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Consists of documentation from Loge l'Alliance B'nai B'rith No. 2163 as well as theatrical programmes and ephemera from the Communaute Israelite Aschkenazi du Caire. Many documents from both the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith and the Communaute Israelite Aschkenazi du Caire mention Henri and Simon Bernard, the latter of which became president of the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith in April 1967. Both Henri and Simon appear to have been amateur actors in the Groupement Artistique Juif de Caire.

This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the Jewish Labour Committee such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the Fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and in the Jewish Labour Committee..

The papers represent the scope of Brainin’s life endeavours as writer, editor, biographer, critic, translator, lecturer, Zionist and one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library. The Fonds is divided into five major series: Literary and editorial activities, Biography and criticism, Correspondence, Special Collections, and the records of the Jewish Public Library Archives Committee.

The fonds contains a scrapbook cataloguing the 1943 North American fundraising tour of Prof. Solomon Michoels and Lt. Col. Itzik Fefer, Soviet Delegates to the United States and Canada and members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet Republics, to bolster support for the Soviet war effort.

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.