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National Council of Jewish Women fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1930-2015

Fonds consists of scrapbooks, newsletters, meeting minutes documenting the activities of the National Council of Jewish women as well as other records reflecting the organization’s work.

Some scrapbooks are organized around specific events or activities, some are organized around the tenure of a specific president and others are organized around a specific time period. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, programmes and ephemera.

Also included are photographs of various events hosted or attended by the National Council of Jewish Women and of people associated with the organization.

Other records include newsletters of local sections, by-laws, position statements on public issues, event programmes, meeting minutes and correspondence.

Artefacts include a plaque and donation can.

National Council of Jewish Women

Multiple fonds collection

  • Collection
  • 1865-2015

Collection consists of records from a wide variety of sources that were acquired by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada (JHC) and its predecessors and that were arranged and described on an item or file level rather than at a fonds level. In addition to the numerous sources of the material, the format, subject matter and function of the records varies. Records creators include individuals, organizations as well as the JHC itself and its predecessors.

Corporate records creators represented in the collection consist of numerous secular and religious Jewish organizations. These are mostly Winnipeg based but also include some from other communities in western Canada. These organization include: Hadassah, Histradut, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA), Zionist organizations, synagogues, I.L. Peretz school, B’nai Brith lodges, the Winnipeg Jewish Community Council, and Mt. Carmel Clinic.

Individual records creators are equally diverse, including politicians, rabbis, business owners, labour activists and others involved in the Jewish communities of Western Canada. These include Max Steinkopf, Saul Cherniack, Leible Hersfield and others.

Records formats include: correspondence, newsletters, programs, annual reports, handwritten books, minutes and financial statements. Many of the records are photocopies of originals. There are also a small number of artefacts such as pins and buttons.

Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

Abe Arnold fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1920-2014, [photocopied 197-?-199-? (originals 1880-1961)]

Fonds consists of records of Abe Arnold relating to his research into Jewish Canadian history, as well as his writing about human rights, racism and Israeli politics.

Records relating to Jewish Canadian history include photocopies of original documents about early settlers, the Canadian government and colonization organizations. Also included are historical articles by Abe Arnold and others.

Articles written by Arnold for a variety of publications are on the subjects of human rights, racism, Jewish Canadian history and Israeli politics.

Also included are family and personal documents, such as his parents’ marriage certificate, his own school report cards and his last will and testament.

Arnold, Abe

Clara Hoffer fonds

  • Fonds
  • 2008, [Photocopied 2014? (originals 1907-1945)]

Fonds consists of a photocopy of Clara Hoffer’s diary about her life on a farmstead in Saskatchewan. In addition to the Yiddish diary, there is an English translation.

Hoffer, Clara

Orenstein family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1917-2014

Fonds consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and other records about the Orenstein family.

Newspaper clippings document family events such as births, bar mitzvahs, marriages, deaths, sporting events and participation in public events. Other clippings relate to boxing matches not involving family members.

Other records include greeting cards sent between family members, telegrams of congratulation on the birth of children, photographs and certificates. Also includes programs for organizations of interest to the family including the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and the Negev Dinner.

Orenstein family

Irma Penn fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1937-2013

Fonds consists of records of Irma Penn reflecting her art, education, volunteer work, genealogical research and her husband’s service during the Spanish Civil War.

Records include scrapbooks documenting her art and her volunteer work through newspaper clippings, photographs and ephemera.

Penn’s educational career is reflected in diplomas, her Bachelor of Education thesis and educational software that she programmed.

Fonds also includes examples of her art and poetry and a movie about her creation of a Torah scroll.

Genealogical research includes family histories of both the Epp and Penn families.

Also included is the war diary of her husband Marvin among other records of his military service.

Irma Penn

Bay family fonds

  • Fonds
  • [190-?]-2011

Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Charles and Frances Bay and their families. Records relate to Frances’ acting career, Chuck’s work in the retail fashion business, personal photographs and genealogical research.

A large number of the records relate to Frances Bay’s acting career. These records include professional and on-set photographs, scripts for plays, movies and television programs in which she appeared and reviews of these works. These records mostly relate to her later career that began in the late 1970s and ended shortly before her death in 2011. Also included are awards she received for her work including a Gemini Award.

Personal records records include photographs of Chuck and Frances Bay and family members throughout their lives. These photographs depict their parents, their childhood and early married life, their son Josh. Many of the photographs depict numerous vacations taken between the late 1980s and the 2000s to various destinations in Europe, Southeast Asia, Israel and Egypt. Photographs also include family gatherings such as birthdays and family reunions.

A small number of records relate to Chuck Bay’s career in the retail fashion industry. These include newspaper clippings about his career, photographs of the Furchgott’s department store in Jacksonville, Florida where Chuck was General Manager, and copies of Chuck’s resume. Some of the European travel photographs appear to depict a goose farm and processing facility for his later business producing down comforters.

Chuck Bay researched the genealogy of the Bay, Goffman and Averbach families. Records of this research include detailed family trees, copies of photographs from various sources, correspondence with family members and copies of archival documents from several different institutions. These records include originals and photocopies apparently made during the 1990s and 2000s.

Bay family

Esther Korchynski fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1918-2011

Fonds consists of personal records of Esther Korchynski and records relating to her work with various choir groups in Winnipeg. Personal records include photographs of family members and of labour groups and some genealogical research. Choir related records mostly consist of music scores.

The musical scores are in English, Yiddish, Hebrew and other languages and include popular music, traditional folk songs, feminist and international labour anthems. The scores include published and handwritten material.

Organizations depicted in the photographs include Sholem Aleichem School, Liberty Temple and the Jewish Worker’s Party.

Korchynski, Esther

Sybil and Saul Cherniack fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1913-2011, [Copied 19-- (original 189-? – 191-?)], [Photocopied 200-? (original 1917)]

Fonds consists of scrapbooks compiled by Saul and Sybil Cherniack documenting Saul Cherniack’s political career as well as their personal lives in addition to other records. Other records include photographs of Sybil Cheriack’s family, and records documenting Saul’s work with various Jewish organizations in Winnipeg.

The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings that mention Saul Cherniack during his political career as well as campaign material and other political ephemera. They appear to have been assembled by Sybil Cherniack.

Other records relate to Saul’s work with Jewish organizations including the Canadian Jewish Congress, I.L. Peretz School and the Jewish Welfare Fund.

Later records mostly consist of photographs, correspondence and other records related to Saul and Sybil’s personal and family life. Also include are photographs of Sybil’s relatives in the Zeal and Litman families of Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan.

Cherniack, Sybil and Saul

Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada photograph collection

  • Collection
  • [ca. 1858]-2009, Copied 1967-Copied 2010 (images 1273-2009)

Collection consists of photographs and other images acquired by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and its predecessors. The focus of the collection is on Jewish life in Western Canada from the earliest settlement to the 21st Century but also includes photographs from other parts of Canada, the United States, Europe, Israel and reproductions of historical images of Jewish life over the centuries.

The records come from a wide variety of sources, including families, individuals, professional photographers and a number of Jewish organizations. Individuals who provided records include politicians, religious figures, business persons and others from a various walks of life. Organizations include the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, synagogues, women’s organizations, mutual aid societies and others.

The collection includes depictions of a broad number of subjects. These may include formal family and individual photographs, farm life, religious activities, political activities, sporting teams and events, charitable work, images of atrocities during the holocaust, schoolchildren, military activities among many others. Also included are photographs of Jewish artefacts.

The geographic focus of the collection is Western Canada primarily depicts Winnipeg and other Jewish communities throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and northwestern Ontario. Some material also persons and places in British Columbia and a small number in Toronto and Montreal and other parts of Canada. Many of the records also include images of Jewish immigrants and their families in Europe prior to their emigration. Other photographs were taken in Israel, reflecting Jewish Canadian work or travel there as well as a smaller number from the United States.

A small number of artefacts and textual records can also be found in photograph albums and scrapbooks.

Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

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