Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1896

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

David Dunkelman (1883-1978) was born in Poland to Elias and Leah Dunkelman. He came to Canada with his parents in 1895, settling in Toronto. On 19 January 1910, he married Rose Miller (1889-1949), and together they had 6 children: Joseph, Ernest, Benjamin, Theodora, Veronica (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner). David Dunkelman was very active throughout his life in Zionist causes and in philanthropic and communal work. He was the founder, president and chairman of the board of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. (1911) which was one of the largest clothing manufacturers in Canada.

For over 50 years David was one of the leaders of the Zionist Organization of Canada. He was also director of the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital, one of the founders of the North Toronto YMHA, a founder and supporter of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, and one of the founders of a village in Israel known as Gan Chaim. He was a member of several clubs and lodges including B'nai Brith, the Empire Club, the Primrose Club and the Canadain Friends of Hebrew University.

David married Pearl Greisman Rotenberg in 1950, after the death of his wife Rose Dunkelman in 1949.

Scope and Content

Photograph is of David Dunkelman standing outside a shoe store on a Brooklyn street. He was 13 years of age at the time of the photo.

Subjects

Portraits

Storefronts

Teenagers

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

New York (N.Y.).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

October 4, 1966

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 26 x 21 cm and 10 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

David Dunkelman (1883-1978) was born in Poland to Elias and Leah Dunkelman. He came to Canada with his parents in 1895, settling in Toronto. On 19 January 1910, he married Rose Miller (1889-1949), and together they had 6 children: Joseph, Ernest, Benjamin, Theodora, Veronica (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner). David Dunkelman was very active throughout his life in Zionist causes and in philanthropic and communal work. He was the founder, president and chairman of the board of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. (1911) which was one of the largest clothing manufacturers in Canada. For over 50 years David was one of the leaders of the Zionist Organization of Canada. He was also director of the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital, one of the founders of the North Toronto YMHA, a founder and supporter of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, and one of the founders of a village in Israel known as Gan Chaim. He was a member of several clubs and lodges including B'nai Brith, the Empire Club, the Primrose Club and the Canadain Friends of Hebrew University. David married Pearl Greisman Rotenberg in 1950, after the death of his wife Rose Dunkelman in 1949.

Scope and Content

Photograph is of (left to right) Marvin Gerstein, Morry Wingold and David Dunkelman with some other gentlemen at the Mount Sinai extension groundbreaking in Toronto. The view is through the handle of a shovel.

Name Access

Gerstein, Marvin

Wingold, Morry

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, Ernest

Dunkelman, Joseph

Dunkelman, Zelda

Dunkelman, Theodora

Rotenberg, Pearl Greisman

Subjects

Building

Hospitals

Repro Restriction

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Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 22 x 17 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman cutting into her birthday cake as guests look on. The party was thrown for Rose's 57th birthday by Toronto Hadassah.

Far right: Rose Dunkelman.

To her left: [Mrs. Rotenberg].

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 May 1941

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman seated at a table with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt and an unidentified man. Mrs. Roosevelt was visiting Toronto as a guest of Toronto Hadassah to help with their War Service Drive. This photograph was taken at the donor's luncheon.

Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt was the mother of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Roosevelt, Mrs. Sara Delano

Subjects

Luncheons

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the head table at Rose Dunkelman's birthday party. The party was thrown in honour of Rose's 57th birthday by Toronto Hadassah.

Far right: [Mrs. Rotenberg].

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Joseph Baratz leaning on Rose Dunkelman's headstone. The gravesite is covered with flowers.

Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of guests seated at tables at Rose Dunkelman's birthday party. The party was thrown in honour of Rose's fifty-seventh birthday by Toronto Hadassah. The head table can also be seen on the far right.

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 12 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Ben Dunkleman saying Kaddish at the gravesite of his mother, Rose Dunkelman. Abe Friedgut, Joseph Baratz, and a few young children look on.

Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Mr. Abe Friedgut was the Israel representative of the Zionist Organization of Canada.

Notes

Writing on the back of the photo reads: "Shoshana Rose Dunkelman the daughter of Miller from Toronto died [date] devoted all her life to the building of the country only after her death were her wishes fulfilled." This is probably the inscription on Rose's tombstone.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Friedgut, Abe

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 16 cm and 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Israeli students of the Canadian agricultural school in Nahalal carrying a wreath to be placed on the grave of Rose Dunkelman. The group of youth are being led by their principal, Mrs. Hanna Maisel-Schochat.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Maisel-Schochat, Hanna

Subjects

Processions

Students

Youth

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 13 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of two children from Canadian Wizo's youth village "Hadassim" carrying a wreath on behalf of the pupils and staff of Hadassim to the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Rose

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Subjects

Children

Wreaths

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 12 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Mrs. Rose Ginossar, speaking at the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman. To her right is Joseph Baratz. Behind him is Shimon Hacohen.

Mrs. Rose Ginossar was chairman of the World WIZO executive. Mr. Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Ginossar, Rose

Hacohen, Shimon

Repro Restriction

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Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of several graves at Degania Aleph, where Rose Dunkelman was re-interred in 1953. The graveyard also houses the remains of several leading figures of the Yishuv.

Notes

General: Degania Alef is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

Name Access

Deganyah Alef (Israel)

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 16 cm and 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of a group of Wizo executive members at the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman.

Left to right: Zila Shoham (executive member); Dr. Eva Kirstein (secretary of the publicity department); Tonie Zeissler-Hauser (chairman of the fundraising department); Nanny Margulies (chairman of the publicity department); Hanna Maisel-Shochat (principal of Nahalal, the Canadian Wizo's agricultural school); Rachel Kagan (chairman of the Israel Wizo Federation); Dr. Salomea Levite (vice-chairman of the World Wizo executive); Rahel Shapira (Hadassim); Rose Ginossar (chairman of World Wizo executive); Mr. Yeremiahu Shapiro (principal of Hadassim); Fay Grovem (chairman of the organization and cultural department).

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Ginossar, Rose

Grovem, Fay

Kagan, Rachel

Kirstein, Dr. Eva

Levite, Dr. Salomea

Maisel-Shochat, Hanna

Margulies, Nanny

Shoham, Zila

Shapiro, Rahel

Shapiro, Mr. Yeremiahu

Zeissler-Hauser, Tonie

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1905]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 26 x 21 cm and 13 x 19 cm

Scope and Content

Photo is a portrait of Rose Dunkelman at the approximate age of sixteen.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the headstone at Rose Dunkelman's gravesite. The headstone is covered with a wreath brought by the children of the Hadassah youth village "Hadassim."

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 6 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman strewn with flowers.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman's headstone in Israel. There are flowers laying on the grave.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions