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I0085

LABOUR ZIONIST ALLIANCE : Addition to JPL fonds at CJCNA. - 1955-2003. - Ca. 3 metres of textual records.

Administrative History:
The Labour Zionist Alliance works for peace, economic justice and pluralism in Israel and America through a variety of programs and activities. The organization reinforces Jewish continuity through Habonim Dror, the Labour Zionist youth movement. Claiming an official founding date of 1905, the Labour Zionist Alliance arose out of the Poale-Zion and the Farband. Poale Zion was started in 1905, while the Farband was formed in 1910 of a number of organizations, with the Poale Zion joining the Farband somewhat later, even though they had similar roots. The name “Labour Zionist Alliance” was a modernization of the name Farband and also signified its ties to the Israel Labour Party, which historically had been the party of governance in Israel. Though it officially changed its name to the “Labour Zionist Alliance of Canada” in 1980 when the organization legally separated from the Labour Zionists in the United States, the Yiddish, and more “heimish” (folksy) name Farband, continued to be favored by the membership.

Although “Poale-Zion” is Yiddish for “Labour Zion” and “Farband” means “Alliance,” the two terms can also be seen as milestones marking different periods of life, as young people were attracted for the

1930s flyer
appealing for members
among Jewish workers

most part to Poale Zion, while older people were attracted to the Farband. Despite much overlap, Poale Zion was considered the more political and radical organization, with the mission of addressing the working class, pointing to the Yishuv (settlement) in Palestine as a model, and initiating education to prepare for life on a kibbutz. The Farband was primarily a welfare organization which addressed the need for cemetery, health care, and maintained a Yiddish culture through its club activities. Another distinction between the two, although not as sharp in Montreal as it was elsewhere, was the tension over Yiddish. Throughout the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s the youth did not have the deep feelings about Yiddish that the older members had. Whereas the veteran members wanted to continue proceedings in Yiddish, the younger members associated this language with an inglorious past, sharing the view of the dominant Labour Zionists in Israel who were antagonistic to it.

As was the case with many other Jewish organizations, the Labour Zionist Alliance was an international organization, and the members shared the common culture of the new immigrants in the first decades. But with time the Canadians felt overshadowed by the Americans. Canadians felt they were under-represented and undervalued and that their cultural values were parting ways. In particular, the establishment of universal health care in Canada represented one essential benefit that the Canadian organization did not have to provide, a factor that allowed the Canadian organization to experience less financial difficulties than the American one and that increased the separation between the two. (Based on notes provided by R. Shultz, LZA director, Dec. 2006.)

Custodial History:
The donation was arranged through Robert Schultz at the Labour Zionist Office on Kildare Avenue, by initial deposit at the Jewish Public library on the advice of LZ member and library deposit volunteer Henry Rabin. It was then transferred to us by E. Harris. s.a. other Labour Zionist records at CJCNA.

Scope and Content:
9 boxes of records (of which about 1 box was discarded, of financial records.) One of the boxes includes files of photos and another box has framed items and artifacts. Records include cemetery plots of the LZA, office business.
Added in 2007: 8 additional boxes of paper records transferred from the Jewish Public Library after they were donated there in April 2005. Much of the material concerns financial records and cemetery management information.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P03/18, MC 11 Add.
Language: English and Yiddish.

J0003

LABOUR ZIONIST ALLIANCE OF CANADA. - 1941-1995. - Ca. 2 metres of textual records.

Administrative History:
See Labour Zionist Alliance (above).

Custodial History:
The collection is on permanent loan from the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. It was transferred to the CJC Archives in 2001. s.a. the descriptions of the other Labour Zionist records at CJCNA.

Scope and Content:
LZA minutes. Reports. Bulletins. Also records about the League of Friends of Labour Israel.

Booklet cover for
25th anniversary of
City Committee, 1966

I0043

LABOUR ZIONIST MOVEMENT. - 1930-1934, 1938-1952, 1961-1979. - 2.3 metres of textual records.

Administrative History:
The Labour Zionist Movement is an umbrella organization for a variety of groups across Canada. These include the Labour Zionist Alliance, the Actions Committee of the Labour Zionist Movement and Habonim.

Custodial History:
A portion of this collection was accumulated at CJC, mainly by David Rome. The remainder was transferred from the Jewish Canadiana Zionist files of the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. see also the listings for the JPL Labour Zionist fonds on permanent loan at CJCNA and the additional files from LZA at CJCNA.

Scope and Content:
Labour Zionist Movement of Canada: 1.3 metres of documents including resolutions, reports, bulletins (e/y) and convention book. Vancouver Labour Zionists: Minutes. Actions Committee of the Labour Zionist Movement, Montreal: Minutes (y). Reports (y). Briefs, correspondence, bulletins. Canadian Association for Labour Palestine, Vancouver: Minutes, correspondence. Canadian Association for Labour Israel: Minutes. World Secretariat of the World Labour Zionist Movement: Minutes. Labour Zionist council of Montreal: Minutes, correspondence. Habonim: Reports, convention book. Labour Zionist Alliance: Reports. Zionist Organization of Canada, Inc: Correspondence. Business Men's Committee for the Histradrut: Correspondence. Canadian Association for Labour Palestine, Montreal: Correspondence. (File also includes CCF telegrams to U. K. leaders, c.1946, 1978 address from Montreal Labour Zionist conference, flyers, pamphlets and invitations (e/y), and a 1933 clipping.).
Added to this from the Jewish Canadiana collection of the Jewish Public Library of Montreal: 2 meters of unprocessed materials from the mid 1930s to 1940s, of minutes and administrative documents, approx. 90% Yiddish.

Notes:
Language: Yiddish and English.
Related Materials: 2 meters of unprocessed materials from the mid 1930s to 1940s, of minutes and administrative documents, approx. 90% Yiddish.
General Note: Mostly clippings and copies.

LAMBERT, Phyllis

LANCTOT, Jacques

P0107

LANDE, Lawrence M.. - 1959-1985. - 0.02 metres of textual records. - 5 discs.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1906. Lawrence Lande was an author, bibliophile, and bibliographer. He donated a book collection of early Canadiana to McGill University. Library and Archives Canada considered him one of the greatest private collectors of Canadian books and manuscripts. He died in 1998.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Published articles. 5 sound discs (in SD).

Lawrence Lande

P0108

LANG, Bernard. - 1978-1992. - 0.1 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1925 in Montreal, Bernard Lang is an engineer by profession. He was mayor of the city of Cote St. Luc, Quebec, from 1976 to 1998.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings on life in Cote St. Luc and biographical clippings. Cote St. Luc municipal newsletters 1985-1989. Brief by Cote St. Luc about Bill 101.

Cote St. Luc newsletter
September 1987

P0109

LANGLAIS, Jacques. - 1982-1987. - 0.12 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in Quebec City in 1921, Jacques Langlais was a priest, historian, scholar in Chinese and aboriginal and Jewish affairs; a founder of Centre Interculturel Monchanin; a founder of Institut québécois d’Etudes sur la culture juive; and co-author with David Rome of Juifs et québécois français: 200 ans d’histoire commune (also published in English). He died in January 2008.

Scope and Content:
Corrected proof of Juifs et québécois français: 200 ans d'histoire commune. Corrected typescript Le Dialogue interreligieux au Québéc. Published articles mostly in French.

Notes:
Language: French and English.

Jacques Langlais

P0225

LAPIDUS, Steven = Information about Montreal’s ultra-Orthodox community. - 1910s-2009. - Ca. 0.02 metres of textual records. - 57 records in electronic form.

Biographical Sketch:
Steven Lapidus is a graduate student at Concordia University whose ties to Montreal’s ultra-Orthodox and Hassidic community, acquired in the course of his Ph.D.-level research, have resulted in the acquisition of some rare items for the Archives. He also has ties to the history of Montreal’s mainstream Ashkenazi Jewish community through his parents and grandparents. Harav Yohanan Wosner is the head of Skver of Montreal and also of the New Square Skver community of New York. He was seriously injured in a car accident in November 2008 in a car heading from New Square to Montreal, a factor that led to the tribute event represented by the volume described below. The Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish Boys School in the Montreal district of Outremont was firebombed at midnight, Sept. 2, 2006. This incident is not related to the present volume. His grandfather was Joseph, and his father is Louis.

Jack Lewis
military photo

Custodial History:
The digital photos were donated by Steven Lapidus on Feb. 9, April 28, and Aug. 13, 2009. The documents were donated on Feb. 26 and March 11, 2009. An addition to the collection was made on Nov. 5, 2009.

Scope and Content:
14 scanned documents related to the military career of Jack LEWIS during WWI and WWII (Steven Lapidus’ grandfather). 7 digital photos of tombstones from the famous Back River Cemetery. 36 digital photos of the Chasidic community, mainly of Montreal and Boisbriand as well as a few from New York. Skver Hasidim tribute book to Rabbi Wosner, an event held at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in February 2009, approximately 250 pages. Several issues of the newspaper “Vos iz nayis/ What’s New in Montreal,” published by Quality Shopping and directed at the Orthodox community.
Addition: 5 issues of newspaper “Vos iz nayis/What’s New in Montreal,” published by Quality Shopping and directed at the Orthodox community. 4 photos from Louis Lapidus: 1 mounted photo of the YMHA’'s Spartans, 1947. 1 mounted photo of the Baron Byng High School graduating Class, June 1946. Mounted photo of the B’nai Brith Young Men William Nelson Chapter, 1949-1950. Framed photo of the District 1 Conference of the B’nai Brith Youth, Hotel Somerset, April 19, 1953.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P09/06 and P09/25.
Language: Yiddish and English.
General Note: Deepens understanding of Orthodox community structure in Montreal and adds to information in other collections.

I0088,S39

LAPINA, Irina (see also Russian Jewish Archives Project). - 1996-2004. - Metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Irina Lapina was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in 1956. She attended Moscow State University and taught geography and pedagogical theory in Russia. She came to Canada in 1997 and now writes for the Russian press, does translation for the Russian community, and reviews festival films. She is writing a book about her first years in Canada.

Custodial History:
Irina Lapina donated this collection on August 3, 2004.

Scope and Content:
Numerous newspaper articles in Russian Canadian press about Quebec and Canada, authored by the donor. Aeroflot pamphlet in Russian about Quebec tourist attractions, by her; also Russian business directory tourist section.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-32.
General Note: View of Canada and Quebec from new immigrant Russian perspective.

LASKIN, Bora

LAURENDEAU, André

I0094

LAURENTIAN JEWISH-OWNED RESORT PROJECT = ROSENTHALL, Ricci. - 1900-1993. - Ca. 0.07 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
The CJC Archives Jewish summer resort collecting mission, undertaken in the early 1990s by Archives volunteer Ricci Rosenthal, contains an inmpressive number of rare and interesting Laurentian-area photos, oral histories and memorabilia. Ricci owed her particular interest in this subject to her memories of happy times spent at the hotels, and the nostalgia she shared with many of her contemporaries, who would always say to her: “I wish there were still someplace to go.”

P0171

LAXER, Rabbi Getsel. - [1920-1942], 1999. - 0.09 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Rabbi and scholar Getzel Laxer was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1878 and settled first in Sherbrooke, Quebec, upon his arrival in Canada in 1900. From the 1920s he lived in Montreal, earning his living as a shochet (ritual slaughterer) while working on scholarly works and sermons. He died in April 1942.

Custodial History:
The papers were held by Laxer’s granddaughter, Soryl Naymark, until they were lent to Professor Ira Robinson, who wrote a paper based on them, presented at the Congress of Learned Societies, Canadian Jewish Studies Section, in Sherbrooke in 1999. With the permission of Mrs. Naymark, daughter Lily Laxer Bernstein, and grandson Joseph Laxer, the papers were transferred to the CJC Archives in December 1999.

Rabbi Getzel Laxer

Scope and Content:
The fonds consists of 7 soft cover and 2 hard cover notebooks as well as one large file of loose correspondence. Almost all are handwritten in Hebrew and are in fragile condition. Contents include notes for sermons, Torah scholarship and commentaries, inclduing notes on kashrut (kosher slaughter), also notices of births and deaths in the family.The collection also includes two 1999 typescripts: Bernstein, Lily Laxer (1999) Laxer Saga (family history), and Robinson, Ira (1999) Is Saul Also Among the Prophets? - The Papers of Getsel Laxer and Their Importance for a History of Rabbinic Culture in Montreal (article).

Notes:
Physical Condition: Fragile due to deteriorating paper.
Alpha-Numeric Designation P99/12.
Language: Mainly Hebrew.
General Note: Biographical sources: Bernstein, Lily Laxer (1999) “Laxer Saga” (family history) Robinson, Ira (1999) Is Saul Also Among the Prophets? - The Papers of Getsel Laxer and Their Importance for a History of Rabbinic Culture in Montreal (article).

LAYTON, Irving

LECKNER, Carole

LEONOFF, Cyril E.

P0110

LERMER, Arthur. - 1955-1988. - 0.03 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in Cracow, Poland, in 1908, Arthur Lermer is a professor of economics; former dean, Department of Economics, Sir George Williams College, Montreal; was member of the Superior Council of Education in Quebec; National Education Committee, Canadian Jewish Congress, and chairman of Sub-Committee for International Education; former president, Canadian International Centre of Research and Information on Public and Co-operative Economy.

Scope and Content:
Published articles on economics, Jewish culture, Yiddish language in English, Yiddish.

Notes:
Language: English and Yiddish.

Arthur Lermer

LEVESQUE, René

LEVY, Marc

P0175

LEWIS, David = Jewish Labour Committee, Soviet Jewry. - 1949-[1980]. - Ca. 0.07 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
David Lewis was born in Poland in 1909 and immigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1921. Member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and its national secretary and eventually president, from 1936-1960. First elected a Canadian Member of Parliament (for South York) in 1962. He was deputy leader of the New Democratic party (NPD) 1961-1971, Parliamentary Leader 1968-1969, and Federal Leader 1971-1974. After his electoral defeat in 1974 he taught and wrote his memoirs. He died in May 1981.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Cheryl Jaffee for the National Library of Canada.

Scope and Content:
Jewish Labour Committee publications, especially relating to the Soviet Jewry movement in the U.S. and Canada, also other labour publications, reflecting involvements and concerns of David Lewis.

David Lewis

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation : P00/04.
Related Material Elsewhere : There is a file of clippings on David Lewis in the Personalia collection.
Importance of Collection : The papers include early reference to the struggles to free Soviet Jews and to educate North American Jewry about conditions in the USSR. Labour publications are also in demand at this Archives.

LEWIS, Stanley (Montreal) 1930-2006

LEWIS, Stephen

LIBMAN, Robert

LIGHTMAN, Jack B.

LIMONCHIK, Abe

P0202

LITTMAN, Sol = War Criminal Suspects in Canada. - 1950?-2000?. - Ca. 2.3 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Sol Littman is a sociologist-turned-journalist. Sol Littman is the author of a book on bringing Ukrainian war criminals to justice in Canada and is the former head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto. Mr. Littman was born in Toronto. He was director of the Anti-Defamation League for B’nai Brith#146;s District 22 (Dec. 15, 1967). He is a veteran journalist and reporter, who covered the Rauca case from its beginning. His special areas of interest are social problems and issues. He has been a member of the Toronto Star editorial board and was community affairs specialist for CBC Newshour. War Criminal on Trial is Mr. Littman’s first book. (March 1, 1984) Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Sol Littman via the National Archives of Canada on July 12, 2005.

Sol Littman

Scope and Content:
7 boxes of documents sent to CJCNA from Ottawa at Littman#146;s request (unprocessed). Mostly background documentation, newspaper clippings and research notes on suspected war criminals (World War II Europe includes Lithuania, Galician Division) and Canadian antisemites (e.g. Zundel).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P05/09, MC 22.
Restrictions: This collection is restricted. Researchers need to ask permission from Mr. Littman.
General Note: Complements material in CJC collection, adding to our documentation on these subjects. Mr. Littman#146;s efforts for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre often paralleled CJC#146;s efforts but with different emphases.

P0111

LIVINSON, Abraham Jacob. - 1911-1966. - 0.36 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact. - 63 photographs.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1888, Abraham Jacob Livinson was a lecturer, writer, teacher; graduated from McGill University’s School for Teachers and Law School; founded the Jewish section of McGill University’s library; graduated from the School of Social Science and the School of Journalism of the University of Montreal; former secretary of the Jewish Committee of the Royal Commission to Investigate Education in Montreal; was secretary of the Businessmen’s Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, United Talmud Torahs and the YMHA, all of Montreal; former chairman of the Citizenship Committee of the City Improvement League of Montreal; was Chairman of Canadian Jewish Congress’s Ezekiel Hart Centenary Commemoration Committee; was prolific contributor of historical articles to newspapers and magazines; starting in 1935 was active in Canadian Jewish Congress Archives Committee and was responsible for the donation of historically significant books and documents.

Abraham Livinson

Scope and Content:
Scrapbook 1911-1914 of press clippings on education, medicine, health, law, politics - mostly foreign. Letter from Protestant Board of School Commissioners about the selling school buildings to Jewish School Board, Montreal. Article The Jews in Montreal by O. Asselin. Correspondence on the Jewish school question, B’nai Brith, Whistler's Mother portrait, municipal improvement, prohibition, Abraham Lincoln. Press clippings about Abraham Lincoln Montreal Jewish statistics to 1928. MS. The House of Hart - Notes and references about the Hart family. MS. Little River - a simple story of one man’s life. MS. 293 pages of book Thoughts and the Records of A.J. Livinson - the musings of a romantic and a dreamer. M. A. Thesis McGill University The Pedagogical Value and Psychical Influence of the Motion Picture on Present Day Educational System 1916. Lecture notes 1913-1914 McGill University Law School. Typewritten Order of Proceedings Ezekiel Hart Centenary Commemoration 1944. Typescripts of articles by A.J. Livinson on a variety of subjects. Personal correspondence. Harry Bloomfield Memorial Medal 14K gold. 63 photos, including McGill Jewish student organization (Maccabean Circle).

Notes:
Related Materials: Other items donated by A.J. Livinson were filed according to subject at time of donation, mostly in early personalia and organizational files.

P0112

LIVINSON, Harry Hyman. - 1905-1955. - 0.07 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1894 in Montreal, Harry Hyman Livinson was a trustee at the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation. He was a life member of the St. George’s Lodge A.F. and A.M., and a past Chairman of the Executive Committee Mount Royal Lodge B’nai Brith.

Scope and Content:
Masonic correspondence, notes, programs, reports. Correspondence on Spanish and Portuguese Congregation. Personal correspondence from Rev. C. Ritchie-Bell, principal Presbyterian College, Montreal. Souvenir program Zion Cadet Corps, 1905.

Zion Cadet Corps
souvenir program cover, 1905

LONDON, Mark

I0079

LORD READING LAW SOCIETY. - 1935-1998. - Ca. 1.3 metres of textual records. - Ca. 8 photographs. - 1 artefact.

Administrative History:
The Lord Reading Law Society was founded as a vehicle for lawyers of the Jewish faith “both as a study group and as a representative body.” The society was named after Rufus Daniel Isaacs, a British jurist who later became Lord Reading. The political and social climate of the late 1930s and early 1940s was the impetus for the creation of the Society. The Society first formalized its structure in 1948 and has been meeting regularly since then. The first president was the late Mr. Justice Benjamin Robinson.

Originally the Society was known as the Reading Society. It changed its name to the Reading Society of Montreal on September 25, 1952. It is not certain exactly when the society changed its name to the Lord Reading Law Society, possibly in 1958.

Presidents’ table
1988

Custodial History:
The Collection was donated by Morton Bessner.

Scope and Content:
1 Baseball cap. Photos. Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-1998. Membership list [1955]-1985. Minutes, 1952-1989. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harvard Law School Research for Israel's Legal Development, 1952, 1953. Black Binder with complete minutes from 1952 to 1966. Booklet of the concert by OSMONT, Ochestre Symphonique de la Montérégie, for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, 1998. Booklet from the Congregation Dorshei Emet Celebrating 36 years of Jewish Renewal, 1996. Booklet; Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge, Program of Study, 1979. 4 notorized copies of the Hart family (2 marriage certificates and 2 death certificates), 1959 (Originals 1843-1857). Minutes of the Montreal Hebrew Free Loan Association (copy), 1911. Diploma from Hebrew University of Jerusalem given to the Lord Reading Law Society, 1979. 2 booklets of the Lord Reading Law Society’s 50th anniversary, 1998.
Books: Who’s Who in Canadian Jewry by Gottesman, Dr. Eli., 1967. Montreal; Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada, [1965]. Joseph, Anne. Heritage of a Patriarch: A Fresh Look at Nine of Canada’s Earliest Jewish Families. Sillery; Les Editions du Septentrion, 1995. Langlais, Jacques and David Rome. Jews and French Quebecers: Two Hundred Years of Shared History translated by Barbara Young. Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation : P00/01.
Language : French and English.
Location of Originals : The books are stored in the Library.
General Note: In the collection there are 4 original copies of marriage certificates and death certificates of the Hart Family.

I0078

LORD READING YACHT CLUB. - [1946-1999], one document 1863 (copy). - 2.6 metres of textual records. - Ca. 1550 photographs. - Ca. 14 plans. 9 artefacts.

Administrative History:
The Lord Reading Yacht Club was founded by a group of Jewish Montrealers at a time when Jews were not welcome in boating clubs around the island of Montreal. The club founders encountered initial opposition from the City of Beaconsfield, where it was located. Henry Vineberg, long-time member and self-appointed archivist of the club, made documenting the Club’s history and activities the mission of his later years. His archival collection included documents and photographs from the earliest days of the organization. The archives of the LRYC were housed in his Snowdon area home in Montreal until his death in November 1999.

Custodial History:
The Lord Reading Yacht Club archives were in the possession of Club archivist and historian Henry C. Vineberg until his death, in November 1999. At that time they were donated, with the permission of the Club, to CJC Archives under the authority of his executor and friend, Jack Stein.

Lord Reading Yacht Club logo

Scope and Content:
The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal government). Also included are documents related to negotiations about original site building and later renovations. Most of the documentary portion of the collection was preserved by Henry Vineberg in black 3-ring binders. The approximately 1550 print photos, negatives, and slides (ca. 300) in the fonds depict Club activities, boats and boating events, the Club buildings and grounds through time, and persons associated with the Club. The majority of the photos were originally arranged in albums and were inter-filed the paper based records but are now housed in two distinct photo-boxes. The plans in the fonds show renovations and locations of buildings. The fonds also includes a few personal items about Henry C. Vineberg, Club archivist and historian. Of particular interest is a framed replica of the ketuba (marriage contract) of his grandparents, dated 1863 and prepared in Montreal by Rabbi Abraham de Sola.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P99/11.
General Note: The fonds is not yet processed.

P0206

LOWY FAMILY PORTRAITS. - 1920c, 1967. - 1 painting. - 2 photographs.

Biographical Sketch:
Fanny Lowy (née Zweigel-Rosner) was born in 1908 in Bardejov, Slovakia. She came to Montreal in 1951 and died here in 1966. The portrait was done soon after her death, from a photograph. Raphael Loevy (born c.1885) and his wife, Rachael Dershowitz Loevy, also came from Bardejov, Slovakia, and perished in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. They had four sons, incl. Jacob M. Lowy. Born in 1908 in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, Jacob M. Lowy was a real estate developer, community leader, bibliophile. He died in 1990 in Montreal. His antique book collection is now housed at the Library and Archives of Canada.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Ruth Pollack, June 15, 2006.

Scope and Content:
One large painting (72 cm. x 100 cm.) of Ruth Pollack's mother, Mrs. Fanny Lowy (wife of Jacob M. Lowy, the book collector), painted by Raanan Lurie in 1967. Two black and white mounted photographs c.1920s (40 cm. by 60 cm.), framed together, of Mrs. Fanny Lowy's in-laws Raphael Loevy and his wife Rachael Dershowitz Loevy, who perished in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Listing from Yad Vashem Israel database describing their fate.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: ACAR, P06/04.

P0113

LOWY, Jacob, M.. - 1976-1981. - 0.1 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1908 in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, Jacob Lowy was a real estate developer, community leader, bibliophile. He died in 1990 in Montreal.

Scope and Content:
Press clippings and correspondence pertaining to donation of Hebraic and Judaic incunabula to the National Library of Canada. Catalogue of collection.

Notes:
Restrictions: Correspondence file.

Jacob M. Lowy

P0161

LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show. - 1988-present. - 77 photographs. - 467 sound elements. - 1 metre of textual records.

Biographical Sketch:
Various interviews conducted by Montreal journalist Leslie Lutsky for his Montreal Radio Centreville show “Jewish Digest.” The interviews, which Lutsky collects on a volunteer basis in locations which range from private homes and lecture halls to factories, and even prisons, contain information which cannot be found in written form. The first donation to this fonds was made in 1988, with regular additions thereafter.

Custodial History:
Donated by Mr. Leslie Lutsky of Radio Centreville, on a ongoing basis.

Scope and Content:
The fonds consists of a total of 250 sound cassettes containing 578 interviews as of September 1998. The fonds has been added to on approximately a monthly basis since 1988.

Leslie Lutsky
at Beth Shloime Congregation

The interviews cover a vast range of Jewish, usually Canadian Jewish subject matter, including the arts, Jewish life in communities outside Montreal and outside Canada, contemporary Montreal and world Jewish community issues, and Jews in non-mainstream circles, (such as Jewish gays and lesbians, Communist party members.) Each interview is approximately 20 minutes long.
Addition 1998: 17 Cassettes containing a total of 33 interviews were added to the fonds.
Addition 1999: 9 cassettes were added to the fonds.
Addition 2000: 21 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 55 interview.
Addition 2001: 22 cassettes were added to the fonds, containing 45 interviews.
Additions 2002-2005: The total number of interviews as of April 2005 was 833, with approximately 2 interviews per cassette.
Addition 2005-2006: 26 cassette tapes containing a total of 58 interviews were added to the collection between Oct 2005 - Oct. 2006, bringing the number of interviews to 940. Additional photos of Canadian and American synagogues and former synagogue sites were donated this year as well (appox. 30 photos, about 20 of which were Canadian.)
Addition 2007: 17 photos of synagogues in Ottawa and Oshawa, Ontario; Burlington, Vt., Lithuania, and Dublin. 3 cassettes. 26 page of photocopies (information on the Burlington synagogue and photos of other synagogues, includes San Francisco and Scotland.) 1 prayer book from Paperman's Funeral Home while still located on Cote-des-Neiges Blvd., containing numerous photographs.
Addition 2008: 18 cassette tapes with 2 interviews per tape, for a total of 36 interviews. Also 18 photos of present and former synagogues in Montreal, Sydney, N.S., Saskatchewan, and Albany, New York, as well as various documents, 1925-1990c about the Glace Bay and Sydney Jewish communities, collected by Arlene Zimmerman.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P99/add, P99-00/add, SCAT/SOUND, SC 1634-1778, P07/06.
Language: English.
General Note: This is an open collection, with 2 or 3 cassettes added each month.

I0088,S52

LYUBMAN, Alexander (see also Russian Jewish Archives Project).

Biographical Sketch:
Writings.

Custodial History:
Alexander Lyubman donated this collection in Oct.18, 2004.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-45.

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