About us
The Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
(formerly known as the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee
National Archives) is a program of Jewish
Federations Canada-UIA, and is supported by the Alex Dworkin Foundation for Jewish Archives,
through Federation CJA. Following the cessation of operations of
Canadian Jewish Congress and its charitable trust, on January 1,
2016 the Archives officially inaugurated its new name and became a
program operating directly under the auspices of Jewish Federations
Canada-UIA.
The Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
collects and preserves documentation on all aspects of the Jewish
presence in Quebec and Canada. Most of the catalogue descriptions
of our holdings can be consulted online, through the database of
the Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (www.cjhn.ca).
Notable aspects of the Canadian Jewish community reflected in
the collections include immigration, integration into Canadian
society, community organization, Zionism, human rights issues and
discrimination, oppressed Jewry in other countries, education,
literature, and genealogy. Since January 1, 1992, we have benefited
from the status of "Service agréé d'archives privées," a program of
the Bibliothèque
et Archives nationales du Québec.
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