The collection contains copies and originals of hebrew prayers, notebooks, newspaper clippings and correspondence.

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.

Contains documents related to the life and career of Leib Tencer, including his involvement with JPPS/Bialik, the J.I. Segal Fund, and McGill University.

Consists of the working documents, manuscripts and correspondence of Jacob Grossman.

Contains two booklets of Holocaust memorials, 'Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Commemoration Service, 1995' and "We Will Not Forget Them - In Memory of the Jews of Vilna (1943- 1963)." Herein Sonia Tencer (nee Smolnik) tells the story of the murder of her brother, Leib Smolknik, during the Holocaust.

Contains 24 eulogies or memorials for: Norman Berman (1988), Yentl Fishman (1984), Sonia Frankfurt (1987), Jacob Galenzer (1977), Elka Goldstein (1974), Rose Gordon (1975), Chayim Greenberg (1979), Etka Miransky (1992), Gitl Popelis (1973), Tzemach Rice (1974), Joseph Rogel (1989), Leibl Roskies (1977), Miriam Segal (1979), Sara Stern (1961), Paul Trepman (1987), Rita Weinstein (1983), Evelyn Wilschesky (1987), Louis Zuker (1965), Ludimir (1979) and Vilna memorials (1954, 1979, 1985, 1988).

Contains a pamphlet of the New Brunswick "Act Respecting the Solemnization of Marriage" revised May 1937; a note on the medical doctor stationary of "I. Rucznik," dated 1935; a certificate issued by the Nova Scotia Department of Education certifying Medjuck's attendance of "English - Stage II" evening classes.

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.

The fonds is comprised of biographical information on Asher Pierce, including obituaries, biographies, and copies of newspaper articles, several pieces of correspondence, a photo album featuring photographs from the opening of the Gan Chaim orange plantation in Palestine, and a single photograph of Ella Pierce.