's Circle - Albert Einstein Branch No. 1090
- Workmen's Circle - Arthur Zigelbaum Branch No. 264
- Workmen's Circle - Erlich-Alter Branch No. 272
- Workmen's Circle - Morris Zigman Branch
- Workmen's Circle - Russian Branch
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
History and Organizational Papers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16774
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- .2m textual records
- III
- Scope and Content
- Consists of topical documents relating to history and the original founding documents of the Workmen's Circle in Montreal. Consists of containers 015 and 016.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- .2m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of topical documents relating to history and the original founding documents of the Workmen's Circle in Montreal. Consists of containers 015 and 016.
- Series No.
- III
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Creator
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Abraham Reisen Schools
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16775
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.2m textual records
- IV
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the school records of the Abraham Reisen/Workmen's Circle schools (containers 018-019).
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.2m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the school records of the Abraham Reisen/Workmen's Circle schools (containers 018-019).
- Series No.
- IV
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Creator
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle Schools
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Scrapbooks and artefacts
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16780
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- IX
- Date
- predominant 1960-1979.
- Scope and Content
- Consists of clippings scrapbooks of Workmen's Circle events and community involvement as well as objects such as plaques and the Workmen's Circle banner.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Consists of clippings scrapbooks of Workmen's Circle events and community involvement as well as objects such as plaques and the Workmen's Circle banner.
- Date
- predominant 1960-1979.
- Series No.
- IX
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Workmen's Circle Loan Syndicate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16776
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m textual records
- V
- Date
- 1955-1983, predominant ca197[-]
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the accounts and applications to the Workmen's Loan Syndicate programme. Containers 020-022.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the accounts and applications to the Workmen's Loan Syndicate programme. Containers 020-022.
- Date
- 1955-1983, predominant ca197[-]
- Series No.
- V
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Loan Syndicate (Montreal)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Workmen's Circle Choir
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16777
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.1m textual records
- VI
- Date
- 1958-1985
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of ephemera and documents of the Workmen's Circle choir: programmes, leaflets, song sheets and correspondence.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.1m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of ephemera and documents of the Workmen's Circle choir: programmes, leaflets, song sheets and correspondence.
- Date
- 1958-1985
- Series No.
- VI
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle Choir
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Workmen's Circle of New York
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16778
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.1 m textual records
- VII
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, minutes and publications regarding the national organization of the Workmen's Circle. Container 24.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.1 m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, minutes and publications regarding the national organization of the Workmen's Circle. Container 24.
- Series No.
- VII
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, New York
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Correspondence
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16779
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.2 m textual records
- VIII
- Date
- 1953-1981
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence of the head office of the Montreal Workmen's Circle office, organized chronologically. Containers 025-026.
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.2 m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence of the head office of the Montreal Workmen's Circle office, organized chronologically. Containers 025-026.
- Date
- 1953-1981
- Series No.
- VIII
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jewish Public Library
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44539
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Date
- 1914-current
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collectio…
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collection consists of modern era records and is currently being organized following the creation of an appropriate records management classfication.
- Date
- 1914-current
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- History / Biographical
- The Jewish Public Library (JPL) was founded as a "folks" library, a library for all, in 1914. The creation of the JPL was a result of the consolidation of smaller, organization or ideology-based libraries already in existence. Key to the establishment of the JPL was Keneder Adler editor Reuben Brainin. Already active in Yiddish culture of the Montreal Jewish community, Brainin was a leader in the newly formed JPL until he left Montreal for New York in 1916. Brainin's archive collection was donated to the JPL upon his death in 1939. Until 1950 the Library was an independent body in the Jewish community. In 1952 it became a full member of the Allied Jewish Community Services (today known as FEDERATION CJA), an umbrella organization that conducts annual campaigns and is responsible for providing funding for its constituent agencies. The Library remains independent in that it is not part of the City of Montreal library system. The JPL was also a founding member of the Montreal Association of Indepedent Libraries. The operating language of the Library for the early years of its existence was Yiddish. Not just a place for reading, the Library was central to preserving a place for Yiddish culture in the lives of thousands of newly-arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The Library became a venue for visiting authors, such as Sholem Aleichem in 1915, as well as a space for people to connect to a community as well as learn about their new city. At various points in its history the Library also provided learning opportunities under its Jewish People's University, YIFO. YIFO offered a wide variety of subjects taught by various instructors such as Melech Ravitch and Irving Layton. The Library was also the first home to Yiddish youth theatre, led by the then-newly arrived Dora Wasserman. Today the Library collects material and offers cultural programming in five languages: English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian. While the majority of new acquisitions, and thus the collection, remains focused on Judaica, the Library also provides general interest fiction, non-fiction, movies and music. The Library is further broadened by its Special Collections, which include the Jewish Public Library Archives, a community-based repository focused on social, cultural and educational history, a rare book collection, a Yizkor book collection, the Irving Layton Library Collection, a German Judaica collection, periodicals and Jewish Canadiana and international Jewry ephemeral collections. In 1929 a children's library section was added to the JPL. Now known as the Norman Berman Children's Library, children and their families can access a full-service children's and young adult library offering Judaica and general interest reading (fiction and non-fiction) in the five languages of the Library. In addition to the book, CD, DVD and reading kit collections, the Norman Berman Children's Library also offers year-long programming for children from birth to 14 years of age.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Finding Aid
- Please contact the JPL Archives directly to search the JPL archival collection.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Brainin, Reuben, 1862-1939
- Kaufman, Yehuda, 1886-1976.
- Hershman, Hirsch (Harry), 1876-1955
- Books
- Yiddish
- Yiddish theatre
- Wasserman, Dora.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Paul Yachnin: Hamlet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn72412
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 01654
- Date
- 2010
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- multiple media
- Date
- 2010
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 01654
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- English
- Notes
- File contains flyer distribution list, newspaper clips, correspondence, project planning form, letter of agreement, program evaluation form and advertising posters.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
One Hundred Years of Tel-Aviv: The First Hebrew City
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn72461
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 01658
- Date
- 2010
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- multiple media
- Date
- 2010
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 01658
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- Hebrew English
- Notes
- File contains flyer distribution list, correspondence, project planning form, program evaluation form, invoices, newspaper clip, DVD and advertising posters.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- JPL Program - Film Screening
- JPL Program - Hebrew Film Screening
- JPL Program - Hebrew Movie Screening
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
FEDERATION CJA
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43512
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 35.6m multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Date
- 1917-2010
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of material deposited by FED CJA offices as well as collected by the JPL-A through the Jewish Canadiana collection. Currently, the fonds is divided into five series based on the present organization: Series I – Minute Books (Bound, Executive and Directors) and Annual Repo…
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 35.6m multiple media
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of material deposited by FED CJA offices as well as collected by the JPL-A through the Jewish Canadiana collection. Currently, the fonds is divided into five series based on the present organization: Series I – Minute Books (Bound, Executive and Directors) and Annual Reports, Series II – Executive Office, Series III - Campaign FED CJA, Series IV – Marketing and Communications Department, and Series V – Scrapbooks (1935-1967)
- Date
- 1917-2010
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- FEDERATION CJA was founded in 1916 as the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, with the first campaign held in 1917. The Federation originally consisted of 12 Jewish agencies: the Baron de Hirsch Institute, Mount Sinai Sanatorium, Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, Herzl Dispensary and Hospital, the Montreal Hebrew Orphans’ Home, the Montreal Hebrew Sheltering Home, the Ladies Jewish Endeavour Sewing Society, the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, the Beth Israel Day Nursery and Infants’ Home, the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society and the Friendly League of Jewish Women. That first campaign raised $127,000 for support of agencies and community work. In 1951, the name was changed to Federation of Jewish Community Services and then again, in 1965, to Allied Jewish Community Services. The current incarnation of FEDERATION CJA occurred in 1992. Currently, FEDERATION CJA acts as the “central funding, planning, and coordinating body of services for the nearly 93,000 Jews in Montreal and is the one organization that speaks on behalf of the entire community.” Each year FEDERATION CJA raises funds for its various agencies, projects and the community through Combined Jewish Appeal. Today FEDERATION CJA has twelve constituent agencies (Agence Ometz, Bronfman Jewish Education Centre, Bronfman Israel Experience Centre, Camp B'nai Brith, Communaute sepharade unifee du Quebec, Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors, Hillel Montreal, JEM Workshop Inc., the Jewish Public Library, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, and the YM-YWHA Montreal Jewish Community Centre), four funded associated communal organizations (Quebec Jewish Congress - A division of Canadian Jewish Congress, Project Genesis, Quebec-Israel Committee, and United Israel Appeal of Federations Canada, as well as non-funded associated ties with the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, the Synagogue Council of Greater Montreal, and the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal.
- Language
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Custodial History
- The Jewish Public Library has been accepting and preserving material from Federation CJA and the organizations that preceded it since 1917.
- Arrangement
- This Collection is arranged under the current name of "Federation CJA" but includes material created under former organizational names: Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Federation of Jewish Community Services and Allied Jewish Community Services. Series III, Campaign FED CJA, is an artificially created grouping, arranged by the JPL-A from material collected by the Library since 1917. New series have been added as other offices and departments of FEDERATION CJA deposit permanent archival material with the JPL-A. Individual agencies (e.g. Jewish Public Library) are not included as series within this Fonds. Instead, these agencies stand alone as individual fonds.
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply.
- Finding Aid
- A detailed finding aid for the Exectutive Office exists, created by the JPL-A in the early 1970's and updated in 2007 and 2013. An index for the subject files of the Marketing and Communications Department was created in 2007 and is available in the JPL-A.
- Accession No.
- 00-076
- 12-017 (series c)
- 12-018 (series c2)
- 13-012
- Subjects
- Federation CJA
- Federation CJA - Combined Jewish Appeal
- Federation CJA - Women's Division
- Federation CJA - Young Adult Committee
- Federation of Jewish Community Services [Montreal]
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38264
- Collection
- Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m. multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1006
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m. multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.
- Fonds No.
- 1006
- Storage Location
- 1-2B
- History / Biographical
- At the initiative of Joseph Rosensaft a meeting was held in New York in December 1961 of Bergen-Belsen survivors. It was decided at that time that a World Federation of Bergen-Belsen survivors would be formed with associations in all cities where there were numbers of survivors present. As a result in early 1962 an association was formed in Montreal with Paul Trepman as president. The aims were the following: A. Making sure that neither the world nor the Jews ever forgot the Holocaust; B. Wage a continuous fight against Neo-Nazi groups and organizations; C. Offer brotherly aid to former Bergen-Belsen inmates who are in need; D. Keep alive the heroic and rich Bergen-Belsen tradition. The association met a number of times a year, although the main focus was the Liberation Rally, which took place on or around April 15th, the date of the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated by the armed forces. Some of the other activities of the association were the erection of a monument in a local Jewish cemetery and a trip back to Belsen on the 25th anniversary of the liberation.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- French
- Custodial History
- Transferred by Paul Trepman, former director of the Jewish Public Library and a leader in the Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- May contain materials restricted due to Copyright.
- Subjects
- Bergen Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association
- Displaced persons
- Trepman, Paul.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sarah E. Fischer Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30235
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.6m
- Fonds No.
- 1017
- Date
- 1913-1975
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of recital programmes, correspondence, audio recordings, printing blocks and photographs. It is organized into two series. Series one contains Fischer's professional activities (containers 1-2, 5-7). Series two contains Fischer's personal activities (containers 3-4).
- Collection
- Sarah Fischer Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.6m
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of recital programmes, correspondence, audio recordings, printing blocks and photographs. It is organized into two series. Series one contains Fischer's professional activities (containers 1-2, 5-7). Series two contains Fischer's personal activities (containers 3-4).
- Date
- 1913-1975
- Fonds No.
- 1017
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Sarah Fischer was born in Paris, France, moved as a young girl to England, where she attended grade school. At the age of 13 she and her parents (1909) came to Canada and they settled in Montreal. In Montreal, Fischer was employed as a long distance operator during the day and at night took free singing lessons at the Monument Nationale. In 1917, Fischer won the Strathcona Award which enabled her to go to London, England on a three-year scholarship at the Royal College of Music. She left Montreal in 1919 and with a few interruptions spent the next 21 years of her life abroad. She sang in major opera houses in Europe, gave numerous radio recitals and concerts and achieved good reviews. She was considered a most lyrical soprano with a beautiful appearance and good acting ability. In 1940 she returned to Montreal. For the next 35 years, until she died on May 3, 1975, Fischer spent most of her time orgnanizing the Sarah Fischer Concerts where young musicians got a chance to appear in public and show their talent. Many prominent Canadian musicians got their start with these concerts.
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- Related photographs in the JPL Photograph Collection. Larger collection of Sarah Fischer housed at the Library and Archives of Canada.
- Accession No.
- 00-004
- Name Access
- Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
- Subjects
- Musicians
- Places
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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