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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
Hertz Kalles
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17219
- Collection
- Hertz Kalles Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 files textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1072
- Date
- 1930-1986
- Scope and Content
- Consists of three folders of correspondence, essays and clippings as well as a programme for the JPL Annual General Meeting of 1968.
- Collection
- Hertz Kalles Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 files textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of three folders of correspondence, essays and clippings as well as a programme for the JPL Annual General Meeting of 1968.
- Responsibility
- Kalles, Hertz
- Date
- 1930-1986
- Fonds No.
- 1072
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Hertz Kalles was a longtime active member of the Jewish Public Library as well as a former president. Mr. Kalles operated a bookstore, which served the Jewish community especially as well as others. He was also a respected Yiddishist.
- Language
- English; Yiddish
- Acquisition Source
- Kalles, Hertz
- Name Access
- Kalles, Hertz
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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
Isaac Goldkorn Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18038
- Collection
- Isaac Goldkorn Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1242
- Scope and Content
- Consists of literary works, including manuscripts, correspondence, critical works on Goldkorn's work and biographical material.
- Collection
- Isaac Goldkorn Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Consists of literary works, including manuscripts, correspondence, critical works on Goldkorn's work and biographical material.
- Fonds No.
- 1242
- Storage Location
- JPL,
- History / Biographical
- Mr. Goldkorn, poet, essayist and journalist was born in Szydlowce, Poland, October 1, 1911. He received a traditional Jewish education. From 1930 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Mr. Goldkorn lived and worked as a writer in Lodz. Goldkorn survived the war moving constantly and settled in Munich after the war until 1951. From 1951 to 1969, Goldkorn lived in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg, settling in New York finally until 1977. Was editor of the "Unzer Haint" in Munich, the "Vidershtand" in Montreal, the "Israelite Press" in Winnipeg, news editor of the "Keneder Adler" in Montreal, staff writer of the "Unzer Express" in Warsaw and the the "Jewish Daily Forward" in New York. Member of the Yiddish PEN Club, and the World Union of Jewish Journalists. Author of numerous books: Nocturns, Literarishe silouetin, Lider, Epigramatish, Fun veltkval, Lodzher portraitn, Zingers un zogers, Heimishe un fremde, Masholim, Farkishefter yarid, Yellow letters-green memories, Kurtz un sharf, Letzter shnit. Received Jacob Gladstein prize.
- Language
- Yiddish; English
- Subjects
- Goldkorn, Isaac, 1911-1988
- Writers, Yiddish
- Newspapers, Jewish
- Keneder Adler
- Journalists, Jewish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jacob Grossman Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18005
- Collection
- Jacob Grossman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1084
- Date
- ca1941-1982
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the working documents, manuscripts and correspondence of Jacob Grossman.
- Collection
- Jacob Grossman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Consists of the working documents, manuscripts and correspondence of Jacob Grossman.
- Date
- ca1941-1982
- Fonds No.
- 1084
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Jacob Grossman
- History / Biographical
- Born in Wolkowysk, Poland. Received a good Jewish and secular education. Attended a yeshiva and studied humanities at the Vilna University. Grossman was a teacher in secular Jewish schools in Vilna and active in the Bund. After Russia occupied Lithuania in 1940 and many Bundist activists were arrested, Grossman left Vilna. He arried in Canada in 1941 after spending some time in Japan. In Montreal Grossman was active in Bund, Workmen's Circle, YIVO, Jewish Public Library, the Reisen School where he was principal. Most of all he was active in the Yiddish Committee, whose Bulletin he wrote and published for many years. Grossman wrote essays and articles in the Keneder Adler and in several Yiddish journals. He published two books of essays and monographs. Jacob Grossman died on March 31, 1982 in Miami.
- Language
- Yiddish; English
- Name Access
- Grossman, Jacob, 1899-1982
- Subjects
- Bund, Jewish
- Vilna (Lithuania)
- Writers, Yiddish
- Keneder Adler
- Workmen's Circle - Abraham Reisen School (Montreal, Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jewish Labour Commitee (Memorial to Soviet Writers)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn92953
- Collection
- Jewish Labour Commitee (Memorial to Soviet Writers)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.1m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1214
- Date
- 1972
- Scope and Content
- Contains three files of invitations, speeches, correspondence, schedules, and planning notes
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.1m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Contains three files of invitations, speeches, correspondence, schedules, and planning notes
- Date
- 1972
- Fonds No.
- 1214
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- The memorial meeting was an event held in observance of the 20th anniversary of the execution of Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union, on November 9, 1972. The event was organized by a committee of several Montreal Jewish organizations and with the participation of Prof. John Humphrey, Prof. Arthur Lermer, Rochl Korn, Yehuda Elberg, Shulamis Yelin, Rebecca Augenfeld, Elie Wiesel, Fernand Ouellette
- Language
- English Yiddish
- Name Access
- Korn, Rochl
- YELIN, Shulamis
- Augenfeld, Rebecca
- Lermer, Arthur
- Humphrey, John
- Ouellette Fernand
- Subjects
- Events
- Writers, Yiddish
- 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
Mordechai Ginzburg Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17778
- Collection
- Mordechai Ginzburg Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.6m textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1031
- Date
- ca193?-1966
- Scope and Content
- Consists of manuscripts, clippings and biographical materials.
- Collection
- Mordechai Ginzburg Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.6m textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of manuscripts, clippings and biographical materials.
- Date
- ca193?-1966
- Fonds No.
- 1031
- Storage Location
- JPL, Bay 4
- History / Biographical
- Mordecai Ginzburg (1894-1966) was born in Slonim, Poland on October 15, 1894. He received a Jewish and secular education. At the age of fifteen Ginzburg entered the teachers seminary where he studied for four years. He started his literary activities with writing poems in Russian. After World War I he went to Lodz, where he wrote poetry and in 1919 he published a book of collection of Jewish poetry. In 1924 Ginzburg came to Brzesc where he published a Yiddish weekly which appeared under various titles until 1930. He emigrated to Canada in 1930. He was on staff of the Keneder Adler for the rest of his life. M. Ginzburg was a productive journalist who wrote essays for over twenty Yiddish journals and newspapers. Ginzburg passed away on February 25, 1966.
- Language
- Yiddish
- Name Access
- Ginzburg, Mordechai, 1894-1966
- Subjects
- Ginzburg, Mordechai, 1894-1966
- Poetry
- Writers, Yiddish
- Newspapers, Jewish - Montreal (Quebec)
- Keneder Adler
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Noah Gotlib Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44544
- Collection
- Noah Gotlib Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- 1081
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four series: literary work, critical pieces on Gotlib's work, biographical material and correspondence.
- Collection
- Noah Gotlib Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four series: literary work, critical pieces on Gotlib's work, biographical material and correspondence.
- Fonds No.
- 1081
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1901 in Kovno, Lithuania, Noah Gotlib is remembered as a talented poet, writer and journalist, an individual who spoke to many through his multitude of work. Gotlib, whose father was the head of a Hassidic yeshiva, was educated in both traditional Jewish and secular schools. Gotlib also studied for and received his teaching diploma from a Soviet Normal School. Gotlib's earliest poetry was in Hebrew but he soon took to writing in Yiddish. This writing included lyric poetry and prose, essays, literary criticism and articles. His immigration to Montreal in 1930 was helped in part by the sponsorship of a man he had never met but who admired Gotlib's poetry: the poet and brother of Yaakov Zipper, Sholem Shtern. Gotlib was quickly engrossed in the booming literary world of Yiddish Montreal by becoming a regular contributor to the Keneder Adler. The newspaper printed his articles as well as a semi-daily journal published under the pseudonym "H. Yudelevitch". His first collection of poetry was published in 1931 in Montreal and thereafter Gotlib published books of poetry almost continuously until his death in 1967. Gotlib is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, prose and essays. He contributed over 2,000 short stories to the Keneder Adler and wrote hundreds of articles on literature and Jewish and Hebrew culture in various journals. He was associated with the Keneder Adler for 35 years, was a leader in the Halutzim movement in Lithuania, secretary of the Jewish Writers Association in Montreal, and secretary of the Lithuanian Farband until his death on August 8, 1967.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Finding Aid
- Complete finding aid available. Please contact the Jewish Public Library Archives directly for access.
- Subjects
- Gotlib, Noah Itzchak, 1903-1967.
- Writers, Hebrew
- Writers, Yiddish
- Journalists
- Keneder Adler
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Shabsai Perel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17223
- Collection
- Shabsai Perel Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1154
- Date
- ca1933-ca1976
- Scope and Content
- Consists of one folder of correspondence and ephmera.
- Collection
- Shabsai Perel Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of one folder of correspondence and ephmera.
- Date
- ca1933-ca1976
- Fonds No.
- 1154
- Storage Location
- 7-6C, SC2
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Conservation
- Four "get well" cards were removed from the collection and destroyed due to mould.
- History / Biographical
- Shabsai Perel was a left-wing Yiddish poet, born in Yarmolintsy, Poland, September 18, 1906. From a traditional Hassidic family, Perel was educated by his father and grand-father. His education was interupted by pogroms and the Russian revolution. He moved to Montreal in 1927, where he lived until his death on April 22, 1976. Perel published his poetry in varous Yiddish journals including the Keneder Adler and the Keneder Yidishe Vokhnblat.
- Language
- English; Yiddish
- Acquisition Source
- Shloime Perel, son of Shabsai Perel
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writers, Yiddish
- Perel, Shabsai
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sonia Rapkin Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17200
- Collection
- Sonia Rapkin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1158
- Scope and Content
- Consists of two notebooks of lined paper filled with Yiddish poetry and stories.
- Collection
- Sonia Rapkin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of two notebooks of lined paper filled with Yiddish poetry and stories.
- Parallel Title
- Poems and stories
- Fonds No.
- 1158
- Storage Location
- 7-5C, SC1
- Creator
- Rapkin, Sonia
- Language
- Yiddish
- Acquisition Source
- Rose Hirsch
- Name Access
- Rapkin, Sonia
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writers, Yiddish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Yiddish Anthology of Russian Poetry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17216
- Collection
- Yiddish Anthology of Russian Poetry Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 files textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1225
- Date
- ca1946
- Scope and Content
- Consists of 2 folders of correspondence and poetry in regards to the publication of the Yiddish Anthology of Russian Poetry.
- Collection
- Yiddish Anthology of Russian Poetry Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 files textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of 2 folders of correspondence and poetry in regards to the publication of the Yiddish Anthology of Russian Poetry.
- Date
- ca1946
- Fonds No.
- 1225
- Storage Location
- 7-5C, SC1
- Language
- Yiddish
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writers, Yiddish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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