Level

Item

Item

262

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1919]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of the Workmen's Circle Peretz Shule in Montreal. The photo features the students and teachers on the front steps of the school.

Notes

Acquired May 1974.

Name Access

Peretz Shule

Workmen's Circle

I.L. Peretz

Arbeter Ring

Arbeiter Ring

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Montréal (Québec)

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

200

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a letter regarding Mr. Reiter who formerly taught at Forest Hill Junior High and was known to state questionable opinions about the Nazis.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Teachers

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

236

Material Format

textual record

Date

1954

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a note describing antisemitic actions by a teacher against a Jewish student

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Discrimination in education

Students

Teachers

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

May 1941

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of John Devor standing on the steps of Beth Israel Synagogue with a group of Sunday school children, taken at the closing of the school for the summer. John Devor was the teacher. Pictured are:

Top row, left to right: Jerry Dardick, Bernice Abramsky, John Devor, Betty Cohen, Barry Tenhouse.

Middle row, left to right: Teddy Tevan, [?] Dardick, Jerry Springer, Sydney Lannis, Isadore Lannis.

Front row, left to right: Marilyn Abramsky, Shirley Tenhouse.

Notes

This item is almost identical to photo #3421.

Name Access

Abramsky, Bernice

Abramsky, Marilyn

Beth Israel Congregation (Kingston, Ont.)

Cohen, Betty

Dardick, Jerry

Devor, John

Lannis, Isadore

Lannis, Sydney

Springer, Jerry

Tenhouse, Barry

Tenhouse, Shirley

Tevan, Teddy

Subjects

Children

Portraits, Group

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

May 1941

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of John Devor standing on the steps of Beth Israel Synagogue with a group of Sunday school children, taken at the closing of the school for the summer. John Devor was the teacher. Pictured are:

Top row, left to right: Jerry Dardick, Bernice Abramsky, John Devor, Betty Cohen, Barry Tenhouse.

Middle row, left to right: Teddy Tevan, [?] Dardick, Jerry Springer, Sydney Lannis, Isadore Lannis.

Front row, left to right: Marilyn Abramsky, Shirley Tenhouse.

Notes

This item is almost identical to photo #3056.

Name Access

Abramsky, Bernice

Abramsky, Marilyn

Beth Israel Congregation (Kingston, Ont.)

Cohen, Betty

Dardick, Jerry

Devor, John

Lannis, Isadore

Lannis, Sydney

Springer, Jerry

Tenhouse, Barry

Tenhouse, Shirley

Tevan, Teddy

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1858

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948-1949

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 28 x 36 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original composite photograph and copy negative of the students and teachers of the North Bay Hebrew school.

Name Access

North Bay Hebrew School

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

North Bay (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1948]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a junior Hebrew class in Sudbury, Ontario. The photograph depicts a group of students seated a two desks and the teacher standing in the middle.

Pictured from left to right are: Judy Leve, Wally Greenspoon, Bill Braverman, Gilbert Zamonsky, Susan Stickles, Brenda Rubin, Jackie Greenspoon, Harold Nudelman, Claudia Greenspoon.

Teacher: Florrie Smith.

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Sudbury (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-6-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3351

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of children and teachers in front of the Anshe Sholom Temple in Hamilton, Ontario. The temple was located on Hughson Street.

Notes

The photograph is somewhat pixilated and may have been copied from a book or newspaper.

Name Access

Temple Anshe Sholom (Hamilton, Ont.)

Subjects

Children

Synagogues

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-8-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Education sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-12

File

30

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1997

Physical Description

6 photographs: col. (2 negatives) ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of photographs of the Holocaust Centre presenting books to students and teachers of Westmount Collegiate Institute in honour of the school's new Holocaust studies program. Those identified in the photograph include: Michael Herman, Stephen Bloom, Natalie Shats, and David Major.

Name Access

Westmount Collegiate Institute (Thornhill, Ont.)

Subjects

Books

Students

Teachers

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1852

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1929

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Identified in this composite photograph, on the right is: Abraham Greenspan.

Name Access

Greenspan, Abraham

Slobodka-Kovna Yeshiva

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Yeshivas

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1979-12-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6103

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1920 and 1939]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w, postcard ; 14 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Photographic postcard of Mr. Robinson (Reubinson), a teacher (?), probably in Toronto, in the 1920s or 1930s.

Name Access

Robinson

Reubinson

Subjects

Postcards

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1984-8-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3960

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

Photo by Simon.

Subjects

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1179

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1937

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sigmund Sokol with a large group of pupils from his cheder.

Subjects

Heder

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-1-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1495

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph of teachers at Ogden School. In the rear on the far right is David Siegal.

Name Access

Ogden School

Siegal, David

Subjects

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1977-8-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4019

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1955 or 1956]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Notes

General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

General: For identification see back of photo.

Subjects

Schools

Students

Teachers

Places

Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4020

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1955 or 1956]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Notes

General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

General: For identification see back of photograph.

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Places

Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3509

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 3, 1940

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

The negative shows the complete sign.

For a similar photograph, see also #2918.

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1983-1-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2442

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Dec. 1960

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Teacher is Mrs. Fenigstein.

Name Access

Workmen's Circle

Subjects

Flags--Israel

Students

Teachers

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-4-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1733

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1928

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Reb. Israel Fortinsky in pictured in the second row, extreme right.

Name Access

Fortinsky, Israel

Yeshiva Toras Chaim

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Yeshivas

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-7-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm in mat 18 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Isadore Goldstick was the son of William Goldstick and Sarah Goldstick. He was born in Latvia in 1890. He graduated with a PhD from the University of Toronto in the Department of Pedagogy in 1928. He married Anna Nathanson in December 1917, and they had two daughters, Reva and Esther. The family lived in London, Ontario. He spent many years teaching at the secondary school level and later became a professor at the University of Western Ontario. He was the author of eight German and French texts that were used in Canadian schools.

Scope and Content

Portrait of Isadore Goldstick as a young man.

Notes

The image is an albumen print glued on a mat board.

Subjects

Authors

Immigrants--Canada

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Related Material

There is a fonds for the Isadore Goldstick family at the Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1711

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1928

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

I. L. Madorsky was a teacher.

Name Access

Madorsky, I. L

Subjects

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-3-8

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

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1956

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a letter from Ben Kayfetz to the principal of Bathurst Heights Collegiate regarding a complaint against a teacher, and another letter describing the principal's response.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access

Kayfetz, Ben, 1916-2002

Subjects

Teachers

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

103

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding alleged antisemitic statements by Mr. Campbell, a teacher at Harbord Collegiate.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Teachers

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

123

Material Format

textual record

Date

1985

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of documents rescribing the hate crime trial of James Keegstra.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Teachers

Trials

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Isaac Matenko fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

89

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Date

1911-1971, predominant 1911-1935

Physical Description

6 cm of textual records

17 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Isaac Matenko (1874–1960) was a founder, teacher, and principal of the I. L. Peretz School. He worked tirelessly to preserve and promote secular Jewish culture and the Yiddish language in Toronto. He was also a prominent member of local Jewish organizations, such as the Socialist-Territorialist Club and the Yiddish Kultur Gesellshaft.

Isaac was born on 1 February 1874 in the town of Makariv, located in the Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. He married Elke Yelia Moshkevitch (1878–19 November 1953) on 4 August 1900 in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro). They immigrated from czarist Russia to Toronto in 1906, passing first through New York with their two children, Percy (30 June 1901–May 1987) and Theodore (1903–1906, died of measles at Ellis Island), and Yelia’s three sisters, Dvora, Bracha, and Celia, and Isaac’s younger half-brother, Paul Frumhartz. They had two more children after arriving: Abraham (14 August 1908–October 24, 1989) and Shoshana (Sue) (1911–2001). Although he had been a teacher in Russia, Isaac worked as an operator in a cloak factory in Toronto, where he was instrumental in forming the union (likely the Cloakmakers’ Union of Toronto, which later affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union).

As a child, Isaac received a traditional Jewish education. This, combined with his self-taught secular education and the teachings of Yiddish nationalist Dr. Chaim Zhitlovski, informed his future career and philosophies. He was described as an idealist by his friends, whose dedication to Yiddish culture and language motivated him to bring this knowledge to a younger generation.

On 11 July 1911, Isaac and his fellow Socialist-Territorialist members established the Toronto Yiddish National-Radical School. By 1916, it had been taken over by the Workmen’s Circle and renamed the I. L. Peretz School, after the well-known Yiddish author and playwright. The school began in a rented room at the Zionist Institute on Simcoe Street, moving to larger locations on Richmond Street West, then Beverley Street as it grew. Eventually, several more branches opened, such as the Maria Street school that Isaac was affiliated with. He taught at the school for free in the evenings after working during the day in a shop. His brother Paul was also a founding teacher at the school.

Isaac was described by family, friends, and community members as a passionate teacher with an iron will. He was well-versed in Jewish knowledge, with a desire to pass it on to a younger generation and his fellow union members. He remained involved in the school and in teaching, even after retirement. He died on 2 June 1960 at the age of eighty-six.

Custodial History

These records were donated to the OJA by Sue Levy, daughter of Isaac Matenko.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting Isaac Matenko's involvement with the Workmen's Circle and other Jewish organizations. Included are photographs, programmes, certificates, I. L. Peretz School jubilee books, a songbook, a yearbook, articles, and newsclippings.

Fonds has been arranged into one series for the Workmen's Circle. There are also two files attached to the fonds-level. The records are described at the series and file-level, with some item-level descriptions.

Name Access

Arbeiter Ring

Arbeiter Ring Schools

Arbeter Ring

Camp Yungvelt

Frumhartz, Paul

I.L. Peretz

Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960

Matenko, Percy

National Radical School

Peretz Shule

Workman's Circle

Workmen's Circle

Subjects

Schools

Teachers

Yiddish language

Related Material

For additional Workmen's Circle records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1980-2-2, 1983-6-3, 1984-10-1, 1986-4-1, 1992-1-2, 1997-2-1, 1998-3-32, 2004-5-41, 2004-5-105, and fonds 30.

For additional Camp Yungvelt records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1986-4-1, 1991-12-4, 1993-6-6, 1999-5-1, 2004-5-37, 2005-6-4, 2006-12-3, photographs # 2964, # 4014, # 6021, MG2N1K, Benjamin Brown fonds 49, and Dorothy Dworkin Fonds 10 (item 14).

Creator

Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960

Accession Number

1987-11-4

1991-4-2

2007-5-3

2007-6-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Isaac Matenko fonds

Workmen's Circle series

I. L. Peretz School photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

89

Series

1

File

3

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Matenko with his younger female pupils at the Junction branch of the I. L. Peretz School.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Patricia Joy Alpert fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

77

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

sound recording

Date

[ca. 1907]-2001, predominant 1990-2001

Physical Description

1.2 m of textual records and other material

Admin History/Bio

Patricia Joy Alpert (1931-2001) was an internationally-acclaimed artist, teacher, and dynamic community leader, most notably serving as national president of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO from 1996 to 1999. Pat was born in Toronto in 1931 to parents Oscar and Gertrude Pattenick. Oscar Pattenick, the son of Benjamin Pattenick and Pauline Goldenberg, was born in 1892 in Galicia and immigrated to Canada with his brother as a young man. The brothers ran a retail clothing business that expanded to several locations around Ontario, including Toronto and Bowmanville. Oscar married Gertrude Breslin (1896-1988) in 1917. She was one of fourteen children of Hyman Breslin and Sarah Pearl Papernick and had been raised in Toronto. Together the couple raised three children: Bernard (Boon), and twin girls Patricia and Pearl.

Pat and her sister showed artistic talent from an early age. After graduating from Oakwood Collegiate Institute, Pat enrolled at the University of Miami and graduated with a BA in art history in 1956. She started her career as a designer and display artist at the Simpson department store, doing freelance artwork and volunteering at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Pat married Herbert S. Alpert in 1958 and they had two daughters, Lisa and Nancy. Pat went back to school at Toronto Teacher's College and then taught kindergarten for eleven years for the North York Board of Education. She also earned a supervisor's art certificate and taught art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, North York Public Library, and Associated Hebrew Schools. Her artistic career took off in the 1970s, when her drawings were exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around North America. She typically drew human figures using ink.

Pat Alpert’s volunteer work began soon after her marriage, when she joined Toronto's Carmel chapter of Hadassah as a way to make new friends. In 1983, she became president of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO, serving until 1985. She continued with Toronto Hadassah as vice-president and corresponding secretary. Pat was deeply committed to Jewish life and to the State of Israel. Choosing Hadassah as the focus of her passion, she left her professional career in the 1990s to become a full-time volunteer. She served as chair of the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO Foundation, vice-president of National Hadassah, national president from 1996 to 1999 and president of Toronto Jewish National Fund from 1992 to 1994. Pat also held positions for Israel Bonds, Jewish Women’s Federation, B’nai Brith League for Human Rights, the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, Baycrest Women’s Auxiliary and board of governors, and Reena Foundation. Pat Alpert died on October 4, 2001, at the age of seventy.

Custodial History

Donated by Herbert Alpert in late 2001 or early 2002. No documentation for this donation could be found when it was assigned an accession number in October 2002 during an inventory of the vault. Pat Alpert's daughter Nancy Spring was contacted in 2009 to sign a deed of gift.

Scope and Content

Fonds contains records documenting Patricia Joy Alpert's personal, professional and volunteer-related activities. The records include textual material, photographs, and a sound recording of a radio show announcing an exhibit of Alpert's work. The records of Alpert's professional career as an artist and a teacher are comprised of curriculum vitae and brief biographies, exhibit records and correspondence. Samples of Alpert's drawings are included, dating from the 1940s to the 1970s. The records relating to Alpert's community leadership include a large number of speeches, clippings, articles, correspondence, cards and letters, meeting minutes, and unique diary entries meticulously detailing Hadassah business, conversations and controversies. There are minutes from the following entities: Hadassah National Officers, Hadassah National Executive Board, World WIZO Executive and Canadian Hadassah Foundation. Other organizations represented in the records include the Jewish National Fund, Baycrest Women’s Auxiliary, Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, and State of Israel Bonds.

The personal records in the fonds include letters written by Pat to Herbert when he was working in England during parts of 1968-1970, letters exchanged between Pat and her daughters when the girls were at camp in 1971 and 1973, and a collection of clippings spanning twenty years in which Alpert appears. As well, there is a notebook of Pat's Torah observations, thoughts and quotations. The personal series also contains records of Gertrude Pattenick's: a handwritten homemaker's guide and recipe book, ca. 1907, and several letters exchanged between Gertrude and Oscar before and during their marriage. One file contains the obituary of Gertrude and the condolences received by Pat.

There are approximately 3175 photographs (218 negs and 45 slides) in the fonds. These are of Hadassah conferences and annual conventions, meetings, social events, Hadassah projects in Israel (contact sheets) and images of Alpert's drawings. Many of the photographs were originally in four scrapbooks Alpert created: three to highlight the events of her Hadassah presidency and one she titled "Important Moments" that spans the 1980s and 1990s. The scrapbook files (in box 3) contain photographs, clippings and a number of event programs. The photographs include images of Alpert at special events and conventions, as a speaker, meeting people, socializing and travelling in Israel and to international Hadassah events around the world.

The poster in the fonds is for an event organized by the Women's Auxiliary of Baycrest Centre in 1981, the second annual Camerata concert and gala reception.

The fonds is arranged in 6 series: 1. Personal; 2. Professional; 3. Toronto Hadassah; 4. Hadassah-WIZO Canada; 5. Jewish National Fund; 5. Hadassah-WIZO of Canada Foundation; Other organizations.

Notes

Physical description note: Includes ca. 3175 photographs (218 negatives and 45 slides), 1 cassette tape and 1 poster.

Name Access

Alpert, Patricia Joy, 1931-2001

Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada (Subject)

Subjects

Artists

Teachers

Volunteers

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.

Arrangement

The arrangement of the fonds was constructed by the archivist. The scrapbooks were taken apart and the captions for each event provided the titles for the files.

Creator

Alpert, Patricia Joy, 1931-2001

Accession Number

2002-10-65

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6039

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy photograph of the George Street Talmud Torah class in Ottawa, Ontario. The members of the class are standing on the front steps of the building with the teacher. Pictured are:

Back row, left to right: Albert Rivers, M. Krantzberg (teacher), Moe Polowin, Earl Butovsky.

Middle row, left to right: Dave Appotive, Rabbi David Monson, Joseph Lieff, Q.C.

Front row, left to right: Rabbi Bert (Issie) Rose, Moses Steinberg, Lewis (Sheppie) Moses, Jack Pleet, Moe Slack.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Students

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Ottawa (Ont.)

Accession Number

1992-1-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1695

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1929]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of young students with their teachers at the Talmud Torah Yeshiva in Stashov, Poland. Shmiel Nepom is pictured in the third row, fourth from the (left?).

Notes

Shmiel Nepom was the father of the donor.

Name Access

High Yeshiva for Instruction of Stashiver (Stashov, Poland)

Subjects

Students

Teachers

Yeshivas

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

Poland

Accession Number

1979-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

37

Material Format

graphic material

Date

30 Sept. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 8 cm and 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Raphael (Ralph) Wintrob is a former journalist, teacher and teacher-librarian. Since retiring he has taught a variety of courses at the senior studies program (L.I.F.E. Institute), Ryerson University, in the areas of philosophy and literature. He has also taught his Hebrew short novels course at a Toronto synagogue. He is now the co-ordinator of Wintrob Editorial Services.

Ralph married Kitty, the author of "I'm Not Going Back," in 1959 while he was a journalist with the CBC. They have one daughter, Suzanne who is also a writer and editor. He is also the son of Gertrude Schwartz's sister, Zelda Wintrob. In 1989, Ralph was a founding member and chair of the Toronto Jewish Theatre Committee (TJTC), and the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition (CJPC). In 1999, the downtown Toronto Miles Nadal JCC adopted this program.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Raphael (Ralph) Wintrob.

Subjects

Journalists

Teachers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Source

Archival Descriptions