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Yankel Jessel
- Accession Number
- 1977-5-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1977-5-8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 36 photographs (1 vol., 10 negatives) : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- [192-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one photo album that belonged to Yankel Jessel. This album was presented to him in 1927 by his friends as a going away gift before he left for Palestine. The album consists of sixteen photographs depicting synagogues from Toronto including: Shomrei Shabbos, Goel Tzedec, the Shaw Street Synagogue, Holy Blossom, the McCaul Street Synagogue, Beth Jacob, the Ostrovtzer Synagogue, the Russian Synagogue on Centre Avenue, and the Hebrew Men of England Congregation. Also included in the album are photographs of the auditorium of the Hebrew Free School Temple Emanuel and Shearith Israel Synagogues in New York City, a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York; and the Englewood Synagogue in New Jersey. There are copy prints and negatives of the photos depicting Toronto institutions as well as an additional print and copy negative of staff standing in front of United Bakers on Spadina Avenue.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Places
- New Jersey
- New York (N.Y.).
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions