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Item

Item

3663

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

Metro Toronto Library Board.

Name Access

Rutherford's Cut Rate Drug Store

Subjects

Drugstores

Storefronts

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

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6619

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 May 1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a workmen's choir during the ten year jubilee celebration for the AACT organizations.

There are several Yiddish inscriptions on the photograph that are only partially translated. Translation includes, "Proletarian culture front, worthy member in Yiddishe Arbeiter Culture Centre, ten-year jubilee celebration with Ch' Shaffer, 12 May 1935, the two brothers".

Subjects

Anniversaries

Choirs (Music)

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

Level

Item

Item

1629

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1961

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph and corresponding negative of the birthday sale at the Allan B. Collis Limited department store in Peterborough, Ontario. The photo depicts a group of shoppers in a line-up outside the store.

Notes

Acquired July 10, 1978.

Name Access

Allan B. Collis Limited

Subjects

Consumers

Department stores

Special sales

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Peterborough (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1632

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1955 or 1956]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph and corresponding negative of the children's day sale at the Allan B. Collis Limited department store in Peterborough, Ontario. The photograph is of the interior of the store.

Notes

Acquired July 10, 1978.

Name Access

Allan B. Collis Ltd.

Subjects

Child consumers

Department stores

Special sales

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Peterborough (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1633

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1955 or 1956]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph and corresponding negative of the children's day sale at the Allan B. Collis Limited department store in Peterborough, Ontario. The photograph depicts a group of children receiving free Coca-Colas from a stand inside the store.

Notes

There are 4 x 5 negatives.

Acquired July 10, 1978.

Name Access

Allan B. Collis Limited

Subjects

Child consumers

Department stores

Special sales

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Peterborough (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1631

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1957 or 1958]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph and corresponding negative of a children's Hanukkah performance at the Congregation Beth Israel on Reid Street in Peterborough, Ontario.

Notes

Acquired July 10, 1978.

See accession file for identifications of some of the individuals in the photographs.

Name Access

Congregation Beth Israel (Peterborough, Ont.)

Subjects

Hanukkah

Parties

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Peterborough (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

572

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1929]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Ansonville cheder class, ca. 1929. The photograph was taken outside. Pictured are:

Centre: Mr. Kosoff. Children from left to right: Harry Abramson (lawyer in Windsor), Vera Abramson (Montreal), Esther Abramson (Montreal), Becky Briansky, John Abramson, Mary Crotin, Dorothy Abramson, Art Crotin (killed in war), Lou Crotin (identified this photo), Bill Perlmutter (now in Montreal), and Bella Briansky.

Name Access

Abramson, Dorothy

Abramson, Esther

Abramson, Harry

Abramson, John

Abramson, Vera

Briansky, Becky

Briansky, Bella

Crotin, Art

Crotin, Lou

Crotin, Mary

Perlmutter, Bill

Subjects

Heder

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Ansonville (Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired Dec. 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1745

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1975]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w (Polaroid) ; 9 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the street sign for Synagogue Avenue in Ansonville, Ontario, in front of the Gulf gas station.

Notes

Acquired 1975.

Subjects

Street signs

Places

Ansonville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1747

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1975]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w (Polaroid) ; 9 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the street sign for Nosov Drive in Ansonville, Ontario.

Subjects

Street signs

Places

Ansonville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4121

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Jul. 1978

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 9 x 9 cm and 35 mm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the exterior of the synagogue in Belle Ewart, Ontario.

Notes

Location of negatives: 31:3

Name Access

Hebrew Centre of Belle Ewart

Subjects

Communities

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Belle Ewart (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-20

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4123

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Jul. 1978

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 9 x 9 cm and 35 mm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the synagogue's shed in Belle Ewart, Ontario.

Notes

Location of negatives: 31:4

Name Access

Hebrew Centre of Belle Ewart

Subjects

Communities

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Belle Ewart (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-20

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2019-12-8

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

10 photographs : b&w & col. (jpeg)

Date

1948-2010

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of the Schein family. Included are Liza and Sam's wedding celebration in Salzburg, Austria (1948), Liza on board the RMS Samaria (1948), family portraits and snapshots of Liza, Sam and their daughter Gilda (1953-1954), their businesses Apex Uniforms (1960) and Apex Textiles (1980), and the front and back of Sam Schein's grave stone.

Administrative History

(Szymon (Sam) Schein (1923-2010) was born in Krakow, Poland, and was the eldest of three sons of Yitzchak and Leia Schein. Szymon's younger brothers were Alek, and Gershon. As a child, Szymon attended yeshiva and enjoyed singing. The Scheins were shopkeepers, and lived a modest lifestyle. Sam's immediate family were all murdered in the Holocaust. Szymon was the only member of his immediate family to survive. At the outset of the war he was sixteen years old. Sam survived four concentration camps – Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee. While living in a Displaced Persons camp in Bad Gastein, Austria, he met his wife, Liza Esanu. They were engaged in July 1948, and married a month later. Liza Esanu (1928-2017) was born in Romania in 1928, in the small town Tirgu Neamts, the third of four surviving children of Leib and Chaia Sura Esanu. Liza's father Leib died when Liza was only four years old, from a gall bladder attack. Chaia raised her four children on her own. In 1939, the family was forced to leave their home in the countryside, and over the next few years, were in hiding within Romania. Liza was eleven years old when the Second World War began in 1939. She was given a Singer sewing machine and learned how to sew. Her education as a seamstress progressed in the old European apprentice system, and before long, as a very young teenager, she was supporting her family with the money that she made with her sewing. After the war, she and her sister left Romania and ended up in a DP camp in Austria - Bad Gastein - where she met and married Szymon Schein. Liza and Sam sailed to Canada in September 1948 on the SS Samaria, and settled in Toronto. Although, Sam was accepted as a participant in the Tailor Project, it was Liza who was the sewer in the family. Eventually, they owned several businesses, including "Honest Sam's Cleaners" and a children's wear store. Their final two businesses were strongly related to the sewing –Apex Uniforms, where they manufactured and sold uniforms for gas station attendants and Apex Textiles, where they sold fabrics for clothing and drapery. Liza's sewing expertise was crucial to the success of those two businesses, while Sam handled the finances. Sam and Liza had one child, Gilda, born in Toronto in 1952. Their marriage broke up in 1986, and they each spent the rest of their lives separately. Sam died on New Year's Day, 2010, and Liza on October 15, 2017.

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Accession Number

2021-6-2

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 13 cm

Date

1952-1954

Scope and Content

Accession consists of three photographs of Rho Sigma Phi, a Jewish high school sorority. The first photograph was taken at a sorority formal circa 1953/1954; the second photograph was taken at a tea circa 1953/1954; and the third photograph was taken at a tea circa 1952. The following individuals are identified in the photographs: Ruthie Baker, Leila Blandis/Leila Brandis [illegible], Sheila Davids, Frances Diesenhause, Renee Drevnick, Merle Frankel, Sheila Green, Sheila Meiteen, Ethel Rosenberg, Millie Rotman, Tanya Rubinoff, Marcia Sandler, Libby Saunders, Shirley Shekter, Joanne Shulman, Dina Skelly, Marcie Spillman, Annette Stork, Sandra Title/Sandy Title, Sharyn Title, Barbar Wahl, Faith Wintrob, and Elinor Zaltzman.

Administrative History

Rho Sigma Phi was made up of high-school girls from numerous schools, mostly in Forest Hill and the surrounding area.

Subjects

Greek letter societies

Places

Forest Hill (Toronto, Ont.)

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Accession Number

2021-10-3

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

5 photographs : b&w (15 x 10cm)

Date

[ca. 2000]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of five photographs of the Bagel Restaurant located at 285 College Street. The photographs depict a table setting and framed autographed photo display, a waiter working behind the counter, menu card posted in their front window advertising the breakfast special and afternoon tea, closeup of plated home fries and sliced tomatoes, and a partial view of the chef working the grill next to dozens of eggs.

Photographs by Lisa Abram.

Administrative History

The Bagel Restaurant also knwon as the Bagel and by some the Dirty Bagel, was a popular diner located at 285 College Street, a few doors west of Spadina Avenue. The restaurant opened around 1952 and was favoured by local office workers, garment workers, and students enrolled at nearby U of T. The Bagel specialized in homestyle, eastern European Jewish foods. On the menu were offerings such as chicken soup and kreplach, borsht (both cold beet and hot cabbage varieties), kishka, chicken fricassee, boiled beef (flanken), and kasha (buckwheat). The service, often of note in local newspaper reviews, was described as both caring and instructive: “they fuss over you; they’re surrogate mothers.” The former tenant of 285 College Street was photographer Gordon Mendly, who lived and ran Famous Studios out of the same location from the 1940s–1960s.

Use Conditions

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

Descriptive Notes

Related Material Note: See accession 2022-5-4

Subjects

Restaurants

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

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Accession Number

2021-11-1

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

7 photographs : b&w ; 8 x 12 cm or smaller

1 photograph : col. slide

1 photograph : b&w (jpg)

1 folder of textual records

Date

1945-1972

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of the 604A College Street and 938 Eglinton Avenue West locations of Goldy's Dairy & Appetizer.

Photo captions

001: Goldie Goldberg (standing left) with two customers in front of Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer decorated in celebration of V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), 604A College Street, (Toronto, ON), May 1945.

002: Store clerk working behind the counter, Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 938 Eglinton Avenue West, (Toronto, ON), 1950s.

003: Exterior view of Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 938 Eglinton Avenue West, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1960. Also visible in photo Wembley Custom Cleaners and [Giblons] Kosher Meats & Poultry.

004; Employee working behind Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer prepared food counter, serving items such as Shopsy’s potato salad, olives, cream cheese, gefilte fish and more, Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 938 Eglinton Avenue West, (Toronto, ON), 1960s.

005: Marvin Goldberg (left) and his older brother Sidney Goldberg (right), standing in front of Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer decorated in celebration of V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), 604A College Street, (Toronto, ON), 8 May 1945.

006: Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer Passover window display, 938 Eglinton Avenue West, (Toronto, ON), 1970s.

007: Marvin Goldberg pictured in front of Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 604A College Street, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1947.

008: Sidney Goldberg (standing right) with friend in front of Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 604A College Street, (Toronto, ON), ca. 1947.

009: Magazine clipping promoting Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer, 938 Eglinton Avenue West, (Toronto, ON), 1970s. Identified (L to R): Sharon Shaindy Dubinsky (m. Nathanson), Betty Dubinsky (m. London), Lyn Dubinsky (m. Lubelski)

010: Dave Goldberg (left), receiving bread delivery at Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer 604A College Street, (Toronto, ON), May 1945.

Administrative History

Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer was founded by Dave and Goldie Goldberg at 604A College Street, Toronto, in 1944. Dave Goldberg was born in Tarnopol, Russia in 1908; Goldie Goldberg (née Heiber) was born in Galicia, Poland in the same year. Goldie immigrated to Canada in 1911, and Dave came to the United States in the early 1920s, where he was employed as a shoe salesman in Detroit and Chicago until he moved to Toronto in the early 1930s. Dave and Goldie were married in June 1932. In February 1942, Dave was involved in a deadly motor vehicle accident on an icy road near Hamilton Ontario, in which two of the other passengers died. He was fortunate to survive, but the accident brought out a latent asthmatic condition, which prevented him from continuing his job as manager of Arliss Shoes on Yonge Street in Toronto. After unsuccessful efforts as an insurance salesman, and with some financial assistance from the Grand Order of Israel, a benevolent society of which he was a member, Dave, who often said he would “put his wife’s name up in lights,” opened Goldy’s Dairy & Appetizer with Goldie as his partner.

The store was located just west of Clinton Street on the same block that housed the Pylon Theatre, Pylon Drugs, the Health Bread, and Home Bread Bakeries, as well as Shapiro’s Delicatessen. Goldy’s specialized in fresh creamery and delicatessen products, smoked fish, and assorted dry groceries. Many of the “take-out specialties,” such as potato salad, egg salad, and chopped herring were personally prepared by Goldie Goldberg. In 1947, observing the migration of the Jewish population to the north Bathurst Street corridor, Dave and Goldie opened a second location at 938 Eglinton Avenue West (near Bathurst), which was eventually taken over and operated by Goldie’s sister, Sylvia (Chippy), better known as “Mrs. Goldy,” and her husband, Danny Dubinsky. Both locations were very successful with the owners offering tasty delicacies along with friendly personalized service to their clientele. Customers also enjoyed getting the latest news and gossip relating to their neighbourhood as well as the wider Jewish Community.

The College Street location was sold in 1953, while the Eglinton Avenue store was a fixture of the Forest Hill Jewish scene until the mid-1970s when it too was sold. Likely, many Jewish Torontonians have fond memories of shopping at Goldy’s and receiving the best of food served in a meticulously clean environment and a haimishe atmosphere.

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2021-11-10

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

24 photographs : col. 10 x 15 cm or smaller

Date

1992-1995

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs from Camp Ramah. The photographs document the interior of buildings, such as cabins and the dining hall; exterior shots of the waterfront and sports field; and activities, such as the annual colour wars program.

Use Conditions

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Subjects

Camps

Name Access

Camp Ramah in Canada

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2021-11-11

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. 20 x 30 cm

Date

Jul. 2000

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a colour photograph of Camp Kinneret taken in July 2000.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Camps

Name Access

Camp Kinneret

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2021-11-20

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

3 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Date

1915-1969

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the activities of members of the Forman, Findlay, and Olin families. Documents include a 1922 Goel Tzedec Synagogue religious school diploma (Minnie Forman); a McCaul Street School class photo, Senior IV (Henry Findlay, back row, second left); Palestine Lodge Masons sheet music and lyrics for the composition "We Have Travelled Fiftee," music by Isha Goodman, lyrics by Jack S. Olin; and “Dimensions of 69 Senior Wardens District No. 7,” music and lyrics by Jim Johnson. In addition, there are two group photographs of Palestine Lodge Masons officers (ca. 1969).

Use Conditions

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Subjects

Music by Jewish composers

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Accession Number

2021-12-5

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 70 cm

1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 58 cm

Date

1927,1937

Scope and Content

Accession consists of two photographs documenting the 1927 B'nai Brith Grand Lodge No. 1 convention and the 1927 sixth national convention of the Federation of Young Judaea of Canada, which was held in Toronto.

The B'nai Brith Grand Lodge No 1 Convention took place on 23 May 1937 at the Hotel Statler. Identified in the photograph is Dr. Nicholas Sole and Bertha Minden Sole, the parents of Louise Sole Rotman. The photograph is by Famous Studio, photographer Bob Hauser.

Sole Family history book entitled "Sole Family Legacy Book." The book was created by the donor's daughter, Tami Martino (née Rotman), and is compiled from the collections of all the families across Canada and the United States. We all share a common ancestry, descended from Joseph Nuszen and Regina (Berman Sole), who came to Canada from Hungary. It covers 150 years of our collective history down Joseph Nuszen Sole's line, 6 generations, and every family member is represented to the publishing date (2009). Additional information is provided for 55 family members down the maternal (Regina Berman's) line. Her father was a Rabbi, and most of that side did not get out of Hungary and they perished in the Holocaust, their names are all provided. For those of us whose descendants came to Canada, we have families involved in numerous professions and contributing to the vibrant Jewish life in Canada in many ways.

Administrative History

Louise Rotman (née Sole) was born in 1942 in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the daughter of Dr. Nicholas Sole (1901–1971), who emigrated from Kisvárda, Hungary in 1927, and Bertha Minden (née Sole, 1909–1994), who emigrated from Zhytomyr, Russia with her family in 1911. Her brother was Dr. Mickey Sole (1938–2018). From the age of a teenager, she was involved as a volunteer for Jewish organizations and assisting as a fundraiser for the United Jewish Appeal. She was a treasurer of the Temple Youth Group and a secretary of the Senior Youth Council. Later, as an adult, she was treasurer of the Hamilton Jewish Community Centre, chair of the Camp Committee, treasurer of the UJA Federation, president of B'nai B'rith Women Hamilton chapter, president of the Deborah Sisterhood of Temple Anshe Sholom, and the first female president of the oldest Reform synagogue in Canada: Temple Anshe Sholom. She continued to watch over the temple's finances for twenty-one years. Louise graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science degree and married Laurence Rotman (1937–2021). She had a short teaching career at Westdale Secondary School before the birth of her children: Tami Martino (née Rotman), Mark Rotman, and Rachelle McGurrin (née Rotman). She has six grandchildren. She was a stay-at-home mom for thirteen years, and later returned to McMaster University, where she received a master of business administration degree and designation as a chartered accountant from the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants. She specialized in taxation (mainly in corporate tax planning) and US and Canadian personal tax for a forty-year career, twenty-four of which were spent at MacGillivray Partners in Hamilton. During this period, she assisted the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, marking their uniform final exam, and the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, marking the provincial tax exams. She retired from public practice in 2007. After retirement, Louise maininted her involvement in the Hamilton Jewish community as captain for the United Jewish Appeal and a permanent board member of Temple Anshe Sholom.

Laurence Rotman was born in 1937 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son of Hyman Rotman and Adele Rotman (née Kaplan). His sister was Marcia Levy (née Rotman). As a youth, he was president of AZA, a youth-led fraternity for Jewish teenagers and the male wing of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. He was also involved in Young Judaea. In addition, Laurence was involved in the Gamma lota Beta Fraternity in high school and was frosh president at Waterloo Lutheran. In later years, he played major roles in the Jewish community. Some of the highlights were that he was president of B'nai B'rith Hamilton and a past recipient honoree of the State of Israel Bonds. When he and Louise co-chaired the State of Israel bond dinner in 1971, they raised $167,000, which (adjusted for inflation) is equivalent to $1.2 million in 2021. He also led a very eclectic business career. A mainstay business was always Reco Distributors and Mfg. Ltd. He also worked on the board of directors for Creative Arts, as Heart Fund publicity chair, and he was director of sales and marketing for the public company Lawn-A-Mat Chemical and Equipment. He was also a co-owner of Feathers Restaurant, a dinner-and-dancing club in Hamilton, which he described as one of his favourite businesses to run. He was a life master in bridge.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Name Access

B'nai B'rith. New York Lodge No. 1 (New York, N.Y.)

Federation of Young Judaea of Canada

Places

New York (N.Y.).

Toronto (Ont.)

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Accession Number

2022-1-5

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

6 photographs (5 jpg, 1 heic)

5 textual records (png)

Date

16 Jan. 2022

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photos and promotional material created for Jewish Cookbook Workshop "Capunti with Matthew Calverley." The Zoom program was hosted by Jewish&. The photographs depict Matthew Calverley in his kitchen leading the workshop and includes views of the camera and laptop set up. In addition, there is a copy of the recipe, an Instagram promotional post, and the logo for "Building the Jewish Cookbook."

Administrative History

Jewish& is department of Miles Nadal JCC. Jewish&'s mission is to create programs that engage multi-faith, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic families. Programs are designed to promote exploration, education, and celebration of their Jewishness.

Capunti with Matthew Calverley was the first of of a series of monthly workshops planned for 2022. The recipes workshoped will celebrate traditions and cultures from blended households.

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2022-3-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 34 x 34 cm or smaller

Date

[19--]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of four photographs of Morris "Murray" Rose. Three of the four photographs show Murray atop horse. In addition to M. Rose, Mrs. J Chesney (owner) and J. Chesny (trainer) are also identified in the 1929 photograph.

Custodial History

The photographs were donated by Roz Tobias, the daughter-in-law of Morris Rose (the subject of the photographs).

Administrative History

Morris "Murray" Rose was born in Poland and came to Toronto as a child. His love of riding dates back to this time: at the age of ten, he would ride his grandfather's horse up and down the lanes of Kensington. Rose never completed secondary school; instead, he ran away from home at the age of fourteen and became a stable boy at the Woodbine Racetrack. Subsequently, he became a jockey. The high point of his career came on 23 May 1931, when, at the Churchill Downs Racetrack in Kentucky, he ran five winners in a six-card race. Rose retired from riding horses after sustaining a serious head injury during a race.

After retiring from racing, Rose worked at a textile store on College Street. Later, he opened his own store on the south side of College Street at Spadina Avenue. He and his wife ran the store for many years with one or two employees. Rose eventually purchased the building in which his store was located and rented out space to a variety of businesses, including a smoke and confectionary store, a ticket agency, and an eyeglass store.

Rose's entrepreneurial activity extended to purchasing bankrupt businesses and building apartment buildings with a group of friends. In the 1960s, he was a co-partner in Triangle Billiards at Bathurst Sreet and Sheppard Avenue. He also purchased a fifty-acre farm in Buttonville on Woodbine Avenue, which he rented out until his death.

Rose died in July 1989 at the age of seventy-eight. He left behind a wife, Mary; two sons, Bobby and Ken; two daughters, Marjorie Swartz and Elaine Rubinoff; two sisters, Lil and Rae; a brother, Sam; fourteen grand children; and one great-grandchild.

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Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Also available as digital images.

General note: The information for the biographical sketch was taken from an obituary written by Ben Rose titled "Leading Jockey Rose Dies at 78."

Subjects

Horses

Jockeys

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Accession Number

2022-4-4

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

3 photographs : col. (jpg)

1 slideshow (pdf)

Date

2022

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting a virtual seder held by Sam Mogelonsky and her partner on 17 April 2022. Included are three photographs and a slideshow. The latter includes prayers for Ukraine and prayers for those who aren't Jewish. Sam and her partner, Mat, used a humanist Haggadah to pull it together.

Commenting on the seder, the donor wrote:

"My partner and I did a virtual seder last night for the third night of Passover. We started doing this the first year of Covid, and now it’s sort of a tradition. It’s a mix of jewish and non-Jewish friends and very fun and inclusive. We made a special presentation deck for it so people could read off the screen. There are a lot of Simpsons, pop culture and baseball references.

"You are seeing the view as we did. I should have taken a photo of the set up! We had a webcam on a plinth and a microphone set up. Then we had the laptop and a wireless mouse.

"Also, mat is allergic to horse raddish, so we have Calabrian hot pepper paste for Maror!"

In a separate email, Sam explained that the chili paste was a nod to Mat's Italian background.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

COVID-19 (Disease)

Passover

Seder

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Ukraine

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2022-4-6

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

64 photographs : b&w and col. ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller

ca. 7 cm of textual records

Date

1940-2014

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting Mark Drutz's personal life; educational and professional experience; and his active engagement with Ha Mishpacha, which is one of the earliest gay-Jewish groups in Toronto and was co-founded by him. Included are: sixty-four photographs depicting Mark's personal life; newspaper and magazine clippings documenting the announcement of Mark's birth in 1951, an introduction to Ha Mishpacha (4 Nov. 1977), the assistance that Mark and his mother, Evelyn Quitt, provided for the Preyra family's immigration from India to Canada (1968, 1972, 1996), and Mark's support to the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (2014). The accession also includes three yearbooks, two school photographs, certificates, diplomas, and academic records, which document his educational experience; and letters of recommendation, CV, and other documents related to his career and professional activities. Also included are: a newsletter of Ha Mishpacha (Nov. 1977), a divorce certificate of Mark's parents (8 Feb. 1972), and a certifiate of change of his name (28 Mar. 1978).

Administrative History

Mark Drutz is the youngest child of Harold "Hy" Drutz and Evelyn Sandra Drutz (née Quitt). Harold (1913–1998) was born to Phillip (Fyvish) and Annie Drutz of Russia. In 1946, he married Evelyn Quitt (1924–1999), the daughter of Samuel Quitt (1891–?) and Bertha Quitt (1890–1953), also of Russia. They had two children: Paul, who ultimately succumbed to AIDS (1947–1994) and Mark (aka Donald, 1951–). 'Evelyn raised Paul's son, her grandson Ezra Matthew (1975–).

Harold worked in the garment trade as a pattern cutter and also served in the Canadian Medical Corps during the Second World War. He was one of seven children. His siblings were: Meyer, Daniel, Harry (Drue), David, Pauline, and Mollie (Simmons). Evelyn was one of five chidren. Her siblings were: Estelle (Drue - married Harold's brother Harry), Rivka (Smolkin), Gordon (Gerhson), and Beverley (Brown).

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.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Digitized material.

Subjects

Families

Sexual minorities

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Vancouver (B.C.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2022-11-3

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 book

Date

2022

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting City Shul, a Reform synagogue in downtown Toronto. Included is "Siddur Shirat HaLev: The City Shul Community Prayerbook." The siddur was designed by Baruch Sienna and edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein. Baruch described the siddur thus: "A contemporary, illustrated, liberal siddur for Shabbat, weekday, and festivals." The siddur features content from Canadian poets (e.g., Leonard Cohen, A. M. Klein) and artists. According to the donor, the siddur was "the product of many volunteer congregants over several years of effort."

Use Conditions

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

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Three pages of the siddur are available as digital files: page 80 (available as a PDF file), and page 98 (available as a JPEG file), and page 160 (available as a PDF file).

Rights: Copyright © 2022, City Shul. Translations, readings, and commentaries from Mishkan T'filah, World Union Edition: A Progressive Siddur, copyright © 2010 by the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

Subjects

Reform Judaism

Siddurim

Synagogues

Name Access

City Shul (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2023-3-10

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1967-1978

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a pilot's log book belonging to Gerda Frieberg, documenting flights taken between 1967 and 1978. Also included is an accompanying form from the Department of Transport regarding the issuance of Gerda's licence and log book. On the inside cover, there is a newsclipping of a poem entitled High Flight taped to the inside front cover of the book. Notations made by Gerda include: her first solo flight on 24 Oct. 1967; completion of her government approved course in flying following her flight test on 15 Feb. 1968; and her last flight on 25 April 1978, logging a grand total of 978 hours and 45 minutes in the air.

Entries include dates, aircraft type and registration, names of first pilots and second pilots or passengers, routes flown and instrument notations. Airtime totals are tallied at the bottom of each page. Of note are flights taken as part of derbies as well as flights in Israel in 1973. Aircraft included both Cherokee and Cessna single-engine aircraft.

Administrative History

Gerda Frieberg (1925-2023) was a Holocaust survivor and educator born in 1925 in Bielschowitz, Poland to the sole Jewish family in the largely German speaking village. Her father was taken in October 1939. In 1940, Gerda, her mother Elfrieda and sister Hana were deported to the Jaworzno Ghetto. In 1942, Gerda was sent to the Oberaltstadt concentration camp where her sister was already interned. Their mother joined them in 1943. Gerda worked in the machine shop of a spinning mill until she was liberated on May 9, 1945. For four years after liberation Frieberg, her sister and mother were in displaced persons camps in Landserg, near Munich. There, she became a proficient seamstress and met her husband, Louis Frieberg. After moving to Canada in 1953, Gerda devoted herself to Holocaust education and various human rights causes. She began speaking of the Holocaust in 1962, first in local schools, then across Canada. Frieberg served as chair of the Ontario region of the Canadian Jewish Congress in the early 1990s and led fundraising efforts for the Toronto Holocaust Centre. Gerda Frieberg had three children, Josey, Jack, and Sandra, eleven grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Gerda passed away on January 3rd, 2023, at the age of 97 in her home in Toronto.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Holocaust survivors

Air pilots

Name Access

Frieberg, Gerda, 1925-2023

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

337

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1953

Physical Description

6 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of photographs of the head table of a meeting at the conference sponsored by Keren Hayesod.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

347

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of photographs of the committee members. From left to right they include: J.B. Lubotta; David Dunkelman; J.S. Zacks; M.J Till; Nat Spiegel; Sol Rotenberg; Charles Markson; Arthur Gelber; and Moses Kohl.

Name Access

J.B. Lubotta

David Dunkelman

J.S. Zacks

M.J. Till

Nat Spiegel

Sol Rotenberg

Charles Markson

Arthur Gelber

Moses Kohl

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

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

250

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of one portrait photograph of Ellis Shapiro.

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm; mounted on a cardboard backing

Scope and Content

The file consists of a portrait photograph of Stephen Berger.

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

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

25

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[196-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a group photograph. From left to right are: Eliezer Dembitz, Consul General of Israel in Toronto; Allan Grossman, MP; Philip Givens; and Nathan Phillips.

Name Access

Eliezer Dembitz

Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991

Philip Givens

Phillips, Nathan, 1892-1976

Repro Restriction

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

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

77

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of portrait photographs of Rose Halperin.

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

146

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a portrait photograph of Mark Levy.

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

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

187

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

5 embossed prints ; 7 x 9 cm

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

200

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a portrait photograph of Samuel Posluns.

Name Access

Posluns, Samuel, 1910-1994

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

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

204

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm and 7 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a photograph of Anna Raginsky delivering a speech with Samuel Zacks seated in the background. In addition there is a portrait of Anna Raginsky photographed by Garcia Studio.

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

233

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-?]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of portrait photographs of Ingrid Rypinsky.

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Level

Item

Item

258

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1921

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 27 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of students at the Peretz Shule

Notes

Photograph has an inscription in Hebrew and is dated May 1921.

Name Access

Peretz Shule

Subjects

Students

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.

Creator

Workman's Circle

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

267

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1900 and 1910]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Kaufman family settled in Galt, Ontario, after immigrating from Kraków, Poland.

Scope and Content

Item is a formal studio portrait of the Kaufman family.

Name Access

Kraackow

Kaufman family

Rotenberg, Mattie

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Kraków (Poland)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

268

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1898

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Mattie Levi (m. Rotenberg) as an infant.

Name Access

Levi, Mattie

Rotenberg, Mattie

Subjects

Infants

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

269

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1902]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Levi family in Toronto.

Name Access

Levi, Paul

Rotenberg, Mattie

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

256

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 23 x 26 cm and 11 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

The item is a photograph of students of the Peretz Shule.

Notes

This photograph is not the original print.

The photograph has been plaque mounted.

Name Access

Peretz Shule

Subjects

Students

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.

Creator

Workmen's Circle

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

257

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Labour League at the Winchevsky Centre on their tenth anniversary. Pictured in the back row, second from right: Jake Weisbrod.

Notes

Photograph has been plaque mounted.

Name Access

Labor League (Toronto, Ont.)

Winchevsky Centre (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Anniversaries

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

259

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1932]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the Labour League.

Notes

Photograph has a signature and an inscription in Yiddish.

Name Access

Labor League (Toronto, Ont.)

Winchevsky Centre (Toronto, Ont.)

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

260

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1931

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 11 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a graduation diploma from the Jewish Folks' Shule.

Name Access

Jewish Folks Shulë (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Diplomas

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

261

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of Branch 6 of the Labor League of Toronto.

Name Access

Labor League (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

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

Level

Item

Item

263

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of delegates to the ninth convention of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance, held in Philadelphia..

Notes

Photograph is not the original print.

OJA has the negative for this photograph.

Name Access

Jewish National Workers' Alliance

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Labor movement

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

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

292

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1911

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Dr. Harry Myer Jolley and Mrs. Eva Jolefsky (née Geller) as children.

Name Access

Berstein, Ida

Geller, Eva

Jolefsky, Eva

Jolley, Harry Myer

Subjects

Children

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

Harry Clairmont fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

32

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1960

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a crowd of people standing outside of a movie theatre in Toronto which may have been the Royal Theatre on College Street.

Notes

Photographer was Gordon Mendly of Famous Studio.

Subjects

Crowds

Motion picture theaters

Repro Restriction

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

Related Material

See Fonds 18, series 3, file 53 for the negative of this image.

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1984-1-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Harry Clairmont fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

32

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1960

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a group of women standing outside of Lou Leeds Agencies in the garment district of Toronto.

Notes

Photographer was Gordon Mendly of Famous Studio.

Subjects

Women

Repro Restriction

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

Related Material

See fonds 18, series 3, file 53 for negative of this image.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1984-1-6

Source

Archival Descriptions