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- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds 9
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- Osais Cohen Collection 1
- Photograph Collection 393
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Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89982
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 0.16 linear feet of textual records, graphic material, and artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- 1416
- Date
- 1921-1968
- Scope and Content
- Includes nine files, consisting of biographia, professional documents, immigration records, World War II identity cards, and embroidered pillowcase, and a yellow star, as well as a biography written by her children.
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 0.16 linear feet of textual records, graphic material, and artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Includes nine files, consisting of biographia, professional documents, immigration records, World War II identity cards, and embroidered pillowcase, and a yellow star, as well as a biography written by her children.
- Date
- 1921-1968
- Fonds No.
- 1416
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Adele Druckman was born in Dorna Candrenilor near Vatra-Dornia, Romania, in 1894. At eighteen years old, she attended a school called Jaures-Zeugnis in the town of Chernovitz. In 1938, at 44, she was married to Isaac Kinsbrunner, a businessman in Chernovitz, which was under control of the Nazis. As Jews, they had to wear a yellow star and carry an identity card. After the Germans were defeated, the Soviets took over. Most of their family was gone, and they struggled to start again. Finally, in 1949 they decided to leave and emigrate to Paris. Adele packed her monogrammed linen, and hid her diamond engagement ring as well as an unmounted diamond. Isaac's cousin had moved to Canada in 1913, so they went to the Canadian Legation in Paris for permission to immigrate. They were required to leave by January 1950, and so booked passage on the Samaria to arrive in Halifax on February 9, 1950. They were met by Isaac's cousin, Sydney Brown, ne Kinsbrunner, and his wife Jessie Cohen, who took them to Sydney's shop in Montreal at 4464 Coloniale Avenue. Unfortunately, Isaac suffered a heart attack and died, having only been in Canada for 12 days, devastating Adele. Sydney and Jessie had two sons, aged 5 and 7, who helped Adele learn English using their schoolbooks, building on the French she had learned in Paris. Sydney learned of a job as a nurse's aid at the Mount Sinai Sanitorium in Ste Agathe, a village north of Montreal, which Adele took to immediately. She was well suited to comfort the patients and enjoyed the peace of the countryside. Adele was often included in Brown family events, including Passover and Rosh Hashana, and she even undertook a trip to Brooklyn, New York, to visit Sydney's sister, Pearl. She was required to provide an explanation for her lack of a passport, but was fortunate enough to have been able to bring her birth certificate from Romania. The Brown family often visisted Ste Agathe to visit, until Adele retired at 74, after 18 years at the Sanitorium. Upon retirement, Adele returned to Montreal, where Sydney helped her find a small apartment on Cote St Luc road next to a synagogue. Sydney's sons, meanwhile, had grown up and become both doctors. They both got married in the same week, and Ida offered her engagement ring to the elder son, while the younger son was offered the unmounted diamond. (Biographical note taken from file 00001.)
- Language
- English
- Romanian
- Arrangement
- Physical order imposed by archivist.
- Accession No.
- 19-005
- Subjects
- Romania -- Jews.
- Immigrants
- Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
- Identification cards
- Star of David
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biographia.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89986
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1416; 00004
- Date
- 1921-1952
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Date
- 1921-1952
- Fonds No.
- 1416
- File No.
- 00004
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn. 001
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Includes travel permits in lieu of a passport, and Isak's burial record from Paperman & Son's.
- Accession No.
- 19-005
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biographia, Official Documents.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93232
- Collection
- Hedy Edelstein Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1380; 00001
- Collection
- Hedy Edelstein Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1380
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Poor to fair.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Polish
- Notes
- Newspaper clipping, passports, immigration documents.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biographical material.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93263
- Collection
- Zryl and Goldblum Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1384; 00001
- Date
- 1915-1996
- Scope and Content
- Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material.
- Collection
- Zryl and Goldblum Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material.
- Date
- 1915-1996
- Fonds No.
- 1384
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Sam Zryl and Lucy Goldblum
- Physical Condition
- Poor to good.
- Language
- English
- French
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Subjects
- Europe
- Immigrants
- Immigrants - Canada
- Immigrants, Polish - Canada
- Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biographical material.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93271
- Collection
- Luba Miller Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1392; 00001
- Date
- 1922-1931
- Collection
- Luba Miller Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Date
- 1922-1931
- Fonds No.
- 1392
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Russian
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Biographical material related by official documents and one handwritten letter. Ms. Miller unsure of what the documents say, translation is being arranged.
- Name Access
- Miller, Luba (nee Shulman)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Biography, as written by donor.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89983
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1416; 00001
- Date
- 2019
- Scope and Content
- Also contains family tree.
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Also contains family tree.
- Date
- 2019
- Fonds No.
- 1416
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn. 001
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Produced by donor, Jill Johnson, the wife of Sydney Brown's oldest son.
- Accession No.
- 19-005
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
A Brief History of Sephardic Jewry from c.1000 AD to c.1800 AD
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43589
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1001; 2.2; 00056
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Series No.
- 2.2
- File No.
- 00056
- Storage Location
- Bay 1
- Ctn. 005
- Creator
- Donna Schwartz
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Donna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Close up of a group of people discussing in front of buildings, Combined Jewish Appeal Overseas Leadership Mission to Israel.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn29978
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 17.7cm x 12.9cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012164
- Date
- 1965
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 17.7cm x 12.9cm
- Date
- 1965
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012164
- Notes
- glossy
- Subjects
- Israel
- Immigrants
- Combined Jewish Appeal (CJA)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet containing 16 24x35mm frames showing visits to immigrant housing. Some frames include Mr Henry Blatt. Locality: presumably Israel Local: interior and exterior Context: CJA Overseas Leadership Mission
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30124
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 22cm x 28cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012310
- Date
- 1965
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 22cm x 28cm
- Date
- 1965
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012310
- Storage Location
- Album
- Notes
- glossy
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet containing 31 24x35mm frames showing various activities of the CJA Overseas Leadership Mission: meetting immigrants, visiting housing, etc. A few frames include Mr Henry Blatt Locality: undeterminate Local: interior and exterior Context: CJA Overseas Leadership Mission
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30123
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 28cm x 22cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012309
- Date
- 1965
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 28cm x 22cm
- Date
- 1965
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012309
- Storage Location
- Album
- Notes
- glossy
- Subjects
- meetings visits
- Blatt, Henry, 1911-
- Combined Jewish Appeal - Overseas Leadership Mission Housing
- Immigrants.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet containing 35 24x35mm frames showing airport arrival activity, presumably of immigrants being met by delegates of the CJA Overseas Leadership Mission among whom Mr Henry Blatt can be identified, and by members of the Israel Armed Forces. Locality: presumably Israel Local:exterior, airport Context: CJA Overseas Leadership Mission
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30126
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 21.7cm x 28cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012312
- Date
- 1965
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 21.7cm x 28cm
- Date
- 1965
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012312
- Storage Location
- Album
- Notes
- glossy
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet with eight proofs, portraits of immigrants being taught in a classes held by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn24283
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 006621
- Date
- n.d.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 006621
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet with four proofs, portrait of immigrants in Israel.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn26803
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 009146
- Date
- [196-?]
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Responsibility
- Joint Distribution Committee
- Date
- [196-?]
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 009146
- Subjects
- Immigrants.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Contact sheet with six proofs, portraits of immigrants being taught in classes held by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn24284
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20.5 x 18.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 006622
- Date
- n.d.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20.5 x 18.5 cm
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 006622
- Subjects
- Immigrants.
- Teachers.
- Classic Bookstore [Montreal, Quebec]
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Employment records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89988
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- 1416; 00006
- Date
- 1963-1968
- Collection
- Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records.
- Date
- 1963-1968
- Fonds No.
- 1416
- File No.
- 00006
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Ctn. 001
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Three letters from the Mount Sinai Sanitorium in Ste-Agathe.
- Accession No.
- 19-005
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Essays on Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43590
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1001; 2.2; 00057
- Collection
- Federation CJA Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1001
- Series No.
- 2.2
- File No.
- 00057
- Storage Location
- Bay 1
- Ctn. 005
- Notes
- Includes three essays discussing the history and relationships between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish communities. No authors or dates indicated.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Esther Merizen Interview
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75021
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Oral History Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic record : digital ; 323 MB + transcription
- Fonds No.
- 1287; OH_00005
- Date
- April/17/2012
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Esther Merizen by Information and Library Technologies student Sonia Boulanger, April 17, 2012. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes discussed are: the immigrat…
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic record : digital ; 323 MB + transcription
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Esther Merizen by Information and Library Technologies student Sonia Boulanger, April 17, 2012. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes discussed are: the immigration and integration of her family in Quebec, Jewish and French schooling in Montreal, her religious practice and voluntary experience.
- Responsibility
- Sonia Boulanger
- Date
- April/17/2012
- Fonds No.
- 1287
- Item No.
- OH_00005
- Storage Location
- JPL-A
- Creator
- Jewish Public Library Archives
- History / Biographical
- See trancription
- Language
- French
- Notes
- A 5 min., French video extract of the interview is available on You Tube.
- Recording is two non consecutive extract of two segments of the interview.
- Transcription of the interview is available in French.
- Recording is available in .wav format.
- Interview participants: Shannon Hodge, Chantal Côté and Esther Edouard.
- Transcription by Sonia Boulanger.
- Lenght of the interview: 32 minutes 05 seconds.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright may apply
- Name Access
- Merizen, Esther, 1931-
- Subjects
- Merizen, Esther, 1931-
- Sephardim - Morocco
- Jews - Morocco
- Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior, delegate from first Combined Jewish Appeal Overseas Leadership mission, standing against railing of building where a woman and four young girls lean. Laundry hanging from railing and behind.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn29819
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 19 x 24cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012005
- Date
- 1962
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 19 x 24cm
- Responsibility
- Fred Csasznik, Jerusalem
- Date
- 1962
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012005
- Notes
- Larger version of pr012004.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior, delegate from first Combined Jewish Appeal Overseas Leadership mission, standing against railing of building where a woman and four young girls lean. Laundry hanging from railing and behind. Description on verso, "Raymond - new imm[igrants] from Poland."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn29818
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 19 x 12cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 012004
- Date
- 1962
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 19 x 12cm
- Responsibility
- Fred Csasznik, Jerusalem
- Date
- 1962
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 012004
- Notes
- Smaller version of pr012005.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Briansky family in Grajewo, Poland, last image taken before move the Canada.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67910
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018282
- Date
- 1929
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1929
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018282
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Inscribed verso: Last photo taken in Grajewo / cousins in back / front sister, Rita, Grandmother, sister, cousin / 17.7.29 Inscribed additionally in Yiddish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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