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Ida Maze Fonds

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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.

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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.

Subjects: Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.; Yiddish; Writers, Yiddish; Poetry; Poets, Canadian; Poets, Yiddish

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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Yiddish Book Center Summer Program

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Collection: Leib Tencer Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1073; 00046

Date: 1990

Collection: Leib Tencer Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Date: 1990

Fonds No.: 1073

File No.: 00046

Storage Location: JPL

Language: Yiddish; English

Subjects: Writers, Yiddish; Yiddish; Tencer, Leib.; National Yiddish Book Center

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Chayele Grober Fonds

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Collection: Chayele Grober Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.25 m. of multimedia records

Fonds No.: 1020

Date: [ca. 1930-1980]

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of scripts, promotional material, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to Chayele Grober's career in theatre. Fonds comprises a single series of twenty files.

Collection: Chayele Grober Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.25 m. of multimedia records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of scripts, promotional material, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to Chayele Grober's career in theatre. Fonds comprises a single series of twenty files.

Date: [ca. 1930-1980]

Fonds No.: 1020

Storage Location: 4-6C

History / Biographical: Chayele Grober (1898-1978) was born and educated in Bjalistok, Poland, and was transplanted to Moscow during World War II. Grober began her career as a performer in Moscow in 1918. She was among the founders and stars of the famous Hebrew theatre Habimah. She relocated to Montreal in the 1930s, where she continued her career as a singer and actress, working in Hebrew and Yidddish. She most often performed as a one-woman act incorporating song, theatre, dance, comedy and mime. She toured extensively, appearing in in South America, Canada, Europe, Israel, South Africa and Australia. In Montreal, Grober became director of the Yiddish Theatre Group in Montreal and founded her own studio which she named "Habimah" after the famous theatre founded in Moscow. Later in life, she performed less but remained involved in theatre as a drama teacher and playwrite.

Language: Yiddish; English; Spanish

Custodial History: The fonds contains a large amount of correspondence recieved by Mr. and Mrs. Ravitch from C. Grober, possibly indicating that all or part of the fonds was first collected by them before donation.

Name Access: Grober, Chayele, 1898-1978

Subjects: Theatre; Grober, Chayele, 1894-1978.; Yiddish Theatre Group [Montreal].; Dance; Theatrical Productions.; Yiddish theatre; Folk music

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Jewish Public Library

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Collection: Jewish Public Library

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Fonds No.: 1000

Date: 1914-current

Scope and Content: This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collectio…

Collection: Jewish Public Library

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Scope and Content: This fonds consists of three individually organized collections based on records from the JPL. The first collection consists of materials organized from the JPL records dated 1914-1971. The second collection consists of material organized from the JPL records dated 1972-1986. The third collection consists of modern era records and is currently being organized following the creation of an appropriate records management classfication.

Date: 1914-current

Fonds No.: 1000

History / Biographical: The Jewish Public Library (JPL) was founded as a "folks" library, a library for all, in 1914. The creation of the JPL was a result of the consolidation of smaller, organization or ideology-based libraries already in existence. Key to the establishment of the JPL was Keneder Adler editor Reuben Brainin. Already active in Yiddish culture of the Montreal Jewish community, Brainin was a leader in the newly formed JPL until he left Montreal for New York in 1916. Brainin's archive collection was donated to the JPL upon his death in 1939. Until 1950 the Library was an independent body in the Jewish community. In 1952 it became a full member of the Allied Jewish Community Services (today known as FEDERATION CJA), an umbrella organization that conducts annual campaigns and is responsible for providing funding for its constituent agencies. The Library remains independent in that it is not part of the City of Montreal library system. The JPL was also a founding member of the Montreal Association of Indepedent Libraries. The operating language of the Library for the early years of its existence was Yiddish. Not just a place for reading, the Library was central to preserving a place for Yiddish culture in the lives of thousands of newly-arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The Library became a venue for visiting authors, such as Sholem Aleichem in 1915, as well as a space for people to connect to a community as well as learn about their new city. At various points in its history the Library also provided learning opportunities under its Jewish People's University, YIFO. YIFO offered a wide variety of subjects taught by various instructors such as Melech Ravitch and Irving Layton. The Library was also the first home to Yiddish youth theatre, led by the then-newly arrived Dora Wasserman. Today the Library collects material and offers cultural programming in five languages: English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian. While the majority of new acquisitions, and thus the collection, remains focused on Judaica, the Library also provides general interest fiction, non-fiction, movies and music. The Library is further broadened by its Special Collections, which include the Jewish Public Library Archives, a community-based repository focused on social, cultural and educational history, a rare book collection, a Yizkor book collection, the Irving Layton Library Collection, a German Judaica collection, periodicals and Jewish Canadiana and international Jewry ephemeral collections. In 1929 a children's library section was added to the JPL. Now known as the Norman Berman Children's Library, children and their families can access a full-service children's and young adult library offering Judaica and general interest reading (fiction and non-fiction) in the five languages of the Library. In addition to the book, CD, DVD and reading kit collections, the Norman Berman Children's Library also offers year-long programming for children from birth to 14 years of age.