- Accession Number
- 1975-4-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1975-4-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w
- Date
- 1926
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two photographs of the Chestnut Street Synagogue. One photograph is of the exterior of the synagogue with Yankel Jessel and Shlomo Dov Jessel standing in front. The other photograph is of the interior and shows the front arch.
- Administrative History
- The Shomrai Shabbos Synagogue, also known as the Chestnut Street Synagogue, was located at 109 Chestnut Street in 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
- Architecture
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Shomrai Shaboth-Chevra Mishnayoth Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Henry Weingluck fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 44
- Item
- 26
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 18 Apr. 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 6 x 9cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Ben Simon (1906–1996) was born in Toronto and worked as a tailor. His family—mother Etta (1874–1967) and father Ephraim (Frederick) (1876–1938)—immigrated from Russia to Canada in 1904. Silblings included Rae (1904–1987), Leah (1905–1976), Helen (1911–1986), Albert (1913–2003), Irving (1915–1999), and George (1919–1981). Ben married Susan (née Givertz, 1915–2000) and together they had one son, Fred Simon.
- Scope and Content
- Image shows Ben Simon standing in from of the Chestnut Street Synagogue in 1927.
- Name Access
- Chestnut Street Synagogue
- Simon, Ben
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Portraits
- Synagogues
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Physical Condition
- Discoloured and fading
- Places
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-11
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 944
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 944
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Mrs. Rose Penzner and children, 172 Chestnut Street, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Penzner, Rose
- Subjects
- Mother and child
- Portraits, Group
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1975-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3036
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3036
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Name Access
- Rosenblatt, Julius
- Subjects
- Storefronts
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-8-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 152
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 31 July 1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an Ontario Human Rights Commission bulletin regarding the inquiry into complaints of service discrimination against Mitchell's Bay Sportsman Camp in Chatham, Ontario.
- Notes
- Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Discrimination
- Places
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions