- 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
- 113
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- Feb. 1982-Mar. 1982
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 36 photographs ; b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, programme, promotional materials, and photographs concerning the award given to Flora MacDonald at a ceremony held in Queen's Park, Toronto, on 29 April 1982.
- Notes
- Photographs are by Ben Lechtman.
- Name Access
- MacDonald, Flora, 1926-2015
- Subjects
- Awards
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)
- 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
- 123
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- Dec. 1983-May 1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 4 photographs ; col. ; 9 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, programme, promotional materials, newspaper clippings and photographs concerning the award given to Sister Mary Jo Leddy at a ceremony held in Queen's Park, Toronto, on 3 May 1984.
- 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
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Aug. 1967
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an informative essay concerning the fifteenth anniversary of the 12 August 1967 execution of Soviet Jewish writers. This essay was prepared by the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, an organization based in New York City.
- 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
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 10 July 1973-12 Sept. 1973
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence, a report, an agenda of the planning meeting, promotional materials and articles concerning the commemorative demonstration held in Toronto on 13 Aug. 1973. The file also includes several photographs of the event.
- 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
- 36
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1974-Aug. 1974
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 4 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence, programmes and articles concerning the commemorative demonstration held in Toronto on 12 August 1974 at Associated Hebrew Skills. The file also includes photographs of the event. Individuals identified in the photos include Milton Harris; S. M. Harris, QC; Nathan O. Hurwich; David E. Newman, Q.C.; S.L. Shneiderman; J. B. Salsberg; Sam Blatt; Susan Paul, York University. The guest speaker for this event was S. L. Shneiderman, a columnist for the Jewish Daily Forward in New York City.
- 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
- 49
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 5 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, news releases and programmes of the 12 August annual protest. Also included are a number of short biographical essays concerning the speakers at the event and photographs of these speakers, including the Yiddish poet Israel Emiot, who visited from Rochester, New York, to speak at the event.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- 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
- 71
- Item
- 1-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- May 1977-Sep. 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 4 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, photographs, news releases, fact sheets, and programmes concerning the annual commemoration held on 11 August 1977. Guest readers included Peretz Miransky, a Toronto area poet, and Mordechai Husid from Montreal. File also contains notes and notices in Hebrew.
- Notes
- Photographer unknown.
- Name Access
- Husid, Mordechai
- Miransky, Peretz
- Subjects
- Poets
- 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
- Dr. Alexander Brown fonds
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 95
- Series
- 2
- File
- 85
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [1977?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of press releases and manuscripts outlining the history of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.
- 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
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File documents responses to antisemitic comments expressed in "The Voucher", a publication put out by the International Accountants & Executives Corporation. It contains a series of letters and a memorandum relating to the article in which the comments were made.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series
- Administration sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 47-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940-1950
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series contains the Canadian Overseas Garment Commission Toronto program report, payroll deduction report, form letters, the Association of Clothing Manufacturers membership list and a statistical summary of immigrant tailors received in Toronto up to and including March 31, 1949.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- United Jewish Relief Agencies, Toronto (UJRA) series
- Administrative and subject files sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 4-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1974, predominant 1946-1960
- Physical Description
- 1.39 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series contains administrative and subject files maintained by the UJRA office. Records include minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial tables and statements, and statistical reports. The records pertain to "subjects" addressed by the UJRA such as budget, Ontario communities, farm loans, immigration, indemnification (restititution), Egyptian Jews, orphans, and Shanghai refugees. The records also document relations with other organizations such as the American Jewish Congress, Joint Distribution Committee, Canadian Overseas Garment Commission and Jewish Colonization Society of Canada. As well, there are the correspondence with and regular reports submitted by JF&CS, JIAS and JVS. Also in the series are ships passenger lists from 1950, and weekly work files on furriers and other immigrants settled through the Canadian Overseas Garment Commission.
- Notes
- This sub-series is composed of files from former RG 294, RG 296, and files (the ones with printed labels) that in a former, temporary, arrangement were part of fonds 17, series 1.
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- 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
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Administrative Committee (Inner Executive) minutes series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952-1959
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Originally the "Inner Executive", the name of this body was changed to Administrative Committee because the old name sounded too conspiratorial. It consisted of all regional committee chairmen, those national officers of Canadian Jewish Congress resident in Ontario and individuals named by the regional chairman. It met between meetings of the Regional Executive, its duties being to prepare legislation for the latter. It usually comprised about twelve individuals.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of minutes of the Administrative Committee.
- Notes
- Series formerly described and cited as RG201.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- United Jewish Relief Agencies, Toronto (UJRA) series
- Administrative committees sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 4-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1947-1950, 1956-1958
- Physical Description
- 19 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series contains files concerning administrative and/or short-term committees of the UJRA, from the late 1940s and late 1950s. Included are files for the following committees: Budget, Clothing, European Youth, Financial Assistance, Health and Welfare and Hospitality. Half of the sub-series consists of the subcommittee on Hungarian immigrants which convened from 1956-1958. The records include minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notices of meetings and lists. The files are arranged in alphabetical order.
- Notes
- This sub-series is composed of former RG 294 files.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions