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Correspondence
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16741
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2.6m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1010; 3
- Date
- 1900-1939
- Scope and Content
- Predominance of letters after Brainin settled in North America. The correspondence includes letters from the famous and the obscure in all parts of the Jewish diaspora, plus Palestine. A majority are written in Hebrew and thus document the renascence of Hebrew as a modern language. Many of the l…
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2.6m textual records
- Scope and Content
- Predominance of letters after Brainin settled in North America. The correspondence includes letters from the famous and the obscure in all parts of the Jewish diaspora, plus Palestine. A majority are written in Hebrew and thus document the renascence of Hebrew as a modern language. Many of the letters were accompanied by manuscripts submitted to Brainin as editor of various Hebrew publications (manuscripts located in Gr. I). Of great interest in this group is the collection of letters from Chava Shapiro to Brainin during their long relationship (Box t). Correspondence is arranged alphabetically in the Hebrew alphabet (Boxes a-t) and then in the Roman alphabet for all other languages (Boxes s-x). The last box in the Group (Box y) contains Brainin family correspondence.
- Date
- 1900-1939
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Series No.
- 3
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Reuben Brainin
- History / Biographical
- See fonds description
- Language
- English, German, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish
- Arrangement
- Correspondence arranged alphabetically in Hebrew alphabet for Yiddish and Hebrew letters, and for all other languages in Roman alphabet.
- Notes
- Arranged under "Group III"
- Finding Aid
- Detailed index to Yiddish and Hebrew correspondence available.
- Related Material
- Judy King Fonds; Jewish Public Library Collection
- Name Access
- Brainin, Reuven, 1862-1939
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Reuben Brainin Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16738
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6.625m textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Date
- 1893-1940
- Scope and Content
- The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and critici…
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6.625m textual records
- Scope and Content
- The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities (Gr. I), Biography and criticism (Gr. II), Correspondence (Gr. III), Special Collections (Gr. IV), and the records of the Jewish Public Library Archives Committee (Gr. V). Each group is further divided by subseries. In addition to this groups, the fonds also includes approximately fifty photographs, all arranged and described in the JPL Photograph Database.
- Responsibility
- Records of the Reuben Brainin Archives Committee created by the Jewish Public Library
- Date
- 1893-1940
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Reuben Brainin
- History / Biographical
- The Hebrew writer, biographer, critic and Zionist leader Reuben Brainin was born in Lyady, Belorussia in 1862. After receiving a traditional Jewish education he left his parents’ home at the age of 16 and went to Horki to study agronomy. From there he moved to Moscow, where he resided from 1880 to 1888. During that period (1881) he made his literary debut, with articles published in the Hebrew journal Hamelitz. In 1892 Brainin settled in Vienna, where he studied at university and served as editor of an influential Hebrew periodical Mimizrach Umima’arav (1894-1899), and as co-editor of Zion. While in Vienna and Berlin (1895-1909) he published numerous essays, including important critiques of the Hebrew authors Judah Leib Gorden, Peretz Smolenskin, Abraham Mapu, and Saul Tschernichowsky. The central theme of Brainin’s critical opus was Hebrew literature in the chosen media. Brainin was also active in the Zionist movement during these years. In 1909 Brainin came to the United States, and three years later settled in Montreal, where he edited the Yiddish newspapers Der Veg (1915-1916) and Der Keneder Adler (1915-1916). He was one of the founders (1914) and leaders of the Jewish Public Library and People’s University. Brainin returned to New York in 1916, where he resided until his death in 1939. He edited the Hebrew journal Hatoren (1919-1925) and contributed to numerous Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals, including the Jewish Daily News (1916-1920) and The Day (1921-1939). During the 1920s Brainin became an active supporter of Jewish agricultural colonization in the Soviet Union, and went on lecture tours throughout North America and South Africa to raise funds in support of this cause. Brainin published several books in Hebrew and Yiddish during his lifetime, including two on Smolenskin (Warsaw, 1896 and Vilna, 1901), one on Theodor Herzl (New York, 1919), plus selected writings in Hebrew (Warsaw, 1909) and Yiddish (New York, 1917) as well as collected works in three volumes (New York, 1922-1940). He edited a collection of Hebrew poems (Jerusalem, 1910) and a commemorative volume on Eliezer Ben Yehuda (New York, 1915). Brainin also translated into Hebrew three German books: Der Prophet Jeremias by M. Lazarus (Warsaw, 1897), Das neue Ghette, by Theodor Herzl (Warsaw, 1898) and Paradoxes, by Max Nordau (1901). In 1922 a festschrift appeared, in honour of Brainin’s 60th birthday. His diary was published posthumously in Yiddish (New York, 1946).
- Language
- English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish
- Custodial History
- Transferred from the Brainin family in 1940.
- Finding Aid
- Index to Hebrew and Yiddish correspondence available in JPL-A.
- Related Material
- Judy King Fonds; Jewish Public Library Collection
- Name Access
- Brainin, Reuven, 1862-1939
- Subjects
- Agricultural colonies
- Keneder Adler
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Founders
- Birobidzhan (Russia)
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
- ICOR, Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union
- Zionism
- Shapiro, Chava, 1876-1943
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Special Collections
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16742
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- .5m of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1010; 4
- Scope and Content
- Subdivided on their own due to importance and volume, this group includes boxes with material and correspondence just on Theodor Herzl (includes the Zionist leader’s correspondence copy book for 1903), Professor David Neumark of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, the non-Jewish Russian Hebrew …
- Collection
- Reuben Brainin Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- .5m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subdivided on their own due to importance and volume, this group includes boxes with material and correspondence just on Theodor Herzl (includes the Zionist leader’s correspondence copy book for 1903), Professor David Neumark of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, the non-Jewish Russian Hebrew writer Elisheva Ben Zion Ben Yehuda (son of the Hebrew lexicographer Eliezer Ben Yehuda), Medle Mokher Seforim (Shalom Jacob Abramowitz) and Russian-Jewish author Vassily Behrman.
- Fonds No.
- 1010
- Series No.
- 4
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Reuben Brainin
- History / Biographical
- See fonds description
- Notes
- Arranged under "Group IV"
- Related Material
- Judy King Fonds; Jewish Public Library Collection
- Name Access
- Brainin, Reuven, 1862-1939
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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