Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives

Archives juives canadiennes Alex Dworkin

CJCCC National Archives
The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives

Address

Suite 211, 4810, rue Jean-Talon Ouest
Montreal / Montréal
Quebec / Québec
QC H4P 2N5
Canada

Phone

(514) 931-7531

Email

archives@cjarchives.ca

Web

https://www.cjarchives.ca

History

The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives (CJCCCNA) was established in 1934. The general mandate of the CJCCC National Archives is to collect and preserve documentation of the Jewish presence in Quebec and Canada. Since January 1, 1992, the Archives has benefited from the status of "Service agrééd'archives privées," a program of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Since November 2015, the institution was rebranded as the ‘Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives’ - 'Archives juives canadiennes Alex Dworkin'.

Geographical and Cultural Context

The Archives used to be housed on the downtown campus of Montreal's Concordia University, in the same building as the Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies.

Archival and Other Holdings

Among others contains restitution- and/or compensation-related materials.

Sources

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Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- CJC0001
- English
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Updated 2 years ago
The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in Canada in the late 18th century.

16 child items
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- I0037
- English
- 1920-2009
- Env. 376.3 metres of textual records. - 3250 photographs. - 123 sound elements. - 9 videodiscs.
- Updated 2 years ago
20 child items
UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- I0062
- English
- 1930-1978
- 37.67 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.

11 child items
UNITED RESTITUTION ORGANIZATION (URO)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- I0064
- English
- 110 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs. - 10 maps. - 7 artefacts.
- Updated 2 years ago
14 child items
ARCAND, Adrien (collection)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0005
- English
- 1931-1986
- 0.54 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Fascist newspapers, pamphlets and newsletters. Press clippings by and about Arcand. Canadian Jewish Congress correspondence relating to Arcand and anti-Semitism
BECKER, Lavy M
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0009
- English
- 1950-1988
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Documents about Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Education. Articles about the Jews in Caribbean
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0094
- English
- 1907-1955
- Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association programs, minutes and reports. There are also documents relating to the sale and copyright of his plays, including contracts and information on the Copyright act. There are some publications among the papers; mostly magazines and newsletters containing articles by Percy Jacobson. There are also some new...
KALLUS, Henriette Yetti
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0098
- English
- 1970-1980
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Unpublished poems and manuscripts.
SILCOFF, Maurice
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0141
- English
- 1926-2009
- 0.14 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
4 minute books, initial entries in Yiddish, subsequent ones in English (1926-1971) for the Capmakers Union (Headgear Workers Central Bureau of Canada - cloth hat, cap and millinery workers international union). The books include some inter-filed clippings and loose correspondence. 2 oversize photos; cloak workers union and ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union). Addition 2009: Booklet , by the Montefiore Observer, consisting of humorous essays written by Maurice Silcoff about life in the Manoir Montefiore Jewish seniors residence in Cote St. Luc. The booklet was produced by his ...
SOLOMON, Michel
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0142
- English
- 1951-1983
- 0.645 metres of textual records. - 41 magnetic tracks.
- Updated 2 years ago
Manuscripts. Published essays and articles. Poems. Correspondence. Documentation and research for books. Magazines. Clippings. Cassettes of interviews.
SPANIER, Family
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0143
- English
- 1851-2022
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
- Updated 2 years ago
Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy...
STERMER, Esther
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0146
- English
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Manuscript entitled documents the Stermer family's survival of the Holocaust in Poland through concealment in a local cave.
USHER, Moses L.
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0149
- English
- 1940-1946
- 0.09 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Documents and photographs, primarily letters addressed to family members. The development of this Jewish serviceman's attitude towards the war is discernible in the course of the collection.
WEINGLUCK, Henry
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0151
- English
- 1941-1985
- 0.07 metres of textual records. - 3 paintings.
- Updated 2 years ago
Documents on Le Chef de groupe no. 405 de Travailleurs, Ã©trangers, Meyssac, France 1941-1942. Exhibition catalogue 1978. Clippings 1977-1985. 3 paintings on Jewish themes in Art storage.
WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0153
- English
- 1920-1985
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 correspondence from relatives describing conditions in Poland. Pre-WWII photos of Lipton, Sonnenfeld, Hoffer Jewish farm families and Winnipeg family, post-WWII family photos from Montreal, photos (including colour) of pastry store in East End Montreal
JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945]
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0159
- English
- 1990
- 0.01 metres of textual records.
- Updated 2 years ago
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.
BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0178
- English
- 1915-2021
- Env. 0.52 metres of textual records. - Env. 218 photographs.
- Updated 2 years ago
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986); the letters are summarized and in many cases translated by the donor. Immigration papers (1936). Yeshiva registration, (1932). Purse that had contained letters (1930s). Declaration of name change (1943). Marriage certificate (1925). Affidavit declaring removal of Grocery store (1963). Folder of t...
GUTMAN, Adam = ADAMS, George (pseudonym)
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0195
- English
- 1936-2003
- Env. 0.18 metres of textual records. - 3 compact discs (CD-ROM). - 6 photographs. - 21 discs. - 6 books. - 19 sound elements. - 4 videos.
- Updated 2 years ago
Poetry volume , desktop published, containing poems and a reproduction of a Gutman painting (done under the pseudonym Benjamin Raysele.) Photocopies of musical scores for Yiddish poems, clippings about French Canadian music scene, including singer Alys Robi. Added 2000: Clippings about October 2000 tribute to Gutman at CJC National Archives, CD of music composed by Gutman (compiled by his son Jimmy), CD of song sheets and illustrated posters for Gutman's music composed for popular French singers in Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. Addition 2007: 4 color photo, 1967-2000. One sketch of Adam Gu...
WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0196
- English
- 1884-2017
- Env. 0.09 metres of textual records. - 4 photographs.
- Updated 2 years ago
McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typical Jewish women of her time: World War II, poverty, the Holocaust, aging, Israel, her children. Also one portrait photograph of the poet (copy of 1920 original taken circa 1920). Added in August 2017: Six small groups of family history documents consisting of, in the donor's words: 1) Five laminate...
DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo
- Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
- P0197
- English
- 2003
- Env. 209 textual records. - 1 disc.
- Updated 2 years ago
209-page unpublished typescript with illustrations, titled . Also a diskette containing the text.