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Interior portrait, Moses Znaimer at Irving Layton Tribute
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn74809
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10.2 x 15.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019421
- Date
- 30 Oct. 1999
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10.2 x 15.2cm
- Date
- 30 Oct. 1999
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 019421
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Howard Kay Photographie
- Notes
- Label on verso: Moses Znaimer / CEO, CITY TV / Irving Layton Tribute / 30 Oct 1999
- Name Access
- Kay, Howard
- Subjects
- Znaimer, Moses
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Interior portrait, Roch Carrier speaking at Irving Layton Tribute
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn74807
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10.2 x 15.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 019419
- Date
- 30 Oct. 1999
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10.2 x 15.2cm
- Date
- 30 Oct. 1999
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 019419
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Howard Kay Photographie
- Notes
- Label on verso: Mr. Roch Carrier / Author and Director of National Library of Canada / Irving Layton Tribute / 30 Oct 1999
- Name Access
- Kay, Howard
- Subjects
- Carrier, Roch
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Irving Layton 'Fortunate Exile', Dec. 14, 1987
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn37805
- Collection
- Saidye Bronfman Centre Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Fonds No.
- 1061; 9; 03429
- Collection
- Saidye Bronfman Centre Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Fonds No.
- 1061
- Series No.
- 9
- File No.
- 03429
- Storage Location
- Ctn 104
- 9-4G
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- In honor of the launching of his newest nook, Fortunate Exile, poet Irving Layton will read selections from his new book. The program os sponsered by the SBC's Harvey Golden Institute and McClelland and Stewart Publishers.
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy laws may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright laws may apply
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Layton, Irving notes.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93070
- Collection
- Dov Okouneff Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1263; 00010
- Date
- c. 1991-1997
- Collection
- Dov Okouneff Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Date
- c. 1991-1997
- Fonds No.
- 1263
- File No.
- 00010
- Storage Location
- 5-1E
- Ctn. 004
- Creator
- Dov Okouneff
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- OKOUNEFF, Dov
- Layton, Irving
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biographies Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33767
- Collection
- Biographies Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 10cm of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1193
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of 14 files of biographies and C.V.s arranged alphabetically. Many biographies are those of authors and speakers who appeared at the Jewish Public Library. Some documents are hand written, others typed or printed and provided by publishers or agents. A handwritten index is i…
- Collection
- Biographies Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 10cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of 14 files of biographies and C.V.s arranged alphabetically. Many biographies are those of authors and speakers who appeared at the Jewish Public Library. Some documents are hand written, others typed or printed and provided by publishers or agents. A handwritten index is included. Notable biographies include Aharon Appelfeld, Mordechai Richler and Irving Layton.
- Fonds No.
- 1193
- Storage Location
- JPL
- 3-3F
- Language
- English
- French
- Yiddish
- Name Access
- Richler, Mordecai
- Layton, Irving
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events
- Richler, Mordecai
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Layton, Irving
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Film Screening - "A Red Carpet for the Sun."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn69490
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 00354
- Date
- 2003
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 2003
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 00354
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn.009
- Language
- English
- Notes
- File contains project planning form, correspondence, various invoices, flyer markups, etc.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- JPL Program - Film Screening
- Layton, Irving
- Winkler, Donald
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jerusalem 3000 Poetry Anthology.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn69379
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 00244
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 00244
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn.006
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- File contains correspondence.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming - Jerusalem 3000
- Layton, Irving, 1912-2006
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jerusalem 3000 Poetry Anthology Submissions.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn69378
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 00243
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 00243
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn.006
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Notes
- File contains submissions, correspondence, budget and press releases.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming - Jerusalem 3000
- Layton, Irving, 1912-2006
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jewish Book Month
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn70786
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5; 01264
- Date
- 1985
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1985
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 01264
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn.039
- Language
- English
- Notes
- File contains correspondence, planning notes, etc.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Jewish Book Month
- Layton, Irving
- Cameron, Elspeth
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Programming
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn69110
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1000; 5
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of records relating to programmes offered by the JPL including Jewish Book Month, lectures, book launches, foreign language programs (Russian, Yiddish, French and Hebrew), film screenings, Yiddish Café, the Annual General Meeting and others. These records include event flyers, …
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of records relating to programmes offered by the JPL including Jewish Book Month, lectures, book launches, foreign language programs (Russian, Yiddish, French and Hebrew), film screenings, Yiddish Café, the Annual General Meeting and others. These records include event flyers, correspondence, agendas and various program committee minutes. These records are organized by year.
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Series No.
- 5
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian
- Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Yelin, Shulamis
- Layton, Irving, 1912-2006
- Ravel, Aviva.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming - J.I. Segal Cultural Awards
- Jewish Public Library Annual General Meeting
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - 90th Anniversary
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Boards and committees
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming - First Fruits
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Music Appreciation Group
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Anniversaries
- Jewish Book Month
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jewish Public Library
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44539
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- Date
- 1914-current
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collectio…
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collection consists of modern era records and is currently being organized following the creation of an appropriate records management classfication.
- Date
- 1914-current
- Fonds No.
- 1000
- History / Biographical
- The Jewish Public Library (JPL) was founded as a "folks" library, a library for all, in 1914. The creation of the JPL was a result of the consolidation of smaller, organization or ideology-based libraries already in existence. Key to the establishment of the JPL was Keneder Adler editor Reuben Brainin. Already active in Yiddish culture of the Montreal Jewish community, Brainin was a leader in the newly formed JPL until he left Montreal for New York in 1916. Brainin's archive collection was donated to the JPL upon his death in 1939. Until 1950 the Library was an independent body in the Jewish community. In 1952 it became a full member of the Allied Jewish Community Services (today known as FEDERATION CJA), an umbrella organization that conducts annual campaigns and is responsible for providing funding for its constituent agencies. The Library remains independent in that it is not part of the City of Montreal library system. The JPL was also a founding member of the Montreal Association of Indepedent Libraries. The operating language of the Library for the early years of its existence was Yiddish. Not just a place for reading, the Library was central to preserving a place for Yiddish culture in the lives of thousands of newly-arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The Library became a venue for visiting authors, such as Sholem Aleichem in 1915, as well as a space for people to connect to a community as well as learn about their new city. At various points in its history the Library also provided learning opportunities under its Jewish People's University, YIFO. YIFO offered a wide variety of subjects taught by various instructors such as Melech Ravitch and Irving Layton. The Library was also the first home to Yiddish youth theatre, led by the then-newly arrived Dora Wasserman. Today the Library collects material and offers cultural programming in five languages: English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian. While the majority of new acquisitions, and thus the collection, remains focused on Judaica, the Library also provides general interest fiction, non-fiction, movies and music. The Library is further broadened by its Special Collections, which include the Jewish Public Library Archives, a community-based repository focused on social, cultural and educational history, a rare book collection, a Yizkor book collection, the Irving Layton Library Collection, a German Judaica collection, periodicals and Jewish Canadiana and international Jewry ephemeral collections. In 1929 a children's library section was added to the JPL. Now known as the Norman Berman Children's Library, children and their families can access a full-service children's and young adult library offering Judaica and general interest reading (fiction and non-fiction) in the five languages of the Library. In addition to the book, CD, DVD and reading kit collections, the Norman Berman Children's Library also offers year-long programming for children from birth to 14 years of age.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Finding Aid
- Please contact the JPL Archives directly to search the JPL archival collection.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Brainin, Reuben, 1862-1939
- Kaufman, Yehuda, 1886-1976.
- Hershman, Hirsch (Harry), 1876-1955
- Books
- Yiddish
- Yiddish theatre
- Wasserman, Dora.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Journals, 1977-1981 and 1981-1984.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93434
- Collection
- Ray Shankman Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1346; 2; 00059
- Date
- 1977-1984
- Collection
- Ray Shankman Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Date
- 1977-1984
- Fonds No.
- 1346
- Series No.
- 2
- File No.
- 00059
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Ray Shankman
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- First journal roughly half poetry, half prose, focusing on feelings of "Jewishness", family concerns including Ranaan's illness, a potential fourth child, and near the end, Ray's father's illness, as well as professional concerns - primarily attempts at poetry and the Jewish authors he is reading for inspiration: Elie Wiesel, Irving Layton, Phillip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Leonard Cohen. Many of the dated poetry entries seem to pertain to current feelings or occurances of that day, essentially journaling in verse. Second journal: first half is almost entirely poetry or verse, only a little pertaining to his day to day life. Entire second half devoted to personal life, including Ranaan's poor health and introduction of former student Alison as children's caretaker.
- Name Access
- Shankman, Ray. 1940-2016.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Montreal Jewish Forum
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn71817
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1000A; 8; 00354
- Date
- [c. 1960-1966]
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- Date
- [c. 1960-1966]
- Fonds No.
- 1000A
- Series No.
- 8
- File No.
- 00354
- Storage Location
- CTN.040
- 12-1G
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Series of forum discussions. Participants of note include Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton and Melech Ravitch.
- Related Material
- Jewish Public Library Fonds
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Ray Shankman Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93372
- Collection
- Ray Shankman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3.33 linear feet of textual records and graphic material.
- Fonds No.
- 1346
- Date
- 1959-2015
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of manuscripts and correspondence.
- Collection
- Ray Shankman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3.33 linear feet of textual records and graphic material.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of manuscripts and correspondence.
- Date
- 1959-2015
- Fonds No.
- 1346
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Ray Shankman
- Physical Condition
- Good
- History / Biographical
- Ray Shankman (1940-2016) was born in Toronto, and taught at Lakehead University, Ben Gurion University and for over twenty years at Vanier College, where he taught English and Jewish Studies. He published poetry in various journals and small magazines in the U.S. and Canada, as well as scholarly articles on the Bible. His collection of poetry “For Love of the Wind” was published in 1991 by Medicine Label Press. As a writer, his correspondence includes letters from Allen Ginsberg, Irving Layton, David Solway, and others. He was also actively involved in several countercultural movements in the 1960s, and in many ways, the collection is a window onto this period of Canadian history.
- Language
- English
- Custodial History
- Donated by Ray Shankman to the Jewish Public Library Archives in 2015.
- Name Access
- Shankman, Ray. 1940-2016.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
YIFO correspondence
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn72029
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file containing textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1000A; 10; 00499
- Date
- [ca. 1945-1957]
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file containing textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1945-1957]
- Fonds No.
- 1000A
- Series No.
- 10
- File No.
- 00499
- Storage Location
- CTN.052
- 12-2B
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Contains letters and course descriptions from Irving Layton.
- Related Material
- Jewish Public Library Fonds
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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