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Aviva Ravel Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44689
- 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.
- Language
- English
- French
- Yiddish
- Italian
- Acquisition Source
- Aviva Ravel
- Custodial History
- Aviva Ravel
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Contains copyright material. Consult JPL Archives for more information.
- Accession No.
- 12-002
- Name Access
- Ravel, Aviva
- Subjects
- Ravel, Aviva.
- Playwriting
- Plays
- Theatre
- Theatrical Productions.
- Writers, Yiddish
- 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
Joseph Danielack Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18089
- Collection
- Joseph Danielack Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.7 m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1085
- Scope and Content
- Consists of both professional and personal papers divided into four series: Literary Activities, Professional Activities, Biography and Correspondence.
- Collection
- Joseph Danielack Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.7 m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of both professional and personal papers divided into four series: Literary Activities, Professional Activities, Biography and Correspondence.
- Fonds No.
- 1085
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Born in Radzyn, Poland in 1900. Received a traditional Jewish education, as well as secular, and chose teaching as his profession. Danielack's first position was in an orphanage in Mezritch where he taught Yiddish and was the cultural director. He was also very active in regional Jewish press in Poland and directed the Yiddish newspaper, "Mezritsher Vokhnblat." In 1922 he came to Canada with a large group of orphans. He stayed with that group in Georgetown, Ontario at a farm school. Lived in Toronto until 1947 where he taught at the Peretz school, wrote and directed children's plays. Danielack also edited for both the "Yidisher Journal" in Toronto and the "Keneder Adler" in Montreal. Became Executive Director of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal in 1947, where he worked with devotion and great enthusiasm. Danielack died on June 10, 1951.
- Language
- Yiddish; English
- Notes
- Listing translated from the original Yiddish listing.
- Name Access
- Danielack, Joseph, 1900-1951
- Subjects
- Orphans
- Mezritch (Poland)
- Writers, Yiddish
- Plays
- Playwriting
- Education - Jews
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Radzyn (Poland)
- 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
Shlomo Cohen Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17217
- Collection
- Shlomo Cohen Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 files textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1102
- Date
- ca1945-1949
- Scope and Content
- Consists of 1 folder of handwritten plays, poetry and stories in Yiddish by I.L. Peretz, M. Nedelman and Gevritik and 1 folder of programmes, tickets and newspapers clippings of productions that Cohen was involved with.
- Collection
- Shlomo Cohen Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 files textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of 1 folder of handwritten plays, poetry and stories in Yiddish by I.L. Peretz, M. Nedelman and Gevritik and 1 folder of programmes, tickets and newspapers clippings of productions that Cohen was involved with.
- Date
- ca1945-1949
- Fonds No.
- 1102
- Storage Location
- 7-6C, SC2
- History / Biographical
- Shlomo (Shlomeh, Schlomja) Cohen was active in the Jewish and Yiddish theatre in London and on several programmes is listed as being a "Jewish Humorist" and also "Producer" for various productions.
- Language
- English; Yiddish
- Subjects
- Cohen, Shlomo
- Plays
- Poetry
- Yiddish theatre
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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