- Part Of
- Jewish Vocational Services of Toronto fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 75
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- moving images
- Date
- 1947-2006
- Physical Description
- 5.1 m of textual records and graphic material
- 1 DVD
- Admin History/Bio
- The Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) was established on 16 June 1947. After the Second World War thousands of survivors arrived in Canada in search of homes, education for their children and jobs. The returning servicemen, in turn, were also in need of employment. For the first two years of its existence, JVS catered exclusively to these two groups. By 1949, it had expanded its mandate to become a community-wide agency.
- Max Enkin, the founder of the post-war "tailor scheme" became its first president and chairman of the board. Under this scheme, he and other members of his delegation were able to bring over 2,200 displaced persons to Canada as skilled tailors. Other members of the JVS board included Lipa Green, Sydney Harris, Dr. Albert Rose and Louis Lockshin. The executive director was Norman Stack. He served for a few years and was replaced by Milton Freidman in 1949. Freidman was a social worker who relocated to Toronto from Buffalo and spent close to 40 years in this position, retiring in 1985.
- JVS's early mandate was to serve as a placement service for applicants and employers and to provide individual counselling services to its clients. Its office was situated above the original Tip Top Tailors building at 455 Spadina Avenue. It later moved its office to 152 Beverley Street and then in the 1960s to Tycos Drive. By the 1960s, JVS began to expand its services to all segments of society including newcomers, people with disabilities and from all sectors of life. The staff included social workers, psychologists, job counsellors and clerical staff.
- During the 1980s, Bernie Berger became the new executive director. He served in that capacity until 1991. He was replaced by Ed Segalowitz. During this period, JVS set up a seniors' program called ATLAZ on the grounds of the Baycrest Home for the Aged. It was funded by the Bick family and was intended to create programs to keep seniors engaged. Today, this program is called the Al Green Resource Centre and provides employment, placement, training and volunteer opportunities to adults of all ages and with developmental disabilities. JVS also launched a youth program called Youthinc and a women's program.
- Karen Goldenberg became executive director in 1998 and was replaced by Frank Markel in 2011 after her retirement. JVS has expanded its clientele, helping people from all backgrounds with diverse needs to identify their strengths and goals, develop skills, and achieve success in school, work and life. By 2009, it offered an expansive range of over 40 employment-related support programs and services throughout the Greater Toronto Area to thousands of unemployed and underemployed individuals and served 23,000 people. They operated out of 12 locations and have approximately 200 professionals on staff.
- Kim Coulter became president and CEO in 2013.
- Custodial History
- The case files were located in the vault with no accession number. They were likely transferred to the OJA during the 1970s or 1980s. They were assigned accession number 2002-10/34.
- The remaining records were in the possession of Amanda Batchelor of JVS, who had acquired the material from various past board and committee members for the creation of the 60th anniversary book.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records documenting the activities, programs, finances, operation and history of the Jewish Vocational Services. Included are meeting minutes, photographs, correspondence, surveys, reports, financial statements, certificates, bulletins, newsletters, newsclippings, press releases, anniversary books, and one DVD. The fonds is arranged into the following series: 1) Formation and history; 2) Board of Directors; 3) Executive board; 4) Annual general meetings; 5) Special and general meetings; 6) Committees; 7) Career, employment and training services; 8) Disability services; 9) Immigrant and newcomer services; 10) Women in New Roles (WINR); 11) Youth services; 12) Volunteer program; 13) Studies and reports; 14) Finance; 15) Personnel; 16) Planning and operations; 17) Publications and publicity; 18) Fundraising; 19) United Way; 20) Events; 21) Conferences and workshops.
- Name Access
- Jewish Vocational Services of Toronto
- Subjects
- Charities
- Immigrants--Canada
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Creator
- Jewish Vocational Services of Toronto (1947-)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 2002-10/34
- 2008-9/6
- 2010-11/7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-7
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- ca. 10 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1986, 1991-2015
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the personal and professional activities of Janice Benatar. Personal records include a family tree, speeches Janice delivered at the Lipa Lippers Toastmaster's Group meetings, a Sephardic cookbook, immigration papers, and a Sharon School Reunion invitation for alumni living in Toronto. Also included are photographs of Janice with her family, performing in a ballet production with the Academy of Ballet and Jazz, with her newborn son, at her son's bar mitzvah at Chabad Flamingo, and with the keys to her first home in Thornhill. Also identified in photographs are: Elan Levitan, Viviane Benatar, Michael Benatar, Claudia Benatar, Rachel Pasternak, and Samuel Pasternak.
- Also included are speeches, invitations, event programs, and video recordings of Book Of Life events as well as a bookmark that was designed by artist Enya Keshet for Book of Life honourees. Finally, accession also includes Professional Advisory Committee meeting minutes (2009-2015) and breakfast seminar presentations (2014-2015).
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Descriptive Notes
- Physical description note: includes 7 photographs, 4 DVDs, 200 KB of textual records, and 1 bookmark.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Nonprofit organizations
- Philanthropy and fundraising
- Women
- Name Access
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1925-1989
- Physical Description
- 31.8 m of textual records
- 319 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada was established in 1920 by the newly-formed Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC). A Toronto branch was established in a storefront office on Spadina Avenue, but the organization was rudimentary. As the enthusiasm that spurred the founding of CJC died out, JIAS soon faltered. Then in 1922 it was taken over and reactivated under the cooperative support of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto, B'nai B'rith, and the Council of Jewish Women. JIAS was legally incorporated on 30 August 1922. It also operated under the moniker of the Emergency Jewish Immigrant Aid Committee, and it changed its name to Jewish Immigrant Aid Services in 1954.
- Charged with organizing emergency relief for European Jews in distress, JIAS became the central agency of the Jewish community to facilitate the lawful entry of Jewish immigrants into Canada, and provided them with welfare services, transportation, and assistance with accommodation and employment after their arrival. In addition, JIAS offered consultation services for sponsors of potential immigrants, ran a competitive foreign remittance service, and campaigned to counter the activities of unscrupulous steamboat agents, lawyers, and influence peddlers, or “shtadlanim,” who often victimized immigrants and sponsors alike.
- In conjunction with similar efforts by the CJC, JIAS was also actively engaged in negotiating for the increased admission of Jewish immigrants to Canada. In 1923, the federal government instituted a permit-based immigration program and JIAS competed with travel agents and solicitors in the private sector for these limited quota permits. After combating the anti-immigration policies of the Depression era, the outbreak of war in 1939 virtually closed the already limited avenues for immigration.
- JIAS Canada was organized into a national office in Montreal and regional offices in Winnipeg (Western Region), Toronto (Central Region), and Halifax (Eastern Region). The Central Region covered Ontario, and established a full-time head office in 1935 at 399 Spadina Avenue in Toronto (hence the Central Region was sometimes called simply the Toronto Office). The office later moved to 265 Spadina Avenue. JIAS Toronto’s board of directors met on a regular basis at different locations in Toronto, including 206 Beverley Street and in the Talmud Torah building at 9 Brunswick Avenue. The first JIAS Toronto board included notable Toronto residents such as Henry Dworkin, Mrs. Draiman, Mr. Kronick, Dr. Brodey and Mrs. Willinsky. The role of the board was to oversee the operations of the Central Region. It rendered decisions on issues relating to finances, procedures and policies, negotiations with the federal Immigration Branch, as well as individual cases that required their attention.
- General meetings of the Central Region membership were held annually. The 1943 JIAS constitution states that regional annual meetings were to be held for “receiving and considering reports,” holding nominations and elections for the executive, and discussing JIAS’s program and policies.
- In the post-war era, JIAS shifted its focus to renewed efforts on behalf of individual claimants and community support, while the focus for lobbying for a reversal of Canada's immigration policy fell increasingly under the jurisdiction of the CJC. A boom in immigration between 1947 and 1952 saw the arrival of large numbers of Jewish immigrants to all parts of Canada and the Toronto Office of JIAS renewed its efforts to meet the needs of this new influx. Major world events also sparked other waves of immigration from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, North Africa, and Russia, to which JIAS responded in turn. JIAS worked in conjunction with other immigrant aid societies such as HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, in the United States, to facilitate immigration to the United States, and later to Israel, where many of the immigrants and refugees coming to Canada had family and ultimately settled.
- Custodial History
- Custody of these records was transferred to the Ontario Jewish Archives by JIAS in 1983, as preparations were under way for the move to a new facility in North York. Much of the material was in four-cubic-foot boxes and in file cabinets.
- The accession was divided into three sections: files which were at the JIAS office and had been retained in their original order; files which had been retrieved from a flood in the basement of 152 Beverley St. and consequently had been thrown into dry boxes without regard to order; files discovered in the furnace rooms at 150 and 152 Beverley St., intact but covered in coal dust. The bulk of the records were stored off-site, with dirty files being isolated from the rest.
- The dust-covered materials were cleaned at an off-site location, placed in temporary boxes and transferred to the Archives and restored, as far as was possible, to their original order.
- Clips were removed and replaced as appropriate with archivally acceptable ones. All materials were transferred to acid-free folders and boxes.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds contains the records of the Toronto Office (Central region) of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. The fonds consists primarily of textual records: minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, immigration files, naturalization case files, social service case files and the records of attempts to trace missing individuals. There are also photographs of special events, speakers and arriving immigrants.
- The fonds represents an important resource for the study of Canadian Jewry, especially when taken in conjunction with the JIAS National Office records at the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives in Montreal, and those of the Western Office at the Library and Archives of Canada. It documents the means by which a particular Canadian ethnic community has dealt with the problems of rescue, settlement and government relations. These records also offer insight into the relationship between the Toronto Office and the other branches of JIAS, and invite comparison with similar agencies in the United States, as well as those of other ethnic groups in Canada.
- The material collected includes information about the countries of origin, transportation routes, settlement and employment patterns of Jewish immigrants to Canada in the twentieth century. The documents also touch upon important related issues such as advocacy, sponsorship, admission processes, health and social problems.
- These records cover several waves of immigration following the Second World War: Holocaust survivors in the late 1940s, Sephardic (North African) and Hungarian Jews in the 1950s, Russian and Czechoslovakian Jews in the 1960s, and additional Russians in the 1970s.
- The records also contain significant information for those researchers looking to conduct genealogical research into Jewish immigrants and their descendents.
- The fonds has been arranged with one sous-fonds, which contains the records of the National JIAS office in Montreal. In total there are 17 series. The Toronto office (main fonds) series are: 1. Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes; 2. Annual meeting proceedings; 3. Reports; 4. Legal ; 5. Administration; 6. JIAS Committees; 7. External committees; 8. Financial ; 9. Arrivals; 10. Immigration case files; 11. Social service assistance case files; 12. Photographs; 13. Miscellaneous. The National Office sous-fonds is divided into the following series: 1. National executive meeting minutes; 2. National annual meeting proceedings; 3. National annual reports; 4. Publications; and Photographs.
- Notes
- Physical description note: Physical extent is based on fully processed records. Additional accessions are not included (see Related Material note below).
- Associated material note: The CJC National Archive, in Montreal, has additional JIAS records from 1920-1989 including 275 m of textual records and graphic materials (3250 photos): collection number I0037; alpha-numeric designation MA 4. The National Archives of Canada, Manitoba branch, in Winnipeg, has Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada JIAS textual records from 1923-1950 on 18 microfilm reels: Former archival reference number MG28-V114 (no replacement listed). The originals of these records are maintained by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada.
- Name Access
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Nonprofit organizations
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Related Material
- Other OJA records relating to JIAS may be found in the following accessions: 1979-9-5; 1988-5-2; 1991-10-5; 2006-3-11.
- Creator
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto
- Accession Number
- 1983-8-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 45
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 29 x 22 cm on mat 44 x 28 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dorothy Dworkin (née Goldstick) was born in Latvia in 1890. She was the daughter of William and Sarah Goldstick. She came to Canada in 1904 at 14 years of age. She studied nursing in the United States, by training at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland. She then took her exams in midwifery, and in 1909, she received her diploma from the State Board of Ohio.
- In 1911 she married Henry Dworkin, who was the founder of the Toronto Labour Lyceum. Henry opened a variety store in 1917, which later became a tobacco and shipping agency business called Dworkin Travel, located at 525 Dundas Street West. Together, the Dworkins helped bring in hundreds of immigrants from Poland, Roumania and Latvia. The couple had a daughter, Ellen, whom they referred to as Honey. In 1928, Henry was tragically killed in an automobile accident. After her husband's death, Dorothy brought up her daughter alone, ran the travel business, and continued to do charitable work with Mount Sinai Hospital.
- Scope and Content
- Portrait of Dorothy Dworkin taken when she was in her 30s at the Lyonde Photo Studio in Toronto.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- 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.
- Related Material
- See Dorothy Dworkin fonds 10.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 45
- Item
- 13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm in mat 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Isadore Goldstick was the son of William Goldstick and Sarah Goldstick. He was born in Latvia in 1890. He graduated with a PhD from the University of Toronto in the Department of Pedagogy in 1928. He married Anna Nathanson in December 1917, and they had two daughters, Reva and Esther. The family lived in London, Ontario. He spent many years teaching at the secondary school level and later became a professor at the University of Western Ontario. He was the author of eight German and French texts that were used in Canadian schools.
- Scope and Content
- Portrait of Isadore Goldstick as a young man.
- Notes
- The image is an albumen print glued on a mat board.
- Subjects
- Authors
- Immigrants--Canada
- Teachers
- 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.
- Related Material
- There is a fonds for the Isadore Goldstick family at the Ottawa Jewish Archives.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1228
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1228
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [190-?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Mark Geldzaeler was born in 1862 in Galicia, probably Kolbuszowa, and died in Toronto in 1932. His wife Yetta [Shumer] (1870-1952) had immigrated to Toronto from Stanislau with her parents, Louis (Leib) and Chava Shumer, in the mid-1880s. Mark and Yetta were married in Toronto on February 2, 1890.
- Prior to his arrival in Toronto, Mark Geldzaeler had been a religious scholar and teacher in the old country. In 1892, he became the Assistant Chazan at Holy Blossom synagogue on Bond Street. This official title notwithstanding, he was also the synagogue's shamus [caretaker], religious school teacher, and bar mitzvah tutor. He lived with his family just behind the synagogue, in a property owned by the synagogue, before eventually moving to a house on Walmer Road.
- The family had six children: Bernard (1891-1974) m. Hortense; Rose (1892-1966) m. Samuel Aaron Harris; Rachel (1897-?) m Isidore Ruskin; Solly (1899-1902); Alfred ("Alfie") Benjamin (1901-1918) d. of influenza during the epidemic; and Freda Frances (1907-2002) m. Simon Ramm.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a studio portrait of Mark Geldzaeler.
- Notes
- Photo by A. Barrett, 324 Yonge St., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Geldzaeler, Mark
- Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-2-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 520
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 520
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is photograph of David Papernick, father of Henry Papernick. David came to Canada in 1884.
- Notes
- No negative.
- Name Access
- Papernick, David
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- Acquired 22 June 2005.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Leonard Berger fonds
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3790
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of the Rottenberg family taken in a studio in 1897, shortly after the time they arrived in Canada. It includes from left to right: Bertha, Goldie, Lena (in front), Louis, Lazer and Rebecca.
- Notes
- For further identification, see accession record.
- Name Access
- Rotenberg family
- Subjects
- Families
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits, Group
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2018-2-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-2-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [1946?]-1951
- Scope and Content
- Accession includes an undated document describing immigration prospects following the Second World War and the anti-immigration sentiment. The document was published by an unknown group "interested in combating race-hatred and anti-Semitism and on strengthening the unity between the groups which make up the people of Canada". In addition, there is a copy of a confidential letter dated February 14, 1951 listing immigrants identified as skilled workers and selected by overseas Canadian immigration officials under the auspices of the Settlement Branch to settle in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. These immigrants were to arrive in Halifax on the above noted date of on board the SS Staveangerfgord.
- Custodial History
- File discovered while processing CJC fonds 17.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Places
- Canada
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-11-13
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-11-13
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1993-1998
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of meeting minutes of the Southern African Jewish Association of Canada (SAJAC). The earliest minutes are from 8 May 1993; the latest minutes are from 12 January 1998.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Name Access
- Southern African Jewish Association of Canada
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1612
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1612
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Photo by Modern Studio.
- Name Access
- Ukrainian Immigrants' Society of Toronto
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Societies
- Ukrainians--Canada
- 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.
- Places
- Toronto Islands (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-12-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2009-3-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-3-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1980
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a report prepared by JIAS Canada detailing the situation of recent immigrant arrivals to various small communities in Ontario. The communities discussed are Cambridge, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Ottawa, St. Catharines and Windsor.
- Custodial History
- The custodial history for this item is unknown. The accession number has been assigned by the assistant archivist.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Communities
- Name Access
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Cambridge (Ont.)
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Kitchener (Ont.)
- London (Ont.)
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- St. Catharines (Ont.)
- Windsor (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 2 May 1976
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one booklet for the annual meeting of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada, Central Region held at Temple Sinai with guest speaker Mr. Gaynor Jacobson, executive vice-president of HIAS.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Name Access
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jacobson, Gaynor
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1541
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1541
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- 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.
- Places
- Halifax (N.S.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-4-9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 628
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 628
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 6 Feb. 1948
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The General Sturgis was originally a military ship (called a Liberty ship) that was being used to transport people from post-Second World War Europe to Canada. The ship accommodated the men on board in stacked cots in the hold, while the women and children slept separately in cabins. The boat had sailed from Braemanhaven, Germany, landing in Halifax on 6 February 1948. On board were Jewish immigrants from displaced persons (DP) camps, most of whom were brought over as tailors with the aid of the Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS). Many of the individuals pictured eventually settled in Montreal.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of the boat General Sturgis landing at Pier 21 in Halifax. Pictured far left in the front is David Mangarten and [his sister Eva], fourth from the right is Eli Goldberg (b. 1897, Rafalovka, Poland-d. 1983, Montreal). Pictured seventh from the right is Mr. Hister.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Ships
- 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.
- Places
- Halifax (N.S.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1229
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1229
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [190-?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Yetta Shumer Geldzaeler (1870-1952) was born in Stanislau to Leib and Chava Shumer. She immigrated to Toronto with her parents in the mid-1880s. In 1890 she married Mark Geldzaeler in Toronto. They had six children: Bernard (1891-1974) m. Hortense; Rose (1892-1966) m. Samuel Aaron Harris; Rachel (1897-?) m Isidore Ruskin; Solly (1899-1902); Alfred ("Alfie") Benjamin (1901-1918) d. of influenza during the epidemic; and Freda Frances (1907-2002) m. Simon Ramm.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a studio portrait of Yetta Shumer Geldzaeler.
- Notes
- Photo by A. Barrett, 324 Yonge St., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Geldzaeler, Yetta Shumer
- Gledzaeler, Mrs. Mark
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 1977-2-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 632
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 632
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Toronto Hebrew Free Loan
- Subjects
- Anniversaries
- Charities
- Immigrants--Canada
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions