Biographical Sketch:
Born in September 21, 1918, in Minsk, Joseph Kage (original name Kagedan) received a B.A., B.Sc, MA, DSW, and Ph.D. from a variety of Canadian and American universities. He began his career as an educator, then entered the social work field with positions at the Jewish Family Services of Montreal and the McGill University School of Social Work. Dr. Kage became associated with Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) in 1947. He was among the first professionals in this field to be engaged by the organization, where he occupied the positions of Director of Social Services, National Executive Director and was subsequently named National Executive Vice-President. He remained with JIAS until his retirement in 1983. The author of numerous articles and studies on immigration, Dr. Kage played a role in Canadian immigration history which extends beyond the boundaries of the Jewish community. A prolific writer, Kage’s studies and articles appeared in various newspapers, magazines and professional publications. He was also the author of several books including, With Faith and Thanksgiving: The Story of Two Hundred Years of Jewish Immigration and Immigrant Aid Effort in Canada (1760-1960). He lectured extensively on various aspects of history, social welfare, sociology and psychology across Canada and throughout the world. Aside from his position at JIAS, Kage’s communal activities were varied and extensive in both Jewish, non-Jewish and governmental circles.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1909 in Melville, Saskatchewan, Sol Kanee was a barrister by profession. He was a president of Canadian Jewish Congress and a chairman of World Jewish Congress’s Board of Governors. He was also a director of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews as well as being a director of the Bank of Canada. He was president of Soo Lines Mills Ltd. of Winnipeg and director of Kanee Grain Co. Ltd. He was also chairman of the Canadian National Mills Association.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Speeches. Canadian Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress minutes. Correspondence. Canadian Jewish Congress press releases and Inter-Office-Information.

Biographical Sketch:
Kalmen Kaplansky was born in 1912. Among the many posts he held, he was associate secretary of the National Committee on Human Rights and director of the Department of International Affairs of Canadian Labour Congress; national director of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada; and alternate member, Canadian National Commission for UNESCO. He ran as the CCF candidate in the 1944 provincial election and the 1950 federal by-election. Kaplansky was a member of the Order of Canada. He passed away on Dec. 10, 1997, International Human Rights Day.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings and articles on human rights. Political flyers about his election campaign.

Biographical Sketch:
Solomon Kastner was born in Europe circa 1886. He received rabbinical ordination in Romania. He served as cantor of the Shaarey Zedek in Winnipeg, while his friend Solomon Frank was rabbi. He left for Toronto in 1945 and pursued other work until, with S. Frank’s help, he obtained the position of cantor at Montreal’s Shearith Israel Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. He had four children: three sons and a daughter. He died in Montreal in 1957.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Elizabeth Kastner, daughter of S. Kastner.

Scope and Content:
Handwritten scores by Kastner, for synagogue litugy, arranged for a choir - mostly undated. 12 music books and scores, printed in Vienna, Poland and USA, the earliest dating to 1865 - mostly cantorial music, also one (Polish) opera score. 1 vinyl recording of S. Kastner, reading the Haftorah (Additional Bible reading of the week).

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1928 in Iraq, Naim Kattan is a translator, critic, author, and playwright. He was director of Public Relations and edited Le Bulletin du Cercle Juif of the Cercle Juif de la langue française at Canadian Jewish Congress. He heads the writing and publishing section at the Canada Council in Ottawa.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Book reviews. Published articles.

Notes:
Related Materials: Books by Naim Kattan in Library collection. Photos of Cercle Juif events in PC 1.

Biographical Sketch:
Carol Katz is a Montreal resident, a longtime member of the Association of Jewish Libraries, Montreal chapter, and a former member of most of the groups depicted in this collection.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Carol Katz on Nov. 2, 2009.

Scope and Content:
“Hamadrich” Labour Zionist Youth Bulletin, 1958-1961. Hashomer Hatzair concert program book, 1954-1957. Habonim and YPZA (Young People Zion All) Concert Program Book, 1937-1945. Binder containing camp material (transfered to file folders). “Out-Look,” Outremont High School Annual, 1958-1961. 1 cookbook “Tried and True,” 1977.

Biographical Sketch:
Born on December 24, 1916, in Toronto, Ben Kayfetz graduated from the University of Toronto in 1939 with a B.A. in modern languages. From 1943 to 1945, he worked for the Wartime Information Board, and from 1945-1947 with the Canadian Control Commission in the British sector for Germany. In 1947, he was hired as director of public relations for CJC’s Central Division and in 1955 was made national director of Congress’s Joint Community Relations Committee. From 1973-1978, Kayfetz served as executive director of CJC Central Region. He retired from CJC in 1985. He was a social worker, author; former executive director of Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region; prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines; historian of Canadian Jewry and promoter of Yiddish literature. He died in February 2002.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Published articles on Canadian Jewish history.

Administrative History:
Montreal’s Keneder Adler (Jewish Daily Eagle) was founded by Zvi Hirsch (Harry) Wolofsky in 1907. The first issue, August 30, consisted of 8 pages, one in English. For the following 80 years the Keneder Adler was the major expression of Yiddish journalism in the world by advocating high standards, mobilizing excellent journalists and promoting the establishment of a network of model Jewish institutions and schools in Canada.

Scope and Content:
Letters patent of incorporation. Board of Directors books of minutes. Stock certificates. Embossing machine with seal. Appraisals of machines and equipment. Several copies of the paper from the 1940s. Press clippings and correspondence pertaining to resurrection of the paper.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in London, England, in 1908, Dr. John Kershman was a neurosurgeon. He worked as the executive assistant to Dr. Wilder Penfield and assistant professor of neurology at McGill University; former chairman of the Medical Board and chief of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal. He was married to Esther Goldstein Muhlstock, who worked as a teacher and wrote numerous stories in Yiddish and English. He died in 1951 in Montreal.

Scope and Content:
Memorial volume containing offprints of John Kershman’s articles. Notices of Kershman Memorial Lectures. John Kershman’s biography by his wife, Esther Kershman Muhlstock. Correspondence. Typescript of short stories by Esther Kershman Muhlstock in e/y. Tapes by Esther Kershman Muhlstock (Montreal Recollections , e/y).

Notes:
Language: Yiddish and English.

Biographical Sketch:
Joe King is a former radio broadcaster, television anchor and a retired Jewish community worker (he was head of Public Relations at Allied Jewish Community Services, retired 1988.) He is the author of several books about Jews, Israel, and the Montreal Jewish community.

Custodial History:
The document was donated by Joe King in June 2003. Addition 2005: Mr. King donated some documents and photos in Feb. 2005. Addition 2007: An addition to the collection was made by Mr. King on September 17, 2007.

Scope and Content:
Decorated certificate given to Joe King and his wife on the occasion of their marriage, May 26, 1948, two weeks after the founding of the State of Israel (certificate still says Palestine). Donor was Young Judaea of Halifax, where he then worked.
Addition 2005: Certificate of release from Royal Canadian Air Force after service 1942-1945. Given particulars of service, including medals. Physical description and signature on back. 10 photos, 1937-1970s. 1 clipping, March 13, 1967. 1 thank-you letter for interviewing Mr. Diefenbaker from J. H. Clarke (Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia), April 30, 1965.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in Poland in 1902, Rabbi David Kirshenbaum was a religious and community leader in London, Ontario. He was also a Zionist author and frequent contributor to the Anglo-Jewish press in Canada.

Scope and Content:
Correspondence (e/y) about religion, Zionism, politics. Biographical press clippings. Pamphlets and published articles on religion and Zionism. Polish passport 1923.

Notes:
Language: English and Yiddish.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1909 in Ratno, Urkraine, A.M. Klein was a poet, journalist, novelist, barrister, and a Zionist. He was an associate director of the Zionist Organization of Canada as well as an educational director of Canadian Young Judea. He was an editor of the Canadian Zionist and Canadian Jewish Chronicle, and he was a visiting lecturer in modern poetry at McGill University. He died in 1972 in Montreal.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Published articles. Correspondence. Book reviews. Letters from prominent Canadians acknowledging receipt of booklet Huit poemes canadiens. Manuscripts and typescripts of verse and prose. Various books and pamphlets of verse and prose. Published tributes. Political campaign flyers. Thesis: A.M. Klein - a Biographical Study by E. E. Palnick, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1959.

Biographical Sketch:
David Kofsky and his wife, Tamar, were involved with the Labour Zionist movement in Canada for many years, including a period during which David Kofsky served as president of the Labour Zionist Alliance. David Kofsky died in 1996.

Scope and Content:
1 file of photographs, both colour and black and white, most with identifications of persons and events, including Histadrut and Labour Zionist conventions, meetings.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P99/13.

Biographical Sketch:
Tamar Kofsky (nee Weinstein) was the daughter of a Montreal Labour Zionist supporter and Jewish school teacher, who was a founder of the Jewish Teacher’s Union. She worked for Jewish organizations throughout her life. In the 1940s she married David (Duddy) Kofsky, a Montreal Labour Zionist leader. She passed away in 2005. The album was given by Tamar Kofsky to Labour Zionist Alliance director Reuven Shultz before she died. There are other Labour Zionist photos in the CJCNA collection donated by her and David Kofsky.
The podium, bearing the previous logo of the Histadrut organization, was likely used between the 1950s and 1970s. It has no connection to Tamar Kofsky but was at the Labour Zionist Aliance office and was donated by Reuven Shultz at the same time.

Custodial History:
The collectionwas donated by Reuven Shultz for the late Tamar Kofsky on July 25, 2006.

Biographical Sketch:
Rivka Kornfeld was born in 1927. A Holocaust survivor, she was in Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II and was a victim of Dr. Joseph Mengele.

Scope and Content:
Photocopies of transcript of recorded memoirs as inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp and victim of Josef Mengele. Photocopies of documents regarding her 1984 trip to Poland. Also photocopies of family documents and photographs from pre-war Poland. Her book Darkei Yam Suf, in Hebrew containing Biblical commentaries, was published by the family in 1984. Family documents and epitaphs.

Notes:
Language: English, Hebrew and Polish.
General Note: Mostly photocopies.

Biographical Sketch:
Taya Krasikov is Tatiana Jour’s daughter (currently aged 18.) She was interested in gymnastics as a child, pursued gymnastics competitively as a child in Israel after leaving Russia, and continued to compete in gymnastics in Montreal. Bio to come.

Custodial History:
Taya Krasikov donated this collection on July 27, 2004.

Scope and Content:
Quebec Gymnastic Federation T-shirt 2000, Quebec mixed gymnastic championship medal on ribbon 1999, Israel gymnastics medal on rope (circa 1993?).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-30.
General Note: Interest of Russian Jews in sports - display items.

Biographical Sketch:
Kusiel Kronick came to Canada from Poland in 1924 at the age of 32 with his wife Beile and children Rafael (Ralph), born 1921, and Riwa (Rebecca), born 1923. His youngest son, Morris (Maury), was born in Montreal in 1932. Kusiel Kronick, choir leader at the B’nai Jacob Synagogue, founded the Grodno choir in the early 1930s, composed of other recent immigrants like himself. His son Ralph became the choir leader of the Beth Ora Synagogue. Maury, under the name Maury Kaye, founded a jazz quintet along with Noel Spinelli (later of Spinelli Motors) and Tony Romadini of Montreal. Maury died in Montreal at the age of 50. Rebecca, later Rebecca Stotland, founded the Laurentian Choir, named for the Laurentian Chapter of B’nai Brith Women.