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- ABER, Ita 1
- ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION 1
- AMBER, Phyllis 1
- Anchel, Gotlieb, and Gilbert families = Montreal Jewish leisure and school activities 1
- BATSHAW, Justice Harry 1
- BATSHAW, Manuel G 1
- BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE 1
- BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat 1
- Bloomfield family (Neri and Bernard Bloomfield, Evelyn Schachter) - Zionist activities 1
- Bronfman, Allan, Lucy, and Edward 1
- Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal 1
- CANADIAN PROFESSORS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST 1
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn2
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in C…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in Canada in the late 18th century.
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- History / Biographical
- Canadian Jewish Congress was founded in Montreal in March 1919. "The Parliament of Canadian Jewry," CJC was constituted as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada, serving as the community's vehicle for defence and representation. Committed to preserving and strengthening Jewish life, CJC acted on matters affecting the status, rights and welfare of the Canadian Jewish community, other Diaspora communities and the Jewish people in Israel. CJC combatted antisemitism and racism, promoted human rights, fostered interfaith, cross-cultural relations and worked towards tolerance, understanding and goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The organization spoke on a broad range of public policy, humanitarian and social-justice issues on the national agenda that affected the Jewish community and Canadian society at large. Through its charitable operations, CJC provided domestic and international relief aid on a non-sectarian basis, following natural disasters and to isolated Jewish communities in need. The Archives department also fell under the mandate of CJC Charities Committee. In 1999 the CJC national office relocated to Ottawa, with three regional CJC offices (Quebec, Ontario and Pacific), as well as affiliated offices across the country. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), along with the Canada-Israel Committee, the Quebec-Israel Committee, National Jewish Campus Life and the University Outreach Committee. CJC and its charitable wing were formally disbanded in late 2015. Since that time the CJCCC National Archives, renamed the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives as of January 2016, functions under the aegis of Jewish Federations Canada UIA.
- Custodial History
- Both the national headquarters and the Quebec Jewish Congress (formerly Quebec Region, Eastern Region) offices of the Canadian Jewish Congress were located in Montreal until 1999, when most of the national office relocated to Ottawa. The National Archives is the repository of records created and received in these offices. The collection also includes materials from the National Office in Ottawa, as well as the national records of Manuel Prutschi, Bernie Farber, and other national departments based in Toronto and Vancouver. The regional offices of Canadian Jewish Congress outside Quebec are little represented in the collection, aside from correspondence from across the country and certain publications which were addressed to the national office.
- Notes
- General note: The number of paper records in this collection is subject to change, due to additions to Documentation Series Z as well as the ongoing weeding of duplications. Most of the material was created after 1919, with the exception of Series Z, which includes photocopies and a small number of originals dating back as far as 1765.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn3
- Collection
- ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.125 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0001
- Date
- 1935-1987.
- Scope and Content
- Minutes (1971). Documents about the sale of the building (1976). Agreement with Young Israel. Arbitration hearings documents. Correspondence. Notes. Report to Canadian Jewish Congress and other related documents (1977-1979). Financial reports (1947, 1957, 1966, 1968-1979). Money raised and owed (19…
- Collection
- ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.125 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Minutes (1971). Documents about the sale of the building (1976). Agreement with Young Israel. Arbitration hearings documents. Correspondence. Notes. Report to Canadian Jewish Congress and other related documents (1977-1979). Financial reports (1947, 1957, 1966, 1968-1979). Money raised and owed (1963). Members lists (1957). Outremont documents (1974-1978). Building recommendations (1977). Press releases. Correspondence (1935-1936, 1944, 1978-1979). Bulletins (1941-1944, 1947, 1952-1972, 1978). School statistics (Canadian Jewish Congress 1948). Graduation booklet (1948). Dedication/ anniversary booklets (1947, 1965, 1980). Fundraising information (1953-1957). Model Seder report (1977). Proposed architectural plans (not used. c.1938). Flyers. Invitations. Clippings (1939-1940, 1944-1956, 1966, 1981, 1986-1987). Added in 2022: Charter and By-Laws booklet for Young Israel Congregation and Community Centre of Outremont, 1953, including congregational history, building photographs, and names of contributors to the Building Fund. The booklet is accompanied by a letter from its donor Phyllis Robinson describing her family's involvement with the synagogue.
- Date
- 1935-1987.
- Fonds No.
- I0001
- History / Biographical
- The Adath Israel Congregation first met in a rented hall in 1930. In 1936, land was bought in Outremont; in 1938 the synagogue was incorporated; by 1940 the building was completed. The Adath Israel, an Orthodox synagogue, also ran the first congregational day school in Canada in the synagogue building; a school was built in 1947. A Hebrew high school, the Adath Israel Academy, was begun in 1952, also with its own building. It was later called Hebrew Academy, and both schools amalgamated with Young Israel Synagogue's schools in 1965. The Adath Israel has its own cemetery. It also ran an afternoon school and developed a separate Sephardi service (Adat Yisrael S'faradi). Eventually, due to the shifting Jewish population, the Outremont buildings were sold and the congregation moved to a newly built synagogue in Hampstead in 1980. The Adath Israel had one of the first "contemporary" synagogue designs and was the first large, new synagogue built in the post-Depression era in Montreal.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P22/12 (re: 1953 By-Laws).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16328
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 376.3 metres of textual records. - 3250 photographs. - 123 sound elements. - 9 videodiscs.
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Date
- 1920-1989.
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 376.3 metres of textual records. - 3250 photographs. - 123 sound elements. - 9 videodiscs.
- Date
- 1920-1989.
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- History / Biographical
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services was established during the first Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in 1919. The need to settle Jewish post-World War I immigrants became apparent at this time, but the community organizations established in part for this purpose, such as the Baron de Hirsch Institute, were overwhelmed by the flow of Jews into Montreal and the rest of Canada. Thus JIAS, an organization devoted solely to helping immigrants, was founded. Since 1919, Jewish immigrants to Canada have depended on this organization during their period of adjustment to this country. The JIAS intervenes with the government on behalf of current and prospective immigrants, helps to locate housing and jobs, and organizes language and citizenship classes. JIAS assists new immigrants in following the proper application procedures, provides counselling, and offers a directional service to community resources. JIAS also makes submissions to the authorities on all matters affecting Jewish immigration to Canada, jointly with the Canadian Jewish Congress. The national office moved from Montreal to Toronto in the 1990s. In 2008 the Montreal office of JIAS merged with two other Jewish social service agencies under the name Agence Ometz.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4.General note: As of 2017 the total amount of textual records in the JIAS collection is 376.3 metres, of which 66.3 metres are administrative records and 310 metres are case files. 192 metres of the case files are preserved in off-site storage.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
- Fonds No.
- I0048
- Date
- 1909-1990.
- Scope and Content
- National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (194…
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
- Scope and Content
- National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (1948-1949, 1973). Board member list (1971). Other membership lists. Pamphlets on International Council of Jewish Women. Biennial conventions (ICJW & NCJW). Minutes & information (1953-1973). Publications, flyers, invitations, seminar notes. Convention information, lecture notes and agendas. Gerontology conference notes (1968). Bulletin (1946). Magazines (1963-1973 with gaps). Programs & services materials (foster homes, Project Canada, School for Citizen Participation 1970), field service (1964-1965), workbooks, the elderly, National Theatre for Canada (1961-1963), overseas service (1954-1960), public affairs (1965-1967), leadership). Booklet on history of NCJW (1967). Material on "Canadian Women of the Century 1867-1967" (1967). Scrapbooks. Clippings (1940s-1990 and photocopies of 1909, 1912 articles). Photos, including slides of events, services, programs in Israel & Canada (1914-1975) - collection PC 3. Sound recordings of meetings and lectures (1950s-1970s).
- Date
- 1909-1990.
- Fonds No.
- I0048
- History / Biographical
- The National Council of Jewish Women was established in the United States in 1893, to help new Jewish immigrants. A Canadian branch began in Toronto in 1897. In Montreal the Baron de Hirsch Institute covered immigrant aid at that time, and the Montreal NCJW chapter was only founded in 1918. The International Council was formed in 1912. NCJW is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general community, locally, nationally, and internationally. They do and did so through scholarships, summer camps, libraries, aiding immigrants, volunteer work, pre-and post-war refugee aid, gerontology research, services to the elderly, support of the Golden Age Association, shipments of play and school materials to Israel and North Africa, lobbying for equal pay and other human rights bills, and opening a shelter for battered Jewish women. Their members across Canada and the world both fundraise and volunteer.The National office of NCJW Canada moved from Montreal to Toronto in the mid-1950s before settling in Winnipeg in the early 1990s where it remained until 2015.
- Custodial History
- The collection is divided into three parts: an original donation of material relating to the National office in Montreal and other locations up to 1978; National material donated in 2015 by the Winnipeg National headquarters office (1943-2009); and (see Series A) material relating to the Montreal Chapter office (1926-1999)
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4, PC 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.315 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0049
- Date
- 1941-1969.
- Scope and Content
- NC-YMHA Constitution. Minutes (1944-1949, 1960). Reports (1945-1951). Financial reports (1946-1949). Conference & meeting reports. Agendas and correspondence (1944-1949, 1964). Board members (1947-1949). Jewish communities in Ontario. Jewish population of Canada (1941). Memos (1946-1948, 1963, 1965…
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.315 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- NC-YMHA Constitution. Minutes (1944-1949, 1960). Reports (1945-1951). Financial reports (1946-1949). Conference & meeting reports. Agendas and correspondence (1944-1949, 1964). Board members (1947-1949). Jewish communities in Ontario. Jewish population of Canada (1941). Memos (1946-1948, 1963, 1965). Correspondence (1946-1948). Jewish Group Work Council statement, plan of work (1947). Documents on Jewish Welfare Board (U.S.A.) (1949). Program aids (1946-1947). Newsletter (1946, 1950). YM-YWHA program (1949). Leadership training course: members, information, workbook (1950). National Jewish Youth Institute materials and documentation (1947). Clippings (1940s, 1951). YM-YWHA material: Programs and courses (1944-1945, 1963-1966, 1972-1973, 1988-1989). Y Beacon (1962-1963). Y News (1951). Saidye Bronfman Centre courses (1968). Press releases, brochures, clippings (1940s).
- Date
- 1941-1969.
- Fonds No.
- I0049
- History / Biographical
- The National Council of YMHAs was formed in 1943. It was an umbrella organization for the Ys across Canada and as such had members throughout the country (though the national office was in Montreal). Its aims were to organize Jewish groups in Canada, hold conferences and provide leadership training. Aside from encouraging the establishment of Ys and Jewish centres, it would aid those already in existence and promote their cultural, social and recreational activities. The council was to provide program assistance to the centres, run courses and put out press releases and bulletins to educate those within and outside the Jewish community. Its other functions were the fostering of youth groups and councils, promoting health and physical education, and public relations. The name was later changed to the Canadian Council of YMHAs and JCCs
- Notes
- Related groups of records: YM-YWHA.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn52
- Collection
- PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0050
- Date
- 1925-2010.
- Scope and Content
- The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These papers include: Constitution and by-laws (1972). Minutes (1977). Report (1975). Membership lists. Correspondence (1930s and 1940s). Year book/directory (1949-1958, 1976). Bulletins (1962-1991). Kovod books (1971-1977). Convention agenda (1975). Souvenir programs (1936-1948, 1953, 1975-1976). Receipt book. 50th anniversary booklet (1975). Flyers, invitations, pamphlets, fundraising correspondence and information. Revivim Chapter Cookbook, with ring binding, undated. Programming information booklet, clippings (1941-1942, 1986-1989). (Some letters, clippings, flyers and invitations from 1940s, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto). Addition 2014: 35 large red binders of papers and photographs, the greater part of a corpus of 41 binders formerly housed at the Na'amat office. An index was supplied for the first 31 binders, going up to 1992. The material dates from 1925-2010, with the earliest material belonging to a section on the initial separation and autonomy of the group. Other material in the binders consist of: Brochures, information on conventions, circulars and reports, Israel-based projects such as community centres and day cares, Minutes of the Metropolitan Board and the National Board, publications, information on presidents and executive directors, scripts of skits, background materials. Also 'Portfolios' on various dossiers, such as Canadian Affairs and Social Action, Membership and Dues, and fundraising. Addition 2015: 2 red binders of historical documents, (Binder 3, cards and certificates; and Binder 31, skits), filling gaps in the collection donated in November 2014. Also 1 album of newsclippings (now disassembled into a folder for preservation purposes.) Two binders containing photographs; one black and white mostly 8" by 10" prints from 1981 (51 of them), with 31 contact sheets, and one of colour snapshots of a trip to Israel, presumed to be from 1978 because as it includes an Inuit art exhibit from that year which is described elsewhere (299 colour images).
- Date
- 1925-2010.
- Fonds No.
- I0050
- History / Biographical
- Pioneer Women (now called Na'amat) was founded in America and Montreal in 1925. This women's organization, part of the Labour Zionist movement, raises funds which provide half of all social services for Israeli women, youth and children. Affiliated with Israel's Moetzet Hapoalot, they sponsor a nurses training school, children's homes, day cares, vocational and agricultural schools, and community centres which help Jewish and Arab Israelis. Aside from fundraising, they run educational and cultural activities to encourage women to be active in Israeli and Canadian affairs. Pioneer Women/Na'amat was affiliated with their American counterpart until the late 1960s, when they became an independent Canadian group. They support the Habonim-Dror Zionist youth movement, and are active in promoting women's issues, in Israel and elsewhere, by their members throughout Canada and in twelve other nations.
- Custodial History
- Addition was made in 2014 and 2015 by Vivian Reisler for Na'amat
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P14/18 and P15/13.Related groups of records: Photos in PC 1. There are also 1.6 meters (13 small boxes) of Pioneer Women / Na'amat documents in collection JPL-JC-Z. These Jewish Canadiana Zionist records from the Jewish Public Library were transferred to CJCNA in 2001 as a permanent loan. The initial box of Na'amat materials described above is now housed with this JPL-JC Pioneer Women / Na'amat collection.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn56
- Collection
- SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.62 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0054
- Date
- 1854-1991.
- Scope and Content
- By-laws. Charter and alterations (1886, 1890, 1929). Legal documents (1865 copy). Cemetery land deed (1863). Legislative Assembly Journal (1854). Quebec statutes (1902). Bill 26 information (1933). Minutes (1964, 1966, 1974). Reports (1942, 1944, 1956-1975). Members subscription lists (1885). Finan…
- Collection
- SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.62 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- By-laws. Charter and alterations (1886, 1890, 1929). Legal documents (1865 copy). Cemetery land deed (1863). Legislative Assembly Journal (1854). Quebec statutes (1902). Bill 26 information (1933). Minutes (1964, 1966, 1974). Reports (1942, 1944, 1956-1975). Members subscription lists (1885). Financial documents (1906, 1947, 1968). Letter from congregation to British philanthropists (pre-1917). Board members (1976). World War II Congregation Shaar Hashomayim soldiers. Correspondence (1887, 1906, 1935-1978). Program booklets (1890, 1936-1970). 100th anniversary booklet (1946). Dedication scrapbook (1922). Dedication booklets (1922, 1948, 1957, 1965, 1967). Bulletins (1931-1989). Special service booklets (1897, 1899, 1947). Publications (1934, 1946, 1970, 1972). Purim play and booklet. Graduation cantata (1956). Cantata, song sheet (1941). Historical notes (1941). Press releases. Allan Bronfman Lectures information (1964, 1970, 1973). Conference proceedings (1958). School statistics (1948). Bnot Mitzvah booklets (1971, 1985). Lecture/sermon texts (1944, 1946, 1964-1965). Lecture Series book (1987). "Jews of Canada" article (1926). "The Occident" articles. Jewish Social Studies magazine (1943). Course lists (1964,1967). Calendar (1961). Archival inventory (1950s-1960s). Exhibit information (1967). Synagogue activities (1906). Women's auxiliary activities (1934). Passover recipes. Book plate. Fundraising and invitation letters. Greeting cards. Benchers (1975). Flyers, invitations and tickets. Clippings (1883, 1899, 1908 copies, 1922-1991).
- Date
- 1854-1991.
- Fonds No.
- I0054
- History / Biographical
- In 1846, members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and other Montreal Jews decided that they wanted Ashkenazi synagogue services. They therefore formed the Corporation of English, German and Polish Jews which was modelled on a British synagogue. The congregation rented space, then constructed its first building on St. Constant Street. In 1875, the congregation almost amalgamated with the Spanish and Portuguese to form one large synagogue in the west end of the city, but this was not successful. After several other moves, and the adoption of the name Shaar Hashomayim in 1917, land was purchased in 1920 in Westmount and the new building completed in 1922. A school was added after the Second World War, and the building was expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative. It is the second oldest synagogue in Canada, and the oldest Ashkenazi one.
- Custodial History
- This collection was accumulated piecemeal from diverse sources by the Canadian Jewish Congress Congress Charities Committee National Archives. It precedes the acquisition of the official records of the Congregation in 2012, under the donor name Congregation Shaar Hashomayim - Synagogue administrative records
- Notes
- General note: Half originals, half copies.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn64
- Collection
- UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 37.67 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0062
- Date
- 1930-1978.
- Scope and Content
- This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.
- Collection
- UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 37.67 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.
- Date
- 1930-1978.
- Fonds No.
- I0062
- History / Biographical
- The United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies of Canada was established with the assistance of Samuel Bronfman in 1938. Later known as the United Jewish Relief Agencies, or UJRA, it at first helped escapees, evacuees, and interned refugees from England, providing food, shelter, and diplomatic and moral support. There were as yet no Jewish refugee immigrants to aid, due to Canada's restrictive wartime immigration policies. After the war, UJRA sent supplies and helped trace families for DPs, brought skilled immigrants to Canada, facilitated the immigration of refugee youth ("The War Orphans Project"), and also sent aid to the new State of Israel. Working with other organizations, it sent Passover supplies to needy Jews in Israel, Europe and Canada and with the Canadian Jewish Congress formed the United Restitution Organization for war reparations. Though its duties lessened over the decades, the UJRA continued to function for several decades after WWII.
- Notes
- General note: Also contains 5 boxes of unprocessed material 1.55 m.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn81
- Collection
- LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
- Fonds No.
- I0079
- Date
- 1935-1998.
- Scope and Content
- Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harv…
- Collection
- LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
- Scope and Content
- Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harvard Law School Research for Israel's Legal Development, 1952, 1953. Black Binder with complete minutes from 1952 to 1966. Booklet of the concert by OSMONT, Ochestre Symphonique de la Montérégie, for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, 1998. Booklet from the Congregation Dorshei Emet 'Celebrating 36 years of Jewish Renewal,' 1996. Booklet; Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge, 'Program of Study', 1979. 4 notorized copies of the Hart family (2 marriage certificates and 2 death certificates), 1959 (Originals 1843-1857). Minutes of the Montreal Hebrew Free Loan Association (copy), 1911. Diploma from Hebrew University of Jerusalem given to the Lord Reading Law Society, 1979. 2 booklets of the Lord Reading Law Society's 50th anniversary, 1998. 8 photos. 1 Baseball cap. Added in 2012 and 2014: 2009 templates of prenuptial contracts for Jewish couples, with accompanying correspondence via printed e-mails; membership lists and dues contracts; dinner meeting and Montefiore Club event information, Bureau de Quebec conference materials; internal and external correspondence, including some in the form of printed e-mails; meeting agendas and minutes; By-laws; News clippings. Correspondance 2009-2010 on subjects such as Jewish prenuptial agreements, Jewish holidays, Haiti, Bill 94, Young Bar, Notaries Cle. Hanukah and New Year's cards; flyers; photographs (9) with associated correspondence and guest list for student dinner 2009; Photographs (21 with duplicates) of dinner for Allan M. Stein, 2010; 119 photographs of one or more dinner events, one possibly with Lucien Bouchard, CD of 44 small images plus duplicates, titled 'LRLS Season 2005-2006' (428 K); album containing 43 colour photographs.Books: Gottesman, Dr. Eli. Who's Who in Canadian Jewry; 1967. Montreal; Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada; [1965].Joseph, Anne. Heritage of a Patriarch: A Fresh Look at Nine of Canada's Earliest Jewish Families. Sillery; Les Editions du Septentrion, 1995.Langlais, Jacques and David Rome. Jews & French Quebecers : Two Hundred Years of Shared History/ translated by Barbara Young. Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.
- Date
- 1935-1998.
- Fonds No.
- I0079
- History / Biographical
- The Lord Reading Law Society was founded as a vehicle for lawyers of the Jewish faith "both as a study group and as a representative body." The Society was named after Rufus Daniel Isaacs, a British jurist who later became Lord Reading. The political and social climate of the late 1930s and early 1940s was the impetus for the creation of Society. The Society first formalized its structure in 1948 and has been meeting regularly since then. The first president was the late Mr. Justice Benjamin Robinson. Originally the Society was known as the Reading Society. It changed its name to the Reading Society of Montreal on September 25, 1952. It is not certain exactly when the society changed its name to the Lord Reading Law Society, possibly in 1958.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Morton Bessner in 3 increments.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P00/01, P12/11, P14/09.Location of originals :The books are stored in the Library.General note :In the collection there are 4 original copies of marriage certificates and death certificates of the Hart Family.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90
- Collection
- RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
- Fonds No.
- I0088
- Date
- 1910-2004.
- Scope and Content
- Materials in various media collected from recently immigrated Russian-speaking Jews. Documents, clippings, photos (435 prints and approximately 1500 digital, books, CDs of music, 14 hours of video interviews, 5 hours of audio cassettes. 39 CDs containing archival material, 1 original art work. Also…
- Collection
- RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
- Scope and Content
- Materials in various media collected from recently immigrated Russian-speaking Jews. Documents, clippings, photos (435 prints and approximately 1500 digital, books, CDs of music, 14 hours of video interviews, 5 hours of audio cassettes. 39 CDs containing archival material, 1 original art work. Also the complete run of the newspaper Golos Obshiniye (Voice of Community), 1994-2004, with ongoing additions semi-weekly.
- Date
- 1910-2004.
- Fonds No.
- I0088
- History / Biographical
- Tatiana Jour is a Russian-speaking archivist born in Riga, trained in Moscow, and living in Montreal for the past eight years. For this project, she collected archival material and scanned items from the private collections of recent Jewish immigrants from Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. The project has received funding from Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal. Donors to the project include poets and writers, scientists, historians, publishers, musicians, graphic artists, Holocaust survivors. war veterans, and athletes. Most have immigrated here since 1991.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Tatiana Jour. Received from January to October 2004.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P04/01-0-A.General note: Each sub-collection has a P04/01-xx number. About a third of the material is in digital form. The Collection is ongoing.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn96
- Collection
- LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
- Fonds No.
- I0094
- Date
- 1900-1993.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
- Date
- 1900-1993.
- Fonds No.
- I0094
- History / Biographical
- The CJC Archives Jewish summer resort collecting mission, undertaken in the early 1990s by Archives volunteer Ricci Rosenthal, contains an impressive number of rare and interesting Laurentian area photos, oral histories and memorabilia. Ricci owed her particular interest in this subject to her memories of happy times spent at the hotels, and the nostalgia she shared with many of her contemporaries, who would always say to her: "I wish there were still someplace to go."
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78466
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0106
- Date
- 1858-2015.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and schoo…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and school ledgers, other ledgers and financial records and synagogue Bulletins (bound and unbound.) In addition to the administrative documentation there is a wealth of nominative information about congregation members which could be of genealogical and sociological interest. There are numerous books and files of Minutes, including: Board of Trustees minutes 1955-1960; Board Minutes 1960-1995; Executive minutes, 1920, 1946-1951, 1969-1976, and 1979-2009; "ACM" 1974-1983; Woman's auxiliary youth minutes, 1952-1956; and Youth committee minutes 1952-1956.A large part of the fonds consists of Membership and Holiday Seating Plan books, dating from 1918-1980 (some of the years are written as Hebrew dates.) These books usually include names, addresses, seat numbers, their cost, and remarks. Some years contain separate sections, such as membership without seats, cemetary plot sales, school membership, and assembly hall seat membership bookings. Some books include loose papers containing information on bookings gains and losses, overcrowding, concessions granted, correspondence for seat renewals and requests. The Cemetery records include Plans (maps) of the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery plots in 2 long black books that record spaces allotted to individuals from 1902-1989. The Cemetery books duplicate much of the same content, but vary in handwritten notes and years covered; one finishes in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s. There is also a folder of cemetery titles (1910-1972). Five wide brown books contain cemetery plans for part of Shaar Hashoymayim Cemetery, dated January 15, 1954. Four of are nearly duplicates, with minor variations. The other varies more and features "S"s in the plots.There is also a ledger without its cover recording memorial observances by family members 1930s-1969?, which includes death dates and Hebrew names. There is documentation on Hall Rentals by the Men's Association, along with their minutes, some correspondence, event programs, other miscellany. and 7 photographs (1949-1955). Other Rental records in the collection list the event type, name of booker, number of guests, costs and remarks. Documents for rentals rates and holiday restrictions are also contained in these books (1966-1977 and 1986-1990).Also: Hebrew Sunday School records, including lists of students and teachers, class attendance reports, student discipline and daily weather reports, 1946-1957; and Hebrew Young Ladies Sewing Society, minutes of meetings, 1917-1927. Synagogue bulletins are present in a near complete series from 1928-2010, with the exception of vols. XI-XII for 1937-1939.There are various financial ledgers dating from 1911-1982, among them Cashbook 1911-1918; School ledger 1938-1946; Financial ledger 1950-1955.Added in June 2013: Printed legal documents for a name change for the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and the incorporation of the B'nai Jacob synagogue (both 1890), and the incorporation of the Temple Emanu-El (1883), old news clippings about the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and Jewish Montreal, original letters from Moses Montefiore in London, England, payment booklet for the Shomrim Laboker congregation printed in 1905 and used between 1908-1937, 3 original prints of Rabbi Abraham de Sola's booklet Behemoth Hatevoth (1853), and various ephemeral documents pertaining to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, including an invitation to the cornerstone laying of their Stanley Street building, two order of Service handouts, and a notice of a Masonic meeting. All the documents received in this group are in very fragile condition.
- Date
- 1858-2015.
- Fonds No.
- I0106
- History / Biographical
- In 1846, members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and other Montreal Jews decided that they wanted Ashkenazi synagogue services. They therefore formed the Corporation of English, German and Polish Jews which was modelled on a British synagogue. The congregation rented space, then constructed its first building on St. Constant Street. In 1875, the congregation almost amalgamated with the Spanish and Portuguese to form one large synagogue in the west end of the city, but this was not successful. After several other moves, and the adoption of the name Shaar Hashomayim in 1917, land was purchased in 1920 in Westmount and the new building completed in 1922. A school was added after the Second World War, and the building was expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative. It is the second oldest synagogue in Canada, and the oldest Ashkenazi one.
- Custodial History
- The initial donation was made in 2012 by the Administrative Director of the congregation, during a time of renovations to the vault where the papers and ledgers had been stored. In June 2013 five centimetres of old documents formerly from the Shaar Hashomayim Museum were donated by the volunteer in charge of the museum and archives collection. These items were de-accessioned from the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum at the discretion of the museum personnel because they refer to other synagogues.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P12/ 14, P13/11.Associated material: Shaar Hashomayim synagogue files accumulated in the CJC collection, series ZH.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
NUSACH HA'ORI SYNAGOGUE
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78474
- Collection
- NUSACH HA'ORI SYNAGOGUE
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.3 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0107
- Date
- 1927-1975.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Nusach Ha'Ori congregation which were found in the Jeannne Mance Street building that they had previousl occupied. It consists of High Holiday seating books, cemetery information, Free Loan documents, financial documents, and assorted ephemeral…
- Collection
- NUSACH HA'ORI SYNAGOGUE
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.3 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Nusach Ha'Ori congregation which were found in the Jeannne Mance Street building that they had previousl occupied. It consists of High Holiday seating books, cemetery information, Free Loan documents, financial documents, and assorted ephemeral papers pertaining to the operations of this synagogue from the 1920s through the 1970s. Includes an oversized plan of the cemetery plots.
- Date
- 1927-1975.
- Fonds No.
- I0107
- History / Biographical
- This orthodox congregation was founded in 1933. It was located for many years at 5583 Jeanne Mance Street in the Plateau Mont Royal area of Montreal. The synagogue merged with Congregation Ahavas Sholem in 1966, and in August 2007 with the Beth Tikvah Congregation of Dollard des Ormeaux. The Jeanne Mance Street building is now owned by the Belzer Hasidic community.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Shmuel/ Sam Grosberger, on behalf of the Belz community, May 28, 2015. The Belz community now occupies the former Nusach Ha'Ori buuilding.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P15/10.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CANADIAN PROFESSORS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78518
- Collection
- CANADIAN PROFESSORS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0108
- Date
- 1977-1990.
- Scope and Content
- This collection consists of pamphlets and minutes from various annual conferences, proposals for the Reorganization of Canadian Academic Foundation for Peace in the Middle East (CAFPME) a subsidiary for Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (CPPME), as well as bulletins, reports, and cor…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- This collection consists of pamphlets and minutes from various annual conferences, proposals for the Reorganization of Canadian Academic Foundation for Peace in the Middle East (CAFPME) a subsidiary for Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (CPPME), as well as bulletins, reports, and correspondence. Also donated along with this collection was one copy of "None is too Many: Memorializing and Commemorating the S. S. St. Louis", a classroom resource booklet, a project in which the donor was involved.
- Date
- 1977-1990.
- Fonds No.
- I0108
- History / Biographical
- Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (CPPME) is a major Canadian academic organization, founded in 1973, consisting of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds all sharing an interest in the scholarly consideration of peace in the Middle East. Its membership consists of over 900 faculty members from Colleges and Universities across the country. Their purpose is to support academic expertise and foster debate and understanding on the issues and impediments to peace in the Middle East. This is done through distribution of relevant literature, the publication of bi-monthly journals, as well as sponsored lectures, workshops, and conferences.
- Custodial History
- The files were donated by David Goldberg, a former national executive director of Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East. on February 5, 2015
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P15/02 and ZC2.General note: As a national academic organization dedicated to the scholarly consideration of peace in the Middle East, this collection reflects an important phase in the development of Canada's Jewish Community.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
HERTZEL CLUB, Ste-Sophie Quebec
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78528
- Collection
- HERTZEL CLUB, Ste-Sophie Quebec
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record.
- Fonds No.
- I0109
- Date
- 1921-1923.
- Scope and Content
- From Ste-Sophie, Quebec: Hertzel Club Minute Book, with lists of members and details about programs. Notebook is inscribed: 'Presented to Hertzel followers by Harry M. Yarosky'. Approximately 100 handwritten pages in a McGill hardcover notebook. Digital copy only: scanned as 10 PDF documents plus a…
- Collection
- HERTZEL CLUB, Ste-Sophie Quebec
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record.
- Scope and Content
- From Ste-Sophie, Quebec: Hertzel Club Minute Book, with lists of members and details about programs. Notebook is inscribed: 'Presented to Hertzel followers by Harry M. Yarosky'. Approximately 100 handwritten pages in a McGill hardcover notebook. Digital copy only: scanned as 10 PDF documents plus an additional document containing only the membership lists found at the back of the book.
- Date
- 1921-1923.
- Fonds No.
- I0109
- Custodial History
- Scanned June 12, 2015 when brought in by Howard Gontovnick, who had borrowed it from Jackie Yarosky in order to write a research paper about it.
- Notes
- Location of originals: The original book belongs to Jackie Yarosky of Montreal.General note: Jewish farming community, rural Quebec Jewish life, Jewish youth group, Zionism.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BATSHAW, Manuel G
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn116
- Collection
- BATSHAW, Manuel G
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0008
- Date
- 1975-2016.
- Scope and Content
- Press clippings about the Batshaw Committee investigating Quebec's Juvenile Centres, Allied Jewish Community Services tributes to Batshaw, Social work, and Israel
- Collection
- BATSHAW, Manuel G
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Press clippings about the Batshaw Committee investigating Quebec's Juvenile Centres, Allied Jewish Community Services tributes to Batshaw, Social work, and Israel
- Date
- 1975-2016.
- Fonds No.
- P0008
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1915, Manuel Batshaw was a social worker, national field director of Canadian Young Judea, executive director of the Council of Jewish Organizations in Hamilton, national president of the Association of Jewish Centre Workers of North America, and the director of National Services of the National Jewish Welfare Board. He was executive vice-president of Allied Jewish Community Services and chairman of the "Batshaw Committee," which investigated Quebec's Juvenile Centres. He was the personal advisor on Jewish affairs to Charles Bronfman until Batshaw's retirement in 1998. He died on July 16, 2016.
- Notes
- General note: Fonds consists mostly of press clippings.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn156
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1825, Alexander Abraham de Sola was the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Montreal from 1847 until his death; appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at McGill University in 1848 and raised to professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages five years later; first Jew to be awarded the honourary degrees LL.D. from McGill University in 1858; author of numerous articles on Jewish history, religion, natural history, science. He died in 1882.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MC 13.Related groups of records: Books in Archives Library, Shearith Israel records.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn166
- Collection
- FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- P0060
- Date
- 1920-1981.
- Scope and Content
- Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author S…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author Stephen Leacock, operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, operatic soprano Pauline Donalda, poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, cartoonist Terry Mosher, and poet Irving Layton.
- Date
- 1920-1981.
- Fonds No.
- P0060
- History / Biographical
- Montreal businessman Norman Friedman was chairman of the Jewish Advisory Committee of the Boy Scouts Association and assistant regional commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association. Friedman and his wife Rose were both life governors of the Jewish General Hospital, and he was also an honorary governor of the Montreal General Hospital. The Friedmans entertained frequently in their home, as documented in their guest book. Norman Friedman died in Montreal in 1981.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P85/14.Related groups of records :Irving Berlin collection, A.M. Machlovitch photographs in PC1/L.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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
Documents
Images
SPANIER family
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn249
- Collection
- SPANIER family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0143
- Date
- c.1851-2022.
- Scope and Content
- Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to hi…
- Collection
- SPANIER family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy about refused entry at port of Poole, also list of names from family prayer book. Addition 2004: 165 photos, colour and black and white, of Spanier family including Germany, including a housefront/ storefront boarded after Kristalnacht, also family in USA and Canada and Beverly Spanier teaching career and friends. Also 1 cm. Beverly career documents. Addition 2009: Macdonald College Faculty of Education McGill University Class of 1969 history booklet written by B. Spanier for the 40th Reunion. List of volunteer work of B. Spanier. Addition 2010: 80th birthday biographical tribute to Miriam Roland. Additions 2011-2022: McGill University Class of '67 Arts and Science 45th Reunion Booklet, compiled by and edited by B. Spanier. Obituary of B. Spanier's second cousin, John Winston Spanier. Newspaper clippings from 2013-2021 concerning the patient advocacy work and activities of B. Spanier, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and upon her receiving the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal in 2021. B. Spanier autobiography 'Reflections on my Life' April 1, 2014 (91 pp. approx. 95 images; also includes digital copy). Material relating to B. Spanier's 69th and 70th birthdays. Booklets written by B. Spanier including 'Tears, Suffering and the Helping Hand' 2016 (20 pp. incl. 11 images of original art by B. Spanier) and 'A Patient's View of Covid-19 From Inside a Quebec Chronic-Care Facility' April 3, 2021, (22 pp, 8 images incl. of original art by B. Spanier). 75th birthday biographical tribute to Lloyd Brereton (2022) and 70th birthday biographical tribute to Panaiota Zaphiratos (2022).
- Date
- c.1851-2022.
- Fonds No.
- P0143
- History / Biographical
- Beverly Spanier was born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from McGill University in Honors Economics and Political Science in 1967. She was a high school teacher in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 to 1997, and was involved with religious programming at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount, Quebec. Beverly is a long-time patient-rights advocate and has been outspoken on behalf of patients in long-term and chronic care during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially at Maimonides Geriatric Centre. In 2021, she was honoured by MNA David Birnbaum for her activism and received the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal. Family members highlighted in the collection are her brother, the late Allen Spanier, formerly a McGill professor of medicine, surgeon, researcher, and Director of Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, and her late father Albert, formerly a businessman in textiles and a synagogue leader. Albert Spanier was born on January 4, 1914 in Enger, Germany and was one of four children born to Amalia and Adolph. Albert, Gertrude, Irwin and Werner were raised in Enger in the largest home in the town. In 1938 the family fled Nazi Germany to scatter abroad and eventually reunite in Hartford, Connecticut where they were all members of Tikvoh Chadoshah Synagogue. Albert Spanier died on November 17, 1995 while living in West Hartford Connecticut. Dr. Allen Spanier died on April 27th, 1999 in Montreal at the age of 52. Allen and Beverly's mother Sybil, the first wife of Albert, passed away in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in July 8th 2002.
- Custodial History
- Part of this collection was transferred from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, at the request of the donor, Beverly Spanier. Several additions to the collection were made after the initial transfer in 1994.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P94/10 +adds. P98/03+adds. P14/05+adds. P15/17+adds. P16/08+adds.General note :Mostly originals, incl. photographs.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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