Chevre Gemilas Chasodim Anshei England, Toronto

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