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- Adele Wiseman sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Canadian Jewish News 1
- Alexander Brott sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Canadian Jewish News 1
- Articles and sketches from various corporate publications: Royal Bank, Petrofina, C.P. Rail and Northern Telecom; March to Nov. 1977 1
- Articles on CEOs of Various U.S. Companies, written under the byline 'Louis James'. 1
- Articles on diverse subjects, written under the by-line 'Louis James' 1
- Ben Weider sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Canadian Jewish News 1
- Bill Haldimand sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Montreal Star 1
- Billie Jean King sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Montreal Record 1
- Biographical information on Lou Seligson 1
- Canadian Jewish News articles and pencil sketches; originals and copies, 2
- Canadian Jewish News articles and pencil sketches; originals and copies, April-July 1978 1
- Canadian Jewish News articles and pencil sketches; originals and copies, April to Sept. 1983 1
Caricatures for: The Nation; The New Republic; The Holt Labor Library (photocopies only)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47189
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-78
- Date
- 1946-1962
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1962
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-78
- Notes
- Among many other American and national leaders: Kurt Weill, Nehru, David Dubinsky, Senator Taft, Leon Blum, Mao Tse Tung.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Men of Queens, Long Island Sunday Press, 1947
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47136
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-52
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1947
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-52
- Notes
- See file for details
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
SELIGSON, Lou.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn244
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.75 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- Date
- 1948-2002.
- Scope and Content
- Canadian Jewish News press clippings of interviews and caricatures of a cross-section of Montreal Jewry. Addition 2011: Newspaper clippings of the finished articles from the Montreal Gazette (1970-1972), and the Montreal Star (1972-1973) associated with caricature drawings donated earlier. Addition…
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.75 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Canadian Jewish News press clippings of interviews and caricatures of a cross-section of Montreal Jewry. Addition 2011: Newspaper clippings of the finished articles from the Montreal Gazette (1970-1972), and the Montreal Star (1972-1973) associated with caricature drawings donated earlier. Addition 2012: 3 regular (8" x 10") and 6 small black and while photos, and a small notebook with sketches and notes, pertaining to a mission to Israel attended by Lou Seligson, 1973. One 8" x 10" b and w photo with Prime Minister Trudeau and others, at the time of the publication of Enclyclopedia Judaica in 1973. Numerous newsclippings dating from the 1960s, mounted on black paper, from the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, with profiles and sketches of mostly Israeli notables (texts in Hebrew) as well as some printed caricatures of famous figures published in The Nation in the late 1940s, and a few profiles published in other international publications. Among the newspaper materials those that were damaged by damp have been photocopied, with the originals discarded.
- Date
- 1948-2002.
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- History / Biographical
- Lou Seligson was born in Argentina in 1914, to parents who were Latvian immigrant ranchers. To escape antisemitic violence, the family moved to Milwaukee in the United States in 1920. Seligson studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the US merchant marine during WWII. He married his first wife Dorothy Wilson in 1945, with whom he had two sons, Eric and Mark. Affected by the hardships of the Depression era, he sympathized and became involved in leftist activities, leading to his blacklisting during the McCarthy era, during which he wrote and drew under pseudonyms such as 'Luis', the name he used for his caricatures of famous people in the socialist Militant Newspaper. Seligson emigrated to Israel in 1962, where he wrote a daily column for Ma'ariv. It was in Israel that he met his second wife, Eunice Chankowsky, then director of the Canadian Hadassah WIZO office in Tel Aviv. The couple married in 1966 and moved for a few years to Geneva, where Seligson edited the country's only English newspaper, the Weekly Tribune, before immigrating to Montreal, Canada in 1970. Seligson's Montreal career included a job writing business profiles for the Montreal Gazette, followed by a column called 'Line Byline' at the Montreal Star. He also wrote for the sports-oriented Sunday Express before taking up employment at the Canadian Jewish News in 1977, where he became well known for his twenty years of articles and accompanying caricature drawings. Over the course of his career, Seligson produced approximately 800 illustrated articles. He died at age 88 in 2002. (Primary source: the Canadian Jewish News, article by Janice Arnold, August 1, 2002.)
- Custodial History
- The collection was first donated by Lou Seligson on March 23, 1985. Addition were made by Eunice Seligson (his widow) in 2011 and 2012.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P85/03, P11/15, and P12/12.General note :Seligson was a well-known Montreal artist who profiled a great many prominent members of the Jewish and non-Jewish community over an extended period. The art portion of the collection contains mostly original pencil works. Related material: P85/03: newspaper columns donated in 1985, also a book of his selected Canadian Jewish News columns, titled Mr. Profile, donated circa 1993.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Articles on CEOs of Various U.S. Companies, written under the byline 'Louis James'.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47142
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-55
- Date
- [195-]
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- [195-]
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-55
- Notes
- File includes: Clairol Inc., Phillip Morris Co., Standard Oil, RCA, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, et al. See file for additional names.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Articles on diverse subjects, written under the by-line 'Louis James'
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47143
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-56
- Date
- [195-]
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- [195-]
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-56
- Notes
- File contains: 'Entertaining without Tears', 'Leap Year',et al. See file for more details,
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Various magazines from 1951: Record Retailing Journal, Convention Daily, Frosted Food Field Newspaper
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47185
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-74
- Date
- 1951
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1951
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-74
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Executive Features: New York Journal American, The Nation, Wall Street Journal. Under the byline 'Louis James'.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47141
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-54
- Date
- 1954-1956
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1956
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-54
- Notes
- See file for details
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
The Journal American, New York: Photocopies of newspaper clippings
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47190
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-79
- Date
- 1954
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1954
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-79
- Notes
- File contains: Interviews and sketches of various businessmen and industrialists.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Biographical information on Lou Seligson
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47184
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-73
- Date
- 1957-2002
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-2002
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-73
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Holt Labor Library, San Francisco, California. Materials published under the by-line 'Luis'
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47144
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-57
- Date
- [196-]
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- [196-]
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-57
- Notes
- File contains: Caricatures only See file for details
- Subjects
- Holt Labor Library, San Francisco, California. Materials published under the by-line 'Luis'
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Newspapers in Israel- Ma'ariv in Hebrew; 'L'Information' in French
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47191
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-80
- Date
- 1963-1965
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1963-1965
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-80
- Notes
- File contains: Photocopies of newspaper clippings of visiting dignitaries from all over the world. The column in Ma'ariv was called 'Visiting Card' (Cartisse Bikur).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Newspaper 'Tribune de Geneve', Column called 'Who's Who at the United Nations'; March 1967 to May 1969
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47193
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-04-82
- Date
- 1967-1969
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1967-1969
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-04-82
- Notes
- File contains: Photocopies of interviews in French; original work in English and some original sketches
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
The Gazette articles and pencil sketches; originals, April to June 1971
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47116
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-41
- Date
- 1971
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1971
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-41
- Notes
- File contains: Hy Margolese, Ted Tilden, Charles Neopole (sketch missing), Harold Cummings, Robert Scrivener, John Newman, Joe Carton, Bryce Mackasey, Viscount Hardinge, Louis Laberge, Thor Stephenson,Margaret Frappier, Laurent Beaudoin, Leonard M. Shavick, Richard Laferty, Vernon Marquez, Marcel Lajeunesse, Conrad Harrington, Sydney Maislin, Fred Whittal, Claude Simard, Louis Desmarais, Frank Case, Gerald Bruck
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Ted Tilden sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Gazette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47117
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-41
- Date
- 1971
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1971
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-41
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Harold Cummings sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Gazette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47118
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-41
- Date
- 1971
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1971
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-41
- Notes
- This file also contains 2 black and white photographs of Harold Cummings with other people: both are available as digital copies.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Louis Laberge sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Gazette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47119
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-41
- Date
- 1971
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1971
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-41
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
The Gazette articles and original sketches; Sept. 1971 to Feb. 1972
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47146
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-03-59
- Date
- 1971-1972
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1971-1972
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-03-59
- Notes
- File contains: Howard Ross, Ronald Hines, Eddy Aubert, Donald Mumford, Leo Lavoie, Harry Andrews, Bernard Lechartier, James Soden, James Tooley, Ronald Perowne , John Baldwin, Jack Margolis, Charles Cadieux, Jean Desrosiers, Ray Regimbal, Don McRobie, Henri Turgeon, Arnold Masters, Stephen Jarislowsky, Leonard 'Red' McLaughlin, Murray Black, J. Gaudoise Hamelin
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
The Montreal Star articles and pencil sketches; originals, Aug. to Sept. 1972
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47120
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-42
- Date
- 1972
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1972
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-42
- Notes
- File contains: Don McGowan (article missing), Moe Appel, Dr. Victor Goldbloom, Jeanine Beaubien, Sveg Orvig, Dr. Rocco Petrone, Stephane Venne, Ian Coristine, Roger Lucas, Bob Russel, Frank Lowe, Charles Biggio, Paul Gallagher, Harry Belafonte
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Harry Belafonte sketch and profile by Lou Seligson in the Montreal Star
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47121
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-42
- Date
- 1972
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1972
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-42
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
The Montreal Star articles and pencil sketches; originals, June to Aug. 1972
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47122
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0138; MC 29-02-43
- Date
- 1972
- Collection
- SELIGSON, Lou
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1972
- Fonds No.
- P0138
- File No.
- MC 29-02-43
- Notes
- File contains: Charles Harris, Don McNaughton, Charles Balinsky, Moishe Lighter, Pierre Lalonde, Joey Richman (sketch missing), Jean Lacroix, George Balcan, Franz-Paul Decker, Michael Sheldon, Stanley Lewis, Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, Gerard Filion, Sam Getz
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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