Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1893, Albert Eaton was a trade unionist and a labour Zionist. He was a vice-chairman of Montreal Israel Bond Organization as well as a chairman of Montreal Histadrut Campaign, Eastern Region of Canadian Association for Labour Israel, and Histadrut Trade Union Council in Canada. He was a municipal councillor in Montreal, a national president of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada (JIAS), a member of the Dominion Council of Canadian Jewish Congress, and a director of the Baron de Hirsch Institute. He died in 1975.

Scope and Content:
Invitations, programs and awards 1941-1968 (e/y). Scrapbook 1940-1961: press clippings, biographical, politics, Labour Zionism. Eva Eaton Memorial Album. Framed awards include Centennial Medal, Outstanding Citizenship, JIAS, Israel Bonds. Trophy Cup from St. Louis Labour Club, ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union), 1930. 2 files of photos in PCAT stored in PC 1/box 4, 1 photo album.

Notes:
Language: English and Yiddish.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1889, Hyman Edelstein was a poet, linguist, journalist and novelist. He was an editor of the Canadian Jewish Times and the Canadian Jewish Chronicle and a publisher and editor of the Jewish Weekly. He died in 1957.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings and photocopies: biographical as well as by him about anti-Semitism, Jews in Canada, poetry. Truth, Verité, edited by H. Edelstein 1938. From Moscow to Jerusalem, translated by H. Edelstein. From Judean Vineyards, (first book of poems), Montreal, 1914.

Notes:
General Note: Press clippings and copies.

Biographical Sketch:
Wendy Eisen was born in Toronto and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, in Montreal, where she lived until 1981. She is a longtime community leader and was a Soviet Jewry activist, serving as chairman of the Montreal 35s, the Toronto 35s, and the Ontario and National Soviet Jewry Committees of Canadian Jewish Congress. At present, Wendy is the national chair of the Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum. She is the author of Count Us In: The Struggle To Free Soviet Jews, A Canadian Perspective, published in 1995 by Burgher Books in Toronto. She now lives in Toronto.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Wendy Eisen on July 17, 2008.

Scope and Content:
3 and a half boxes of research notes collected in preparing the book Count Us In, about the history of the Soviet Jewry movement in Canada. These records include interviews with people involved in the movement as well as photographs.

Biographical Sketch:
Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1902. He was an author, an interfaith and social action activist and a leader of Reform Judaism. For many years he was the spiritual leader of Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple. He was national chairman, public relations, of the United Jewish Community of Canada, a co-founder of the Canadian Conference of Christians and Jews, and president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. He was assistant contributing editor of the Canadian Jewish Review. Rabbi Eisendrath died in 1973.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Radio addresses and correspondence about Jewish refugees. Printed sermons and addresses about Judaism, war, antisemitism, peace, prejudice, Jewish refugees.

Notes:
Restrictions: 1 correspondence file.
General Note: Mostly originals, press clippings.

Biographical Sketch:
Yehuda Elberg was born in 1912. He is a novelist, essayist, lecturer and academician. He is an authority on the Jewish religion and the Holocaust. He died in 2003.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Published articles in Hebrew and Yiddish. Photocopy of typescript in Yiddish of his novel From the Masthead.

Notes:
Language: Yiddish, Hebrew and English.
General Note: Press clippings and articles.