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ABER, Ita

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

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn297
Collection
WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.09 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0196
Date
1884-2017.
Scope and Content
McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typica…
Collection
WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.09 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs.
Scope and Content
McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typical Jewish women of her time: World War II, poverty, the Holocaust, aging, Israel, her children. Also one portrait photograph of the poet (copy of 1920 original taken circa 1920). Added in August 2017: Six small groups of family history documents consisting of, in the donor's words: 1) Five laminated pages of notes covering family history, 2) Three original pages of notes, including on the first page, "mention of the fact that Greenblatt enjoyed Leah's singing voice, which my mother described as being clear as a bell, and having an enormous range"; 3) A 1965 Yiddish document of around 13 notebook pages that (inserted translator's note) include a lexicon of Hebrew words and their Yiddish equivalents as well as some Yiddish phrases, interspersed with a few of Leah Bas Alchanan's autobiographical reflections; 4) Two anecdotes and a poem about Leah, written by the donor's mother (Leah's daughter); 5) One additional photocopy of a 1940 poem by Leah, with translation - original not found. and 6) two documents, (inserted translator's note) one with the dates from 1869, 1875 and 1884, (mostly in Hebrew) and the other apparently recording births (in German) for Avrom (1905), Mordecai (1906) and Leah (1910). Added in December 2017: Additional family material about ancestors and descendants, 1910-2017, information about the Alexander family surname, family trees, various birth, marriage and death certificates, and three photographs including an old studio portrait from Budapest. A brief inventory is included with the latter group of documents.
Date
1884-2017.
Fonds No.
P0196
History / Biographical
Leah (Golub) Wiseman, was born in Chernigov, Ukraine, in 1889 or 1890. She came to Canada around 1907, at the age of 17, settling in Montreal. Married to Joseph Wiseman and a mother, she was active in various Jewish organizations, especially Talmud Torah. She had a very good singing voice. Her poems, written for herself and her family and signed Leah bas Alchanan, were likely never published. She died in Montreal at age 99, in December 1990. (Biography written by her son, Sidney White).
Custodial History
The collection was donated by her grandson Herb Alexander on August 28, 2003, with additions in August and December 2017.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P03/17, P17/12.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

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

P0201-SamBorod-diary-WWII-allpages

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ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn314
Collection
ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
7 photographs. - 0.04 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0214
Date
1925-1990c.
Scope and Content
Circumcision certificate from Rabbi J. L. Colton for Harry Zimmerman (the donor's father) in 1925. New Years cards printed for his family. From Reuven Zimmerman: documents relating to his work at Via Rail and small slide-photo of him in his railway car, photos with his taxi, work identification car…
Collection
ZIMMERMAN, Harry and Reuven = Life and Work Documents
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
7 photographs. - 0.04 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Circumcision certificate from Rabbi J. L. Colton for Harry Zimmerman (the donor's father) in 1925. New Years cards printed for his family. From Reuven Zimmerman: documents relating to his work at Via Rail and small slide-photo of him in his railway car, photos with his taxi, work identification cards, birth certificate information and death notice, portrait photos.Addition 2021: 6 black and white photos, ca. 1950s. 1 colour phot, 1976. 1 colour photo keychain. Taxi driver permit Reuben Zimmerman, 1954. Reuben Zimmerman Via Rail and CN Rail documents, 1967-1984. RCAF and National Defense documents Reuben Zimmerman, 1945-1960. 4 B'nai Brith buttons, ca. 1940s. 1 file Aberdeen school documents Harry Zimmerman, 1935-1938. 1 file Baron Byng High School documents Harry Zimmerman, 1943-1944. 1 file McGill documents Harry Zimmerman, 1944-1955. Ministry of Health correspondence for work, 1952
Date
1925-1990c.
Fonds No.
P0214
History / Biographical
Harry Zimmerman was born in Montreal in 1925. He attended Aberdeen Elementary School in the 1930s and Baron Byng High School in the early 1940s, both schools in the Protestant School system. Documents in this collection attest to his interest in athletics and in science. Upon graduating in Science from McGill in 1949 and after a brief period working for the Ministry of Health as a biochemist, he returned to McGill University to study accounting and subsequently became a bookkeeper, working for many years at Export Scoville. He died in 2017. Reuven, who died in 2005, was Harry's brother. Reuven was born in 1925. He worked as a Via Rail conductor and as a taxi driver. Never married, he was companion to Marie-Flore Lortie for 30 years, until her death from cancer.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Arlene Zimmerman on Aug. 3, 2007. An addition was made on August 17, 2021 by Arlene Zimmerman
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P07/16 and P21/04.General note: Certificate relates to Colton collection - we did not have a complete certificate of Colton's prior to this. Other documents show life and work in Montreal in a milieu not often documented in our collection.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn320
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
object
Physical Description
5.9 metres of textual records. - Env. 495 photographs. - 7 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0220
Date
1828-2005.
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into five series. The first series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century, transcripts of the diary by Annette Wolff, and original pre-1900 materials pertaining to Abraham Joseph and other members of his family. The second series consists in large …
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
sound recording
object
Physical Description
5.9 metres of textual records. - Env. 495 photographs. - 7 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into five series. The first series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph's diary from the 18th century, transcripts of the diary by Annette Wolff, and original pre-1900 materials pertaining to Abraham Joseph and other members of his family. The second series consists in large part of correspondence between Martin Wolff and Irene Joseph Wolff, before and after their marriage, and letters to their daughters. The third series consists primarily of correspondence between the Wolff sisters. The fourth series contains correspondence from Annette Wolff to her family and friends, letters received from soldiers during World War II, and documents and memorabilia relating to her education, employment, and travels. The fifth series consists of Wolff and Joseph family photographs. The last series is composed of sound elements. It contains 7 cassette tapes, each 90 minutes in duration, of interviews of Annette Wolff by Eiran Harris
Date
1828-2005.
Fonds No.
P0220
History / Biographical
The Joseph family was one of the earliest Jewish families to settle in Quebec. Irene Joseph (1885 1940), a writer and community worker, married Martin Wolff, (1881 1948) engineer and historian, and they had six daughters. The lives and thoughts of all these individuals are reflected in this fonds. The earliest portions of the fonds contains considerable information about the life of Abraham Joseph (1815-1886), a successful businessman involved in numerous commercial enterprises, including leadership roles in the Quebec Board of Trade and the Banque Nationale. The greater part of this portion of the fonds is connected to Abraham Joseph's diaries, which are a valuable early record of Jewish life and material culture in Quebec. Much of the material in the later series of the fonds documents the life of the Wolff family in Montreal and Quebec in the early 20th century until the late 1940s, and includes information about quotidian life and religious and social customs as practiced by a middle-class Jewish family of that era. Though observant Jews, the Wolff family members mixed with and were accepted by the larger community, making this fonds a source of information on many aspects of Canadian society as well as that of Great Britain. The fonds includes a special emphasis on the work and writings of Annette Wolff, who took on the role of family historian. The Joseph and Wolff family fonds contains material of potential interest to historians, students of Jewish life in Canada and women's studies, social scientists, psychologists, journalists, and authors.
Custodial History
The majority of this fonds was donated in increments, over a period of several years, by sisters Annette Wolff, Rosetta Wolff Elkin, and Esther Wolff Blaustein, with the greatest part of the collection coming from Annette Wolff. A small percentage of the material was donated by Rachel Wolff Esar, and a few files were deposited much earlier by Martin Wolff.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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KRANE, Francie = Bnai Brith Women Bonaventure Chapter : Scrapbook tribute album

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Collection
KRANE, Francie = Bnai Brith Women Bonaventure Chapter : Scrapbook tribute album
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 textual record.
Fonds No.
P0229
Date
1974.
Scope and Content
B'nai Brith Women Bonaventure Chapter large decorated wooden cover scrapbook made as a 1973-1974 tribute album to President Francie Krane. The cover, designed by Francie Pellatt and executed by Ralph Pellat, features a relief model of a wooden menorah with large coloured wax candles inserted. The i…
Collection
KRANE, Francie = Bnai Brith Women Bonaventure Chapter : Scrapbook tribute album
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 textual record.
Scope and Content
B'nai Brith Women Bonaventure Chapter large decorated wooden cover scrapbook made as a 1973-1974 tribute album to President Francie Krane. The cover, designed by Francie Pellatt and executed by Ralph Pellat, features a relief model of a wooden menorah with large coloured wax candles inserted. The inside contains many types of documentation, including minutes, flyers and other ephemera. The pages are decorated with coloured construction paper and other elements.
Date
1974.
Fonds No.
P0229
Custodial History
The scrapbook was donated by Francie Krane through her sister-in-law Shirley Sibalis, CJCCC-NA volunteer.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P09/24.Related groups of records: Jewish Women International of Canada (I0097).General note: Adds to B'nai Brith Women/Jewish Women International Canada (JWIC) collection, and is an especially fine specimen of this album genre.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW) : Montreal Branch

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn407
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.64 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0048; A
Date
1910-1990.
Scope and Content
1 scrapbook, includes 100 photos, 1927-[1959]. Minutes. Correspondence. Newsletter. Invitation. Educational documentation. History of the NCJW of Canada (in blue binder), 1997. 217 photos. 2 neg. strips. 1 book The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: The form and order of the service, 2 J…
Collection
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.64 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
1 scrapbook, includes 100 photos, 1927-[1959]. Minutes. Correspondence. Newsletter. Invitation. Educational documentation. History of the NCJW of Canada (in blue binder), 1997. 217 photos. 2 neg. strips. 1 book The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: The form and order of the service, 2 June 1953. 1 pocket-size binder of minutes
Date
1910-1990.
Fonds No.
I0048
Series No.
A
Notes
Physical condition: The scrapbook is fragile.Alpha-numeric designations: P04/02.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Administrative Files

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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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Interned Refugees

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn409
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.5 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; B
Date
1937-1948.
Scope and Content
Assistance to refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish, interned in Britain as "Prisoners of War" in May 1940 and transferred to Australia and Canada shortly thereafter.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.5 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Assistance to refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish, interned in Britain as "Prisoners of War" in May 1940 and transferred to Australia and Canada shortly thereafter.
Date
1937-1948.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
B
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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War Orphans Immigration Project

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn410
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
5.3 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; C
Date
c.1947-1953.
Scope and Content
Information on UJRA's attempts to settle war orphans in Canada. There are three types of case files: 1) general personal histories of those who applied to Canada. 2) withdrawn applications and 3) referrals, release forms, policy statements and case histories, processed through DP emigration departm…
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
5.3 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Information on UJRA's attempts to settle war orphans in Canada. There are three types of case files: 1) general personal histories of those who applied to Canada. 2) withdrawn applications and 3) referrals, release forms, policy statements and case histories, processed through DP emigration departments of the American Zone Headquarters in Germany and Austria. There are also subject files which contain progress reports, sailing lists, more personal histories, and information on the staff and agencies involved.
Date
c.1947-1953.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
C
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Skilled Labourers Immigration Projects for Displaced Persons

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn411
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
2.5 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; D
Date
1947-1957.
Scope and Content
This series documents special immigration projects to bring craftsmen needed by certain Canadian industries from European Displaced Persons camps to specific employers who participated in the project as established by their particular industry. These include the furriers', garment workers' and mill…
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
2.5 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This series documents special immigration projects to bring craftsmen needed by certain Canadian industries from European Displaced Persons camps to specific employers who participated in the project as established by their particular industry. These include the furriers', garment workers' and milliners' projects. Reference is also made to a number of "domestic worker" cases.
Date
1947-1957.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
D
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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UJRA Refugee Case Files

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Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.62 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; F
Date
1939-1947.
Scope and Content
UJRA refugee assistance program including immigration, vocational placement, location service, loans and relief. This series concerns such cases opened at the outbreak of the war and often not closed until after the war.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.62 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
UJRA refugee assistance program including immigration, vocational placement, location service, loans and relief. This series concerns such cases opened at the outbreak of the war and often not closed until after the war.
Date
1939-1947.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
F
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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JDC Refugee and Relief Program

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn414
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.5 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; G
Date
1940-1964.
Scope and Content
A residual category designating all immigration cases not fully within specific CJC immigration programs. Includes one file of messages from overseas. Notification of sailings, overseas relief, special cases other than Displaced Persons. Interventions by UJRA personnel with Canadian government on b…
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.5 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
A residual category designating all immigration cases not fully within specific CJC immigration programs. Includes one file of messages from overseas. Notification of sailings, overseas relief, special cases other than Displaced Persons. Interventions by UJRA personnel with Canadian government on behalf of individual immigration applicant, financing and subsequent retrieval of part or all of immigrant's transportation costs, resettlement assistance such as vocational guidance, relief and loan referrals. Also requests for information concerning property restitution and for assistance in location of individuals in Canadian and other Jewish communities. The cooperating agencies in Canada were the CJC and the JIAS, while the American and European organization most active in these cases were the WJC, the IRO, the AJDC, and the USNA.
Date
1940-1964.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
G
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Overseas Relief Shipments

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn415
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.24 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; H
Date
1930-1962.
Scope and Content
Carried out through cooperation of UJRA, JDC, OSE, ORT and other agencies for the relief of Jewish victims of World War II.
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.24 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Carried out through cooperation of UJRA, JDC, OSE, ORT and other agencies for the relief of Jewish victims of World War II.
Date
1930-1962.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
H
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Transmission of Funds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn416
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.86 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0062; J
Date
1945-1976.
Scope and Content
Concerns wide range of financial transmissions between associated agencies where funds were either transmitted to a particular agency or a particular individual for indirect or direct relief assistance respectively. These transmissions, or allocations, were made to individuals or agencies both in C…
Collection
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1.86 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Concerns wide range of financial transmissions between associated agencies where funds were either transmitted to a particular agency or a particular individual for indirect or direct relief assistance respectively. These transmissions, or allocations, were made to individuals or agencies both in Canada and overseas.
Date
1945-1976.
Fonds No.
I0062
Series No.
J
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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LYUBMAN, Alexander

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn489
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.1 metres of textual records. - 5 photographs. - 1 record in electronic form.
Fonds No.
I0088; 52
Date
1996-2013.
Scope and Content
The collection includes approximately 50 manuscripts of works written by Alexander Lyubman on the subject of the Second World War, Israel, and life in Canada. also prose publications and poems written as Alexander Lyubman, and also under his pseudonym Avrum Kravirora. The collection also contains p…
Collection
RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 0.1 metres of textual records. - 5 photographs. - 1 record in electronic form.
Scope and Content
The collection includes approximately 50 manuscripts of works written by Alexander Lyubman on the subject of the Second World War, Israel, and life in Canada. also prose publications and poems written as Alexander Lyubman, and also under his pseudonym Avrum Kravirora. The collection also contains press clippings, including one regarding an interview which he gave to a Russian newspaper in Montreal. There are 2 photographs of his daughters, and photocopies of portrait photographs of the donor. There is 1 CD containing 3 phographs of Alexander Lyubman; 2 in colour and one black and white (jpgs, 3000KB).
Date
1996-2013.
Fonds No.
I0088
Series No.
52
History / Biographical
Alexander Lyubman was born in Bershade (Ukraine) in 1949. In 1967, he completed his studies at a Medical College in Odessa, where he later taught. He was a deputy with regard to the reconstruction of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Soon after his immigration to Montreal, beginning in 2000 he worked as a medication consultant in a pharmacy. In his leisure time he was the leader of a chess club for Jewish children at JIAS Montreal. A writer of poetry and articles, he has been published in the local Russian Jewish newspaper 'The Voice of the Community'.
Custodial History
Alexander Lyubman donated this collection on Oct.18, 2004.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P04/01-45.
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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STE. AGATHE CHALET HOTEL : Ste. Agathe, Quebec

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn513
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Fonds No.
I0094; 09
Date
1945c-1965c.
Scope and Content
16 photos of Chalet owners/family, partners, guests, staff, identified by R. Rosenthall. 1 newspaper clipping, March 25, 1999
Collection
LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material
textual record
Physical Description
16 photographs. - 1 textual record.
Scope and Content
16 photos of Chalet owners/family, partners, guests, staff, identified by R. Rosenthall. 1 newspaper clipping, March 25, 1999
Date
1945c-1965c.
Fonds No.
I0094
Series No.
09
History / Biographical
The Ste. Agathe Chalet was jointlly owned by four owners: Oscar Handelman, Abraham Handelman, Arthur Fasman, and Isaac Shapiro.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Laike HANDELMAN (widow of Abie) & Rebecca Bea SHAPIRO via R. Rosenthall on September 8, 1993.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P93/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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