Abstract
In 1985 Naomi Caruso, librarian of a Jewish public library in Monteral, Canada, found a bundle of 184 letters carefully tied with a ribbon. The bundle was in the archive of a well-known Jewish writer and journalist, Reuven Brainin (1862–1939), who died in New York. In 1941, his sons deposited the archive in the library because it was their father who had established it. Nobody looked at the letters for 44 years.