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STERNBERG, Louis, Saskatoon = Winnipeg Yiddish Press.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn291
- Collection
- STERNBERG, Louis, Saskatoon = Winnipeg Yiddish Press.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.06 metres of textual records. - 3 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0190
- Date
- 1920s-1950s.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, including letters from family and friends in New York, South America, and possibly Romania. Clippings illustrate work as Yiddish correspondant from Saskatoon for Dos Vort, Yiddish theatre acting. 3 photos of Sternberg and the Stern's Silk Shop storefront. Various ephemeral items fro…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.06 metres of textual records. - 3 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, including letters from family and friends in New York, South America, and possibly Romania. Clippings illustrate work as Yiddish correspondant from Saskatoon for Dos Vort, Yiddish theatre acting. 3 photos of Sternberg and the Stern's Silk Shop storefront. Various ephemeral items from Stern's Silk Shop (catalogue, stationery, bags.) Telegrams relating to immigration of Sternberg's father's family to Canada in 1930.
- Date
- 1920s-1950s.
- Fonds No.
- P0190
- History / Biographical
- Louis (Leiser) Sternberg was born in 1903 in Lipkon, Bessarabia, and came to Canada around the age of 16, in the late in the late 1910s or early 1920s. He was the Saskatoon correspondent for the Yiddish paper The Israelite Daily Press and also Dos Yiddishe Vort. He acted in local Yiddish theatre in Saskatoon and was active in Histadrut and Zionist issues. He first worked for Adilman's Department Store and eventually owned a store of his own, Stern's Silk Shop. The store had doubled in size before he closed it in the late 1970s, retiring to Edmonton, where he died in 1979.
- Custodial History
- The documents were donated by his children Sharon Melmed (Montreal), Beverly Sternberg (Edmonton) and Dr. Harvey Sternberg (Edmonton).
- Notes
- Some of the documents are fragile.P03/09.Yiddish, English and Romanian.Rare correspondence including South America and Yiddish theatre in Canada. This collection requires further study by a Yiddish speaker.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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