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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
Bebe Trepman Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75240
- Collection
- Bebe Trepman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.25 linear metres of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1321
- Date
- 1925-1985
- Scope and Content
- Contains materials that document Bebe Trepman's role as an educator in Jewish Montreal as well as her involvement with various community organizations such as the Montreal Yiddish Committee.
- Collection
- Bebe Trepman Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.25 linear metres of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Contains materials that document Bebe Trepman's role as an educator in Jewish Montreal as well as her involvement with various community organizations such as the Montreal Yiddish Committee.
- Date
- 1925-1985
- Fonds No.
- 1321
- Storage Location
- 4-2D
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- History / Biographical
- Bebe Trepman was a longtime educator in Jewish Montreal, authoring teacher resources and packages for various schools and programmes. She was active in the community, particularly in promotion and preservation of the Yiddish language.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Chayele Grober Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43491
- 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
Dovid Kunigis Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn71403
- Collection
- Dovid Kunigis Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.13 m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1302
- Date
- c.1947-2000
- Scope and Content
- Consists of materials mainly related to Yiddish education in Canada including sample tests and teaching instructions, Yiddish song sheets, documentation on Yiddish schools and Camp Naivelt as well as newspaper clippings and teaching aids.
- Collection
- Dovid Kunigis Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.13 m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of materials mainly related to Yiddish education in Canada including sample tests and teaching instructions, Yiddish song sheets, documentation on Yiddish schools and Camp Naivelt as well as newspaper clippings and teaching aids.
- Date
- c.1947-2000
- Fonds No.
- 1302
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Dovid Kunigis was born in Lithuania in 1923 to Aaron Kunigis and Sarah Applebaum. Throughout his life Mr. Kunigis had numerous careers: service in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, a Yiddish teacher and school principal, restauranteur, taxi driver, and train conductor. Mr. Kunigis' passion however was dedicated to the preservation, education and celebration of the Yiddish language and culture.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Subjects
- Yiddish
- Jewish studies
- Education - Jews
- Education, Elementary
- Kunigis, Dovid
- Camp Naivelt (Ontario)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Fishl (Philip) Kolko Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80212
- Collection
- Fishl (Philip) Kolko Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 5 files of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1131
- Date
- 1932-1978
- Scope and Content
- Consists of five files of Yiddish manuscripts, lyrics and song sheets, mostly handwritten. Also includes a booklet from the National Yiddish Workers Farband Forum (1932).
- Collection
- Fishl (Philip) Kolko Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 5 files of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of five files of Yiddish manuscripts, lyrics and song sheets, mostly handwritten. Also includes a booklet from the National Yiddish Workers Farband Forum (1932).
- Date
- 1932-1978
- Fonds No.
- 1131
- Storage Location
- Ctn. 001
- 2-1D
- Language
- Yiddish
- Subjects
- Yiddish
- Music.
- Kolko, Fishl (Philip)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Harold Ivry Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33654
- Collection
- Harold Ivry Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 12cm of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1127
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of typescripts and manuscripts of the poetry of Harold Ivry, as well as correspondence between Hannah Ivry and several libraries, a printer and a monument company. Manuscripts include notebooks and scrap paper.
- Collection
- Harold Ivry Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 12cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of typescripts and manuscripts of the poetry of Harold Ivry, as well as correspondence between Hannah Ivry and several libraries, a printer and a monument company. Manuscripts include notebooks and scrap paper.
- Fonds No.
- 1127
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Some notebooks in poor condition
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Name Access
- Ivry, Harold
- Ivry, Hannah
- Subjects
- Ivry, Harold
- Poetry
- Poets, Yiddish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Henry Rabin Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80223
- Collection
- Henry Rabin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.3 linear metres of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1157
- Date
- 1950-1983
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly ephemera that documents Mr. Rabin's involvement in various community organizations and Yiddish culture; specifically, the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Jewish Public Library, Habonim, and more.
- Collection
- Henry Rabin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.3 linear metres of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly ephemera that documents Mr. Rabin's involvement in various community organizations and Yiddish culture; specifically, the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Jewish Public Library, Habonim, and more.
- Date
- 1950-1983
- Fonds No.
- 1157
- Storage Location
- 2-1E
- Ctn. 001
- History / Biographical
- Henry Rabin was a longtime member and leader in the Labour Zionist Alliance as well as an invaluable volunteer at the Jewish Public Library. Through his work at the JPL, Rabin organized and recorded a collection of Yiddish talking books, which are now available digitally through the Yiddish Book Centre.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects
- Rabin, Henry
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal, Quebec)
- Yiddish
- Music.
- 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
Jewish Public Library
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44539
- 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.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Finding Aid
- Please contact the JPL Archives directly to search the JPL archival collection.
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Brainin, Reuben, 1862-1939
- Kaufman, Yehuda, 1886-1976.
- Hershman, Hirsch (Harry), 1876-1955
- Books
- Yiddish
- Yiddish theatre
- Wasserman, Dora.
- 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
Leib Zuker Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68944
- Collection
- Leib Zuker Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.25m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1275
- Scope and Content
- Consists of records documenting Zuker's speeches and writings as well as some correspondence.
- Collection
- Leib Zuker Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.25m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Consists of records documenting Zuker's speeches and writings as well as some correspondence.
- Fonds No.
- 1275
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Leib Zuker was born in Poland in 1887 and came to Montreal as a young boy in 1904. Zuker's father was a smith and Zuker was referred to as being largely self-educated. Zuker is best remembered for his enormous contributions and involvement in the Montreal Jewish community. He was intrical in the founding of the Jewish Public Library as well as being part of several other community and national organizations such as the Labour Zionist Movement in Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services and the Jewish Community Council. In 1959, in recognition for outstanding services to the Jewish Peretz School, that institution named the new school building the L. Zuker Building.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Name Access
- Zuker, Leib, ca1887-1965
- Subjects
- Yiddish
- Education - Jews
- Jewish Peretz Schools
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Labour Zionist Alliance (Montreal, Quebec)
- 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
Rochl Korn Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44543
- Collection
- Rochl Korn Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.75 linear metres
- Fonds No.
- 1098
- Date
- 1907-1990
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four series: literary activities, criticisms of her works, biographical information and correspondence. Correspondence consists mainly of in-coming letters and is arranged alphabetically by the sender's last name.
- Collection
- Rochl Korn Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.75 linear metres
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four series: literary activities, criticisms of her works, biographical information and correspondence. Correspondence consists mainly of in-coming letters and is arranged alphabetically by the sender's last name.
- Date
- 1907-1990
- Fonds No.
- 1098
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Yiddish poet, essayist and short story writer, Rochl Korn was born in Podliski, East Galicia on January 15, 1898. Her parents were Hanna and Wolf Haering. At the age of twelve, after the death of her father, she began writing in Polish and became well-versed in German literature as well. In 1918, when she turned twenty, two of her short stories, written in Polish, were published in two Yiddish-Polish journals. She turned to Yiddish writing after World War I and her first published work, "Dorf" appeared in 1928. Her early writings brought to life the beauty of the countryside and the wonders of nature. The Second World War brought to Korn homelessness and heartbreak. While visiting her daughter Irene in Lvov in 1941, eastern Poland was invaded by Germany. Fleeing with the retreating Soviet army, Korn and her daughter never again saw Rochl's husband, Hersh Korn. Korn spent the remainder of the war as a refugee in the Soviet Union. Korn's later work after World War II was dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and the Soviet Jewish writers silenced by Stalinist purges. Korn stated this work was an attempt to give voice to those whose own was stolen. Rochl Korn produced eleven volumes of poetry and short stories. Her poems and essays appeared in many literary journals and her work has been translated into many languages including English, French, Polish and Romanian. She was the recipient of many literary awards and prizes, including the Itzik Manger Prize and the Zhitlovsky Prize. Rochl Korn passed away on September 9, 1982.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- German
- Finding Aid
- Complete finding aid available. Please contact the Jewish Public Library Archives directly for access.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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
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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