Don Canaan Papers

Manuscript Collection No. 708

1986-2003 2.0 Linear ft.

ACCESS AND PROVENANCE
The Don Canaan Papers were donated in March, 2003, by Don Canaan, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Canaan, by the act of donating his papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned the property rights to the American Jewish Archives. All literary rights to material authored by Don Canaan are held by him and/or his heirs. Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Director of the American Jewish Archives. The Don Canaan Papers are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the reading room of the American Jewish Archives.

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Don Canaan was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1938, He first began working as a journalist in 1960. From 1961-1974, he worked for NBC News in New York. In 1974, Canaan moved to Israel where he lived for three years.
Upon his return to the US, Canaan studied at Ohio State University’s School of Journalism in Columbus, Ohio, while concurrently working as an assistant in the University’s TV news workshop. Canaan earned his master’s degree and Ohio State..

Canaan joined the American Israelite and worked as a staff writer, copy editor, and photographer from 1986-1992.. He received the first place award for best weekly journalism in Ohio from the State of Ohio bar Associations for authoring a four part series in 1988 entitled “Jews in Ohio’s Prisons: Does Anybody Care?”

In 1993, Canaan started the Israel Faxx, a newsletter sent to interested readers in the local Cincinnati region and throughout the United States. As editor, Canaan compiles and edits the newsletter using news reports from Israel itself, allowing indigenous Israeli news to circulated in the United States.

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The DON CANAAN PAPERS consist of photocopied newspaper articles written by Caanan for the American Israelite in Cincinnati from the years 1986-1993. There are also articles from other Jewish newspapers, as well as an op-ed piece for the Cincinnati Enquirer written in 1989. The collection also includes copies of the Israel Faxx between the years of 1993 and 2003. Israel Faxx is fax publication that Caanan edits which makes news reports from Israeli periodicals available to US subscribers
The collection is organized into two (2) series:

A. NEWSCLIPPINGS
B. ISRAEL FAXX

SERIES A.. NEWS CLIPPINGS consists of a Hollinger box containing news clippings comprised almost entirely of articles written by Don Canaan for the American Israelite. There is also a small collection of articles that appeared in other newspapers. The series is arranged chronically, and extends from 1986-1993.

SERIES B. ISRAEL FAXX: consists 4 Hollinger boxes with copies of all the editions of the Israel Faxx issued between February 19th, 1993 and April 29th, 2003. Israel Faxx was a daily fax newsletter distributed by Canaan from Sunday thru Thursday.

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BOX	FOLDER	CONTENTS
  
SERIES A: NEWSCLIPPINGS

1. 	1. 	1986 - 1987
	2.	1988
	3.	1989
	4.	1990
	5.	1991 - 1993
	6.	Undated

SERIES B:  ISRAEL FAXX 
 
2. 	1. 	February – June, 1993. 
	2.	July – December, 1993. 
	3.	January– June, 1994. 
4	.	July – December, 1994.

3. 	1. 	January – June, 1995. 
	2.	June – December, 1995. 
	3.	January – June, 1996. 
	4.	July – December, 1996. 
	5.	January – June, 1997. 
	6.	July – December, 1997. 

4. 	1.	January – June, 1998. 
	2.	July – December, 1998. 
	3.	January – June, 1999. 
	4.	July – December, 1999. 
	5.	January – June, 2000. 
	6.	July – December, 2000.  

5. 	1. 	January – June, 2001.
	2.	July – December, 2001. 
	3.	January – June, 2002. 
	4.	July – December, 2002. 
	5.	January – April, 2003.  

  
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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.
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