Galecian Ladies Aid Association Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn33199
- Collection
- Galecian Ladies Aid Association Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 10cm of textual records, 1 audiocasette
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of two files. The first contains the minutes of the Galecian Ladies Aid Association from the 1940s to 1980s, in loose leaf and bound formats. The second file contains documents and photocopies of documents pertaining to Tema Lang, the longtime secretary and treasurer of the organ…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Galecian Ladies Aid Association Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 10cm of textual records, 1 audiocasette
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of two files. The first contains the minutes of the Galecian Ladies Aid Association from the 1940s to 1980s, in loose leaf and bound formats. The second file contains documents and photocopies of documents pertaining to Tema Lang, the longtime secretary and treasurer of the organization, and her husband Joseph Lang. The file contains the Polish passport of Tema Lang. Also included in the fonds is an audiocassette recording of the eulogy for Tema Lang.
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Bound minute books in poor condition
- Conservation
- Several rolled certificates in need of flattening
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Polish
- Name Access
- Lang, Tema
- Lang, Joseph
- Subjects
- Galecian Ladies Aid Association
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn17146
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- 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 containe…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- 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 Restriction
- 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
Mannie Lecker Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn16743
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- .4m of mixed material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of wartime memorabilia and propaganda collected by Mr. Lecker during his service in Europe in World War II.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- .4m of mixed material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of wartime memorabilia and propaganda collected by Mr. Lecker during his service in Europe in World War II.
- Date
- 1885-2005 (predominant 1942-1945)
- Storage Location
- 7-3F 7-3G
- Creator
- Mannie Lecker
- History Biographical
- Mr. Lecker was born and raised in Montreal. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II and served as ground maintenance crew in the Air Force. Mr. Lecker was present during D-Day invasion, June 06, 1944 and marched across Europe, specifically through France, Holland and Germany. During his time in Europe, Mr. Lecker collected and saved wartime propaganda and memorabilia. Upon discharge from the Forces Mr. Lecker returned to Montreal but travelled often across Canada as a travelling salesman. Mr. Lecker passed away in Montreal in December 2007.
- Custodial History
- Initial donation was made in 1978 by Mr. Lecker to Paul Trepman, then director of the JPL. In 2005, Mr. Lecker was reconnected to the Library and Archives and made two further donations in 2005 and 2006. The last donation of Mr. Lecker's service medals was made in 2008 after his death.
- Name Access
- Lecker, Mannie, d.December 2007
- Subjects
- Veterans, Jewish - Canada
- World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans
- World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives
- Medals
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Publications
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn16781
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- App. 0.4 m of textual records
- 10
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of publications on the Workmen's Circle's history and involvement in the labour movement.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- App. 0.4 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of publications on the Workmen's Circle's history and involvement in the labour movement.
- Date
- 1937-2007
- Series No.
- 10
- Storage Location
- Bay 6
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Subjects
- Workmen's Circle, Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.2m textual records
- II
- 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.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- 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
FEDERATION CJA
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn43512
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 35.6m multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- 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…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- 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 Restriction
- 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
Minute Books and Annual Reports
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn43513
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.5m of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1001; 1
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of bound minute books from the Board of Directors and/or Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies to the current day FEDERATION CJA. Also consists of annual reports of the organization from 1917 to the current day.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.5m of textual material
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of bound minute books from the Board of Directors and/or Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies to the current day FEDERATION CJA. Also consists of annual reports of the organization from 1917 to the current day.
- Date
- 1917 - 2010
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Series No.
- 1
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Federation CJA - Montreal (Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Scrapbooks
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn43531
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1001; 5
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of fourteen scrapbooks created between 1935 and 1967. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, form letters, flyers and other publicity, grey literature and posters all documenting Federation, Campaign or Women’s Federation. Scrapbook #13 (Women’s Federation 196…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Format
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of fourteen scrapbooks created between 1935 and 1967. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, form letters, flyers and other publicity, grey literature and posters all documenting Federation, Campaign or Women’s Federation. Scrapbook #13 (Women’s Federation 1965, 1966, 1967) is credited specifically to Mrs. Simon Jaffe.
- Date
- 1935-1967
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Series No.
- 5
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Reuben Brainin Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn16738
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6.625m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Scope and Content
- The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and critici…
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6.625m textual records
- Scope and Content
- The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and criticism (Gr. II), Correspondence (Gr. III), Special Collections (Gr. IV), and the records of the Jewish Public Library Archives Committee (Gr. V). Each group is further divided by subseries. In addition to this groups, the fonds also includes approximately fifty photographs, all arranged and described in the JPL Photograph Database.
- Responsibility
- Records of the Reuben Brainin Archives Committee created by the Jewish Public Library
- Date
- 1893-1940
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Reuben Brainin
- History Biographical
- The Hebrew writer, biographer, critic and Zionist leader Reuben Brainin was born in Lyady, Belorussia in 1862. After receiving a traditional Jewish education he left his parents’ home at the age of 16 and went to Horki to study agronomy. From there he moved to Moscow, where he resided from 1880 to 1888. During that period (1881) he made his literary debut, with articles published in the Hebrew journal Hamelitz. In 1892 Brainin settled in Vienna, where he studied at university and served as editor of an influential Hebrew periodical Mimizrach Umima’arav (1894-1899), and as co-editor of Zion. While in Vienna and Berlin (1895-1909) he published numerous essays, including important critiques of the Hebrew authors Judah Leib Gorden, Peretz Smolenskin, Abraham Mapu, and Saul Tschernichowsky. The central theme of Brainin’s critical opus was Hebrew literature in the chosen media. Brainin was also active in the Zionist movement during these years. In 1909 Brainin came to the United States, and three years later settled in Montreal, where he edited the Yiddish newspapers Der Veg (1915-1916) and Der Keneder Adler (1915-1916). He was one of the founders (1914) and leaders of the Jewish Public Library and People’s University. Brainin returned to New York in 1916, where he resided until his death in 1939. He edited the Hebrew journal Hatoren (1919-1925) and contributed to numerous Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals, including the Jewish Daily News (1916-1920) and The Day (1921-1939). During the 1920s Brainin became an active supporter of Jewish agricultural colonization in the Soviet Union, and went on lecture tours throughout North America and South Africa to raise funds in support of this cause. Brainin published several books in Hebrew and Yiddish during his lifetime, including two on Smolenskin (Warsaw, 1896 and Vilna, 1901), one on Theodor Herzl (New York, 1919), plus selected writings in Hebrew (Warsaw, 1909) and Yiddish (New York, 1917) as well as collected works in three volumes (New York, 1922-1940). He edited a collection of Hebrew poems (Jerusalem, 1910) and a commemorative volume on Eliezer Ben Yehuda (New York, 1915). Brainin also translated into Hebrew three German books: Der Prophet Jeremias by M. Lazarus (Warsaw, 1897), Das neue Ghette, by Theodor Herzl (Warsaw, 1898) and Paradoxes, by Max Nordau (1901). In 1922 a festschrift appeared, in honour of Brainin’s 60th birthday. His diary was published posthumously in Yiddish (New York, 1946).
- Language
- English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish
- Custodial History
- Transferred from the Brainin family in 1940.
- Finding Aid
- Index to Hebrew and Yiddish correspondence available in JPL-A.
- Related Material
- Judy King Fonds; Jewish Public Library Collection
- Name Access
- Brainin, Reuven, 1862-1939
- Subjects
- Agricultural colonies
- Keneder Adler
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Founders
- Birobidzhan (Russia)
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
- ICOR, Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union
- Zionism
- Shapiro, Chava, 1876-1943
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Golda and Mordecai Cukier Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn77963
- Collection
- Golda and Mordecai Cukier Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.2 metres textual materials
- Fonds No.
- 1013
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of biographical materials, mainly on Golda Cukier, as well post-war identification papers and documents related to the Cukiers and their eventual immigration. Also contains articles, bibliographies, and finding aids created by Cukier during her work at the Jewish Public Library.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Collection
- Golda and Mordecai Cukier Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.2 metres textual materials
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of biographical materials, mainly on Golda Cukier, as well post-war identification papers and documents related to the Cukiers and their eventual immigration. Also contains articles, bibliographies, and finding aids created by Cukier during her work at the Jewish Public Library.
- Date
- 1945-1989
- Fonds No.
- 1013
- Storage Location
- 1-3B
- History Biographical
- Golda (nee Szwarcenberg) Cukier was born in a small Polish town near Lublin. She attended the University of Lvov until the war interrupted her studies. When the Russian army was pushed eastward, Cukier left with them, moved first to Ukraine and then to a labour camp in northern Turkestan. She later worked on a state farm in southern Turkestan teaching at a Polish school. Mordecai (Martin) Cukier was born in 1907 and met Golda in 1945. A year after their marriage they were repatriated back to Poland and lived in Breslaw for several years. In 1949, the couple moved to Montreal where they had family. Mr. Cukier was active in Labour-Zionist organizations. Golda worked as a librarian at the Jewish Public Library for over 25 years and was largely responsible for the archival collections as well as the growth of the Jewish Canadiana ephemeral collection.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Polish
- Subjects
- Cukier, Golda
- Cukier, Mordecai, 1907-2003
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives