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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
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Henry Rabin Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80223
Collection
Henry Rabin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.3 linear metres of textual records
Fonds No.
1157
Date
1950-1983
Scope and Content
Consists of mainly ephemera that documents Mr. Rabin's involvement in various community organizations and Yiddish culture; specifically, the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Jewish Public Library, Habonim, and more.
Collection
Henry Rabin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.3 linear metres of textual records
Scope and Content
Consists of mainly ephemera that documents Mr. Rabin's involvement in various community organizations and Yiddish culture; specifically, the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Jewish Public Library, Habonim, and more.
Date
1950-1983
Fonds No.
1157
Storage Location
2-1E
Ctn. 001
History / Biographical
Henry Rabin was a longtime member and leader in the Labour Zionist Alliance as well as an invaluable volunteer at the Jewish Public Library. Through his work at the JPL, Rabin organized and recorded a collection of Yiddish talking books, which are now available digitally through the Yiddish Book Centre.
Language
English
Yiddish
Subjects
Rabin, Henry
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal, Quebec)
Yiddish
Music.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Hertz Kalles

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17219
Collection
Hertz Kalles Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
3 files textual material
Fonds No.
1072
Date
1930-1986
Scope and Content
Consists of three folders of correspondence, essays and clippings as well as a programme for the JPL Annual General Meeting of 1968.
Collection
Hertz Kalles Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
3 files textual material
Scope and Content
Consists of three folders of correspondence, essays and clippings as well as a programme for the JPL Annual General Meeting of 1968.
Responsibility
Kalles, Hertz
Date
1930-1986
Fonds No.
1072
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
Hertz Kalles was a longtime active member of the Jewish Public Library as well as a former president. Mr. Kalles operated a bookstore, which served the Jewish community especially as well as others. He was also a respected Yiddishist.
Language
English; Yiddish
Acquisition Source
Kalles, Hertz
Name Access
Kalles, Hertz
Subjects
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
Writers, Yiddish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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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
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J.I. Segal Fund for Jewish Culture

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18142
Collection
J.I. Segal Fund for Jewish Culture Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.38 linear metre textual records
Fonds No.
1244
Date
1967-1986
Scope and Content
Consists of committee documents, agendas and minutes from the members of the J.I. Segal Cultural fund committee.
Collection
J.I. Segal Fund for Jewish Culture Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.38 linear metre textual records
Scope and Content
Consists of committee documents, agendas and minutes from the members of the J.I. Segal Cultural fund committee.
Date
1967-1986
Fonds No.
1244
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
The J.I. Segal Fund was established on the 6th of December 1967, on the initiative of Dr. Hirsch and Dora Rosenfeld. The purpose of the Fund is to award annual prizes for literature for a book of Jewish content, published in Yiddish, Hebrew, English or French. Other prizes have been awarded for excellence in education, theatre or Jewish culture in Canada in general. In 2008, the Jewish Public Library celebrated the 40th anniversary of the J.I. Segal Awards. The awards are now handed out every two years.
Language
English; Yiddish
Subjects
Segal, J.I., 1896-1954
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Programming - J.I. Segal Cultural Awards
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
Rosenfeld, Dvora (Kofsky)
Rosenfeld, Dr. Hirsch
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Joseph Danielack Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18089
Collection
Joseph Danielack Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.7 m textual records
Fonds No.
1085
Scope and Content
Consists of both professional and personal papers divided into four series: Literary Activities, Professional Activities, Biography and Correspondence.
Collection
Joseph Danielack Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.7 m textual records
Scope and Content
Consists of both professional and personal papers divided into four series: Literary Activities, Professional Activities, Biography and Correspondence.
Fonds No.
1085
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
Born in Radzyn, Poland in 1900. Received a traditional Jewish education, as well as secular, and chose teaching as his profession. Danielack's first position was in an orphanage in Mezritch where he taught Yiddish and was the cultural director. He was also very active in regional Jewish press in Poland and directed the Yiddish newspaper, "Mezritsher Vokhnblat." In 1922 he came to Canada with a large group of orphans. He stayed with that group in Georgetown, Ontario at a farm school. Lived in Toronto until 1947 where he taught at the Peretz school, wrote and directed children's plays. Danielack also edited for both the "Yidisher Journal" in Toronto and the "Keneder Adler" in Montreal. Became Executive Director of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal in 1947, where he worked with devotion and great enthusiasm. Danielack died on June 10, 1951.
Language
Yiddish; English
Notes
Listing translated from the original Yiddish listing.
Name Access
Danielack, Joseph, 1900-1951
Subjects
Orphans
Mezritch (Poland)
Writers, Yiddish
Plays
Playwriting
Education - Jews
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
Radzyn (Poland)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Leib Zuker Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68944
Collection
Leib Zuker Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.25m textual records
Fonds No.
1275
Scope and Content
Consists of records documenting Zuker's speeches and writings as well as some correspondence.
Collection
Leib Zuker Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
0.25m textual records
Scope and Content
Consists of records documenting Zuker's speeches and writings as well as some correspondence.
Fonds No.
1275
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
Leib Zuker was born in Poland in 1887 and came to Montreal as a young boy in 1904. Zuker's father was a smith and Zuker was referred to as being largely self-educated. Zuker is best remembered for his enormous contributions and involvement in the Montreal Jewish community. He was intrical in the founding of the Jewish Public Library as well as being part of several other community and national organizations such as the Labour Zionist Movement in Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services and the Jewish Community Council. In 1959, in recognition for outstanding services to the Jewish Peretz School, that institution named the new school building the L. Zuker Building.
Language
Yiddish
English
Name Access
Zuker, Leib, ca1887-1965
Subjects
Yiddish
Education - Jews
Jewish Peretz Schools
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
Canadian Jewish Congress
Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal, Quebec)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Reuben Brainin Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16738
Collection
Reuben Brainin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.625m textual records
Fonds No.
1010
Date
1893-1940
Scope and Content
The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and critici…
Collection
Reuben Brainin Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
6.625m textual records
Scope and Content
The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and criticism (Gr. II), Correspondence (Gr. III), Special Collections (Gr. IV), and the records of the Jewish Public Library Archives Committee (Gr. V). Each group is further divided by subseries. In addition to this groups, the fonds also includes approximately fifty photographs, all arranged and described in the JPL Photograph Database.
Responsibility
Records of the Reuben Brainin Archives Committee created by the Jewish Public Library
Date
1893-1940
Fonds No.
1010
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Reuben Brainin
History / Biographical
The Hebrew writer, biographer, critic and Zionist leader Reuben Brainin was born in Lyady, Belorussia in 1862. After receiving a traditional Jewish education he left his parents’ home at the age of 16 and went to Horki to study agronomy. From there he moved to Moscow, where he resided from 1880 to 1888. During that period (1881) he made his literary debut, with articles published in the Hebrew journal Hamelitz. In 1892 Brainin settled in Vienna, where he studied at university and served as editor of an influential Hebrew periodical Mimizrach Umima’arav (1894-1899), and as co-editor of Zion. While in Vienna and Berlin (1895-1909) he published numerous essays, including important critiques of the Hebrew authors Judah Leib Gorden, Peretz Smolenskin, Abraham Mapu, and Saul Tschernichowsky. The central theme of Brainin’s critical opus was Hebrew literature in the chosen media. Brainin was also active in the Zionist movement during these years. In 1909 Brainin came to the United States, and three years later settled in Montreal, where he edited the Yiddish newspapers Der Veg (1915-1916) and Der Keneder Adler (1915-1916). He was one of the founders (1914) and leaders of the Jewish Public Library and People’s University. Brainin returned to New York in 1916, where he resided until his death in 1939. He edited the Hebrew journal Hatoren (1919-1925) and contributed to numerous Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals, including the Jewish Daily News (1916-1920) and The Day (1921-1939). During the 1920s Brainin became an active supporter of Jewish agricultural colonization in the Soviet Union, and went on lecture tours throughout North America and South Africa to raise funds in support of this cause. Brainin published several books in Hebrew and Yiddish during his lifetime, including two on Smolenskin (Warsaw, 1896 and Vilna, 1901), one on Theodor Herzl (New York, 1919), plus selected writings in Hebrew (Warsaw, 1909) and Yiddish (New York, 1917) as well as collected works in three volumes (New York, 1922-1940). He edited a collection of Hebrew poems (Jerusalem, 1910) and a commemorative volume on Eliezer Ben Yehuda (New York, 1915). Brainin also translated into Hebrew three German books: Der Prophet Jeremias by M. Lazarus (Warsaw, 1897), Das neue Ghette, by Theodor Herzl (Warsaw, 1898) and Paradoxes, by Max Nordau (1901). In 1922 a festschrift appeared, in honour of Brainin’s 60th birthday. His diary was published posthumously in Yiddish (New York, 1946).
Language
English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish
Custodial History
Transferred from the Brainin family in 1940.
Finding Aid
Index to Hebrew and Yiddish correspondence available in JPL-A.
Related Material
Judy King Fonds; Jewish Public Library Collection
Name Access
Brainin, Reuven, 1862-1939
Subjects
Agricultural colonies
Keneder Adler
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Founders
Birobidzhan (Russia)
Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
ICOR, Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union
Zionism
Shapiro, Chava, 1876-1943
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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