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SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75975
Collection
SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.25 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0248
Date
2010.
Scope and Content
The donation consists of three typescript memoirs in prose poetry style: Bygone Daughters of a Lesser Fate: a poetic memoir, Ashes Left to Linger: a poetic search for closure, and Yesterday Runs Always Though It: Poetic reminiscences of my life and times, all authored by Sophie Soil. These poetic m…
Collection
SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.25 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The donation consists of three typescript memoirs in prose poetry style: Bygone Daughters of a Lesser Fate: a poetic memoir, Ashes Left to Linger: a poetic search for closure, and Yesterday Runs Always Though It: Poetic reminiscences of my life and times, all authored by Sophie Soil. These poetic memoirs written by a child survivor illustrate the effects of war and post-traumatic stress on family relationships and the construction of memories. While the first two memoirs exist in printed form, the third, Yesterday Runs Always Though It: poetic reminiscences of my life and times is not yet published.
Date
2010.
Fonds No.
P0248
History / Biographical
Sophie Soil was born in 1935, in Iasi, Romania. After surviving the Holocaust and the Communist takeover, her family immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1948, following more than a year of being displaced persons in Hungary and Austria. She has been writing for more than twenty years. Mrs. Soil is an artist/ craftperson and is a widely-published poet in various books, magazine and periodicals. She has won many prizes for her work, among them two Pushcart nominations. She has two chapbooks published by Passion Among the Cacti Press and and two full collections published by Publish America. Her personal chronologies are written in freeform verse poignantly spinning autobiographical tales of her sometimes harsh and inconceivable childhood spent in those war-torn years and through the catastrophe that was the Holocaust. Mrs. Soil also holds herbalist and master herbalist degrees, and is a writer of alternative health material. She lives in Toronto with her husband of 61 years. (Source: author's bio., 2014)
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Sophie Soil on December 4, 2014
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P14/21 and ZB.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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KASTNER, Merle : Family history.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn310
Collection
KASTNER, Merle : Family history.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.15 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0210
Date
2006 - 2012.
Scope and Content
Spiral-bound book The Kastner and Ostrov Family History Book, 2006. Spiral-bound book The Garbarski Family History and Genealogy, 2006. Addition 2007: Spiral-bound The Altman and Levitt Family History, 2007. Spiral-bound two Abramovitz-Gelbart family accounts complementing each other: My Family, an…
Collection
KASTNER, Merle : Family history.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.15 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Spiral-bound book The Kastner and Ostrov Family History Book, 2006. Spiral-bound book The Garbarski Family History and Genealogy, 2006. Addition 2007: Spiral-bound The Altman and Levitt Family History, 2007. Spiral-bound two Abramovitz-Gelbart family accounts complementing each other: My Family, an oral family history by Miriam Abramovitz Gelbart, recorded by M. Kastner in several interviews, and My Life Story, a handwritten account by Joe Gelbart, begun on May 1, completed on May 30, 1986. Addition 2008: Commemorative booklets for the opening of the Hebrew Educational Institute of Montreal on May 31, 1931, and the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue of Windsor, Ontario, on May 25, 1930, as well as a spiral-bound history of the Kussner family by Merle Kastner, 2007, containing family trees and illustrations of photos and documents from Montreal, Philadelphia and Bessarabia.Addition 2009: My Nathanson and Mendelssohn Family - Romania and Canada family history, illustrated. Addition 2010: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet My Denenberg - Goldberg Family, 2009. The Hart Family Book by Merle Kastner, February 2010.Addition 2011: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet by Merle Kastner My parents, Miriam and Morty Kastner, Loving Memories by their daughter, Merle Kastner, May 2011. My Kastner - Ostfeld family (about the families of Mayer Moshe and Shaindel Kastner, The Singer and Fox branch of the Altman family Addition 2012: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet by Merle Kastner: My Kussner and Miller family, about family members who came from Bessarabia via USA to Ontario.
Date
2006 - 2012.
Fonds No.
P0210
History / Biographical
Merle Kastner is a Genealogy researcher and lecturer, and a writer of family history books. She also conducts seminars. She researches all facets of genealogy, including multiple projects, programming of lectures, workshops, and seminars, and formulating family history books. She maintains membership photo albums for a special interest group website and has collected and assembled group members' traditional and ethnic recipes, with accompanying photographs and personal stories and descriptions, for online recipe books.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Merle KASTNER starting on Feb. 21 and continuing to the present.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P07/03, P07/03 add, P08/05, P09/19, P11/05, P11/18, and P12/03.Associated material: P0207 - Nathanson family collection.General note: Family and immigration history.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn317
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Fonds No.
P0217
Date
2004-2007.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creatio…
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creation, artist?s name, approximate measurements, media used, and subject description. Information thus far has been gathered from synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish community buildings, in towns and cities of all the provinces of Canada, including numerous small communities as well as the major centres. Holocaust memorials are a developing feature of this collection.The data accompanying the photographs was imported from a Filemaker database residing on the donor's computer to a similarly structured database at CJCCCNA. The initial corpus of photographs was donated in increments on 9 CDs, with some supplementary images added by email. Additional data related to the images was donated by Weiser in Excel format or in text form, both of which have now been imported to Filemaker Pro. The entire corpus of images was copied to the CJCCCNA network drive and backed up on a Master DVD.The project is ongoing, with support from the Marvin A. Drimer Foundation.
Date
2004-2007.
Fonds No.
P0217
History / Biographical
Barbara Weiser has a Masters degree in Judaic Studies from Concordia. Her research consists of the study of Jewish art in synagogues and Jewish public buildings across Canada. She has donated her corpus of image material to serve as a databank at the CJCCC National Archives for the use of other researchers. It was also used as source of images for the website Canadian Jewish Museum and Archives (www.cjvma.org), which was coordinated by CJCCCNA from 2004-2010.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0217-Weiser-Jewish-Art-in-Public-Spaces

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BONDER, Abe = Photos.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn292
Collection
BONDER, Abe = Photos.
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds No.
P0191
Date
2003.
Scope and Content
Approximately 40 photos, mostly panoramic format, by Abe Bonder, of the Israel Independence rally in Confederation Square, Montreal, May 2003, and counter rallies by anti-Zionist Palestinian and Hasidic protesters.
Collection
BONDER, Abe = Photos.
Description Level
Fonds
Scope and Content
Approximately 40 photos, mostly panoramic format, by Abe Bonder, of the Israel Independence rally in Confederation Square, Montreal, May 2003, and counter rallies by anti-Zionist Palestinian and Hasidic protesters.
Date
2003.
Fonds No.
P0191
History / Biographical
Abe Bonder, known in Montreal as the founder of the bookstore Bonder's Books, was a volunteer at the Canadian Jewish Congress (Charities Committee) National Archives from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, often contributing newsclippings as well as these photographs. He also contrinbuted items related to his involvement in the Hachsharah farming movement in Canada in the late 1940s. The latter are stored in the Canadian Jewish Congress photo collection
Custodial History
The photos were donated by Abe Bonder.
Notes
P03/06.The Counter-rally photos depict rare images of the Montreal Chasidic community members, dressed in sackcloth for protest. The Photos are of exceptional quality.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn298
Collection
DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 209 textual records. - 1 disc.
Fonds No.
P0197
Date
2003.
Scope and Content
209-page unpublished typescript with illustrations, titled Kawiarnia Brianski Memoirs of a Childhood in Grajewo, Poland, 1919-1929. Also a diskette containing the text.
Collection
DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 209 textual records. - 1 disc.
Scope and Content
209-page unpublished typescript with illustrations, titled Kawiarnia Brianski Memoirs of a Childhood in Grajewo, Poland, 1919-1929. Also a diskette containing the text.
Date
2003.
Fonds No.
P0197
History / Biographical
Rebecca Brianski Duchow is the older sister of artist Rita Briansky. Born in Poland, she immigrated to Montreal with her parents and two younger sisters in 1929.
Custodial History
This memoir was originally submitted to the Holocaust Memoir Project of MIGS and was forward to CJC Archives by committee member Mesh Butovsky (deceased 2010), co-editor of the Holocaust testimony series.
Notes
P03/19.English.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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PEREZ, Iris = Bulgarian Jewish Memoirs.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn311
Collection
PEREZ, Iris = Bulgarian Jewish Memoirs.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0211
Date
2003 circa.
Scope and Content
2 handwritten stories (in French) "Les plantes de ma mère" and "Ile de Chypre, Famagusta, 20 aout 1960, notes de voyage." Also the outline for a projected book of memoirs (some of the contents have been written down by the donor in Bulgarian (Cyrillic alphabet) or in Spanish.
Collection
PEREZ, Iris = Bulgarian Jewish Memoirs.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
2 handwritten stories (in French) "Les plantes de ma mère" and "Ile de Chypre, Famagusta, 20 aout 1960, notes de voyage." Also the outline for a projected book of memoirs (some of the contents have been written down by the donor in Bulgarian (Cyrillic alphabet) or in Spanish.
Date
2003 circa.
Fonds No.
P0211
History / Biographical
Iris Perez was born and lived in Sofia, Bulgaria, before emigrating to Israel, where she lived on a kibbutz, and then Colombia, South America. She now resides in Montreal and speaks French, although her writing is usually done in Spanish or Bulgarian. She has taken writing classes and would like to publish more of her work.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Iris Perez on January 11, 2007.
Notes
P07/01.French, Spanish and Bulgarian.Pertains to Sephardic Jews of Eastern European descent, a minority in the Montreal Jewish community. Mrs. Perez was published in Sarah Arditti Ascher's collection of writings by Sephardic Jewish seniors in Montreal.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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JOSEPH, Anne = Illustrated A. Joseph historical articles, transcriptions of Clarence de Sola writings.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn315
Collection
JOSEPH, Anne = Illustrated A. Joseph historical articles, transcriptions of Clarence de Sola writings.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.02 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0215
Date
2002-2008.
Scope and Content
11 articles written by Anne Joseph, most of them with photographic illustrations. Inlcudes biographies of: David David (1764-1824), David Salisbury Franks, (1740-1793), Aaron Hart (1724-1800), Moses Judah Hays (1789-1861), Henry Joseph (1775-1832), Jacob Henry Joseph (1814-1907), Levy Solomons (172…
Collection
JOSEPH, Anne = Illustrated A. Joseph historical articles, transcriptions of Clarence de Sola writings.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.02 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
11 articles written by Anne Joseph, most of them with photographic illustrations. Inlcudes biographies of: David David (1764-1824), David Salisbury Franks, (1740-1793), Aaron Hart (1724-1800), Moses Judah Hays (1789-1861), Henry Joseph (1775-1832), Jacob Henry Joseph (1814-1907), Levy Solomons (1729-1792). Clarence de Sola's 1886 biography of Abraham de Sola (1825-1882) and David Aaron de Sola (1796-1860) and history of the De Sola family, transcribed by A. J. in 2006 from his notes, with added illustrations and photocopies of the original handwritten notes. Also article about Stanley Diamond and various family trees of Quebec Jewish families, De Sola, Joseph, etc. Addition 2008: Includes Henry Joseph prayerbook records; Montefiore and Annette Joseph Bible records; marriage settlement dated 25 July 1882 between Montefiore Joseph and Annette Pinto; a copy of a two-page letter dated 3 October 1882 from Henry Pinto in London to his son-in-law Montefiore Joseph and his daughter Annette (Pinto) Joseph in Montreal; a sketch of Tiddlewinks, the summer home of Montefiore and Annette Joseph; notes about the Hart and Judah families by Lewis A. Hart, including annotated transcription and additional material, such as a family tree and two-page biography of Lewis Hart; reconciliation of conflicting dates of birth recorded for the family of Aaron and Dorothea (Judah) Hart; an illustrated biography of Abraham Joseph (November 14, 1815-March 20, 1886) written in June 2008; and an article based on a presentation in Quebec City on May 21, 2008, for the Voices from the Crossroads series to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City.
Date
2002-2008.
Fonds No.
P0215
History / Biographical
Anne Joseph, who was born in 1935 in Portsmouth, England, has lived in Montreal since 1959. Throughout her working life in both medical research and business, Anne was heavily involved in research and writing. She developed an interest in early Quebec Jewish history through her husband, William K. Joseph. Her book Heritage of a Patriarch on nine of Canada's earliest Jewish families was published by Editions du Septentrion in 1995, and she has also had many articles published in England, France and Canada. Anne has worked as a volunteer in many organizations. She was a founding member of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal in 1995 and has served on its executive from the beginning. She is also editor of the Society's journal, Montreal Forum.
Custodial History
The collection was donnated by Anne Joseph on June 7, 2007. Addition was made on July 4, 2008.
Notes
P07/20 and P08/14.Contains information and illustrations not found elsewhere in this Archives.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44614
Collection
LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0241
Date
2002-2011.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of novel Sin and Retribution - two versions, approximately 150 and 158 pages each, differing in their ending. Based on the author's experiences testifying at the war crimes trial of Julius Viel, the novel was written between 2002 and 2011. It had not been published at the time of donatio…
Collection
LALLIER, Adalbert = Manuscript of unpublished Holocaust-themed novel Sin and Retribution.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Manuscript of novel Sin and Retribution - two versions, approximately 150 and 158 pages each, differing in their ending. Based on the author's experiences testifying at the war crimes trial of Julius Viel, the novel was written between 2002 and 2011. It had not been published at the time of donation.
Date
2002-2011.
Fonds No.
P0241
History / Biographical
Of French Huguenot origin, Adalbert Lallier was born in 1925 in Hungary. He was forcibly drafted into the German army during World War II at the age of 17, along with his brother, who perished in the course of the war. While Lallier was a 19-year-old Waffen SS officer-in-training with the detail overseeing the work party in Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia, he witnessed his immediate superior, an SS lieutenant, Julius Viel, randomly shoot seven Jews. After WWII, Lallier first worked at the International Refugee Organization in Vienna expediting the processing of East-European refugees, most often Hungarian Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Three years after immigrating to Montreal in 1951, he was admitted to the Honours programme in economics and political science at McGill University, graduating with an Honours B.A. In 1958 he was admitted to Columbia University, New York City, on a two-year graduate fellowship, to study economics and at the Russian Institute, obtaining an M.A. in economics, a Graduate Diploma in International Politics, and qualifying as a Ph.D. candidate. In 1960 he was engaged as a lecturer in economics and politics at Loyola College. He became Dean of Loyola's Evening Division in 1962, creating their evening degree programme. During his long career at what then became Concordia University, he was one of the seven recipients of the John O'Brien Award for Teaching Excellence, and was eventually promoted to full professor. While teaching full-time, he resumed his graduate studies, in France, at the Sorbonne/ParisII, and was awarded a doctorat en sciences économiques, following which he did post-doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the early 1970s, he was also Director of Lay Studies at Yeshiva Gedolah Markaz Hatorah, where he accommodated the mostly religious orthodox programme of this institution with Quebec's official policy concerning high-school education. From 1998-2000, Lallier testified four times before the Nazi war crimes court in Germany about what he saw during the Julius Viel incident, being the principal witness in the case against Viel, who was arrested on the strength of Lallier's evidence. In the aftermath of the publicity surrounding the trial, Lallier resigned from the University in 2001 and currently lives on a farm outside Montreal.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Adalbert Lallier on Aug. 31, 2011
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P11/13.Restrictions :Open for consultation, but only portions may be reproduced or quoted, with credit to author. Researchers may contact the author to obtain a copy of the full version.General note :Reflects the perceptions of a non-Jew with a particular insider's point of view vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the rise of Neo-Nazism.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

Lallier-Sin-and-Retribution-excerpted-Chapter-CJCCCNA

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JEWISH ALLIANCE AGAINST THE OCCUPATION (JAAO) & JEWISH PEOPLES LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (JPLO) .

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93
Collection
JEWISH ALLIANCE AGAINST THE OCCUPATION (JAAO) & JEWISH PEOPLES LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (JPLO) .
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.12 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0091
Date
2000-2006.
Scope and Content
Documents of both organizations (unprocessed). The collection includes an anti-Zionist book by Eibie Weizfeld, The End of Zionism and the Liberation of the Jewish People (1989)
Collection
JEWISH ALLIANCE AGAINST THE OCCUPATION (JAAO) & JEWISH PEOPLES LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (JPLO) .
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.12 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Documents of both organizations (unprocessed). The collection includes an anti-Zionist book by Eibie Weizfeld, The End of Zionism and the Liberation of the Jewish People (1989)
Date
2000-2006.
Fonds No.
I0091
History / Biographical
Formative and organizational records of two organizations which reflect an anti-Israeli government policy position. The JPLO is now primarily run by Eibie Weizfeld as an Internet listserve. The JAAO group has demonstrated and organized lectures and events, which are reflected in the records.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Abraham (Eibie) WEIZFELD on June 1, 2006.
Notes
P06/03, MCAT.Provides an alternate perspective to that of the more mainstream Jewish organizations.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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LEWIS, Stanley = Interview on Radio Centreville-CINQ.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn316
Collection
LEWIS, Stanley = Interview on Radio Centreville-CINQ.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM).
Fonds No.
P0216
Date
2000.
Scope and Content
Artist Stanley Lewis interviewd by Howard Gontovnick, co-host and Stanley Asher, host, Arts Notebook program on Radio CentreVille-CINQ 102.5 FM Montreal, February 26, 2000. After donation, this CD was also copied onto an archival quality master CD for preservation.
Collection
LEWIS, Stanley = Interview on Radio Centreville-CINQ.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 compact disc (CD-ROM).
Scope and Content
Artist Stanley Lewis interviewd by Howard Gontovnick, co-host and Stanley Asher, host, Arts Notebook program on Radio CentreVille-CINQ 102.5 FM Montreal, February 26, 2000. After donation, this CD was also copied onto an archival quality master CD for preservation.
Date
2000.
Fonds No.
P0216
History / Biographical
Stanley Lewis was born in Montreal in 1930 and died on Aug. 14, 2006. Stanley Lewis was a sculptor, printmaker, teacher and photographer. He created sculptures until a few months before his death. Mr. Lewis was regarded by many as a national treasure in the contemporary art world. Stanley Lewis's works are in prestigious collections worldwide including Canada: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Artothèque de Montréal, le Musée du Québec and National Gallery of Canada. Since 1950, he has exhibited in galleries and museums constantly throughout the world, including Paris, Florence, Israel, New York and Mexico. Dedicaded artist Stanley Lewis was head of the sculpture department at the Saidye Bronfman Centre School of the Fine Arts, taught at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, was a founding member of Quebec Sculptors Association, and honorary member of the Accademia Internazionale Tommaso Campanella.Stanley Lewis created and donated many works to institutions and causes, including l'École Polytechnique in memory of the tragedy which led to the death of many young women. The studio on "The Main" Through all his travels, Mr. Lewis always returned to Montreal and his studio above the Berson's Tombstone Company, on St. Laurent Blvd., which in his words was "a constant reminder that we are mortal souls but our creations are timeless." This studio on the Main was a hub for many artists and his powerful presence a cornerstone to the art community and the Jewish community. He was producing new works in his studio up until a few months before his death. The biography comes from "The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by Sylvie Berthiaume on AskART.com".
Custodial History
The CD was donated by Howard Gontovnick on January 30, 2007
Notes
P07/04.Stanley Lewis, who died in 2006, was an important Canadian and Canadian Jewish artist.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ELMRIDGE COUNTRY CLUB = Jewish Golf Club.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103
Collection
ELMRIDGE COUNTRY CLUB = Jewish Golf Club.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.02 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0101
Date
1999-2004.
Scope and Content
123 page hardcover book Elmridge Country Club 75 years 1924-1999, with photo illustrations, documenting the history of the Elmridge Country Club, one of Montreal's three golf clubs founded by Jews who were restricted from belonging to Christian clubs. (The other Jewish initiated golf clubs were Hil…
Collection
ELMRIDGE COUNTRY CLUB = Jewish Golf Club.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.02 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
123 page hardcover book Elmridge Country Club 75 years 1924-1999, with photo illustrations, documenting the history of the Elmridge Country Club, one of Montreal's three golf clubs founded by Jews who were restricted from belonging to Christian clubs. (The other Jewish initiated golf clubs were Hillsdale and Pinegrove.) By-Laws 2004 of the club.
Date
1999-2004.
Fonds No.
I0101
History / Biographical
The founding of this club in 1924 grew out of the Montefiore Club.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Barbara Weiser on March 26, 2009
Notes
P09/11.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn304
Collection
FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0204
Date
1991-2005.
Scope and Content
Self-published spiral bound volume of poetry, c. 200 pages, 1991-1995, themes of Holocaust and depression. Biography from www.harrykel.com (illustrated) about parents in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wolfrathshausen DP camp, and author in Montreal and Toronto.
Collection
FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Self-published spiral bound volume of poetry, c. 200 pages, 1991-1995, themes of Holocaust and depression. Biography from www.harrykel.com (illustrated) about parents in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wolfrathshausen DP camp, and author in Montreal and Toronto.
Date
1991-2005.
Fonds No.
P0204
History / Biographical
Harry "Kel" Finkelstein was born in 1947 in the Wolfrathshuasen DP camp to Polish parents from the town Zdunska-Wola, who had survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. He came to Canada (Montreal) at the age of one, in 1948. After working in textiles with his father, they later moved to Toronto. Harry Finkelstein writes of his struggles with bipolar disorder, which affected his career and coloured his prolific poetry writing. His website "www.harrykel.org" reflects his concerns with the Holocaust and its after-effects.
Custodial History
The collection was donated to the Archives on Nov. 9, 2005, by Harry Finkelstein.
Notes
P04/14, ZB.Testimony of the child of survivors including reference to the effect of the Holocaust on the author's mental state. He relates the pain of bi-polar depression to the feelings invoked by the events of war.
Archival / Genealogical
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Canadian Jewish Archives
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SCHEINBERG, Stephen

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn98400
Collection
SCHEINBERG, Stephen
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
N.a.
Fonds No.
P0280
Date
ca. 1991 - ca. 2009.
Scope and Content
Divided into two series, the collection consists of 7 banker's boxes of records pertaining to Scheinberg's work in B'nai B'rith Canada (Montreal office) and Canadian Friends of Peace Now. The records include important documents about antisemitism and the Zionist movement in Canada which may, in som…
Collection
SCHEINBERG, Stephen
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
N.a.
Scope and Content
Divided into two series, the collection consists of 7 banker's boxes of records pertaining to Scheinberg's work in B'nai B'rith Canada (Montreal office) and Canadian Friends of Peace Now. The records include important documents about antisemitism and the Zionist movement in Canada which may, in some instances, be more detailed than the official B'nai Brith head office records and those held by the office of Peace Now.
Date
ca. 1991 - ca. 2009.
Fonds No.
P0280
History / Biographical
Stephen Scheinberg is Professor Emeritus (retired) at Concordia University's Department of History in Montreal. At the time of the donation of these papers (2014), Scheinberg was the head of the Antisemitism wing of B'nai Brith and the co-chair of Peace Now in Montreal.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Stephen Scheinberg on July 2, 2014
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P14/11.General note: The donor notes that an additional small group of papers were donated to the Concordia University Archives, principally dealing with the 1969 destruction of the computer centre.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945].

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn264
Collection
JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945].
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0159
Date
1990.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of 48-page typed memoir (photocopy) about his life in Poland, service in Polish army during World War II, Holocaust experiences, relations with Catholic faith in Poland. Memoir includes photocopies of photos. Originals are with the author.
Collection
JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945].
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of 48-page typed memoir (photocopy) about his life in Poland, service in Polish army during World War II, Holocaust experiences, relations with Catholic faith in Poland. Memoir includes photocopies of photos. Originals are with the author.
Date
1990.
Fonds No.
P0159
History / Biographical
A Polish-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, Henryk Jedwab lived in Ottawa until his death in 2005.
Custodial History
Donated by Mr. Henryk Jedwab in April 1997 via archives volunteer Willie Glaser, also a Polish army veteran.
Notes
P97/07.English.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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A COAT OF MANY COLOURS, CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CBC) - Videotaped Interviews.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn12
Collection
A COAT OF MANY COLOURS, CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CBC) - Videotaped Interviews.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.7 metres of textual records. - 53 videos.
Fonds No.
I0010
Date
1989.
Scope and Content
53 VHS cassettes of A Coat of Many Colours interviews, and transcripts. Some of those interviewed include Harry Rasky, Dave Barrett, Al Waxman, Phil Gold, Irving Layton, Larry Zolf, Judith Feld Carr, Mordecai Richler, and Otto Lowy.
Collection
A COAT OF MANY COLOURS, CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CBC) - Videotaped Interviews.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.7 metres of textual records. - 53 videos.
Scope and Content
53 VHS cassettes of A Coat of Many Colours interviews, and transcripts. Some of those interviewed include Harry Rasky, Dave Barrett, Al Waxman, Phil Gold, Irving Layton, Larry Zolf, Judith Feld Carr, Mordecai Richler, and Otto Lowy.
Date
1989.
Fonds No.
I0010
History / Biographical
These 53 VHS cassettes, and transcripts of their contents, consist of interviews by Donnalu Wigmore with Canadian Jews. These were later used for the CBC production A Coat of Many Colours, produced in conjunction with the Museum of Civilization exhibit of the same name.
Notes
P90/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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BESSNER, Morton.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn125
Collection
BESSNER, Morton.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.18 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0017
Date
1989- .
Scope and Content
Minutes and reports pertaining to education. Press clippings about Canadian Jewish Congress
Collection
BESSNER, Morton.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.18 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Minutes and reports pertaining to education. Press clippings about Canadian Jewish Congress
Date
1989- .
Fonds No.
P0017
History / Biographical
Born in 1935, Mr. Bessner is a Barrister in general and commercial law. He is a former vice-president of Canadian Jewish Congress, Quebec Region, in which capacity he drafted several briefs relating to education. He is also a former member of the executive committee of Allied Jewish Community Services, and a past president of Herzl Health of the Centre. He was associate chairman of Combined Jewish Appeal and vice-president of the Lord Reading Law Society. He was a member of the Conseil Scolaire de l'Ile de Montréal
Notes
Correspondence file.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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SROKA, Ghila : La Tribune Juive and other publications

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78519
Collection
SROKA, Ghila : La Tribune Juive and other publications
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.3 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0254
Date
1988-2014.
Scope and Content
Gap-filling issues of La Tribune Juive (approximately 73 issues), with 6 sample issues of La Parole Meteque and 2 issues of l'Incontournable. The collection also includes a book by Ghila Sroka about Haitian women and a French / Hebrew daily prayer book used by G. Sroka, with marked pages.
Collection
SROKA, Ghila : La Tribune Juive and other publications
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.3 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Gap-filling issues of La Tribune Juive (approximately 73 issues), with 6 sample issues of La Parole Meteque and 2 issues of l'Incontournable. The collection also includes a book by Ghila Sroka about Haitian women and a French / Hebrew daily prayer book used by G. Sroka, with marked pages.
Date
1988-2014.
Fonds No.
P0254
History / Biographical
Founder and director of the Tribune Juive and La Parole métèque publications, Ghila Sroka passed away in Montreal on September 26th, 2014 at the age of 64. Born in Morocco, she settled in Montreal in 1981, where she studied Comparative Literature at Université de Montréal. A journalist, editor, author, host, and avant-garde interculturalist, she defined herself as a "francophone by choice, a Jewish atheist, a leftist intellectual and polemicist, and a feminist". In 2008, magazine Châtelaine Canada named her among the 20 most impressive women on the planet Among the many influential publications put out by Les éditions de la parole métèque, are Femmes haïtiennes, paroles de négresses (1995) and Conversations avec Dany Laferrière (2010). In Tribune juive, she published interviews with a number of Haitian authors, including Gérard Étienne, Joël Des Rosiers, and René Depestre, and featured a number of fascinating profiles of topics like Léopold Sédar Senghor, and more generally, African or North African culture.Source: http://moishistoiredesnoirs.com/en/tribute-to-those-weve-lost/ghila-sroka-2/ by Maguy Métellus
Custodial History
The collection was donated by the estate of Ghila Sroka on November 3, 2014
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P14/16.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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COLTON LEHMAN, Ruth.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn323
Collection
COLTON LEHMAN, Ruth.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
500 photographs. - 161 other fixed images. - 1 sound element.
Fonds No.
P0223
Date
1987-1989.
Scope and Content
The original donation consists of approximately 500 colour photos of Jewish Montreal taken by the late Ruth Colton Lehman in the 1980s. Subjects include a Montreal Jewish walking tour, the Hasidic community of Outremont, bagel making, Combined Jewish Appeal fundraising, Israel Day, and various othe…
Collection
COLTON LEHMAN, Ruth.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
500 photographs. - 161 other fixed images. - 1 sound element.
Scope and Content
The original donation consists of approximately 500 colour photos of Jewish Montreal taken by the late Ruth Colton Lehman in the 1980s. Subjects include a Montreal Jewish walking tour, the Hasidic community of Outremont, bagel making, Combined Jewish Appeal fundraising, Israel Day, and various other community events.Added in 2008: Slide show and recorded script of the presentation "From Shtetl to Parish, Jewish life in Ste. Sophie", consisting of copies of old images of the Jewish community of Ste. Sophie, in the lower Laurentians, contrasted with images taken by Ruth Colton Lehman in 1988. A taped script by Colton Lehman accompanies the show, which she assembled with the assistance of Nathan Rosenberg, to whom many of the original old photos used in the show belong. It was produced at the Jewish Educational Council in 1989 by technician Henri Beigel. The slides included rare images of this small Jewish farming community.
Date
1987-1989.
Fonds No.
P0223
History / Biographical
Ruth Colton Lehman, born August, 13 1930, was a Montreal artist and photographer. Her images document Jewish life in the Montreal and the lower Laurentians. She died July 14, 1990. Nathan Rosenberg was born and raised in Ste. Sophie, a small community located in the lower Laurentians, north of Montreal. Ste. Sophie is the location of the Kottenberg's Inn, a small kosher hotel for Jewish summer vacationers, which was owned by the Rosenberg family and the Rudy family, to whom Nathan is related through his mother's sister's marriage to a Rudy. Ste. Sophie was settled partly by immigrants sponsored through the Jewish Colonization Association in the early 1900s
Custodial History
The photograph portion of this collection was donated in May 1991 by the late Ruth Colton Lehman's partner, Nathan Rosenberg. The slide show was added by Rosenberg in 2008.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P91/05 and P08/04.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES, Montreal Chapter.

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Collection
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES, Montreal Chapter.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.13 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs.
Fonds No.
I0003
Date
1986-2006.
Scope and Content
Constitution and by-laws of AJL, and Montreal chapter's version. AJL meeting minutes and other member information (USA). Montreal membership lists. Correspondence (1986). Conference information and handouts. Flyers advertising lectures. Publicity . Stationery. Clippings Addition 2007: Minutes. News…
Collection
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES, Montreal Chapter.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.13 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs.
Scope and Content
Constitution and by-laws of AJL, and Montreal chapter's version. AJL meeting minutes and other member information (USA). Montreal membership lists. Correspondence (1986). Conference information and handouts. Flyers advertising lectures. Publicity . Stationery. Clippings Addition 2007: Minutes. Newsletter. Correspondence. Membership lists. Membership registration forms. 1 photo and 1 contact sheet for an event with Sol Katz and Marsha Lustigman. Administrative, programming and financial records, 1990s to 2006.
Date
1986-2006.
Fonds No.
I0003
History / Biographical
After Montreal hosted the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) convention in 1986, the impetus was gained to form a Montreal chapter, which occurred in 1987. (The AJL was founded in the United States in 1965). Its goals include the promoting of Jewish library services and librarianship through education, establishing Judaic library collections, and providing technical assistance to these collections. The members also act as liaisons between Judaic and general libraries, and promote awareness of Judaic collections and their resource people
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Carol Katz for the Association of Jewish Libraries, Montreal Chapter, on February 27, 1997. Addition 2007 was donated by Sol Katz, Tresurer for the association, on March 22, 2007.
Notes
P97/03, P07/09.CJCCCNA was a founding member of this organization, or which the Archives Director is still currently co-president. These records add to the existing collection here.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW ORGANIZATION.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn102
Collection
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW ORGANIZATION.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - 15 photographs. - 4 videos. - 4 sound elements.
Fonds No.
I0100
Date
1985-2005.
Scope and Content
Administrative records, minutes, correspondence, program and project information, newsletters, promotional brochures and flyers for Peace Now. 2 photos of Joint Israeli-Palestinian Peace Information Centre "Gesher" conference. 2 black and white photos of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band. 11 colour ph…
Collection
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW ORGANIZATION.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - 15 photographs. - 4 videos. - 4 sound elements.
Scope and Content
Administrative records, minutes, correspondence, program and project information, newsletters, promotional brochures and flyers for Peace Now. 2 photos of Joint Israeli-Palestinian Peace Information Centre "Gesher" conference. 2 black and white photos of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band. 11 colour photos of a fundraiser held at Charles Pachter's art gallery. 1 video Peace Now Rally 1995. 3 videos Americans For Peace Now - In Our Lifetime. 4 audio cassettes Peace Now - Gavri Bargil, November 26, 1996. CBC Sunday Morning - Arthur Hertzberg, November 6, 1983. CBC Sunday Morning - Middle East, December 9, 1984. Press clippings, including local Toronto Hebrew newspaper. Invitations to public lectures, discussions, lunches. Population maps of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Colour map of Palestinian villages and cities.
Date
1985-2005.
Fonds No.
I0100
History / Biographical
Canadian Friends of Peace Now is a Zionist organization of Canadian Jews which supports the positions, programs and activities of the Israeli-based Peace Now movement called Shalom Achshav. Its purpose is to build a secure and lasting peace between Israel and all of its neighbours. (from website: www.peacenowcanada.org)Peace Now is the largest extra-parliamentary movement in Israel, the country's oldest peace movement and the only peace group to have a large public base. The movement was founded in 1978 during the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks. At a moment when these talks appeared to be collapsing, a group of 348 reserve officers and soldiers from Israeli army combat units published an open letter to the Prime Minister of Israel calling upon the government to make sure this opportunity for peace was not lost. Tens of thousands of Israelis sent in support for the letter, and the movement was born. The basic principles of the movement from the outset were the right of Israel to live within secure borders and the right of our neighbors to do the same, including the right of Palestinians to self-determination. In time the movement became convinced the only viable solution to the conflict was the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories adjacent to Israel, which were occupied as a result of the 1967 war. "In 1988, upon PLO acceptance of UNSC resolution 242 and the principle of the two-state solution, Peace Now led a massive demonstration of 100,000 persons calling on the government to negotiate with the PLO. (...) Peace Now has consistently supported any and all steps promising to promote a resolution to the conflict, in addition to pressing all Israeli parties in power to initiate steps to bring about an end to the occupation and negotiations for peace. (from website www.peacenow.org)
Custodial History
The collection was originally donated by Beverley Stern to the Ontario Jewish Archives and was subsequently transferred to CJCCCNA in January 2010
Notes
Good.Ontario Jewish Archives.Financial information from donors.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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