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Chevre Gemilas Chasodim Anshei England, Toronto
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1902
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1902
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1910 or 1911]
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The congregation was formed in 1909 and operated out of a building on Simcoe Street. Its first synagogue building was opened on Spadina Ave. in 1921. Around 1960, the congregation moved to the Bathurst and Sheppard area after the Synagogue was damaged by fire. In 1975 the congregation merged with Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Chevre Gemilas Chasodim Anshei England, Toronto, taken in the back yard of the Hebrew Men of England Synagogue, Toronto (Simcoe Street).
- Identified in this photograph are:
- Back row, left to right: [unidentified]; Jacob Fine; [unidentified]; [unidentified]; [unidentified]; [unidentified]; Greenberg; Shlomo Taub.
- Second row, left to right: [unidentified]; [unidentified]; [unidentified]; [Max Landau]; [unidentified]; Solomon Blumstein, 1870-1931; Blumstein's son Charles, age 5; Rabbi [?]; [unidentified]; [unidentified].
- First row, left to right: [unidentified]; Yanikoff; Yarmolinsky (child); [unidentified]; [unidentified].
- Notes
- 11/30/2017: Max Landau identified by Marilyn Platnick Glass.
- Name Access
- Blumstein, Charles
- Blumstein, Solomon
- Chevre Gemilas Chasodim Anshei England
- Fine, Jacob
- Greenberg
- Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Landau, Max
- Taub, Shlomo
- Yanikoff
- Yarmolinsky
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Repro Restriction
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- The original photograph is quite brittle and the upper right corner is cracked. It is in need of conservation work.
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Simcoe Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-11-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions