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- Farband Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal) 1
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- Germany -- Jews. 1
- ICOR, Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union 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
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.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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
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
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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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
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
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
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…
- 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
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
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
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
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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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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