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File consists of an album bound in leather, containing 32 prints of the conference, including Sam Lipshitz addressing the delegates.

File consists of photographic prints showing: Sam Lipshitz back from Poland on board ship in Halifax harbour, February 1946; Sam and Manya posing in front of a painting of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa; visit to a children's home and banquet for "The New press" in Paris as part of a campaign for world peace, 1949; the first National Executive of the United Jewish Peoples Order, 1945; the Red Cross campaign in Toronto, 1943 (showing Sam Lipshitz in the uniform of the Canadian Army Reserve); a portrait of Gina Medem and group shots at her home, 1946; the Polish delegation at Camp Naivelt, 1946; a portrait of Tim Buck and a photograph of Buck at Camp Naivelt, 1945; J.B. Salsberg speaking at a banquet for Ilya Ehrenburg, 1946; Sam Lipshitz speaking at various rallies; the head table at the banquet for Salsberg, 1947; Sam speaking at Labor-Progressive Party conventions; Manya's family in 1928; the World Jewish Congress in Atlantic City, 1944; Paul Robeson addressing the Jewish Folk Choir, 1947; Sam at the editorial desk of "Vochenblatt," 1947; and the National Convention of the United Jewish Peoples Order, June 1947.

File consists of an album containing 33 prints showing the Morris Winchefsky Shule and the visit by Paul Robeson, Manya Lipshitz's work as a teacher, Purim and Chanukuh plays, various trips by Sam and Manya Lipshitz, surrender of the communist leaders to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1942 (including Sam Carr, Stuart Smith, Stanley Ryerson, Fred Rose, Tim Buck, and Sam Lipshitz), Jewish writers, the visit of the Polish delegation to Toronto in 1946, a reception of President Navron of Israel, 1979, and the Lipshitzs at various Jewish functions.

File consists of articles written by and about Aleichem, and issues of "Yidishe kultur" dedicated to him.

File consists of a programme in Yiddish with an advertisement for Camp Kindervelt (forerunner of Camp Naivelt) on the back cover.

File consists of newspaper clippings and a transcript of an article on Jews from the "Big Soviet encyclopedia" (1953).

File consists of articles on the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada that invalidated any contract forbidding the sale of land due to colour or race, as well as on the cases of Ernst Zundel and John Kreegstra.

File consists of correspondence, samples of programs for memorial services and invitations to meetings, and the souvenir program for the 20th jubilee banquet.

File consists of newspaper articles by Sam Lipshitz about the activities of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, expectations of the Jews in the Polish delegation from the Jews in America, conditions in Warsaw, conditions in Lodz Jens during and after Nazi occupation, anti-Semitism in Poland, and Canadian post-war immigration policy.

File consists of newspaper articles celebrating the 70th birthday of Joseph Stalin.

File consists of newspaper articles written by or about Sam Lipshitz regarding the Jewish community in Canada, the need of Poland's Jews for immediate assistance, the new Jewish community in Lower Silesia, rejection of resolutions to keep communists out of leadership positions with Canadian unions, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, leadership of the Jewish community in Poland, and criticism of the data and reports by Samuel Margoshes and Sigal.

File consists of newspaper articles about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, help for Jews in Poland, anti-Semitism, return of Polish Jews from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Central Committee of Polish Jews, criticism by Sam Lipshitz of the report by Samuel Margoshes and L. Siegal, and a critique of Lipshitz's comments concerning Jewish life in Poland by "Dos vort," the newspaper of the Zionist Writers' Movement in Canada.

File consists of newspaper articles written or collected by Sam Lipshitz concerning the problems facing Polish Jews, anti-Semitism in Poland, the World Federation of Trade Unions, a map of crematoriums in Poland, attempts by the United States to provoke Yugoslavia regarding its role in the Soviet bloc, conditions in Radom after most of the Jewish community was removed by the Nazis, efforts by Jews in Canada and the United States to connect with surviving relatives in Poland, and efforts to raise money for a home for Jewish children orphaned in Poland.

File consists of newspaper articles by Sam Lipshitz regarding Jewish culture in post-war Poland, the Pogrom in Keltz, photograph of Lipshitz and H.M. Caiserman while on their visit to Poland, their departure from Poland in February 1946, the Jewish community in Lower Silesia, the report by Lipshitz and Caiserman to the Canadian Jewish Congress, and a letter critical of Lipshitz's report on Poland with his response.

File consists of newspaper articles and correspondence regarding Sam Lipshitz's visit to Poland and the living conditions of Polish Jews, the Central Committee of Polish Jews, and the meeting of the United Nation's Security Council regarding the situation in Greece.

File consists of: a pamphlet by Joseph Tenenbaum, "Let my people in" (New York, 1947), regarding American immigration policy that allows the entry of Nazis but not Jewish refugees; brochure for the American Federation of Polish Jews; letters regarding conference proceedings; flyers, speeches, and newspaper articles regarding the status of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, meeting in Montreal to protest pogroms against Jews in Poland, Zionism, the future of Palestine and post-war Jewish resettlement (including an article by J.B. Salsberg and an address by Tim Buck of the Labour Progressive Party), the United Jewish Peoples Order, and the division of India.

File consists of: rough copy of an article for "Morning freiheit" criticizing Max Federman's article on municipal elections in Toronto; article on the trial of 30 Jewish soldiers of the Polish army; a registration form for School on Jewish Problems (Sam Lipshitz supervised the course); a report to the National Jewish Committee; and speeches for the Jewish Folk Choir Concert, for a memorial ceremony dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, problems of the Jews in post-war Europe, immigration to Canada, and Palestine.

File consists of a clipping from the "Miami herald" containing an article by Begin on "Israel's plan for mideast peace," as well as an article on the dwindling influence of Trudeaumania.

File consists of newspaper articles about Ben-Gurion clipped from "Der tog."

File consists of letters to Sam Lipshitz listing themes dealing with Jewish literature, culture, and social issues, possibly for a lecture or article.

File consists of a typescript copy of Irving Abella's introduction to Biderman's memoirs.

File consists of campaign literature when Manya Lipshitz ran for the Board of Education in 1956, letters and articles celebrating Manya Lipshitz's memoir and her 80th birthday (including a tribute by J.B. Salsberg), her speeches at her 60th wedding anniversary and 80th birthday celebrations, her articles on Yiddish, her biographical note in the "Lexicon of Jewish writers," and her notes for the article, "New school year."

File consists of a typescript article by Sam Lipshitz about Broderzon's arrest in 1949, as well as the arrest of other Jewish writers and members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. The article also discusses the workers' protest in Poland in 1956, and the beginning of removal of Jews from Polish institutions.

File consists of a newspaper article by Mark Gayne about Browder, head of the communist party in the United States.

File consists of a signed portrait of the leader of the Labor-Progressive Party by Jacoby Studios, and a smaller and likely later portrait.

File consists of an issue of "Undzer gedank," no. 1 (Berlin, 1931), a socialist journal edited by R. Abramovitsch that was the organ of the Foreign Delegation of the Bund in the Soviet Union.

File consists of a booklet, "Perspectives of the Bund : thoughts and opinions on the 70th anniversary of the Bund" by Rafal Federman, New York.

File consists of 12 prints showing Manya Lipshitz's campaign for "mayor" of the camp, its children's colony, members of the Lipshitz family, and visit by the Polish delegation in 1946.

File consists of 11 photographic prints showing children's activities and a delegation from Poland.

File consists of two reports by David Kunigis, Director of the children's colony for the camp.

File consists of annotated text of a speech by Sam Lipshitz, "In the footsteps of Russian anti-semitic propaganda," and by Tim Buck, "The future of Palestine and the problem of post-war Jewish resettlement," Toronto, 8 September 1946.

File consists of correspondence and a list of financial supporters for the Yiddish Anthology Project.

File consists of notices of meetings, minutes, correspondence, and publications of the Canadian Jewish Congress, as well as a typescript article by Sam Lipshitz on the Congress's 19th plenary assembly held in the early 1980s.

File consists of minutes of meetings of the national and regional executives, lists of officers, and correspondence regarding Congress activities, the decision to exclude left-wing orgranizations from the Congress, the issue of Jewish refugees, and a paper on the Jewish community in Canada by Saul Hayes, National Director of the Congress.

File consists of notices of meetings, minutes, and correspondence regarding Congress activities and articles written by Sam Lipshitz.

File consists of correspondence, invitations to meetings, minutes and resolutions regarding the Congress's post-war activities and Sam Lipshitz's activities as a speaker and author on Jewish issues, as well as pamphlets dealing with the immigration of Jewish refugees to Canada.

File consists of articles, correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, flyers announcing concerts, and material related to conferences on Yiddish culture.

File consists of clipped columns written or edited by Sam Lipshitz, including columns written by Manya Lipshitz and Sam Simchovitch, the obituary for Manya in 1996, and an article announcing Sam Lipshitz's retirement as column editor in 1999.

File consists of articles on the history of this holiday, including the typescript and printed text of an article by Manya Lipshitz published in "Fraternally yours," December 1960.

File consists of a booklet, "Chinese Jews" by William Charles White (Ottawa : Royal Society of Canada, 1944), and an article from the Toronto "Sunday star" by Donald C. MacDonald, "China could dominate the 21st century."

File consists of badges, cards, and ribbons for: conventions of the International Workers Order (Madison Square Garden, New York, 4 July 1944), the Ambijan National Conference on Emergency Aid and Reconstruction for the Victims of Nazism (New York, 24-25 November 1944), the Labor-Progressive Party (Toronto, 1946), the United Jewish Peoples Order (Toronto, 1945 and Montreal, 1947), the Canadian Jewish Congress (1947, 1962, and 1968), the World Federation for Polish Jews, Inter-American Conference, the Labour Zionist/Histadrut Convention (Montreal, 1974), and the second international conference of Yiddish clubs (Toronto, 1994); an invitation from the Ambassador of the United Soviet Socialist Republics to a reception on the occasion of the 25th anniverary of the founding of the Red Army (23 February 1945); and a button for Sam Lipshitz's campaign for alderman in Ward 7, North York.

File consists of a portfolio containing programs for the convention and the Lower Silesia Jewish Theatre 1949-1950 season, recent issues of the magazines "Solidarnosc [Solidarity]", "Unzer buletin [Our bulletin]," and "Di Yidishe shriftn," as well as reports of the Jewish Cultural Society for 1948 and 1949. See also 2003-061/004 (10) for records relating to this visit to Poland and Israel.

File consists of letters regarding arrangements for the trip to Poland and inquiries from various people about their relatives, and contributions by foreign journalists to "Vochenblatt" and "Morning freiheit."

File consists of letters, newspaper clippings, and reports regarding immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe, fundraising efforts by the Toronto Jewish Labor Committee to support Jewish underground movements in Europe, Sam Lipshitz's speaking tour in Western Canada (October-November 1943), a proposed government bill against anti-Semitism, a letter to the editor of "Der tog" in answer to L. Spizman's article about the situation of Jews in Poland, and a booklet issued by the National Council of Democratic Rights that provides a chronological account of the arrests, imprisonment, and internment of members of the anti-fascist movement.

File consists of letters from the "Morning freiheit," a letter from Robert Laxer requesting information on the question of Palestine to prepare for a speech in Windsor on Canada and the United Nations, correspondence between Sam Lipshitz and the Canadian Jewish Congress regarding left-wing representation on the Montreal executive of the Congress, correspondence with the United Jewish Peoples Order, remarks by Lipshitz on the position of the Labor-Progressive Party on anti-Semitism and racial discrimination, a press release and leaflet for the mass rally addressed by Meyer Wilner, editor of "Kol hoam," on the United Nation's decision to establish a Jewish state, recent events in Palestine and the importance of Jewish-Arab unity, December 1947, and a typescript booklet issued by the National Council for Democratic Rights calling for the ban on the communist party to be lifted, with a list of anti-fascist organizations banned by order-in-council and a list of people interned in Canada for their support of the communist party, 1939-1942.

File consists of: letters and telegrams dealing with Sam Lipshitz's attendance at the convention of the International Workers Order in New York as the representative of "Vochenblatt" and several from Fred Rose, Member of Parliament, and J.B. Salsberg regarding speeches in the House of Commons about post-war aid to eastern Europe; a telegram from Raymond Davies, New York, 25 July 1945, regarding the poor quality of material being sent from Canada to Poland; correspondence from the Soviet embassy forwarding articles of interest; a letter from Sam Lipshitz to his cousin regarding the fate of their relatives in Poland, 20 October 1945; correspondence regarding articles to be printed in "Morning freiheit" and "Vochenblatt"; and an article by Lipshitz about the United Jewish Peoples Order.

File consists of letters and newspaper clippings pertaining to Sam Lipshitz's trip to Europe, as well as a flyer inviting people to a rally held by the Council of Progressive Jewish Organizations, March 1950, entitled "The truth about Jewish life and Jewish culture in eastern Europe! What is behind the slanderous campaign against the Soviet Union?" (speakers include J. Gershman, editor of "Vochenblatt," Sam Lipshitz, and Dorise Nielsen, a delegate to the International Women's Congress in Moscow).

File consists of correspondence to the "Canadian Jewish weekly," newspaper clippings about Sam Lipshitz's speeches, letters from the United Jewish Peoples Order, "Morning freiheit," the Council of Jewish Organizations in Hamilton about its support for a non-religious school in that city, 1947, the American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists regarding its efforts to publish the book, "Resistance : the book of Jewish heroism," 1947, and the program for the annual commencement of Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto, 28 October 1946, with entries for May Lipman (Sam and Manya Lipshitz's daughter) and Gerald Cohen (their eventual son-in-law).

File consists of letters dealing with Sam Lipshitz's personal and professional life, including arrangements with Israel Knox to lecture in Toronto, a study of 100 years of Jewish press in Canadian literature, and arrangements for and reactions to Sam Lipshitz's speeches on Jews in Russia (including letters from Irving Layton and Rabbi Bernard Baskin).

File consists of letters to and from family, friends, and colleagues, reports, expense accounts, and speeches regarding Samuel Lipshitz's trips to Poland, Paris, and Israel, and the affairs of Jewish organizations including: program of the American Jewish Cultural Conference, 31 October 1947; membership in the American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists, 1947; flyer for the Canadian Federation of Polish Jews, 27 June 1946; speeches on world peace, 1948; and impressions of Israel, 1949.

File consists of letters from the Jewish Labor Committee regarding its fundraising campaign to help Jews who escaped from the Polish ghettos, November 1943, and from various Jewish organizations such as Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Canadian Jewish Congress, including its letter to William Lyon Mackenzie King with a statement addressed to Canadian delegates attending the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. File includes Sam Lipshitz's articles on: the Canadian government's immigration policy; attemps by the Polish army to put 30 Jewish soldiers on trial; organizing Tim Buck's election campaign in the Spadina riding; women's involvement in election work; his analysis of the results of provincial and federal elections in 1945; and his financial report to the National Executive of the Radomer Mutual Benefit Society and other organizations regarding revenues and expenses associated with his trip to Poland. File also includes flyers and invitations to a variety of Jewish cultural events in Canada and the United States.

File consists of letters by Sam Lipshitz to his family regarding his trip to the Soviet Union.

File consists of letters in Yiddish and one in English from her brothers -- Sam, Julius, and George Cantor -- with newspaper clippings regarding Phillip Cantor.

File consists of letters and issue of "Soviet news bulletin" published by the Press Office of the USSR embassy in Canada devoted to the trial of Imre Nagy and his accomplices in Hungary.

File consists of letters and newspaper clippings pertaining to defeat of the anti-Semitic mayor of Eckville, Alberta, a tribute to Sam Lipshitz by the New Fraternal Jewish Association to celebrate his 25th anniversary as editor of "Fraternally yours," a recording by Ruth Rubin, a leading composer and performer of Jewish folk songs and an ethno-musicologist, support for Esther Shiner during the municipal election in North York, arrangements to reprint Dr. May Cohen's article, "Canada's abortion law denies women equality of health care," and the bar-mitzvah of Russell Cohen, Sam and Manya Lipshitz's grandson.

File consists of letters and newspaper clippings regarding speaking arrangements, attendance at the Canadian Jewish Congress on behalf of the New Fraternal Jewish Association, translation services from Yiddish to English, and a proposal from the Committee for Yiddish of the Canadian Jewish Congress for a column in Yiddish to be run in the "Canadian Jewish news" on a weekly basis.

File consists of letters pertaining to Hebrew and Yiddish publications, fundraising on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, Sam Lipshitz's interview for the book by Len Scher, "The un-Canadians : stories of the blacklist era" (1992), research by Rick Stow on the Communist Party of Canada, J.B. Salsberg's support for Sam Lipshitz's election campaign in North York's Ward 7, condolences on the death of Manya Lipshitz in 1996, donations of Yiddish books to the University of Toronto Library in 1997, and contributions to the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.

File consists of letters and newspaper clippings dealing with the death of Benjamin Zuskin, director of the Yiddish Theatre in Moscow, arrangements for a Jewish writer to speak in Toronto, Sam Lipshitz's views on internationalism published in "National affairs," and similarity of issues facing Yiddish language and Jewish culture in Israel and Canada.

File consists of letters and newspaper clippings regarding a play on Jews in Poland, work by Sam Lipshitz on behalf of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association Fund, and arrangements with David Lewis and Irving Layton to speak to Jewish organizations.

File consists of letters and articles dealing with the trip to Poland, relations with the Canadian Jewish Congress, and relief efforts for Jews in Poland.

File consists of letters and notes regarding Canada's involvement in the Korean War, international developments affecting the Jewish people, and reaction to Sam Lipshitz's column on the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

File consists of letters and the text for speeches pertaining to a call to organizations in Toronto to participate in a World Congress of Polish Jews in Israel, news from the World Jewish Congress, transcripts of undated interviews with Sam Lipshitz about his relationship with J.B. Salsberg, his involvement in the progressive Jewish movement and organizations such as the United Jewish Peoples Order, his involvement with communism and the Labor-Progressive Party, Yiddish language and literature, observations on his visits to Israel, the United Jewish Appeal's fundraising campaign in Massey Hall, and the Jewish exodus from Poland.

File consists of undated notes for speeches on events in Israel, colleagues with the New Fraternal Jewish Association, the use of the Yiddish language, American imperialism, the independence of Israel, the role of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the existence of Israel, and a eulogy for Morris Singer, founding member of the New Fraternal Jewish Association.

File consists of letters and ephemera pertaining to federal immigration policy and Jewish settlement in Canada, an issue of "Oyfgang," a monthly Jewish magazine published in Poland, and the relationship between Israel and the Jewish people.

File consists of notes for the eulogy for Benny Cohen (father of Dr. Gerry Cohen, Sam Lipshitz's son-in-law), letters dealing with topics that include an invitation to join a new "World Committee" that will publish an album devoted to the work of Hersh Grosbord, arrangements for speakers to visit Toronto, the desertion of Yiddish by the "Jewish establishment," support for Irving Paisley and Esther Shiner in North York's municipal election, support for various fundraising campaigns, and Sam Lipshitz's medical emergency in Mexico in 1984.

File consists of Sam Lipshitz's handwritten notes for a eulogy for Dave Biderman and his printed obituary, notice of a Yiddish play in Toronto, articles about Michoel Mirske by Benjamin Bronshtein, poems by L. Berkovitch, a report on financial contributions to schools in Israel by the family of Jacob Klein and others, and speeches on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Canadian Jewish labour movement. File also includes an article on Jewish writers in Argentina, September 1977.

File consists of programmes for: the Jewish Folk Choir (including a greeting by Sam Lipshitz); the fourth annual convention of the United Jewish People's Order (including an article by Lipshitz), 1954; and a dramatic pageant to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Israel Independence Day, 1958.

File consists of flyers, bulletins, newspaper articles, and reports by Sam Lipshitz on the trial of Rudolf Slansky, general secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

File consists of correspondence, notes and typescript speeches, newspaper articles and magazines regarding the community of Jewish refugees from Poland in Denmark that was visited by Sam Lipshitz.

File consists of correspondence with Y. Ronch, a Jewish writer in the United States, regarding his plans to include his article about Manya Lipshitz's published memoir in his forthcoming personal anthology, an illustrated article in the "UJPO news" about Manya's work with the United Jewish Peoples Order Shule and Sunday School, October 1959, a play for children based on three stories by Y.L. Peretz, a poem by Manya entitled "A City is evolving," and the booklet "Yiddish literature and your child : a symposium" with articles by Dovid Goldberg, Eugene Orenstein, and Hershl P. Salzberg (New York : Friends of Secular Jewish Education, November 1965).

File consists of an article by Ehrenburg regarding the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' attitude toward the state of Israel, with notes by Sam Lipshitz and a response by Moshe Katz.

File consists of two prints showing Ehrenburg addressing a group of peace workers in Toronto, 1947, and a portrait by D. Sholomovich (stamped "SIB Photoservice Moscow" on verso).

File consists of newspaper articles pertaining to the trial, conviction, and execution of Karl Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity for organizing the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps during World War II.

File consists of campaign literature for Labor-Progressive Party candidates, including Harry Paikin in Hamilton Centre, Harry Binder in Ottawa West, and Austin Delaney in Vancouver, as well as campaign literature, newspaper clippings, and poll results for communist candidates in Wards 4 and 5 of the municipal election in Toronto on 1 January 1944.

File consists of correspondence, literature, and newspaper articles regarding the campaigns of J.B. Salsberg, A.A. MacLeod, Sam Carr, Tim Buck, Fred Rose, and Dave Croll (a Liberal and the only non-communist in this group) in the St. Andrew, Spadina, and Trinity ridings for federal and provincial elections.

File consists of articles written by Sam Lipshitz that appeared in "National affairs" and "Vochenblatt." Topics include: the trial of the "Slansky gang" in Prague, international politics, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, VE [Victory in Europe] Day, Zionism, Canadian-American relations, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Rosenbergs case, the Soviet Union, Israel, and the United Jewish Peoples Order.

File consists of a letter from Erlick, an active leader of left-wing Jewish circles in Canada, to Sam Lipshitz describing his experiences as a soldier fighting in Europe with the Canadian Army, as well as tributes following his death in battle. File also includes two prints of a photographic portrait of Erlick and Lipshitz.

File consists of newspaper and magazine articles on the Soviet Union and central European countries, dealing with issues such as anti-Semitism, the legacy of Austria's Nazi past, Marxism, and the Jewish community in Sweden.

File consists of newspaper articles regarding the Liberal Party's election victory.

File consists of promotional literature, letters of support, newspaper articles, and other material for the campaign managed by Sam Lipshitz for Binder, with some documents referring to Tim Buck and Joe Zuken.