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.

Consists predominantly of letters from the period after Brainin settled in North America. The correspondence includes letters from the famous and the obscure in all parts of the Jewish diaspora, plus Palestine. A majority are written in Hebrew and thus document the renaissance of Hebrew as a modern language. Many of the letters were accompanied by manuscripts submitted to Brainin as editor of various Hebrew publications (manuscripts located in Gr. I). Of great interest in this group is the collection of letters from Chava Shapiro to Brainin during their long relationship (Box t). Correspondence is arranged alphabetically in the Hebrew alphabet (Boxes a-t) and then in the Roman alphabet for all other languages (Boxes s-x). The last box in the Group (Box y) contains Brainin family correspondence.

Consists of a memoir written by D. Rohold.

Includes article Canadian Jewish Chronicle article written about trip to Palestine, passport, and a travel book entitled, "Guide to New Palestine".

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

Contains newspaper articles from Ilustratiunea Română (probably from late 1930s) which discusses Austria and Hitler, as well as The Sunday Times (1939) which discusses Jews and Palestine.