Accession Number

2008-9-3

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

5 photographs : b&w (jpg)

Date

1935-1959

Scope and Content

Accession consists of five electronic scans of original photographs depicting Aaron Horovitz, the former mayor of Cornwall, Ontario. Included is a photograph of Aaron standing in front of Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy, three photographs of Mayor Horovitz meeting Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip during their visit to Cornwall, and one photograph of Aaron and Helen Horovitz with three other couples including Saul and Frances Horovitz and Seymour and Faye Sukerman, at the Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach.

Custodial History

The original photographs are in the possession of Joan Aaron, the niece of Mayor Aaron Horovitz. They were loaned to the OJA for scanning as part of the Small Jewish Communities initiative.

Use Conditions

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Accession Number

2010-6-4

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

9 photographs : col.

Date

2010

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a DVD containing images which document the Aba Bayefsky mural located in the BJCC. The images are saved in DNG, TIF and JPEG format.

Custodial History

The DVD was transferred to the archives by Stephanie Olin Chapman.

Administrative History

The Aba Bayefsky mural, titled "Swifter than Eagles, Stronger than Lions," was located in the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre until 2010, when the building was demolished.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-4-4

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

2 photograhs : tif

Date

[1955 or 1956]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of two electronic copies of original photographs. The first depicts Abe Blankenstein with his wife Freda on the driveway of their home on St. German Avenue west of Bathurst. The second is Abe Blankenstein with his business partner, Joe Fialkov. Both photographs feature Falco Electric trucks.

Subjects

Occupations

Name Access

Blankenstein, Abe

Falco Electric Co.

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Accession Number

2008-9-11

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

39 photographs (jpgs) ; b&w and col.

Date

1945-[200-]

Scope and Content

This accession consists of 39 electronic copies of original photographs depicting various members of the Abramsky family of Kingston, their former family homes, dedication ceremonies, family events, buildings that once housed Jewish owned businesses and organizations, photos taken on a Jewish walking tour of Kingston, as well as one image of a victory parade with Abramsky's store featured in the background.

Custodial History

The original photographs are in the possession of the donor. They were loaned for scanning as part of the Small Jewish Communities project.

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.

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Accession Number

2016-12-1

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record

Physical Description

21 photographs : b&w and col. (tiff)

1 folder of textual records

Date

[192-]-2001

Scope and Content

Accession consists of electronic copies of photographs documenting Alby Garbe, his golf-related activities and athletic career and his family, particularly his grandparents Lily and James (Isadore) Levey and his father William Garbe. Also included are newsclippings and a 1969 certificate for the Maccabi Games.

Administrative History

Alby Garbe was born in 1943 to William and Lorna (née Levey) Garbe. He had one sister, Sally Finkelstein (19 Apr. 1941-27 Sept. 2016). William's parents were George and Sophie Garbe and Lorna's parents were James and Lily (née Albon) Levey.

William Garbe (26 May 1908-Aug. 1998) was a Toronto-born dermatologist and the first Jewish graduate in his field from the University of Toronto. Upon graduating in 1932, William couldn't find a job in Toronto due to antisemitism so went to New York where he worked at the Skin and Cancer Clinic. Sulzberger-Garbe dermatosis was first described in 1937 based on observations performed by Garbe and fellow dermatologist, Marion B. Sulzberger. In the late 1930s, William returned to Toronto and opened his on practice at Bloor and Spadina, which then moved to 167 College St. and later to 199 Avenue Rd.

Lily Levey was originally from Dublin. Her husband James was a violinist and quartet leader with the Hart House String Quartet. He was originally from London, England and played with the London String Quartet. James and Lily had a home at Lorne Park Estates, just west of Port Credit.

Alby Garbe was a junior championship golfer and amateur athlete who played out of the Oakdale Golf and Country Club.

1. Lily Levey (née Albon) at home at Lorne Park Estates (just west of Port Credit), ca. 1970. The fence was designed by her husband James Levey who was a violinist with the Hart House Quartet. 2. South Prep. Forest Hill class photo, ca. 1951. Back row, left to right: Alan Libman; unidentified; Bruce Kitchen; Jeff Lipson; unidentified; Harold Kerbel; unidentified; David Hansen. Third row, left to right: Gail Smith; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Gail Starkman; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; [Miss A?]. Second row, left to right: unidentified; unidentified; Nancy Gaye Smith; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Pam Turk; Bonnie Bronstein. Front row, left to right: Frank Richard; Eddie Lewis; unidentified; Barry Riggs; Alby Garbe; Lawrence Reubenstein; Warren Biback; Brain Handi. 3. Alby Garbe, Qualifying round for Ontario Junior Golf Championships, ca. 1959. 4. Norm Mogil and Alby Garbe at tryout for 1961 Maccabi Games, 1961. 5. Lizzie’s Football team, ca. 1926. Identified 10th from right: William Garbe; 9th from right: Joe Tator; 6th from right: Charlie Siegel. 6. Holy Blossom Sunday School, ca. 1955. Back row, left to right: Alby Garbe; Ken Pritzker; Elliot Edelstein; unidentified; Merrick Hart Engel; Chuck Ornstein; [Tom Shulman?]. Middle row, left to right: unidentified; Brian Leibel; Robbie Wolfe; Donnie Baker; Ed Isaacs; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified. Front row, left to right; unidentified; unidentified; Linda Cohen; unidentified; Fern Brown; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Louis Baker. 7. Leo Baeck Hockey Team, 2001. Alby Garbe as coach (on left). 8. B’nai Brith Hockey Team, Toronto Freedom Lodge, ca. 1980. Back row, left to right: Arthur Sanders; Bryon Alexandroff; [Allan?] Markowitz; Ken Daniels; Murray Covent; unidentified; Dave Kosoy; Roey Kert. Front row, left to right: Steve Lyons; Murray Rossman; Stan Axsmith; unidentified. Missing: Alby Garbe as he had broken his leg. 9. B’nai Brith Hockey League, All-Star Team, December 1980. Back row, left to right: Paul Wise; John Fine; Bryon Alexandroff; unidentified; Alby Garbe; unidentified; Dave Bronstein; Michael Albert; Ira Kaufman; Bernie Hertzman; Dave Schwartz. Front row, left to right: Ken Daniels; Murray Covant; Brian Stepak; Mel Solomon; Sandy Breslin. 10. Camp Winnebego, ca. 1955. Back row, left to right: Arnold Miller (counsellor); Marshal Henkel; Mel Goodman; Arnold Shapiro; Stan Shapiro; Eric Brewer; Stan Taube. Front row, left to right: Jerry Goldberg; Bernie Rubenstein (from Hamilton), Alby Garbe, Lorne Solish. 11. “Yid Line”, ca. 1965. Pick up Hockey League. Left to right: Ray Shoichet, Merv Glazier, Alby Garbe. 12. Alby Garbe, University of Toronto Basketball team, ca. 1965. 13. Golf tournament at the Maccabi Games in Israel, 1965. Left to right: Alby Garbe (Canada); P. Blumberg (Israel); E. Shamar (Great Britain); C. Rosen (USA). 14. YMHA Basketball Team, 1924. Back row, left to right: Joe Benjamin; Eddie Sniderman; [?] Goldman (coach); Irving Gold; Simon Ramm. Front row, left to right: Moe English; Harry Lister; William Garbe. 15. Maccabi Games, Israel, 1965. Left to right: Alby Garbe (Canada); Charles Rosen (USA-Baton Rouge); Derek Harrison (Scotland). 16. Alby Garbe at the Ontario Better Ball Tournament, at Oakdale Golf Club, 1976. 17. Forest Hill Collegiate Golf Team, 1961-1962. Left to right: L. F. Clayton (Director of Athletics); Norm Mogil; Alby Garbe; Stan Axsmith; David Pape; H. H. Mosey (Principal). 18. University of Toronto Baksetball Team, 1965-1966. 19. Kerns Junior Championship with Brian Kerns at Westmount in Kitchener, Ontario, 1959. 20. Hart House String Quartet, [194-?]. Left to right: James Levey; Allard De Ridder; Boris Hambourg; Adolf Koldofsky.

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.

Subjects

Sports

Name Access

Garbe, Alby, 1943-

Garbe, William, 1908-1998

Levey, Lily

Levey, James

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2011-3-5

Material Format

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

2 photographs (electronic) ; b&w ; 13 MB

Date

1943-1945

Scope and Content

Accession consists of four copy photographs printed on printer paper, as well as two digital photos scanned from original images. The photos are of Alexei in military dress as well as his brother and sister-in-law, Simion and Maria Shtern.

Custodial History

Digital images scanned from originals loaned as part of the Russian Jewish War Veteran oral history project. Originals were returned to donor.

Administrative History

Alexei Shtern was born in Odessa in 1922. He was eighteen years old at the outbreak of the Second World War and served as a Sergeant Major in the Soviet Tank Troops. He was wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad and was sent to hospital in Ufa. He was later staioned in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and from there, Shtern was sent to a tank building plant in Nizhniy Tagil. He participated in the battles of Rzhev, on the Second Belarusian Front and on the Third Belarusian Front, which went on to liberate Riga, East Germany and Kaliningrad. There he was again wounded and stayed two months in hosptial before being wounded again in Danzig at the end of the War in Europe. Shtern went on to fight in Japan until the surrender in August 1945 effectively ended the Second World War. He returned to Zagorsk, near Moscow, and participated in the Victory Parade.

In January 1946, Shtern was sent home to Odessa where he found his home in ruins. He went to a family cottage closeby and was reunited with his three borthers. In total, Shtern served for 11 years in the Soviet military before being demobilized in 1953. He moved to Canada in 1987 from Brooklyn, New York.

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

World War, 1939-1945

Soviet Union--Armed Forces

Source

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Accession Number

2015-8-10

Material Format

textual record

graphic material (electronic)

moving images (electronic)

Physical Description

10 cm of textual records

2240 photographs (jpg and gif)

8 moving images

Date

1944-2015 (predominent 2008-2015)

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records related to the activities of Alex Levin, a Jewish war veteran and Holocaust survivor. Records include letters written to Levin from school children following various speaking engagements; interviews with Crestwood School, CHAT, and Netivot Hatorah; a recording of the Saluting Our Italian Heroes commemorative event; recordings of Remembrance Day ceremonies hosted by the Canadian Jewish War Veterans (Toronto Post); and photographs documenting events attended by Levin including Holocaust remembrance events, Yom Hashoah, Remembrance Day ceremonies, March of the Living, Miracle Dinners and Proms, Azrieli Foundation events including the launch of Levin's book "Under the Yellow and Red Stars", school visits, JWV programs with Sunnybrook veterans, portraits of Levin through the years and various scanned images of Levin's family.

Administrative History

Alex Levin (1932-2016) was born in 1932 in Rokitno, Poland. In 1941, the Germans invaded Rokitno and established a ghetto and formed a Judenrat to carry out their orders. In 1942, the Ghetto was evacuated and the Jews were brought to the town's marketplace to be transported by train to be killed. Levin was ten years old when he escaped into the nearby forest with his brother Samuel where he lived for 18 months in a hole in the ground. He was twelve when he emerged from hiding to find that his parents and youngest brother Moishe had been murdered. In 1944, he joined the Soviet forces as a messenger boy. After the war, he was sent to the USSR and enrolled in cadet school, remaining in the Soviet army until forced out for being Jewish in the 1970s. An engineer by training, Alex came to Canada in 1975 via Austria and Italy, and now lives in Toronto where he regularly speaks about his experiences in the Holocaust.

Subjects

Education

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

World War, 1939-1945

Name Access

Levin, Alex, 1932-2016

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2010-12-10

Material Format

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

68 photographs : b&w and col. (34 jpgs and tifs) ; 41 x 51 cm and 300 dpi

Scope and Content

The accession consists of 34 portrait prints produced by photographer Al Gilbert. It also includes the corresponding digital images. The individuals documented are prominant Toronto Jews and include: Ronald Appleby, Michael Benjamin, Avi Bennett, Edward Bronfman, Judy Feld Carr, Lou Copeland, Dan Leslie, John Daniels, A. E. Diamond, Dr. Martin Dobkin, Anne Golden, Ed Goodman, Al Green, Alex Grossman, Carl Keifitz, Marvelle Koffler, Joseph and Wolf Lebovic, Murray Menkes, Miles Nadal, Sam Pencer, Nathan Phillips, Lou Posluns, Wilfred Posluns, Alex Schanider, Seymour Schulich, Izzy Sharpe, Sam Shopsowitz, Edward Sokolowski, Ed Sonshine, Fran Sonshine, Joseph Tanenbaum, Larry Tanenbaum, Max Tanenbaum, and Ray Wolfe.

Administrative History

Nachman (Nathan) Gittelmacher was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898, the son of Shloima and Mattie Gittelmacher. Suffering terribly during the pogroms of 1918 and 1920, he fled from place to place and then emigrated to Canada in 1921. Trained as a photographer in Europe, he opened his own photography studio in Toronto in 1922, called Elite Studios. First located at 513 Queen Street West, he soon moved to 615 Queen Street West. Nathan serviced a largely Jewish clientele, photographing weddings, bar mitzvahs, as well as Jewish community events.

Nathan was married to Nina Sokoloff and they had three sons and a daughter: Louis (Lou), Albert (Al), Jack, and Ruth.

During the early 1940s, the family legally changed their name from Gittelmacher to Gilbert and subsequently altered the name of the business to Gilbert Studios. When Nathan moved to the United States, Al, who had been working there since a young age, took over the business and under his management it thrived. In order to accommodate his growing clientele, he moved the studio to Eglinton Avenue and later to 170 Davenport Road, where it is situated today.

Al made a name for himself as a portrait photographer, using natural light in innovative ways to create more natural looking portraits. Al’s primary work involved producing portraits of families, weddings, bar mitzvahs, special events and dinners. Most of his early clients were from the Jewish community. In turn, he also was paid to produce portraits of local entrepreneurs, and his multi-year contract with the city, gave him sole responsibility for the production of portraits of the mayors and councilmen and women. He later branched out beyond the Jewish community, and began to produce images of businessmen and leaders from the Italian community in Toronto.

In addition to the paid contracts involving local personalities and groups, Al Gilbert has also produced many artistic portraits of local, national and international celebrities, artists and leaders such as: Wayne and Shuster, Howie Mandel, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Robertson Davies, several Canadian prime ministers as well as Prince Charles, all of the Israeli prime ministers, which were made into stamps by the Israeli government, and finally, the last Pope. Gilbert’s work therefore captures a huge range of individuals from the ordinary bride to extraordinary world leaders.

Al has won many awards as well as accolades from his peers throughout his career. He is the three-time recipient of the prestigious Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC) Photographer of the year honour. He has been named Fellow of the photographic societies in Canada, Britain and the United States. In 1990, he was awarded the Order of Canada. In January 2007, the Professional Photographers of America presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is the highest honor PPA can bestow on a person for their body of work and influence on professional photography.

Use Conditions

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-4-5

Material Format

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

6 photographs : b&w and col. ; 9 x 13 cm or smaller

1 photograph (electronic) : b&w

Date

[193-]-[197-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of six photographs and one scanned photograph of architect Benjamin Brown with various members of his extended family. The scanned photograph pictures Meyer Brown, Benjamin's father, with his brother.

Administrative History

Benjamin Brown was one of the first Jewish architects in Toronto. Alice Waldman is the daughter of Brown's sister, Sophie Blackstone.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Architects

Families

Name Access

Brown, Benjamin

Lewis, Alice Waldman

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Accession Number

2008-9-10

Material Format

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

51 photographs : b&w and col. (45 negatives) ; 10 x 12 or smaller

Date

1918-1977

Scope and Content

This accession consists of fifty-one photographs and negatives depicting various members of the Rosenberg family and the North Bay Jewish community. The images include Hanukkah and Father's Day celebrations at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, a Lag B'Omer picnic, Joe Rosenberg inside his menswear store, and a community parade in North Bay.

Identified individuals in the photographs include: Leah Brown, Abe Brown, Philip Cait, Fae Cait, Morley Daiter, Chaim Edery, Amalia Edery, Harry Freeman, Adele Freeman, Sam Heisler, Rae Heisler, Ben Herman, Sonny Herman, Marv Himmel, Shirley Hockman, Marvin Hockman, Rose Hoffman, Joe Hoffman, Bill Klieman, Arnie Maizen, Evelyn Maizen, Alex Metz, Jean Metz, Jean Noek, Peggy Pachner, John Pachner, Harry Reiss, Nathan Rivelis, Ida Rivelis, Brooky Robins, Mr. and Mrs. Allen and Beverley Rosenberg, Gordon Rosenberg, Joe Rosenberg, Pearl Rosenberg, Marcia Rosenberg, Eleanor Sherman, Sam Sherman, Eckie Weisman, and Millie Weisman.

Administrative History

Allen Rosenberg was born in North Bay in 1930. His grandfather Moishe Rosenberg was from Russia and was the first to arrive in 1910. He opened a convenience store and pool hall in town. His grandmother Esther (nee Brown) followed soon after. HIs father Joe was married to Pearl Brown, who grew up in North Bay. Joe owned a successful men's and boys' wear store. Allen and his wife Beverly eventually moved to Toronto.

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

Communities

Families

Synagogues

Name Access

Rosenberg, Allen, 1930-

Places

North Bay (Ont.)

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Accession Number

2013-5-4

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

33 photographs : col. (tif)

Date

Sep. 1976

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of the procession in honour of the amalgamation of the Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue and the Anshei Libavitch Synagogue. The procession started at the home of David Malkin at Bathurst and Wilson and proceeded down Bathurst Street. Identified in the photographs are: David Malkin, Abe Cohen, Alvin Malkin, Lewis Baumander, Marlee Petroff, Melody Brocklesby, Maurice Brenner, Rob Cooper, Farley Cohen, Harold Baumander, Marvin Allen, Lauryl Sandler, Stephen Cohen, and Michael Malkin.

Custodial History

Photographs were in the possession of Naomi Cooper, daughter of Abe Cohen and granddaughter of David Malkin, members of Anshei Libavitch in downtown Toronto.

Subjects

Synagogues

Name Access

Malkin, David

Cohen, Abe

Malkin, Alvin

Baumander, Lewis

Petroff, Marlee

Brocklesby, Melody

Brenner, Maurice

Cooper, Rob

Cohen, Farley

Baumander, Harold

Allen, Marvin

Sandler, Lauryl

Cohen, Stephen

Malkin, Michael

Shaarei Tefillah Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Anshei Libavitch Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2011-4-6

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

1 photograph (electronic) : b&w ; 14 MB

Date

[ca. 1956]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one electronic copy of a photograph of the Jewish Partisan Unit in Belarus, circa 1956. Anna is pictured in the front row, third from the right. Her husband Abrahm is second from the right.

Custodial History

The item was loaned to the Archives for copying as part of the Russian Jewish War Veteran initiative. The original photograph was returned to the donor on the same day.

Administrative History

Anna was in the Minsk ghetto at the start of the Second World War when she escaped to a partisan detachment in May 1942. She stayed with this detachment until 1944. Originally it was a Jewish group but later grew to include non-Jews as well. Their first fight was in June 1942 when they were surrounded by Germans troops, however they broke through the line and got away through the surrounding swamps. Anna's job was to fill cartridge belts for the machine guns. She later joined the Minsk Partisan Brigade and was charged with guarding the partisan camp and later recruiting new people to the group from Minsk. She participated in a “Rail War”, destroying the rail lines and blowing up Nazi trains. The MPB worked in collaboration with the Minsk Underground (Podpolye). Her husband Abrahm was a commander of another subversion group called the Podryvnaya Gruppa.

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945

Guerrillas

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Annual General Meetings series

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File

Fonds

67

Series

1

File

63

Material Format

textual record

graphic material (electronic)

Date

4 June 2002

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

84 photographs (jpg)

Admin History/Bio

The 2002 UJA Federation Annual Meeting was held 4 June, 2002 at the Lipa Green Building. The programme began with breakfast, followed by the election of Council representatives and Board of Governors, a fundraising update, the appointment of auditors, the Chair's report and volunteer recognition awards. The Shem Tov Award recipients were Helen Finder Guttman, Agi Mandel, Alan Mostyn, Stephan Olin Chapman, Bernice Royce, Mark Sarner and Rhona Shulman. The Leadership Development Awards were presented to Richard Diamond and Allen Gales and the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence was awarded to Abe Glowinsky.

Scope and Content

File consists of a programme and digital photographs from UJA Federation's Annual General Meeting of 2002. The images include wide shots of the meeting room set up with tables, the breakfast, attendees at their tables, speakers at the podium and award winners. Individuals pictured include Abe Glowinsky and his family, Shem Tov award winners and Leadership Development Award recipients. Other individuals photographed include Seymour Epstein, Leslie Gales, Ralph Shedletsky, Ronald Appleby, Howard Sokolovsky, Carole Sterling and Shirley Granovsky.

Accession Number

2009-9-9

2009-7-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Annual General Meetings series

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File

Fonds

67

Series

1

File

64

Material Format

textual record

graphic material (electronic)

Date

17 June 2003

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

155 photographs (jpg)

Admin History/Bio

The 2003 Annual General Meeting of UJA Federation took place on 17 June, 2003, at Adath Israel Congregation. At the meeting, elections were held for representatives to Federation's Council, to the Board of Directors, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board. The auditors were appointed, reports were delivered by the outgoing and incoming Chair of the Board, and the volunteer recognition awards were given out. The recipients of the Shem Tov Awards for leaders in volunteer service were Henry Icyk, Morris (Mickey) Milner, Alex Serota, Fran Sonshine, Howard Ungerman and Cecile Zaifman. Michael Buckstein and Lynn Kershin received the Leadership Development Awards; Carole Sterling was awarded the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence; and the Ben Sadowski Award of Merit went to Sandy Brown.

Scope and Content

File consists of a programme from UJA Federation's Annual Meeting of 2003, and high resolution digital photographs of award winners honoured at the meeting. The images include winners of the Shem Tov Awards, the Philip Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence, the Ben Sadowski Award for community leadership, Sandy Brown, with her husband Marvin (Mev) Brown; and Leadership Development Award winner Michael Buckstein. Board members recognized with awards "In Appreciation" include Howard Lichtman, Gordon Wolfe and Judith Finer-Freedman. Other individuals in the photographs include Leslie Gales, Joy Gales, Ruth Gales, Brian Medjuck, Judy Engel, Sarah Gorman, Estrella Benaim, Lesley Binstock Offman and Cynthia Shedletsky.

In addition to high resolution jpgs, the disc also includes thumbnail files and html index pages.

Notes

Photographs by Steven Epstein.

Accession Number

2009-9-9

2009-7-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Annual General Meetings series

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File

Fonds

67

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1

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65

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

3 June 2004

Physical Description

250 photographs (jpg)

Admin History/Bio

UJA Federation's 2004 Annual General Meeting was held on 3 June, 2004 at Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. At the meeting, the annual report was presented; elections took place for Federation Council, Board of Directors, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board; a keynote address was delivered by Mayor David Miller; guest speaker Carole Solomon, Chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel, gave a speech; and the annual volunteer recognition awards were presented. Recipients of the Shem Tov Awards for volunteer service were Alan Dessau, Nathan Disenhouse, Bernard Fishbein, Susan Friedrich, Marshall Kesten and Charles Novogrodsky. The Leadership Development Awards were presented to Natan Aronshtam and David Spiro; the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence was presented to Donald Bennett; and the Jewish Foundaton of Greater Toronto Professional Advisory Committee Award of Excellence, in recognition of long-term professional contributions, was given to Wolfe D. Goodman, Q.C. In addition, for the first time, UJA presented five Visual Arts Awards to support the projects of Jewish artists. These awards were presented to Barbara Astman, Daniel Ehrenworth, Mayer Kirshenblatt, Natalie Schonfeld and Melanie Siegel.

Scope and Content

File consists of a programme from UJA Federation's Annual General Meeting of 2004, along with high resolution digital photographs from the event. Disc 1 contains photographs of award winners Donald Bennett, Charles Novogrodsky, Nathan Disenhouse, Susan Friedrich, Bernard Fishbein, David Spiro, Natan Aronshtam, Mike Kirshenblatt, Melanie Siegal, Barbara Astman and Daniel Ehrenworth. There are many images of attendees, including Jack Chisvin, Leslie Gales, Alan Winer and Cyrel Troster, as well as images of speakers at the podium and UJA Federation staff at the registration table. The latter include Glenda Gomperts, Ellen Rajzman, Lil Nobel, Howard English, Livana Ohayon and Miriam Daniels. Another shot of UJA staff includes Herschel Perlis, Shimmy Wenner, Jonathan Allan, Jeff Springer and Dena Libman.

Disc 2 contains images of the award winners listed above onstage, as well as the following individuals at the podium: Ted Sokolsky, Leslie Gales, Seymour Epstein, Ralph Shedletsky, Shirley Granovsky and David Engel. Other attendees photographed include Judy Engel, Mayor David Miller, Jacque Friedland, Mark Fox and many others.

Notes

Photographs by Steven Epstein.

Accession Number

2009-9-9

2009-7-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Annual General Meetings series

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Series

Fonds

67

Series

1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

sound recording

Date

1939-2008

Physical Description

27 cm of textual records

990 photographs (338 negatives, 489 jpgs)

13 cassettes

Admin History/Bio

United Jewish Welfare Fund's annual general meeting is the annual gathering of general delegates and members of the UJA Federation Council. In general, the Annual Meeting is adjourned after the introductory speeches, then the Council convenes for its meeting, adjourns and the Annual Meeting is re-convened. The Council is made up of delegates representing synagogues, agencies, schools, communal organizations, societies and landsmenshaften of the Toronto community. It is responsible for electing the Federation President, Governors and directors of UJA Federation, as well as appointing auditors, introducing and approving the by-laws of UJA Federation/UJWF. Until 2005, the AGM included the presentation of the Shem Tov volunteer recognition awards, the Leadership Development Awards, the Ben Sadowski Award of Merit for outstanding volunteer contributions, and beginning in 1997, the Phil Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence. The AGM was usually followed by a reception.

Starting in 1975, when the merger of CJC's Central Region and UJWF was initiated, there continued to be multiple annual meetings for the organizations that today are encompassed by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. In the second half of the 1970s, during the interim period before the adoption of a constitution for the new Toronto Jewish Congress, CJC and UJWF, though they began to have joint meetings and programs, continued to operate separately with separate executives. Once the establishment of TJC was finalized, UJWF "ceas[ed] to exist as a functional community organization" but remained as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of TJC. UJWF remained a legal entity and a partner in the United Jewish Appeal campaign, and was separate insofar as it produced its own financial reports and held its own annual meetings. Similarly, the UJA, as a program of UJWF, held its own annual meetings.

Scope and Content

Series consists of meeting agendas, minutes, programmes, speeches, delegate and nominee lists, correspondence and audio recordings of annual meetings of the United Jewish Welfare Fund/Toronto Jewish Congress/Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto/UJA Federation from 1939 to 2009, and photographs from annual meetings and awards receptions from 1978 to 2004.

Related Material

See Fonds 66, Series 2 for minutes of the annual meetings of the predecessor organization, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.

See Series 2 for the Annual Reports of UJWF, produced each year in conjunction with the Annual Meeting.

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2004-6-9

2005-2-10

1993-6-3

1994-5-1

2002-10-63

2009-7-10

1996-2-1

2000-5-5

2009-12-10

2009-9-9

2010-3-3

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Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2010-12-3

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

8 photographs (jpg and tiff) : b&w

Date

1925-2005

Scope and Content

This accession consists of eight digital scans of original photographs belonging to Russian war vet Arkady Novokolsky. The photographs include a portait of Novokolsky in military dress, several photos taken during the Second World War and a family photograph from the 1920s.

Custodial History

The original records were loaned to the Archives for copying as part of the Russian Jewish War Veterans oral history program. They were returned to the donor.

Administrative History

Arkady Novokolsky was born in 1921 in Voznesensk, Ukraine. He was eighteeen years of age when the Second World War began and when he enlisted in the Military Aviation Navigation school in Krasnodar. He was later diagnosed with colour blindness, a condition which marked him as unfit for military service. However, he was later sent to a military technical school in Moscow and graduated with the rank of Lieutenant. He served in West Belarus as part of the Baranovichi Reconnaissance Party, assigned to process and decipher air photography. In 1944, he was sent to study at the Zhukovsky Military Academy and was then sent to Vilnius, Lithuania where he lived for 37 years until immigrating to Canada in 1981.

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

World War, 1939-1945

Soviet Union--Armed Forces

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Accession Number

2011-3-3

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

8 photographs (electronic) : b&w and col. ; 90 MB

Date

1950-2010

Scope and Content

Accession consists of eight electronic copies of original photographs of Avgust Vikhnina. The photos relate to his career in the Soviet military during the Second World War. The photographs consist of one portrait of Avgust in military dress, several snapshots taken at a Moscow parade in commemoration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the war, as well as snapshots taken at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa.

Custodial History

Photographs were loaned for copying as part of the Russian Jewish War Veterans oral history project. Originals were returned to donor.

Administrative History

Avgust Vikhnina was born in Kharkov, in 1926. He was 15 when the war began and was drafted in 1943. Vikhnina served in the Artillery and fought in the Ukraine, Pribaltika and Prussia. He was decorated with the Order of Patriotic War First Class, the Medal for Valour, and the Medal for Combat Merits.

Subjects

Soviet Union--Armed Forces

World War, 1939-1945

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-2-5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

2 folders of textual records

10 photographs

21 photographs (tiff)

Date

1957-2015, predominant 1987-2015

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual and graphic material documenting the activities of Colin and Brenda Baskind. Included are family photographs, such as a wedding portrait of Colin and Brenda, images of family events, graduation portraits of Colin's children, family holiday celebrations, Colin and Brenda running marathons, and the family at a baby naming ceremony for Colin's granddaughter at Darchei Noam Synanagoue. Textual records include thank you letters Colin received from individuals he assisted as President of SAJAC and in other capacities, the CV that Colin used to look for work in Toronto while preparing to immigrate from South Africa, a speech Brenda delivered to a cancer support group regarding her fight with breast cancer and marathon running, newsclippings, certificates, and letters of reference for both Colin and Brenda.

Identified in the photographs are: Colin Baskind, Brenda Baskind, Alan Sandler, Ian Sandler, Lorraine Sandler, Cliff Baskind, Stacey Baskind, Audrey Weinberg, Gerald Weinberg, Solly Simmons, Renee Simmons, Lily Shaie Baskind, Alana Baskind, and Refton Blair.

Administrative History

Colin Baskind was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 20, 1943. As a child, he attended an all boys' school and played a wide variety of sports including, soccer, cricket and rugby. He studied commerce at the University of South Africa and completed a business course through a school in England. While in school he met his future wife, Brenda, on a blind date and they married in 1967. Together they had three children: Stacey, Alana and Cliff.

Colin worked in an import business and Brenda was a nursery school teacher. For a short period of time they cared for the nephew of their maid, whose daughter gave birth at a young age and was still in school. They raised him with their children until his mother was finished school.

Around 1976, Colin and Brenda started to think about leaving South Africa due to the worsening violence and political situation. After first considering Australia, they eventually immigrated to Toronto in 1987. Colin found work in the importing business and Brenda found work at Holy Blossom Temple school. Soon after arriving in Toronto, Colin became involved in the Southern African Jewish Association of Canada. He attended a meeting that had been called to resuscitate SAJAC (the organization, which was formed in 1977, had ceased functioning and there was a need to bring it back to help a new large wave of immigrants). At the meeting Colin was nominated as President and he has held this role ever since. Colin also volunteered with a variety of organizations including, JIAS and JVS. He continued with his athletic pursuits in Canada and jogged, hiked, and cycled in all weather. Around 1998, Brenda started to join Colin and his running group on jogs. Around 2000 they both began running in marathons. By 2015, they had participated in 11 marathons. In 2010, their granddaughter Lily Shaie was born to their daughter Stacey.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Families

Immigrants--Canada

South Africa--Emigration and immigration

Name Access

Baskind, Colin

Places

Johannesburg

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2009-6-7

Material Format

architectural drawing (electronic)

Physical Description

5 architectural drawings (pdf)

Date

[1992?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of five PDF files of architectural drawings for the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre. Three files show the floorplans for the three floors of the centre, and two files show the renovations to the building.

Custodial History

The original plans are in the possession of Makrimichalos Cugini Architects.

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Bella Diamant fonds

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Fonds

117

Item

20

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

April 1927

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w (tiff) ; 208 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant. The picture was taken in April 1927, before the trip from Poland to Canada.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. A master tiff file and a jpg access copy were made.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Bella Diamant fonds

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Fonds

117

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Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

1927

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (tiff) ; 254 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant (fourth from right) aboard the S.S. Estonia en route to Canada. Included is a scan of the recto and verso of the photograph. Written on the back in Polish are several names including Turek and [Mr. Wasszawski?] and the address Reid Ave. 295.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. Both recto and verso were digitized as tiff files and a jpg access copy was made.

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Bella Diamant fonds

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Fonds

Fonds

117

Material Format

textual record

graphic material (electronic)

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1926-1947

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

11 photographs : b&w and sepia (tiff)

Admin History/Bio

Bella Diamant (m. Hershenhorn) was the daughter of Moishe and Sarah Diamant. She was born in Ostrowiec (Ostrovietz), Poland and had five siblings: Esther, Chaim Myer, David, Baruch, and Ruth. Bella met her future husband, Samuel Hershenhorn, in Poland. He was the son of Mendel and Miriam Hershenhorn from Drildz. The family arrived in Toronto sometime during the early 1920s; Mendel arriving first followed by Miriam and Samuel. The marriage between Bella and Samuel was arranged by their families and so Bella was sent to Toronto to be with him in 1927. They married on 13 Nov. 1927. Together they had three children: Ruth (Rishie), Esti and Lee. Samuel worked for a slipper and spat manufacturer and then started his own company: The Canadian Spat and Slipper Company. He was a member of the Drildzer Sick Benefit Society. Bella was a housewife. Many of Bella's relatives perished during the Holocaust, including both her parents, her brother David who died with his wife and daughter on a forced march, and her sister Ruth who was murdered by the Nazis alongside her young daughter. Chaim Myer was sent to live with Bella and Samuel in Toronto prior to the onset of the war and therefore survived. Baruch and Esther both survived the Holocaust and eventually moved to New York City.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of letters written to Bella Diamant Hershenhorn from relatives in Poland and Frankfurt. The pre-war letters are from Bella's father Moishe in Poland as well as Bella's siblings and cousins, usually added as additional notes and postscripts onto Moishe's letters. The post-war letters are from Bella's sister Esther and brother Baruch in Frankfurt, who both survived the Holocaust. The letters are written in Yiddish and Polish and have accompanying English translations. Also included are several scanned copies of photographs depicting Bella on the SS Estonia, en route to Canada (ca. 1927), and with various relatives in Poland prior to immigration.

Notes

REPRODUCTION RESTRICTION NOTE: Donor must be notified prior to publication of letters.

Name Access

Hershenhorn, Bella, ca. 1906-1999

Subjects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Letters

Arrangement

The letters have been arranged chronologically.

Places

Ostrowiec (Sokolów Podlaski, Poland)

Toronto (Ont.)

Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Accession Number

2016-12-44

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Bella Diamant fonds

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Fonds

117

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22

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

1927

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (tiff) ; 263 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant (centre) with cousin on left and [unknown woman] on right. Included is a scan of the recto and verso of the photograph. An inscription in Polish is written on the back.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. A master tiff file and a jpg access copy were made.

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Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

[192-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w (tiff) ; 198 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant (on left) possibly with her sister Ruth (on right). The woman in the middle and children are unknown.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. A master tiff file and a jpg access copy was made.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Bella Diamant fonds

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117

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Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

1926

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (tiff) ; 257 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant (centre) with [siblings], likely Ruth and Myer. Included is a scan of the recto and verso of the photograph. The inscription written on the back in Polish reads: To my brother-in-law, Ruth.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. A master tiff file and a jpg access copy were made.

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2008-8-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

4 photographs : b&w (jpg)

4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Date

[194-]-2005

Scope and Content

This accession consists of textual records and photographs documenting the Belleville Jewish community and the Sons of Jacob Synagogue. The textual records include a dedication book from the Synagogue as well as documents related to the synagogue's reunion weekend in 2005. The photographs depict the Judaeans basketball team, a Young Judaea conference, the synagogue's dedication ceremonies, and a children's Purim play.

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

Communities

Purim

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

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2010-5-8

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

5 photographs : b&w, some sepia toned (jpg)

1 textual record (jpg.)

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[ca. 1940]-1946

Scope and Content

Accession consists of scanned photographs and one scanned discharge certificate documenting Isaac's experience in the Royal Canadian Army during the Second World War.

Administrative History

Isaac served in the Royal Canadian Army in Europe during the Second World War. He had a menswear store in Brantford.

Use Conditions

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2010-11-15

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

2 photographs (tiff)

1 cm of textual records (jpg)

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1946-2009

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs and textual records that document Boris' service in the Soviet Union's military during the Second World War. Included are two military portraits of Boris, letters from the Russian government to commemorate various anniversaries of the military's victory, Boris' Soviet Union travel pass (1990), and Boris' membership renewal booklet for the Association of Second World War Veterans Newkomers from USSR in Israel (1992–2000).

Administrative History

Boris was born in Belarus but moved to Israel later in his life. He was fourteen when the Second World War began. He served in Frontier Troops, NKVD (predecessor of KGB). Boris was a student in a military college until 1952. He began his military service as a private soldier but later became an officer. In 1944, he participated in the battles of Eastern Prussia, Latvia, and Belarus. He earned the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal and the Order of Patriotic War, 2nd Class for his war service.

Descriptive Notes

Language: Most of the material in Russian.

Location of originals: The originals are in the possession of the donor. They were loaned to the archives for copying and returned to the donor on the same day as part of the Russian-Jewish war veteran oral history program.

Subjects

Soviet Union--Armed Forces

Veterans

World War, 1939-1945

Name Access

Kravitz, Boris

Places

Israel

Russia

Soviet Union

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2022-1-1

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. (jpg)

Date

30 Dec. 2021

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a photograph of a piece of cake. The photograph was taken on 30 December 2021 in Toronto after the donor's parents completed their quarantine.

Commenting on the photograph, the donor wrote:

A cake celebrating my parents completion of their quarantine after having Covid 19. The cake's decoration says "Congratulations on beating Covid!"

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Cake

COVID-19 (Disease)

Quarantine

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2007-6-30

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

17 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg)

1 document : col. (jpg)

Date

[ca. 1955]-[2003?]

Scope and Content

Accession is comprised of family and community photographs of two generations of the Albert family of Belleville. Images include rabbis Moses Lewin and Walter Seligman, friends, events such as bar mitzvahs, Ethnic Day and a Purim Party, and the Trenton Airbase Jewish Servicemen memorial. People pictured are identified in the finding aid. There is also one electronic copy of a newsclipping about Rabbi Moses Lewin.

The photographs are as follows:

01. Joe Burke far right Norman Albert in middle Ruth Goldberg far right, 1950s.

02. Belleville Community Picnic at the Albert's Summer House.

03. David Albert, 1960.

04. David Albert bar mitzvah with Rabbi Seligmann and wife.

05. Ethnic Day at the Shul, mid-1970s.

06. Florence Yannover.

07. Jacob Albert with grandsons, 1958.

08. Left to right: Ruth Lear and Becky Shulmann and Sarah Lightstone in back.

09. Left to right: Selma Bochnek, Shirley Osborne, Ethel Burke, Walter and Mrs Seligmann at synagogue dinner dance.

10. Mark and Michelle and David Albert, March 20 1971, bar mitzvah.

11. Norm and Lil and Jacob Albert and Rose.

12. Purim Party, 1957.

13. Purim Party. Joe Burke and Mynra Crystal of Peterborough, April 1957.

14. Rabbi Moses Lewin.

15. Shulman Departure, May 1985.

16. Trenton Airbase Jewish Servicemen Memorial, ca. 2003.

17. Ted and Eleanor Schwab.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Name Access

Albert, Carole

Albert, Norm

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

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graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

51 photographs (tiff)

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1980-2011

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs documenting the activities of the Chmielnicker Charitable Society including the annual "Hazkarah," teas, and an unveiling of the monument at Lampton cemetery in Toronto.

Administrative History

The Chmielnicker Society was started in Toronto after the Holocaust by survivors. In its early years, the society played an important role in the lives of the newly-arrived groups for socializing with people who had shared similar experiences in Europe. They organized picnics, women's teas, celebrated Yom Yerushalaim, Hanukkah parties, and an annual "Hazkarah," a memorial service for those who died in the war. The Hazkarah continues to be the most important activity of the group today.

Use Conditions

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

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2018-11-4

Material Format

textual record (electronic)

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

1 flyer (pdf)

1 presentation (ppt)

Date

2018

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a flyer for the movie Villa Heimann: A Lost Memorial, which was shown at Temple Har Zion on 3 November 2018 as part of Holocaust Education Week, and a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from the same event. Claude Heimann, the grandson of Albert and Frieda Heimann, the owners of the Villa Heimann, spoke at the event.

Administrative History

Claude Heimann was born on 21 March 1944 in Johannesburg, South Africa to Wilhelm "Bill" Otto Heimann and Lotte Heimann (née Rosenberg). He received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Witwatersrand in 1966. In 1969, he married Adele Masail at the Pine Street Synagogue in Johannesburg. They lived in Windsor Park, Johannesburg and had two children together: Nicole Heidi (now married to Marshall Starkman) and Marc Steven.

Claude initially worked for Market Research Africa interviewing farm workers across the country. In 1971 he joined Reader's Digest in South Africa as a research director. Believing there would not be a peaceful solution to apartheid, Claude had decided at a young age that he would evenutally leave South Africa. He hoped that Reader's Digest was a company that might be able to transfer him to work in another country. Ten years later, in 1981, an opportunity came up with the Canadian edition of Reader's Digest in a similar role. Claude accepted the position and immigrated with his family to Toronto in May 1981. For their first few months they lived at Glengrove Manor on Yonge Street between Lawrence and Eglinton. In July, they moved into their home in Thornhill. Adele initially stayed home with the family, but eventually worked as a bookkeeper for a variety of different businesses.

Claude left Reader's Digest in 1990 to become a partner in Totum Research. Throughout his career, Claude has served on the research committee of PMB and has been a member of the board of directors of CARF for whom he served as technical director. He has also served on a number of other media research related committees, including the technical committee of AMPS and the Magazines Canada Research Committee. Claude was also active on the board of Temple Har Zion, holding a variety of positions, including: regular board member, vice president for worship, vice president, treasurer, president and past President for two years on the executive. He also reported board decisions for the THZ monthly bulletin.

Subjects

Suburban homes

Name Access

Temple Har Zion (Thornhill, Ont.)

Places

Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Thornhill (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-3-8

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

18 photographs : tiff

Date

1969, 1974-2014

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual and graphic material documenting the Cohen family, their immigration to Canada from South Africa, and life in Toronto. Textual records include photocopies of correspondence and paperwork relating to the Cohen's immigration, certificates, and a typed document containing humorous stories their South African friends shared at a "10 Years Out Of Africa" party relating to their adjustment to Canadian life. Also included are family portraits and photographs documenting family celebrations such as weddings and bar mitzvahs. Of note is an image of Vivien and John at the "10 Years Out of Africa" party.

Administrative History

John Cohen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1944 to Phil and Flora Cohen. Vivien Cohen (née Lehwess) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1947 to Henry Lehwess and Isle Lehwess (née Wronsky). John's cousin was in physiotherapy school with Vivien, and they were introduced to each other. They married on 3 December 1969 and had three children together: Nicole (b. 1972), Steven (b. 1974), and Jeremy David (1979). Vivien was a physiotherapist, and John was a textile sales agent. Due to the unstable political situation in South Africa, they immigrated to North York in March 1977. For the first few weeks, they lived in a rental apartment in North York. They soon moved into a townhouse nearby. In 1980, they bought their first house in Thornhill. They were both able to continue in their professions after immigrating to Canada. Both of their mothers and many of their friends also moved to Toronto. John and Vivien were members of Shaarei Shalom synagogue for twenty-five years and are now members of Darchei Noam.

Subjects

Families

Immigrants--Canada

South Africa--Emigration and immigration

Name Access

Cohen, John

Places

Johannesburg, South Africa

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David Pinkus fonds

The Kiever Shul series

Construction and restoration file

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File

Fonds

138

Series

5

File

20

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

architectural drawing

Date

1927-[ca. 2009]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

29 photographs : col. (27 negatives); 10 x 15 cm and 35 mm

Other material

Scope and Content

File consists of records documenting the construction and restoration of the Kiever Shul. Included are architectural drawings; textual records such as correspondence, notes, price lists, fundraising speech, and Toronto building permit; and graphic material such as photographs, sketches, and a printed copy of a photo collage.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Also included are 1 optical disc; 1 collage : col. photographs; 4 sketches; and 9 architectural drawings. The optical disc contains 225 MB of photographs and comes with 27 negatives.

STORAGE LOCATION NOTE: Eight of the nine architectural drawings are stored in box 8 on shelf 124-5; the optical disc is stored in drawer 4 on shelf 147.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2012-2-2

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

37 photographs (jpg) : b&w and col. ; 33 MB

Date

1958-2005

Scope and Content

Accession consists of born-digital images and digital scans of original photographs depicting the 2005 closing ceremonies of the Beth El Congregation in Cornwall, as well as exterior and interior images of the synagogue, the congregants, community events, and B'nai Brith members.

Custodial History

The photographs were acquired by the OJA for the Ontario's Small Jewish Communities exhibit, but they were not accessioned until February 2012.

Subjects

Communities

Synagogues

Name Access

Beth El Congregation (Cornwall, Ont.)

Places

Cornwall (Ont.)

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117

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Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Date

1927

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (tiff) ; 144 MB

Scope and Content

This item is a scanned photograph of Bella Diamant's cousin Bela (on left) with another cousin (on right). The cousins were the daughters of Bella's father's brother. Included is a scan of the recto and verso of the photograph. The inscription written on the back in Polish reads: To think of me forever, your cousin, we are giving you our picture.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Digitization of the original photograph was done by the OJA Archivist. A master tiff file and a jpg access copy were made.

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2020-4-6

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

69 photographs : col. (jpg)

Date

21 Apr. 2020

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs documenting signage installed in Jewish owned storefront businesses and organizations on Bathurst Street, North of Glencairn and South of Lawrence during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Administrative History

Collection of photographs taken in response to the OJA's Covid-19 documentation project.

Use Conditions

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

Descriptive Notes

Use Conditions: Please credit photographer Shane Teper.

Subjects

Business

COVID-19 (Disease)

Places

Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

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2020-5-1

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

50 photographs : col. (jpg)

Date

4 May 2020, 6 May 2020

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs by Eric Bornstein documenting storefront signage in Jewish businesses and organizations in Lawrence Plaza (Lawrence and Bathurst) and Bathurst Street, north of Lawrence and south of Sheppard, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Custodial History

Acquired as part of the OJA's COVID-19 Documentation Project.

Administrative History

Collection of photographs taken in response to the OJA's Covid-19 documentation.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

COVID-19 (Disease)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2021-2-2

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

3 photographs: col. (jpg)

Date

22 Jan. 2021

Scope and Content

Accession consists of three photographs documenting the brit milah of Amir Raphael Glatt, son of Adira Winegust and Daniel Glatt. The donor, Adira Winegust, provided the following commentary:

"We knew we were expecting our second son. The original plan was to do the Brit in Toronto with our immediate family, as we did with our first son. However we had to change plans with every new restriction and lockdowns. As a result of the second lockdown, and the infection rates in the Greater Toronto Area, we decide it was best to go to Ottawa for the bris and find an orthodox mohel.

We ended up at Dr. Engel after the recommendation of Rabbi A. Kravetz of Beth Tikvoh in Ottawa. As this was the height of the second wave only myself, my husband and mohel were at the bris. Due to the stay home order, it was best to do it in the doctor's office. We did not even zoom in our famiky. The first picture is the actual brit Milah. The second is of the naming part of the ceremony, where my husband and I sat in a hallway holding our baby with the mohel six feet away doing the brachot.

"This Brit Milah took place January 22 2021 in Ottawa ON. We drove from and to Kingston that day."

Administrative History

Adira Winegust is originaly from Thornhill, Ontario, while Daniel Glatt is originally from Oakville, Ontario. They met as undergraduates at McMaster University. In 2016, they relocated to Kingston, when Daniel started his medical residency there.

As of February 2021, Adira is a PhD student at Queen's University, where she studies education. She also works at Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital doing assessments in the Child and Youth Mental Health program. As of the same time, Daniel is a family doctor working in Napnee, Ontario. During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has kept up his family practice, worked as a hospitalist some weeks at Lennox and Addington General Hospital, and has been responsible for scheduling the doctors at the COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Napanee.

Adira and Daniel have two sons, Emmett and Amir.

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.

Subjects

Berit milah

Name Access

Engel, Andre

Glatt, Daniel

Winegust, Adira

Places

Ottawa (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2012-9-1

Material Format

textual record (electronic)

graphic material (electronic)

moving images

Physical Description

72 CDs and DVDs

Date

1999-2005

Scope and Content

Accession consists of 72 CDs and DVDs containing the records of the Tomorrow Campaign documenting the Downtown (Miles Nadal JCC and Wolfond Centre), Central (Sherman) and City North (Lebovic) campuses. Included are architectural drawings, renderings, photographic images, videos, reports, powerpoint presentations and promotional material.

Custodial History

The records were left in the creative department by an unknown person. They were given to the Archives by Yael Maayani after she failed to locate the owner.

Administrative History

UJA Federation's Tomorrow Campaign is Canada’s largest non-profit community development project. It is Federation's response to the need for new facilities and services brought about by the growth of Toronto’s Jewish community. The Tomorrow Campaign is mandated with the fundraising and creation of three campuses for Jewish life in the GTA. The Downtown District, serving Toronto's growing Jewish population in the city core, is anchored by the new Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre at Bloor & Spadina and the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life at Harbord & Huron. The new Sherman Campus, on Bathurst north of Sheppard, will include the new Prosserman Family Jewish Community Centre, where the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre is currently located, a new Koffler Centre for the Arts, a new National Centre for Jewish Heritage including the Canadian Jewish Musuem, the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre and a renovated Lipa Green Building for Jewish Community Services. The Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, at Bathurst & Weldrick north of Rutherford, is designed to provide programs and services for York Region's Jewish community of 60,000 - the fastest growing in Canada. The Lebovic Campus will be highlighted by the Kimel Family Education Centre, housing the northern branch of the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT); the Schwartz-Reisman Centre offering recreational, educational, cultural, social and fitness facilities; community services; a United Synagogue Day School and other schools as well.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2016-11-10

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

9 photographs : col. (jpgs) ; 19 MB

586 KB of textual records

Date

[2015?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of 9 digital photographs of Daniel Hoffman, owner of The Cutting Veg, teaching urban farming with the Global Garlic Project, and planting onions and garlic. Also included is one electronic textual document depicting The Cutting Veg's mission statement, issued as promotional material.

Administrative History

The Cutting Veg (TCV) is an eco-social enterprise rooted in organic farming. TCV runs four programs aimed at cultivating personal, social, environmental, and economic health. They cultivate multiple acres of mixed vegetables, making organic food more accessible to vegetable lovers of Southern Ontario. In addition to produce sales, TCV runs the “Global Garlic Project.” Specifically, they grow approximately 20 varieties of garlic from around the world, including Polish, Persian, Italian, Russian, Korean, and Israeli. TCV also provides Food Coaching Services, which offers garden & composting project support, agri-business training, food-based workshops, and part-time farming internships. Finally, TCV offers one-on-one “Wellness Counselling” for individuals who want to take steps forward with their health and happiness. Collectively, these programs are helping TCV towards the achievement of its quadruple bottom line: Personal health, Social health, Environmental health, and Economic health. TCV is owned and managed by Daniel Hoffmann. Daniel is an Organic Farmer, Social Worker (BSW), Counsellor, and has been farming in B.C. and Ontario since 2000.

Descriptive Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: The textual record is in a graphic file format but is a document.

Subjects

Agriculture

Education

Name Access

Hoffmann, Daniel

The Cutting Veg (Sutton, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-1-7

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

5 photographs : b&w and sepia (tiff)

Date

[ca. 1914]-1942

Scope and Content

This accession consists of five scanned photographs of David Hart and his father Alfred E. Hart in military dress. Three of the photographs feature Alfred during the First World War in an army uniform and one photograph features Alfred in his uniform standing with David in a naval dress on the street in Toronto. The final photograph is of a victory parade on Yonge Street after the First World War (original source: the City of Toronto Archives, fonds 1568, Item 314). The photograph features Brodey Draimin Fur Co. in the background and was originally published in the Toronto Star.

Administrative History

Alfred E. Hart was in the Canadian infantry during the First World War and fought in four major battles. He was the owner of the Brodey Draimin Fur Company, located on Yonge Street in Toronto. His son, David, was in the Naval Home Guard, Royal Regiment, during the Second World War.

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.

Descriptive Notes

Related material note: see oral history 375 for David Hart's account of his wartime experiences.

Subjects

Canada--Armed Forces

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1939-1945

Name Access

Hart, David

Hart, Alfred E.

Source

Archival Accessions

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Part Of

David Pinkus fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

138

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

architectural drawing

philatelic record

sound recording

cartographic material

object

Date

1854-2021

Physical Description

ca. 2.4 m of textual records

ca. 600 photographs : b&w and col. (ca. 90 negatives); 30 x 35 cm or smaller

other material

Admin History/Bio

David Pinkus (1924-2021) was born on May 11, 1924, at the Toronto General Hospital to Isadore Pinkus (1887-1947) and Molly (Mollie) Pinkus (née Parelstein) (1892-1990). Isadore was born in Kiev Gubernia of the Russian Empire; Molly was born in Podolia Gubernia of the Russian Empire and later moved to Ukraine with her family. Isadore and Molly met and married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1910 and moved to Toronto in 1911. The Pinkus family settled in Kensington Market in around 1914 and was one of the first Jewish settlers to the Kensington neighbourhood. David spent his entire life living in the Kensington Market area. He lived on 83 Huron Street until 1927 when the Pinkus family moved to 34 Nassau Street, which has been the house of the Pinkus family ever since. David had two siblings: brother Max and sister Goldie.

In his childhood, David attended the Brunswick Talmud Torah daily and learned Hebrew. He had his bar mitzvah at the Kiever Shul. David attended William Houston School until 1930 and Ryerson Public School until grade eight. Later, he attended Harbord School for high school and was also involved with sports at Harbord Collegiate and YMHA. In 1947, David obtained his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto. After graduation, he worked at Goodyear for one year and returned to the University of Toronto as an instructor of engineering drawing and machine design. Later, he worked at various places such as Canadian Industries Limited in Maitland, Toronto Iron Works, and Avro Aircraft Limited.

David’s father, Isadore, was one of the founders of the Kiever Synagogue. David’s involvement with the Kiever Synagogue started in 1947, following Isadore’s death. David served as president and held positions on the executive of the Kiever Shul and played a principal role in the restoration of the shul. He also served on Toronto’s Board of Health as well as the boards of the Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, and St. Christopher House. In addition, David was an active community leader and local historian. He did genealogical research for many Toronto Jewish families. David had been recognized by the National Jewish Federation of North America as a Jewish community hero in 2011. He passed away on May 6, 2021.

Custodial History

Records received after the death of David Pinkus through Joseph Solomon, the executor of David Pinkus’ estate. Records have been selected by archivists following a site visit at David’s home at 34 Nassau Street, Toronto.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of textual records, graphic material, sound recordings, architectural drawings, artifacts, and a small number of philatelic records, most of which document David Pinkus’ career and personal life, the Pinkus family, the Kiever Shul, the Kiever Cemetery, as well as Mount Sinai Cemetery Association (Mount Sinai Memorial Park) and the Dawes Road Cemeteries (Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees), of which the Kiever Congregation is a member organization. Also included are documents and photographs of other individuals and families, which David collected for his genealogical research, and those that are pertaining to Kensington Market and other congregations and cemeteries.

Textual records include correspondence; scrapbooks; education records; identification documents; research notes and clippings relating to David’s genealogical research; documents pertaining to his Kensington Market activism and community work; files on David’s engineering career and his role as president of the Kiever Shul; and files documenting the Pinkus family members, such as funeral documents, notebooks, family correspondence, voters’ lists, and records relating to Pinkus Fruit Co. and 34 Nassau Street. Also included are records documenting the Kiever Shul, which include meeting minutes, ledger books, financial documents, legal documents, membership lists and application forms, address books, high holiday service cards, and historic papers dating from the 1920s and 1930s. Textual records documenting the Kiever Cemetery, Mount Sinai Memorial Park, and the Dawes Road Cemeteries are mainly comprised of cemetery maps, burial plot cards, burial record books, by-laws and regulations, and meeting minutes. Also present are records pertaining to other congregations and cemeteries, such as constitution books, brochures, booklets, and copies of legal documents.

Photographs mainly feature David Pinkus and the Kiever Cemetery, with a small number featuring the Pinkus family members, the Junction Synagogue (Congregation Knesseth Israel), the Great Choral Synagogue of Kyiv, and those that David collected for his genealogical research.

Architectural drawings of this fonds include the restoration and renovation plan for the Kiever Shul and the alteration plan for Mount Sinai Cemetery Administration Building.

Also present are sound recordings, including cassettes and microcassettes of David Pinkus; and artifacts, including felt patches, pin back buttons, medals, Toronto foot-pedlar registration badges, and a wooden gavel of the Kiever Shul.

Fonds has been arranged into the following series: David Pinkus’ personal records; Kensington Market; David Pinkus’ genealogical research; the Pinkus family; the Kiever Shul; the Kiever Cemetery; Mount Sinai Memorial Park; the Dawes Road Cemeteries; and other associations, congregations, and cemeteries.

Notes

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Also included are 22 architectural drawings, 7 maps, 4 audio cassettes, 2 microcassettes, 1 optical disc, 8 drawings, 2 prints, 1 photo collage, 34 pinback buttons, 15 Toronto padler-on-foot registration badges, 8 felt patches, 3 medals, 3 brooches, 1 wooden gavel, 2 tax tokens, 2 postage stamps, 1 sales tax stamp, and 9 revenue stamps.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Books that were initially included in this fonds have been removed and incorporated into the OJA’s library collection. These books are: Spadina Avenue by Rosemary Donegan with an introduction by Rick Salutin, Toronto No Mean City by Eric Arthur revised by Stephen A. Otto, Canadian Jewish Directory edited by Edmond Y. Lipsitz, The Toronto Jewish Directory, and The Canada Year Book 1905 (second series).

HISTORY/BIO NOTE: Information is sourced from OH 413 and the content of the fonds.

Name Access

Pinkus, David, 1924-2021

Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Mount Sinai Cemetery Association (Toronto, Ont.)

Mount Sinai Memorial Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Dawes Road Cemetery (Toronto, Ont.)

Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Families

Synagogues

Genealogy

Cemeteries

Access Restriction

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

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.

Related Material

See accessions 2004-1-5, 2004-1-6, 2004-2-1, 2008-11-9, 2016-3-48, and 2021-10-1 for additional information on the Kiever Shul; and OH 413 for more information on David Pinkus and the Pinkus family.

Arrangement

Records came into the OJA with no discernible order. Arrangement has been imposed by the archivist.

Creator

Pinkus, David, 1924-2021

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2021-7-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2011-11-6

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w (jpg) ; 15 MB

Date

1940-1945

Scope and Content

Accession consists of four electronic copies of original photographs documenting David Smith during the Second World War.

Custodial History

The photographs were loaned to the Archives to be copied and returned. They were returned by courier on 21 November 2011.

Administrative History

Max and Rose Smith opened a resort for Jewish singles in Port Carling, Muskoka in 1938. The resort was kosher and offered Jewish content to visitors. Boys and girls bunked seperately.

Suzanne Smith (née Beskin) and David Samuel Smith met at Cornell University in the spring of 1946, after David returned from service in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Suzanne was living in the United States and attending Columbia University. She worked as a libraian at Cornell. David studied hotel administration. They married in 1947 and moved back to Toronto in 1948.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Digitized material.

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2019-10-5

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

10 cm of textual records

ca. 300 photographs

Date

1914-2019

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs taken by David Wulkan, a violinist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and an amateur photographer. Included are images of members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well as many guest performers and conductors such as Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Arthur Rubinstein, Dame Myra Hess, Sir John Barbirolli, Glen Gould, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Victor Borge, Andrei Kostelanetz, Mstislav Rostopovich, David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh, Phil Silver, Leonid Kogan, Nathan Milstein, Zina Francescatti, Andres Segovia and Christian Tetzlaff. Also included are documents detailing the immigration history of Wulkan post-Second World War, as well as a general history of the Wulkan family in Europe. Personal documents and memorabilia include early family photos, a copy of name change, passports and travel documents, David's certificate of Canadian citizenship, correspondence concerning restitution and clippings and programmes from performances in Palestine, London and Canada.

Custodial History

Records were in the possession of Hernan Tesler-Mabé, professor of history at the University of Ottawa and vice-present of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Use Conditions

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2020-4-7

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

5 photographs : col. (jpg)

Date

March 2020-April 2020

Scope and Content

Accession consists of phtographs documenting the Solsberg family seder during the COVID-19 pandemic (9 April 2020), two photographs showing Beth Emeth Synagogue signage (22 March 2020), a photograph documenting the signage at Irv Chapley Park before the city-wide closure of public parks (24 March 2020) and a photograph of the door of Beth Emeth Synagogue (20 April 2020). All of the photographs document the COVID-19 pandemic in Bathurst Manor.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

COVID-19 (Disease)

Places

Bathurst Manor (Toronto, Ont.)

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2007-7-3

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. (jpg)

1 painting : col. (jpg)

Date

[194-?]

Scope and Content

This accession consists of one digital photograph of a painting depicting the Dodick family while in Poland, and one scanned copy of an original photograph. Identified in the painting are, left to right: Harry, Dora (mother), Sam (baby), Cecil, Fay, Abraham, Murray.

Custodial History

The original records are in the possession of the donor. The OJA was granted permission to scan the records in July 2007, as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative. These copies were then donated to the Archives on 2007-07-19.

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

Communities

Families

Name Access

Dodick, Vicki

Dodick, Cecil

Places

Thunder Bay, Ont.

Poland

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-7-11

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

6 photographs : b&w (jpg)

Date

[193-]-1960

Scope and Content

Accession consists of 6 scanned photographs relating to Cornwall businessman Archie Dover, his family, and street scenes of Cornwall.

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.

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2020-9-11

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

2 drawings : b&w (png)

Date

2020-09-15

Scope and Content

Accession consists of two drawings that illustrate the preparation, and serving kreplach in soup. The title of the artwork is "The Arc of Kreplach"

Administrative History

Nika Teper is a 2020 Columbia University Graduate with a Masters in Architecture. In between meetings, calls and emails Nika turns her attention to Covid-19 art projects, while looking for employment during the hiring freeze in place at many Toronto and New York City architecture firms.

This drawing is an example of her ongoing interest in experimenting with architectural modes of representation. Applied to everyday objects, descriptive drawing forms make legible the multilayered process of food preparation and presentation.

Use Conditions

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

Source

Archival Accessions

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