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Dr. Sydney Wise - 29 Sep. 2003
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Number
- OH 278
- Subject
- Business
- Immigrants--Canada
- Physicians
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Ellen Scheinberg
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 min.
- Side 2: 30 min.
- Conservation
- Digital copy made April 11, 2011.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Sydney Wise was a Toronto physician and a long-time volunteer at the Ontario Jewish Archives. Sydney was married to Mimi Wise, who had been an active member of Hadassah-WIZO for most of her life. Sydney's father, Anshel Wise, opened a cigar store on Dundas Street, which later turned into a steamship agency called A. Wise Travel Bureau. The latter helped bring immigrants over from Europe.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Wise, Anshel
- Wise, Sydney
- Scheinberg, Ellen
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this portion of the interview, Syd describes his father Anshel Wise’s cigar store and travel business, which opened in the Ward in 1918. Anshel was one of the first steamship agents in Toronto.
In this portion of the interview, Sydney describes his entry into medical school at the University of Toronto. He outlines some of the challenges encountered by Jewish medical students in their search for internship positions.