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ABRAHAM JOSEPH DIARIES

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn539
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.6 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0220; A
Date
N.a.
Scope and Content
The series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century. The original is housed at the National Archives of Canada. There are typewritten transcripts of the diary contents by Annette Wolff as well as a bound volume which she titled Bachelor's Hall or Maturing with Canada 1834-187…
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.6 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century. The original is housed at the National Archives of Canada. There are typewritten transcripts of the diary contents by Annette Wolff as well as a bound volume which she titled Bachelor's Hall or Maturing with Canada 1834-1876: Diary of Abraham Joseph of Quebec. Also included is a photocopy of the 1882-1883 diaries of Fanny David Joseph, one of Abraham Joseph's daughters, and original extracts from her 1886 diary on life at Kinkardine Place, Quebec City. Of particular note is The Blue Book, a handwritten newsletter written between 1839 and 1842. The Blue Book was usually written by male members of the Joseph family residing in Montreal. It was the precursor of another extremely long-lived Joseph family newsletter, The Moon. The Blue Book is filled with family and community gossip, with the people and places disguised by droll nicknames. Questions of religious observance and decorum surface frequently, reflecting the concerns of a family that moved in non-Jewish circles while striving to maintain their identity. Similar spoofs are in this series as well: an original issue of The Tattler, handwritten in 1839, and a photocopy of the Gazette of Fashion, November 1835. The series contains an original 1828 school certificate stating that Abraham Joseph was at the head of his class; photocopies of Abraham Joseph's Quebec Light Infantry certificate; property sale deeds from 1815 and 1864, including his Natashquaw property; press clips regarding his Quebec City mayoralty nomination in 1859 as well as copies of his obituary from various newspapers.The series also contains Annette Wolff's research papers on various members of the Joseph, Hart, Judah, David and Pinto families, including family trees, as well as her correspondence with the Public Archives of Canada and academic institutions regarding the publication of Bachelor's Hall.
Date
N.a.
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
A
History / Biographical
Abraham Joseph was born at Berthier, Quebec, on November 14, 1815, the son of Henry and Rachel (Solomon) Joseph. After the death of his father, he moved to Quebec City, where he resided until his death, on March 20, 1886. In March 1846 he was married to Sophia, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hart) David, and had four sons and seven daughters. Abraham Joseph was a successful businessman, and his name was identified with almost every commercial enterprise of his time, in most cases as a director. For a number of years, he was president of the Quebec Board of Trade and later became president of the newly formed Dominion Board of Trade. He was one of the original directors of the Banque Nationale and was a member of the board of that institution which convened for eleven years without change. Mr. Joseph resigned from the directorate of this bank, which office he held until the bank was wound up. He was a member of the Quebec City Council, and at the time was a candidate for the mayoralty, being defeated by a very few votes. For over thirty years he was vice-consul for Belgium. He took a lively interest but no prominent part in politics. During the Papineau Rebellion in 1837-1838, Mr. Joseph served with the Quebec Light Infantry, attaining the rank of major. Intensely proud of his English descent, Mr. Joseph was a life member of the St. George's Society and several times its president. Although in his day there was no organized Jewish community in Quebec, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph maintained a completely Jewish atmosphere in their home and were as highly regarded by their Roman Catholic and Protestant co-residents as by their Jewish neighbours. He was at all times regarded as the leader of his community. He was the founder of the wholesale grocery business, under the name of Joseph & Co. Mr. Joseph was a member of the Stadacona, Garrison, and Tandem Clubs, Quebec. Abraham Joseph's diaries are a valuable early record of Jewish life and material culture in Quebec.
Notes
General note: Abraham Joseph's diary, coupled with Annette Wolff's background papers, provides a wealth of information on the social, economic and religious life in 19th century Quebec. The material is of great value to historians, sociologists, authors, journalists, and teachers and students of Quebec life in the 1800s.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Additional Material

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn77965
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
9.3 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0037; V
Date
1926-1983.
Scope and Content
The material is divided into several sub-series based on function including administration, correspondence, minutes, Case Files, news clippings and publications, papers of Dr. Kage, passport application forms, and a small amount of Yiddish papers and clippings.
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
9.3 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The material is divided into several sub-series based on function including administration, correspondence, minutes, Case Files, news clippings and publications, papers of Dr. Kage, passport application forms, and a small amount of Yiddish papers and clippings.
Date
1926-1983.
Fonds No.
I0037
Series No.
V
History / Biographical
This series consists of additional materials from the JIAS collection that were catalogued in February 2015. Some overlaps with previously catalogued material.
Custodial History
This material was received from JIAS in 1984 but was not processed at the time that the original cataloge was created.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: MA 03.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Administrative Files

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn408
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.93 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; A
Date
1938-1969.
Scope and Content
Includes documents dealing with the formation and operation of the UJRA, such as its charter, budgets and statistics. Other data includes memoranda and minutes, information on relief, immigration, and diplomatic efforts, and correspondence with the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society regarding location of…
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.93 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Includes documents dealing with the formation and operation of the UJRA, such as its charter, budgets and statistics. Other data includes memoranda and minutes, information on relief, immigration, and diplomatic efforts, and correspondence with the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society regarding location of families of individual immigrants. There is also documentation on professional licensing, which deals with policies for those immigrants wanting to enter professions
Date
1938-1969.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
A
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ANNETTE WOLFF

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn542
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 3 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0220; D
Date
1919-1991.
Scope and Content
This series includes Annette's letters to family members from 1919 to 1991 as well as correspondence from friends worldwide. Diary and travel calendars span the years 1929 to 2005, and there is also extensive travel memorabilia, among them luggage tags and ships' stationery and newsletters. Mostly …
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 3 artefacts.
Scope and Content
This series includes Annette's letters to family members from 1919 to 1991 as well as correspondence from friends worldwide. Diary and travel calendars span the years 1929 to 2005, and there is also extensive travel memorabilia, among them luggage tags and ships' stationery and newsletters. Mostly undated farewell cards, greeting cards and birthday cards to her are among the series, which includes a 75th birthday certificate signed by Brian Mulroney, then Canada's Prime Minister. The series also includes items from Annette's early years, such as Westmount elementary and high school report cards, her vaccination certificate, school notebooks and drawings, as well as letters from the Joseph and Wolff summer vacation home in St. Patrick, Quebec. One finds correspondence concerning her work as a counsellor at the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) fresh air camp in 1932. Included in this file are a camper's licence test and a 1926 Canadian National Railway camp craft booklet. Annette's leadership of the Shaar Hashomayim girl guide troop is also recorded here. The series contains a 1938 Girl Guides rally brochure, a sea ranger test card, and a Scout and Guide memorial service brochure for Baden-Powell. Annette Wolff's employment correspondence is collected here, as are numerous press clips on her life and accomplishments. For example, an article appeared on Annette Wolff in the 1992 "Dental Practice" entitled "Was she the first [dental] hygienist in U.K.?"During World War II, Annette maintained correspondence with soldiers overseas. Their letters are here included along with several POW envelopes. Of further interest are Annette Wolff's World War II ration book, an army mailing label, and materials pertaining to the Jewish branch of the Canadian Red Cross. One also finds war-time correspondence from Mina Kocherthaler, a young German-Jewish refugee who was brought to England under the sponsorship of Annette and Sarah Wolff, who were living in England during the war.An original 1930 edition of the Joseph family's annual Purim newsletter The Moon is included, as are Annette's yearly contributions to the newsletter which are often humorous and always informative as to the Joseph family history. Her numerous plays, essays, poems and speeches are here included as well. Various papers on Canadiana and the Commonwealth's royal family - both of keen interest to Annette - can be found in this series. Correspondence, press and window display information for the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry are here found, as Annette was involved in the preparations and planning for the 1959 event. Other papers relate to Annette's involvement with the Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian Jewish Historical Society, the German Benevolent Society, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, England's Jewish Historical Society, the Last Post Fund, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogues in London, Montreal and New York, and the World Ship Society.Also included in this series are envelopes and cancelled stamps from the 1930s to 1984.
Date
1919-1991.
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
D
History / Biographical
Annette Wolff (born 1911) graduated as a dental hygienist from the Forsyth Dental Infirmary in Boston in 1931. She was employed in a variety of capacities in her adult life, including work for the telephone exchange in London, England; the Inspection Board of the U.K. and Canada; and the Canadian National Research Council Atomic Energy Research Lab. Annette was deeply interested in documenting the history of her family and synagogue, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (Shearith Israel) of Montreal. Notably, she devoted considerable attention to transcribing and researching the Abraham Joseph diary. She also wrote extensively on other historical topics and was often called upon to speak to various organizations about her research. She was a prolific writer of letters, essays, poems and plays. Annette Wolff was a lover of all things naval, travelling extensively by ship to Europe and Bermuda, and was the founding member of the Montreal branch of the World Ship Society. Annette was the quintessential chronicler and keeper of all things large and small, which has resulted in a broad array of collected papers. She died in November 2012.
Notes
General note: This series is of great value to historians in numerous fields, journalists, authors, philatelists, and ship travel aficionados.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78526
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0251; G
Date
1960-1991.
Scope and Content
This series focuses on documents related to Antoinette Gluck, between 1960 and 1991. It includes mostly correspondence and documents relating to her life and activities after the death of her husband Rabbi David Feuerwerker. Cette série porte sur les documents reliés à les activités d'Antoinette Gl…
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series focuses on documents related to Antoinette Gluck, between 1960 and 1991. It includes mostly correspondence and documents relating to her life and activities after the death of her husband Rabbi David Feuerwerker. Cette série porte sur les documents reliés à les activités d'Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker, entre 1960 et 1991. Elle témoigne en particulier des correspondances, feuillet reliée a la vie après David Feuerwerker.
Date
1960-1991.
Fonds No.
P0251
Series No.
G
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Arts Stabilization

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113266
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
sound recording
Physical Description
Env. 1.98 metres of textual records. - 1 disc.
Fonds No.
I0116; B
Date
1989-2008.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of administrative materials including correspondence, reports, requests, budgets, notes memos, meeting minutes, programs, proposals.
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
sound recording
Physical Description
Env. 1.98 metres of textual records. - 1 disc.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of administrative materials including correspondence, reports, requests, budgets, notes memos, meeting minutes, programs, proposals.
Date
1989-2008.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
B
History / Biographical
The Arts Stabilization program was presented to the SSBFF in the 1993 by executive director John Hobday in response to dwindling financial support for arts and cultural institutions in the wake of economic recession. Once approved by the Board of Directors, the program would operate in connection with the Canadian Arts Heritage Sustainability Program (CAHSP) to support arts organizations in every province, most notably in the Atlantic and Prairie regions, until 2005.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BILICH, Lev

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn498
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
Fonds No.
I0088; 61
Date
1945c (copies)-2006.
Scope and Content
Documents about life as an engineer in Odessa, Ukraine, experiences during WWII, wife's life in Ukraine, life post-1995 immigration to Montreal, articles published in survivors' newsletter and Wallenberg newsletter, connections with Wasserman Theatre.Addition 2006: Colour scan prints of a medal rec…
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
Scope and Content
Documents about life as an engineer in Odessa, Ukraine, experiences during WWII, wife's life in Ukraine, life post-1995 immigration to Montreal, articles published in survivors' newsletter and Wallenberg newsletter, connections with Wasserman Theatre.Addition 2006: Colour scan prints of a medal recently given by Ukrainian government to Lev Bilich commemorating the 60th anniversary of their liberation from fascist aggressors. Explanatory newsletter documentation in English donated with the scans.(sa. P05/01-3.)
Date
1945c (copies)-2006.
Fonds No.
I0088
Series No.
61
History / Biographical
Lev Bilich was born on Nov. 10, 1926. He lived most of his life as an engineer in Odessa, Ukraine. His wife was a bookkeeper. They came to Canada in the 1990s, following their son. Lev Bilich died in Montreal on March 1, 2017.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Lev Bilich on Sept 26, 2005. Lev Bilich made an addition to the collection on August 16, 2006
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P05/01-3, P06/07-2.Location of originals: With the donor.General note: Mostly digital copies.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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B'nai Brith

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn98402
Collection
SCHEINBERG, Stephen
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0280; 2
Date
N.a.
Scope and Content
This series consists of 4 banker's boxes, accompanied by the donor's description and comments. Box 1 contains mostly research notes and documents about the Extreme Right in the U.S.A., with some information about the overflow of these groups into Canada. Groups include the Liberty Lobby, KKK, Tom M…
Collection
SCHEINBERG, Stephen
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series consists of 4 banker's boxes, accompanied by the donor's description and comments. Box 1 contains mostly research notes and documents about the Extreme Right in the U.S.A., with some information about the overflow of these groups into Canada. Groups include the Liberty Lobby, KKK, Tom Metzger, Rabbi Meir Kahane and Human Life International. Correspondence includes documentation of the groups' antisemitic views and samples of hate mail and harassment directed towards Scheinberg. Box 2 concerns the Extreme Right Project, with files pertaining to the hiring and the administration of the project. It includes a notebook kept by Scheinberg for interviews with academics and anti-racism advocates. There are also notes and documents on extreme right individuals and groups in Canada: Christian Right, Church of the Creator, Ernst Zundel, KKK, James Keegstra and Skinheads, and there are some files on groups in W. Europe. Box 3 includes a brief mimeo copy of a History of LHR (The League for Human Rights) by Lou Ronson, some B'nai Brith Canada Board files, an internal appeals case revealing differences within the organization, a file relating to the purge of formerly prominent executive members of B'nai Brith Canada (BBC), and some files on the battle surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed speech at Concordia. (Scheinberg was in the audience that day and spoke after the speech was cancelled). One file concerns the 'Michaud Affair' of 2000, in which negative comments about Jews made by Parti Québécois supporter Yves Michaud eventually led to a censure motion from the National Assembly of Quebec. Box 4 concerns the B'nai Brith League for Human Rights and aspects of its work, files A-O. A large file deals with the B'nai Brith perspective on the evolution of affirmative action in university admissions policies. There are notes from Scheinberg's frequent talks on anti-Semitism in Canada and Europe and a file on Scheinberg's 1993 participation in the B'nai Brith Canada mission to investigate the rise of Neo-naziism in Germany. There is a short lived diary for 1991-93; more on the Netanyahu speech cancellation; a file on Scheinberg's contribution to the debate over according civic honours to Abbe Lionel Groulx; talks given by Scheinberg to the Jewish communities of Costa Rica and Ecuador; and a file on homophobia, revealing the early LHR commitment to including gays within the terms of hate legislation. Scheinberg notes that 'later the alliance with the Christian Right undermined that commitment to gay rights and led to my resignation.' The last box, number 5, covers B'nai Brith topics from P-W, including, according to Scheinberg's notes: 'Head coverings in Canadian Legion Halls; Matzohgate - an incident in which the orthodox Jewish manufacturer of matzohs discharged Ethiopian Jews because these black Jews were not considered Jewish enough for the intended consumers; and the 'New Antisemitism', a concept developed by several of us, arguing that Israel had become the new target of anti-Semites'. Other files concern ethnic slurs made by Quebec politicians Lucien Parizeau and Bernard Landry after the second referendum defeat, and information about the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith perspectives on the banning of sales of Passover Products without French labels by the Office de la Langue Française.
Date
N.a.
Fonds No.
P0280
Series No.
2
Custodial History
The collection was donated on July 2, 2004
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P14/11.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Board of Directors Books

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113265
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 2.64 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0116; A
Date
1979-2005.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of adiministrative materials including Board of Directors briefing books, meeting agendas, notes, and minutes, Financial reports, donation reports, progress reports, correspondence.
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 2.64 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of adiministrative materials including Board of Directors briefing books, meeting agendas, notes, and minutes, Financial reports, donation reports, progress reports, correspondence.
Date
1979-2005.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
A
History / Biographical
The SSBFF Board of Directors was composed of members of the Bronfman Family, financial and/or legal advisors, and the foundation's executive director: founders Sam and Saidye Bronfman, their children Minda de Gunzberg, Phyllis Lambert, Edgar Bronfman, Charles Bronfman, and grandchildren Jean de Gunzberg, Matthew Bronfman, amd Stephen Bronfman, executive directors of the SSBFF Peter Swann, John Hobday, Gisele Ruicker and Nancy Rosenfeld, and Robert Rabinovitch, Robert Vineberg.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Book Materials (Spirited Commitment)

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113275
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
moving images
Physical Description
0.33 metres of textual records. - 3 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie).
Fonds No.
I0116; K
Date
1953-2011.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, research materials, including some administrative materials from other series in this collection, draft copies of Spirited Commitment, photographs and DVDs documenting the book launch event.
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
moving images
Physical Description
0.33 metres of textual records. - 3 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie).
Scope and Content
Correspondence, research materials, including some administrative materials from other series in this collection, draft copies of Spirited Commitment, photographs and DVDs documenting the book launch event.
Date
1953-2011.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
K
History / Biographical
Roderick MacLeod and Eric John Abrahamson authored the book Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, published in 2010 by McGill-Queen's University Press. The book launch in 2011 is documented here, along with research materials drawn from other parts of the SSBFF collection before it was donated to the CJArchives in 2022.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Canadian Jewish Congress Special Immigration Cases

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn412
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; E
Date
1943-1960.
Scope and Content
Information on settlement of escapees (to Spain, Portugal, Tangier and Japan), refugees with extreme disabilities ("Hard Core Cases") and cases of deportation, inheritance, and Nazi war crimes. Also includes participants in the family unification program, and various subject files by Dr. Saalheimer.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Information on settlement of escapees (to Spain, Portugal, Tangier and Japan), refugees with extreme disabilities ("Hard Core Cases") and cases of deportation, inheritance, and Nazi war crimes. Also includes participants in the family unification program, and various subject files by Dr. Saalheimer.
Date
1943-1960.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
E
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Correspondence and diverse materials / Correspondance et matériaux divers

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78525
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0251; F
Date
1960-1991.
Scope and Content
This series consists of diverse correspondence dating between 1960 and 1991.Some of the letters relate to research questions. There are greeting cards for Jewish holidays, notably New Year's cards, and also condolence letters and tributes after the death of Rabbi Feuerwerker. There is one object; a…
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series consists of diverse correspondence dating between 1960 and 1991.Some of the letters relate to research questions. There are greeting cards for Jewish holidays, notably New Year's cards, and also condolence letters and tributes after the death of Rabbi Feuerwerker. There is one object; a small trophy in the shape of a buffalo, given by a Jewish scout group. There are also some negative microfilm reels of documents from French archives. Cette série porte sur la correspondance entre 1960 et 1991, reliée à divers sujets. Quelques lettres traitent des questions de recherche. Il y a aussi des cartes de v?ux pour les fêtes juives, et des condoléances et louanges lors du mort du Rabbin Feuerwerker. Il y a un objet - un trophée en forme de bison donné par un troupe de scouts juifs. Il ya aussi quelques bobines négatifs de microfilm provenant des archives en France.
Date
1960-1991.
Fonds No.
P0251
Series No.
F
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Cultural Management and Arts Administration Programs

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113267
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
2.64 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs.
Fonds No.
I0116; C
Date
1991-2004.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of administrative materials including correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes and notes, conference notes, trustee handbooks, memos, reports, briefing books, budgets, background information, proposals, planning, and requests.
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
2.64 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs.
Scope and Content
8 boxes of administrative materials including correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes and notes, conference notes, trustee handbooks, memos, reports, briefing books, budgets, background information, proposals, planning, and requests.
Date
1991-2004.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
C
History / Biographical
The SSBFF began supporting Canadian institutions offering arts management training in the early 1980s. This support included the founding of the Centre for Cultural Management at the University of Waterloo (CCM/CMI), and the Canadian Association of Arts Administration Educators (CAAAE). Through these programs, the SSBFF, along with other funding agencies, supported the strengthening of existing arts administration specializations and inter-faculty collaboration in both cultural management research and education at the graduate level.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Directional and Landing Verification Case Files

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16332
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.39 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0037; D
Date
1958-1962.
Scope and Content
This series consists of 21 files of cases related to a broad range of services provided by the agency. These include information and referral, port reception and documentation for proof of landing as a legal immigrant, as was required by various government agencies such as those concerned with citi…
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.39 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series consists of 21 files of cases related to a broad range of services provided by the agency. These include information and referral, port reception and documentation for proof of landing as a legal immigrant, as was required by various government agencies such as those concerned with citizenship certificates, family allowances, social welfare assistance and old age pensions
Date
1958-1962.
Fonds No.
I0037
Series No.
D
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Documentation

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16342
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.5 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0037; P
Date
1922-1982.
Scope and Content
This sub-series contains documentation in many forms on a great variety of subjects collected by or created by the agency, including 60 cm. of news clippings in chronological order; scrapbooks; reports and studies conducted by JIAS; pamphlets, lists, reports and studies created by other agencies; s…
Collection
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.5 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This sub-series contains documentation in many forms on a great variety of subjects collected by or created by the agency, including 60 cm. of news clippings in chronological order; scrapbooks; reports and studies conducted by JIAS; pamphlets, lists, reports and studies created by other agencies; student theses; student term papers submitted to Dr. Joseph Kage. These items do not appear in a the descriptive list of articles
Date
1922-1982.
Fonds No.
I0037
Series No.
P
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Donations

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113273
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.53 metres of textual records. - 5 notebooks.
Fonds No.
I0116; I
Date
N.a.
Scope and Content
SSBFF donation receipts, donation books, donation cards from the 1950s-1980s, including pledges reflecting Bronfman interests from 1927-1970. These documents, especially the cards, constitute a record of the extent and variety of causes taken up by Samuel and Saidye Bronfman and their descendants o…
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.53 metres of textual records. - 5 notebooks.
Scope and Content
SSBFF donation receipts, donation books, donation cards from the 1950s-1980s, including pledges reflecting Bronfman interests from 1927-1970. These documents, especially the cards, constitute a record of the extent and variety of causes taken up by Samuel and Saidye Bronfman and their descendants over the years.
Date
N.a.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
I
History / Biographical
Administrative materials documenting early interests and donations made by the Bronfman Family and the SSBFF.
Notes
General note: File drawers of donation cards (white, pink and blue), moved from metal drawers contained in two large damaged document boxes into 9 shoe box format document boxes. One small box containing 3 donation books transferred from the large damaged boxes.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ELKIN, Rosetta : Additions

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn546
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0220; H
Date
[1850 - copies] - [2003].
Scope and Content
This series includes an autobiography written by Rosetta Elkin in draft form, typed, of approximately 45 pages, with some accompanying original documents. The donor has an additional folder of original documents pertaining to this manuscript. There is a fragile scrapbook format binder and associate…
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 photographs.
Scope and Content
This series includes an autobiography written by Rosetta Elkin in draft form, typed, of approximately 45 pages, with some accompanying original documents. The donor has an additional folder of original documents pertaining to this manuscript. There is a fragile scrapbook format binder and associated loose correspondence and clippings pertaining to the Israel Emergency Campaign of 1967-1968. Additional documents attest to Rosetta's leadership roles in Women's Federation campaigns, the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue sisterhood, and Canadian Jewish Congress, including thank you letters from prominent Jewish Canadians. 6 photographs of Rosetta Elkin and family members. Laser photoceopy of an old Joseph family document from the 1890s. Donated Dec. 2009: Draft chapters of the book by Annette Wolff about Abraham Joseph diary (see Series A) and portions of Abraham Joseph's diary, photocopied (these appear to be duplicates of pages in earlier donations, described in Series A.) Also 3 or 4 small books about Sephardic history as it pertains to the Joseph family
Date
[1850 - copies] - [2003].
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
H
History / Biographical
Rosetta Elkin was a community leader in many areas of the Montreal Jewish community. She has been involved in women's groups, synagogue groups, community fundraising, and language issues
Custodial History
This portion of the fonds was donated by Rosetta Elkin, via her son-in-law Stephen Lipper, on Dec. 9, 2009, and January 28, 2010. The accession code for both portions is P10/04
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P10/04.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ESTHER, FANNY, RACHEL, ROSETTA, SARAH WOLFF

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn541
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.33 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0220; C
Date
N.a.
Scope and Content
This series includes the Wolff sisters' correspondence from 1921 to 2006, with the bulk of the correspondence from the 1920s and from the years preceding and during World War II. Wedding invitations and marriage telegrams are found here as well, as is an undated Westmount school report card for Fan…
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.33 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series includes the Wolff sisters' correspondence from 1921 to 2006, with the bulk of the correspondence from the 1920s and from the years preceding and during World War II. Wedding invitations and marriage telegrams are found here as well, as is an undated Westmount school report card for Fanny Wolff. Papers and promotional flyers regarding Sarah Wolff Orkin's book Roots and Recollections are included, as are several of her poems, and papers relating to Rosetta Wolff Elkin's involvement with the Spanish & Portuguese Sisterhood and the Shaar Hashomayim scouting committee can also be found in this series. Irene Wolff maintained a close relationship with her sister, Rosetta, and her brother Kenneth, whose correspondence with Irene and the Wolff children is also included, as is that of various other members of the extended Joseph family. Papers concerning Rosetta Joseph's involvement with the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, several of her diary notes, and documents regarding a Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) vocational bursary plaque erected in her memory are also found here.
Date
N.a.
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
C
History / Biographical
The offspring of Martin and Irene Wolff were: Sarah (Wolff) Orkin (1910 1999), Annette Wolff (1911-2012), Rachel (Wolff) Esar (1913-1995), Rosetta (Wolff) Elkin (1914 - ), Fanny Wolff (1918-1941), and Esther (Wolff) Blaustein (1921-2013). During their formative years, the Wolff sisters attended school in Westmount, Quebec. With the exception of Fanny, who died in early adulthood, they all embarked on professional careers.
Notes
General note: As this series' documents are predominantly from the 1920s, 1930s and the war and post-war years, the changing lifestyles, social customs and concerns are reflected in the various letters and documents of both the Wolff and Joseph families. As such, they are relevant to historians of the Montreal and Quebec City middle class during these time periods as well as to sociologists, teachers, journalists, and authors.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Federation CJA

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113268
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0116; D
Date
1988-2011.
Scope and Content
1 box of administrative materials including correspondence, reports, budgets, requests, notes.
Collection
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation (SSBFF)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
1 box of administrative materials including correspondence, reports, budgets, requests, notes.
Date
1988-2011.
Fonds No.
I0116
Series No.
D
History / Biographical
Sam and Saidye Bronfman initiated an annual donation to the Federation CJA (Combined Jewish Appeal) which was continued by the SSBFF in accordance with Sam Bronfman's wishes. At the time, this donation would typically represent three-quarters of the foundation's annual budget. Because the donation was fixed, it required limited administration by the foundation.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Financial Records

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn417
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
4.96 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; K
Date
1936-1978.
Scope and Content
Extensive documentation of financial operation of agency including loans, relief, income, expenditures.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
4.96 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Extensive documentation of financial operation of agency including loans, relief, income, expenditures.
Date
1936-1978.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
K
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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