14 records – page 1 of 1.

Exterior portrait of Lea Roback with two fellow workers.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn73686
Collection
Lea Roback Fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.9cm x 13.3cm
Fonds No.
1243; 1243_0001
Date
1923
Collection
Lea Roback Fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.9cm x 13.3cm
Date
1923
Fonds No.
1243
Item No.
1243_0001
Storage Location
JPL
Notes
Inscribed recto: Montreal Aout 18ieme 1923 / " Nous Trois!" - de.La 13. A.D. / Lea + 2 fellow workers Image part of photographic album See also pr015205
Subjects
Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
Trade unions
Strikes and lockouts
Labour leaders
Labour movement
Women in the labour movement - Canada
Social justice
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Exterior portrait of women and men standing in front of the Labor Zionist Center in Montreal, H.M Caiserman Memorial Building, 5101 Esplanade. (L-r?) Rabinovitch, Hays, Zukel, Caiserman, Bronfman, and Oberman.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43470
Collection
Allan Raymond Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 19.5 cm
Fonds No.
1034; 015465
Collection
Allan Raymond Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 19.5 cm
Fonds No.
1034
Item No.
015465
Storage Location
PC
Notes
Names written on verso.
Subjects
Labour movement
Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal, Quebec)
Caiserman, Hananiah M.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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Flyer. A Call from the Barber's Union, Local 659

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79276
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 22.5 x 15.2cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00059; 1099_059_6
Date
[between 1925 and 1945]
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 22.5 x 15.2cm
Date
[between 1925 and 1945]
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00059
Item No.
1099_059_6
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Large rip in bottom section of the flyer.
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Text includes (translated from Yiddish): A Call from the Barber's Union, Local 659 / Be sure to support only those barber shops displayig a union sign! [Followed by a list of shops which are not unionized]
Subjects
Labour movement
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Flyer. Mass Meeting and Concert

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79235
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 33.5 x 15.2cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00060; 1099_060_10
Date
1934
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 33.5 x 15.2cm
Date
1934
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00060
Item No.
1099_060_10
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Paper brittle
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Text includes (translated from Yiddish): Mass Meeting and Concert / Tuesday May 1 1934 8:00PM / Carmen Silva Hall / Poalei Zion Youth Association / Paolei Zion / Borochov Association / Dr. N. Sirkin Assocation / Pioneer Women's Organization / National Workers Faband / Local 209 Amalgamated Clothing Worker's Union of America / Ginger Ale Driver's Union
Subjects
Farband Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal)
Poalei Zion (Montreal, Quebec)
Labour movement
Labour unions
Textile industry
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Flyer. Symposium regarding the high school strike and other matters involving the Jewish worker

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79275
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 22.5 x 15.2cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00059; 1099_059_5
Date
[1934?]
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 22.5 x 15.2cm
Date
[1934?]
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00059
Item No.
1099_059_5
Storage Location
JPL
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Text includes (translated from Yiddish): Symposium regarding the high school strike and other matters involving the Jewish worker / Friday Oct. 5th / Carmen Silva Hall 3956 St. Laurence / Sidney Zarkin - Candidate for Alderman / Dave Kasten - Young Communist League will present our position / We challenge: Mr. Wolofsky - Jewish Congress / Mr. Keiserman - Kanader Adler to present theirs / Arranged by: Canadian Arbiter Ring / Jewish Arbiter Women's League / Jewish Arbiter Culture Centre / Tenants and Consumers League
Subjects
Workmen's Circle of Montreal
Tenants rights
Students
Labour movement
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Flyer. The Ninth Anniversary of the Jewish Worker's Culture Centre

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79280
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 21.0 x 28.0cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00059; 1099_059_10
Date
[1934?]
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 flyer : paper ; 21.0 x 28.0cm
Date
[1934?]
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00059
Item No.
1099_059_10
Storage Location
JPL
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Text includes (translated from Yiddish): The Ninth Anniversary of the Jewish Worker's Culture Centre / Sunay November 25 8:30 P.M. / Prince Arthur Hall
Subjects
Labour movement
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Interior, ILGWU Local 252 members.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn32289
Collection
Lea Roback Fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
Fonds No.
1243; 6; 00006; 014399
Collection
Lea Roback Fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
Fonds No.
1243
Series No.
6
File No.
00006
Item No.
014399
Storage Location
Bay 2
Container 14
Acquisition Source
Lea Roback
Subjects
Women in the labour movement - Canada
Women employees
Labour and labouring classes
Labour movement
Labour unions
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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Invitation card, Alderman Joseph Schubert final rally for 1934 campaign.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn73703
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 print : cardstock ; 11.6 x 9.4cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_13
Date
1934
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 print : cardstock ; 11.6 x 9.4cm
Date
1934
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00058
Item No.
1099_058_13
Storage Location
JPL
Language
English
Subjects
Schubert, Joseph, 1889-1952
Politics and government
Montreal (Quebec)
Labour movement
Krishtalka, Sholem
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Lea Roback Interview

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75020
Collection
Jewish Public Library Oral History Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
1 electronic record : digital ; 468 MB + transcription
Fonds No.
1287; OH_00004
Date
August/04/1996
Scope and Content
Recording is of an interview with feminist and retired militant syndicalist Lea Roback by Archivist Emeritus Eiran Harris, August 4, 1996. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes discussed are: he…
Collection
Jewish Public Library Oral History Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
1 electronic record : digital ; 468 MB + transcription
Scope and Content
Recording is of an interview with feminist and retired militant syndicalist Lea Roback by Archivist Emeritus Eiran Harris, August 4, 1996. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes discussed are: her student years at the university in Berlin, Germany in the 1930s. Her militantism and involvement at the start of the syndicalist movement in Montreal. She collaborated with Dr Bethune. Saidye Bronfman contibution in the community.
Responsibility
Eiran Harris
Date
August/04/1996
Fonds No.
1287
Item No.
OH_00004
Storage Location
JPL-A
Creator
Jewish Public Library Archives
History / Biographical
See transcription
Language
English
Notes
Two approx., 5 min. video extracts of the interview is available on You Tube.
Recording is available in .wav format.
Interview participants: Shannon Hodge, Chantal Côté and Esther Edouard.
Transcription by Sonia Boulanger and Chantal Côté.
Transcription of the interview is available in English.
Length of the interview: 60 minutes
Reproduction Restrictions
Copyright may apply
Name Access
Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
Subjects
Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
Labour movement
Labour unions
Women employees
Women in the labour movement - Canada
Germany -- Jews.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Poster. Anti-War Mass Meeting, "War Clouds are Thickening, Fight Against Fascism and War"

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79253
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 27.7 x 21.7cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_28
Date
1934
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 27.7 x 21.7cm
Date
1934
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00058
Item No.
1099_058_28
Storage Location
JPL
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Translation from Yiddish: Anti-War Mass Meeting / Saturday August 4th [1934] 7:30PM / "War Clouds Are Thickening! Fight against Fascism and War" / Jewish Worker's Culture Centre / Canadian Arbiter Ring / Woman's League of Jewish Workers / ICOR [Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union] / Jewish Branch of C.L.D.L.
Subjects
Labour movement
Labour unions
Workmen's Circle of Montreal
Women's organizations
ICOR, Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Poster. "Great Protest Meeting Against New Wave of Soviet Antisemitism also Twentieth Anniversary of the Murder in Soviet Russia of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter"

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79272
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 28.2 x 21.0cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00059; 1099_059_2
Date
1961
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 28.2 x 21.0cm
Date
1961
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00059
Item No.
1099_059_2
Storage Location
JPL
Language
English
Yiddish
Notes
Text includes: Plateau Hall / 3710 Calixa Layallee (LaFontaine Park) / Sunday, December 17th 1961, 8 P.M. / Great Protest Meeting Against New Wave of Soviet Antisemitism also Twentieth Anniversary of the murder in Soviet Russia of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, Leaders of the Jewish Socialist Movement ("Bund") in Poland / Speakers: Hon. Tommy Douglas, Federal leader of the New Democratic Party / Dr. Emanuel Sherer, "Bund" New York / Roger Provost, President, Quebec Federation of Labour / Prof. Arthur Lermer, Chairman, Workmen's Circle, City Committee / Chairman of Meeting: M. Rubinstein, Q.C., National President, Jewish Labour Committee
Subjects
Douglas, Thomas (Tommy), 1904-1986
Lermer, Arthur.
Bund, Jewish
Workmen's Circle of Montreal
Jewish Labour Committee (Montreal, Quebec)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Workmen's Circle - Erlich-Alter Branch No. 272
Labour movement
Antisemitism
Soviet Union - Social conditions
Soviet Union - Jews
Jewish Socialist Org. "Bund"
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Quebec Federation of Labour
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Poster. International Fur Workers of United States and Canada, Great Mass Meeting opened to all Fur Workers of Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79231
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 31.5 x 14.5cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00060; 1099_060_6
Date
[between 1930 and 1950]
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 31.5 x 14.5cm
Date
[between 1930 and 1950]
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00060
Item No.
1099_060_6
Storage Location
JPL
Language
Yiddish
English
French
Subjects
Fur trade
Labour movement
Labour unions
Labour
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Poster. Jewish Branch of the Canadian Labour Defense League

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79239
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 30.3 x 22.8cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00060; 1099_060_14
Date
[between 1925 and 1945]
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 30.3 x 22.8cm
Date
[between 1925 and 1945]
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00060
Item No.
1099_060_14
Storage Location
JPL
Language
Yiddish
Subjects
Labour
Labour movement
Communist Party of Canada
Canadian Labour Defense League
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Trilingual Mayday protest poster

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78469
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 24.6 x 34.0cm
Fonds No.
1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_17
Date
1934
Collection
Sholem Krishtalka Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 poster : paper ; 24.6 x 34.0cm
Date
1934
Fonds No.
1099
Series No.
1
File No.
00058
Item No.
1099_058_17
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Very fragile with area taped; bottom left-hand corner torn
Language
English
French
Yiddish
Subjects
Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Outreach
Krishtalka, Sholem
May Day (Labour Holiday)
Labour movement
Labour unions
Activism
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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