Group portrait, including Ida Maze (centre, with flowers), Workmen's Circle School, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23426
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 17.5 x 13 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005470
- Date
- November 10, 1942
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 17.5 x 13 cm
- Date
- November 10, 1942
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005470
- Notes
- "Workman's Circle School" stamp on verso.
- Date stamped on verso.
- Person in photograph identified on verso.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Group portrait of Ida Maze and Rochl Korn, possibly on Esplanade Street.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18868
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 7 x 11.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 000807
- Date
- 195?
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 7 x 11.5 cm
- Date
- 195?
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 000807
- Notes
- Yiddish script on verso.
- Subjects
- Korn, Rochl
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Group portrait of (l to r) J. I. Segal, Ida Maze, and unidentified man, in park on Esplanade and Mont-Royal, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23400
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 13.75 x 9 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005444
- Date
- [195-?]
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 13.75 x 9 cm
- Date
- [195-?]
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005444
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Ida Maze Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44542
- Collection
- Ida Maze Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.86 linear metres
- Fonds No.
- 1090
- Date
- 1927-c1962
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of three series: literary work, biographical materials and correspondence. The latter being the most significant section of the fonds, arranged alphabetically by author and consisting mainly of in-coming correspondence to Maze.
- Collection
- Ida Maze Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.86 linear metres
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of three series: literary work, biographical materials and correspondence. The latter being the most significant section of the fonds, arranged alphabetically by author and consisting mainly of in-coming correspondence to Maze.
- Date
- 1927-c1962
- Fonds No.
- 1090
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Ida (nee Zhukovsky) Maze was born in Olgi, near Minsk, White Russia on July 9, 1893. Her family first immigrated in 1907 to the United States, moving next to Toronto and finally settling in Montreal in 1908. There Maze met and married her true love, Alexander Massey, whose name had been anglicized from Maze upon his own immigration. Maze began her literary activities with the writing of lyric poems. The majority of her poetry was written for children. Maze was also a writer of essays and stories that appeared in many journals and newspapers all over the world. Her book "A Mame" was published in 1931, followed by "Lieder far Kinder" (1936), "Naye Lieder" (1941), and "Vaksn Mine Kinderlekh" (1954). The book "Dina" appeared in Montreal in 1970. Maze was active in various cultural activities and was a leader of the vibrant Yiddish cultural activities in Montreal. She was often found in the Jewish Public Library during literary events. Maze also devoted Saturday to presenting a story time to the children of that same Library. Maze is best remembered, however, for the kind sustaining encouragement she provided at her "salons." Struggling poets, authors, and artists as well as already-established names of the Yiddish literary world were found with regularity at Maze's literary salons. In her apartment, situated on Esplanade Avenue, Maze and her guests would critique and discuss each other's work and the state of literature. This kindness also extended to assistance in finding jobs and homes for immigrant poets. Her approachability and strength shown to other earned her the name, "Mother to Yiddish Poets".
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Finding Aid
- Complete finding aid available, please contact the Jewish Public Library Archives directly for more information.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Portrait of drawing of Ida Maze reading to children, Jewish Public Library, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23123
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005165
- Date
- June 5, 1970.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Date
- June 5, 1970.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005165
- Notes
- Piece missing from right centre edge.
- Event and location identified on verso.
- Copy 2 of 2
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Portrait of Ida Maze.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23403
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 9 x 14 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005447
- Date
- n.d.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 9 x 14 cm
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005447
- Notes
- Photo Colour: sepia toned.
- Person in photograph identified on verso.
- Subjects
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Portrait of Ida Maze.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23414
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 8.75 x 14 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005458
- Date
- n.d.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 8.75 x 14 cm
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005458
- Notes
- Person in photograph identified on verso.
- Subjects
- Postcards.
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Portrait of Ida Maze, Montreal.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23116
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 005158
- Date
- c.1962
- Scope and Content
- Photograph used in "Montreal Star" on June 28, 1962. Donated by Montreal Holocaust centre, December 8, 1998
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph used in "Montreal Star" on June 28, 1962. Donated by Montreal Holocaust centre, December 8, 1998
- Responsibility
- Richard Arless, Press and Publicity Photographer, Montreal.
- Date
- c.1962
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 005158
- Notes
- Portrait clipped from newspaper attached to verso.
- "Richard Arless" stamp on verso.
- "Montreal Star" stamp on verso.
- Person in photograph identified on verso.
- Subjects
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Rita Briansky Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67779
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Date
- 1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]
- Scope and Content
- The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of…
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes
- Scope and Content
- The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of her work; audio recordings of Rita Briansky’s interviews and reviews; newspaper clippings, bibliographic reference publications and articles citing the artist’s work.
- Date
- 1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- History / Biographical
- Rita Briansky, painter, printmaker-etcher and teacher, was born in 1925 in Grajewo, Poland. Together with her mother and two sisters, Bella and Becky, the family moved to Ansonville, Ontario in 1929. Here, they joined Briansky’s father and uncle, Jake Perlmutter, and his family in Ansonville, which at the time had a small Jewish community. In 1939, the family moved to Val d’Or, Quebec and finally to Montreal in 1941. Then in her mid-teens, Rita Briansky was a keen student who nourished a continued interest in art. With the move to Montreal, the Briansky Family struggled financially and was unable to afford the fee for Rita’s high school education. It was the Yiddish poet Ida Massey who found Rita a job so she would be able to pay for her schooling. This encouragement served as the beginning of a valuable friendship, as well as helping foster Briansky’s artistic career. Massey later introduced Rita to Alexander Berkowitz who at the time was giving art classes at the St. Urbain Street ‘Y’. Her training and experience quickly expanded, taking the young artist through Montreal’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts and New York’s Arts Student League. In 1949, Rita married fellow painter, Joseph Prezament.The couple had two children together, Anna and Wendy. Briansky’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions both in Canada and internationally. Her body of work is diverse in both theme and subject matter, reflecting her interests in fields such as astronomy and the natural world, while remaining deeply rooted in her own experiences. Following her travels to her birth place and memorial sites in Poland in 1995, Briansky produced the ‘Kaddish series’ as her reflection on the trauma of the Holocaust. Other series have broadly used landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her and that speak fundamentally to the human condition. Briansky has participated in multiple collaborative projects, for example the children's book “On Stage, Please” with dancer/ choreographer Veronica Tennant. Briansky is long-established within Montreal’s art community working and living alongside a tight-knit group of artists. In addition, she has worked as teacher, both of art history and studio arts. Briansky’s artistic practice has won her multiple awards and her work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
- Language
- English
- French
- Yiddish
- Custodial History
- The material was donated by Rita Briansky in August 2012.
- Arrangement
- Textual material in Series 2 through 4 was given an imposed order as no discernable original order could be identified. The graphic material in Series 3, 6 and 7 were vetted for duplicates, though otherwise maintain the order given by the artist.
- Notes
- Selected images from Series 1,6 and 7 have been digitized and are available to researchers upon request.
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply. For queries please contact Head of Archives, Shannon Hodge: shannon.hodge@jplmontreal.org
- Finding Aid
- Detailed finding aid available, file level control
- Accession No.
- 12-015
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Rochl Korn standing outside with Ida Mazer.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn73446
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 017724
- Date
- 1949
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm
- Date
- 1949
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 017724
- Notes
- Names of subject written on verso.
- Name Access
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Subjects
- Korn, Rochl
- Mazer, Ida
- Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Rochl Korn standing with Bebe and Paul Trepman, Ida Maze and Melech Ravitch outside of a building with the address 4409 in summer.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn73444
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 7.5 x 11.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 017722
- Date
- [1950?]
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 7.5 x 11.5 cm
- Date
- [1950?]
- Fonds No.
- 1255
- Item No.
- 017722
- Notes
- Left to right: Melech Ravitch, Ida Mazer, ?, Rochl Korn, Paul Trepman, Bebe Trepman
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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