topic:"Labour and labouring classes" found 3 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Consists of personal documents from the Krishtalka family, correspondence and ephemeral and organizational material from international and Jewish Montreal organizations such as UJPO, YKUF and the Jewish Public Library. Also contains numerous posters and flyers for theatre, arts and musical present…

Collection: Sholem Krishtalka Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 3.76 linear metres of multiple media

Scope and Content: Consists of personal documents from the Krishtalka family, correspondence and ephemeral and organizational material from international and Jewish Montreal organizations such as UJPO, YKUF and the Jewish Public Library. Also contains numerous posters and flyers for theatre, arts and musical presentations in Jewish Montreal.

Date: 1929-1978

Fonds No.: 1099

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: Cultural activitist, Sholem Krishtalka was born in Ludmir, Poland on February 4, 1905. He received his education at Hebrew Tarbut School where he studied Talmud, Kabalah and mysticism. Krishtalka's academic interests though also ran towards Yiddish literature, music, folklore, social sciences and history. Krishtalka arrived in Montreal in 1933 and immediately became active in IKUF (Yidisher Kultur Farband) as well as the United Jewish People's Order, the Jewish Public Library, and various book committees that supported the publications of Yiddish authors and poets. For the JPL he was a major part of the building campaign that saw the construction of the Library's "new" building on the corner of Mont-Royal and Esplanade. His passion for the culture and politics of the Jewish community extended to collecting the ephemera, posters, and articles produced by its citizens and organizations. Sholem Krishtalka's son, Aaron Krishtalka, remembers his father removing posters and flyers from walls specifically to preserve the event and information for future generations. His interests influenced his collecting habits and as a result his archival collection consists of a wide variety of social ephemeral from political movements, labour rights efforts, philanthropic endeavours, theatre, music, literature and so on. He collected various ephemeral materials also with the help of his wife, Shifra, who was a writer, teacher, and sister to fellow Yiddish writers and teachers, Jacob Zipper, and Sholem, Yehiel, and Israel Shtern. After World War II ended Mr. Krishtalka became involved in actively helping victims of the Holocaust. Sholem Krishtalka passed away on August 16, 1977.

Language: English; Yiddish

Subjects: Krishtalka, Sholem; Krishtalka, Shifra; Theatrical Productions.; Theatre; Yiddish theatre; Labour movement; Labour and labouring classes; Refugees - Canada; World War, 1939-1945; United Jewish People's Order (UJPO); Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF); Monument-National Theatre [Montreal].

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sylvia Gerson Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17184

Collection: Sylvia Gerson Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file multiple media

Fonds No.: 1114

Date: 1928-1951

Scope and Content: Consists of newspaper clippings regarding Canadian Air Force (1942), Montreal Joint Board as well as Montreal Dress Cutters Union membership book (1934), New Year's cards (ca1928) and various snapshots (undated, unidentified).

Collection: Sylvia Gerson Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file multiple media

Scope and Content: Consists of newspaper clippings regarding Canadian Air Force (1942), Montreal Joint Board as well as Montreal Dress Cutters Union membership book (1934), New Year's cards (ca1928) and various snapshots (undated, unidentified).

Date: 1928-1951

Fonds No.: 1114

Storage Location: 7-5C, SC1

Language: English; Yiddish

Subjects: Royal Canadian Air Force; Gerson, Louis; Gerson, Sylvia; Montreal Dress Cutters Union; Trade unions; Labour and labouring classes; New Year's cards

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18200

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 4 m of textual records and other material

Date: 1908-current

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abra…

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 4 m of textual records and other material

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abraham Reisen Schools Series VI – Workmen’s Circle Loan Syndicate Series VII – Workmen’s Circle Choir Series VIII – Workmen’s Circle, New York Series IX – Correspondence Series X – Scrapbooks and Artefacts

Date: 1908-current

Storage Location: Bay 6

Creator: Workmen's Circle

Physical Condition: Excellent.

History / Biographical: The Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring) of Montreal (now Worker’s Circle) celebrated its 100th Anniversary in the city in 2007. The organization, which was originally founded in New York in 1892 by mainly Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing Czarist pogroms, conducted itself as an “irretrievable part of the radical labour movement.” An advocate for change, the Workmen’s Circle also provided education, enlightenment, health benefits, open forums, a library, clubs and cemetery plots for its members. The work of the group extended to emergencies such as operating a soup kitchen during the Depression or organizing the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry in the late-1980s and early 1990s to aid immigration. Their involvement in politics saw support for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and candidates such as A.M. Klein, David Lewis and Kalman Kaplansky. In 1940, two Workmen’s Circle members from Branch 151 were elected to the Montreal municipal council, Michael Rubenstein and Albert Eaton. The first Workmen’s Circle building was completed in 1936 after several years of planning and a hold due to the Depression. The building was located at 4848 St. Laurent and served the Workmen’s Circle’s business and social activities as well as one of the schools. Like most other Jewish organizations, the Workmen’s Circle moved from the once-traditionally Jewish Main area and re-located to Isabella closer to the Jewish community campus. The Worker’s Circle is still housed there although the organization is shrinking and serves an aging population.

Language: Yiddish, English, Russian

Acquisition Source: Workmen's Circle of Montreal

Custodial History: Transferred directly from the Workmen's Circle, first date of transfer unknown, accural of new materials in November 2007.

Arrangement: Current arrangement based on an older system of description used by the JPL-A during the 1970s and 1980s. The finding aid was up-dated to RAD standards in March 2008.

Related Material: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Name Access: Workmen's Circle, Montreal

Subjects: Workmen's Circle Schools (Montreal, Quebec); Labour and labouring classes; Workmen's Circle - Eugene Debs Branch no. 204; Workmen's Circle - Meyer London Branch no. 151; Workmen's Circle - Moishe Lewis Branch; Workmen's Circle, New York; Workmen's Circle - Vladeck Branch; Workmen's Loan Syndicate (Montreal); Labour movement; Labour unions; Women in the labour movement - Canada; Workmen's Circle - Ladies' Vladeck Branch

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives