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Yiddish literary culture in Montreal, 1905--1940.
No full textThis thesis examines the development of Yiddish literary culture in Montreal, Canada during its nascent period between 1905 and 1940. The focus is on Montreal's pre-Holocaust Yiddish literary life, and its proponents: A. Almi, Reuben Brainin, H. M. Caiserman, N. Y. Gotlib, Hersh Hershman, Yehuda Kaufman, Ida Maza, Israel Rabinovitch, B. G. Sack, J. I. Segal, A. Sh. Shkolnikov, Moshe Shmuelson, Sholem Shtern, Hirsch Wolofsky, Yaacov Zipper, Yehuda Zlotnik, and others. By way of introduction, it provides an overview of Yiddish immigration to Montreal and the creation of local Yiddish culture, and situates Montreal within the international interwar Yiddish literary milieu. The study goes on to present an overview of the Yiddish literary scene in Montreal, including its informal organizations and salons, the Yidishe-folks-biblyotek (Yiddishe Folksbibliotek, Jewish People's Library/Jewish Public Library), the YTEG (Yidish teater grupe/Yiddish Theatre Group), and the mechanisms behind Yiddish book publishing. It details the creation of the Montreal Yiddish press, with discussion of the Keneder adler (Keneder odler), Folkstsaytung, Der veg (Der weg) and other local newspapers, and discusses the overall role of the press in the local promotion of Yiddish literature and theatre. It presents the Yiddish literary journals published in Montreal: Der keneder yidisher shrayber, Nyuansn, Epokhe, Royerd, Der kval, Kanade, Heftn, Montreol, Prolit, Heftn, and Kanader zhurnal, as well as those published in Toronto and Vancouver that featured Montreal writers: Basheydn, In gevirbl, Buy undz, and Di yididte velt. It posits the question of Yiddish literary and cultural continuity by Looking at the role of the modern secular Yiddish schools in bolstering Yiddish literature among the younger generation, and considers the role of the Natsyonale-radikule-shuln/Perets-shuln (National Radical Schools/Peretz Schools), the Yidishe folksshuln (Jewish People's Schools), and the Moris-vintshevsky-shuln (Morris Winchevsky Schools) in the creation of a second generation of Yiddish writers such as Ruth Rubin, Shulamis Yellin and Aaron Krishtalka. By way of conclusion, the thesis posits the fate of Yiddish literary culture in Montreal, and Canada as a whole in the present and future.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2005.School code: 0054
S.L. Cohn & Sohn : Learning from the Third Reich.
No full textAn account by an employee of the cotton trading company S.L. Cohn & Sohn in Bremen, Germany, 1933-1937. The company had been founded in 1852; after WW I it belonged to the founder’s son, Ernst Cohn, who had to sell the company under duress.digitize
Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Diary).
No full textEnglish translation by John and Eva Englander of a lyrical diary in verse, chronicling Geissmar's imprisonment in Theresienstadt, July to December 1943.digitizedThe lawyer and judge (Landgerichtsrat) Jakob Geissmar was born in 1868. He married Elisabeth Hirsch and they had a daughter, Martha, in 1905. On April 17, 1943 all three were sent to Theresienstadt, where Jakob died December 21, 1943.See "Legacy: The Saga of a German-Jewish Family Across Time and Circumstances" by Werner Frank (LBI call number q 253), pp. 200-20
Honen Dalim Congregation Synagogue, Maputo, Mozambique, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Shaare Shalom Congregation Synagogue, Harare, Zimbabwe, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Jewish Cemetery Chapel, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Kwekwe Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Kitwe Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Kitwe, Zambia, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Ndola Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Ndola, Zambia, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia