- 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
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 18
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a letter from the Chairman of the Board of Jewish Education.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 32
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1938-1940
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of communication from the Canadian Jewish Congress. Included are: summary of proceedings from the Fourth National Assembly of Canadian Jewish Congress (1939), summary of correspondence received by Canadian Jewish Congress (1939), letters requesting representatives to attend the conference (1939), letter announcing Katz was elected to the National Executive (1939), a report of the activities of the war efforts committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1940), opening address from the Fifth Annual Regional Conference, a Hanukkah booklet in Yiddish, a notice to the Jewish community to avoid buying German coal (1939), a notice from the American Jewish Congress (1938), and a 1938 publication, The Anti-Nazi Bulletin.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 33
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940-1943
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of communication from the Canadian Jewish Congress. Included are: receipt for an ad in the Daily Hebrew Journal (1942), announcements of an upcoming lecture and list of lectures from the Institute of Jewish Studies (1940, 1942), periodical devoted to Jewish affairs (1942, in Polish), a poster published by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, packet of ribbons with the insignia "I support United Jewish Welfare" (1942-1943), newspaper clipping (1942, in Yiddish), solicitation letter from High Rabbinical Jeshivah Sfath Emeth (1942), two wedding invitations (1942), invitation to honour Samuel Bronfman on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday (1941), printed speech presented by Samuel Bronfman, President of CJC (1941), communication with the Canadian Jewish Congress (e.g. announcements of meetings, meeting minutes, call to support the victory loan, a letter in support of the Greek War Relief Fund, a letter reporting vandalism of "Moncatta Library" at University College, London) and a list of delegates to the 5th Plenary Session.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 35
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a program for Jewish Book Week (1946) and correspondence concerning the 11th Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1956).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 36
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1941-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence concerning the Fifth Plenary Session of Congress (1942).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 41
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of A Prospectus of Cultural Events arranged by Jewish organizations in Toronto, a notice of a Regional Executive Committee meeting, list of CJC representatives from across Canada, a copy of the resolutions adopted at the 10th Plenary Session of CJC and a summary of inter-office information sent to members of Dominion Council and community leaders.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 42
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a copy of the program from the 16th Regional Conference of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The program includes the printed speeches presented by the speakers.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 40
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a copy of the address by thr Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, C.H. Governor General of Canada delivered at the Tenth Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 39
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of meeting minutes from a special meeting involving representatives of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Canadian Federation of Polish Jews and from a meeting of the Executive Committee, Central Division. Also included is a list of organizations participating in the Toronto Jewish Youth Council.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 38
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939-1955
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of meeting minutes from various committees of the Canadian Jewish Congress, including Refugee Committee Meeting, combined meeting Archives Committee of the CJC & Canadian Jewish Historical Society, National Dominion Council, Dominion Council, Executive Committee, Dominion Council and War Efforts Committee, Canadian Jewish Committee for Refugees Establishing Committee, Archives Committee,
- 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
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 34
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of Purim program published by the Culture Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The program contains stories, songs and a short Purim play.
- Subjects
- Purim
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 37
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940-1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a report from the Educational and Cultural Committee of CJC Central Division, a resume bulletin published by the CJC listing a digest of books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers and articles received at CJC Headquarters, a pastoral letter from the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, J.H. Hertz, a letter from the Canadian Jewish Congress in support of the Victory Loan, and News Bulletins sent by United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies (in Yiddish and English).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 43
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1971
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a copy of The Chronicle Review 50th anniversary issue (1921-1971), a publication of the Canadian Jewish Review.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 6
- File
- 50
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a citation of merit certificate presented by the United Jewish Appeal in appreciation for excellent performance in 1950 UJA campaign.
- 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