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Ariel Bension Fonds
CA JPL-A 1003 · Fonds · 1887-1932

Consists of manuscripts, published essays, criticisms, travel accounts and correspondence, including two letters from Albert Einstein. Also includes 0.13m of material by Ida Seigler; manuscripts and correspondence.

Bension, Ariel, 1880-1932
David Jay Bercuson Fonds
CA JPL-A 1004 · Fonds · 1960-1995

Consists of personal and professional correspondences, academic and research project documentation (including The Secret Army and education material from his tenure at University of Calgary), as well as documentation related to his publications and productions.

Bercuson, David Jay, 1945-
CA JPL-A 1276 · Fonds · 1931 - 1958

Consists of one bound minute book of the Geulah Lodge of the Habonim Zionist youth order in Montreal.

CA JPL-A 1013 · Fonds · 1945-1989

Fonds consists of biographical materials, mainly related to Golda Cukier, as well post-war identification papers and documents related to the Cukiers, and their eventual immigration. Also contains articles, bibliographies, and finding aids created by Cukier during her time working at the Jewish Public Library.

Cukier, Golda
Hachshara Farms Fonds
CA JPL-A 1236 · Fonds · 1924 - 1961

Consists of legal documents, correspondence and financial information about Hachshara Farms.

Hachshara Farms Inc.
Henry Rabin Fonds
CA JPL-A 1157 · Fonds · 1950-1983

Consists primarily of ephemera that documents Mr. Rabin's involvement in various community organizations and Yiddish culture; specifically, the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Jewish Public Library, Habonim, and more.

Rabin, Henry
Isidore Bobrove Fonds
CA JPL-A 1009 · Fonds · 1934-1967

Materials primarily relate to Bobrove's activities surrounding Zionist organizations in addtion to some personal correspondence and various ephemera.

Bobrove, Isidore M., 1901-1967
Leib Zuker Fonds
CA JPL-A 1275 · Fonds · 1921 - 1965

Consists of records documenting Zuker's speeches and writings as well as some correspondence.

Zuker, Leib, 1887-1965
Moishe Dickstein Fonds
CA JPL-A 1106 · Fonds · 1925-[1975?]

The fonds contains newspaper clippings, articles, and other records related to Dickstein's Zionist work and his published writings later in his career. The fonds also contains extensive records and correspondence surrounding Dickstein's 65th birthday celebration, attesting to the major community presence he had, as well as messages of condolence to Dickstein's family after his death, demonstrating his impact on the Montreal Jewish community and worldwide Zionist movement.

Dickestein, Moishe, 1891-1956
CA JPL-A 1040 · Fonds · [1925]-2011

The fonds contains records which attest to Motel Sivak and Chienke Sivak's upbringings in the shtetels of Monastyryshche and Pilvishok (respectively), including photographs, articles, and booklets. A number of records, including photographs, newspaper articles, and correspondence document Chienke and Motel's involvement in the Zionist movement in Montreal, particularly with the Farband Labour Zionist Organization and the Zhitlovsky Branch of the Labour Zionist Farband Movement. Memoirs and transcribed stories pertaining to several of Chienke and Motel's family members can also be found in the fonds, as well as handwritten copies of Chienke's favourite poems and poems of Chienke's own creation. The records culminate in English and Yiddish manuscripts of Motel and Chienke's memoir entitled "Chiekne's Motl and Motl's Chienke: A Twentieth Century Story," as well as a bound copy and Yiddish and English audio recordings of the memoir on cassette.

Sivak, Motel, 1909-2002