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Levison family (Owen Sound, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 2008-7-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-7-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 42 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg)
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1902-[ca. 1990]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of electronic photographs of the Levison family from Owen Sound, Ontario. Included in the photos are Rabbi Manfred Levison and his wife Rega, their daughters Miriam and Lottie and their son Benny. Also pictured are Miriam's husband Mike Rabovsky and daughter Goldie; Lottie's husband Ralph Glass and their daughters Rochelle and Janice. The photographs depict the family in China, Medicine Hat, Owen Sound, Sauble Beach, Belle Ewart, and Toronto after the family moved to Palmerston Avenue in 1952.
- The textual records consist of a German birth certificate for Rabbi Levison, a marriage certificate for Rabbi Levison and Rega Wolf and a marriage certificate for his parents Leib Levisohn and Josefine (née Kaufmann) Levisohn.
- Photo Captions:
- 001: Rochelle Glass and Janice Glass with their grandfather Manfred Levison, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1979.
- 002: Goldie Ronald, Miriam Rabovsky, Bruce Ronald and Mike Rabovsky (front), (Owen Sound, ON), ca. 1982
- 003: Goldie Ronald, Bruce Ronald, Miriam Rabovsky, and Mike Rabovsky at the wedding of Craig Levinson, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1990.
- 004: Mike Rabovsky, Miriam Rabovsky (née Levison), Lottie Glass (née Levison) & Ralph Glass, (Owen Sound, ON), ca. 1989.
- 005: [Unidentified], Lottie Levison, [unidentified] and Miriam Levison, China, ca. 1940.
- 006: Benny and Lottie Levison, China, ca. 1940
- 007: Rega Levison (née Wolf), (Medicine Hat, AB), ca. 1948
- 008: Miriam Levison, (Medicine Hat, AB), ca. 1948
- 009: Benny and Lottie Levison, (Owen Sound, ON), 1949.
- 010: Mike Rabovsky, Miriam Levison, [unknown Cadesky], [unknown Cadesky] and Benny Levision (front), Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 011: Mike Rabovsky and Miriam Levison, Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 012: Siblings Lottie, Miriam and Benny Levison, Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 013: Miriam and Lottie Levison, Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 014: Mike Rabovsky and Lottie Levison, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 015: Rega Levison (née Wolf), (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 016: Lottie Levision, (Owen Sound, ON), 1951.
- 017: Rega and her daughter Lottie Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 018: Lottie Levison, Palmerston Avenue, (Toronto, ON), 1952.
- 019: Rega Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 020: Benny Levison, (Toronto, ON), 1952.
- 021: Benny Levison, (Owen Sound, ON), 1952.
- 022: Benny Levison, Mike Rabovsky and Lottie Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 023: Rega and Manfred Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 024: Manfred, Rega, Lottie and: Studio portrait of Ralph Glass, ca. 1935. Benny Levison (front), (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 025: Lottie and Benny Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 026: Levison family at Sauble Beach. Back row: Manfred Levison, Rega Levison and Mike Rabovsky. Front row: Lottie and Benny Levison, (Sauble Beach, ON), 1952.
- 027: Goldie Rabovsky held by her grandmother Rega Levison, Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1953.
- 028: Mike Rabovsky, Goldie Rabovsky, Rega Levison and Miriam Rabovsky (née Levison),Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1953.
- 029: Lottie Levison, Goldie Rabovsky, Rega Levison , Benny Levison and Miriam Rabovsky (née Levison),Harrison Park, (Owen Sound, ON), 1953.
- 030: Goldie and Mike Rabovsky, Victoria Day Weekend, Palmerston Avenue, (Toronto, ON), 1954.
- 031: Miriam and Goldie Rabovsky, Victoria Day Weekend, Palmerston Avenue, (Toronto, ON), 1954.
- 032: Lottie Levison, Glass family cottage, (Belle Ewart, ON), June 1955.
- 033: Ralph Glass, Glass family cottage, (Belle Ewart, ON), June 1955.
- 034: Lottie Levison, Ralph Glass and Arlene Glass (front), Glass family cottage, (Belle Ewart, ON), June 1955.
- 035: Arlene and Ralph Glass, Glass family cottage, (Belle Ewart, ON), June 1955.
- 036: Ralph Glass, Glass family cottage, (Belle Ewart, ON), June 1955.
- 037: Sally White and Lottie Levison, Palmerston Avenue, (Toronto, ON), November 1955.
- 038: Lottie Levison and Ralph Glass, Palmerston Avenue, (Toronto, ON), November 1955.
- 039: Miriam, Mike and Goldie Rabovsky, (Owen Sound, ON), August 1959.
- 040: Goldie Rabovsky, backyard garden, (Owen Sound, ON), August 1959.
- 041: Goldie Rabovsky, (Owen Sound, ON), August 1959.
- 042: Studio portrait of Ralph Glass, ca. 1935.
- Administrative History
- Lottie Glass is the daughter of Rabbi Manfred Levison and Rega (née Wolf) Levison. The Glass family including Lottie's siblings Miriam (m. Rabovsky) and Benny moved to Canada in 1947. They emigrated from China where they had been living since 1939. In Canada, the family first settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta and moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1949. In 1950 they settled in Ontario first moving to Welland and then Owen Sound (1950-1952). In the summer of 1952, the family moved to Toronto and lived on Palmerston Avenue. Miriam and her husband Mike Rabovsky remained in Owen Sound. In 1954 after the death of his wife Rega, Rabbi Levison travelled to the United States in search of work and eventually settled in Brooklyn, New York.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Families
- Name Access
- Levison, Rabbi Manfred
- Levison, Rega (née Wolf)
- Levison, Benny
- Glass, Lottie
- Glass, Ralph
- Glass, Rochelle
- Glass, Janice
- Rabovsky, Miriam
- Rabovsky, Mike
- Ronald, Goldie (née Rabovsky)
- Ronald, Bruce
- Places
- Owen Sound, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
