- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 633
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a report on the Jewish community of Galt, ON, including the communities of Hespeler and Preston, ON.
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-145
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-145
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w
- Date
- [195-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of a conference at Niagara Falls Ontario.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-21
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-21
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 17 photographs (jpgs)
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm and 9 x 9 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1940]-1973
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 17 scanned photographs of the Greenspan family of Niagara Falls.Included are photos of local children, special family and local events, couples and a B'nai Brith picnic. In addition to the Greenspan family, other families identified in the photographs include the Enchin, Bogomolny and Schneiderman families.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-25
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-25
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- Date
- 1929-1952 (copied 2008)
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of Harold Stein with his parents, brother Richard, and grandmother Emma Levine taken between 1929 and 1949. There is also a photo of Harold's wife Ann Bochner Stein in 1952.
- Administrative History
- Louis Stein and Sadie Levine were children of Polish immigrants who met and married in Toronto around 1920. Louis Stein opened Stein's Ladies Wear in Niagara Falls, running the successful business for many decades. In the 1950s the store merged with his brother-in-law's store, Zuker's Furs and Ladies' Wear (owned by Phil Zuker, married to Sadie's sister Esther). The stores soon separated again, however. Harold Stein was born in 1929 in Niagara Falls.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-26
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-26
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 8 photographs : b&w and col. ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1920]-1994
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs pertaining to the Salit family and the Jewish community of Niagara Falls, Ontario. There is a newspaper clipping, an advertisement for Myer Salit Limited and a fiftieth-anniversary commemorative book for Congregation B'Nai Israel, St Catharines, Ontario (1975).
- Use Conditions
- 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.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Families
- Synagogues
- Places
- Niagara Falls (Ont.)
- St. Catharines (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-15
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-15
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 36 photographs : b&w & col. (jpg)
- Date
- 1945-[1966?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of thirty-six scanned photographs documenting Sandy Roff's family and friends in Niagara Falls. There are five wedding photographs, nineteen photographs of the wedding of donor Sandra Gold to Harvey Roff in 1966, and other snapshots of family and friends such as the Bogomolny and Greenspan families. There is also a photograph of the 1954/55 Niagara Falls Hebrew School students and rabbi.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Henry Rosenbaum fonds
- Photograph series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 121
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 189
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b & w ; 9 cm x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a b & w photo taken in Niagara Falls, Canada in May 1958. From left to right are Henry Rosenbaum, Brenda Rosenbaum, Bella Rosenbaum and Larry Anklewicz.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 1278
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1955 - 1967
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of three reports by the Central Region Research Committee titled "Senior Staff Positions in Jewish Organizations Across Canada", "Speakers Registry of the Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region" and "Newcomers From Israel".
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1940-1966
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material from B'nai Jacob Congregation in Niagara Falls, Ontario. These include bank cheques, utility and hardware bills, insurance policy statements from the 1940s, general correspondence, as well as a report on the dedication of the rebuilt synagogue.
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Communities
- Name Access
- B'nai Jacob Congregation (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
- Places
- Niagara Falls, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-32
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-32
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 2 b&w photographs (copies)
- Date
- [193?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two scanned photographs of work scene in front of the Myer Salit Scrap Metal yard, Niagara Falls.
- Custodial History
- The records were transferred to the OJA as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative.
- Administrative History
- The donor, Larry Cohen, was born 1931. His grandfather, Myer Salit, was born in Brest Litovski, Poland. At the age of twenty-three he booked passage to America on the S.S. Norge. On June 28, 1904 the ship struck a reef off the coast of Scotland and sank. Mr. Salit survived, along with approximately 160 other passengers, and made his way to New York and then St. Catharines, where his brother-in-law, Harry Rubin, was a scrap metal dealer. In 1905 he moved to Niagara Falls and set up his own scrap metal business. He was the first Jewish resident of that community.
- Over time, the business prospered and grew. After the Second World War, his son-in-law Irvin Feldman and grandson Larry Cohen joined the business. The company began to diversify, selling new and used steel products to local industry. Myer Salit passed away in 1958 and left the business in the hands of Irvin and Larry. By the 1960s, the company branched out and became a reinforcing steel (rebar) fabricator and changed its name to Salit Steel.
- During the 1980s the family sold off the scrap metal division of the company. Mr. Feldman retired and the responsibility for managing the firm was shared by Larry Cohen and Steven Cohen, Myer's great-grandson. The company has continued to expand and diversify and currently serves the needs of Southern Ontario.
- Use Conditions
- 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.
- Descriptive Notes
- Related Material Note: See AC 302 for an oral history for Larry Cohen.
- Subjects
- Occupations
- Communities
- Name Access
- Salit, Myer
- Places
- Niagara Falls, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-23
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-8-23
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 5 cm textual records
- 22 photographs : b&w (4 jpg)
- Date
- ca.1928-1994
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records and photographs pertaining to the interrelated Bogomolny and Greenspan families of Niagara Falls. Included is correspondence and speeches relating to Hadassah, a 1957 Sisterhood cookbook, a Hadassah-WIZO 75th anniversary Commemorative Book, a syngagogue yearbook 1960-1961, B'nai B'rith certificates of Abe Bogomolny's, programmes and invitations to special events, two picture postcards and other family photographs, newspaper clippings relating to the Bogomolnys, and immigration documents from 1928. Also included is a senior undergraduate research paper written by Gerald Enchin (originally of Kitchener), entitled, "A Locational Analysis of the Kitchener-Waterloo Jewish Community," 1971.
- Custodial History
- Many of these records were collected and created by Jennie Greenspan Bogomolny, mother of the donor. They were passed to Brenda upon Jennie's death and kept until they came to the OJA.
- Administrative History
- Brenda Bogomolny Enchin is the daughter of Jennie Greenspan and Abe Bogomolny. Jennie was 8 years old in 1928 when she came to Canada with her mother and three brothers. Jennie's mother, Faige Bracha Pomerantz, posed as a widow coming to marry Morris Greenspan, even though they were already married. Morris had come ahead to Ontario where his brother Samuel was already settled. The accession includes documents from the rabbi in Poland attesting to Faige's widowed status so that she could get into Canada. Jennie's older brother was Joseph (father of Eddie and Brian Greenspan). Her younger brother, Abram, is living in Dundas as of 2008. The youngest child was Samuel, who was born in Sept. 1927 just a month after Morris had left Poland, so he met his youngest son a year later. Samuel died at age 48 in 1975.
- Brenda’s mother Jennie married Abraham Bogomolny in 1946. He came to Niagara Falls in the 1930s, and with his brother Hymie opened the Niagara Rug Company, with braided and woven rugs. They were the biggest suppliers to department stores like Woolworths and Eaton’s. There was a fire in May 1968. Jennie was an elementary school teacher, she taught at Memorial School where the Greenspan children went, and Battleford Elementary School, which now gives out the Jennie Bogomolny Citizenship Award every year.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Frankel and Draper family fonds
- Carl and Dorothy Frankel photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 104
- File
- 2
- Item
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1919]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Carl Frankel (on the right) and two other men identified as Louis and Herman at Niagara Falls.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Thelma Harris Rose Family fonds
- Harris family series
- Samuel Aaron and Rose Harris sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 115
- Series
- 1-2
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1928]-[ca. 1935]
- Physical Description
- 51 photographs : b&w (28 negatives) ; 11 x 18 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File contains negatives and photographs documenting the family’s trips to Niagara Falls. Pictured in the photographs are Samuel Aaron, Rose, Sydney, Thelma and Yetta Geldzaeler.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Rosenbaum fonds
- Photograph series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 121
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 190
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b & w ; 13 cm x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a b & w photo taken in 1967 at the floral clock close to Niagara Falls Canada. Standing from left to right are Bella Rosenbaum, Henry Rosenbaum, Linda Goldstein, Murray Rosenbaum, lady behind Murray is Leah Oren, Regina Goldstein, Hela Anklewicz, Rivi Anklewicz and David Oren on the far right.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Rosenbaum fonds
- Photograph series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 121
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 191
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b & w ; 8 cm x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a b & w photo taken in Niagara Falls, Canada. Standing on the far left is Bella Rosenbaum, with Esther and Joe Tzashnik and their daughter Lydia, in the late 1950's.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Client agency correspondence series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 18
- File
- 39
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962-1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and meeting minutes form the Survey Committee of Jewish Education.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 28 photographs : col (20 negatives) ; 9 x 13 cm and 35 mm
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1955-[ca. 1970]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to the B'nai Jacob Congregation Sisterhood of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Included are general and executive meeting minutes as well as photographs of a Shavuot event at the synagogue. Beverly Blackstien is identified in one of the photographs.
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Women
- Name Access
- B'nai Jacob Congregation (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
- Places
- Niagara Falls, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-12
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- technical drawing
- Physical Description
- 56 cm textual records
- 172 photographs
- 2 technical drawings
- Date
- [194?]-1998
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of minutes of meetings, ledgers, correspondence, notes, and photographs documenting the former B'nai Jacob Congregation in Niagara Falls. The material includes records of the Rose Dunkelman chapter of Hadassah (1940s–1950s), Sisterhood (1970s), the merged Hadassah-Sisterhood (1977–1986), Lundy's Lane Cemetery, and the Niagara Falls Jewish Federation (1943-1966). The records include a file with lists of Torah Fund donations, the constitutions of Sisterhood and of B'nai Jacob, many copied newspaper clippings about the Greenspans and Barbara Frum, and a copy of the 1953 CJC Community Self-Survey. There are also two copies of the 1977 Sisterhood New Year's community directory and textual and graphic material on the Holocaust Memorial at the cemetery. Records also include a photocopied chapter from a young adult book telling the story of Niagara Falls resident Irving Milchberg and how as an adolescent he survived the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Warsaw after escaping from the ghetto.
- Accession includes 172 photographs; ninety-six are colour prints from the 1998 Holocaust Memorial dedication ceremony in the cemetery and the rest are special events and shul members in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition there is a collage of twelve photographs picturing music classes and performances. Finally, two oversized landscape technical drawings also relate to the proposed Holocaust Memorial.
- Photo Caption 001-007: Festival of Holidays at B’nai Jacob Congregation, Niagara Falls, 1980.
- Administrative History
- B'nai Jacob Synagogue was a Conservative shul founded in 1918. It amalgamated with the Reform congregation in St. Catharines and became B'nai Tikvah in 1998 and is still located in the original shul building in Niagara Falls.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- B'nai Jacob Congregation (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
- Places
- Niagara Falls (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- The Shuls Project fonds
- Ontario synagogues series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 64
- Series
- 2
- File
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 17 photographs : col. slides, b&w prints ; 35 mm and 12 x 9 cm
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Niagara Falls (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 1
- File
- 18
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence between Ben Dunkelman and Shirley Gold, who wrote on behalf of the Rose Dunkelman Chapter of Hadassah in Niagara Falls, Ontario, inviting Ben to be the chapter's guest speaker at its upcoming 35th anniversary.
- Notes
- For more information about Rose Dunkelman, please see the Rose Dunkelman Fonds.
- Physical Condition
- Records are fragile but in good condition.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Self Study Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 32
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1951
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- In Toronto, there was overlap between the services offered by Canadian Jewish Congress and by the United Jewish Welfare Fund which was established in 1937. This committee was set up to reduce the duplication of service and redefine the mandates of both organizations.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of general files of the Self Study Committee.
- Notes
- Series formerly described and cited as RG264.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Executive Committee series
- Self Study Committee sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 5-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952-1953
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Self Study Committee was established by the board of directors in early 1952 to examine the mandate, organization, and constitution of the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of two files of correspondence and reports produced by the committee.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Research Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 31
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1949-1960
- Physical Description
- 80 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- This committee conducted studies of various aspects of Jewish community life in Ontario. These studies included "self surveys" of smaller Jewish communities in the province, interviews with immigrants from Israel and a study of the consumption of kosher meat in Toronto. Its objective was to study the nature and needs of the Jewish community so that proper services could be provided.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of general files of the Research Committee.
- Notes
- Series formerly described and cited as RG263.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2005-7-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-7-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- ca. 300 slides : col. ; 35 mm
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs taken during visits by CJC Central Region officers to Ontario Jewish communities, and at Canadian Jewish Congress events and meetings in various communities. Accession also includes photos of Jewish interest in Italy.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Friedman, Morris
- Markish, Esther
- Eisenberg, Joe
- Wexler, Boris
- Acker, Abe
- Brownstone, Sam
- Klafter, Gershon
- Rosen, Marty
- Fackenheim, Emil
- Rosensweig, Philip
- Saiger, Norman
- Sadowski, David
- Gryfe, Mark
- Hillel (Kingston, Ont.)
- Frey, Marcus
- Horowitz, Shlomo
- Katz, Stan
- Pliscow, Morris
- Places
- Cambridge (Ont.)
- Chatham (Ont.)
- Sudbury (Ont.)
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Thunder Bay (Ont.)
- Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)
- North Bay (Ont.)
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Belleville (Ont.)
- Windsor (Ont.)
- Pembroke (Ont.)
- Peterborough (Ont.)
- Guelph (Ont.)
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- London (Ont.)
- Kitchener (Ont.)
- Owen Sound (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Barrie (Ont.)
- Orillia (Ont.)
- Kingston (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-3-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-3-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.8 m of textual records
- Date
- [195-]-[196-]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records created by Sydney Harris in his role with the CJC's Joint Community Relations Committee.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-3-9 [Processed]
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-3-9 [Processed]
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2.4 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to the CJC's Joint Community Relations Committee. Some of the records appear to have originated from Ben Kayfetz.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-7
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1964-2003
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of Canadian Jewish Congress Joint Community Relations Committee files pertaining to incidents of antisemitism in Canada. Files include examples of material distributed by neo-Nazi groups, clippings documenting hate crimes trials and antisemitism in scholarship, and JCRC correspondence.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
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