Collection

BRAININ, Reuben.

Description Level

Fonds

Physical Description

0.24 metres of textual records.

Scope and Content

Published articles and press clippings by and about Reuben Brainin. Brief correspondence with H.M. Caiserman and B.G. Sack. Photocopy of his Montreal Diary in Hebrew. Family tree. Typescript: "Reuben Brainin" by D. Rome 224 pages. Brainin Jubilee Book. Photocopy of Brainin Affair in America by Y. Kovtov.

Date

1912-1962.

Fonds No.

P0024

History / Biographical

Born in 1862, Mr. Brainin was a Zionist leader, biographer, critic, journalist and Hebraist. He lived in Montreal 1912-1916 where he edited the Keneder Adler and Der Veg. One of the founders of Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Public Library in Montreal. He died in 1939.

Notes

Yiddish, English, and Hebrew.8 Photos P90/01 from Mort Shulman; Research Paper: Reuben Brainin in Montreal. by S. Paz 1983.Mostly copies.

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Canadian Jewish Archives

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