WALDHEIM, Kurt

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation - mainly clippings.

WASSERMAN, Dora

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation - mainly clippings.

P0166

WEINER, Benjamin Mark. - [1913-1997]. - Ca. 0.3 metres of textual records. - Ca. 23 photographs.

Custodial History:
The papers were donated by relative Jeanne Schacter.

Scope and Content:
The collection includes photographs, certificates, clippings (y, h, e), tribute album, books (h, e, y, s), letters about his 90th birthday (e, h). Photos include Canadian Hebrew educators conference 1942, visit of N. Sokolov to Montreal, 1913. Certificate from Canadian Jewish Congress, United Talmud Torah of Montreal, Vaad Ha’ir. 1 plaque, United Talmud Torah.

Notes:
Physical Description: Many of the photos in poor condition.
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P99/01.
Language: English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Spanish.
Related Material: Other papers of B.M. Weiner were donated at an earlier date to the National Archives of Canada.
General Note: Biography from the archive description of the Ethnic Archives of Canada by Lawrence Tapper.

WEINER, Gerry

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation - mainly clippings.

WEINFELD, Morton

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation, articles and clippings.

WEINGARTEN, Yerahmel

7 cm. or greater of school texts and clippings.

P0151

WEINGLUCK, Henry. - 1941-1985. - 0.07 metres of textual records. - 3 paintings.

Biographical Sketch: Henry Weingluck was born in Zawiercie, Poland, on May 7, 1902. He was an artist (painter), often depicted Jewish themes; pupil of Max Lieberman; exhibited in Paris with Kandinsky and Chagall; exhibited in Art Gallery of Ontario and Jewish Museum, Berlin. Lived in France 1933-1942; imprisoned in eight concentration camps 1942-1945; later settled in Canada. He died in Toronto in 1987. Scope and Content: Documents on Le Chef de groupe no. 405 de Travailleurs, étrangers, Meyssac, France, 1941-1942. Exhibition catalogue 1978. Clippings 1977-1985. 3 paintings on Jewish themes in Art storage. Notes: Alpha-Numeric Designation: P88/43. General Note: Painting was donated in 1992. Mostly originals.

Booklet for Henry Weingluck’s 75th birthday

P0217

WEISER, Barbara. = Images of art in Jewish public spaces. - 2004-2007. - 2549 electronic images.

Biographical Sketch: Barbara Weiser is a graduate student at Concordia University. Her research consists of the study of Jewish art in synagogues and Jewish public buildings across Canada. She has donated her corpus of image material to serve as a databank at the CJCCC National Archives for the use of other researchers, as well as a source of images for the website Canadian Jewish Museum and Archives (www.cjvma.org), coordinated by CJCCNA. Scope and Content: As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 jpeg images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creation, artist’s name, approximate measurements, media used, and subject description. Information thus far has been gathered from synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish community buildings, in towns and cities of all the provinces of Canada, including numerous small communities as well as the major centres. Holocaust memorials are a developing feature of this collection.

Stained-glass window Calgary Jewish Community Centre

The data accompanying the photographs was imported from a Filemaker database residing on the donor’s computer to a similarly structured database at CJCCCNA. The initial corpus of photographs was donated in increments on 9 CDs, with some supplementary images added by email. Additional data related to the images was donated by Weiser in Excel format or in text form, both of which have now been imported to Filemaker Pro. The entire corpus of images was copied to the CJCCCNA network drive and backed up on a Master DVD.

The project is ongoing, with support from the Marvin A. Drimer Foundation.

J0004

WEISS, David. - 1929-1986. - Ca. 4 metres of textual records.

David Weiss’s publications include the textbook Principles of Administration in Social Agencies (1956), Existential Human Relations (1975), and numerous articles and poems in professional and popular journals. Topics include leisure, human relations, and social work. A naturalized Canadian citizen, David Weiss was the recipient of the Queen’s Coronation Medal (1953) and the Centennial Canada Medal (1967). He died in 1992.

Custodial History:
The collection is on permanent loan from the Jewish Public Library. It was transferred in spring of 2001.

Scope and Content:
Biography and personal papers. Correspondence. Professional articles (social welfare manuscripts and typescripts, published materials with supporting material and documentation, Baron de Hirsch Institute, government, organizations, notes for lectures, TV scripts and related material). Educational activities (courses, lectures, announcements, notes, documentation, memos). Literary activities (manuscripts, drafts, notes, typescripts, clippings).

Notes:
Finding Aids: The finding aid was produced by the JPL.
General Note: The biographical sketch is from the finding aid from the JPL.

P0152

WEISS, David. - 1937-1980s. - 1.6 metres of textual records. - 4 sound elements..

Addition 1985: Correspondence and reports pertaining to social work in New York and Montreal. Published articles on social work. Biographical press clippings.
Addtion 1987: Typescript of unpublished history of Baron de Hirsch Institute 1863-1962. Typescript Saidye Rosner Bronfman, O.B.E. - My Story (edited by Weiss based on interviews recorded by Lillian Reinblatt). 2 tapes of 1966 participation in radio program. Souvenir books from various organizations. Articles & publications by D. Weiss.
Addtion 1992: 2 tapes W. Gittes by D. Weiss; transcript, published version of tapes; RP/article Oral history-taking.
Addtion 2007: The donation consists mostly of typescripts and published articles by David Weiss. Most of the published articles appeared in the Suburban newspaper of Montreal for the column TOWARDS AN ACTIVE RETIREMENT. Includes a binder of stories in typescript, “The Parable of the Shadow and Other Stories,” starting in 1952 (-1957?).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P84/22, P85/21, P87/08, P92/05, and P07/14.
Restrictions: Baron de Hirsch Institute agency manual.
General Note: Adds to existing holdings donated directly by David Weiss on 4 occasions, as well as papers transferred by the JPL on permanent loan.

WEISS, Solomon & Jeanette

7 cm. or greater of family and Normandin, Ontario history.

P0153

WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher). - 1920c-1985c. - 0.07 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch: Born in Poland, Rebecca Dresher Werner immigrated to Canada as a child in 1928. Her family first settled in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, a Western colony set up by the Jewish Colonization Association. An older sister moved to Winnipeg during the 1930s. After World War II, the Dresher parents moved to a farm in Repentigny, Quebec. Mrs. Werner and her husband settled in Montreal after the war and opened a pastry shop the Patisserie Montreal in the city’s east end, at St. Catherine and Plessis Streets. Scope and Content: Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister’s death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 correspondence from relatives describing conditions in Poland. Pre-WWII photos of Lipton, Sonnenfeld, Hoffer Jewish farm families and Winnipeg family, post-WWII family photos from Montreal, photos (including colour) of pastry store in East End Montreal.

Rebecca Werner March 1968

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P93/16.
Language: English, Polish, and Yiddish.

WILKOMIRER HEBREW SICK BENEFIT ASSOCIATION - see NORTH END WILKOMIRER HEBREW SICK BENEFIT ASSOCIATION

I0088,S36

WINGROWICH, Maya. - 1930s-[1950s]. - 5 magnetic tracks. - 2 records in electronic form.

Biographical Sketch:
Biographical and interpretive information is required in order to complete this donation.

Custodial History:
Maya Wingrowich donated this collection in July 15, 2004.

Scope and Content:
1 CD containing 9 images of archival photos - family and street scenes under Communism. Eastern Russia? Additional background information required as well as bio. 5 audiotapes. 1 diskette. Life in Russia under Communism.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/01-29.

P0196

WISEMAN, Leah bas Alchanan : Yiddish Poetry. - 1910-2003. - Ca. 0.07 metres of textual records. - 1 photograph.

Biographical Sketch: Leah (Golub) Wiseman was born in Chernigov, Ukraine, in 1889 or 1890. She came to Canada around 1907, at the age of 17, settling in Montreal. Married to Joseph Wiseman, as a mother she was active in various Jewish organizations, especially Talmud Torah. She had a very good singing voice. Her poems, written for herself and her family and signed Leah bas Alchanan, were likely never published. She died in Montreal at age 99, in December 1990. (Biography written by her son, Sidney White.) Custodial History: The collection was donated by her grandson Herb Alexander on August 28, 2003. Scope and Content: McGill hardcover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. Three-ring binder of looseleaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them; also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typical Jewish woman of her time: World War II, poverty, the Holocaust, aging, Israel, her children. Also one portrait photograph of the poet (copy of original taken circa 1920). Notes: Alpha-Numeric Designations: P03/17. Language: Yiddish and English.

Handwritten poem by Leah Wiseman

WISEMAN, Shloimeh

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation - mainly clippings.

WISSE, Ruth

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation - mainly clippings.

P0220

WOLFF and JOSEPH Family Collection - 1828-2005. - 4.13 metres of textual records. - Ca. 300 photographs. - 90 sound elements. interviews. - 1999. - 7 sound elements.

Biographical Sketch:
Annette Wolff (born 1911), Rosetta (Wolff) Elkin, and Esther (Wolff) Blaustein are three of the six daughters of Martin Wolff (originally of England) and Irene (Joseph) Wolff (of Quebec City.) They are descendants through their mother of the Harts and the Josephs, among the first families to settle in Quebec. They are also related to the rabbinical De Sola family of Montreal through the Josephs. An early Quebec ancestor was Abraham Joseph, who documented life in mid-19th century Quebec through his voluminous diary. (See series A.) Martin Wolff was a railway engineer and an avid historian who was among the founding members of the Canadian Jewish Congress Archives Committee in 1934. Irene Wolff distinguished herself as a journalist. Annette Wolff was deeply interested in documenting the history of her family and synagogue, the Shearith Israel of Montreal. Notably, she devoted considerable attention to transcribing and researching the Abraham Joseph diary. She also wrote extensively on other historical topics. An avid fan of naval matters, Annette worked in a military capacity in England during World War II. The Wolff and Joseph family papers document many facets of this history.

Custodial History:
The family papers in this collection were housed with Annette Wolff until she moved to a smaller residence in 2005. They were donated with the approval of her two surviving sisters. Most of the family documents were stored in 2 large metal foot lockers but have now been transferred to archival boxes. An addition was made to the collection in June 2006.

Notes:
Related Material: Collections P94/05, P97/05, P99/09.
General Notes: This collection is comprised of accession numbers P05/05, P05/05add, P06/05, P06/15, P0154, P0168, P0179, and P07/13, P2001/01.

P0220,SA

ABRAHAM JOSEPH DIARIES. - 1.6 metres of textual records.
Biographical Sketch:
Abraham Joseph was born at Berthier, Quebec, on November 14, 1815, the son of Henry and Rachel (Solomon) Joseph. After the death of his father, he moved to Quebec City, where he resided until his death, on March 20, 1886. In March 1846 he was married to Sophia, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hart) David, and had four sons and seven daughters. Abraham Joseph was a successful businessman, and his name was identified with almost every commercial enterprise of his time, in most cases as a director. For a number of years, he was president of the Quebec Board of Trade and later became president of the newly formed Dominion Board of Trade. He was one of the original directors of the Banque Nationale and was a member of the board of that institution which convened for eleven years without change. Mr. Joseph resigned from the directorate of this bank, which office he held until the bank was wound up. He was a member of the Quebec City Council, and at the time was a candidate for the mayoralty, being defeated by a very few votes. For over thirty years he was vice-consul for Belgium. He took a lively interest but no prominent part in politics. During the Papineau Rebellion in 1837-1838, Mr. Joseph served with the Quebec Light Infantry, attaining the rank of major. Intensely proud of his English descent, Mr. Joseph was a life member of the St. George’s Society and several times its president. Although in his day there was no organized Jewish community in Quebec, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph maintained a completely Jewish atmosphere in their home and were as highly regarded by their Roman Catholic and Protestant co-residents as by their Jewish neighbours. He was at all times regarded as the leader of his community. He was the founder of the wholesale grocery business, under the name of Joseph & Co. Mr. Joseph was a member of the Stadacona, Garrison, and Tandem Clubs, Quebec. Abraham Joseph’s diaries are a valuable early record of Jewish life and material culture in Quebec.

Scope and Content:
The series contains a copy of Abraham Joseph’s diary from the 18th century. The original is housed at the National Library and Archives of Canada. There are typewritten transcripts of the diary contents by Annette Wolff as well as a bound volume which she titled Bachelor’s Hall or Maturing with Canada 1834-1876: Diary of Abraham Joseph of Quebec. Also included is a photocopy of the 1882-1883 diaries of Fanny David Joseph, one of Abraham Joseph’s daughters, and original extracts from her 1886 diary on life at Kinkardine Place, Quebec City. Of particular note is The Blue Book, a handwritten newsletter written between 1839 and 1842. The Blue Book was usually written by male members of the Joseph family residing in Montreal. It was the precursor of another extremely long-lived Joseph family newsletter, The Moon. The Blue Book is filled with family and community gossip, with the people and places disguised by droll nicknames. Questions of religious observance and decorum surface frequently, reflecting the concerns of a family that moved in non-Jewish circles while striving to maintain their identity. Similar spoofs are in this series as well: an original issue of The Tattler, handwritten in 1839, and a photocopy of the Gazette of Fashion, November 1835. The series contains an original 1828 school certificate stating that Abraham Joseph was at the head of his class; photocopies of Abraham Joseph’s Quebec Light Infantry certificate; property sale deeds from 1815 and 1864, including his Natashquaw property; press clips regarding his Quebec City mayoralty nomination in 1859 as well as copies of his obituary from various newspapers. The series also contains Annette Wolff’s research papers on various members of the Joseph, Hart, Judah, David and Pinto families, including family trees, as well as her correspondence with the Public Archives of Canada and academic institutions regarding the publication of Bachelor’s Hall. Abraham Joseph’s diary, coupled with Annette Wolff’s background papers, provides a wealth of information on the social, economic and religious life in 19th century Quebec.

P0220,SB

MARTIN WOLFF; IRENE JOSEPH WOLFF. - Ca. 0.6 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch: Martin Wolff, born in Germany in 1881, was raised and educated in England. He immigrated to Canada in 1906 and as a qualified engineer was employed in railway surveys and construction. He worked for various railways, including the Canadian Northern, the National Transcontinental and the Canadian National. In 1915, he was attached to the Department of Militia and Defence in Quebec and in 1916 was employed by the Imperial Munitions Board. Martin Wolff was also a journalist, historian of Montreal Jewry; chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress Archives Committee, a board member of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Shearith Israel), and author of History of the Canadian National Railways and History of the Jews in Canada. He married Irene Joseph in 1909, with whom he had six daughters. Martin Wolff died in 1948.

Postcard sent to Irene and Martin Wolff from a relative from England on the announcement of their engagement.

Irene Wolff, born in 1885 in Quebec City, was a journalist, poet and community worker. She and her husband reared their six daughters in an observant Jewish home. Along with running her household in Westmount and tending to the welfare of her family, she was the Canadian correspondent for the London, England, newspaper The Jewish Chronicle and, along with her husband, contributed to A.D. Hart’s The Jew in Canada, published by the Jewish Publication Limited, 1926. She was a member of the Canadian Authors Association and of the Women’s Press Club of Canada. During World War II, she was joint committee chair, with Mrs. Wilder Penfield, of the Montreal branch of the Red Cross and contributed in other significant ways to the war effort. She was also a long-serving member of the Boadicea and Baden-Powell Chapters of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Irene Wolff died in 1940.

Scope and Content:
The bulk of this series includes correspondence between Martin Wolff and Irene Joseph Wolff, before and after their marriage, and letters to their daughters. Many of the early letters from Martin to Irene were written when he was working as an engineer in remote areas of the Quebec bush. Of interest is a 1939 letter from Irene to her daughters written on the reverse of an oversized war campaign poster. Also included are papers pertaining to Irene Wolff’s involvement with the Canadian Authors Association, the Canadian Jewish Review, the Canadian Women’s Press Club, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, The Jewish Chronicle, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Sinai League Reading Circle, and the Spanish & Portuguese Sisterhood. In addition are poems, essays and articles by Irene Wolff as well as two bound copies of A Quebecker Looks at Life: The Diary of Irene Joseph Wolff, a self-published volume by her daughter Rosetta Elkin. Also of interest is a Montreal General Hospital dinner menu from the last days of Irene Wolff’s life. Among her personal papers are found correspondence with Dr. Cecil Roth, the noted British historian and author of the popular history book A History of the Jews. Cecil Roth, when in Montreal, had been a visitor to the Wolff home, a fact noted among Irene Wolff’s papers. Correspondence from Irene Joseph Wolff’s father, Montefiore Joseph, and her mother, Annette Pinto Joseph, is also included. Of interest are a 1903 letter on Quebec Hockey Club stationery notifying Montefiore Joseph of his election as the Club’s honorary president and a 1923 Quebec Board of Trade banquet invitation to the board’s past presidents, including Montefiore Joseph.

Martin Wolff’s British nationality papers, including letters of attestation, are found here, as are correspondence with and submissions to the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Publication Society, the American Jewish Yearbook, The Jewish Tribune, and The Jewish Chronicle of London, England. Many of his essays, speeches, poems and translations are included, as are family trees and correspondence with his mother, Sarah Andrade Wolff. Of particular note is a 1937 letter to Martin Wolff from one C.Q. Henriques of London, England, written on the Jewish Representative Council for the Boycott of German Goods and Services stationery. Also of special interest are the letters between Martin Wolff and Alfred Bader, an Austrian Jewish war refugee who had been interned at a DP camp in southern Quebec and who was sponsored by Martin Wolff and welcomed into the Wolff home as one of the family. It is without doubt due to Martin Wolff’s love for and encouragement of the young Bader that the latter prospered academically and professionally. He excelled at Queen’s University (having been denied admission to McGill University, presumably because their Jewish quota was full), became a highly successful chemist, and founded the Aldrich Chemical Company, later named the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, one of the largest chemical companies in the United States. H e is as well a renowned art collector and generous donor to his alma maters, especially to Queen’s University.

P0220,SC

ESTHER, FANNY, RACHEL, ROSETTA, SARAH WOLFF. - Ca. 0.33 metres of textual records.
Biographical Sketch:
The offspring of Martin and Irene Wolff were: Sarah (Wolff) Orkin (1910 1999), Annette Wolff (1911- ), Rachel (Wolff) Esar (1913-1995), Rosetta (Wolff) Elkin (1914 ), Fanny Wolff (1918-1941), and Esther (Wolff) Blaustein (1921- ). During their formative years, the Wolff sisters attended school in Westmount, Quebec. With the exception of Fanny, who died in early adulthood, they all embarked on professional careers.

Scope and Content:
This series includes the Wolff sisters’ correspondence from 1921 to 2006, with the bulk of the correspondence from the 1920s and from the years preceding and during World War II. Wedding invitations and marriage telegrams are found here as well, as is an undated Westmount school report card for Fanny Wolff. Papers and promotional flyers regarding Sarah Wolff Orkin’s book Roots and Recollections are included, as are several of her poems, and papers relating to Rosetta Wolff Elkin’s involvement with the Spanish & Portuguese Sisterhood and the Shaar Hashomayim scouting committee can also be found in this series. Irene Wolff maintained a close relationship with her sister, Rosetta, and her brother Kenneth, whose correspondence with Irene and the Wolff children is also included, as is that of various other members of the extended Joseph family. Papers concerning Rosetta Joseph’s involvement with the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, several of her diary notes, and documents regarding a Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) vocational bursary plaque erected in her memory are also found here. As this series’ documents are predominantly from the 1920s, 1930s and the war and post-war years, the changing lifestyles, social customs and concerns are reflected in the various letters and documents of both the Wolff and Joseph families.

P0220,SD

ANNETTE WOLFF. - Ca. 0.6 metres of textual records. - Artefacts.

Biographical Sketch: Annette Wolff (born 1911) graduated as a dental hygienist from the Forsyth Dental Infirmary in Boston in 1931. She was employed in a variety of capacities in her adult life, including work for the telephone exchange in London, England; the Inspection Board of the U.K. and Canada; and the Canadian National Research Council Atomic Energy Research Lab. Annette was deeply interested in documenting the history of her family and synagogue, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (Shearith Israel) of Montreal.

Annette Wolff’s Canadian Pacific suitcase tag May 1940

Notably, she devoted considerable attention to transcribing and researching the Abraham Joseph diary. She also wrote extensively on other historical topics and was often called upon to speak to various organizations about her research. She was a prolific writer of letters, essays, poems and plays.

Annette Wolff was a lover of all things naval, travelling extensively by ship to Europe and Bermuda, and was the founding member of the Montreal branch of the World Ship Society. Annette was the quintessential chronicler and keeper of all things large and small, which has resulted in a broad array of collected papers.

Scope and Content:
This series includes Annette’s letters to family members from 1919 to 1991 as well as correspondence from friends worldwide. Diary and travel calendars span the years 1929 to 2005, and there is also extensive travel memorabilia, among them luggage tags and ships’ stationery and newsletters. Mostly undated farewell cards, greeting cards and birthday cards to her are among the series, which includes a 75th birthday certificate signed by Brian Mulroney, then Canada’s Prime Minister. The series also includes items from Annette’s early years, such as Westmount elementary and high school report cards, her vaccination certificate, school notebooks and drawings, as well as letters from the Joseph and Wolff summer vacation home in St. Patrick, Quebec. One finds correspondence concerning her work as a counsellor at the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) fresh air camp in 1932. Included in this file are a camper’s licence test and a 1926 Canadian National Railway camp craft booklet. Annette’s leadership of the Shaar Hashomayim girl guide troop is also recorded here. The series contains a 1938 Girl Guides rally brochure, a sea ranger test card, and a Scout and Guide memorial service brochure for Baden-Powell.

Annette Wolff’s employment correspondence is collected here, as are numerous press clips on her life and accomplishments. For example, an article appeared on Annette Wolff in the 1992 “Dental Practice” entitled “Was she the first [dental] hygienist in U.K.?” During World War II, Annette maintained correspondence with soldiers overseas. Their letters are here included along with several POW envelopes. Of further interest are Annette Wolff’s World War II ration book, an army mailing label, and materials pertaining to the Jewish branch of the Canadian Red Cross. One also finds war-time correspondence from Mina Kocherthaler, a young German-Jewish refugee who was brought to England under the sponsorship of Annette and Sarah Wolff, who were living in England during the war. An original 1930 edition of the Joseph family’s annual Purim newsletter The Moon is included, as are Annette’s yearly contributions to the newsletter. Her numerous plays, essays, poems and speeches are here included as well, along with various papers on Canadiana and the Commonwealth’s royal family. Also correspondence, press and window display information for the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry and papers relating to Annette’s involvement with the Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian Jewish Historical Society, the German Benevolent Society, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, England’s Jewish Historical Society, the Last Post Fund, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogues in London, Montreal and New York, and the World Ship Society. The series includes envelopes and cancelled stamps from the 1930s to 1984.

P0220,SE

PHOTOGRAPHS. - [800-1998]. - Ca. 300 photographs.
Scope and Content:
This series contains the diverse photographs from each of the above series. It includes Abraham Joseph family photos from the 1800s as well as some photos taken by Martin Wolff during his forestry work in Quebec prior to World War I.

P0220,SF

ANNETTE WOLFF: Biographical interviews. - 1999. - 7 sound elements.

Custodial History:
This portion of the collection was donated by Annette Wolff and Eiran Harris shortly after the recordings were made.

Scope and Content:
The collection contains 7 cassette tapes, each 90 minutes in duration, of interviews of Annette Wolff by Eiran Harris. In Tape 1, Annette Wolff discusses the disposal of the De Sola papers, the destruction of David David diaries, Meldola de Sola’s son’s pawning of the De Sola papers, and a biographical narrative of the Wolff family. Tape 2 concerns home life while growing up, social activities, games, music, art, and communal work, as well as Annette Wolff’s biography. In Tape 3, we learn of the Wolff family history in Montreal and of Isaac de la Penha’s death. In Tape 4, Annette Wolff continues her parents’ biographies and the beginning of her own biography. In Tape 5, Annettte discusses her war years in the U.K. and Canada and her secret work in the civil service. In Tape 6, Annette Wolff’s biographical recollections are continued. Tape 7 records further recollections of her parents.

P0155

WOLOFSKY, Harry (Zvi Hirsch). - 1921-1949. - 0.05 metres of textual records.

Biographical Sketch: Harry Wolofsky was born in 1876. He was the founder, owner and publisher of Keneder Adler (The Canadian Jewish Eagle) Canada’s major Yiddish newspaper. He exerted a great influence on the Canadian Jewish community and world Yiddish press through the quality editors and contributors who wrote for the Adler and his Anglo-Jewish weekly The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. He died in 1949. Scope and Content: Biographical press clippings in Yiddish. Correspondence about trade with Poland and USSR. Letters in Hebrew from New York rabbis. Personal correspondence. Letter from Prime Minister R.B. Bennett on hate literature. Share certificate of Talmudic Literature Publishers Inc. A Kehilah for Montreal - Pamphlet in English and Yiddish proposing establishment of a Jewish Community Council. Notes: Language: Yiddish, English and Hebrew. Related Materials: See Keneder Adler box.

Harry (Hirsch) Wolofsky posed in Bedouin garb for a studio portrait while in Palestine to attend a conference, 1921.

I0066

WOMEN’S FEDERATION - HUNGARIAN DIVISION. - 1964-1969. - 0.31 metres of textual records.

Administrative History:
The Women’s Federation of Allied Jewish Community Services (now Federation CJA) had for many years been one of the major branches of the organization. As the Allied Jewish Community Services Women’s Division, it was involved in advancing its fundraising activities, notably for the Combined Jewish Appeal. However, it also organized educational and communal programs. The organization of the Women’s Federation tried to utilize the various sectors of Montreal women; hence this collection is from the Hungarian Division.

Scope and Content:
Donation list. Minutes. Correspondence (mostly to and from chairwoman Irene Korda). Newsletters and bulletins. Publicity materials. Invitations. Speech texts. Notices. Ephemera. Clippings (of I. Korda as well).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P84/06.
Language: English and Hungarian.
Finding Aids: There is a finding aid and computer listings.
Related Materials: Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
General Note: About half originals and half copies.

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