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Archival description
Aviva Ravel Fonds
CA JPL-A 1058 · Fonds · 1945 - 2010

Consists largely of material related to Aviva Ravel's playwriting, including scholarly works, handwritten and typed notes and drafts, as well as newspaper clippings promotional material, and professional correspondence. Also includes notebooks and plays in Yiddish.

Ravel, Aviva
B.G. Sack Fonds
CA JPL-A 1169 · Fonds · 1910-1968

Content is organized by subject. Major topics include: publication and reception for "History of Jews in Canada"-- correspondence -- biography--various aricles and contributions--recollections -- biography including Certificate of Naturalization.

Sack, Benjamin G., 1890-1967
Chernin Family Fonds
CA JPL-A 1409 · Fonds · 1906-1907

This fonds consists of 3 binders of correspondence, translations solicited by descendents of Lepman and Menucha, and reproductions of photographs, as well as material from ancestry.com acquired by descendents in order to complete the context of their ancestors' immigration experience. The majority of the letters are composed by Lepman, with very few having been written by Menucha. The date range applies to the archival material, not the material added by the family.

Chernin, Lepman
Diamond/Solomon Family Fonds
CA JPL-A 1269 · Fonds · 1921-1970

Fonds consists of photographs and various family ephemera, including identification documents and correspondence. Also contains material related to the Bassarabier Hebrew Sick Benefit Association of Montreal, including constitution booklets and a commemorative ribbon.

Diamond/Solomon Family
Dina (Fraiden) Galkin Fonds
CA JPL-A 1112 · Fonds · ca19??-2002

Consists of Yiddish poetry manuscripts and English translations, as well as genealogical information and correspondence about the translations.

Fraiden, Dina, 1890-
Dowsley Fonds
CA JPL-A 1386 · Fonds · 1994 - 2001

1 file of correspondence, primarily about professional and personal matter.

Dowsley, Sarah
Ghita Roll Fonds
CA JPL-A 1450 · Fonds · 1937-1967

Contains clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, primarily related to Roll's activities and her campaign for election within the Combined Jewish Appeal.

Roll, Ghita, 1917-2004
Gittleson-Beecher Fonds
CA JPL-A 1414 · Fonds · 1892-2012

The Gittleson-Beecher fonds consists primarily of photographs, as well as diaries, telegrams, scrapbooks, and slides.

Gittleson, Abe, 1871-1938
Hedy Edelstein Fonds
CA JPL-A 1380 · Fonds · 1890-1963

Consists of biographical material, photographs, a first issue of LIFE magazine, correspondence, and blank postcards.

Edelstein, Hedy, 1944-2018
Ida Cohen Family Fonds
CA JPL-A 1379 · Fonds · 1916-2000

The Ida Cohen Family Fonds contains a songbook written in Lithuanian and Yiddish, a handful of letters inviting individuals to Ida Cohen's 95th birthday celebration, and 5 photographs.

Cohen, Ida, 1905-