Biographical Sketch:
Alfred Bader was born April 28, 1924, in Vienna Austria. His father’s family was of Czech Jewish descent, while his mother was a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat. Escaping Nazi persecution, he fled from Austria to England at age 14, in 1938, via the Kindertransport. He arrived in Canada as an interned refugee during WWII. Denied admission to McGill University, Alfred Bader went on to attend Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied engineering and chemistry before continuing his education at Harvard University. He later became a successful chemist, businessman, and art collector. (Compiled with some information from Wikipedia).

Custodial History:
The documents where donated on Aug. 17, 2009, by Alfred Bader.

Biographical Sketch:
Former member of Congregation Notre Dame de Sion whose work included promotion of greater Christian-Jewish understanding. Sister Marie-Noelle Baillehache was the first member of the congregation in Canada and was instrumental in carrying out the Roman Catholic program against anti-Semitism in the country.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Published articles pertaining to Judeo-Christian ecumenism.

Notes:
Restrictions: correspondence file.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1902, Harry Batshaw was a lawyer. He was educated at McGill University and at the Sorbonne, appointed King’s Counsel in 1940 and made a Judge of the Quebec Superior Court in 1950. He was the first Jew to be appointed to a Superior Court in Canada. He was an honorary vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Canada; secretary of the Baron de Hirsch Institute; president of Canadian Young Judea; and co­chairman of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. He helped found Amitiés culturelles Canada-Français-Israël. He died in 1984.

Scope and Content:
Congratulatory correspondence on his appointment to the Bench. Press clippings containing tributes. “The Jew in the Judiciary,” a 1968 address before the Canadian Jewish Historical Society.

Notes:
Related Materials: See photo coll. PC 1.
General Note: Fonds consists of mostly originals, press clippings and copies.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1915, Manuel Batshaw was a social worker, national field director of Canadian Young Judea, executive director of the Council of Jewish Organizations in Hamilton, national president of the Association of Jewish Centre Workers of North America, and the director of National Services of the National Jewish Welfare Board. He was executive vice-president of Allied Jewish Community Services and chairman of the “Batshaw Committee,” which investigated Quebec’s Juvenile Centres. He was the personal advisor on Jewish affairs to Charles Bronfman until Batshaw’s retirement in 1998.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings about the Batshaw Committee investigating Quebec’s Juvenile Centres, Allied Jewish Community Services tributes to Batshaw, social work, and Israel.

Notes:
Restrictions: There are 2 files of correspondence.
General Note: Fonds consists mostly of press clippings.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1905, Lavy Becker was a rabbi and a businessman. Deeply involved in the Jewish community of Montreal, he was a National Vice-President of Canadian Jewish Congress and Chairman of the Executive Committee as well as president of the Federation of Jewish Community Services. He was on the Board of Governors of the Canadian Welfare Council, Board of Directors of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Board of Governors of the Combined Jewish Appeal. He was a National Vice-President, Zionist Organization of Canada; Director of the Joint Distribution Committee in U. S. A. Zone, Germany. He is a former Executive Director Young Men’s Hebrew Association. He was a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board in Caribbean countries, a founder of the Beth-El Congregation in the Town of Mount Royal and the founder and first rabbi of the Reconstructionist Synagogue, Hampstead. He died in Montreal in 2001.

Scope and Content:
Documents about Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish education. Articles about the Jews in Caribbean.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1889, Simon Belkin was a historian and a supervisor for the Jewish Colonization Association farm colonies; also a founder of Canadian Jewish Congress.

Scope and Content:
Correspondence in Yiddish and English pertaining to Canadian Labour Zionism, Jewish Legion, colonization in Canada, education, Canadian Jewish Congress. Correspondence from M. A. Gray and L. Cheifetz. Montreal Young Judea publications. Reports on Saskatchewan Jewish colonies, Quebec Jewish education, Yiddish, Russian economics.

Notes:
Language: Yiddish and English.
Restrictions: 3 files of correspondence (2 English, 1 Yiddish).
Related Materials: Scrapbook 1956-1965; Yiddish press clippings; Labour Zionism, Education, Jewish colonization in L-26, photos and photo album in PC 1 - Jewish Farm Colonies.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1898 in Grodziko, Galicia, Jacob Beller was educated in Vienna and the Hebrew Teachers Seminary in Lemberg. He embarked on a literary career with the Tagblatt and the Hebrew weekly Hamitzpah in Cracow, and in 1926 he was assigned as European news correspondent. He settled in Canada in 1928 and was engaged by the Zionist Organization of Canada as Keren Hayesod Director for Ontario. In 1946, he became the travelling correspondent for Der Tog-Morgen Journal and El Diaario Israelita, covering Latin America. He was a special correspondent to Latin America for the Globe and Mail and the Forverts. He wrote numerous articles and books on Jewish subjects in Yiddish, Hebrew and English. He contributed to the Keneder Adler, Congress Bulletin, the Jewish Standard, Jewish Post and Jewish Western Bulletin.

Scope and Content:
Published articles on Zionism and Jews in various countries, including Canada, in English and Hebrew. Correspondence with Canadian Jewish Congress about the book in process.

Biographical Sketch:
Archibald Bennett was born in 1891. He was a philosopher, a historian, and a journalist; founder of Canadian Jewish Congress in Ontario; editor of Canadian Jewish Times at the age of 18; and an analyst of Canadian Jewry. He died in 1980.

Scope and Content:
“Between Ourselves” - published articles from Jewish Standard. Correspondence about the Jewish Standard. Printed book of minutes: World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, January 1956. Addresses made at Canadian Jewish Congress assemblies. Press clippings about his community activities.

Notes:
Language: English and Yiddish.

Biographical Sketch:
The only film about Moroccan Jews in Montreal (released 1977), 20 ans apres documents the first 20 years of the Montreal Moroccan Jewish community. Jacques Bensimon was born in Morocco and came to Canada in 1958 with his family. He studied cinema at University of New York. In 1968, he started working with the National Film Board as a film editor and then as director. Jacques Bensimon made several films for the National Film Board about Morocco; Once . Agadir, Aqua Rondo, Carnets du Maroc III - La Volont et la Foi, Carnets du Maroc II - Au sujet du Roi, Carnets du Maroc I - Mémoire … rebours. Other works by Jacques Bensimon are; With Hands and Hope, Richard Rohmer and His Referendum - A View from Quebec, and Rock-a-bye.

Custodial History:
Donated by Mr. Jacques Bensimon, through J. Dahan, of the Communauté Sépharade du Québec in July 1997.

Scope and Content:
The fonds consists of 13 large boxes (measuring 6 m.) containing 131 canisters of film reels, some with many reels per canister. There is a total of 411 reels, which were used in making the film. Some of the reels contain archival footage of Jews in Morocco, while others are of the Montreal community.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1882, Konrad Bercovici was an author, a journalist and a columnist. He wrote a column for the Keneder Adler between 1912 and 1913. He was a resident of Montreal from 1906 until 1925. He died in 1960.

Scope and Content:
Photocopies of his Yiddish articles in Keneder Adler.

Notes:
Language: Yiddish.
Related Materials: Translations in David Rome, Bercovici of the Adler (Canadian Jewish Archives new series 43), Canadian Jewish Congress.
General Note: Fonds consists of copies.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1879, Peter Bercovitch was a barrister and an MLA. He was appointed King’s Counsel (KC) in 1911, the youngest in Canadian history. He was elected to Quebec Legislature in 1916 for St. Louis Division, and re-elected for 20 years; he resigned in 1938 to contest the federal seat for Cartier and won. He was instrumental in passing legislation validating Jewish marriages in Quebec and authorising rabbis to keep registers of civil status. He was responsible for the defeat of the bill to rob Jews in Quebec of equal rights in schools, and was successful in obtaining government grants for various Jewish causes. He was the first Jew to sit in the Legislature of Quebec and was the first President of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services. He died in 1943.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings about his political activities including the Jewish school question. Obituaries. Political campaign handbills. Photocopies of correspondence from Wilfrid Laurier.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1918 in Quebec City, Monty Berger spent most of his life in Montreal. He obtained a B.A. from McGill University and went to the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. He owned a public relations management company, was president of the Canadian Public Relations Society, director of the Public Relations Society of America, and president of the Quebec Chapter of the Canadian Industrial Editors Association. He served in World War II in the R.C.A.F. He was a co-founder and past president of Congregation Beth-El, Town of Mount Royal, a committee member and past president of Allied Jewish Community Services, and a member of various Canadian Jewish Congress committees. Monty Berger died November 27, 2006.

Scope and Content:
The material is divided into the following series: A) Biography and general information 1928-1974. B) World War II 1939-1945. C) Business - journalism and public relations - 1940-1978. D) Jewish community activities 1959-1984. E) Congregation Beth-El 1951-1976. F) Town of Mount Royal and Quebec politics 1955-1980. G) Other family

Biographical Sketch:
A Montrealer associated with the Boy Scouts movement; member of Canadian Jewish Congress, Quebec Region, Archives Oral History Committee.

Scope and Content:
Bound log book about Lord Balfour Jewish Boy Scout Troop in Montreal. Photocopies of membership cards of Montreal Jewish Boy Scouts 1920s, 1930s, 1940s. Scout photos. Artifacts: 1 scout medal, 2 World War II medals, 1 Canadian Legion hat, 1 Legion Magen David armband, soldier's paybook, 2 scouting certificates.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P85/23.
Related Materials: N. Friedman collection, A.M. Machlovitch photographs in PC 1/L.
General Note: Fonds consists of log book, photocopies, and artifacts.

Biographical Sketch:
Judy King is the granddaughter of Reuben Brainin and daughter of Dr. Ortenberg, who was a close friend and mentor of his medical school classmate Eric Lennard Bernstein, who later took the name Eric Berne. Eric Berne was the originator of “transactional analysis” and wrote Games People Play. Judy King, a sculptor, knew most of Montreal’s Jewish artists and therefore was able to interview these four in dept. The interviews were for an intended publication, which was not carried out.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Judy King.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1935, Morton Bessner is a barrister in general and commercial law. He is a former vice-president of Canadian Jewish Congress, Quebec Region, in which capacity he drafted several briefs relating to education. He is also a former member of the Executive Committee of Allied Jewish Community Services and a past president of the Herzl Health Centre. He was associate chairman of Combined Jewish Appeal and vice-president of the Lord Reading Law Society. He was a member of the Conseil Scolaire de l’Ile de Montréal.

Scope and Content:
Minutes and reports pertaining to education. Press clippings about Canadian Jewish Congress.

Notes:
Restrictions: correspondence file.

Administrative History:
In 1952, with the influx of Jewish settlement there, a group of Town of Mount Royal Jews banded together to hold religious services after deciding to join the Conservative Judaism movement. Originally held in the Town Hall, services moved to the new synagogue building on Lucerne Road in 1957. The Conservative congregation, incorporated in 1954, had decided on the name Beth-El from the outset; it also ran an afternoon school, at first in rented space, then in the synagogue building. Expansion occurred in 1960, and the sanctuary was also remodelled in 1969. The afternoon school eventually included nursery to high school classes, and the synagogue also housed Akivah Elementary School for several years. Congregation Beth-El was the first synagogue in Montreal to introduce “family seating.”

Scope and Content:
Annual report (1960). National synagogue directory entry. Jewish yearbook entry (1964). Correspondence (1974-1975). Sermon text (1964). School curriculum (1966). Prayer sheet. Resolution on gambling. Bulletins (1956-1967, 1971-1979). Dedication book (1956, 1964, 1969). Sisterhood booklet (1959). Program booklets (1971-1974). Invitations. Flyers. Clippings (1956, 1964, 1966, 1979, 1985-1989).

Administrative History:
In 1950, with young Jews moving into the Cote des Neiges area, about 100 families organized themselves into a community group. They held services in members’ basements under the name Beth Shira. In 1951, they purchased land for a synagogue - the High Holiday services were conducted in a tent set up on the vacant land. The congregation also adopted the name Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, one which went back to 1917 and represented a congregation soon to disband on Notre Dame. With a change in city planning, new land was bought on Mackenzie in 1952. The building was completed in 1953. There was further expansion in 1959, and the Orthodox congregation also purchased a cemetery for its members. In 1963, the synagogue amalgamated with the Tifereth Israel, in existence since 1928. They ran an afternoon school from 1965 which has since closed. Shifting and aging populations have resulted in a shrinking membership, but the synagogue has been rejuvenated somewhat by the formation of the Congregation Sepharade de la Langue Française. The synagogue closed in September 1985 and merged with Congregation Shomrim Laboker Beth Yehuda.

Scope and Content:
Correspondence (1972). Bulletins (1954,1956,1960-1974). Program (1980). Jewish National Fund/High Holidays pledge cards. Clipping (1956).

Administrative History:
The Beth Aaron Congregation was founded after World War II in Park Extension. Originally known as the Jewish Community Association of Park Extension, the name was changed to Beth Aaron in 1952 with the opening of the new synagogue building. Rented space had been used previously. The synagogue was chartered in 1954, grew in membership, and ran an afternoon school. Shifting populations and emigration caused the Beth Aaron to merge with the Beth Israel of Cote St. Luc in 1986 and sell its own building. The Beth Israel Congregation was founded in 1965 as an offshoot of the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Tifreth Israel. After meeting in a variety of locations in Cote St. Luc, the Jewish Conservative Congregation became the Beth Israel in 1967. Its first synagogue was in an apartment on Kildare, which was used until the building on Mackle, built on land purchased in 1966, was completed in 1971. A new addition was added in 1986 when the synagogue merged with the Beth Aaron to become the Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation, the third major Orthodox synagogue in the community.

Scope and Content:
Beth Aaron: Minutes of Park Extension Jewish Community Association Women’s Division (1949-1953). Lease (United Talmud Torah and Beth Aaron, 1957). Correspondence (1953-1954, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1976-1977). Bulletins (1964-1965). Wedding contracts (1969-1970). Date book (1970). Zemirot book (1954). Deposit slip (1969).Jewish Yearbook entry (1964).

Administrative History:
The Beth Ora started out as a ladies auxiliary in 1953. The Ville St. Laurent Jewish community was small but growing, so members, under the inspiration of main founder William Weiss, met to plan their future synagogue. In 1953, land was donated, and services were held in a member’s home until the synagogue was completed in 1957. The building also housed a school and community centre. The Orthodox synagogue adopted its constitution in 1956.

Known at first as the Jewish Congregation of St. Laurent, the name was changed to Beth Ora in 1959. Due to a growing membership, the building was expanded in 1961-1962. The Beth Ora won the Pioneer Congregations award in 1966 for “conducting creative programs for strengthening Jewish belief and observances.” It also runs many activities for Jews and non-Jews, such as its St. Laurent Community Day.

Administrative History:
In 1953, approximately 25 families had recently moved into the west end suburb of Cote St. Luc. They worked together to achieve their goal: the establishment of a synagogue and Hebrew school. Both functions were carried out in the homes of members until 1955, when land was purchased and a small cottage constructed. The Beth Zion Congregation soon outgrew this building, and after using a tent and a school auditorium, a new synagogue was built on Hudson Avenue and dedicated in 1959. This too was outgrown, and by 1968 another addition was constructed. This large Orthodox synagogue is known for its active congregation, both within the synagogue and the community.

Scope and Content:
Bulletins (1969-1975, 1981). Dedication book (1968). Jewish yearbook entry (1964). National Synagogue Directory entry. Course list (1972). New Year cards. Beth Zion information sheet (1969). Photos, flyers, clippings (1955, 1959, 1964-1967, 1984-1991). Three letters from Beth Zion of Verdun, 1945.

Notes:
General Note: Fonds consists of mostly clippings and copies 3 photos.

Biographical Sketch:
Lev Bilich was born on Nov. 10, 1926. He lived most of his life as an engineer in Odessa, Ukraine. His wife was a bookkeeper. They came to Canada in the 1990s, following their son.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Lev Bilich on Sept. 26, 2005. Lev Bilich made an addition to the collection on August 16, 2006.

Scope and Content:
Documents about life as an engineer in Odessa, Ukraine, experiences during WWII, wife’s life in Ukraine, life post-1995 immigration to Montreal, articles published in Survivor’s newsletter and Wallenberg newslatter, connections with Wasserman Theatre.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1925 in Montreal, Harry Blank, Q.C., is a barrister and was an MNA for Montreal St. Louis District 1960-1985. Originally a member of the Liberal party, he ran as an Independent in his riding in 1985.

Custodial History:
A portion of this collection (8 metres) was transferred from the Archives Nationales du Québec in 1989, to join the material donated by Mr. Blank to CJC in 1985.

Scope and Content:
Political files relating to affairs handled while serving as MNA. Many of these files relate to Jewish concerns. Press clippings about taxes, crime, ethnic minorities, Bill 101, racism, political infighting. Biographies of all MNAs in 1980. National Assembly film script. Publications. Correspondence.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in Warsaw in 1911, Henry Blatt emigrated to Canada with his family in 1926, first to Sonnenfeld Colony in Saskatchewan and then to Montreal two years later. The family opened a small electrical business which grew into a variety of stores and businesses. Henry Blatt was involved in many Jewish community organizations, notably B’nai Brith, CJA and the YM-YWHA. His wife, Adele, was also very active in many of the same organizations.

Scope and Content:
Scrapbooks of clippings, tribute letters and photos from various Jewish organizational events. Patches, plaques, program books, newspapers and magazines, awards and certificates (mainly 1960s).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P93/02.
General Note: Fonds consists mostly of clippings, publications and 13 plaques, 248 photographs (PC 15).

Administrative History:
The Jewish Synagogue in Yarmouth is a wooden structure built for the Free Baptist Church in the cemetery at Arcadia. After a considerable period it was removed to Yarmouth and enlarged and improved, served the Free Baptists of the town until 1905, when, the United Baptist Church having been formed, it fell into disuse. In 1906, the Jewish community organized its Agudath Achim Society and in 1910 established its synagogue in this former free Baptist Church.

Custodial History:
The Nova Scotia photos were given to Mrs. Esther Blaustein by Doris Phillips with notes, which she donated to the Archives in May 2003.

Scope and Content:
1 original 1866 photo of McGill College graduates, possibly including Louis Hart. 4 colour snapshots taken recently of the synagogue in Yarmouth, N.S.

Biographical Sketch:
The earliest Bloomstone family members to immigrate to Montreal arrived in the mid 1920s, including the donor’s father Velvel (Wolff, or William) Bloomstone, born 1902 in Keidan, Lithuania. The donor’s mother, Pessl (Zlatis) Bloomstone, born 1904 in Ragola, Lithuania, arrived in Montreal in 1927. The Bloomstone-Zlatis collection contains letters written before and after the Holocaust by family members who had remained behind in Lithuania and also by relatives who later moved to Israel. Family photographs and various official documents from their immigration and life in Canada are also included in the collection. This material formed the basis for the history-based writings of the donor, Shirley Bloomstone Angrist, a resident of Pittsburgh at the time of the donation in early 2001.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Shirley Bloomstone Angrist.

Scope and Content:
Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986). (The letters are summarized and in many cases translated by the donor.) Immigration papers (1936).

Administrative History:
B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation is a North American organization that uses professional direction to provide an infrastructure for Jewish student activities at universities and colleges. It was originally founded at the University of Illinois in 1923. The Mount Royal Lodge of B'nai Brith in Montreal established the Hillel Foundation at McGill University in 1944. Previous to this, there had been Jewish organizations at McGill University campus since 1906, such as the Maccabean Student Society. The first meetings were held at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. In 1945 B'nai Brith purchased a house at 3460 Stanley that has been used as the Hillel House ever since.

Activities have been diverse. Cultural activities have included lecture series on religious, literary and historical aspects of Judaism by both local Jewish leaders and by speakers of international repute, such as Emil Fackenheim, and performances by Jewish musicians and the like. Student-run newspapers, drama groups, radio stations and choirs have also been part of Hillel’s repertoire. McGill Hillel took initiative on behalf of distressed Jewry - The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) was founded in 1969 and The Hillel Task Force for Ethiopian Jewry began in 1978.

Students have also shown support of Israel through groups such as the Student Zionist Organization (SZO), ITZVA, the participation of students in arranging exhibits and information tables on Israel, and the invitation of guest speakers on Israel and the Middle-East. In 1961, Hillel hosted the internationally reported debate between historian Arnold Toynbee and Israel’s ambassador to Ottawa, Yaacov D.

Biographical Sketch:
Semen Bogdanov comes from Orenberg in the Urals and arrived in Canada around 1996. He teaches physical culture (fitness) for Russians at the Cummings Centre for Seniors. His athletic specialty in Russia was handball.

Custodial History:
Semen Bogdanov donated this collection on June 8, 2004.

Scope and Content:
1 CD of documents and 16 photos, a few photocopied documents of diplomas, physical culture. 2 videos. 1 medal.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-22.

Custodial History:
Sima Bolshunova donated this collection in May 19, 2004.

Scope and Content:
2 CDs and original old documents, much related to the siege of Leningrad (the Blokad or blockade) and life in Russia before and after this period. Family photos. Documents about being a pharmacist, school training.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-18.

Custodial History:
The photos were donated by Abe Bonder.

Scope and Content:
Approximately 40 photos, mostly panoramic format, by Abe Bonder, of the Israel Independence rally in Confederation Square, Montreal, May 2003, and counter rallies by anti-Zionist Palestinian and Hassidic protesters.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P03/06.
General Note: The Counter-rally photos depict rare images of the Montreal Chasidic community members dressed in sackcloth for protest. The photos are of exceptional quality.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1912, Max Bookman was a Treasury Department clerk, theatre critic and columnist for a variety of news services. He wrote a column In Jewish Vein on Parliament Hill. His articles in the Ottawa Hebrew News (which he edited and published), Jewish Telegraph Agency, and the Canadian Jewish Eagle were on such topics as the Jews of Europe and Canada, Canada-Israel relations, immigration and refugees, and the State of Israel. He also edited the Canadian Jewish Reference Book and the Canadian Jewish Who’s Who.

Scope and Content:
Clippings. Dispatches. Correspondence. Obituaries. Family tree. Photos. Press passes.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P86/11.
General Note: Fonds consists of mostly clippings, 3 scrapbooks, 7 photos.

Scope and Content:
Charts of extended family, mailing addresses, maps, reminiscences, genealogical information.

Biographical Sketch:
Sam Boroditsky (now Borod) of Montreal is a veteran of the European front in WWII. He was a paratrooper in Italy and the Aleutian Islands during WWII, earning many Canadian service decorations. He later worked in UNRAA, helping refugees overseas. His wife, Layah (Surchin) Borod, 1922-2006, was the daughter of Chaya Surchin, an early Zionist activist in Montreal. Layah was the first national executive director of Na’amat Pioneer Women Canada and was the editor of its magazine. She was also the only Canadian president of Pioneer Women Na’amat of America. Laya Borod worked in the office of CJC during the war, rising to office manager at age 19. She was active in Na’amat until her death.

Custodial History :
The Collection was donated by Sam Borod on May 26, 2005. The Borod collection came to CJCNA after Sam Borod approached Tatiana Jour at the Jewish Veterans’ talk given by Jour. Addition 2007 was donated by Sam Borod on April 12, 2007.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1932, Alan Borovoy is a barrister/solicitor and civil liberties activist. He is a former vice-president of the Hillel Foundation and founding editor of its journal at the University of Toronto; former columnist for The Jewish Standard; former member of the Joint Community Relations Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress; former executive secretary, Ontario Labour Committee for Human Rights; General Counsel to Canadian Civil Liberties Union.

Scope and Content:
Published articles relating to law, civil liberties and human rights.

Notes:
Restrictions: 1 small file of correspondence.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1862, Reuben Brainin was a Zionist leader, biographer, critic, journalist and Hebraist. He lived in Montreal 1912-1916, where he edited the Keneder Adler and Der Veg. One of the founders of Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Public Library in Montreal. He died in 1939.

Scope and Content:
Published articles and press clippings by and about Reuben Brainin. Brief correspondence with H.M. Caiserman and B.G. Sack. Photocopy of his Montreal diary in Hebrew. Family tree. Typescript: Reuben Brainin by D. Rome 224 pages. Brainin Jubilee Book. Photocopy of Brainin Affair in America by Y. Kovtov.

Notes:
Language: Yiddish, English, and Hebrew.

Biographical Sketch:
Hyman Brock was born January 1924 in Montreal. He ran for the Conservative Party under Diefenbaker in 1957 (losing narrowly to Leon Crestohl.) He was a Montreal city councillor under Drapeau for 14 years. Owner of a steel company in Brockville and later in Montreal named Brock Engineering Manufacturing Co.; also owner of Brock Steel. He was an active volunteer in numerous Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, including international chairman of Mensa and a member of Intertel. He died in November 1997.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Mrs. Barbara Brock, his widow, on Aug. 11, 2003.

Scope and Content:
2 copies of oversize 3-colour federal election poster with Yiddish text for Hyman Brock, Conservative party candidate. Travel magazine Caravan, containing photo of a Brock election poster in Yiddish, 1959. 2 business cards for Brock Corporation.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1900, Arthur Brodey was a rabbi, a barrister and an author. He was the national executive director of the Women’s Canadian Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training (ORT). He occupied pulpits in several cities in the United States between 1934 and 1961.

Scope and Content:
364 p. Thesis Political and Civil Status of the Jews in Canada written in New York. Address A Discussion of the Foundation of Political Rights of Jews of Canada.

Notes:
Restrictions: 1 correspondence file.
General Note: Mostly copies.

Biographical Sketch:
Allan Bronfman was born in 1895 in Brandon, Manitoba. He was a barrister, industrialist, philanthropist and a Zionist. He was a vice-president of Seagram’s Ltd. He was a founder and first president of Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University in Israel. As well, he was general chairman of the first Combined Jewish Appeal in Montreal, in 1941. He received the French Legion of Honour, from England the Order of St. John, and the Order of Malta’s Grand Cross of Merit. He died in Montreal in 1980.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Typescripts of speeches. Invitations and tributes, event programmes. Awards. Minutes, reports, newsletters. Correspondence about Boy Scouts, aid to Russia, Jewish General Hospital, charitable donations, Jewish schools. Order of Saint John. Press clippings on the Legion of Honour.

Biographical Sketch:
Charles Rosner Bronfman was born June 27, 1931. He is the founder of the CRB Foundation and is one of Canada’s premier industrialists, philanthropists and sportsmen. His many services on behalf of his country have earned him the award of Officer of the Order of Canada.

Scope and Content:
Correspondence. Seagram’s reports and publication. Legal documents. Clippings.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1891 in Brandon, Manitoba, Sam Bronfman was a leading Canadian industrialist and philanthropist. He began work in his father’s hotel business and later entered the mail-order liquor business. He acquired control of Canada's Joseph Seagram and Sons Ltd. and was later involved with the long-established British Distillers Corp. Ltd. which made him a major figure in the liquor distilling industry. Beneficiaries of his philanthropies included universities, hospitals, charities and museums. He was an inspiring fund-raiser in the Jewish community and was President of Canadian Jewish Congress from 1939-1962. He lobbied the Canadian government during World War II for the immigration and rescue of refugees and war orphans. He was active with other Jewish organizations at the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 to obtain security for Palestine and the incorporation of Human Rights in the UN Charter. S. Bronfman served as Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress and was Chairman of its North American Section. He was a governor of McGill University and was the founder of McGill’s Center for Developing Area Studies. During his lifetime he received much recognition and many awards for his efforts on behalf of Jewish social, cultural and Zionist activities and for the non-Jewish community as well. The headquarters building of Canadian Jewish Congress in Montreal is called “The Samuel Bronfman House Museum and Archives” in his honour. He died on July 10, 1971.

Biographical Sketch:
Ruth Brotman has been a concert singer, an impresario, a journalist, and an author. She won the H.M. Caiserman Award from Canadian Jewish Congress to help publish her biography of Pauline Donalda.

Scope and Content:
Published articles and interviews. Press clippings, programs and correspondence relating to music (Mostly in U.S.). Correspondence includes letters from/to Pauline Donalda, Chas. G.D. Roberts, Beniamino Gigli, Sarah Fischer and Bronislaw Huberman. Corrected typescript of Donalda biography. Scrapbook 1923-1930. Clipping and programs. Diary in shorthand.

Notes:
Restrictions: 1 correspondence file.
Related Materials: Pauline Donalda.
General Note: Fonds consists of mostly originals, press clippings.