topic:"Plays" found 467 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Educational, Junior and Juvenile - Programs & Projects

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43106

Collection: Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: One file of textual records

Fonds No.: 1256; 6; 00294

Collection: Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: One file of textual records

Fonds No.: 1256

Series No.: 6

File No.: 00294

Storage Location: CTN.010

Language: English; Yiddish

Notes: Minutes, reports, financial documents, letters, “Sue Hastings and Her Marionettes” play advertisement 1935, Purim song sheet (songs in English and Yiddish)

Access Restrictions: Some privacy restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Some copyright restrictions may apply

Subjects: Purim; Plays

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Ralph Novek Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16728

Collection: Ralph Novek Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 2 files of material

Fonds No.: 1233

Date: 1936-2006

Scope and Content: Contains photocopied typescripts of Novek’s radio plays (originals destroyed) as well as copies of Progressive Theatre, Northern Review, and Today.

Collection: Ralph Novek Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 2 files of material

Scope and Content: Contains photocopied typescripts of Novek’s radio plays (originals destroyed) as well as copies of Progressive Theatre, Northern Review, and Today.

Date: 1936-2006

Fonds No.: 1233

Storage Location: 7-3C, SC3

Creator: Ralph Novek

History / Biographical: Ralph Novek was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Montreal on April 10, 1917. His father, Joseph Novek, left Poland in 1905 after being warned by the Russian officers that used Joseph’s father’s tailor shop that Joseph and his brother Israel were to be arrested because of their socialist Bundist activity. Joseph traveled first to England and arrived in Montreal in 1906. He married his cousin Helen Finestone in 1916. Ralph Novek married Shulamith Litman in 1939. The couple supported themselves through Shulamith’s dress designing and Ralph’s writing jobs. In 1945, Ralph Novek founded the Burns Advertising Company with Arthur Burns, running the business until his retirement. In addition to advertising, Ralph Novek also wrote radio plays for the CBC and contributed articles on theatre and progressive themes to various journals. Ralph Novek also translated into English, Benjamin Sack’s History of the Jews in Canada. Novek was related to Sack through his marriage.

Custodial History: Donated by Joel Novek, son of Ralph Novek to the JPL-A.

Notes: Stored in Small Collections Box#3 (SC3)

Name Access: Novek, Ralph

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Sack, Benjamin Gutelius; Radio plays; Progressive Theatre (Journal); Anti-fascism - Drama; World War, 1939-1945 - Drama

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Anti-Nazi plays - A Living Newspaper

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn52208

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; ZA 1938; ZA 1938-1-13

Date: 1938

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Date: 1938

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: ZA 1938

File No.: ZA 1938-1-13

Subjects: Anti-Nazi plays - A Living Newspaper

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Poems - Aviva Ravel.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn72386

Collection: Aviva Ravel Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records.

Fonds No.: 1058; 1; 00311

Date: [between 1941 and 2012]

Collection: Aviva Ravel Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records.

Date: [between 1941 and 2012]

Fonds No.: 1058

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00311

Storage Location: JPL; Bay 5; Ctn. 011

Creator: Aviva Ravel

Language: English; Hebrew

Notes: File contains original newspaper clippings and photocopied documents of a collection of Aviva Ravel's poems from between 1941 and 2012.

Name Access: Ravel, Aviva

Subjects: Theatre; Plays; Writing - Fiction

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Dan Daniels Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45264

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1.26m of textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

Scope and Content: Consists of typescripts of Daniels' works, including essays, short stories, plays and scripts.

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1.26m of textual records

Scope and Content: Consists of typescripts of Daniels' works, including essays, short stories, plays and scripts.

Fonds No.: 1285

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Dan Daniels

History / Biographical: Born in Montreal, ca1921, Dan Daniels began writing at thirteen and became a social activist at seventeen. Daniels also developed a career as a storyteller beginning in 1972. In 1938 Daniels joined the Communist party and remained an active member until 1955. Under the party Daniels worked as a trade union organizer with warehouse workers, in the textile industry, aircraft industry, glass workers and with seamen. Daniels worked on Canadian merchant ships and was later an organizer for the group. According to his biography in "Paranoia and Dirty Feet", published by White Dwarf Editions in 1995, during his work with the merchant seamen he was, "thrown off one freighter after being accused of mutiny (of which he admits he was technically guilty: he refused to obey an officer's order) and was arrested eleven times during the seamen's strikes of 1946, 1948, and 1949. Daniels left the Communist Party in 1955, at which point many Canadian members also did, because he felt the Soviet regime was oppressive and no longer serving the working class. When the Canadian Labour Party did not split from Soviet influence, Daniels left the party. In addition to his trade union work, Daniels was instrumental in numerous other organizations and social movements, including: Fair Play for Cuba Committee in Montreal (which helped to found), resistance efforts against the Vietnam war, the non-Communist peace movement, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He was also one of the leaders of Operation St-Jean-Baptiste, a group devoted to removing the nuclear missiles held in La Macaza, Quebec. Daniels had stories, essays and articles published in periodicals and journals in Canada, the United States, England, Australia and Mexico. He had plays produced for the stage in Canada and the United States and had works broadcast on radio and television. Daniels created his persona, "Dan the Storyman" to bring storytelling to elementary school classrooms in primary schools for both the Protestant and Catholic schools boards of Montreal. He was a founding member of both the Playwrights' Workshop of Montreal and the Playwrights Circle of Montreal. Daniels wrote three novels; one written at thirteen, which was destroyed by the author, a second novel was confiscated by the Quebec Provincial Police during the Padlock Law days and a third entitled, "Waiting to be Buried". None of the novels were published. During the 1960s, Daniels worked as an educator in Tanguay women's prison under the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. He also received a master's degree in Environmental Studies from York University and later taught at College Marie-Victorin.

Language: English

Custodial History: Transferred to JPL-A by Daniels' wife.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Stories, Essays

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45267

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285; 00003

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

File No.: 00003

Storage Location: Ctn.001; 2-3A

Creator: Dan Daniels

Language: English

Notes: File includes a bibliography of published and performed works as well as published sotires.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Stories, Essays

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45268

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285; 00004

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

File No.: 00004

Storage Location: Ctn.001; 2-3A

Creator: Dan Daniels

Language: English

Notes: File includes essays and articles.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Aviva Ravel Fonds

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Collection: Aviva Ravel Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 3.3m of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1058

Scope and Content: Series 1 includes textual records and photographs, which are arranged following the principle of original order. Files also include scholarly works, handwritten and typed notes and drafts, newspaper clippings, promotional material, and professional correspondence regarding the works written, transl…

Collection: Aviva Ravel Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 3.3m of multiple media

Scope and Content: Series 1 includes textual records and photographs, which are arranged following the principle of original order. Files also include scholarly works, handwritten and typed notes and drafts, newspaper clippings, promotional material, and professional correspondence regarding the works written, translated, and produced by Aviva Ravel. Series 2 includes textual records of professional correspondence , which detail Avival Ravel's large body of work. The files are arranged following the original order. Files also include newspaper clippings, and promotional material. Series 3 includes textual records of notebooks in Yiddish.

Fonds No.: 1058

Storage Location: JPL; Bay 5

Creator: Aviva Ravel

Physical Condition: Good to excellent

History / Biographical: Author of more than 25 plays, numerous short stories, and works of non-fiction, Dr. Aviva Ravel's works concentrates heavily on Jewish life throughout the world and, more specifically, in Montreal. Her works have been featured on the CBC, Kol Isreal, and at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Two of her plays were also adapted into film. Born in Montreal, Dr. Ravel holds a Ph.D in Canadian Theatre from McGill University, an M.A from the Université de Montréal, and a B.A from Concordia University. She taught English, drama, and Canadian literature at all three of these universities, including the Royal Military College. Dr. Ravel's work as an educator was not reserved only to college and university; she also taught regularly as an elementary teacher in Montreal as well as on a kibbutz in Israel. Since 1984 Aviva Ravel has been Artistic Director of Cameo Productions. She is also founder and director of the popular Performance Playreading Ensemble of the Cote St. Luc Library that has presented over 150 plays, both classical and modern, in the theatre auditorium. Dr. Ravel is the recipient of many awards including the Women Write for Theatre Award, J.I. Segal Award, Women's Press Club Award for Humour, Québec Drama Festival Award, Women's Federation Honoree for Contribution to Montreal Theatre, and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Québec Award. Recently, she was honoured by the Association for Canadian Theatre Research.