Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

5

File

45

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1971

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of portait photographs of Ben Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

27

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a photograph of Ben and Rose Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Level

Item

Fonds

2

Series

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[198-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a formal portrait of Ben Dunkelman.

Notes

Photograph is by Leo Hausman.

Name Access

Hausman, Leo, 1912-1982

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Physical Condition

Item is in good condition.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1

File

23

Material Format

textual record

Date

1931-1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Dunkelman received this passport in 1931 and over the next nine years used it to travel to such places as Palestine--when he went to work for a year on a kibbutz--Italy and the United States.

Scope and Content

File consists of one Canadian passport.

Physical Condition

Passport is in good condition.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Arab-Israeli War series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

5

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1948-1966

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of news clippings related to Dunkelman's role in the Arab-Israeli War, and to his brother-in-law, Morton Wilner, who was married to Dunkelman's sister Zelda. The clippings come from such newspapers as The Globe and Mail, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Day-Jewish Journal.

Name Access

Wilner, Morton

Physical Condition

Records are fragile.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Second World War series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

4

File

9

Material Format

textual record

Date

1981-1987

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains photocopies from a book about the liberation of Holland signed for Dunkelman by the author, Margot van Boldrik. The file also includes a newspaper article by Lew Gloin about Canadians--including Dunkelman--fighting in the Second World War.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Business series

Tip Top Tailors sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

3-1

File

3

Material Format

textual record

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains one newspaper clipping announcing Ben Dunkelman's appointment as General Manager of Tip Top Tailors.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Dual Allegiance series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

6

File

67

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976-1984

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains reviews and correspondence related to Dual Allegiance.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Central Region sous-fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28-1

Series

7

File

203

Material Format

textual record

Date

1965-1966

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of correspondence, an analysis of gift movement in 1965, a notice concerning a community banquet and promotional brochures for the Ottawa Jewish Community Centre.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Dual Allegiance series

Second World War album file

Level

Item

Fonds

2

Series

6

File

100

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[May 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Major Ben Dunkelman standing alongside an unknown soldier. They were billeted at a former German work camp in Doorn, Holland, which the Queen's Own Rifles liberated on May 7, 1945. Soldiers set up the camp to reference local landmarks in Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood in Toronto. There is sign behind them that reads: The Greatest Little Place in Canada, Cabbage Town.

Subjects

Soldiers--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.

Related Material

Library and Archives Canada Canadian Army Newsreel, No. 88 features the camp. The film has been digitized and can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ZkB4UX3BU

Source

Archival Descriptions

URL

http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Ben-Kayfetz

Source

OJA Website

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Joseph Bernard Dunkelman was born on 18 December 1911 in Toronto. His parents, David Dunkelman (1883-1978) and Rose Dunkelman (née Miller), were married on 19 January 1910. Originally from Poland, David came to Canada with his parents in 1895 and settled in Toronto. Rose was born in Philadelphia in 1889 and moved to Canada at the age of thirteen and resided there until her death in 1949, at the age of fifty-nine. Her father, Harry, was an entrepreneur in the menswear business, and it was through his business contacts that she met and married David at the age of twenty. They had six children: Joseph, Ernest, Zelda, Veronica, Theodora, and Benjamin. The latter fought in both the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence.

In 1911, David Dunkelman founded Tip Top Tailors, a high-end men's clothing store, which currently has about one hundred branches nationwide. Joseph ran Tip Top Tailors from the early 1940s until the late 1940s, when Ben returned from the war and bought Joseph's shares of the business. The business was sold to Dylex, who subsequently sold it to Grafton-Fraser in 2000. Joseph used the money he received from selling his share of the family business to invest in a television and movie production company (possibly Sony Screen Gems).

Joseph married Jean Lenore Samuels (born 25 February 1912). Joseph and Jean had three children, Richard "Dick" Howard, Peter, and a third child who was handicapped and institutionalized. After Joe and Jean's marriage ended, Joe married Claire Olsen and remained with her until his death. They had one son, Lex. Claire was a movie reviewer and television interviewer.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Joseph Dunkelman.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Joseph, 1911- (subject)

Subjects

Businesspeople

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Business series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

3

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1985-1986

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Dunkelman's was a restaurant near the corner of Yonge and St. Clair that Ben and Yael Dunkelman opened in the early 1980s. They provided customers with a Californian-style cuisine.

Scope and Content

File consists of two favourable reviews of Dunkelman’s restaurant from the Toronto Sun and Avenue magazine.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Zionist series

Level

Item

Fonds

2

Series

2

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 20 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Ben Dunkelman sitting on a horse. The photo was taken in Palestine during the 1930s.

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of a Mourner's Kaddish for David Dunkelman, Ben's father, who died in 1978. The file includes a 2-page speech about David Dunkelman's business success, and refers to Rose Dunkelman's role in assisting David with Tip Top Tailors. The file also contains a photograph of David Dunkelman and four other men (likely all businessmen) walking along a boardwalk, likely in Atlantic City. Identified in the photo is (left to right): [Samuel Posluns?], Louis Gelber, Percy Hermant, [unidentified], and David Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1949-1955

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains writings and correspondence mainly paying tribute to Rose Dunkelman and her Zionist work.

Physical Condition

Some records are fragile.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1905]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 26 x 21 cm and 13 x 19 cm

Scope and Content

Photo is a portrait of Rose Dunkelman at the approximate age of sixteen.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1965

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings from Ottawa concerning Jewish related issues

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

24

Material Format

textual record

Date

1966

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning Jewish related issues in Ottawa

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

35

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence concerning Jewish related issues in Ottawa, including correspondence to and from Members of Parliament,

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

53

Material Format

textual record

Date

1969

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding Jewish related issues in Ottawa. Issues examined include government funding for Jewish Day Schools and Christian-Jewish Relations.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Education

Judaism--Relations--Christianity

Places

Ottawa (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

64

Material Format

textual record

Date

1970

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of newspaper clippings regarding Jewish related issues in Ottawa

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

72

Material Format

textual record

Date

1971

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of assorted material regarding Jewish related issues in Ottawa

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

77

Material Format

textual record

Date

1972

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Jewish related issues in Ottawa

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

88

Material Format

textual record

Date

1974-1976

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings about Jewish related issues in Ottawa, Ontario.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

108

Material Format

textual record

Date

1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings about Jewish related issues in Ottawa, Ontario.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 12 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Ben Dunkleman saying Kaddish at the gravesite of his mother, Rose Dunkelman. Abe Friedgut, Joseph Baratz, and a few young children look on.

Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Mr. Abe Friedgut was the Israel representative of the Zionist Organization of Canada.

Notes

Writing on the back of the photo reads: "Shoshana Rose Dunkelman the daughter of Miller from Toronto died [date] devoted all her life to the building of the country only after her death were her wishes fulfilled." This is probably the inscription on Rose's tombstone.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Friedgut, Abe

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds

Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series

Level

File

Fonds

103

Series

1

File

104

Material Format

textual record

Date

1947-1948

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence with Paul Dunkelman regarding a request for Lemberg Landsleit Ferein.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

2

Material Format

multiple media

Date

1898, [192-?]-1997

Physical Description

80 cm of textual records and other material

Admin History/Bio

Benjamin Dunkelman (1913–1997) was a successful businessman and president of Tip Top Tailors. He had a distinguished military career in both the Canadian Army during the Second World War and in the Haganah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Benjamin was born in Toronto to David Dunkelman (1883–1978) and Rose (née Miller, 1889–1949). He had three sisters and two brothers: Joseph, a movie executive; Ernest, a manufacturer; Zelda; Veronica; and Theodora. His father, David, was a successful entrepreneur who established Tip Top Tailors in 1910. Both David and his wife Rose were fervent Zionists.

Benjamin attended Upper Canada College and, at the age of eighteen, visited Palestine for the first time. While in Palestine, he worked for a year on a kibbutz, mostly as a guard. During the Second World War, he served as a major in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada; as major, he gained respect for his knowledge of mortars. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1945 for his role in the final Allied assault on Germany. Two years later, Benjamin returned to Palestine to join the Haganah in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. As a commander, he captured Nazareth and brought northern Galilee under Jewish control. Near the end of the war, he met and married Yael Lifshitz (m. Dunkelman), a corporal in the Israeli army. Benjamin was elected national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Canada in 1977.

In addition to his work as a soldier, Benjamin was a successful businessman. He served as president of Tip Top Tailors after his father stepped down; he was also director of Colonial Finance Corporation, president of Cloverdale Shopping Centre, and president of Renforth Developments. Besides operating the Dunkelman Gallery, Benjamin and his wife, Yael, ran the Constellation Hotel and Dunkelman’s Restaurant.

Dunkelman later wrote of his experiences in both wars in his autobiography "Dual Allegiance" (published by MacMIllan). As well as the DSO, Dunkelman was awarded the Fighter’s Decoration of the State of Israel (1970), and an Israel Bonds Award Dinner in Tribute to Ben Dunkelman (1977). He was a guest of honour both at a reception hosted by the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science and the veterans of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada (1976) and at a 7th Brigade Reunion in Israel (1991).

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting Benjamin Dunkelman's personal, business, and military activities. Included is personal and business correspondence and other records, maps, photographs, news clippings, and scrapbooks assembled by Dunkelman. The bulk of the records relate both to Dunkelman’s autobiography Dual allegiance and to his military career in the Second World War and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Other records relate to his business work with Tip Top Tailors, the Constellation Hotel, Dunkelman’s Restaurant, and the Dunkelman Gallery, as well as to his Zionist actvities, his writing and public speeches, and his personal life.

The fonds is organized into the following series: Personal records and correspondence, Zionist materials, Businesses, Second World War, Arab-Israeli War, Dual Allegiance, and Speeches.

Notes

Physical description note: Includes 218 photographs, 60 maps, 7 postcards, 5 architectural drawings, and 3 albums.

Associated material note: see the Ben Dunkelman fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin, 1913-1997

Subjects

Authors

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949

World War, 1939-1945

Related Material

See fonds #39 (Rose Dunkelman fonds).

Creator

Dunkelman, Benjamin, 1913-1997

Accession Number

2000-3-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-1991

Physical Description

5 cm of textual records

3 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Rose and David Dunkelman, Benjamin Dunkelman's parents, were staunch supporters of Toronto's Zionist community. David was a leader of the Zionist Organization of Canada for more than 50 years, while Rose was publisher and first managing editor of the Jewish Standard, a Toronto-based Zionist magazine she founded with her husband. In addition, she was the first vice-president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada and president of the Hadassah Organization of Ontario. Both fervently supported Zionist projects.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of photographs, clippings, obituaries, correspondence and biographical information in connection with Rose, David and Ben Dunkelman. The sub-series contains a pamphlet from the Toronto Zionist Council in 1957 celebrating the council’s 50th anniversary and praising Rose Dunkelman. There are also copies of articles about Rose Dunkelman by H.M. Kaiserman and Meyer W. Weisgal.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-[194-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 20 cm and 19 x 25 cm

Scope and Content

File contains two portraits of David Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Theodora Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-2

File

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?], Nov. 1953

Physical Description

26 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm or smaller

2 postcards : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of graphic material relating to Theodora Dunkelman. The majority of the images are of Theodora as a young girl during a family trip to Florida. Also included are photographs taken at Camp Modin and of Theo with her father, David Dunkelman. Finally, file includes a post card of a sulphuric acid plant in Haifa and a boat.

Physical Condition

One photograph is torn.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Theodora Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-2

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Theodora Dunkelman received the degree in 1946.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Business series

Dunkelman Gallery sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

3-3

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains one Globe and Mail article about the opening of the Dunkelman Gallery on 3 April 1967.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Speeches series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

7

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976-1977

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains two speeches, one a lecture given to the Adath Israel Synagogue in Toronto and the other entitled "On the Brink". Both relate to Israeli politics.

Name Access

Adath Israel Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Adath Israel Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

39

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1896-1979

Physical Description

30 cm of textual records

28 photographs : b&w (11 negatives) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

2 scrapbooks

Admin History/Bio

Rose Dunkelman (1889–1949) was born Rose Miller in Philadelphia to Harry Miller and Dora Miller (née Belkin). At the age of thirteen, she moved to Toronto where she received her education and where she resided with her family until her death in 1949 at the age of fifty-nine. Rose Dunkelman devoted her life to helping the less fortunate, particularly children and orphans, and to championing the cause of Zionism at home and abroad. She was internationally known and respected for her philanthropic work and for her knowledge of, and dedication to, Zionist causes. She was a leader in the Canadian-Jewish community for more than thirty years.

On 19 January 1910, she married David Dunkelman (1883–1978), founder and president of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. The couple had six children: Joseph, Ernest, Benajamin, Theodora, Veronica (Annenberg) (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner).

Rose was a founding member of the Zionist Organization of Canada, vice-president of the Ontario Zionist Region, and founded and chaired the Canadian branch of Youth Aliyah in 1933. For over twenty-five years, Rose held various positions within the Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada, including president of the Toronto Council of Hadassah (1921), honorary president on the executive board (1938–40), joint chair of the war effort (1941), president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada Central Chapter of Toronto (1937–8, 1945-6), and honorary national vice-president. Rose also founded the Hadassah Bazaar in 1924. There is currently a Canadian Hadassah day care centre in Neve Sharett that is named in her honour, as well as the Rose Dunkelman Memorial Community Center in Hadassim erected in 1950 in her memory.

In 1930, prompted by the 1929 attack on Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and in Hebron, Rose and David Dunkelman founded the magazine the Jewish Standard as a Zionist forum for the English-speaking Jewish population of Canada. She was the periodical's first publisher and managing editor.

After the First World War, Rose worked as an officer with the Canadian Red Cross, bringing war orphans to Canada from eastern Europe, for which she was presented with the Coronation Medal by King George VI in 1937. She was also active in the rehabilitation of First World War veterans.

During the Second World War, as chair of Ontario Youth Aliyah, Rose helped rescue children from Nazi persecution at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps and helped secure their passage to and resettlement in Palestine. Dunkelman held leadership positions in many domestic and international Jewish and Zionist programs and projects—many focused on the welfare of Jewish children—including the Jewish National Fund, Karen Hayesod, Karen Kayemeth, Young Judaea, the Toronto Hebrew Free Schools, and the YM-YWHA. She also served on the Canadian Family Allowance Board after the Second World War.

After a lengthy illness, Rose died on 20 October 1949 in Toronto at the age of fifty-nine. She was buried at Goel Tzedec's cemetery on Dawes Road and was later re-interred in Israel's national cemetery at Degania on 14 January 1953, as she requested in her will.

Scope and Content

The fonds consists of personal and business correspondence, family letters, newsclippings, event invitations, articles, two scrapbook albums and other textual material relating to Dunkelman's death and re-interment in Israel, her philanthropic activities with Hadassah and Youth Aliyah, and her business activities with the Jewish Standard.

One scrapbook contains a testimonial certificate presented to Rose by Toronto Hadassah on her recovery from ill health (1926), while the other was presented to her by Toronto Hadassah on the occasion of her 57th birthday in 1946. This scrapbook contains photographs of the banquet along with several pages of signatures from members of local Hadassah chapters.

The photographs include: Rose Dunkelman's re-interment in Israel (1953), a birthday banquet for Rose hosted by Hadassah (date uncertain), a portrait of Rose as a young woman (ca. 1905), David Dunkelman as a young boy in Brooklyn, NY (1896), the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto) extension (1966), a portrait of Benjamin Dunkelman in Israel (1953), and one photograph of Rose Dunkelman with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt (1941).

Name Access

Cohen, Israel

Dunkelman, Ben, 1913-1997

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Ernest

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Dunkelman, Theodore

Dunkelman, Veronica

Dunkelman, Zelda

Dunkelman, Joseph

Family Allowance Board

Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada

Hebrew Free Schools

Jewish Federated Charities

Jewish National Fund

Jewish Standard

Karen Hayesod

Karen Kayemeth

Red Cross

Steinglass, Meyer F.

Tip Top Tailors

Weisgal, Meyer

YM-YWHA

Zionist Organization of Canada

Subjects

Businesspeople

Philanthropists

Zionists

Physical Condition

Some of the documents are very brittle.

Related Material

Ben Dunkelman fonds 2: (accession 2000-3-4)

Ben Dunkelman accession: 1978-6-6

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds 28, series 6, file 27

photo #4690

Hadassah accession: 1978-1-2, 1984-12-3, 2003-3-1, MG2 J1I

The Jewish Standard: MG9

Creator

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Accession Number

1988-5-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Israel sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-3

File

23

Material Format

textual record

Date

1970

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence to and from the Embassy in Ottawa

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

War Crimes and Criminals sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-8

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1944

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a copy of the newly-revised constitution of the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Seminars series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

12

File

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

May 1975

Physical Description

98 photographs : b&w (3 contact sheets) ; 21 x 26 cm

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1639

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a table of women at an Ottawa Hadassah Convention. From left to right: Adeline Levine, Ruth Swartz, Sylvia Cherney, Bea Collis, and Bernice Henry (Toronto).

Name Access

Ottawa Hadassah Convention

Levine, Adeline

Swartz, Ruth

Cherney, Sylvia

Collis, Beatrice

Henry, Bernice

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Women

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

Ottawa (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-3

File

42

Material Format

textual record

Date

1963

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding Violet King's difficulty renting an apartment at the Colonel-By-Towers in Ottawa due to her skin colour. The case was handled by the Canadian Citizenship Council.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access

Canadian Citizenship Council

Subjects

Discrimination in housing

Places

Ottawa (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-3

File

180

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding a complaint that cartoons in the Ottawa Citizen were antisemitic.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series

Photograph collection sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

61

Series

2-2

Item

39

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1977]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This file consists of one photograph of two performers of the Ottawa Dance Theatre performing a representation of classical, modern and jazz works at the Leah Posluns Theatre on Sunday, 1 April 1977.

Repro Restriction

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

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Harold S. Kaplan fonds

Architectural projects series

Level

File

Fonds

27

Series

1

File

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1940] (original exposures 1937)

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

4 interior shots of the theatre lobby and auditorium.

Notes

Title based on photograph content and labels attached to photographs.

One photograph bears a stamp reading: "This photograph printed from exposure made Nov. 1937".

Photographers: Hands Studio.

Name Access

Hands Studio

Subjects

Theaters

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

Ottawa (Ont.)

Accession Number

2003-6-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Affiliated organizations sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

3-4

File

16

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1975-1977

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 7 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Ottawa Chapter of the Group of 35 was also known as the Ottawa Women's Committee for Soviet Jewry and was affiliated with the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa.

Scope and Content

File contains reports on activities of the Ottawa chapter's activities and history, as well as several clippings mentioning the group and a few pieces of correspondence.

Related Material

Reference to the Ottawa Group of 35 is also made in the Ottawa Vaad Ha'ir records of this sub-series.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Affiliated organizations sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

3-4

File

21

Material Format

textual record

Date

1975-1977

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains correspondence, articles and details of the group's activities in support of Soviet Jewry.

Notes

Ottawa Vaad Ha'ir is also known as the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Protest activities sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

3-5

File

144

Item

1-2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1987

Physical Description

22 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

File contains photographs of Anatoly Scharansky meeting with dignitaries and speaking in Ottawa. Included is a meeting with Joe Clark, the then secretary of state for external affairs, and one with Senator David Croll.

Notes

Photographs by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access

Clark, Joe, 1939-

Croll, David, 1900-1991

Subjects

Politicians

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Ottawa (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

664

Material Format

textual record

Date

16 Oct. 1958

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Central Region sous-fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28-1

Series

7

File

14

Material Format

textual record

Date

1942-1971

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of a photostat of the letters patent for The Toronto Zionist Council, event programmes for the Zionist Herzl Club, programme for a mass demonstration on the occasion of the proclamation of a Jewish State in Palestine, and correspondence.

Subjects

Israel--History--Declaration of Independence, 1948

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

5

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1974-1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of the agreement between the dominion archivist of Canada and the Zionist Organization of Canada to create an archives within the National Ethnic Archives; correspondence between Dr. George Liban and Dr. Michael Hayman, archivist at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, concerning the preservation of archival records; a copy of the inventory description and finding aid for the Zionist Organization of Canada collection at the National Archives of Canada; photostats of a letter written by Theodor Herzl and the instructions for his funeral; and a letter of permission to examine Zionist Organization of Canada archives. The file also contains a copy of the pamphlet "Theodor Herzl: A Biography" written by Emanuel Neuman, a statement of subscription to United Palestine Appeal (1931), and cheques and promisary notes written to the Zionist Organization and United Palestine Appeal.

Name Access

National Archives of Canada

World Zionist Organization. Central Zionist Archives

Subjects

Archives

Source

Archival Descriptions