Collection

RUSSIAN JEWISH ARCHIVE PROJECT

Description Level

Series

Material Type

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

Env. 0.1 metres of textual records. - 5 photographs. - 1 record in electronic form.

Scope and Content

The collection includes approximately 50 manuscripts of works written by Alexander Lyubman on the subject of the Second World War, Israel, and life in Canada. also prose publications and poems written as Alexander Lyubman, and also under his pseudonym Avrum Kravirora. The collection also contains press clippings, including one regarding an interview which he gave to a Russian newspaper in Montreal. There are 2 photographs of his daughters, and photocopies of portrait photographs of the donor. There is 1 CD containing 3 phographs of Alexander Lyubman; 2 in colour and one black and white (jpgs, 3000KB).

Date

1996-2013.

Fonds No.

I0088

Series No.

52

History / Biographical

Alexander Lyubman was born in Bershade (Ukraine) in 1949. In 1967, he completed his studies at a Medical College in Odessa, where he later taught. He was a deputy with regard to the reconstruction of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Soon after his immigration to Montreal, beginning in 2000 he worked as a medication consultant in a pharmacy. In his leisure time he was the leader of a chess club for Jewish children at JIAS Montreal. A writer of poetry and articles, he has been published in the local Russian Jewish newspaper 'The Voice of the Community'.

Custodial History

Alexander Lyubman donated this collection on Oct.18, 2004.

Notes

Alpha-numeric designations: P04/01-45.

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Canadian Jewish Archives

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