topic:"Writing." found 4 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

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

Judith Moscovitz Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17195

Collection: Judith Moscovitz Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual material

Fonds No.: 1147

Scope and Content: Consists of one typed manuscript for a novel entitled, "Sex Superstars".

Collection: Judith Moscovitz Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual material

Scope and Content: Consists of one typed manuscript for a novel entitled, "Sex Superstars".

Parallel Title: "Sex Superstars"

Fonds No.: 1147

Storage Location: 7-5C, SC1

Creator: Moscovitz, Judith

Language: English

Acquisition Source: Judith Moscovitz

Notes: Manuscript under Moscovitz's pseudonym: Jennifer Wild.

Name Access: Moscovitz, Judith

Subjects: Writing - Fiction

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Martin Cohen Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44590

Collection: Martin Cohen Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.26m of textual materials

Fonds No.: 1278

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of articles and writings, including lecture notes, by Martin Cohen as well as literary translations of mainly poetry but also one play.

Collection: Martin Cohen Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.26m of textual materials

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of articles and writings, including lecture notes, by Martin Cohen as well as literary translations of mainly poetry but also one play.

Fonds No.: 1278

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: Martin Cohen was born in 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from McGill University in 1968 with a degree in English Literature and then went on to Exeter University to earn his Ph.D. in English Literature in 1972. His thesis was entitled, "The Deluded Heros in the Novels of Evelyn Waugh: A Study of His Functions". While in Britain, Cohen also compiled and published a collection of poetry by Victorian poet Digby Mackworth Dolben. Upon his return to Montreal, Cohen returned to McGill University to earn a Master's in Library Studies in 1975. In 1975, Cohen began his long career in libraries at Concordia University working in various departments there until 1990 when he began working at McGill University. He was also a lecturer and taught the Collections Development course at McGill's then-Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Cohen was forced to retire from library work due to ill health in 2005. Cohen also published articles on various topics of librarianship. In addition to his work in libraries, Cohen was a proficient translator of poetry and also wrote himself. He spoke English, French, German, Spanish and Italian and also read Latin, Yiddish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Galician, Romansh, Swedish, Danish and Romanian. Martin Cohen passed away in 2009 in Toronto, Ontario.

Language: English; German

Custodial History: Donated by the estate of Martin Cohen.

Subjects: Poetry; Poets; Writing.; Writing - Fiction; Libraries.; Librarians; Cohen, Martin, 1947-2009

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives