- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 19
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1974-1990
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs : 20x25 cm and 10x15 cm, b&w and col.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs of participants and invited dignitaries for formal events supporting the United Israel Appeal campaign. Images include those of Yitzak Rabin, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yittzak Shamir, Henry Kissinger, and Women's Campaign Chair Julia Koschitzky.
- Name Access
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
- Koschitzky, Julia, 1943-
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
- Netanyahu, Binyamin, 1949-
- Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-1995
- Shamir, Itzhak, 1915-2012
- Subjects
- Prime ministers
- Statesmen
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 21
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1990
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w and col. ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs of participants in four or five Campaign events. The only person identified is Judy Engel, from the Women's Campaign.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952-1954
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Custodial History
- This group established as part of Campaign to ensure proper training of future leaders of the Toronto Jewish community.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of meeting minutes and reports concerning the Leadership Institute of the Young Men's Council of the United Jewish Appeal.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 30
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of kits used by UJA Campaign workers. These contain information brochures, fact cards, donation receipts, pledge cards, and other assorted materials to assist the campaign worker.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 31
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of various campaign promotional materials such as brochures and information cards. Also includes material for 1954 Community Chest of Greater Toronto campaign.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 36
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of "Portfolio of Giving," a softcover bound magazine describing the various charities in Toronto and abroad which the UJA supports with its Campaign funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1943-1953
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of various promotional materials such as brochures, flyers, hand-outs, and campaign newspapers. Of special note is a 1947 UJWF campaign comic for the Youth Campaign, drawn by Winslow Mortimer, famous for his drawings of Batman and Superman.
- Name Access
- Mortimer, Win
- 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
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 posters : 22 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a suggested marketing plan and CJN story schedule for the 1991 walk, along with three different flyers, two posters, and a press release. The posters bear the "Operation Exodus : The Journey Home" Walk theme title. One reads "Operation Exodus: the time is now!" and has a pair of "UJA Walk for Israel" shoelaces attached. Both posters have a large black and white photograph of a girl holding Israel flags.
- Notes
- Title based on file contents.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 27
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a participation certificate for walkers that is modelled like a certificate of citizenship to match the Walk's theme. There are also stickers for several checkpoints with the themes and trivia facts, which were likely affixed to walkers' passports as they passed through each checkpoint. The file also contains a package for Walk participants, which consists of a letter to parents, a collection envelope, and a sponsor book.
- Notes
- Title based on file contents.
- Related Material
- Series 17-1-18 (1992), file 18, contains a promotional booklet on the 1991 Walk.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 28
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains lists of potential sponsors, memos, form letters, organizing lists, company literature, sponsor logos, a list of sponsorship commitments, and a corporate sponsorship plan. There is also a memo from Walk coordinator Avrum Rosensweig outlining the sponsorship items lined up for the Walk: recruitment video, hats, sponsorship book, and posters. As well, there are a number of sample thank you letters that indicate the sponsoring companies and what they donated.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 32
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains an application for a project grant to the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship to support the Festival, followed by correspondence related to this application. As such, the file includes information about the planned entertainment, publicity and rental expenses, and other financial information relating to the Festival. File also contains correspondence and a tentative budget.
- Notes
- Title based on file contents.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 29
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 2 June 1991
- Physical Description
- ca. 115 photographs
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records related to the day of the Walk. These include photographs of Walk staff and volunteers, checkpoints, transportation, police on duty, walkers along the route, a shofar-blowing demonstration, a group of students with school banners and flags, a B'nai Brith Youth group, families, the lunch stop barbecue, an NCSY group with banner and a Ninja Turtle signing autographs. Staff pictured in the photographs include David Engel.
- Notes
- Title based on file contents.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 30
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a memo, a Festival proposal, correspondence, flyers, a press release, a list of corporate sponsor contacts and other records pertaining to the planning of the 1991 Festival. The correspondence relates to arrangements for a fire services vehicle and crew to be "on exhibit" at the Festival; logistics planning; entertainment; soliciting volunteers; and arts and crafts.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Date
- 1990-1991
- Physical Description
- 23 cm of textual records
- 17 photographs : col.
- 1 t-shirt
- 1 hat
- 2 shoelaces
- Admin History/Bio
- The theme of the 1991 Walk for Israel, which was held on Sunday, 2 June, was "Operation Exodus: The Journey Home." This corresponded to UJA Federation's campaign that year. The goal of the walk was to raise enough money for five hundred Russian Jews (two planeloads) to make aliyah to Israel. Each of the eight checkpoints portrayed a different theme or "step" to freedom: "invitation to freedom," "permission to freedom," "flight to freedom," etc. Great effort was made to expand recruitment from the traditional children who participated to reach parents and other adults from UJA's divisions. The chairs of the Walk were David William Brown and David Engel, and the UJA staff coordinator was Avrum Rosensweig. Sponsors included Shopper's Drug Mart, Spring Valley Spring Water, Beatrice Foods, and Meadowvale Security. There were 8,500 participants this year, but only 2,700 of these collected any sponsors, a fact that highlights a longstanding problem facing the Walk Committee. After the event, expenditures were estimated at $23,000 and revenue (from the festival) at $14,000. The difference was made up by UJA.
- The festival in 1991 was called "The Journey Home: Sharing Our Ethnicity," and it focused on the multiculturalism in the Toronto Jewish community. This year, the festival was reenvisioned as a family-picnic type of event rather than the expansive carnival atmosphere of previous years. The staff coordinator of the festival was Mark Freedman, and the lay chairs were Judy Engel and Judy Shulman. The festival included arts and crafts, puppets, storytellers, games, pony rides, and a petting zoo. There was also a varied line-up of performers and musicians and an "Israeli café" food experience.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-sub-series contains textual records, photographs, and a T-shirt, hat, and pair of shoelaces from the 1991 Walk for Israel. The files are arranged by function in this order: walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, sponsorship and prizes, finances, the walk event itself, the festival and post-event evaluation.
- Related Material
- A map of the 1991 walk route can be found in series 17-1-19 (1993), file 9.
- Expenses of the 1991 walk (from July 1990 to June 1991) are in a report in Series 17-1-19, file 18 (1993).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-17
- File
- 38
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 17 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of volunteers in a golf cart and loading a van, Schlomo Carlbach performing onstage, a towering ladder (stunt show), a martial arts demonstration, pony rides, the audience in the BJCC amphitheatre, a clown gathered with children and a boy at the petting zoo.
- Notes
- Title based on file contents.
- 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
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1987 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-13
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [May] 1987
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of black and white prints from the 1987 Festival of the Walk for Israel. The images are of fire trucks on display, the petting zoo, people under the marquee with organizations' booths on display, the midway rides, a juggler performing, and a crowd of people at the central booth with the Festival attractions in the background. File also contains a photocopied photograph of three elephants and their trainer performing to a crowd of onlookers behind the BJCC.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Photography by Graphic Artists Photographers.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- A map of the 1987 Festival can be found in 17-1-17, file 38.
- Series 17-1-18 (1992), file 18, includes a programme from the Festival.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 32
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains follow-up thank you letters and notes from an informal survey conducted about the Walk. The survey numbers record respondents' opinions on the length of the walk, attendance of the Festival, next year's date, which route was walked, and whether the shuttle bus was used.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1938-2008
- Physical Description
- 2.18 m of textual records and other materials
- Admin History/Bio
- Superseding the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the first Annual Campaign of the new United Jewish Welfare Fund took place in 1938. It combined the appeals of 37 organizations into one, eliminating much of the inefficiency and competition of the previous twenty years. Money raised was for agencies and causes new and traditional, local and overseas. Recipients included; the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, Canadian Jewish Congress, the United Jewish Relief Agencies, the Joint Distribution Committee, and Palestine. In 1938, Campaign could be completed within a mere two weeks and raised $161,000. This figure rose to $348,000 in 1942 and surpassed one million dollars in 1951. When the State of Israel was established in 1948, Campaign was combined with the CJC and the United Palestine appeals into a new, combined campaign and re-named The United Jewish Appeal (UJA).
- With different local and world challenges and crises over time, annual campaigns have had a variety of foci: for example, the plight of Displaced Persons in Europe after the Second World War; the 1957 Rescue Campaign for refugees in Russia, Europe and North Africa; the first Emergency Campaign in 1967 in response to the Six Days’ War; and Operation Exodus 1990-1991, which raised funds to aid Soviet Jews.
- Early Campaign leadership was provided by lay people. Chairmen of the Campaign Cabinet included Samuel Godfrey, Ben Sadowski, Samuel J. Granatstein, Bernard Vise, Morris S. Till, and Samuel J. Zacks. A small administration committee carried out daily operations, but the bulk of the fundraising work was performed by the Service Council, a group of volunteers who planned, canvassed and evaluated each campaign, as well as organizing educational programs and public meetings. A Women’s Service Council and a Young Peoples’ Service Council also played key fundraising roles.
- Canvassing was conducted by volunteers from each professional or trade Division, such as doctors, lawyers, retail sales, etc. The volunteers were responsible for canvassing the members of their own group. A special Women’s Campaign had its own chair, sub-committees and programming. Divisions were further added to reflect the amounts of donations, Top Gifts, and Major Gifts for example. By the 1980s, the Service Councils had given way to professional Campaign Associates employed by UJWF. With further changes to UJWF/UJA Federation’s structure, Campaign first fell under the Financial Resource Development Department, then Integrated Development, and, in 2009, the Centre for Philanthropy. It is now supported by the Donor Relations Management, Donor Research, and Missions/VIP departments which cater to the diverse interests of individual donors.
- Through the 1940s and 1950s, face-to-face canvassing was the norm, with donor’s names and gifts published in the UJWF annual report. By the 1960s, an expanding community and a need for efficiency increased the use of the telephone, with regular telethons involving hundreds of volunteers. In 1970, a regular springtime Walk with Israel was included within the rest of Campaign events. In the 21st Century, the internet is used to solicit donations, publicize campaign news and events, and register volunteers for telethons and events like the Walk.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of two sub-series, Walk with Israel (sub-series 17-1) and General Campaign Records (sub-series 17-2).
- Notes
- Physical description note: Includes photographs, videocassettes, posters, DVDs, artfacts and books.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
