- 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
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Protest activities sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-5
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 13 Aug. 1973
- Physical Description
- 1 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Basya Hunter giving a dramatic reading at the twenty-first anniversary of the execution of the Soviet-Jewish writers and intellectuals event. The event took place at Beth Tzedec Chapel.
- Notes
- Photograph by Jacob El-Baz.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Protest activities sub-series
- 23rd anniversary of the execution of Soviet Jewish writers and intellectuals file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-5
- File
- 49
- Item
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 24 Jul. 1975
- Physical Description
- 1 news release
- Scope and Content
- Item is a news release put out by Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region, dated 24 July 1975. In the news release, Sam Filer "announces the annual commemoration of the Anniversary of the Execution of the Soviet-Jewish Writers and Poets in Moscow in 1952." The commemoration was to be held on 12 August 1975 at Beth Tzedec Synagogue (1700 Bathurst Street).
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a PDF/A file.
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Protest activities sub-series
- 23rd anniversary of the execution of Soviet Jewish writers and intellectuals file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-5
- File
- 49
- Item
- 25
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 1 press release
- Scope and Content
- Item is a press release from the Canadian Jewish Congress regarding the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the death of twenty-four Jewish writers. The press release notes, "Coupled with the commemoration of this tragic historic date is the demand by Canadian Jewry that Soviet Jewry be permitted the right to emigrate, an elementary principle of human rights as guaranteed by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights."
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a PDF/A file.
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- 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.
- 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
- 138
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Apr. 1986
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a programme for a special seder service for Soviet Jewry held 27 April 1986 at the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Seder
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- 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
- 13
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1971-1981
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File includes a representative sample of greeting cards and protest postcards that were typically sent to Soviet Jewish families for major holidays.
- 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
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Protest activities sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-5
- File
- 115
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- Mar. 1982-May 1982
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 12 photographs : b&w on 2 contact sheets ; 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains a calendar of events, magazine and newspaper articles, photographs of a rally, correspondence, press releases and notices concerning events organized to coincide with the month of May 1982.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harold S. Kaplan fonds
- Architectural projects series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 27
- Series
- 1-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Physical Description
- 21 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm and 9 x 12 cm
- 0.5 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of two files of photographs of the Jewish Home for the Aged at various stages of its construction and correspondence between Kaplan & Sprachman and the construction company, George Hardy Ltd, in which the architects request photographs of the building and construction progress.
- Notes
- Photographers: Panda Photography; Ames & Holtom; McCullagh Studio.
- Accession Number
- 2003-6-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1959-[ca. 1972]
- Physical Description
- 216 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1913, a mutual benefit society for women called the Ezras Noshim Society was formed in Toronto. Ezras Noshim started collecting funds around 1916 to purchase a home that would be converted into Toronto's first Jewish Old Folks Home. The forerunner to Baycrest Centre opened in 1919 as the Toronto Jewish Old Folks Home. It was located on Cecil Street in downtown Toronto and the women of Ezras Noshim made beds, cooked kosher meals, washed sheets and sponsored fund-raising events.
- In 1954, the Jewish Home for the Aged opened on Bathurst Street to accommodate their expanding needs with the addition of a new feature -- Baycrest Hospital. This location, known as the Baycrest Centre, expanded to include several new buildings that were better able to meet the needs of the Jewish community in Toronto.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of negatives documenting the events and activities of several Jewish Home for the Aged groups, including the men's service group, the women's auxiliary, and the staff and residents. The images depict meetings and banquets, fundraising campaigns, images of the interior of the building, the residents partaking in daily activities and classes, and special visits by dignitaries. The negatives have been arranged chronologically by event and are described at the file or item level.
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 27 Jun. 1961
- Physical Description
- 2 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one image of Rabbi Gunther Plaut visiting the Jewish Home for the Aged, and one image of the architectural model of the new Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital.
- 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
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Apr. 1961
- Physical Description
- 6 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of images taken at a Jewish Home for the Aged banquet, which involved the presentation of plaques and the Herbert J. Weiss Endowment Fund award. The images include speakers at the podium, members receiving awards, and images of the invited guests seated at banquet tables.
- 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
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1 Jun. 1960
- Physical Description
- 6 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of images taken at the Jewish Home for the Aged's bingo night for residents. The images depict the residents seated at the tables with their bingo cards, with the staff supervising the event.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Physical Condition
- Segregated due to vinegar syndrome.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [196-]
- Physical Description
- 2 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one image of the Jewish Home for the Aged bowling group engaged in a game and one image of a tournament trophy.
- 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
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 35
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 3 Mar. 1969
- Physical Description
- 2 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two images of the Jewish Home for the Aged bowling group. The images depict residents bowling in the auditorium of the Home.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions