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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
Images
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