NA’AMAT see Pioneer Women’s Organization.

P0181

NACHSHEN: Family documents, immigration, and photos. - 1918-1940c. - 8 textual records.

Biographical Sketch: Mrs. Nachshen Brecher and her brother Issie were researching family members who immigrated in 1924 on the S.S. Asia and donated documents at that time. Custodial History: The collection was donated by Kate and Nachshen Brecher and Issie Nachshen. Scope and Content: Family photos from Romania, 1920s and 1930s, immigration documents from Russia via Romania, passports, school photos. Notes: Physical Condition: Fragile. Alpha-Numeric Designation: P2001/04. Related Material: Additional (Peretz/Folkshul) documents from their family are at the Jewish Public Library.

Nachshen family Romania, 1923

P0207

NATHANSON, Henry : Family history, photos on CD. - 1900-2006. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs). - Ca. 0.01 metres of textual records. - .

Biographical Sketch : Henry Nathanson was the son of S.L. Nathanson. Some of the photos were taken by his brothers Moe and Sydney, during their Middle Eastern trip. S.L. Nathanson (wine merchant?) of Montreal was donor Merle Kastner’s maternal great-grandfather. Custodial History : The collection was donated by Merle Kastner on Feb. 21, 2006. The addition was made on March 10, 2006. Scope and Content : 174 photos (JPEGs) on CD, taken by Montrealer Henry Nathanson in Prevost, Quebec, 1930; Palestine; Egypt; London; and France, 1913; and Romania 1930-1931 incl. Piatra Neami. Family history by Merle Kastner and Irwin Miller for Garbanski family incl. Montreal. Addition: 13 photos (JPEGs and duplicate large TIFFs) of S.L. Nathanson store on St. Laurent Blvd. at St. Cuthbert, Montreal. Some background information as well. Photos on CD in her file, copied onto archival CD in photo CD masters box. Also Kastner family history document by Merle Kastner.

Henry Nathanson Hutchison Street circa 1905-1910

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P06/01, P06/01add, PCAT, ZB.
General Note: Photos of St. Laurent Blvd., “The Main,” are very rare for this era. The photos may be reproduced for exhibitions, films, books, etc., with credit to the donor.

I0047

NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR ISRAEL AND JEWISH REHABILITATION. - 1951-1954. - 0.105 metres of textual records.

Administrative History:
The National Conference for Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation was founded in Montreal in 1951. It was sponsored by various Jewish community organizations (such as B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress), to act as a central Jewish fundraising unit for Canada. It sponsored campaigns on behalf of UIA and UJRA through its fundraising committee to help the State of Israel economically during the critical early years of its existence.

Scope and Content:
Minutes (1951-1953). Reports (1951, 1953). Financial statement (1953). Fund-raising reports (1951-1954). Correspondence (1952-1953). Memos (1952-1954). Agenda (1954). Meeting agendas and programs (1953). Press releases (1953-1954). Workbook (1953). Bulletin (1952-1953). Campaign booklet (1953). Canadian Jewish community lists (with contact people, 1953). Israel bonds bulletin. Memo and pamphlet (1953). Canada-Israel Corporation agendas (1953) and minutes (1952). Canada-Israel securities contract (1952). Meeting agenda (1952). Invitations and flyers. Clippings (1953).

Notes:
Related Materials: In Canadian Jewish Congress collection - l file in BA (minutes), l file in DA2 (Rosenberg), 2 files in C series (central files), 3 files in year boxes (1951-1952).

I0048

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN = NCJW. - 1909-1990. - 5.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 3 sound elements.

Administrative History: The National Council of Jewish Women was established in the United States in 1893 to help new Jewish immigrants. A Canadian branch began in Toronto in 1897 (Montreal’s Baron de Hirsch Institute covered immigrant aid; its NCJW chapter was only founded in 1918). The International Council was formed in 1912. The Council is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general community, locally, nationally, and internationally. It does/did so through scholarships, summer camps, libraries, aiding immigrants, volunteer work, pre- and post-War refugee aid, gerontology research, services to the elderly, support of the Golden Age Association, shipments of play and school materials to Israel and North Africa, lobbying for equal pay and other human rights bills, and opening a shelter for battered Jewish women. Its members across Canada and the world both fundraise and volunteer.

NCJW volunteer Mrs. Rajesky at Kinsmen’s School London, Ontario, 1960s

Scope and Content:
National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (1948-1949, 1973). Board member list (1971). Other membership lists. Pamphlets on International Council of Jewish Women. Biennial conventions (ICJW & NCJW). Minutes & information (1953-1973). Publications, flyers, invitations, seminar notes. Convention information, lecture notes and agendas. Gerontology conference notes (1968). Bulletin (1946). Magazines (1963-1973 with gaps). Programs & services materials (foster homes, Project Canada, School for Citizen Participation 1970), field service (1964-1965), workbooks, the elderly, National Theatre for Canada (1961-1963), overseas service (1954-1960), public affairs (1965-1967), leadership). Booklet on history of NCJW (1967). Material on Canadian Women of the Century 1867-1967 (1967). Scrapbooks. Clippings (1940s-1990 and photocopies of 1909, 1912 articles). Photos, including slides of events, services, programs in Israel & Canada (1914-1975) - collection PC 3. Sound recordings of meetings and lectures (1950s-1970s).

Notes:
Alpha- Numeric Designation: MA 4, PC 3.
Finding Aid: MSFA Guide.

I0048,Sa
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN = NCJW : Montreal Branch. - 1910-1990. - Ca. 0.64 metres of textual records. - Ca. 317 photographs. - 2 notebooks.

Scope and Content :
1 scrapbook, includes 100 photos, 1927-[1959]. Minutes. Correspondence. Newsletter. Inivitation. Educational documentation. History of the NCJW of Canada (in blue binder), 1997. 217 photos. 2 neg. strips. 1 book The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: the form and order of the service, 2 June 1953. 1 pocket size binder of minutes.

Notes:
Physical Condition: The scrapbook is fragile.
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P04/02.
Language: Mostly in English, some Yiddish.

 

I0049

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMHAs = NC-YMHA. - 1941-1989. - 0.315 metres of textual records.

Administrative History: The National Council of YMHAs was formed in 1943. It was an umbrella organization for the Ys across Canada and as such had members throughout the country (though the national office was in Montreal). Its aims were to organize Jewish groups in Canada, hold conferences and provide leadership training. Aside from encouraging the establishment of Ys and Jewish centres, it would aid those already in existence and promote their cultural, social and recreational activities. The council was to provide program assistance to the centres, run courses and put out press releases and bulletins to educate those within and outside the Jewish community. Its other functions were the fostering of youth groups and councils, promoting health and physical education, and public relations. The name was later changed to the Canadian Council of YMHAs and JCCs.

National Council of YMHAs logo

Scope and Content:
NC-YMHA Constitution. Minutes (1944-1949, 1960). Reports (1945-1951). Financial reports (1946-1949). Conference & meeting reports. Agendas and correspondence (1944-1949, 1964). Board members (1947-1949). Jewish communities in Ontario. Jewish population of Canada (1941). Memos (1946-1948, 1963, 1965). Correspondence (1946-1948). Jewish Group Work Council statement, plan of work (1947). Documents on Jewish Welfare Board (U.S.A.) (1949). Program aids (1946-1947). Newsletter (1946, 1950). YM-YWHA program (1949). Leadership training course: members, information, workbook (1950). National Jewish Youth Institute materials and documentation (1947). Clippings (1940s, 1951). YM-YWHA material: Programs and courses (1944-1945, 1963-1966, 1972-1973, 1988-1989). Y Beacon (1962-1963). Y News (1951). Saidye Bronfman Centre courses (1968). Press releases, brochures, clippings (1988- 1989).

Notes:
Related Material: YM-YWHA.

NAVES, Elaine Kalman

7 cm. or greater of reference documentation on the Jews of Hungary, also correspondence.

NEWMAN, Peter C.

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

NIMROD, Dan

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

P0222

NORMAN, Morris: Documents and photos on Montreal Jewish subjects. - 1864-1970. - Ca. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 6 photographs.

Custodial History:
These Morris Norman collection documents and photos were de-accessioned from the Ontario Jewish Archives and donated to us on April 25, 2008.

Scope and Content:
Photograph of 3rd Plenary Session of CJC in Montreal, May 30-June 1, 1936. Photograph of I. Roter Fruit Store, Montreal (x2), 1920s? Photograph of (McGill?) Medicine class of 1920. Crestohl, Leon D. The Jewish School Problem in the Province of Quebec. Montreal: Eagle Publishing Co. Ltd., 1926. Selick, Abel, ed. History of B’nai Brith in Eastern Canada. 1964. “The Jews in Europe,” a broadcast by Watson Thomson, Director of Adult Education, University of Manitoba. Over the CBC, 1943. Memoranda submitted by the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Zionist Organizations of Canada to the Canadian delegates to the United Nations Conference on International Organizations at San Francisco, 1945. Summary of Activities of the National Joint Public Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the B’nai Brith, 1946? YMHA of Montreal department of music program for Miss Henrietta Schumann, 1936.
Advice booklet in Yiddish written by Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg, Montreal. Advice given on baby carriages and to bakers who work on the Sabbath. Tribute to Israel Rabinovitch on his 60th birthday, Jewish Public Library, Montreal, 1954. Levine Bros. Sporting Goods catalogue, Montreal, 1921-1922. Reprint page of “An Act to amend the Act of Lower Canada therein mentioned, extending certain privileges to persons of the Jewish persuasion, 9th June, 1846.” The Jewish Post, April 3, 1947; Sept. 22, 1949. Framed certificate presented to Mr. Harold Cummings from the Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi Women’s Organization of Canada, May 1976. “A Call to Action! To the Jewish People of the World,” materials of the second Soviet Jewish anti-fascist conference held in Moscow on May 24, 1942, published by the Jewish Council for Allied Victory, Winnipeg. “The Upsilon McGillah” February 1921. Pioneer Loan Syndicate booklet belonging to H.M. Caiserman, ca. 1908. 1 folder of correspondence in Hebrew and English regarding Montreal camps Kindervelt and Unzer, 1934-1935. “Otherstand,” Oct. 8, 1969; Jan. 21, 1970. “The Voice of the Vaad,” Nov. 1972. Published on the golden jubilee of the Vaad Ha’ir of Montreal. Montreal Bakers’ Union minute book in Hebrew, 1966-1971. 50th anniversary book of the Russian Polish Hebrew Sick Benefit Association of Montreal, 1957. Congregation Chevra Tehilim (Beth Midrash) book of weddings and births (handwritten with names of brides, grooms, dates, witnesses etc.), 1925-1927. The Emanu-El Story, 1882-1960: Over Three Quarters of a Century of Dedicated Service, 1960.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designations: P08/11.
Language: English, Hebrew and Yiddish.

I0074

NORTH END VILKOMIRER HEBREW SICK BENEFIT ASSOCIATION : Also called Wilkomirer H.S.B.A. - 1925-1976. - 0.13 metres of textual records.

Administrative History: The North End Vilkomirer Hebrew Sick Benefit Association (or Society) was one of Montreal’s many landsmanschaft associations. It was established in 1917 by Jews from Vilkomir, Lithuania, who had been exiled from their homes in 1915. Like most landsmanschaft, it raised money for local charities (and later, Israel) and supported its parent community (mainly through war relief). As well, the North End Wilkomirer H.S.B.A. provided burial plots and death benefits, insurance, and funds in case of sickness for its members.

Membership Application

Scope and Content:
By-laws (1935-1942, y). Minutes (1925-1944, y). Financial statements (1937, 1941, 1965, 1973- 1975). Banquet expenses (1964-1965). Board member lists (1936-1938, 1976). Donation lists (1941, 1972-1975). Correspondence (1940s-1970s). (In connection with cemetery plots, includes correspondence with Baron de Hirsch Cemetery Inc. (1975-1976).

NOVICK, Louis J.

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

Go to next letter

Back to Archives collections

Back to Archives Home