File contains one photograph of the bust (sculpture) of Yehoash, the Yiddish poet.

File contains two photographs of Jacob Glatstein, Yiddish poet and founder of Inzikhist (Introspectivist) literary movement.

File contains two photographic portraits of Sholom Shtern [ca. 197-?] and [ca. 198-?].

File contains one photograph of Shmerke Katcherginsky, a Yiddish writer and poet.

File contains one photo of the bust (sculpture) of S. An-sky, the Yiddish folklorist and playwright.

File contains three photos of Ruth Wisse, a Canadian scholar and the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. The photos date from ca. 1960-1970.

Contains newspaper clippings and pages of journals, periodicals, and books. Shaffir's writing consists of poetry and prose, and covers themes of his home region (Bukovina), the Holocaust, and the Yiddish language.

File contains one black and white photographic portrait of Pinchas Goldhar ca. 194-?

Fonds consists of manuscripts for two of Dr. Pierre Anctil's major translation works: "Poemes Yiddish" by J.I. Segal, translated by Pierre Anctil, and "Nostalie et tristesse : memoires litteraires du Montreal Yiddish" by Sholem Shtern, translated by Pierre Anctil.

The fonds contains records related to Moshe Shaffir's career as a productive writer of poetry and essays, with many of his own publications and newspaper clippings present in the fonds. The fonds also contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts and ephemera related to the Jewish Public Library, the Association of Bukovina Jews, and other local and global Jewish organizations and Yiddish institutions, all attesting to Shaffir's involvement in the Montreal Jewish community and Yiddish community in the United States, Israel, and Europe. Additionally, letters and newspaper clippings show Shaffir's personal interest in Soviet writers who emigrated to Israel.