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ABER, Ita

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn285
Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0184
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organiza…
Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organization of Canada 1949-1950. Material on the Jewish Child's Day Appeal. Clippings and ephemera re: Zionism, Child's Day, and actor William Shatner, a former Montrealer. 9 Photos of Montreal scenes. Material about Montreal's Talmud Torah, Jewish Artists at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Additions 2001: 2 photos (snapshots) of Camp Hashomer Hadati in Bronte, Ontario, Hebrew textbook and prayer book dated 1979, photo of a 9th-grade class of Baron Byng High School including Ita Aber, Clippings, 2 Videos. Additions post 2001 (passim): Articles written by Ita Aber, information about her artwork and recent exhibitions. Addition 2015: Autobiographical audio interview of Ita Herscovitch Aber recorded in New York January 9, 2015 by Renata Stein; WAV file, 56 minutes, provided on CD. Transcript of interview, done by her daughter Mindy Aber Barad via email correspondence from Israel, 30 pages. Themes covered in the interview include her early life in Montreal, art education at Baron Byng high school with teacher Ann Savage, religious background, mother's involvement in charitable efforts such as the Milk Fund, help given to a German Jewish internee and a Jewish refugee, Ita Aber's work for the Israeli consulate in Montreal in the early 1950s, her establishment in New York circa 1953, her career as a textile artist, encounters with Martin Luther King, and Judy Chicago, art groups such as the Pomegranate Guild, Jewish motifs in artwork.
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Fonds No.
P0184
History / Biographical
Ita Aber was born in Montreal, in 1932 and grew up in a family dedicated to Zionist and charitable causes. She later moved to New York, where she made her name as an artist. As described in a 2001 article; "Ita Aber is an artist who delights in unconventional formats that provide unique and startling insights into Jewish Life. Her work is found in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the fabric arts, which is by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber, the fabric arts explode in scale to include the diverse skills of embroidering, beadwork, sewing, appliqué, silkscreen, jewelry design, weaving, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. The stunning range of her talents is reflected in the vast array of work and Judaic objects she has produced, from wall hangings, jewelry, and sculpture to Torah covers, etrog boxes, and Purim masks." Ita Aber is also known as a conservator of textiles, an art historian, a curator, teacher, and the author of The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and Contemporary designs (Scribner 1979).
Custodial History
This collection was donated by Mrs. Ita Aber.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P01/12, P93/08, and subsequent additions (ongoing to P15/04.). Associated material: Clippings by and about Canadian-born journalist Sam Orbaum (1956-2002), a Jerusalem Post humour columnist (donated by Ita Aber and filed under his name.) General note: The biography is from an article published in The Artists Proof, Spring 2001.
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
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AMBER, Phyllis

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90031
Collection
AMBER, Phyllis
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.08 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0258
Date
1970-1985.
Scope and Content
Two files of planning studies done by Phyllis Amber in 1984-1985 while working as a consultant for the Mount Sinai Hospital Center before their move to Montreal. One file about work as Interim Director of the Women's Division of AJCS in the late 1970s. One file about work done as the staff person f…
Collection
AMBER, Phyllis
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.08 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Two files of planning studies done by Phyllis Amber in 1984-1985 while working as a consultant for the Mount Sinai Hospital Center before their move to Montreal. One file about work as Interim Director of the Women's Division of AJCS in the late 1970s. One file about work done as the staff person for the Fait français committee of AJCS from 1970 to 1982. Includes news clippings about the committee and about ethnic leadership in Quebec as of 1982. The committee documents include minutes, programs, reports on programs, evaluation questionnaires, and other papers. Added a week later: 5 more files of studies done for the Mount Sinai Hospital, and one file about Rencontre '71 (cultural programming in French associated with the Fait Francais committee). Also Phyllis Amber's thesis written with Irene Lipper for their MSW (Master's of Social Work) from McGill Unviersity, titled "Towards an Understanding of Moroccan Jewish Family Life. (1968).
Date
1970-1985.
Fonds No.
P0258
History / Biographical
A native of Montreal, Phyllis Amber obtained her B.A. from Sir George Williams University in 1966 and her Masters of Social Work (MSW) from McGill University in 1968, specializing in Community Organization and Planning. She worked as a Planning Associate for Allied Jewish Community Services (now Federation CJA) from 1968-1982, where the Planning Department studied and researched changing needs, lacks and gaps in the community to determine where services should be developed and funded. In this position she staffed various lay committees and commissions according to priorities established by the Planning Committee, among them the Fait français committee, which was created in response to the rise in Quebec nationalism starting from the Quiet Revolution of 1968 and continuing through the election of the Parti québéois in 1976. After leaving AJCS, she served as Planning Consultant to the Mount Sinai Hospital Center through the 1980s, where she developed position papers and proposals for planned new missions and programs related to the move from the Laurentians to Montreal. Phyllis Amber died on February 12, 2023
Custodial History
The collection was donated on Dec. 16 and 22, 2015 by Phyllis Amber.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P15/29.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Anchel, Gotlieb, and Gilbert families = Montreal Jewish leisure and school activities

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn98539
Collection
Anchel, Gotlieb, and Gilbert families = Montreal Jewish leisure and school activities
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.07 metres of textual records. - 34 photographs. - 2 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0290
Date
1929-2005.
Scope and Content
The initial portion of this collection is comprised of documents relating to, and photos of Rose Gotlieb and Hyman Anchel's involvement with the YM-YWHA and B'nai Brith in Montreal. It includes such documents as programs and photographs from various YM-YWHA and B'nai Brith events, documents relatin…
Collection
Anchel, Gotlieb, and Gilbert families = Montreal Jewish leisure and school activities
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.07 metres of textual records. - 34 photographs. - 2 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The initial portion of this collection is comprised of documents relating to, and photos of Rose Gotlieb and Hyman Anchel's involvement with the YM-YWHA and B'nai Brith in Montreal. It includes such documents as programs and photographs from various YM-YWHA and B'nai Brith events, documents relating to issues at the 'Y' between 1929-1966, as well as ephemera from various sporting events from the 1920s to 1970s. In addition there are a number of documents relating to Gotlieb's involvement in Minstrel shows at the Y in the 1930s and 1940s. Added in June 2022: additional documents and photos from Rose Gotlieb and Hyman Anchel concerning involvement in the YM-YWHA and B'nai Brith in Montreal as well as with regard to attendance in Montreal schools and after-school activities. The documents consist of two ephemeral items from 1944: a YMHA swimming test result and a B'nai Brith 'Showboat' notice, plus a few news clippings from the 1980s about the history of the YMHA. The 15 images are: 7 pictures of Baron Byng High school students and events donated by former student Joseph Gilbert, including two of the 1957 graduating Prom, plus a program for the Baron Byng High School reunion of 2007; 1 image 8" x 10" of a YMHA Minstrel show group probably late 1930s, including Rose Gotlieb, mother of the donor, and and two very large framed images of YMHA Minstrel performers, both including players in blackface (one large image is a duplicate of the smaller one), circa 1940. Protestant school images from Gloria Anchel Gilbert consist of one from Fairmount elementary school circa 1953 and one from Northmount High School circa 1956. There are two oversized group photos from Pripstein's Camp Mishmar in St-Adolphe de Howard, Quebec, one dated 1956 and one undated - both are damaged, cut into three sections each. There are 2 images of the Jewish People's School afternoon section, also 1956, and one of a Westmount ballet class including a 3 year old Gloria Anchel, 1948. Artifacts donated along with the collection consist of 2 trophies from the B'nai Brith Bowling Association, for Hy Anchel 1972-1973 and 1976.
Date
1929-2005.
Fonds No.
P0290
History / Biographical
Hyman Anchel (1914-1983) and Rose Gotlieb (1912-1987) were born in Montreal to immigrants from Romania and Russia. Hyman Anchel was active in B'nai Brith as the social service chairman for many years. A wrestling champion at the YMHA, Hy also was one of the three members to open the Y pool in 1929. In 1953, he 'swam' out of the Y with his children Gloria and Stanley and opened the new Snowden Y pool. Rose Gotlieb was a member of the Y Minstrels, which entertained Canada's troops during World War II. Their daughter Gloria Anchel Gilbert married Joseph Gilbert, also of Montreal in 1965 and re-located to London, Ontario. Joseph is the son of Morris Gilbert and Silvia Schwam who immigrated from Dobzyn on the Vistula, Poland in 1935 and 1930 respectively.
Custodial History
This collection was given by Gloria Anchel Gilbert, daughter of Rose Gotlieb and Hyman Anchel, in November of 2021. The additions were donated in June 2022 by Gloria Anchel Gilbert and Joseph Gilbert.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P21/07.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BATSHAW, Justice Harry

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn88127
Collection
BATSHAW, Justice Harry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
sound recording
Physical Description
Env. 62 photographs. - Env. 0.08 metres of textual records. - 7 medals. - 1 sound element.
Fonds No.
P0257
Date
1939-2007.
Scope and Content
Documents include a scrapbook of fragile newclippings and publicity about the United Palestine Appeal of 1940-1941; two bound volumes of Canadan Zionist, vols 7 and 8 (1939-1941); two scrapbook folders of photocopies, one of congratulatory letters from when Harry Batshaw became a judge in 1950, and…
Collection
BATSHAW, Justice Harry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
sound recording
Physical Description
Env. 62 photographs. - Env. 0.08 metres of textual records. - 7 medals. - 1 sound element.
Scope and Content
Documents include a scrapbook of fragile newclippings and publicity about the United Palestine Appeal of 1940-1941; two bound volumes of Canadan Zionist, vols 7 and 8 (1939-1941); two scrapbook folders of photocopies, one of congratulatory letters from when Harry Batshaw became a judge in 1950, and one of newsclippings dating from this time (These photocopies are additions to the materials already at CJ Archives in Harry Batshaw's box, ZB collection). There is an album of photographs and documents about events such as the Negev dinner honouring Harry Batshaw, and other events (JNF, Allience Israelite Universelle, Harry Batshaw Foundation, etc). The dinner photos include pictures of family members who attended. A second photo album contains mostly family photos and portraits. Among the regular sized and smaller photographs, both loose and in albums, there are several portraits of Harry Batshaw taken at various times, including in judge's robes; picture of Harry with son Lewis (aged around 9), both wearing military-style uniforms, in front of their Westmount house; picture of son Lewis Batshaw on a boat at the Lord Reading Yacht Club and a small picture of him circa 1942 (aged around 8) holding a fish at the family's country home on Lake Connolly; family pictures in album including at Yacht Club and Lake Connolly. Two large photos: group photo of the Workman's Circle of Montreal, 1940 with Harry's father identified in the group; composite photo of Jewish judges in Canada at time of Canada's Centennial in 1967. Two large rolled JNF certificates, one with several Montreal signatures. One large rolled certificate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of the loose documents in the family album is the marriage certificate for Harry Batshaw and Anne Tarshis, 1928. Other loose documents in the collection include ephemera from a royal visit to Canada and materials pertaining to the Allience Israelite Universelle and other topics. Objects: 1956 Negev Dinner commemorative certificate for Harry Bartshaw, with photo and map of land, wax seal, ribbon; in wooden-cover book inside a box. 7 medals for various commemorative honours, in an open box; two are of the same type in large and small versions, René Cassin Human Rights award, Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, Canada's 1967 Centennial. One interview of Harry Batshaw on audiocassette speaking about his brother Manny, 14 minutes 30 seconds (a digital copy was made from the tape on Feb 1, 2017.)
Date
1939-2007.
Fonds No.
P0257
History / Biographical
Born in 1902, Harry Batshaw was a lawyer and a judge. He was educated at McGill University and at the Sorbonne, appointed King's Counsel in 1940 and made a Judge of the Quebec Superior Court in 1950. He was the first Jew to be appointed to a Superior Court in Canada. He was very active in Jewish community issues: notably he was honorary vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Canada; secretary of the Baron de Hirsch Institute; president of Canadian Young Judea; and co­chairman of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. He helped found Amitiés culturelles Canada-Français-Israël. He died in 1984.
Custodial History
The collection was donated Sept. 9, 2016. by son Lewis Batshaw and daughter-in-law Huguette Batshaw
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P16/13, MCAT, PCAT.Associated material: See also Harry Batshaw collection P0007 (in CJC collection, series ZB).
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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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
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Bloomfield family (Neri and Bernard Bloomfield, Evelyn Schachter) - Zionist activities

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75347
Collection
Bloomfield family (Neri and Bernard Bloomfield, Evelyn Schachter) - Zionist activities
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
moving images
graphic material
Physical Description
1.6 metres of textual records. - 6 films. - Env. 30 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0247
Date
1918-2007.
Scope and Content
Textual records dating from 1918-2007, collected by Evelyn Bloomfield Schachter and her parents Bernard and Neri Bloomfield over the course of their long involvement in Montreal and international Jewish community activities, especially related to Israel and to Zionist organizations in Canada. Organ…
Collection
Bloomfield family (Neri and Bernard Bloomfield, Evelyn Schachter) - Zionist activities
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
moving images
graphic material
Physical Description
1.6 metres of textual records. - 6 films. - Env. 30 photographs.
Scope and Content
Textual records dating from 1918-2007, collected by Evelyn Bloomfield Schachter and her parents Bernard and Neri Bloomfield over the course of their long involvement in Montreal and international Jewish community activities, especially related to Israel and to Zionist organizations in Canada. Organizations represented in the collection include: Hadassah-Wizo (early involvement by Neri Bloomfield, and later by her daughter Evelyn), Canadian Zionist Federation, Israel Bonds, JNF, Histadrut-AMAL, Technion University. Canadian Friends of Hebrew University and other university support organizations, as well as Jerusalem 3000 and other projects related to hospitals and schools in Israel. Some family documents and images are also included in the collection, including the earliest dated material found here. There are a few oversize items, including 2 large rolled photographs of Histadrut conventions in New York (early 1950s), a smaller rolled photo of a Histadrut campaign dinner in Montreal in 1948, a large group photograph from Hadassah Wizo in Toronto (1957), a Jewish National Fund blueprint for the Bloomfiield forest in Israel, and a 1970 Conservative Party election poster for Evelyn Bloomfield's brother Harry Bloomfield, during the campaign when he ran against Pierre Elliot Trudeau for the Mount Royal riding. There are 6 reels of 16 mm. film stock of film related to the Bloomfield family's Israel activities or film financing ventures, copied from the Bloomfield collection at the Public Archives of Canada (now LAC).
Date
1918-2007.
Fonds No.
P0247
History / Biographical
Neri Bloomfield served as national president of the Canadian Zionist Federation. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, was educated in London, and immigrated to Canada in 1941. She was an active volunteer and effective leader and fundraiser in both the Jewish and non Jewish communities for many years. She was a member of the International Board of the Hebrew University, presided respectively over many Canadian organizations and campaigns. Mrs. Bloomfield was the youngest National President of Canadian Hadassah-Wizo (1972-76), the first woman to hold the position of National President of the Canadian Zionist Federation (1984-87), as well as the first female President of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (1988-91). She was also a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of Hapoalim (Canada); the only woman director in the Bank's history. She was actively involved with St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she was awarded an Honourary LL.D. (Doctor of Laws). She was a member of its International Board of Governors of the Hebrew University since 1971, and received an Honorary Ph.D. from there. She was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion. Her Canadian involvements included serving as President of the Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital and serving as the Chair of the Canadian celebrations for Jerusalem 3000. (Source: jafi.org - The Jewish Agency for Israel.) Bernard Manfred Bloomfield, business executive, community leader and philanthropist, was born in Montreal and educated at McGill University. He was president of Canadian Manufacturers Sales Company, Israel Continental Oil Co. Ltd., which drilled for oil in Israel from 1954 to 1967, and New Continental Oil Co. of Canada. He was Honorary Consul General, Republic of Korea from 1969 until his death. Bloomfield served on the boards of numerous Jewish organizations and institutions including the Canadian Association for Labour Israel and its Canadian Histadrut Campaign, Jewish National Fund of Canada, 1969-1974, Canadian Technion Society and the Lady Davis Medical Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital. He was also active in Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Canada-Israel Maritime League, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada, and the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Israel. As president of the Eldee Foundation, established by Henrietta Davis, the first wife of Sir Mortimer B. Davis who founded Imperial Tobacco, Bernard and his brother Louis used the proceeds to build 16 of the 65 Amal vocational high schools in Israel. Bloomfield was a Governor of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, the Hebrew University, the Technion, St. Francis Xavier University and the Tel Aviv Museum. He was author of Israel Diary, 1950, an account of his first trip to Israel. He received numerous awards and honours for his community service. Source: National Library and Archives Canada bio, taken from Canadian Who's Who, 1984, p. 121. Evelyn Bloomfield Schachter, daughter of Bernard and Neri Bloomfield, is vice president of the Eldee Foundation. She is deeply involved in numerous Montreal Jewish organizations. Harry Bloomfield, born 1944, is Managing partner of the law firm of Bloomfield & Avocats, and is a philanthropist and businessman.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P13/08, MC 32.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn280
Collection
BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.52 metres of textual records. - Env. 218 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0178
Date
1915-2021.
Scope and Content
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986);…
Collection
BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.52 metres of textual records. - Env. 218 photographs.
Scope and Content
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986); the letters are summarized and in many cases translated by the donor. Immigration papers (1936). Yeshiva registration, (1932). Purse that had contained letters (1930s). Declaration of name change (1943). Marriage certificate (1925). Affidavit declaring removal of Grocery store (1963). Folder of the White Star ship containing postcards (1920s and 1930s). Booklet about founding of Kibbutz Ein Hashofet (1937-1938). Various other documents. Assorted stamps. Approximately 190 photographs of family (Lithuania, Canada, Israel) dating from circa 1890 to the 1990s. There are also 2 composite class photos; Morris Winchevsky School 1946, Baron Byng High School 1950. Several additions have been made to the collection since the intiial donation. In 2010, addition of copies of previously untranslated letters dating from 1949-1982, with translations from Yiddish into English attached. From 2013-2017 most of the additions consist of writings by Shirley Sarah Bloomstone Angrist. Added in 2013, a 23 page story 'Malca the Queen,' about Bloomstone Angrist's aunt, based on the translated letters; in 2013, a 3-page essay titled 'Vignettes From World War II', concerning Bloomstone Angrist's childhood recollections of living in Montreal during WWII. The 2014 addition consists of 24 additional family photographs. Added in 2015: Mini-memoir written 2015 about the period 1918-1979 (12 pages). Added in 2017: Four short anecdotal memoir stories written in 2017, mainly about Montreal about the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, titled 'The Sweetness and Sadness of Home', 'Books Forever', 'Hints of Discrimination', and 'Family Holocaust Letters' (a total of 9 pages).Addition 2020: Documents associated with Pauline Zlatis Bloomstone: Booklet of Yiddish songs, collected in the 1940s; A Yiddish poem about the value of studying Torah; Pamphlet titled 'Who needs Yiddish?'; condolence card upon her death, 1964, from Pioneer Women's Organization. Also copies of drawings of Ponevezh Lithuania done by Montreal family friend Abrasha Bogen, given to donor in 2004.Addition 2021:Story About Moshe Blumshtein (1910 - 1984)." As the introduction explains, the story is about our uncle's major work in developing the Kibbutz movement from the 1930s forward, as well as the family's arduous travels when they were expelled from Lithuania during World War I. Also the original Hebrew version that served as the basis of this history.Addition 2022: 3 photos of de la Savane cemetery grave sites, described by donor Sarah Angrist as: "My Father, Velvel Bloomstone standing next to Great-Grandfather Avraham Blumshtein's gravestone in circa 1935, and the gravestones of my parents Pessl (Pauline) Bloomstone d.1964 and Velvel (William) Bloomstone d. 1967." Photocopied photograph of a school class in Lithuania circa 1900, including faculty and students; "My grandfather, Dovid Itzik Blumshtein, born circa 1877 is shown with the teachers in the second row, one seat from the right. I'm guessing he was about 20 in this picture." 1931 certificate for Sarah Angrist's mother's purchase of a sewing machine from the T.Eaton Company, "an object she and I used for years with great pleasure and productivity". Illustrated document by Sarah Angrist, dated May 2022, approximately 20 pages, detailing the Bloomstone-Angrist family descendants, including a one-page genealogy, assorted colour laser copied photos, names, and dates over four generations.
Date
1915-2021.
Fonds No.
P0178
History / Biographical
The earliest Bloomstone family members to immigrate to Montreal arrived in the mid 1920s, including the donor's father Velvel (Wolff, or William) Bloomstone, born 1902 in Keidan, Lithuania. The donor's mother Pessl (Zlatis) Bloomstone, born 1904 in Ragola, Lithuania, arrived in Montreal in 1927. The Bloomstone-Zlatis collection contains letters written before and after the Holocaust by family members who had remained behind in Lithuania, and also by relatives who later moved to Israel. Family photographs and various official documents from their immigration and life in Canada are also included in the collection. This material formed the basis for the history-based writings of the donor, Shirley Sarah Bloomstone Angrist, a resident of Pittsburgh at the time of the initial donation in early 2001.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Shirley Bloomstone Angrist in several increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P2001/02, P10/15, P12/09, P14/13, P15/25, P17/13, P20/12, P21/12 and P22/11.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn301
Collection
BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - 0.3 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 4 sound elements.
Fonds No.
P0201
Date
1934-2006 Scancopy.
Scope and Content
Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially receive…
Collection
BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - 0.3 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 4 sound elements.
Scope and Content
Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially received and scanned by Tatiana Jour in the context of her Russian Jewish Archives Project. It was noted at the time of the donation to the Archives that further materials on UNRAA (postwar aid to refugees) and Na'amat could be donated by the Borods at a later date. Added in 2007: Materials in prose, poetry and song pertaining to the history of Pioneer Woman Na'amat and Revivim, composed by Layah Surchin Borod. Binder of publicity clippings and ephemera of Na'amat. Binder of songs. Binder of Layah's memoirs, in verse, 1923-1960. Shaare Tzedek synagogue bulletins with material written by Layah or about Sam. Biography of Sam Borod written by Layah, including pre-war and wartime experiences. 4 cassette tapes of Revivim events. 2 original 1940s portrait photos, one each of Layah and Sam, Sam's portrait autographed to Layah. Small WWII Jewish serviceman's calendar and notebook, both with addresses as well as Japanese phrases.
Date
1934-2006 Scancopy.
Fonds No.
P0201
History / Biographical
Born in 1914, Sam Boroditsky of Montreal (the name was later changed to Borod) was a veteran of the European front in WWII. He was a paratrooper in Italy and the Aleutian Islands during WWII, earning many Canadian service decorations. He later worked in UNRAA, helping refugees overseas. His wife Laya (Surchin) Borod, born in 1922, was the daughter of Chaya Surchin, an early Zionist activist in Montreal. Layah was the first national executive director of Naamat Pioneer Women Canada and was the editor of their magazine. She was also the only Canadian president of the Pioneer Women Na'amat of America. Laya Borod worked in the office of CJC during the war, rising to office manager at age 19. She was active in Na'amat until her death in 2006. Sam Borod died in Montreal on May 8, 2012.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Sam Borod on May 26, 2005. The Borod collection came to CJCNA after Sam Borod approached Tatiana Jour at the Jewish Veteran's talk given by Jour. Addition 2007 was donated by Sam Borod on April 12, 2007.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P05/08, P07/11.General note: Historical materials pertaining to women's involvement in Zionist organization, women's personal history, literary creations, also wartime experiences of a Canadian paratrooper.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Bronfman, Allan, Lucy, and Edward

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90032
Collection
Bronfman, Allan, Lucy, and Edward
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 1160 photographs. - Env. 0.4 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
Fonds No.
P0275
Date
1922-2005.
Scope and Content
The collection consists primarily of 15 albums/scrapbooks, as well as additional photographs, correspondence, and documents. The collection documents Allan, Lucy, and Edward's professional and philanthropic endeavors, as well as the family life of Allan and Lucy Bronfman and their three children, i…
Collection
Bronfman, Allan, Lucy, and Edward
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 1160 photographs. - Env. 0.4 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
Scope and Content
The collection consists primarily of 15 albums/scrapbooks, as well as additional photographs, correspondence, and documents. The collection documents Allan, Lucy, and Edward's professional and philanthropic endeavors, as well as the family life of Allan and Lucy Bronfman and their three children, including childhood photos and family vacations. There are 7 large albums measuring at least 16" in length; included in this group are two which document Allan's birthday dinners in 1945, one in Montreal and the other in New York and relating to the Seagram business there, and one photo album from Allan's birthday party in New York in 1955. There is an album of correspondence relating to Allan's Man of the Year Israel Bonds event in 1964 and an album documenting the Jewish National Fund of Toronto Negev Dinner Tribute to Edward in 1997. A highlight of the album collection is a personal compendium of Edward's which has many photos and documents focused on the family life of Allan, Lucy, and their children Mona, Edward, and Peter. This volume includes some materials relating to Lucy's sister Lillian Bilsky Freiman, such as a news clipping from the summer of 1937 documenting a garden party for the Women's Auxiliary of the Jewish General Hospital given by Lucy and Lillian at Lucy's family home in Montreal. It also displays documents relating to Lucy's charitable work, her service as Chairman of the Hospitality Committee for the Jewish General Hospital Ball in 1938 and her service as Honorary Chairman of a concert given for the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund in 1943. There are 6 medium sized albums; included among these is a Bar Mitzvah album documenting Edward's Bar Mitzvah at Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Montreal in late 1940, which reflects the social climate of the war years in Canada. Also included in this group are two albums entitled "Lucy and Allan", documenting family travels as well as photos of Allan with famous figures such as Moishe Dayan, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurion. These 2 volumes include photos taken at City Hall with the Mayor of Montreal, and one of Allan and Lucy at Expo '67. There are 2 small albums; both are family focused photo albums, one dating from 1940s-1970s and consisting of family photos, vacation pictures, images of summer camp, and sports photographs. The other album consists mostly of childhood photos of Mona and Edward in the 1930s taken in Old Orchard as well as in Westmount, Quebec. The other components of the collection consist of a copy of Mary Seeman's chapter on Edward in the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation's 25th Anniversary Book, 23 loose photos, 1 Metal and wood plaque from the Sun Youth Organization to the Edward M. Bronfman Foundation, and 11 cm. of loose documents, many of them full newspapers containing obituaries for Edward Bronfman. One typed document consists of the eulogies delivered at Edward's funeral.
Date
1922-2005.
Fonds No.
P0275
History / Biographical
Allan Bronfman (1895-1980) was born in Brandon, Manitoba. He was a barrister, industrialist, philanthropist and a Zionist. He studied law at the University of Manitoba, and obtained his law degree at the age of 22. At the age of 24, he became the chairman of a Jewish orphanage in Winnipeg. In 1924, he left Winnipeg for Montreal, and joined the family's liquor business, Seagram's Ltd., where he served as vice-president. He was a founder and the driving force behind the creation of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, where he served as its first president, a post which lasted 25 years, as well as the founder of the Canadian Friends of Hebrew University in Israel. His wife Lucy Bronfman (1897-1983) was born Lucy Bilsky to parents Pauline and Moses Bilsky of Ottawa. One of her sisters was Lillian Bilsky Freiman of Ottawa, former president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada, social organizer, philanthropist, and community leader. Lucy was also active in charitable Jewish and Canadian organizations. These activities included her service as Chairman of the Hospitality Committee for the Jewish General Hospital Ball in 1938. She also served as Honorary Chairman of a concert given for the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund in 1943. Lucy and Allan had three children, Mona, Edward, and Peter. Mona (1924-1950) was active in charitable and artistic endeavors. In 1935, she served as president of the Montreal children's committee of the King George V Jubilee Forest Drive, while her aunt Lillian Bilsky Freiman served as national chairman of the organization and helped to inspire and organize the children's committee. Edward (1927-2005), and Peter (1929-1996) started the holding company and investment vehicle Edper Investments Ltd. in 1959. Edward was committed to the philanthropic tradition handed down from his parents; he was very active in charitable organizations such as the Canadian Council for Christians and Jews, the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation. In 1989 Edward formed the Edward Bronfman Family Foundation, a member of Philanthropic Foundations of Canada. As documented in Mary Seeman's chapter on Edward in the CPRF 25th Anniversary Book, the Edward Bronfman Family Foundation created a $1.5 million endowment fund in 2001, in partnership with the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in the area of mood disorders. Named the Mona Bronfman Sheckman Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award, it commemorates the life of Edward's sister Mona, who suffered from severe post-partum depression and committed suicide in 1950 at age 26.
Custodial History
This collection of family history materials was donated in May 2019 by Brian Bronfman, son of Edward Bronfman
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P 19/09.Related groups of records: See also Allan Bronfman material donated by Manny Batshaw in 1982; document collection code MC 06 and photograph collection code PC 5.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113336
Collection
Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.01 textual records.
Fonds No.
P0304
Date
1854-1867.
Scope and Content
Bound book containing an inventory of hardware items from 1854 followed by a handwritten journal with entries from January 1866 to June 3, 1867. On January 11, March 16 and March 28, 1866 there are mentions of 'Jews' Passover bread' and a 'Passover bakehouse', which the donor considers to be the fi…
Collection
Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.01 textual records.
Scope and Content
Bound book containing an inventory of hardware items from 1854 followed by a handwritten journal with entries from January 1866 to June 3, 1867. On January 11, March 16 and March 28, 1866 there are mentions of 'Jews' Passover bread' and a 'Passover bakehouse', which the donor considers to be the first such references in Montreal writings. In penciled notes at the beginning of the volume a more recent owner of the volume has written that Andrew Brown was a clerk at Mulholland and Baker, Hardware Merchants on 327 Lagauchetiere Street / 243 St. Paul Street, in Montreal, according to Mackay's Montreal directory of 1863-1864. There are a few additional penciled highlights and clarifications or comments within the volume. The last pages of the book include some lines recording 'Deaths in our family' and a verse from the anthem 'God Save the Queen'.
Date
1854-1867.
Fonds No.
P0304
History / Biographical
As indicated in the notes added to the book, Andrew Brown was a clerk at Mulholland and Baker, Hardware Merchants on 327 Lagauthetiere Street / 243 St. Paul Street, in Montreal, according to Mackay's Montreal directory of 1863-1864.
Custodial History
The book was donated to the Archives in November 2023 by historian Sheldon Godfrey.
Notes
Physical description: Fragile. Physical condition: Fair. Alpha-numeric designations: P23/21.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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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…
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.
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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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…
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.
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
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CHALEFSKY, Abraham : Russian and Ottawa family documents

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78473
Collection
CHALEFSKY, Abraham : Russian and Ottawa family documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 7 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0252
Date
1929-1976.
Scope and Content
Family collection consisting of immigration and transit documents from Russia to Canada (1929), civil documents from Ottawa, Ontario, and correspondence (from Russia, 1929 on and from Buenos Aires, Argentina, ca. 1930 on). The immigration documents include a 1929 emigration passport for Abraham Cha…
Collection
CHALEFSKY, Abraham : Russian and Ottawa family documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 7 photographs.
Scope and Content
Family collection consisting of immigration and transit documents from Russia to Canada (1929), civil documents from Ottawa, Ontario, and correspondence (from Russia, 1929 on and from Buenos Aires, Argentina, ca. 1930 on). The immigration documents include a 1929 emigration passport for Abraham Chalefsky from the USSR / Russia, leaving from the port of Riga, with a Cunard ship line sticker on the cover. Also a Canadian passport in the name of Chalesfsky (sp.) issued 1968. Copies of the marriage certificate for Abraham Chalefsky and Bertha Sanders (1941) as well as copies of their death certificates (1949 and 1972), and a fragmented original birth certificate for their daughter (presumably Lorraine Miriam), born in August 1942. A copy of a marriage certificate for Abraham's sister Bessie Chalefsky and Max Farber, dated April 10, 1976 is also included in the collection. There are 7 photographs, including one of 2 men in Buenos Aires, three photographs including a bearded man that seem to be from Russia (one portrait, one family group and one of two men and a tombstone or monument.) There are two portrait snapshots of women, and a large portrait of Abraham Chalefsky and his wife Bertha Sanders, probably taken at the time of their marriage in 1941 (removed from cardboard mount.) A letter from Gail Kutner explains the collection. A translation of 3 of the letters, done from scans by Aaron Krishtalka in advance of the donation, is included with this collection.
Date
1929-1976.
Fonds No.
P0252
History / Biographical
According to his passport Abraham Chalefsky was born on June 1 1895, in Grezov, Russia. He came to Canada in 1929 and settled in Ottawa, marrying Bertha Sanders in 1941. At the time of his marriage his profession was listed as Bread Driver and hers as a pharmacy assistant. Abraham later became a successful businessman. They had a daughter, Lorraine/Miriam in August 1942. Bertha died in Ottawa on January 17, 1949 at the age of 39, and Abraham on October 30, 1972, aged 72 according to his death certificate (which listed his year of birth as 1900 and his place of birth as the Ukraine). Their daughter Miriam, who inherited these papers, died in Arlington, Va, USA,, in 2012, leaving her papers with her friend Gail Kutner, originally from Toronto and now living in Arlington, Virginia,
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Gail Kutner for (Lorraine) Miriam Chalefsky on June 2, 2015
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P15/12.General note: Includes display quality documents of an immigrant from Russia. Three of the Yiddish letters were translated into English in advance of the donation, based on scans, These translations enhance the context of the papers.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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COHEN, Yolande = Interviews with Moroccan Jewish Immigrants

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101056
Collection
COHEN, Yolande = Interviews with Moroccan Jewish Immigrants
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
book
Physical Description
Env. 0.885 metres of textual records. - Env. 656 photographs. - 124 other fixed images : slides. - 64 other fixed images : negative strips. - 45 discs : Floppy disk. - 28 compact discs (CD-ROM). - 25 videos : VHS. - 87 sound elements : audio cassette. - 18 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - 11 videos : mini DV. - 1 book. - 2 sound elements : Digital Audio Tape.
Fonds No.
P0293
Date
[ca. 1925] -2015.
Scope and Content
La collection comprend des entretiens sonores et vidéo, des transcriptions d'entretiens avec des immigrés juifs marocains, ainsi que de la documentation, y compris des photographies, sur les Juifs au Maroc et au Québec. Les entrevues ont été réalisées par Marie Berdugo-Cohen et par la Dre Yolande C…
Collection
COHEN, Yolande = Interviews with Moroccan Jewish Immigrants
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
book
Physical Description
Env. 0.885 metres of textual records. - Env. 656 photographs. - 124 other fixed images : slides. - 64 other fixed images : negative strips. - 45 discs : Floppy disk. - 28 compact discs (CD-ROM). - 25 videos : VHS. - 87 sound elements : audio cassette. - 18 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - 11 videos : mini DV. - 1 book. - 2 sound elements : Digital Audio Tape.
Scope and Content
La collection comprend des entretiens sonores et vidéo, des transcriptions d'entretiens avec des immigrés juifs marocains, ainsi que de la documentation, y compris des photographies, sur les Juifs au Maroc et au Québec. Les entrevues ont été réalisées par Marie Berdugo-Cohen et par la Dre Yolande Cohen. Les documents comprennent 66 cm de transcriptions d'entretiens, dactylographiées et manuscrites, et 22,5 cm de documents supplémentaires, de publications et de documentation. La documentation comprend des lectures d'introduction sur la culture juive produites pour le projet Histoires de vie Montréal de l'Université Concordia, et un exemplaire du livre 'Juifs marocains à Montréal : Témoignage d'une immigration moderne' de Marie Berdugo-Cohen, Yolande Cohen et Joseph Lévy, (Montreal: VLB, 1987). 45 disquettes de 3,5 pouces contenant des photos et des documents qui ont été largement utilisés dans le cadre du projet 'Les Juifs du Maroc à travers les âges : Traditions et modernité' (voir SE012) ont été copiées et sauvegardées dans des formats numériques lisibles avec un total de 38,5 Mo de données dans 754 fichiers. 25 cassettes vidéo VHS, 85 cassettes audio et 11 mini DV contenant des enregistrements, certains étant accompagnés d'une copie numérique sur DVD ; en tout, il y a 23 DVD d'entretiens. Il y a également 26 CD contenant des images et d'autres documents. Le livre 'Juif marocains de Montréal', basé sur de nombreux entretiens, est inclus dans la collection. La collection comprend de nombreuses images, dont 124 diapositives, 64 bandes négatives (contenant 374 images), 9 planches contact et 647 photographies imprimées. Datant des années 1920 au XXe siècle, les images consistent en des photos de famille personnelles, des originaux et des copies d'images en noir et blanc et en couleur documentant des sites importants, des traditions, des objets liturgiques, des artistes et leurs oeuvres, l'artisanat, la culture alimentaire et des personnalités éminentes, qui ont ensuite été intégrés au projet 'Les Juifs du Maroc à travers les âges : Traditions et modernité'.
The collection consists of recorded audio and video interviews and transcripts of interviews with Moroccan Jewish immigrants and background documentation, including photographs, about Jewish communities in Morocco and in Quebec. The interviews were conducted by Marie Berdugo-Cohen and by Dr. Yolande Cohen. There are three clusters of recorded interviews - 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s. Each cluster corresponds to specific projects. There are 66 cm of interview transcripts, both typed and handwritten, 1970s-1989. 22.5 cm of additional papers, publications, and background documentation. The documentation includes some introductory readings about Jewish culture produced for the Concordia University Montreal Life Stories project, and a copy of the book 'Juifs Marocains à Montréal: Témoignages d'une immigration moderne' by Marie Berdugo-Cohen, Yolande Cohen, and Joseph Lévy, (Montreal: VLB, 1987). 45 3.5 inch floppy disks containing photos and documents which would largely be incorporated into the project 'Les Juifs du Maroc à travers les âges : Traditions et modernité' (see SE012) were copied and saved in readable digital formats with a total of 38.5 MB of data in 754 files. 25 VHS videotapes ca.1980-1999, 87 audio cassette tapes, 1980-1988, 2001. 11 Mini DVs containing recordings, with some being accompanied by a digital copy on DVD; in all there are 18 DVDs of interviews. 2 digital audio tapes. 124 slides. 64 negative strips (containing 374 images). 9 contact sheets. 647 print photographs. Dating from the 1920s through the 20th century, the images consist of personal family photos, originals and copies of black and white and colour images documenting important sites, traditions, liturgical objects, artists and their works, crafts, food culture, and prominent individuals later incorporated into the project 'Les Juifs du Maroc à travers les âges: Traditions et mordernité'.
Date
[ca. 1925] -2015.
Fonds No.
P0293
History / Biographical
Née au Maroc en 1950, Professeure Yolande Cohen est professeure d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Avant d'immigrer au Québec en 1968, elle a étudié à Paris, en France. Formée à l'histoire sociale et aux mouvements sociaux contemporains, Cohen s'est attachée à illustrer les processus par lesquels des groupes traditionnellement exclus de la vie politique ont développé leur sociabilité et d'autres formes d'intervention publique. Elle a été pionnière dans l'histoire de la jeunesse, l'histoire des femmes et l'histoire des Juifs marocains. Cohen a été chargée de cours à Rimouski, au Québec, et a enseigné l'histoire à l'UQAM en 1976. Elle a participé à la fondation de Vélo Québec, du Regroupement des femmes du Québec et de Montréal écologique la même année. Mme Cohen a été la chef de file de la Coalition démocratique-Montréal écologique et s'est présentée comme leur candidate à la mairie de Montréal lors des élections de 1994. Depuis, elle a enseigné dans des universités aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Canada. Depuis février 2012, elle collabore à l'édition québécoise du HuffPost et est l'auteure d'un certain nombre d'ouvrages universitaires. Cohen est membre de la Société royale du Canada et a été nommée Chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur en 2011 et Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec en 2017.
Born in Morocco in 1950, Dr. Yolande Cohen is a professor of contemporary history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Before immigrating to Quebec in 1968, she studied in Paris, France. Trained in social history and contemporary social movements, Cohen has focused on illustrating the processes by which groups traditionally excluded from political life have developed their sociability and other forms of public intervention. She has been a pioneer in youth history, women's history, and the history of Moroccan Jews. Cohen was a lecturer in Rimouski, Quebec and taught history at UQAM in 1976 and helped to found Vélo Québec, du Regroupement des femmes du Québec et de Montréal écologique in the same year. Cohen was the leader of the Coalition Démocratique-Montréal Écologique and ran as their mayorial candidate for in Montreal's 1994 election. She has since taught at universities in the USA, Europe, and Canada. Since February of 2012, she has been a contributor to HuffPost, Quebec edition, and has authored a number of academic works. Cohen is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was awarded the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 2011 and Knight of the National Order of Québec in 2017.
Custodial History
Les documents ont été donnés aux Archives par Yolande Cohen en 2022.
The materials were donated to the Archives by Yolande Cohen in 2022
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P23/01.General note: The collection contains 28 CD-ROMs and 7 3.5 inch floppy disks with conent that could not be accessed at the time of processing.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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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…
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.
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
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Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham

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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
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DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola

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Collection
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
Fonds No.
P0164
Date
1860?-1922.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriag…
Collection
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriage documents, memorabilia including war medals of Mrs. Maude de Sola; file of correspondence 1870-1920, including 3 envelopes addressed to Rev. A. de Sola (1870-1873), a letter from "Mummy" in Cleveland (1901), a letter from Clarence to his aunts (1901), 3 letters from Clarence to his wife, (1914 and 1920, with envelopes), and one letter to son Rafael, 1914. The three letters dated August 1914 are written from Montreal and make reference to the outbreak of WWI.
Date
1860?-1922.
Fonds No.
P0164
History / Biographical
Born in Montreal on August 15, 1858, Clarence de Sola was the third son of the renowned Victorian rabbi Rev. Alexander Abraham de Sola of the Shearith Israel synagogue of Montreal. He married Belle Maud Goldsmith of Cleveland in 1901. He was a contractor and served in the consular service as well as a leader of the social and communal life of Canadian Jewry, a founder and long-time president of the Federation Societies of Canada; and the author of numerous articles on Jewish history. He died in May 1920. His father Abraham de Sola was the first Jewish professor to teach Hebrew at McGill University, was rabbi of the Shearith Israel, Montreal's oldest congregation from 1848 until his death. Meldola gained widespread recognition as the cantor at the Shearith Israel.
Custodial History
The documents are on permanent loan from Ms. Gillian Mosely, in May 1998 (The documents were placed on permanent loan in May, 1998). These items belonged to Lady Jessica Mellor, who had the diaries microfilmed for the National Archives of Canada. Gillian Mosely, her niece, took care of her and received these items upon her death.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P98/01.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0164ClarencedeSolaletterOutbreakWWI-Aug1914

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ELIASOPH family : Riga Latvia and Quebec City

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn98447
Collection
ELIASOPH family : Riga Latvia and Quebec City
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 26 photographs. - Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
Fonds No.
P0283
Date
1900-1960s.
Scope and Content
Immigration documents, correspondence and life documents.1 Latvian passport, 1923. 27 black and white photos. 2 colour photos. 2 fragile certificates, 1991-1912. 2 fragile notebooks. 1 book Royal Threads by Judith Rosen and edited by Helen Iranyi, 2013.
Collection
ELIASOPH family : Riga Latvia and Quebec City
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 26 photographs. - Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
Scope and Content
Immigration documents, correspondence and life documents.1 Latvian passport, 1923. 27 black and white photos. 2 colour photos. 2 fragile certificates, 1991-1912. 2 fragile notebooks. 1 book Royal Threads by Judith Rosen and edited by Helen Iranyi, 2013.
Date
1900-1960s.
Fonds No.
P0283
History / Biographical
Moishe Eliasoph emigrated from Riga, Latvia in the 1910s and became a prominent Rabbi in Quebec City. His sister Sophie had a store in Bilderingshof, near Riga, along the coast in Latvia. After she became a widow, she immigrated to Canada in 1924. Their brother Leopold remained behind in Latvia where he died in WWII, along with his wife Glasha and their three sons David, Misha, and Boris. Sophie married Phillip David Rosengarten (in Riga) in 1896. He died in Riga in 1919. They were the parents of William, who was the grandfather of the donor of this collection.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Sean Rosengarten on February 24, 2020
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P20/04.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David

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Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 7 metres of textual records. - Env. 35 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0251
Date
[1914-1991].
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the papers of Rabbi David Feuerwerker and his wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The collection was received in two increments, the first consisting of 15 boxes before arrangement. Subjects of these documents include correspondence, University of Montreal issues, research…
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 7 metres of textual records. - Env. 35 photographs.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the papers of Rabbi David Feuerwerker and his wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The collection was received in two increments, the first consisting of 15 boxes before arrangement. Subjects of these documents include correspondence, University of Montreal issues, research notes and copies of from archives used in preparation of writings on the emancipation of the Jews of France, documents about the Rabbi's involvement in the Montreal Va'ad Ha'ir, family and immigration-related papers. A few photographs of the rabbi's funeral were among these papers. Two boxes pertain specifically to the activities of the Rabbi's wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The second group of documents, received on June 11 and distributed into an additional 8 boxes, contains additional University of Montréal materials, and approximately 25 family photographs, among them Rabbi Feuerwerker as a child with his father and with his sisters, a wartime image from when he served as a French army chaplain (newsprint photo), pictures of Antoinette Feuerwerker with their daughters, and other pictures of the daughters (notably Natania, also pictured with her husband Gérard Étienne) , as well as a folder box of biographical documents about Rabbi Feuerwerker compiled at the time of his death. After cataloguing, the collection was divided into the following series: A) University of Montreal documents, B) Writings, C) Rabbinic activities D) Personal documents, E) Research notes, F) Correspondance and materials on diverse subjects, and G) Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker's papers.
Date
[1914-1991].
Fonds No.
P0251
History / Biographical
Born in Geneva in 1912 into a family of Hungarian Jewish origin, Rabbi Feuerwerker arrived in Montreal from France in the 1966 after a career in France which included serving as an army chaplain in the French army and participating in the Resistance during World War II, then serving as Chief Rabbi in Lyon, and later officiating in Neuilly-sur-Seine and Tournelles, near Paris, as well as teaching at the Sorbonne. In Montreal he was the first native Francophone rabbi associated with the Va'ad Ha'Ir of Montreal, and founded the first French language Jewish Studies program in Canada, at the University of Montreal. He also conducted religious services out of his home. His most well-known published work was about the emancipation of the Jews of France. Rabbi Feuerwerker died in Montreal on June 20, 1980 and was buried in Jerusalem. His wife Antoinette (Gluck) Feuerwerker was born in 1912, in Antwerp (Borgherout), Belgium. Before WWII she was a jurist with a degree from the University of Strasbourg, After they married in 1939, she worked with Rabbi Feuerwerker in the Resistance in France in WWII, and was involved in his research and counseling activities after the war. In Montreal she taught at College Français. Modern Orthodox (Ashkenazi) in orientation like her husband, after Rabbi Feuerwerker's death she kept his home synagogue (shtible) operating from 1980 to 2000 and served as its spiritual counselor. She died in February 2003, three years after moving to Israel.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Rabbi Feuerwerker's daughter, Natania Étienne-Feuerwerker (via Pierre Anctil)
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P15/11, MC 36.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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