Three files of textual records including newspaper clippings, certificates of achievement, synagogue programs, and biographia, as well as scrapbook pages, two dozen family photographs, and two dozen photographs taken by Gerry Sternberg during Operation Magic Carpet.
Rother, AbrahamConsists 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, AvivaContains clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, primarily related to Roll's activities and her campaign for election within the Combined Jewish Appeal.
Roll, Ghita, 1917-2004The Gittleson-Beecher fonds consists primarily of photographs, as well as diaries, telegrams, scrapbooks, and slides.
Gittleson, Abe, 1871-1938Consists of biographical material, photographs, a first issue of LIFE magazine, correspondence, and blank postcards.
Edelstein, Hedy, 1944-2018Fonds consists of scrapbook and autograph book.
Davids, Rhea, 1937-The fonds consists of newspaper clippings and typescripts written or collected by Sam Maltin over the course of his journalism career, with a special focus on the situation of black athletes in professional sports, including Jackie Robinson. It also includes professional correspondence (incoming), letters received from Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel (1948-1949), as well as black and white photographs and negatives from both his professional and personal life.
Maltin, Sam, 1917-1957This fonds contains personal documents, photographs, and correspondence belonging to Hyman and Lily Rafman. Also included here are documents and references to Steinberg's, Lily's family business.
Rafman, Lily, 1909-Consists of newspaper clippings, correspondences, photographs, as well as a Montreal Dress Cutters Union membership book and receipt books.
The fonds contains materials relating to Walter Joachim’s music career, from his early years in Montreal in the 1950’s to posthumous records and tributes of his life and legacy.
The materials in the fonds reflect Joachim’s professional life, and primarily cover the tour of Shanghai that he completed from 1987-1991 with his wife, and fellow music teacher Monique. The fonds comprises of correspondence with musicians and students, mainly students from China, and a large number of holiday and birthday cards. There is also ephemera from concerts, performances and events, including programs and news clippings represented in the fonds, along with tourist items collected in Shanghai with items like travel itineraries, maps and receipts.
The fonds contains over four hundred photographs that document early portraits of Joachim from the 1950’s to important events such as Joachim’s win at the awards ceremony for the Order of Canada and Quebec (in 1992 and 1995). Joachim and his wife Monique’s tour of Shanghai is well documented with many photographs of them teaching at the Shanghai Conservatory of music and at children’s schools.
Audio cassette tapes of recordings of Joachim’s students and performances are included in the fonds, along with several scores and associated ephemera. The fonds also contains the six medals awarded to Joachim from the Order of Canada, and the Order National du Quebec.