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Joseph H. Fox [textual record, graphic material]

Accession Number: 1999-10-6

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1999-10-6

Material Format: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 5 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 15 cm on matte 21 x 25 cm or smaller; 8 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 15 cm or smaller; 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: Accession consists of photographs and records relating to the Fox, Goldberg, and Dennis families, with the bulk of the materials relating to Joseph H. Fox, a storekeeper in Orillia and Toronto. Accession includes a photograph of the Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society picnic at Port Dalhousie Park on July 23, 1939. Documents include translations in English of birth registrations for Chaim Fuchs and Rose Bleich, an affadavit by a police magistrate in Orillia, Ontario for Joseph Fox, deed of sale for a seat in the University Avenue Synagogue (Goel Tzedec) by Z. Shore to Joseph Fox, and a biography of Joseph Fox by his grandson Melville Goldberg. In addition there is a military passport in German for Chaim Frichs.

Name Access: Fox, Joseph H.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Rosenberg [textual record] – 1920.

Accession Number: 1984-8-2

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1984-8-2

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1920

Scope and Content: Accession consists of the Canadian Certificate of Naturalization for Joseph Rosenberg dated March 8, 1920.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Alexandroff [textual record, graphic material] – 1941-1990.

Accession Number: 1990-10-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1990-10-1

Material Format: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 24 cm; 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1941-1990

Scope and Content: The accession consists of 1 photograph of the 1941-42 officers of Viceroy Reading Lodge, B'nai Brith, Hamilton; correspondence between Joseph Alexandroff and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Lincoln M. Alexander, 1985; a bencher for the bar mitzvah of Joseph Alexandroff's great nephew, Brandon Alexandroff, May 19, 1990 at Congregation Knesseth Israel; and photocopies of letters written to, and newspaper clippings from, the Hamilton Spectator.

Administrative History: Joseph Alexandroff was born on October 19, 1907, the first-born son of Boris and Rebecca Alexandroff and one of the first Jewish children born in the Junction. He was a long-time member and supporter of Congregation Knesseth Israel.

Use Conditions: Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Name Access: Knesseth Israel (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph and Annie Levine and family and Manny Pullan photographs [graphic material] – [ca. 1912]-[ca.1945].

Accession Number: 1990-12-8

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1990-12-8

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 10 x 8 cm and 2 x 4 cm

Date: [ca. 1912]-[ca.1945]

Scope and Content: This accession consists of a copy negative of Joseph and Annie Levine and Family, Toronto, ca. 1912 and one mounted photograph of Manny Pullan in RCAF uniform, early 1940s.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Skulko [textual record] – 1938-1945.

Accession Number: 1988-1-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1988-1-1

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1938-1945

Scope and Content: Accession consists of documents related to Joseph Skulko including two copies of an engagement certificate, a ketuba and a Canadian Certificate of Naturalization.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Harris Prager [textual record] – 1898.

Accession Number: 1985-3-8

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1985-3-8

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1898

Scope and Content: Accession consists of the donor's grandfather Joseph Harris Prager's Canadian Certificate of Naturalization. This document was issued by the Court of General Sessions of the County of York.

Administrative History: Joseph Prager came to Canada from Austria.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Graner [textual record] – 1910-1950.

Accession Number: 1991-5-9

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1991-5-9

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1910-1950

Scope and Content: Accession consists of material documenting the business career and community involvement of Joseph Graner. Included are receipts, insurance release foms, bills, and an auditor's financial report. His company is decribed on letterheads as dealing with steamship tickets, real estate, foreign exchange, insurance, loans, mortgages, valuations, and rent collection. There are three items of historic paper foreign currency from Germany and Russia. As well there are order forms for Universal Garment Company Sportswear Specialists, and a seal for Joseph Graner, Justice of the Peace for Toronto and the County of York. Finally there are press clippings and correspondence pertaining to his community activities with organizations such as Associated Hebrew Schools, Goel Tzedec Synagogue, Ontario Zionist Association, the Conservative Association, and committees protesting the persecution of Jews in Poland and Gemany before the Second World War.

Administrative History: Joseph Graner was one of the founders of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the Jewish Dispensary (the forerunner of Mount Sinai Hospital). A biography is included with the Instrument of Donation.

Name Access: Graner, Joseph

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Kalman Wainryb [graphic material, textual record] – 1921.

Accession Number: 1979-12-5

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1979-12-5

Material Format: graphic material; textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records; 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 4 cm

Date: 1921

Scope and Content: Accession consists of documents and a passport photograph pertaining to the immigration of Joseph Kalman Wainryb (Wajnryb) age 17 from Warsaw, Poland to Toronto in 1921.These include his passport, legal and medical certificates, and ship's cabin and landing cards.

Subjects: Immigrants--Canada

Name Access: Wainryb, Joseph Kalman

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Atkins [graphic material] – [ca. 1920]-1929.

Accession Number: 2004-5-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2004-5-1

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 2 photographs : 22 x 25 cm

Date: [ca. 1920]-1929

Scope and Content: This accession consists of two photographs taken of members of the Kirkland Lake community. One photograph is of the Kaplan family, including Sime Kaplan and her children Abraham, Nathan, Fannie and Isadore. This photograph was taken around 1920 in Lithuania. The second photograph was taken at the Kirkland Lake Fireman's Ball in the late 1920s. Included in the photograph are Harry Atkins, Max Kaplan, Albert Kokotow, Faye Atkins, Sonia Kaplan, and Anne Black

Administrative History: Hyman Kaplan moved to Kirkland Lake from Lithuania in 1914. The rest of his family followed in 1923

Name Access: Joseph Atkins.; Kaplan family.

Places: Kirkland Lake.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Eisenberg [graphic material, textual record] – [between 1930 and 1975].

Accession Number: 2004-6-2

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2004-6-2

Material Format: graphic material; textual record

Physical Description: 140 photographs : b&w; 30 x 24 cm or smaller; 1 folder of textual records

Date: [between 1930 and 1975]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of records documenting Jewish entertainers, including Yiddish theatre actors, comedians, singers and screen actors. Most of the entertainers depicted were American, however, several photographs have been autographed indicating that they may have performed in Toronto at one of the early Jewish theatres. Records are predominantly photographs, with a few pamplets and a movie publicity brochure.

Administrative History: Joseph Eisenberg's was born in Poland on March 4, 1895. He came to Canada with his father Alexander and mother Rebeccah Eisenberg in 1906.; Joseph Eisenberg married Sadie Schwartz and had three children named Ted, Thelma, and Julius.; Both Alexander and Joseph became prominant members of the Conservative Party, each dedicating fifty odd years to the promotion and support of the party within Canada. In fact the Eisenberg home was known as the unofficial headquarters of the Ward 4 Conservatives.; Joseph was involved with Jewish theatre in Toronto as the representative of the Hebrew Actors Union of America.; He was also one of the first members of the Farband Labour Zionist Movements, and was actively involved the labour movement in Canada

Source: Archival Accessions

Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Steinberg [object, textual record] – 1 Jan. 1931.

Accession Number: 1981-12-4

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1981-12-4

Material Format: object; textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records; 4 plaques

Date: 1 Jan. 1931

Scope and Content: Included in this accession is a Jewish National Fund certificate given to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Steinberg of Sudbury, Ontario on the occasion of their 15th wedding anniversary on 1 Jan. 1931. There are also four plaques.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Martin memoir [textual record] – 1931.

Accession Number: 1996-3-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1996-3-1

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1931

Scope and Content: Accession consists of a photocopy of the memoir of Joseph Martin, written in Yiddish with an English translation.

Places: Timmins.; Englehart.

Source: Archival Accessions

Stag to [honour] Dr. Joseph Gollom on eve of his marriage, King Edward Hotel, 7 May 1936 [graphic material] – 1936.

Accession Number: 2005-11-7

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2005-11-7

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 19 cm; 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1936

Scope and Content: Accession consists of a photograph of a stag for Dr. Joseph Gollom held at the King Edward Hotel on the eve of his marriage. A list of attendees is also included.

Descriptive Notes: See list accompanying the photograph for the names of people attending the party.

Subjects: Bachelor parties

Name Access: Gollom, Joseph; King Edward Hotel (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Shoham [graphic material] – 1981.

Accession Number: 2007-5-2

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2007-5-2

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 item

Date: 1981

Scope and Content: This accession consists of one oversized portrait photograph of Joseph Shoham, the first director of the BJE Media and Resource Centre, from 1972 to 1980. The photograph is a print created in 1981 from an original negative and is fixed onto a matte. The original frame has been discarded.

Custodial History: The portrait was in the possession of the BJE Media Library until donated to the Archives on 2007-05-03.

Subjects: Portraits

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Burke (Belleville, Ont.) [graphic material (electronic), textual record (electronic)] – 1927, 1970.

Accession Number: 2007-6-29

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2007-6-29

Material Format: graphic material (electronic); textual record (electronic)

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w (jpg); 1 document : col. (jpg)

Date: 1927, 1970

Scope and Content: This accession consists of a scanned photograph of Joe and Fanny Diamond and a digital image of the Belleville Fashion Show Program from 1970.

Use Conditions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Subjects: Communities

Name Access: Diamond, Joe; Diamond, Fanny

Places: Belleville, Ont.

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Fremar - 14 May 1974

Name: Joseph Fremar

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: 14 May 1974

Source: Oral Histories

Name: Joseph Fremar

Number: OH 21

Subject: Business; Food; Occupations

Interview Date: 14 May 1974

Quantity: 2 cassettes (1 copy); 1 MP3 file

Interviewer: Bess Shockett

Total Running Time: 12:59 minutes

Conservation: Copied to cassette tape in August 2003.; Digitized in June 2010.

Use Restrictions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Biography: Joseph "Joe the Orange Man" Fremar was a produce merchant in Kensington Market and opened his location at 234 Augusta Avenue in 1938. Fremar, commonly referred to as the "Orange Man," was a member of the Kiever Synagogue.

Material Format: sound recording

Name Access: Fremar, Joseph; Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.); Shockett, Bess

Geographic Access: Augusta Avenue (Toronto, Ont.); Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Source: Oral Histories

In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the social politics and financial expectations around belonging to certain Toronto synagogues versus others.

In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the changing population of Toronto

Joseph Klinghofer - 3 Dec. 1985

Name: Joseph Klinghofer

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: 3 Dec. 1985

Source: Oral Histories

Name: Joseph Klinghofer

Number: OH 112

Interview Date: 3 Dec. 1985

Quantity: 1

Interviewer: Phyllis Platnick

Conservation: Copied August 2003

Notes: Second interview

Use Restrictions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Biography: Dr. Joseph Klinghofer worked for the Polish underground in Warsaw during the Second World War. He owned a German-Polish identity card under the false name of a Roman Catholic, Yadeuz Cyryl Dabrowski and his wife, Gisela Klinghofer had a similar one under a false name. There is also a UN Displaced Persons identity card issued for Joseph Klinghofer in Salzburg, Austria in 1945.; Dr. Joseph Klinghofer, worked with the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) from 1949 to 1972, and was its Educational Director in the 1960s and 1970s. He visited North Bay and other communities to supervise the progress of pupils and the education standards in the community programs as well as recommending candidates to teach the programs.; The Joseph and Gisela Klinghofer Scholarship in Jewish Studies exists at the University of Toronto and is awarded to a graduate student in the Jewish Studies collaborative program based on academic merit, and also on financial needs.

Material Format: sound recording

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette

Source: Oral Histories

Joseph Addison - 12 May 1982

Name: Joseph Addison

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: 12 May 1982

Source: Oral Histories

Name: Joseph Addison

Number: OH 128

Subject: Athletes; Sports; Associations, institutions, etc

Interview Date: 12 May 1982

Quantity: 1 cassette (1 copy); 1 WAV file

Total Running Time: 31:21 minutes

Conservation: Copied August 2003; Digitized in November 2014 ceases to be audible at 14:03 minutes; Recording fades and is not audible at 14:03 minutes

Use Restrictions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Biography: Joseph Addison was an active member of the Brunswick Street YMHA and its executive committee member. He also held the position of vice president and chair of the board. Addison was a handball enthusiast and was the first chair of the Canadian Handball Association. Joseph Addison was a judge.

Material Format: sound recording

Language: English

Name Access: Young Men's Hebrew Association (Toronto, Ont.)

Geographic Access: Toronto (Ont.)

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Transcript: G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 128 - Addison\OH128_Log.pdf

Source: Oral Histories

Joseph Alexandroff - 1987-1988

Name: Joseph Alexandroff

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: 1987-1988

Source: Oral Histories

Name: Joseph Alexandroff

Number: OH 198; OH 199; OH 200; OH 201; OH 202; OH 203; OH 204; OH 205; OH 206

Subject: History of Jewish Community in the Junction Good

Interview Date: 1987-1988

Quantity: 9

Interviewer: Diana Fancher

Conservation: Copied August 2003

Use Restrictions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.; USE CONDITIONS: As a courtesy, kindly notify Joseph Alexandroff's daughter Cheryl Zener in advance of publishing.

Biography: Joseph Alexandroff was born on 19 October 1907, the first-born son of Boris and Rebecca Alexandroff, and one of the first Jewish children born in the Junction. He was a long-time member and supporter of Congregation Knesseth Israel.

Material Format: sound recording

Name Access: Knesseth Israel (Toronto, Ont.)

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Source: Oral Histories

Joseph Warner [graphic material] – 1944.

Accession Number: 2010-5-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2010-5-1

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Date: 1944

Scope and Content: Accession consists of one copy photograph of Joseph Warner and his school friends on Yonge Street while on leave from military service during the Second World War. Identified from left to right are: Joseph Warner (Royal Canadian Air Force), Murray Vernon (Royal Canadian Navy), and Joseph Oiffer (Canadian Army).

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.

Places: Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Webber [textual record, object, graphic material] – 1938-1963.

Accession Number: 2011-6-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2011-6-1

Material Format: textual record; object; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 cup : metal ; 25 cm high mounted on stand 11 cm high; 1 name tag : 2 x 6 cm; 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 19 cm mounted on board 43 x 36 cm; 3 cm of textual records

Date: 1938-1963

Scope and Content: Accession consists of records documenting Joseph Webber's membership in the Linitzer Sick Benefit Society. Included are four Linitzer Society jubilee books, one portrait of Joseph that was presented to him on the society's thirtieth anniversary, one "20 Year Member" name tag, and one cup that was awarded to Joseph in 1943 for not drawing benefits for 20 years.

Administrative History: Joseph Webber was born around 1890 in Pogrebishche, Ukraine to Hershel and (?) Webber. He had three siblings: Chisey, Arrona (?), and Esther. Joseph married Risa and together they had three children: Al, Sam, and Ann. Sometime prior to the First World War, Joseph immigrated to Canada with his family. Joseph's first wife likely passed away sometime after coming to Canada and he was re-married to Bella Citron in 1926. He and Bella had one daughter in 1926 named Florence.; Joseph worked as a furrier and was a founding member of the Linitzer Sick Benefit Society, which was formed in 1913. He passed away in Toronto in 1977.

Subjects: Societies

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Rabbi Joseph Kelman [textual record, graphic material, object] – 1949-2009.

Accession Number: 2012-2-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2012-2-1

Material Format: textual record; graphic material; object

Physical Description: 45 cm of textual records and other material

Date: 1949-2009

Scope and Content: Accession consists of the records created and accumulated by Rabbi Joseph Kelman. The records detail Kelman's involvement with a number of organizations, particluarly Reena, She'arim Hebrew Day School, and Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue. They also document the numerous awards and tributes he received in his life and detail his personal life. The records primarily consist of personal and professional correspondence, event invitations, photographs, news clippings, and biographical material. There is also one file folder related to Sol Edell, the brother of the donor, and an oversized photograph of the Harbord Collegiate choral society and orchestra.; Photo Captions:; 001: Portrait of Rabbi Joseph Kelman, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1950s.; 002: Simcaht Torah celebrations, Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue, 100 Elder St. (Toronto, ON), [197-].; 003: Rabbi Kelman meets the chief of staff of the Israeli police, Mordecai Gur, [Israel], [197-].; 004: Rabbi Joseph Kelman awarded with honorary doctorate, [198-?].; 005: James Harris, Rabbi Joseph Kelman, Liberal leader John Turner and [identified], Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue, 100 Elder St. (Toronto, ON), 1984.

Custodial History: The records were in the possession of Rabbi Joseph Kelman until his death in 2009. They were donated to the Archives by his wife, Sara Edell Shafler Kelman, on 1 February 2012.

Administrative History: Rabbi Kelman was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927, the son of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and Mirl Kelman and the descendent of a long line of distinguished rabbis. He immigrated to Toronto with his family at the age of three in 1930. He attended Harbord Collegiate and was ordained at Yeshiva University in New York. Beginning in 1953, Kelman became seved as a rabbi in Sherbrooke, QC; Beverley, MA; and Suffern, NY; before accepting the pulpit at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagoge in Toronto in 1959. At the time, Beth Emeth was a small congregation in the fledgling Bathurst Manor neighbourhood. He facilitated its merging with Bais Yehuda to form BEBY, and under his guidance it grew to become the third-largest Conservative synagogue in the GTA with a membership of approximately 1,500 families.; Kelman's life work was dedicated to providing opportunities for the developmentally disabled and learning challenged in the Jewish community. He was the founder of the Ezra and Kadima Schools, the Kadima Centre, the Camp Tikvah program, the Reena Foundation, Chai Tikvah, and She'arim Hebrew Day School. He also served as a chaplain in Toronto hospitals and jails.; Rabbi Kelman was the recipeint of numerous awards for his contributions to Jewish education and community service, including a honorary doctorate from Ryerson University and Tel Aviv University. The Kelman School for Jewish Education at Tel Aviv University is named in his honour. Rabbi Kelman died on 27 June 2009 at the age of eighty-two.

Use Conditions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Descriptive Notes: Includes approx. 50 photographs, 1 CD and 1 artifact.

Subjects: Rabbis

Name Access: Kelman, Joseph, 1927-2009

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Atkins and the Bugle Band of the 208th Canadian Infantry Battalion [graphic material] – [between Aug. 1916 and Aug. 1918].

Accession Number: 2013-6-3

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2013-6-3

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 30 cm + identification key

Date: [between Aug. 1916 and Aug. 1918]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of one group photograph of the Bugle Band of the 108th Canadian Infantry Battalion (the Irish Canadians). Joseph Atkins is seated in the front row, 4th from the right.

Custodial History: The photograph was in the possession of Beryl Kofman, the niece of Joseph Atkins. She inherited it from her father, Benjamin Atkins.

Administrative History: Joseph Atkins was born in Russia to Sarah and Henry Atkins around 1900. He was the youngest of 8 children. His siblings include: Benjamin, Harry, Edelle, Lillian, and Francis. The family likely immigrated to Toronto prior to the outbreak of the First World War and Sarah ran a convenience store at 204 Gerrard Street. Joseph joined the Canadian army at age 16 in August 1916. He was killed in action on August 8th 1918 in France.

Subjects: Religion

Name Access: Atkins, Joseph, 1900-1918

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph Baruch Salsberg [textual record, graphic material, object] – 1919-1991.

Accession Number: 2018-1-7

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2018-1-7

Material Format: textual record; graphic material; object

Physical Description: 6 cm of textual records; 104 photographs : b&w and col. (3 slides) ; 30 x 23 cm and smaller; 1 banner

Date: 1919-1991

Scope and Content: Accession consists of handwritten Yiddish writings from the 1930s and 1940s; newspaper clippings about Salsberg's move away from the Communist Party; tributes to Dora Wilensky including newsletters and journals from the Canadian Association of Social Workers, the Ontario Welfare Council, and the Neighborhood Workers Association; correspondence and a newspaper clipping about the Dora Wilensky Fund; drafts and newspaper clippings of tributes to poet Melech Ravitch; and miscellany including a banner from the Labour Council of Kiryat Yam commemorating a medical centre named in honour of Salsberg, a floor plan of the 21st legislature of Ontario parliament, and a publication of the story The Young Wanderer by Eliezer Smoli and Moshe Smilansky 1945. In addition, the accession includes letters by J. B. Salsberg to his wife Dora Wilensky and various letters to Salsberg from individuals such as politician Leslie M. Frost, actor Lou Jacobi, and president of the Workmen's Circle Israel Breslow. Of particular note is a letter from the Consulate General of the United States, including a copy of an order from the Department of Justice confirming his defection from the Communist Party and granting entrance into the United States according to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Also included are photographs of an art exhibition by Israel Kaplansky 1983; family photographs and portraits; photographs of J. B. Salsberg at various events; photographs of Dora Wilensky's family; and three 35 mm slides of J. B. Salsberg.

Administrative History: Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902-1998) was a labour leader, political activist, politician, insurance salesman, and journalist. He was also active in various Jewish organizations, including: the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and the New Fraternal Jewish Association. He is well-remembered by contemporaries, such as Sam Lipshitz, as a “champion of the people”, committed to social justice, the plight of the working class, and the preservation of Jewish culture.; J. B. was born in Lagov, Poland on November 5, 1902 to Abraham and Sarah-Gittel Salsberg. Abraham immigrated to Toronto in 1910 and J. B. followed with his mother and two younger sisters in 1913. They settled at 73 Cecil Street. Abraham and Sarah-Gittel had additional children in Canada: Nathan (b. 1915), Reuven (Bob or Robert, b. 1917), Betty, and Thelma. Abraham worked as a peddler in Toronto.; J. B. briefly attended Landsdowne Public School, but dropped out around 1915, against his parents' wishes, and took a job in a leather goods factory to contribute to his family’s income. J. B.’s parents had hoped he would become a rabbi and, despite his full-time employment, J. B. continued to study the Torah with scholars at the synagogue on Centre Avenue.; In 1917, J. B. decided to pursue the ideas of Zionism and socialism and, abandoning his plans to become a rabbi, became involved in establishing the Young Poale Zion organization, a Labour Zionist youth group dedicated to secular aims. Around 1922, J. B. was made secretary general of the Young Poale Zion of America in New York, where he worked for one year. Shortly after returning to Toronto, he became the organizer for the Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union of North America in Chicago. J. B. married Dora Wilensky in 1927.; In 1926, J. B. joined the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). He was an active member of the CPC for 30 years, serving as the head of its Trade Union Department for two decades. In 1929 he was suspended from the party for one year as a dissenter. In 1932, he became the Southern Ontario District union organizer for the Communist Workers' Unity League.; It was as a member of the CPC that J. B. entered electoral politics. After a series of failed bids in municipal and provincial elections between 1935 and 1937, J. B. was elected alderman of Ward 4 in Toronto in 1938. He only held the position for one year. In 1943, J. B. was elected to the Ontario Legislature as the representative for the St. Andrew riding. J. B. sat as Member of Provincial Parliament for the Labor-Progressive Party (the provincial wing of the CPC) for 12 years. For several years, he was the only elected Communist in North America. As MPP, he helped create legislation banning discrimination in public places and introduced a bill that would ensure fair employment practices in the province. He lost his seat to Allan Grossman in 1955 and unsuccessfully ran in the federal election later that year. Remembered by journalist Gordon Sinclair as “one of the best debaters in the house”, J. B. was well-respected by members of all political parties. Out of admiration for J. B., Conservative Premier Leslie Frost named Salsberg Township in Northern Ontario in his honour.; Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, J. B. had grown increasingly concerned about reports of Soviet antisemitism and privately urged party leaders to pursue the issue. In 1956, when Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev exposed the transgressions of Stalin’s regime, J. B. went to Moscow as part of a CPC delegation. After meeting with Khrushchev himself, it became clear to J. B. that antisemitism was indeed a problem in the USSR and that his efforts to probe the situation were being stonewalled.; J. B. publicly expressed his concerns about Soviet antisemitism in a series of articles published in the Vochenblatt from October 25, 1956 to December 13, 1956. He finally left the Communist Party in 1957. However, he remained a member of the United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), a Communist Jewish fraternal organization.; Entering the business world, J. B. established the Model Insurance Agency Limited in 1957, where he served as president for several years. In 1959 J. B.’s wife, Dora, passed away. Around this time J. B. also resigned from the UJPO, along with other members who felt the organization needed to be more critical of the Soviet Union. They founded an alternative, non-Communist left-wing Jewish organization, the New Fraternal Jewish Association, where J. B. served as president for several terms and edited its publication “Fraternally Yours”.; In his later life, J. B. was active as an executive member of organizations, such as the CJC and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. He was the first chairman for the CJC Ontario Region’s Soviet Jewry Committee and the Committee for Yiddish. He also began writing an award-winning weekly column for the Canadian Jewish News. J. B. was awarded the CJC’s Samuel Bronfman Medal for distinguished service, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto’s Ben Sadowski Award of Merit. A strong supporter of Israel, he was involved in the creation of two Israeli medical centres that are named in his honour. He also helped establish the J. B. and Dora Salsberg Fund and the J. B. Salsberg Fund for Yiddish at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. J. B. passed away in 1998.

Name Access: Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998; Wilensky, Dora, 1902-1959

Source: Archival Accessions

Joseph B. Salsberg | Ontario Jewish Archives

URL: http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Joseph-B.-Salsberg

Source: OJA Website

URL: http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Joseph-B.-Salsberg

Source: OJA Website

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Joseph Gary's Grocery

Address: 420 College Street

Source: Landmarks

Joseph Gary and Goldie (nee Lawrence) Gary married in 1921 in Rochester, N.Y. Shortly thereafter they moved to Toronto. Joseph and Goldie had three children; daughters Ethel (Halter) and Shirley (Cohen), and son Leslie. They owned and operated a grocery store on College Street. In 1950, after three years of visiting the region, Joseph and Goldie purchased a home on Amelia Street in Pontypool, ON. As the area was a popular summer resort spot for vacationing Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s, Joseph and Goldie decided to build 10 cottages on their land for rental, which they named Gary's Cottages. The area was relatively cheap and had a pond as its swimming spot. Kosher meals would often be brought in for the vacationers who arrived on two trains daily from Union station. The cottages were sold around 1970 and are no longer in existence, however their home is still standing.

Address: 420 College Street

Scope Note: Joseph Gary and Goldie (nee Lawrence) Gary married in 1921 in Rochester, N.Y. Shortly thereafter they moved to Toronto. Joseph and Goldie had three children; daughters Ethel (Halter) and Shirley (Cohen), and son Leslie. They owned and operated a grocery store on College Street. In 1950, after three years of visiting the region, Joseph and Goldie purchased a home on Amelia Street in Pontypool, ON. As the area was a popular summer resort spot for vacationing Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s, Joseph and Goldie decided to build 10 cottages on their land for rental, which they named Gary's Cottages. The area was relatively cheap and had a pond as its swimming spot. Kosher meals would often be brought in for the vacationers who arrived on two trains daily from Union station. The cottages were sold around 1970 and are no longer in existence, however their home is still standing.

Category: Food-related business

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Joseph and Joyce Herman [graphic material, textual record] – 1992, Nov. 1993.

Accession Number: 2021-9-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2021-9-1

Material Format: graphic material; textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of graphic material and textual records

Date: 1992, Nov. 1993

Scope and Content: Accession consists of material documenting Joseph and Joyce Herman. Included are thirty-three photographs taken at a gathering held at the Beth Ezekiel Synagogue in Owen Sound, Ontario, on 10 November 1993, on the occasion of their move to British Columbia.; Identified in the photographs are: Carol Brooman, David Brooman, Molly Cadesky, Sarah Cadesky, Marilyn Fedorenko, Rynaldo Fedorenko, Bernie Fishman, Myrna Fishman, Hy Fromstein, Sylvia Fromstein, Avrum "Av" Gorbet, Norman "Norm" Gorbet, Ruth Gorbet, Tillie Gorbet, Avrum Green, Emmy Green, Joe Herman, Joyce Herman, Steven Hershoran, Gary Levine, Julia Levine, Bertha Rabovsky, Mike Rabovsky, Miriam Rabovsky, Karen Rich, Lorne Rich, Goldie Ronald (née Rabovsky), and Alisa Van Wyck.; Also included are two textual records: a copy of the speech given by Tillie Gorbet at the 1992 synagogue event held in honour of Joyce when she stepped down as synagogue president and Joyce’s acceptance speech from the same event.

Administrative History: Joe Herman (29 April 1925–21 April 2005) was born in Toronto. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at age seventeen and trained as a navigator. He was a graduate of the the School of Optometry of Ontario. Joyce (11 July 1927–23 April 2020) was born Roslyn Joyce Cainer in Miami, Florida. Her family returned to Toronto in 1929. Joe and Joyce married in 1948 and moved first to Timmins, Ontario, and then to Owen Sound, where they lived for thirty-seven years. Joe maintained his optometric practice in Owen Sound from 1956 to 1993, with Joyce working alongside him in the office. Joyce was a weaver and an active member of the Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild and the Maker’s artist cooperative. Joe and Joyce had three children: Shawn Herman Hawkins, Nessa Herman, and David Herman.; Joyce was president of Owen Sound’s Beth Ezekiel Synagogue from about 1973 to 1992. She was possibly the first woman president of a synagogue in Canada. Her father (Israel) David Cainer was president of Toronto’s Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue from 1943 to 1945.

Use Conditions: Conditional Use. Researchers must receive permission from the donor prior to publication. Please contact the OJA for more information.

Descriptive Notes: Availability of other formats: Accession has been digitized: photographs are available as JPEG images; textual records are available as PDF files.; Terms governing use and reproduction: Not to be used for external advertising in any medium. Permission to publish required.; General: Av Gorbet's wife is Tillie Gorbet, and Norm Gorbet's wife is Ruth Gorbet. The four were owners of B. Gorbet and Sons Furriers and clothing store.

Subjects: Married people; Parties; Synagogues

Name Access: Beth Ezekiel Synagogue (Owen Sound, Ont.); Herman, Joseph, 1925-2005; Herman, Joyce, 1927-2020

Places: Owen Sound (Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Rabbi Joseph Benjamin Friedberg [architectural drawing, graphic material, object, textual record, sound recording] – 1930-2012.

Accession Number: 2022-8-4

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2022-8-4

Material Format: architectural drawing; graphic material; object; textual record; sound recording

Physical Description: ca. 11 m of textual records and other material

Date: 1930-2012

Scope and Content: Accession consists of records documenting the life and career of Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg. Included are subject files, eulogies, sermons, marriage records, funeral record cards, conversion certificates, gittin (Jewish divorce documents), addresses for High Holiday services, and photographs. Also include are a few artifacts, such as felt patches and medallions, as well as sound recordings. A large number of documents are relating to Rabbi Friedberg's rabbinical career at Beth Tzedec Congregation.

Administrative History: Rabbi Joseph Benjamin Friedberg (1927-2022) was born on June 26, 1927, in Toronto to Chaim (Chamel) and Rochel Rose Friedberg. Rochel Friedberg was born in Polaniec, Poland (Russian part of Poland), the daughter of Moshe and Sura Poss. Rochel had little formal education but learned Talmud from her father. In her youth, Moshe came to Toronto to make a living and had to leave the family behind; shortly thereafter, World War I broke out, and Rochel was sent to the town of Stopnitz. She was then sent to Crackow to work. Rochel married Chaim (Chamel) Friedberg from Patchenev, who was enlisted in Pilsudski’s army. Before the Great Depression, Rochel and Chaim immigrated to Canada. Later on, Chaim took ill and had to go to the Western Sanitarium; soon after that, he passed away in 1957. Rochel passed away in 1992.; Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg was a native of Toronto and received his basic religious and secular education there. He attended Harbord Collegiate in his youth. After spending a number of years at the Yeshiva University in New York, he returned home to attended the University of Toronto, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. In 1950, Rabbi Friedberg entered the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He received his Master of Hebrew Letters degree and rabbinical ordination in 1954.; Rabbi Friedberg’s first pulpit was in Rochester, New York. He served as assistant rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation in 1955; and then as rabbi of B’nai Israel Congregation in London, Ontario. In 1959, he received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in Bible and Archaeology. As part of his doctorial program, he studied in the Department of Archaeology and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he also spent several years studying in the Department of Religion at the University of Ottawa with special emphasis on the Samaritans.; In 1961, Rabbi Friedberg was called to the pulpit of Agudath Israel Congregation in Ottawa, Ontario, where he served for thirteen years until 1974.; In 1974, he was appointed senior rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto. His major emphases in the congregation were the development of both child and adult education and emphasizing Israel as the dominant fact in Jewish life today. Much of the programming at Beth Tzedec that he instituted dealt with Israel.; Rabbi Friedberg’s interest in Jewish education was responsible for the founding of a Hebrew High School in Ottawa. His concern with Jewish youth prompted him to devote his time as counsellor to the Hillel Organization on the campuses of the University of Western Ontario, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. He taught Bible, Biblical Hebrew, and courses in Judaism at the University of Ottawa; and was an occasional lecturer at the University of Western Ontario in the Orientals Department. While living in Ottawa, he was active in a number of Jewish communal organizations. He was the founder and the organizer of the Ottawa Soviet Jewry Committee and was head of the Jews in Foreign Lands Committee and Canada-Israel Committee. Also, he was on the Social Welfare Council and was chairman of the Aliyah Committee in Ottawa.; Rabbi Friedberg was active with the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). He worked actively on behalf of the CJC’s Educational Department. He was on the executive of the CJC Central and Eastern Regions and served as national chairman of the CJC’s International Affairs Committee. As an active Zionist, he served as national chairman of the Hasbara Committee of the CZF and was president of Mercaz Canada, the Zionist organization of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement. He also organized Israel tours and led Israel tour groups for a number of times. Rabbi Friedberg was the recipient of citations of the UJA, State of Israel Bonds, and various other awards in recognition of his communal work. In addition, he had also been invited to serve as a member of Teddy Kollek’s Jerusalem Committee.; Rabbi Friedberg was a contributor to Anglo-Jewish press, television work, and radio. He was chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religious Advisory Committee and hosted his own television program called “Focus.” He had written for the London Free Press, and the Ottawa Citizen, and a number of Jewish periodicals.; Rabbi Friedberg was married to the former Lola Constant of Montreal (1930-2022). They had three children together—Mark, Gilah, and Esther. Lola Friedberg had a degree from McGill University in Arts and Music. She had given two-piano recitals in conjunction with her twin sister, Miriam “Mitzi” Leboff, on a number of occasions. Lola had taught piano and conducted choirs in Montreal and Ottawa.

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.