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Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

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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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ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION

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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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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)

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Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
Fonds No.
I0048
Date
1909-1990.
Scope and Content
National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (194…
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
moving images
Physical Description
8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
Scope and Content
National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (1948-1949, 1973). Board member list (1971). Other membership lists. Pamphlets on International Council of Jewish Women. Biennial conventions (ICJW & NCJW). Minutes & information (1953-1973). Publications, flyers, invitations, seminar notes. Convention information, lecture notes and agendas. Gerontology conference notes (1968). Bulletin (1946). Magazines (1963-1973 with gaps). Programs & services materials (foster homes, Project Canada, School for Citizen Participation 1970), field service (1964-1965), workbooks, the elderly, National Theatre for Canada (1961-1963), overseas service (1954-1960), public affairs (1965-1967), leadership). Booklet on history of NCJW (1967). Material on "Canadian Women of the Century 1867-1967" (1967). Scrapbooks. Clippings (1940s-1990 and photocopies of 1909, 1912 articles). Photos, including slides of events, services, programs in Israel & Canada (1914-1975) - collection PC 3. Sound recordings of meetings and lectures (1950s-1970s).
Date
1909-1990.
Fonds No.
I0048
History / Biographical
The National Council of Jewish Women was established in the United States in 1893, to help new Jewish immigrants. A Canadian branch began in Toronto in 1897. In Montreal the Baron de Hirsch Institute covered immigrant aid at that time, and the Montreal NCJW chapter was only founded in 1918. The International Council was formed in 1912. NCJW is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general community, locally, nationally, and internationally. They do and did so through scholarships, summer camps, libraries, aiding immigrants, volunteer work, pre-and post-war refugee aid, gerontology research, services to the elderly, support of the Golden Age Association, shipments of play and school materials to Israel and North Africa, lobbying for equal pay and other human rights bills, and opening a shelter for battered Jewish women. Their members across Canada and the world both fundraise and volunteer.The National office of NCJW Canada moved from Montreal to Toronto in the mid-1950s before settling in Winnipeg in the early 1990s where it remained until 2015.
Custodial History
The collection is divided into three parts: an original donation of material relating to the National office in Montreal and other locations up to 1978; National material donated in 2015 by the Winnipeg National headquarters office (1943-2009); and (see Series A) material relating to the Montreal Chapter office (1926-1999)
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4, PC 3.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA

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Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.315 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0049
Date
1941-1969.
Scope and Content
NC-YMHA Constitution. Minutes (1944-1949, 1960). Reports (1945-1951). Financial reports (1946-1949). Conference & meeting reports. Agendas and correspondence (1944-1949, 1964). Board members (1947-1949). Jewish communities in Ontario. Jewish population of Canada (1941). Memos (1946-1948, 1963, 1965…
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.315 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
NC-YMHA Constitution. Minutes (1944-1949, 1960). Reports (1945-1951). Financial reports (1946-1949). Conference & meeting reports. Agendas and correspondence (1944-1949, 1964). Board members (1947-1949). Jewish communities in Ontario. Jewish population of Canada (1941). Memos (1946-1948, 1963, 1965). Correspondence (1946-1948). Jewish Group Work Council statement, plan of work (1947). Documents on Jewish Welfare Board (U.S.A.) (1949). Program aids (1946-1947). Newsletter (1946, 1950). YM-YWHA program (1949). Leadership training course: members, information, workbook (1950). National Jewish Youth Institute materials and documentation (1947). Clippings (1940s, 1951). YM-YWHA material: Programs and courses (1944-1945, 1963-1966, 1972-1973, 1988-1989). Y Beacon (1962-1963). Y News (1951). Saidye Bronfman Centre courses (1968). Press releases, brochures, clippings (1940s).
Date
1941-1969.
Fonds No.
I0049
History / Biographical
The National Council of YMHAs was formed in 1943. It was an umbrella organization for the Ys across Canada and as such had members throughout the country (though the national office was in Montreal). Its aims were to organize Jewish groups in Canada, hold conferences and provide leadership training. Aside from encouraging the establishment of Ys and Jewish centres, it would aid those already in existence and promote their cultural, social and recreational activities. The council was to provide program assistance to the centres, run courses and put out press releases and bulletins to educate those within and outside the Jewish community. Its other functions were the fostering of youth groups and councils, promoting health and physical education, and public relations. The name was later changed to the Canadian Council of YMHAs and JCCs
Notes
Related groups of records: YM-YWHA.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat

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Collection
PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
Fonds No.
I0050
Date
1925-2010.
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These…
Collection
PIONEER WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION (Na'amat) = Na'amat Canada, Pioneer Women Na'amat
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 2 metres of textual records. - Env. 380 photographs.
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection was donated by the national office of Na'amat in 2014-2015. The pre-2014 portion of this collection consists of a box of papers donated at various times by members of the organization, a large proportion of which are newsletters, reports, and other publications. These papers include: Constitution and by-laws (1972). Minutes (1977). Report (1975). Membership lists. Correspondence (1930s and 1940s). Year book/directory (1949-1958, 1976). Bulletins (1962-1991). Kovod books (1971-1977). Convention agenda (1975). Souvenir programs (1936-1948, 1953, 1975-1976). Receipt book. 50th anniversary booklet (1975). Flyers, invitations, pamphlets, fundraising correspondence and information. Revivim Chapter Cookbook, with ring binding, undated. Programming information booklet, clippings (1941-1942, 1986-1989). (Some letters, clippings, flyers and invitations from 1940s, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto). Addition 2014: 35 large red binders of papers and photographs, the greater part of a corpus of 41 binders formerly housed at the Na'amat office. An index was supplied for the first 31 binders, going up to 1992. The material dates from 1925-2010, with the earliest material belonging to a section on the initial separation and autonomy of the group. Other material in the binders consist of: Brochures, information on conventions, circulars and reports, Israel-based projects such as community centres and day cares, Minutes of the Metropolitan Board and the National Board, publications, information on presidents and executive directors, scripts of skits, background materials. Also 'Portfolios' on various dossiers, such as Canadian Affairs and Social Action, Membership and Dues, and fundraising. Addition 2015: 2 red binders of historical documents, (Binder 3, cards and certificates; and Binder 31, skits), filling gaps in the collection donated in November 2014. Also 1 album of newsclippings (now disassembled into a folder for preservation purposes.) Two binders containing photographs; one black and white mostly 8" by 10" prints from 1981 (51 of them), with 31 contact sheets, and one of colour snapshots of a trip to Israel, presumed to be from 1978 because as it includes an Inuit art exhibit from that year which is described elsewhere (299 colour images).
Date
1925-2010.
Fonds No.
I0050
History / Biographical
Pioneer Women (now called Na'amat) was founded in America and Montreal in 1925. This women's organization, part of the Labour Zionist movement, raises funds which provide half of all social services for Israeli women, youth and children. Affiliated with Israel's Moetzet Hapoalot, they sponsor a nurses training school, children's homes, day cares, vocational and agricultural schools, and community centres which help Jewish and Arab Israelis. Aside from fundraising, they run educational and cultural activities to encourage women to be active in Israeli and Canadian affairs. Pioneer Women/Na'amat was affiliated with their American counterpart until the late 1960s, when they became an independent Canadian group. They support the Habonim-Dror Zionist youth movement, and are active in promoting women's issues, in Israel and elsewhere, by their members throughout Canada and in twelve other nations.
Custodial History
Addition was made in 2014 and 2015 by Vivian Reisler for Na'amat
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P14/18 and P15/13.Related groups of records: Photos in PC 1. There are also 1.6 meters (13 small boxes) of Pioneer Women / Na'amat documents in collection JPL-JC-Z. These Jewish Canadiana Zionist records from the Jewish Public Library were transferred to CJCNA in 2001 as a permanent loan. The initial box of Na'amat materials described above is now housed with this JPL-JC Pioneer Women / Na'amat collection.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE

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Collection
SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.62 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0054
Date
1854-1991.
Scope and Content
By-laws. Charter and alterations (1886, 1890, 1929). Legal documents (1865 copy). Cemetery land deed (1863). Legislative Assembly Journal (1854). Quebec statutes (1902). Bill 26 information (1933). Minutes (1964, 1966, 1974). Reports (1942, 1944, 1956-1975). Members subscription lists (1885). Finan…
Collection
SHAAR HASHOMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.62 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
By-laws. Charter and alterations (1886, 1890, 1929). Legal documents (1865 copy). Cemetery land deed (1863). Legislative Assembly Journal (1854). Quebec statutes (1902). Bill 26 information (1933). Minutes (1964, 1966, 1974). Reports (1942, 1944, 1956-1975). Members subscription lists (1885). Financial documents (1906, 1947, 1968). Letter from congregation to British philanthropists (pre-1917). Board members (1976). World War II Congregation Shaar Hashomayim soldiers. Correspondence (1887, 1906, 1935-1978). Program booklets (1890, 1936-1970). 100th anniversary booklet (1946). Dedication scrapbook (1922). Dedication booklets (1922, 1948, 1957, 1965, 1967). Bulletins (1931-1989). Special service booklets (1897, 1899, 1947). Publications (1934, 1946, 1970, 1972). Purim play and booklet. Graduation cantata (1956). Cantata, song sheet (1941). Historical notes (1941). Press releases. Allan Bronfman Lectures information (1964, 1970, 1973). Conference proceedings (1958). School statistics (1948). Bnot Mitzvah booklets (1971, 1985). Lecture/sermon texts (1944, 1946, 1964-1965). Lecture Series book (1987). "Jews of Canada" article (1926). "The Occident" articles. Jewish Social Studies magazine (1943). Course lists (1964,1967). Calendar (1961). Archival inventory (1950s-1960s). Exhibit information (1967). Synagogue activities (1906). Women's auxiliary activities (1934). Passover recipes. Book plate. Fundraising and invitation letters. Greeting cards. Benchers (1975). Flyers, invitations and tickets. Clippings (1883, 1899, 1908 copies, 1922-1991).
Date
1854-1991.
Fonds No.
I0054
History / Biographical
In 1846, members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and other Montreal Jews decided that they wanted Ashkenazi synagogue services. They therefore formed the Corporation of English, German and Polish Jews which was modelled on a British synagogue. The congregation rented space, then constructed its first building on St. Constant Street. In 1875, the congregation almost amalgamated with the Spanish and Portuguese to form one large synagogue in the west end of the city, but this was not successful. After several other moves, and the adoption of the name Shaar Hashomayim in 1917, land was purchased in 1920 in Westmount and the new building completed in 1922. A school was added after the Second World War, and the building was expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative. It is the second oldest synagogue in Canada, and the oldest Ashkenazi one.
Custodial History
This collection was accumulated piecemeal from diverse sources by the Canadian Jewish Congress Congress Charities Committee National Archives. It precedes the acquisition of the official records of the Congregation in 2012, under the donor name Congregation Shaar Hashomayim - Synagogue administrative records
Notes
General note: Half originals, half copies.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

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Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
37.67 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062
Date
1930-1978.
Scope and Content
This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
37.67 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.
Date
1930-1978.
Fonds No.
I0062
History / Biographical
The United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies of Canada was established with the assistance of Samuel Bronfman in 1938. Later known as the United Jewish Relief Agencies, or UJRA, it at first helped escapees, evacuees, and interned refugees from England, providing food, shelter, and diplomatic and moral support. There were as yet no Jewish refugee immigrants to aid, due to Canada's restrictive wartime immigration policies. After the war, UJRA sent supplies and helped trace families for DPs, brought skilled immigrants to Canada, facilitated the immigration of refugee youth ("The War Orphans Project"), and also sent aid to the new State of Israel. Working with other organizations, it sent Passover supplies to needy Jews in Israel, Europe and Canada and with the Canadian Jewish Congress formed the United Restitution Organization for war reparations. Though its duties lessened over the decades, the UJRA continued to function for several decades after WWII.
Notes
General note: Also contains 5 boxes of unprocessed material 1.55 m.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.

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Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Fonds No.
I0079
Date
1935-1998.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harv…
Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harvard Law School Research for Israel's Legal Development, 1952, 1953. Black Binder with complete minutes from 1952 to 1966. Booklet of the concert by OSMONT, Ochestre Symphonique de la Montérégie, for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, 1998. Booklet from the Congregation Dorshei Emet 'Celebrating 36 years of Jewish Renewal,' 1996. Booklet; Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge, 'Program of Study', 1979. 4 notorized copies of the Hart family (2 marriage certificates and 2 death certificates), 1959 (Originals 1843-1857). Minutes of the Montreal Hebrew Free Loan Association (copy), 1911. Diploma from Hebrew University of Jerusalem given to the Lord Reading Law Society, 1979. 2 booklets of the Lord Reading Law Society's 50th anniversary, 1998. 8 photos. 1 Baseball cap. Added in 2012 and 2014: 2009 templates of prenuptial contracts for Jewish couples, with accompanying correspondence via printed e-mails; membership lists and dues contracts; dinner meeting and Montefiore Club event information, Bureau de Quebec conference materials; internal and external correspondence, including some in the form of printed e-mails; meeting agendas and minutes; By-laws; News clippings. Correspondance 2009-2010 on subjects such as Jewish prenuptial agreements, Jewish holidays, Haiti, Bill 94, Young Bar, Notaries Cle. Hanukah and New Year's cards; flyers; photographs (9) with associated correspondence and guest list for student dinner 2009; Photographs (21 with duplicates) of dinner for Allan M. Stein, 2010; 119 photographs of one or more dinner events, one possibly with Lucien Bouchard, CD of 44 small images plus duplicates, titled 'LRLS Season 2005-2006' (428 K); album containing 43 colour photographs.Books: Gottesman, Dr. Eli. Who's Who in Canadian Jewry; 1967. Montreal; Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada; [1965].Joseph, Anne. Heritage of a Patriarch: A Fresh Look at Nine of Canada's Earliest Jewish Families. Sillery; Les Editions du Septentrion, 1995.Langlais, Jacques and David Rome. Jews & French Quebecers : Two Hundred Years of Shared History/ translated by Barbara Young. Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.
Date
1935-1998.
Fonds No.
I0079
History / Biographical
The Lord Reading Law Society was founded as a vehicle for lawyers of the Jewish faith "both as a study group and as a representative body." The Society was named after Rufus Daniel Isaacs, a British jurist who later became Lord Reading. The political and social climate of the late 1930s and early 1940s was the impetus for the creation of Society. The Society first formalized its structure in 1948 and has been meeting regularly since then. The first president was the late Mr. Justice Benjamin Robinson. Originally the Society was known as the Reading Society. It changed its name to the Reading Society of Montreal on September 25, 1952. It is not certain exactly when the society changed its name to the Lord Reading Law Society, possibly in 1958.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Morton Bessner in 3 increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P00/01, P12/11, P14/09.Location of originals :The books are stored in the Library.General note :In the collection there are 4 original copies of marriage certificates and death certificates of the Hart Family.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT

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Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
Fonds No.
I0088
Date
1910-2004.
Scope and Content
Materials in various media collected from recently immigrated Russian-speaking Jews. Documents, clippings, photos (435 prints and approximately 1500 digital, books, CDs of music, 14 hours of video interviews, 5 hours of audio cassettes. 39 CDs containing archival material, 1 original art work. Also…
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.042 metres of textual records. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs).
Scope and Content
Materials in various media collected from recently immigrated Russian-speaking Jews. Documents, clippings, photos (435 prints and approximately 1500 digital, books, CDs of music, 14 hours of video interviews, 5 hours of audio cassettes. 39 CDs containing archival material, 1 original art work. Also the complete run of the newspaper Golos Obshiniye (Voice of Community), 1994-2004, with ongoing additions semi-weekly.
Date
1910-2004.
Fonds No.
I0088
History / Biographical
Tatiana Jour is a Russian-speaking archivist born in Riga, trained in Moscow, and living in Montreal for the past eight years. For this project, she collected archival material and scanned items from the private collections of recent Jewish immigrants from Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. The project has received funding from Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal. Donors to the project include poets and writers, scientists, historians, publishers, musicians, graphic artists, Holocaust survivors. war veterans, and athletes. Most have immigrated here since 1991.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Tatiana Jour. Received from January to October 2004.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P04/01-0-A.General note: Each sub-collection has a P04/01-xx number. About a third of the material is in digital form. The Collection is ongoing.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci

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Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Fonds No.
I0094
Date
1900-1993.
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Date
1900-1993.
Fonds No.
I0094
History / Biographical
The CJC Archives Jewish summer resort collecting mission, undertaken in the early 1990s by Archives volunteer Ricci Rosenthal, contains an impressive number of rare and interesting Laurentian area photos, oral histories and memorabilia. Ricci owed her particular interest in this subject to her memories of happy times spent at the hotels, and the nostalgia she shared with many of her contemporaries, who would always say to her: "I wish there were still someplace to go."
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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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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DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn156
Collection
DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.16 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0048
Date
1846-1882.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
Collection
DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.16 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
Date
1846-1882.
Fonds No.
P0048
History / Biographical
Born in 1825, Alexander Abraham de Sola was the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Montreal from 1847 until his death; appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at McGill University in 1848 and raised to professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages five years later; first Jew to be awarded the honourary degrees LL.D. from McGill University in 1858; author of numerous articles on Jewish history, religion, natural history, science. He died in 1882.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: MC 13.Related groups of records: Books in Archives Library, Shearith Israel records.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book

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Collection
FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0060
Date
1920-1981.
Scope and Content
Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author S…
Collection
FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author Stephen Leacock, operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, operatic soprano Pauline Donalda, poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, cartoonist Terry Mosher, and poet Irving Layton.
Date
1920-1981.
Fonds No.
P0060
History / Biographical
Montreal businessman Norman Friedman was chairman of the Jewish Advisory Committee of the Boy Scouts Association and assistant regional commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association. Friedman and his wife Rose were both life governors of the Jewish General Hospital, and he was also an honorary governor of the Montreal General Hospital. The Friedmans entertained frequently in their home, as documented in their guest book. Norman Friedman died in Montreal in 1981.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P85/14.Related groups of records :Irving Berlin collection, A.M. Machlovitch photographs in PC1/L.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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JACOBSON, Percy and Joe

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Collection
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0094
Date
1907, 1928-1955.
Scope and Content
The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association progra…
Collection
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association programs, minutes and reports. There are also documents relating to the sale and copyright of his plays, including contracts and information on the Copyright act. There are some publications among the papers; mostly magazines and newsletters containing articles by Percy Jacobson. There are also some newsletters and a number of newsclippings. The collection includes a portrait photo of Percy Jacobson.The Percy Jacobson papers added to this collection in 2012 includes 1 cm. of clippings about Percy Jacobson and 18 additional cm. of plays, correspondence, and various published writings by Percy Jacobson; sympathy letters and clippings about Percy Jacobson (mostly on fragile oversize scrapbook paper), one file about May Jacobson's pre-war children's bookstore, and a folder of background material clippings collected by Percy during WWII which informed his writing then.The following Percy and May Jacobson papers were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and family in October 2013: a diary of Percy Jacobson for 1950 while in England, France and the Netherlands, on the occasion of attending a PEN conference in Edinburgh as a Canadian delegate. Two bound, handwritten diaries by May Jacobson from the years 1930 and 1950 (in one volume), and 1954; the 1930 diary covers a trip to England and Belgium with her family, and the 1950 segment covers same trip as that of her husband in 1950. The 1954 diary was written during a trip to England, the Netherlands and Scandinavia while a delegate to a NCJW conference on education in Scandinavia. One file containing 19 typed short stories by Percy Jacobson, one of which references a refugee couple who stayed with the family in 1938. A CD of all these documents in PDF format were donated by Peter Usher along with the originals.The Joe Jacobson portion of the collection includes Joe Jacobson's prewar and wartime diaries, several folders of pre-war and wartime letters, as well as 1 folder (1 cm.) of sympathy letters received by his family at the time of his death. An additional Joe Jacobson diary from 1937, and two letters by Joe Jacobson written on Twin Lake stationary in summer 1939 prior to his enlistment were donated in 2013 by Janet Jacobson Smith and family, along with digital copies made by Peter Usher.
Date
1907, 1928-1955.
Fonds No.
P0094
History / Biographical
The Jacobson family of Westmount, Quebec was composed of Percy Jacobson, his wife May, and four children; Edith (m. Low-Beer, d. 2007), Joseph (Joe) d. 1942, Janet (m. Smith), and Peter, d. 1937, of leukemia. Born in 1886, Percy Jacobson was a businessman dealing in office equipment, as well as a writer and a leader in the writers' association PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists). From 1939 to 1949 Percy Jacobson typed a nearly daily diary in which he portrayed Montreal's view of the World War II era along with his comments on the news, overheard conversations, his son Joe's involvement in the armed forces, and the Holocaust. A prolific playwright, Jacobson often wrote on historical themes, and saw some of his plays published and performed. He was involved in various Jewish organizations, such as the CJC Rehabilitation Committee for war veterans. He died in 1952. Born in 1918, Joseph (Joe) Jacobson enlisted for service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1940 after graduating from McGill University, where he played for the football team and was a member of a fraternity. He received his military training at Toronto, Ontario; Regina and Mossbank, Saskatchewan; and Rivers, Manitoba. In May 1941 he went overseas with the first large group of men trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and was attached to R.A.F. bomber squadron No. 106. Joe Jacobson notified his parents of his promotion from sergeant observer to Flight Sergeant only two days before he was reported missing and presumed dead on January 28, 1942. He had completed 23 operations on enemy targets. His Montreal friends Montague (Monty) Berger and Gerald Smith enlisted in the RCAF in 1941, and Herbert Rosenstein (Ross), also of Montreal, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. These friends had met at McGill University in ca. 1937, and styled themselves as the 'Pony Club' in ca. September 1939. 'Pony' was an anagram for Preston, Ontario, and New York City, where club members were located during the winter of 1939-1940 when they began their correspondence. Joe's parents, Percy and May Jacobson, were made honorary members of the club in ca. late 1941.
Custodial History
The initial portion of the Percy Jacobson papers was donated in 1990 by Edith Jacobson Low-Beer, through Monty Berger. The Percy and Joe Jacobson papers donated in 2012 were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and her children Jo-Anne and Peter Kwass; and the children of Edith Low-Beer, Susan and Jane Low-Beer, via Peter Usher. The digital versions of the Joe Jacobson papers, as well as a folder of Jacobson letters previously in the possession of Monty Berger, were donated by Peter Usher. Additions to the Joe Jacobson papers were made by the family in May and October 2013, along with additional digital copies by Peter Usher.
Notes
Availability of other formats: Almost the entire Joe Jacobson portion of this collection has been digitized and is available in PDF document format. Researchers are encouraged to consult these digital copies instead of the fragile originals.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
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SPANIER family

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn249
Collection
SPANIER family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0143
Date
c.1851-2022.
Scope and Content
Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to hi…
Collection
SPANIER family
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
Scope and Content
Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy about refused entry at port of Poole, also list of names from family prayer book. Addition 2004: 165 photos, colour and black and white, of Spanier family including Germany, including a housefront/ storefront boarded after Kristalnacht, also family in USA and Canada and Beverly Spanier teaching career and friends. Also 1 cm. Beverly career documents. Addition 2009: Macdonald College Faculty of Education McGill University Class of 1969 history booklet written by B. Spanier for the 40th Reunion. List of volunteer work of B. Spanier. Addition 2010: 80th birthday biographical tribute to Miriam Roland. Additions 2011-2022: McGill University Class of '67 Arts and Science 45th Reunion Booklet, compiled by and edited by B. Spanier. Obituary of B. Spanier's second cousin, John Winston Spanier. Newspaper clippings from 2013-2021 concerning the patient advocacy work and activities of B. Spanier, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and upon her receiving the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal in 2021. B. Spanier autobiography 'Reflections on my Life' April 1, 2014 (91 pp. approx. 95 images; also includes digital copy). Material relating to B. Spanier's 69th and 70th birthdays. Booklets written by B. Spanier including 'Tears, Suffering and the Helping Hand' 2016 (20 pp. incl. 11 images of original art by B. Spanier) and 'A Patient's View of Covid-19 From Inside a Quebec Chronic-Care Facility' April 3, 2021, (22 pp, 8 images incl. of original art by B. Spanier). 75th birthday biographical tribute to Lloyd Brereton (2022) and 70th birthday biographical tribute to Panaiota Zaphiratos (2022).
Date
c.1851-2022.
Fonds No.
P0143
History / Biographical
Beverly Spanier was born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from McGill University in Honors Economics and Political Science in 1967. She was a high school teacher in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 to 1997, and was involved with religious programming at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount, Quebec. Beverly is a long-time patient-rights advocate and has been outspoken on behalf of patients in long-term and chronic care during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially at Maimonides Geriatric Centre. In 2021, she was honoured by MNA David Birnbaum for her activism and received the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal. Family members highlighted in the collection are her brother, the late Allen Spanier, formerly a McGill professor of medicine, surgeon, researcher, and Director of Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, and her late father Albert, formerly a businessman in textiles and a synagogue leader. Albert Spanier was born on January 4, 1914 in Enger, Germany and was one of four children born to Amalia and Adolph. Albert, Gertrude, Irwin and Werner were raised in Enger in the largest home in the town. In 1938 the family fled Nazi Germany to scatter abroad and eventually reunite in Hartford, Connecticut where they were all members of Tikvoh Chadoshah Synagogue. Albert Spanier died on November 17, 1995 while living in West Hartford Connecticut. Dr. Allen Spanier died on April 27th, 1999 in Montreal at the age of 52. Allen and Beverly's mother Sybil, the first wife of Albert, passed away in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in July 8th 2002.
Custodial History
Part of this collection was transferred from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, at the request of the donor, Beverly Spanier. Several additions to the collection were made after the initial transfer in 1994.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P94/10 +adds. P98/03+adds. P14/05+adds. P15/17+adds. P16/08+adds.General note :Mostly originals, incl. photographs.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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STEIN, Mania Brodsky

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Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0145
Date
1922-1986.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and busin…
Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and business cards. The majority of the correspondence comes from family members and friends in the former USSR, including letters postmarked from Moscow, Kiev, and Riga. Some correspondence was sent within Canada (Toronto, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts), or from the USA (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio), Israel (receipts and acknowledgment letters from charitable organizations) and a DP camp in US-occupied Germany. One small file contains some of Julius Stein's papers and correspondence including letters from the Canadian government regarding his citizenship. While there is a small amount of English-language correspondence, the majority of the letters are handwritten in Russian and Yiddish. An initial assessment completed when the collection was donated notes that the content deals largely with the domestic life of Brodsky-Stein's family and friends in the USSR. Further research by scholars of Yiddish and Russian is needed to obtain more detailed information on the content of most of the correspondence, however it can be assumed that the letters, including envelopes and stamps, would be of interest to researchers interested in the lived experience of Jewish families in the USSR during the 20th century.
Date
1922-1986.
Fonds No.
P0145
History / Biographical
Mania Brodsky Stein (Mania Brodsky/ M. Stein/Mary Stone) was born March 15, 1900 in Uman, Kiev, then part of Russia. Brodsky-Stein emigrated from the former USSR to Canada in the 1920s, along with her brother J. (Jacob/Yaacov) Brodsky, settling in Montreal, Québec. She was married to Julius Stein (born May 3, 1901 in Cologne, Germany, died in 1948, Montreal, Québec). She maintained correspondence with family in the USSR until her death in Montreal in 1986. The collection was donated to the Archives by her son, Henry Stone. A summary from a Yiddish-language profile in the New York paper Der Algemeiner Journal by Jacob Rabinovitch, June 22, 1984, page 12 states: Miriam Stein was a religious woman, well known in the Jewish community for her charitable works/philanthropy, though she was not one to seek recognition. As a young woman in the 1920s, she worked as a housekeeper in other observant religious households. During the post-war period she had a large house on Park Avenue in Montreal, which was open to all. She focused her efforts on new immigrants to North America, particularly young religious men who had trouble finding work due to religious practices such as being unable to work on the sabbath, a number of whom, including individuals who went on to become rabbis, would later remember her support.
Custodial History
The correspondence was kept by Mania Brodsky Stein, as she received them from the 1920s until the 1980s. The collection was donated to the Archives in 1986 by her son, Henry Stone, after her death.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P86/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show

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Collection
LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
sound recording
textual record
book
Physical Description
165 photographs. - 678 sound elements. - 0.43 metres of textual records. - 1 other fixed image. - 1 book.
Fonds No.
P0161
Date
1925-2016.
Scope and Content
The initial fonds consisted of a total of 250 sound cassettes containing 578 interviews as of September 1998. These were added to several times per year since 1998, and totaled 639 cassettes with 1302 interviews as of August 2014. Including the last interview done in 2016, the total number of inter…
Collection
LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
sound recording
textual record
book
Physical Description
165 photographs. - 678 sound elements. - 0.43 metres of textual records. - 1 other fixed image. - 1 book.
Scope and Content
The initial fonds consisted of a total of 250 sound cassettes containing 578 interviews as of September 1998. These were added to several times per year since 1998, and totaled 639 cassettes with 1302 interviews as of August 2014. Including the last interview done in 2016, the total number of interviews in the collection is 1408, on 678 cassettes. The interviews cover a vast range of Jewish, usually Canadian-Jewish subject matter, including the arts, Jewish life in communities outside Montreal and outside Canada, contemporary Montreal and world Jewish community issues, and Jews in non-mainstream circles (such as Jewish gays and lesbians, Communist party members). Each interview is approximately 20 minutes long, although many run for half an hour; adding up to over 469 hours of material. The fonds also contains background materials assembled at the time of many of the interviews, as well as photographs of former synagogue sites, another of Mr. Lutsky's areas of interest.Addition 1998: 17 cassettes containing a total of 33 interviews were added to the fonds.Addition 1999: 9 cassettes were added to the fonds.Addition 2000: 21 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 55 interviews.Addition 2001: 22 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 45 interviews.Addition 2002-2005: The total number of interviews as of April 2005 was 833, with approximately 2 interviews per cassette. 12 photos of Canadian synagogues.Addition 2005-2006: 26 cassette tapes containing a total of 58 interviews were added to the collection between Oct. 2005 to Oct. 2006, bringing the number of interviews to 940. Additional photos of Canadian and American synagogues and former synagogue sites were donated this year as well (appox. 30 photos, about 20 of which were Canadian).Addition 2007: 17 photos of synagogues in Ottawa and Oshawa, Ontario; Burlington, Vermont, Lithuania, and Dublin. 3 cassettes. 26 pages of photocopies (information on the Burlington synagogue and photos of other synagogues, includes San Francisco and Scotland.) 1 prayer book from Paperman's Funeral Home while still located on Cote des Neiges Blvd., containing numerous photographs.Added in 2008: 18 cassette tapes with 2 interviews per tape, for a total of 36 interviews. Also 18 photos of present and former synagogues in Montreal, Sydney N.S., Saskatchewan, and Albany, New York, as well as various documents, 1925-1990c about the Glace Bay and Sydney Jewish communities, collected by Arlene Zimmerman.Addition 2008-2009: 3 new interview tapes from Jewish Digest, 21 photos of former synagogue sites in Winnipeg and the Maritimes. Neturei Karta in Montreal, etc., February 11, 2009: 4 additional tapes, including Israel lecture moved from Federation CJA to McGill University location. 3 additional tapes donated April 1, as well as an Israel Apartheid Week poster (March 2009) in colour that was banned from the York University campus. This copy is stamped Concordia University. Produced for the group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Addition 2009: 16 tapes. 7 photos.Addition 2010: 18 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 5 photos.Addition 2011: 18 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 17 photos. 1 photocopied document, approximately 20 pages, titled LGBTQ Seder - Passover haggadah, Congregation Dorshei Emet. The document was for a Gay, lesbian, Transsexual and etc. seder held at Dorshei Emet synagogue, March 31, 2010.Addition 2012: 15 interview tapes from the radio show Jewish Digest. 14 photos.Addition 2013: 30 tapes and 34 photographs. 2014-2017, 39 additional tapes, 19 images, 33 cm. of documentation
Date
1925-2016.
Fonds No.
P0161
History / Biographical
Beginning in 1987, Montreal journalist Leslie Lutsky conducted interviews for his Montreal Radio Centreville show "Jewish Digest", which was on the air weekly from 1988 to late 2016. The interviews, which Lutsky collected on a volunteer basis in locations which ranged from private homes and lecture halls to factories, and even prisons, contain information which cannot be found in written form. The collection was donated in multiple increments on a regular basis from 1998 to 2017, culminating in a corpus of over 1400 interviews.
Custodial History
Donated by Mr. Leslie Lutsky of Radio Centreville, in multiple increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P88/54, P97various, P99/add, P00/add, P01/add, P02/02, P02/11, P03/16, P03/16add, P05/, P06/Lutsky add, P07/06, P07/16a, P07/22, P08/03, P09/01, P09/27, P10/06, P10/06, P10/add, P11/02, P11/19, P12/02, P12/02add, and P12/23.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn268
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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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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Ilizarov, Asaf

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Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0183
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du H…
Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) à Rome. La collection comprend des documents qui tiennent des renseignements personnels et sur sa famille, de I'autobiographie, des textes qui demontrent ses vues politiques, des échanges personnels, des certificats de droit d'auteure, des agendas et des albums des photographies correspondant à chacun de ses voyages avec la discription, des cartes d'affaire, des coupures de presse, des cartes et des objets professionnels et personnels. De plus, Ie fonds comprend beaucoup de photographies (dont 992 negatives), de sa vie personnelle et de ses activités professionnelles.The document portion of this fonds is made up of biographical material about its creator, of professional correspondence with different academics, and of lesson plans. The fonds includes letters exchanged with the Royal Canadian Legion, the ambassador of Canada and the manager of HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) in Rome. It includes documents containing personal and biographical information about lIizarov and his family, autobiographical writings, texts which show his political views, personal exchanges, copyright certifications, agenda books, business cards, and press clippings. The photographic portion of the fonds (of which 992 are negatives) includes photograph albums corresponding to each of his trips, photographs of his personal life, and many photographs of his professional and political activities. This portion of the fonds also includes a few professional and personal artifacts.
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Fonds No.
P0183
History / Biographical
Asaf lIizarov est né à Bakou, URSS, Ie 6 mars 1922. En 1945, il a été admis au " Military University of the Ministry of Defence" et à la fin de ses études, iI est devenu traducteur de la langue russe, arabe, persane, turque, anglaise et francaise. Au URSS, entre 1957 et 1975, Asaf lIizarov a été engagé comme l'interprète officiel dans les conferences internationales, surtout pour les élégations des pays arabes. Le 28 septembre 1975, il a quitté I'URSS pour venir à Vienne (Autriche). De 1975-1976, il a enseigné I'anglais à Rome. En 1976, il est arrive au Canada. En 1980, Asaf lIizarov a reçu sa citoyenneté canadienne. À Ottawa, il a était professeur de la langue russe à l'école des Forces armées canadiennes. De plus, iI a participé dans des organisations publiques et professionnelles : Ie Canada-Israël Cultural Fondation, the Royal Canadian Legion. II était un linguiste se spécialisant dans I'enseignement de langues, la traduction et la terminologie d'interprétation. Ses intérêts incluent la Soviétologie, les problèmes actuels dans Ie Moyen-Orient, et la position des Juifs dans les pays Soviétiques. Asaf lIizarov was born in Baku, USSR, on March 6th, 1922. In 1945, he was accepted into the Military University of the Ministry of Defence, and at the end of his studies, he became a translator of Russian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English and French. In USSR, in 1957-1975, Asaf lIizarov was hired as the official interpreter of an international conference, especially for the delegations of the Arab countries. On September 28th, 1975, he left USSR to come to Vienna (Austria). From 1975 to 1976, he taught English in Rome. In 1976, he arrived in Canada. In 1980, Ilizarov received Canadian citizenship. In Ottawa, he was professor of the Russian language at the Canadian Armed Forces school. In addition, he participated in public and professional organisations: the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Royal Canadian Legion. He was a linguist, specialising in language education, translation and terminology of interpretation. His interests included Sovietology, current problems in the Middle East, and the situation of Jews in Soviet countries.
Custodial History
Le fonds d'archives Ilisarov, Asaf a été transférée en 2001 des Archives nationales du Canada par contrat de donation signé par le directeur de la division des manuscrits aux Archives nationales du Canada. The collection was transferred from the National Archives of Canada. The donor of these material is Mrs. Jackie Gordon, the widow of Robert S. Gordon, who was director of the manuscript division at the National Archives for many years.
Notes
Physical description: Les documents en général sont en bon étant. Certaines photographies sont très fragiles et collées sur un papier, des coupures de presse acides et jaunies.Conservation: Les documents qui portent des renseignements nominatifs sont accessibles 100 ans après leur date de création.Accompanying material: Some documents with biographical information on Asaf lIizarov.Alpha-numeric designations: P01/10, MC P0183, PC P0183.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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