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FEDERATION CJA

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43512

Collection: Federation CJA Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 35.6m multiple media

Fonds No.: 1001

Date: 1917-2010

Scope and Content: This fonds consists of material deposited by FED CJA offices as well as collected by the JPL-A through the Jewish Canadiana collection. Currently, the fonds is divided into five series based on the present organization: Series I – Minute Books (Bound, Executive and Directors) and Annual Repo…

Collection: Federation CJA Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 35.6m multiple media

Scope and Content: This fonds consists of material deposited by FED CJA offices as well as collected by the JPL-A through the Jewish Canadiana collection. Currently, the fonds is divided into five series based on the present organization: Series I – Minute Books (Bound, Executive and Directors) and Annual Reports, Series II – Executive Office, Series III - Campaign FED CJA, Series IV – Marketing and Communications Department, and Series V – Scrapbooks (1935-1967)

Date: 1917-2010

Fonds No.: 1001

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: FEDERATION CJA was founded in 1916 as the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, with the first campaign held in 1917. The Federation originally consisted of 12 Jewish agencies: the Baron de Hirsch Institute, Mount Sinai Sanatorium, Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, Herzl Dispensary and Hospital, the Montreal Hebrew Orphans’ Home, the Montreal Hebrew Sheltering Home, the Ladies Jewish Endeavour Sewing Society, the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, the Beth Israel Day Nursery and Infants’ Home, the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society and the Friendly League of Jewish Women. That first campaign raised $127,000 for support of agencies and community work. In 1951, the name was changed to Federation of Jewish Community Services and then again, in 1965, to Allied Jewish Community Services. The current incarnation of FEDERATION CJA occurred in 1992. Currently, FEDERATION CJA acts as the “central funding, planning, and coordinating body of services for the nearly 93,000 Jews in Montreal and is the one organization that speaks on behalf of the entire community.” Each year FEDERATION CJA raises funds for its various agencies, projects and the community through Combined Jewish Appeal. Today FEDERATION CJA has twelve constituent agencies (Agence Ometz, Bronfman Jewish Education Centre, Bronfman Israel Experience Centre, Camp B'nai Brith, Communaute sepharade unifee du Quebec, Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors, Hillel Montreal, JEM Workshop Inc., the Jewish Public Library, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, and the YM-YWHA Montreal Jewish Community Centre), four funded associated communal organizations (Quebec Jewish Congress - A division of Canadian Jewish Congress, Project Genesis, Quebec-Israel Committee, and United Israel Appeal of Federations Canada, as well as non-funded associated ties with the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, the Synagogue Council of Greater Montreal, and the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal.

Language: English; French; Hebrew; Yiddish; Russian

Custodial History: The Jewish Public Library has been accepting and preserving material from Federation CJA and the organizations that preceded it since 1917.

Arrangement: This Collection is arranged under the current name of "Federation CJA" but includes material created under former organizational names: Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Federation of Jewish Community Services and Allied Jewish Community Services. Series III, Campaign FED CJA, is an artificially created grouping, arranged by the JPL-A from material collected by the Library since 1917. New series have been added as other offices and departments of FEDERATION CJA deposit permanent archival material with the JPL-A. Individual agencies (e.g. Jewish Public Library) are not included as series within this Fonds. Instead, these agencies stand alone as individual fonds.

Access Restrictions: Privacy restrictions may apply.

Finding Aid: A detailed finding aid for the Exectutive Office exists, created by the JPL-A in the early 1970's and updated in 2007 and 2013. An index for the subject files of the Marketing and Communications Department was created in 2007 and is available in the JPL-A.

Accession No.: 00-076; 12-017 (series c); 12-018 (series c2); 13-012

Subjects: Federation CJA; Federation CJA - Combined Jewish Appeal; Federation CJA - Women's Division; Federation CJA - Young Adult Committee; Federation of Jewish Community Services [Montreal]

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Jewish Community Work

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16733

Collection: Manny Batshaw Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 21cm textual records ; 21 photographs

Fonds No.: 1059; 3

Date: 1964-2000

Scope and Content: This series consists of evidence of Mr. Batshaw’s professional participation within the Jewish Community, especially in Montreal. It includes correspondence, publications, awards and photographs.

Collection: Manny Batshaw Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 21cm textual records ; 21 photographs

Scope and Content: This series consists of evidence of Mr. Batshaw’s professional participation within the Jewish Community, especially in Montreal. It includes correspondence, publications, awards and photographs.

Date: 1964-2000

Fonds No.: 1059

Series No.: 3

Storage Location: Bay 6

Creator: Manny Batshaw

History / Biographical: See Fonds description

Custodial History: Donated by Manny Batshaw

Name Access: Batshaw, Manuel G., 1915-

Subjects: Federation CJA - Montreal (Quebec); Philanthropy

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Manny Batshaw Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16730

Collection: Manny Batshaw Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1.7m of textual documents ; 347 photographs

Fonds No.: 1059

Date: 1918-2006

Scope and Content: The Fonds consists of correspondence regarding both personal and business matters, newspaper clippings (both loose and in scrapbooks), publications by AJCS and other Jewish organizations, a published biography of Manuel Batshaw, documents regarding his time as a social worker, photographs, audio an…

Collection: Manny Batshaw Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1.7m of textual documents ; 347 photographs

Scope and Content: The Fonds consists of correspondence regarding both personal and business matters, newspaper clippings (both loose and in scrapbooks), publications by AJCS and other Jewish organizations, a published biography of Manuel Batshaw, documents regarding his time as a social worker, photographs, audio and visual materials and awards. There are three series present within the Fonds. Series I covers Mr. Batshaw’s personal affairs, and consists mainly of photographs, degrees, certificates, scrapbooks and correspondence. Series II covers Mr. Batshaw’s career as a social worker, and currently consists of a summary of the 1975 Batshaw Report, although further accruals are expected. Series III covers Mr. Batshaw’s professional work within the Jewish community, and consists of annual reports, publications, awards and photographs.

Date: 1918-2006

Fonds No.: 1059

Storage Location: Bay 6

Creator: Manny Batshaw

History / Biographical: Manuel Gilman Batshaw (Manny) was born in Montreal on April 17, 1915. His parents, Tuvieh Batshaw and Golda Batshaw (née Gelman) immigrated to Montreal from Russia in 1903, following the birth of Manny’s older brother Harry in 1902 [?]. Harry was followed by Arthur in 1908, Frances in 1910 and finally, Manny. The family had a very limited income. While his father worked outside of the home, Manny’s mother Goldie ran a small grocery store from their home’s living room. From childhood, Manny was quite active within the Montreal Jewish community. In 1928, as a bar mitzvah gift from his brother Harry, Manny received a membership to the YMHA. Over the years, he moved from member, to club leader, to being in charge of all clubs, and finally, to educational director. It was through this organization that Manny had his first experiences in the field of social work. At 15 years old, he joined Young Judea. At 16, he became a counselor at Camp B’nai Brith. In 1938, Manny met Rachel Levitt (Rachie). She was also a social worker, nine years his senior. Two years later in 1940, the two were married. In 1942, Manny volunteered for the Canadian Armed Forces. He was placed in the Infantry and was made District Social Service Officer in charge of Social Services to the Canadian Armed Forces in the province of Quebec. He began his military career as a Private and by the time the War was over had attained the rank of Captain. After the War he was invited to become the Executive Director of the Red Cross in Montreal. As tempting as the offer was, he wanted to play a larger role within the Jewish community, so he declined. From 1947-1968, the Batshaw family moved quite a bit living in Philadelphia, Hamilton, Atlanta, Newark, New Jersey and New York. In 1968, the Allied Jewish Community Services (AJCS) contacted Manny, and asked him to return to Montreal as Executive Director of the organization. He agreed, and remained in that position until 1980. During the “Batshaw Era,” fundraising increased five-fold and the organization expanded, made obvious by the many buildings which were constructed, including Cummings House in 1973. He personally helped to reassure the community following the implementation of Bill 65, and made it his own personal mission to look after his people. He insisted on making it the right of all Jewish children to have a Jewish education, he helped to integrate the Francophone Sephardic population into the AJCS, he organized trips for students to visit Israel, and in the face of possible Quebec separation (when many Anglophone Jews were leaving the province), he fought for French Immersion education in Jewish schools. His compassion was felt beyond the walls of AJCS. In 1974, following a news story in The Montreal Gazette regarding the maltreatment of children in a welfare institution in La Prairie, Manny convinced Claude Forget, Minister of Health and Welfare for the province of Quebec, to allow him to form a small committee of professionals to go into the institution and make recommendations. The approval arrived the next day on a Thursday, the committee was formed the following day, and by Sunday night, the visit had been completed and the finished report had been delivered to the Minister. The recommendations were published in the local newspapers and soon after almost all of them had been implemented. Obviously impressed, Mr. Forget asked Manny to spearhead a thorough examination of the province’s 60 other institutions. What followed 11 months later was an 11-volume report, informally titled The Batshaw Committee Report. This led to the enactment of Bill 24, Quebec’s Youth Protection Act. In 1993, when the five Anglophone child welfare institutions of Quebec amalgamated, the new name was an easy choice: Batshaw Youth and Family Centres. After his retirement from AJCS in 1980, Manny joined Claridge Inc. at the request of his friend Charles Bronfman as his Consultant on Philanthropy and Jewish Affairs. He retired from this position in 1998.

Custodial History: Donated in 2006 by Manny Batshaw.

Name Access: Batshaw, Manuel G., 1915-

Subjects: Camp B'nai Brith; Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association; Batshaw Youth and Family Centres = Les Centres de la jeunesse et de la famille Batshaw; Federation CJA - Montreal (Quebec)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives