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Country: Canada
Holding Institution: Library and Archives Canada

  1. Canadian Jewish Congress fonds [textual record, sound recording, moving images]

    Fonds consists of correspondence, 1931-1932, 1937-1938, 1940, 38 pages; circulars, 1940-1942, 1.3 cm; Canadian Association for Adult Education, 1954-1958, 0.6 cm; publications, 1940-1944, 6.3 cm and photocopies, 1961, 24 pages. The fonds also contains sound recordings of songs and interviews in Yiddish and in English with pioneer members of the Jewish Community in Toronto, recorded mostly in the Jewish home for the aged, under the supervision of Professor Dov Nay of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1972-1974. Also included is a video recording of a documentary video cassette entitled Voi...

  2. Jewish Labour Committee of Canada fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

    Fonds consists of office files, photographs, sound recordings, posters, and other records created, accumulated, and used by the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada and its successive national directors, including material relating to the following: meetings, finances and correspondence of the JLC; regional offices in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg; correspondence with labour and government; printed materials; and JLC human rights and labour committees across Canada. The photographs in the fonds depict the activities of the Jewish Labour Committee in Montreal and Ottawa, 1941-1970. Sound recor...

  3. Leon Kronitz fonds [textual record, graphic material, object]

    Fonds consists of textual records, n.d., 1926-1985, in the following series: personal correspondence and academic career information, Hebrew language instruction and Jewish education in Canada, Canadian Jewish Congress materials relating to various social issues affecting the Jewish community, Zionist movement in Canada material, Canadian Zionist Federation, World Zionist Congress-World Zionist Organization, World Labour Zionist movement, the Jewish Agency material, World Jewish Congress, publications from various sources. Fonds also contains photographic positives and transparencies or sli...

  4. Diary kept by Ethel Ostry [textual record]

    Item is a bound photocopy (230 pages) of a diary kept by Ethel Ostry, welfare officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (U.N.R.R.A.) in Europe, 1945-1947. The diary was transcribed, edited and copied by her sister, Elizabeth O. Fisher in 1978. It was titled After the Holocaust: My Work with U.N.R.R.A. and originally titled Where is My Family?.

  5. Lazarus Phillips fonds [textual record (microform), graphic material]

    Fonds consists of the following series of textual records: Correspondence, 1909-1979; Subject files, 1918-1975; and Printed material, n.d., 1934-1973. The fonds contains photographs depicting the activities of Lazarus Phillips in business, financial and community affairs, and in federal politics, 1904-1966.

  6. B'nai Brith Canada fonds [multiple media] [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of records relating to B'Nai Brith and are divided into numerous series, including information on: administration of B'Nai Brith, such as minutes and conventions, regional councils and district offices, the Executive; B'Nai Brith Insurance and Retirement programmes; B'Nai Brith Women and other Jewish Women's organizations; Youth Organizations; leadership training programmes and materials; Soviet Jewry; Research and Planning Committee; Canada-Israel Committee; Joint Community Relations Committee (JCRC); Canadian Jewish Congress; National Comminuty Relations Advisory Council; N...

  7. Bert Raphael fonds [textual record]

    Fonds consists of material which relates to Mr. Raphael's communal endeavours. Subject files relate to: his work on behalf of Soviet Jewry including the Dimitri Berman case; the Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation; the prosecution of war criminals and racists in Canada and the promotion of Holocaust education; the Canadian campaign to force the Syrian government to permit Syrian Jewry to emigrate from Syria; the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists of which he is an executive member; and the Toronto-based Reena Foundation for the developmentally handicapped.

  8. Correspondence and subject files [textual record, graphic material]

    Series consists of general correspondence, 1957-1986; correspondents include Stephen and Erika Barber, Ota Hora, Meyer Gasner and Ben Kayfetz concerning Joseph Kirschbaum, Alexander Kraus, Erich Kulka, Elliott Levine and the Canadian Association for Ethiopian Jews and Jacob M. Lowy; newsletters of the International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, 1972-1980 and correspondence with its president, Karl Baum, 1972-1976; files relating to Dr. Rosenberg's resolution passed by the Canadian Jewish Congress 21st Plenary Assembly in 1986 asking for the return of Judaic treasures to the Jewish Pe...

  9. Subject files [textual record]

    Series consists of subject files including correspondence with many organizations, associations and institutions with which Rabbi Bulka maintained contact, including: A Coat of Many Colours Exhibition; the American Psychological Association; B'nai Brith Canada; Canada-Israel Committee; Canadian Friends of the Christian Embassy of Jerusalem; Canadian Friends of the Judaica Archives Project; Canadian Jewish Congress; Chevra; Clal; Clergy for a United Canada; Fellowship of Traditional Orthodox Rabbis; the Jewish Association for Development; Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa; Jewish Community C...

  10. Publications [textual record]

    Series consists of publications from a variety of Canadian and foreign sources on Zionism, the Holocaust and other subjects. Of special interest is a report, "Jews in Nazi Europe", Feb. 1933 to Nov. 1941: A Study Prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1941 as well as Rabbi Charles Bender's paper, "From Luther to Hitler", n.d. There are also many publications published in Hebrew and Yiddish.

  12. Printed material [textual record]

    Series consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and testimonials relating to Phillips activities. Vol. 13: "Sefer Torah", found in Germany by a survivor of the Holocaust and brought to Canada after the War.

  13. League studies [textual record]

    Series consists of records on research on solutions to national and global problems. Special study projects and programmes included the following: police-community relations (correspondence and memoranda and articles chiefly by Sol Littman); religious education in the schools (correspondence, memoranda, the Keiller Mackay Report and other reports); religious anti-semitism (correspondence and memoranda); energy use (correspondence, memoranda and news clippings); Middle-East affairs (memoranda, news clippings and booklets); the United Nations and Human Rights Declarations (correspondence, new...

  14. Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada [textual record]

    Series consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, minutes of meetings and newsletters relating to the activities of the Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada which was co-founded by Bert Raphael. Of particular interest are files relating to: the prosecution of war criminals in Canada; the exposure and prosecution of Holocaust deniers and hate-mongers in Canada; correspondence between former Solicitor General of Canada, Robert Kaplan and Bert Raphael; and files on B.C. lawyer, Doug Christie.

  16. Livres de caisse [document textuel]

    Cette sous-série comprend des livres de caisse où sont inscrites les recettes provenant des péages, 1885-1892 et 1896-1908. Chaque livre comprend aussi le nom du navire, une description de la cargaison et les péages versés. Il y a également un livre pour le compte caisse, 1908-1929.

  19. Sol Littman fonds [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of Sol Littman's personal papers containing correspondence, memoranda, briefs, submissions, publications, articles, speeches, microfilms, research notebooks and materials, videotapes, films and photographs pertaining to the Albert Helmut Rauca case; the hunt for World War Two era war criminals and collaborators living in Canada including members of the Croation Ustasha, Hungarian Arrow Cross, Romanian Iron Guard, Slovak Hlinka Guard and the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division; the Deschênes Commission and Jewish-Ukrainian relations; suspected war criminal ca...

  20. Surintendance centrale [document textuel]

    La série est constituée de documents créés et conservés par la surintendance centrale (Toronto). Cette série comprend également de la correspondance, les comptes de pension, des documents de nature générale sur les terres ainsi que des documents qui traitent de l'école industrielle d'Alnwick.