- Accession Number
- 2021-11-10
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2021-11-10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 24 photographs : col. 10 x 15 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1992-1995
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs from Camp Ramah. The photographs document the interior of buildings, such as cabins and the dining hall; exterior shots of the waterfront and sports field; and activities, such as the annual colour wars program.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Camp Ramah in Canada
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2021-11-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2021-11-11
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. 20 x 30 cm
- Date
- Jul. 2000
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a colour photograph of Camp Kinneret taken in July 2000.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Camp Kinneret
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-2-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-2-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 34 x 29 cm
- Date
- [19--]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material that belonged to the late Gilbert Seltzer. Included are handwritten copies of a Camp Yungvelt paper, the Whoosis, and a photograph of a Yiddish youth group, the Yiddisher Kunst-Tsenter (Yiddish/Jewish Art Centre). The Whoosis issues are undated, while the photograph is from 1929/30.
- Custodial History
- Richard Seltzer discovered the material after his father's death and donated it to the Ontario Jewish Archives.
- Administrative History
- Gilbert Seltzer was born on 11 October 1914 in Toronto, Ontario, to Julius Seltzer and Marion Seltzer (née Liss). Gilbert's parents were both Russian immigrants. Julius owned a knitting mill, and Marion was a homemaker. Julius was also an anarchist, and he and Marion had a cottage in the Workmen's Circle Colony in Pickering, Ontario. As a child, Gilbert attended Camp Yungvelt, a Yiddish summer camp for Jewish children. His son, Richard, would later recall that Gilbert "sang songs from there and vaguely spoke of the Whosis," the camp's publication.
- Gilbert studied architecture at the University of Toronto, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1937. After graduating, he worked for an architectural firm in Manhattan. During the Second World War, he served with the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a secret army unit that would become known as the Ghost Army. According to Gilbert's obituary in the New York Times, "The unit fooled German forces with inflatable tanks, dummy airplanes, fake radio transmissions and sound effects." In later years, Gilbert would serve as an ambassador for the unit's veterans.
- After the war, Gilbert resumed work as an architect. His projects included the Utica Memorial Auditorium in Utica, New York; buildings at West Point and the US Merchant Marine Academy; and the East Coast Memorial in Battery Park, Lower Manhattan. He worked as an architect until January 2020.
- Gilbert met his future spouse, Molly Gold (m. Seltzer), in New Jersey. The couple had two children together: Joan Seltzer and Richard Seltzer. Molly died in 1994, and Gilbert died on 14 August 2021. He was 106.
- 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
- Architects
- Camps
- Portraits, Group
- Name Access
- Camp Yungvelt
- Seltzer, Gilbert, 1914-2021
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-11-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-11-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1925]-1986
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one black-and-white photograph taken of a group of campers at Camp Kindervelt in Rouge Hill. Identified in the photograph is Rae Watson (standing at the far left).
- Also included were several newspaper clippings from 1976–1986, which have been integrated into the clipping files.
- Administrative History
- Camp Kindervelt was a Labour Zionist League camp in Rough Hill, in the east end of Toronto in the Rouge Valley.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Labor Zionism
- Name Access
- Camp Kindervelt
- Shiner, Sol
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2000-4-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2000-4-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1959-1975
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records created and accumulated by the Moses family. The types of records include cemetery papers, such as correspondence, account receipts and the original constitution for Hasiatyner Klaus Beth Israel.
- Also included are the original cemetery plans with the official stamp and seal and a copy of the blueprints for the Eitz Chiam School
- Administrative History
- Isadore Moses moved his family to Canada in 1928. He became president of Toronto’s Husiatiner Klaus Shul, volunteered to co-design Bathurst Lawn Cemetery’s floor plan, and was committed to Jewish education.
- His son Lewis Moses, the youngest of seven children, was also deeply committed to the Jewish community. Despite running a busy chartered accountancy practice, the former air force officer devoted much of his energy to Jewish causes. He worked diligently for the Zionist Revisionist Organization, United Jewish Appeal, United Israel Appeal, State of Israel Bonds, Jewish National Fund, Canadian Zionist Federation, the Board of Jewish Education, Eitz Chaim Schools, and many other organizations. He was co-founder of Torath Emeth Congregation and a Board Member of Shaarei Shomayim Congregation. Lewis Moses was honoured at the Negev dinner in 1992
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Husiatiner Klaus Beth Israel.
- Bathurst Lawn Cemetery.
- Zionist Revisionist Organization.
- United Jewish Appeal.
- United Israel Appeal.
- State of Israel Bonds.
- Jewish National Fund.
- Canadian Zionist Federation.
- Board of Jewish Education.
- Eitz Chaim.
- Torath Emeth Congregation.
- Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2002-10-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2002-10-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records of the Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees, responsible for the maintenance and operations of the Dawes Road Cemetery. The Trustees reported to the Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-10-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of three copy photographs. Two of these photographs are of Camp Kindervelt in Rouge Hills, north of Ontario; the other photograph is of Branch 3, Labor League, Toronto.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-2-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-2-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25 x 21 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1991
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a colour photograph of Hanna Schusheim, Emunah Toronto Council co-president (centre) with bazaar co-chairman Agnes Deutsch (left) and Malka Deutsch; a photograph of the entrance to Pardes Shalom cemetery with (L-R) Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, Jewish community chaplain; Sidney Freedman, founding president of Toronto Hebrew Memorial Park; Bill Draimin, current president; and Lorna Jackson, mayor of the city of Vaughan; a photograph of Rabbi Yitzchak Witty (right) and Mr and Mrs. Yitz Feldman; and a photograph of Anna Cohen and family.
- Custodial History
- Thes pohtographs came to the OJA from the Canadian Jewish News through Leila Speismanm, a former journalist with the paper.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish News
- Pardes Shalom Cemetery (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-7-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-7-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : col. (slides) ; 35 mm
- Date
- [ca. 1965]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of 4 colour slides of the dedication of a Holocaust monument in Litvische-Latvische section of Bathurst Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, with Cantor N. Stolnitz.
- Subjects
- Holocaust memorials
- Cemeteries
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-2-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-2-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Date
- 1993
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of a series of photographs of the monuments in the Jewish cemetery at Massey, Ontario. The gravestones of Judith Rosenthal, Gay Selene, Rosie and Aaron Silverman, Itzhak Bar Yosef, Rose Iena Nellisks, Charles Rothenberg, Izik Aharon Ben Bezalel, and Etta Mozes are depicted. The majority of these individuals did not live to adulthood.
- Descriptive Notes
- Hebrew and English identifying information with dates is written on the back of each photo.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Rosenthal, Judith
- Selene, Gay
- Silverman, Rosie
- Silverman, Aaron
- Bar Yosef, Itzhak
- Nellisks, Rose Iena
- Rothenberg, Charles
- Ben Bezalel, Izik Aharon
- Mozes, Etta
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-6-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-6-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 14 x 9 cm and 13 x 10 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1943]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of one photographic postcard and one negative of a group of girls at Camp Yungvelt in Pickering. Some of the girls have been identified as follows: Terry Krever is in front row on far left; Miss Simon (M. Shainhouse) is next to her in center; Miss Naomi Strauss is in the far left-hand corner; Mrs. Danilak is in back row, second from right; and "Creed" is in back row, far right.
- Subjects
- Children
- Camps
- Name Access
- Krever, Terry
- Strauss, Naomi
- Danilak, Mrs.
- Camp Yungvelt
- Places
- Pickering, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1996-3-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1996-3-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2.4 m of textual records and graphic materials
- Date
- [ca. 1940]-[ca.1995]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records created and/or accumulated by Nechemiah Knobel. They relate to the work of the Labour Zionist Alliance and the Borochov movement. Of note are a series of photographs documenting the unveiling of the Holocaust monument at Mount Sinai Cemetery in 1968. Identified individuals include Mayor Phil Givens, Allan Grossman, Ben Himel and Max Federman.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Holocaust memorials
- Cemeteries
- Labor unions
- Labor Zionism
- Name Access
- Knobel, Nechemiah
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-4-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-4-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 50 photographs : b&w and col. (24 negatives)
- Date
- 1916-1988
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs and newspaper clippings documenting the life of the Levine Family. Photographs include class pictures from Port Whitby's Brock School, Purim celebrations at Oshawa's Beth Zion Synagogue, Camp Ogama staff and camper photos, Camp Winnibagoe cabin photos and Royal Winter Fair prize winning photos.
- 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
- Camp counselors
- Camps
- Farms
- Farm tractors
- Purim
- Name Access
- Camp Winnebagoe
- Places
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Whitby (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-10-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-10-4
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette : b&w, si., VHS
- Date
- 1943
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one VHS videocassette copy of an 8mm silent film that was taken by Hy Rossman of campers at Camp Tamarack in 1943. The film includes scenes of the boys engaged in activities at camp as well as "mess hall" gatherings, training sessions and drills
- Administrative History
- Hy Rossman was the father of one of the campers. The donor, Dr. Martin Wolfish, was a friend of his son and was a camper in 1943 as well.
- Descriptive Notes
- A clip of the film can be viewed at: //www.youtube.com/embed/eFGNoca4vkw
- Subjects
- Camps
- Children
- Name Access
- Camp Tamarack
- Rossman, Hy
- Places
- Bracebridge, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-2-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-2-2
- Material Format
- text
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 15 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1935-1962
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring). Included are: three architectural drawings of the summer cottage for Camp Yunvelt (Pickering, Ont.); two group portraits (one with identification and one without); a bound periodical/journal from 1935; a hardcopy of Fertsik yor arbeter-ring: a geshikhte in bilder (English: Forty Years Workmen's Circle: A History in Pictures) put out by the National Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle in 1940; a bound periodical/journal of Kultur un dertsiung (English: Culture and Education) for the year 1942; a bound periodical/journal of Der freynd (English: The Friend) for the year 1942; a booklet by Rev. Nathan Stolnitz's titled Some of the Numerous Comments and Reviews on Music in Jewish Life (1957?); a newspaper clipping titled "A bukh vom oyngt" (English: A Book That Opens) that was published in 1957; a hardcopy of Workmen's Circle, Pioneers and Builders put out by the Workmen's Circle Pioneers and Builders Committee in 1962; and two other Yiddish-language publications that have not been identified.
- Administrative History
- The Workmen's Circle (Yiddish: Arbeiter Ring) was founded in the United States by Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Circle branches were established in Canada in Montreal and Toronto in 1907 and 1908. In 1917, the Toronto branches incorporated as nonprofit organization called the Arbeiter Ring. The organization celebrated its centenery in 2017.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language: Most of the material in the accession is in Yiddish. The drawings are in English and a few of the publications are in English and Yiddish.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Cottages
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Pickering (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-1-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-1-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2.1 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the operation of Pardes Shalom Cemetery in Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Pardes Shalom Cemetery
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 43 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1973-1992
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting persons and events connected with the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto including the Campaign Cabinet, Advanced Gifts division, Womens' Campaign, Walk For Israel, and United Jewish Wefare Fund and a mission to Israel.Identified individuals include Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Pierre Trudeau, Murray and Marvelle Koffler, Isadore Sharp, Charles Bronfman, lawrence Bloomberg, Phil Granovsky, Gerald Halbert, Alvin Rosenberg, Sheila Engel, Carol Kassel, Al Green, Harold Green, J. B. Salsberg, and George Cohon.
- Photo Captions:
- 2004-5-4_003: Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meets with representatives from UJA Toronto. From left to right: Gerald Sheff, Paul Morton, Shimon Peres, Lisa Morrison and Neil Nisker, 1986
- 2004-5-4_004: Rabbi Plaut and Barbara Frum, [197-]
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Presidents--Israel
- Prime ministers--Israel
- Name Access
- Peres, Shimon, 1923-2016
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-37
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-37
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 36 photographs : b&w and hand col. (12 negatives) ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1938-1943
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs taken at Camp Balfour Manor on Morrison Lake in Muskoka, Ontario and Camp Yungvelt in Pickering, Ontario. Scenes include a group of young people on the steps of a building, a Shabbat service, a flag lowering ceremony, boxing lessons, an arts and crafts class, and a photograph of Hyman Riegelhaupt at Camp Yungvelt.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Balfour Manor Camp
- Camp Yungvelt
- Places
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Pickering (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-75
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-75
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs ; b&w and col. ; 21 x 25 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1930]-1998
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of photographs relating to Kirkland Lake, Ontario - Dubinsky family; synagogue; and Krugerdorf Cemetery.
- Descriptive Notes
- Identification keys and biographical information is provided for the group photos.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Synagogues
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-91
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-91
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1939-1957
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of records of B'nai Israel Synagogue, St. Catharines; Goel Tzedec Memorial Park, Toronto plan and deed; B'nai Israel Synagogue, St. Catharines, board of governors meetings 1975-1980 and 1981-1984; Congregation Beth Jacob, Hamilton, Ontario; and Temple Anshe Sholom, Hamilton, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Synagogue records and registers
- Name Access
- Beth Jacob Synagogue (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Temple Anshe Sholom (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : b&w (9 negatives)
- 1 film reel
- Date
- 1959-1965
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring) Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt. Also included is a film reel of activities at Camp Yungvelt from 1959.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Camp Yungvelt
- Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1986-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1986-10-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10 photographs : col.
- Date
- 1986
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of the Jewish cemetery in Harbin, Heilongjiang (a province in northeast China).
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as JPEG and TIFF files.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Places
- China
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the Wabi-kronicle, the newsletter for Camp Wabi-Kon, a Jewish camp in Northern Ontario near Temagami.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Children
- Name Access
- Camp Wabi-Kon
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-1-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2006-1-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 marble plaque : 10 x 10 cm
- 1 textual record
- Date
- 16 Oct. 2005
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one marble plaque from the opening commemoration of the Pardes Shalom Cemetery Memorial Garden. The plaque has the Magen David on carved into the averse, while on the reverse is the inscription: the Pardes Sholom Memorial Garden commemorating the opening, October 16, 2005.
- The textual record is an informational/promotional single-fold booklet containing information about the cemetery and the garden, along with contact information.
- Descriptive Notes
- Pardes Shalom Cemetery Memorial Garden.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-3-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-3-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 70 photographs : b&w ; 50 x 40 cm. or smaller
- Date
- 1994
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of seventy photographs taken by Nir Bareket in 1994, documenting the March of the Living trip. This collection includes images of the participants visiting Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw and Lublin, the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, the Auschwitz Museum and Camp, Birkenau Camp, Majdanek Camp and Treblinka Camp, and finally, the Yad Vashem Museum and the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
- Administrative History
- Nir Bareket (né Zaidband) was born in Haifa, Palestine on May 7, 1939 to Esther and David Zaidband. Esther was of Sephardic heritage while David was of Ashkenazi heritage. Growing up, Nir had two siblings: an older brother, Yosi, and an older sister, Talila. Yosi, who was ten years older than Nir, was killed serving in the Palmach, an elite branch of the Haganah. Years later, while serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Nir adopted the surname Bareket (Hebrew for emerald) so that his name would sound more Israeli.
- In 1964, Nir moved to the United States. He studied photography at the New York Institute of Photography and the New York School of Visual Art. In 1966, he became the chief photographer for Batten, Barton, Dustin & Osborne's communication design centre. In April 1967, he married Eti Belotzkervoskia; Eti and Nir's first daughter, Eedit, was born the next year.
- In 1969 or 1970, the family of three moved to Geneva, Switzerland. During this time, Nir worked for Investors Overseas Services Ltd. (IOS) as their chief photographer. But while he lived in Geneva, Nir's job required him to frequently cross the border into France.
- In 1971 or 1972, the family of three moved again, this time to Jerusalem. From 1972 to 1975, Nir worked for the Israel Museum as their chief photographer. In 1973, Eti and Nir's second daughter, Mika, was born.
- In 1975, the family of four moved to Toronto. There, Nir started the Bareket Studio of Photography. In 1990, Eti and Nir split up.
- Nir continued to be an active photographer, acting, for example, as the official photographer of the March of the Living trip, which is overseen by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto as part of the Canadian Israel Experience program. The trip, which takes place in Europe and the Middle East, operates each year and is intended to expose a new generation of Jews to two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history: the Shoah (Holocaust) and the creation of the State of Israel. The photographs he took on this trip were displayed at an exhibition held at the Koffler Centre of the Arts' Loggia Galery in 1995.
- Throughout his career, Nir has taken part in approximately thity-five exhibitions that were held in a number of locations including Toronto, New York City, Jerusalem, China, and Cuba. Some of his notable displays have included the March of the Living (1995) and his series on Toronto's homeless population, which was held at BCE Place from 2000 to 2001.
- Over the course of his career, Nir taught photography at several institutions including George Brown College, York University, Hebrew University, the Israel Museum, and the New York Institute of Photography.
- Nir died on May 12, 2015. He left behind longtime partner Wendy Wright; daughters Eedit and Mika; and grandchildren Dar, Kallee, and Carmelle.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Holocaust memorial tours
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Bareket, Nir, 1939-2015
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller
- Date
- August 1947
- Scope and Content
- Accession contains a photo album with six photos of Camp Tamarack, some of which have been identified. Included are photos of Duck Lake, Morty Weisberg, Sonny Moshenberg and a boy counting beans (believed to be Lionel Solrush). A numbered guide of all the photos is included.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Camp Tamarack
- Kirshin, Barry
- Weisberg, Morty
- Moshenberg, Sonny
- Solrush, Lionel
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-9-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-9-2
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- textual record (electronic)
- architectural drawing (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 37 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg) + 2 identification keys
- 16 documents (28 jpgs)
- 2 architectural drawings (jpg)
- Date
- [189-]-2004
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of scanned copies of original records documenting the Jewish community in Cornwall. The records relate to various individuals in the community, including the donor, as well as organizations such as B'nai Brith, Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society, and the Beth-El Congregation. The items include scans of cemetery plans, burial certificates, photographs, meeting minutes, memorial books and various legal documents.
- Photographs are as follows:
- 01. Sixtieth anniversary of D-Day program.
- 02. Abe and Rose Goldhamer, Long Sault Rapids before the seaway, ca. 1941.
- 03. Al Burnes in uniform. Al lived in Cornwall and moved to Toronto, [between 1939 and 1945].
- 04. Archie Dover, first person buried in the new cemetery, pg. 1, 1962.
- 05. Archie Dover, first person buried in the new cemetery, pg. 2, 1962.
- 06. Beth El Synagogue, exterior, nd.
- 07. Beth El Synagogue, interior, nd.
- 08. Birdie Phillips Miller.
- 09. B’nai Brith, ca. 1961. [obverse]
- 10. B’nai Brith, ca. 1961. [reverse]
- 11. B’nai Brith entertaining seniors from Glen Stor Dun Lodge, 1964.
- 12. B’nai Brith girls temporary charter, 1967.
- 13. B’nai Brith Youth Organization temporary charter, 1967.
- 14. Boys playing hockey behind the shul, 1930s. Back row, left to right: unidentified, Jack Abrugov, Murray Berns, Julius Kolomier. Front row, left to right: unidentified, Jack Goldhamer, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified.
- 15. Braham Goldhamer on piano.
- 16. Cemetery plan from office of LP Stidwill, civil engineer and Ontario land surveyor, April 18 1958.
- 17. Cemetery plan, nd.
- 18. Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, Robert Saunders Dam, 1957.
- 19. B’nai Brith emergency meeting minutes, 1967.
- 20. Entertainer, Helen Goldhamer and her father, Julius Miller.
- 21. General meeting regarding building of the synagogue, pg. 1, Oct. 5, 1924.
- 22. General meeting regarding building of the synagogue, pg. 2, Oct. 5, 1924.
- 23. B’nai Brith Cornwall Lodge, 1961. [obverse] Pictured are, Standing left to right: Moe Helperin, Peter Solway, Oscar Niduvitch, Louis Dubinsky, Alex Abugor, Sam Nyman, Moe Schulman, Bernard Miller, I. Martin, Saul Schulman. Seated left to right: Mark Goldhamer, Sam Smolkin, Saul Kaye, Mrs. Eddie Cantor (guest speaker), Rabbi Matts, Julius Miller.
- 24. B’nai Brith Cornwall Lodge, 1961. [reverse]
- 25. Hebrew School, ca. 1958.
- 26. Helen, Mark and Brham Goldhamer, ca. 1958.
- 27. Helen Goldhamer on the St. Lawrence just west of Cornwall.
- 28. Helen Goldhamer speaking.
- 29. Helen Goldhamer thanking guest speaker.
- 30. Joel Horovitz, bar mitzvah programme, 1954.
- 31. Julius Miller and daughter Helen Goldhamer with father Moses Miller (seated) and grandson Braham Goldhamer at age 2.
- 32. Julius Miller and wife Birdie in front of their furniture company’s first truck, ca. 1946.
- 33. Julius Miller Grove invitation to ceremony, 1969.
- 34. Julius Miller Grove letter, 1969.
- 35. Julius Miller Grove plaque, ca. 1969.
- 36. [Phillips family?], ca. 1900.
- 37. Annette Phillips and Mary Phillips, ca. 1948.
- 38. Julius Miller presented with a pin by Mrs. Eddie Cantor at an Israel Bonds drive, 1961.
- 39. Nathan Phillips with unidentified boy.
- 40. Left to right: Annette Phillips, Mary Phillips, Birdie Phillips Miller and Riva Phillips, 1940s.
- 41. Left to right: Archie Dover, Julius Miller and Rabbi Lewin at the Memory Board dedication.
- 42. Left to right: Helen Goldhamer, Sarah Vineberg, Mrs. M. Phillips, Birdie Phillips Miller, Annette Phillips, ca. 1938.
- 43. Succot. Left to right: Margot Miller, Jack Miller and Braham Goldhamer, ca. 1956.
- 44. Left to right: Mark Goldhamer, Iruim Thaw, Saul Schulman and guest speaker, ca. 1961.
- 45. Nathan and Sam Phillips, ca. 1920.
- 46. Legal letter regarding the deed to the cemetery, pg. 1, 1929.
- 47. Legal letter regarding the deed to the cemetery, pg. 2, 1929.
- 48. Markus Goldhamer RCAF discharge papers, pg. 1, 1945.
- 49. Markus Goldhamer RCAF discharge papers, pg. 2, 1945.
- 50. Markus Goldhamer RCAF photo, Second World War.
- 51. Mary Phillips, life member of Hadassah-WIZO card, April 5, 1954.
- 52. Memorial book, pg. 1, 1926.
- 53. Memorial book, pg. 2, 1926.
- 54. Memorial book, pg. 3, 1926.
- 55. Memorial book, pg. 4, 1926.
- 56. Memory board.
- 57. Moses Miller.
- 58. Original minutes forming the B’nai Brith chapter in Cornwall, pg. 1, 1934.
- 59. Original minutes forming the B’nai Brith chapter in Cornwall, pg. 2, 1934.
- 60. Original minutes forming the B’nai Brith chapter in Cornwall, pg. 3, 1934.
- 61. Original minutes forming the B’nai Brith chapter in Cornwall, pg. 4, 1934.
- 62. Part of crowd at the annual dinner in Beth El Synagogue hall.
- 63. Photocopy of Hebrew Ladies’ Aid meeting minutes, pg. 1, Nov. 29, 1922.
- 64. Photocopy of Hebrew Ladies’ Aid meeting minutes, pg. 2, Nov. 29, 1922.
- 65. President of B’nai Brith Mark Goldhamer speaking. Helen Goldhamer seated to his left.
- 66. Riva Phillips beside Julius Miller Furniture shop, 1950s.
- 67. Thank you card to Mark Goldhamer, pg. 1.
- 68. Thank you card to Mark Goldhamer, pg. 2.
- 69. [Phillips family?], ca. 1900.
- Custodial History
- The original records are in the possession of the donor. The OJA was granted permission to scan the records in September 2007, as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative. These copies were then donated to the Archives on 2007-09-04.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Goldhamer, Mark
- Places
- Cornwall (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 90 cm of textual records
- 1000 photographs [approx.]
- Date
- 1919-2007
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of textual and graphic records documenting the programs and activities of Canadian Young Judaea. The records include newsletters and publications, photographs, anniversary books, and program books. There are also two compact discs containing scanned copies of the photographs from this accession.
- Custodial History
- These records were gathered together for an anniversary celebration held in November 2007. Most of the records were found in the basement of the office building on Marlee Avenue, before being donated to the archives.
- Administrative History
- Canadian Young Judaea was founded in 1909 as a Zionist movement for Canadian youth by members of the Herzl Zion Club. As a Zionist organization, Young Judaea continues to be committed to fostering a sense of Jewish identity and values in today's Jewish youth and to encouraging a lifelong commitment to Israel.
- In order to foster a closer connection to Israel, Canadian Young Judaea employs educational Shlichim from Israel who are posted at various Jewish communities throughout Canada and offices at the national level. In Toronto, Young Judaea also operates several Zionist summer camps located in each region of Canada, and a summer leadership institute called Camp Biluim in Quebec. In addition to the social programme of the organization, Young Judaea also offers educational seminars and conferences.
- Young Judaea's national structure includes a National Executive Board and an Administrative Council. Conventions are held regularly, as are regional conferences. In the past, Young Judaea operated as an associated, but distinct, organization from the Zionist Organization of Canada. However, Young Judaea operations were overseen by the ZOC executive, and Young Judaea received their budget from the ZOC Treasury. In addition, ZOC and Young Judaea worked in conjunction with one another on many projects and programmes, such as with the operation of the Zionist camps. They were therefore dependent on ZOC.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-1-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-1-8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1665 photographs (approx.) ; b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1997]-[ca. 1999]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of photographs of headstones at the Roselawn Cemetery in Toronto. The photographs were taken by volunteers working on the project which meant to capture genealogical information from the Jewish cemeteries around Toronto. Some of the information from the stones have been uploaded to the JewishGen's burial registry database, however, the photographs contain additional information such as Hebrew names and birth and death dates.
- Taken alongside the stone in each photograph is an accompanying marker indicating the section and row of the grave, which corresponds to a physical list filed with each binder. Researchers will have to search for the deceased person's name on JewishGen first and locate the section and row of the stone, before being able to find the photograph in the binders.
- Administrative History
- The Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto) was formally established in 1985. It is now one of seven Jewish genealogical societies in Canada. Its mission is to stimulate interest in the pursuit of Jewish genealogical research; to facilitate the pursuit of Jewish genealogical research locally and globally; and to provide an environment for fellowship and mutual exchange among persons with an interest in Jewish genealogy.
- http://www.jgstoronto.ca/About.html
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-6-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-6-7
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 6.82 m of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1935-2008
- Scope and Content
- Accession contains records documenting the administration, programs and events of Beth Jacob Synagogue in Kitchener, from 1935 to 2008. Non-textual records include photographs, architectural drawings, artifacts, and a couple of books. The textual records include newsletters, correspondence, financial ledgers, community directories, event programmes, membership lists and dues ledgers. There is considerable material on the Talmud Torah, including teaching materials, curricula, student guides, notes on parent meetings, and correspondence. There are approximately 40 photographs in the accession, of which 25 are from one 1985 shul event. Other records relate to the cemetery, memorial plaques, adult education, nursery school, Sisterhood, youth programs, bar and bat mitzvots, clubs and chevra kadisha. There are several artifacts: Rabbi Rosensweig's quill pen, athletic trophies and medallions, I.D. bracelets, Tree of Life plaques, a Hadassah Convention name tag with ribbon from 1951, and an (empty) copper mezuzzah. Records of the Kitchener-Waterloo Hebrew Day School will form a second fonds when the accession is described (see accession file folder for proposed arrangement scheme). The Hebrew Day School records include parents and staff handbooks, procedure manual, teaching materials, certificates, correspondence, governance documents, student records and attendance books with class lists.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Synagogues
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w ; 34 x 15 cm or smaller + identification key
- 55 photographs : b&w (jpgs) ; 300 dpi
- Date
- 1934-1975
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of photographs documenting the Moscoe family, Camp B'nai Brith near Ottawa, and the Kirkland Lake Jewish community. Also included are a few photographs taken at the amalgamation of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue in 1975. The amalgamation photographs include: Syd Moscoe, Stuart Moscoe, Harry R. Moscoe, Irving Horowitz, Cantor David Bercovici, Cantor Louis Danto, and Rabbi Joseph Kelman.
- Custodial History
- The photographs were loaned to the Archives for copying. The donor has the original records.
- 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
- Camps
- Communities
- Families
- Places
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-11-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-11-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm and 9 X7 cm
- 1 matchbook
- Date
- 1928-2009
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of mementos, family documents and clippings from Nancy Draper (née Frankel). The records include a birth announcement card for Nancy in 1928 and a matchbook party favour from her wedding to Darrell Draper in 1949. There is also a scholarship application letter from the donor's granddaughter, Haley Draper, to UJA. Other records include a staff list from Camp Wabi-Kon in 1946; a Globe and Mail obituary of Dr. Martin Wolfish, a past volunteer of OJA; a photograph of David Steinhauer; a clipping about an Inuit sculpture inspired by the experience of Holocaust survivor Leon Kahn; and three eulogies for Patricia Drevnig Goldstein (1940-2005) (née Jacobs). Patricia was the granddaughter of Rabbi Solomon Jacobs of Holy Blossom, and her mother, Edna, was a Frankel. Finally, the accession includes a photocopy of a photograph of members of the Siglen family of Meaford with Maurice Frankel, the great-uncle of the donor, and Irwin Rosen, ca. 1928.
- Administrative History
- Nancy Frankel (b. 1928) is the daughter of Carl and Dorothy Jacobs Frankel, past prominent members of the Toronto Jewish community and members of Holy Blossom Temple. Nancy attended Camp Wabi-Kon, a Jewish camp in northern Ontario near Temagami, and then worked there as a teenager. She married Darrell Draper on December 10th, 1949. Nancy is a longtime volunteer at the OJA.
- Subjects
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Camps
- Families
- Letters
- Obituaries
- Name Access
- Draper, Nancy
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Name
- Jack Abel
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1986
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Jack Abel
- Number
- OH 34
- OH 35
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Cemeteries
- Labor unions
- Occupations
- Recreation
- Societies
- Interview Date
- 1986
- Quantity
- 2
- Interviewer
- Morris Silbert
- Total Running Time
- 034A: 31:10 minutes
034B: 31:10 minutes
035A: 31:10 minuets
035B: 13:52 minuets
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Notes
- The end of the reference copy of AC 35 is not very audible. The original cassette may be clearer.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Jack Abel's career in the garment industry began in the 1920s taking him through the dressmaker's strike of 1932. Abel's experiences with antisemitism were numerous. He participated in the Christie Pits riot, he was active in politics, and he became an early member of the Mozirer Society. Abel became financial secretary of the Mozirer Society and was involved in the purchase and administration of the Roselawn and Bathurst Lawn cemeteries.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Abel, Jack
- Mozirer Sick Benefit Society
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 34, OH 35 - Abel\OH34_001_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 34, OH 35 - Abel\OH34_002_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 34, OH 35 - Abel\OH35_001_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 34, OH 35 - Abel\OH35_002_Log.docx
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Collis
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1 Jun. 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Collis
- Number
- OH 93
- Subject
- Musicians
- Cemeteries
- Synagogues
- Antisemitism
- Farmers
- Yiddish language
- Interview Date
- 1 Jun. 1976
- Quantity
- 2 audio cassettes (1 copy)
- 2 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Larry Troster and Elaine Kahn
- Total Running Time
- OH93_001:43.50 minutes
OH93_002:18.45 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitized 2014
- Notes
- poor sound quality in some sections
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Ben Collis, the son of Russian immigrants, was born in 1911. He grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. In 1944, he moved to Peterborough, Ontario. Ben's interest in music led him to form his own dance band and play gigs throughout Ontario.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Geographic Access
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Peterborough (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 93 - Collis\OH93_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 93 - Collis\OH93_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ralph Weber
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Feb. 1987
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ralph Weber
- Number
- OH 190
- OH 191
- Subject
- Cemeteries
- Hevra kaddisha
- Synagogues
- Interview Date
- 3 Feb. 1987
- Quantity
- 3 cassettes (2 copies)
- 3 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Stephen Spiesman
- AccessionNumber
- 1987-2-8
- Total Running Time
- OH190_001: 31.04 minutes
OH190_002: 31.05 minutes
OH191_001: 25 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitized November 2013
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Samuel Weber was born 1875 in Vilna, Russia and immigrated to Toronto in 1899. He began his career working in real estate and clothing manufacturing. Sam became the largest real-estate owner of rental housing in Toronto and was one of first builders of roads in the city. He organized and was president of the Toronto Hebrew Burial Society (Chesed Shel Emes). In 1906, he purchased the property today known as the Roselawn Cemetery. Sam was a member of Goel Tzedec Synagogue's building committee.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Roselawn Cemetery
- Weber, Ralph
- Weber, Sam
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 190, OH 191 - Weber\OH190_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 190, OH 191 - Weber\OH190_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 190, OH 191 - Weber\OH191_001_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Sid Freedman
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1997
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Sid Freedman
- Number
- OH 237
- OH 238
- OH 239
- OH 240
- Subject
- Cemeteries
- Synagogue officers
- Interview Date
- 1997
- Quantity
- 4 cassettes (2 copies)
4 WAV files
- Total Running Time
- 1:35 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitized September 2014
- Digitized May 2016
- Use Restrictions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director and the narrator prior to accessing the records.
- Biography
- Sidney Freedman became a member of Temple Sinai in 1965 and served as president of the board in 1970. He was instrumental in the development of Pardes Shalom Cemetery and became life president of Pardes Shalom and Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Geographic Access
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Marvin Mandell
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Jul. 2003
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Marvin Mandell
- Number
- OH 277
- Subject
- Boy Scouts
- Camps
- Interview Date
- 3 Jul. 2003
- Quantity
- 1 cassette (1 copy)
- 1 WAV file
- Interviewer
- Martin Wolfish
- Total Running Time
- 13 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied to cassette in August 2003
- Digitized in February 2015
- Notes
- The interview ends at 12:59 but Martin continued to converse with Marvin after the formal Q/A.
- Biography
- Marvin Mandell was a member of the Cubs and Scouts at John R. Wilcox School and became a camper at Camp Tamarack in Bainbridge, Ontario in 1951.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Geographic Access
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- Side 1
00:32: Marvin discusses his involvement with 59E Troop of Cubs and Scouts at John R. Wilcox. While in Cubs, he attended Camp Tamarack. First attended camp in 1951.
1:31: Marvin reminisces about staff and campers.
3:30: Marvin recalls camp experiences including canoe trips, activities, special events, camp fires, etc.
4:49: Martin Wolfish comments that Wayne and Shuster had worked at Camp Tamarack earlier.
6:08: The lake was called “Duck Lake” during that period. Was later formally changed to “Lake of the Summer Sun.”
6:28: Marvin briefly discusses Mr. Edgar Reason, the head of Camp Tamarack.
7:35: Marvin and Martin discuss the Jewish content of the camp.
8:00: Marvin recalls the camp food.
10:10: Marvin recalls an old army truck used to bring food to campers on canoe trips.
11:28: Marvin and Martin recall the camp layout and daily schedule.
The interview ends at 12:59, but Martin continued to converse with Marvin after the formal Q/A. Martin mentions that Marvin recalled more names, told an anecdote about Mr. Reason’s “Paddle,” and that Marvin may have a Cub sweater to add to the collection.
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mike Rabovsky
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 13 Jun. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mike Rabovsky
- Number
- OH 296
- Subject
- Owen Sound
- Family history
- Cadesky family
- Beth Ezekiel
- furniture business
- World War, 1939-1945
- Rabbi Kirschenbaum
- Bar mitzvah
- Mr. Amsterdam
- Antisemitism
- Sauble Beach
- Cemeteries
- Interview Date
- 13 Jun. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DV's, 1 archival DVD and 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Notes
- Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project
- Availability of other formats: Also available as an M4V Video File
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Mike Rabovsky married Miriam Levinson, and their story is best told through this historical narrative:
- Owen Sound's Beth Ezekiel Synagogue, a designated building under Ontario’s Heritage Act, remains the last example of the early small town synagogue that was once so common across Canada. The most compelling window in the synagogue is dedicated to the Rabovsky and Levison's families and tells the story of two immigrant families and the establishment of a Jewish community in Owen Sound.
- The jagged shards of glass depict the Levison family's harrowing experience of Kristallnacht (night of broken glass), prelude to the Holocaust. Desperate to escape Germany, the family was just one boat ticket away from freedom. Moments before they were to leave, an elderly couple offered their tickets to the Levisons, effectively sealing their own fate as victims of the Final Solution, while giving the young family a chance to escape the coming storm. Waiting out the war in China, the family eventually made it to Canada where Manfred Levison immediately began to look for work as a Rabbi. At the same time, Isaac Ezekiel Cadesky, a refugee of the Russian pogroms and the man for whom our Synagogue is named, was looking for a Rabbi to serve Owen Sound's bourgeoning Jewish community. Manfred Levison took the job, and in time his daughter Miriam married Isaac's grandson Mike.
- Miriam met Myer (Mike) Rabovsky. He was 29 and she was 19. Theirs was a happy marriage, lasting more than fifty years. Miriam and Mike had one daughter, Goldie (m. Bruce Ronald) and two grandchildren.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Doug Brown
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 2008
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Doug Brown
- Number
- OH 366
- Subject
- Cemeteries
- Interview Date
- 2008
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Ellen Scheinberg
- Total Running Time
- 1 hr. 7 min.
- Use Restrictions
- No release form. Permission of family required for use.
- Biography
- Doug Brown worked at Pape Avenue Cemetry, the first Jewish burial ground in Toronto, from 1962 and lived next door to the cemetery at 311 Pape Avenue. He was the groundskeeper for over fifty years. Doug's job was to maintain the site and provide extra care to a couple of graves for families that had set up trusts to plant fresh flowers every spring. He knew the location of every tombstone and the personal history of many of the deceased.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Brown, Doug
- Scheinberg, Ellen
- Geographic Access
- Pape Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Digital file
- Copy Format
- Digital file
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Number
- OH 448
- Subject
- Immigrants--Canada
- Synagogues
- Camps
- Musicians
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish literature
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Quantity
- 1 MP4 file
- Interviewer
- Naomi Raichyk
- Total Running Time
- 1:42 minutes
- Biography
- Charna Galper was born in 1921 in Bershet, Ukraine and immigrated with her family to Toronto in 1923. Charna grew up and lived in the Kensington Market area until 1955, when she moved north of the downtown core. Charna attended Landsdowne Public School and Harbord Collegiate, where she graduated as a legal secretary. She was a member of Hashomer Haztair and attended its summer camp at the Stroud, Ontario location. Charna married Abe Galper in 1947. Abe's career as a musician allowed them to travel to New York, Israel, and China. Charna has volunteered for Circle of Care and today spends her time pursuing her interest in Yiddish and attending programs at the Baycrest Centre.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Transcript
- 0:40: Charna born in 1921 in Bershet, Urkaine, tells the story of how she her parents and siblings fled Ukraine for Canada. Sponsored by Joe and Philip Finkler her mother’s brothers, the family arrived in Toronto in 1923.
3:24: Charna describes the living conditions of the family’s first home at 237 Beverley St., Fitzroy Terrace in the Kensington area and Grange Ave.
4:55: Charna talks about her elder sister’s contracting diphtheria and the resulting quarantine her family had to endure
5:2: Charna talks her parents first home at 210 Robert St. and the family’s move to Albany Ave.
6:15: Charna describes in detail the family’s living conditions prior to their move to 210 Robert St.
7:15: Charna talks about some of the challenges her parents faced when they first came to Toronto. She describes the hardships her father endured working as a carpenter during the depression
9:40: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler as instrumental in helping her parents buy the house on Robert St. in 1926, the year her brother Shloime was born
10:00: Charna recalls some memories of the Robert St neighborhood, a closely knit Jewish immigrant community with Yiddish spoken as the primary language and her experiences at the Landsdowne Public school
11:40: Charna recalls her grandmother as being a wonderful davener
13:00: Charna talks about the details of the Robert St. house mortgage
14:1: Charna talks about her first job working for Harry Grainer as a legal secretary and later with Lou Rasminsky, the first Jewish governor of the Bank of Canada.
15:33: Charna recalls the area around Rasminsky’s storefront at 418 Spadina Ave. Spadina was filled with many businesses, egg stores, Hyman’s bookstore and Goodmans on the corner of Oxford, “we all knew each other, it was a leibedik velt.
16:00: Charna talks in more detail about her job as a legal secretary for Lou Rasminsky
18.45: Charna describes her daily walk to Harbord Collegiate
19:30: Charna talks about not having enough money for carfare and riding the bus for free
20:33: Charna talks about her best friend Rose Ruskin
21:35: Charna talks about how as a child she was spoiled by her older sisters Nechama and Ethel
22:04: Charna talks about helping with the household chores
22:15: Charna describes family laundry day on Sunday. We had laundry tubs in the backyard, my sisters and I had scrubbing boards and my mother was good at wringing, it was a team effort
22:46: Charna talks about the Kosoys who owned a home laundry at Borden and Harbord St. They had what was called wet wash, they would bring the clean laundry back to us wet and we would hang it to dry.
23:27: Charna talks about getting their first refrigerator
23:41: Charna describes their first refrigerator
24:01: Charna describes their icebox and Katz the iceman who came once a week to deliver ice
24:44: Charna talks about buying groceries on credit
25:37: Charna talks about why her parents wanted her to go to school rather than working in a factory
25:50: Charna talks about helping with the shopping in Kensington market
26:05: Charna talks about going to Kensington market on Thursday morning to buy a big carp, bring it home, put it in the tub until Friday morning when her grandmother would kill it and turn it into gefilte fish
27:33: Charna describes her own gefilte fish recipe
28:35: Charna recalls going to the market on Friday to buy a live chicken for Shabbat and taking it to the Schoichet on Major St. to be killed and plucked
29:03: Charna describes how to hold a live chicken
29:23: Charna describes bargaining for goods in the market
30:41: Charna recalls the pickled crabapple treats from a delicatessen located at Dundas in Kensington Market
32:04: Charna recalls Tryman’s family run grocery store on Baldwin St., Little Eaton’s on Kensington that sold Eaton’s castoffs, Hyman’s bookstore on Spadina Ave that sold office supplies, religious books and had a registry for bar-mitzvahs and weddings.
34:45: Charna describes her brother Shloime’s bar-mitzvah held at their Robert St. home and catered by her grandmother
35:42: Charna recalls about the days when her grandmother was a caterer in Russia and also in Toronto
37:12: Charna describes her grandmother’s cooking
37:49: Charna talks about her grandmother as a very orthodox woman who wore both a sheitel and kerchief
38.22: Charna talks about the family’s traditional observance of Shabbos and Jewish holidays, the Russian Shul on Centre St, and her grandmother’s cooking for Rosh Hashanah
40:36: Charna talks about the Russian Shul’s move to Markham St. and describes its interior
42:39: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler’s connection with the Kiever Shul
43:42: Charna talks about her grandmother’s passing in 1939
44:04: Charna talks about her sisters Elsie and Nechama
45:35: Charna talks about her surprise birthday party in celebration of her 95th year
46:08: Charna talks about her sister Nechama’s move to Palestine
46:34: Charna talks about her father in-law’s move to Palestine in 1930
47:30: Charna talks about her involvement with Hashomer Hatzair
49:24: Charna talks about Hashomer Hatzair’s summer camp locations in Keswick, Stroud, Parry Sound, and Lake Ooty in Perth, Ontario
50:25: Charna describes her camp experience at the Stroud location
52:05: Charna talks about accompanying her husband Abe, a clarinet teacher to camp Hashomer Hatzair in Perth, Ontario
52:59: Charna talks about her past and present affiliation with schlichim coming to Toronto
53:45: Charna talks about her affiliation with Pioneer Women, now known as Na’amat
54:32: Charna tells the story of how she met her husband Abe in 1947
57:18: Charna describes her first date with Abe
57:43: Charna talks about walking with Abe to the Tivoli theatre at Victoria and Shuter. “Who used cars, who used streetcars, we walked. On the way back I got the most terrible blisters, I was with new shoes, with high heels.”
58:26: Charna continues to describe her first date with Abe
59:01: Charna describes the inside of the Tivoli theatre
59:49: Charna talks about City Dairy where she and Abe went for ice cream on their first date. City Dairy was located at Spadina Crescent near College St.
1:00:36: Charna explains why she and Abe decided to get their marriage license in May 1948
1:02:08: Charna talks about the attraction she and Abe had for one another
1:02:42: Charna talks about her wedding held in the family’s backyard at Albany Ave. in August of 1948
1:04:47: Charna describes her wedding cake and how she preserved it in a tin box until her 25th wedding anniversary
1:06:04 Charna talks about her first apartment with Abe at College and Crawford
1:06:52: Charna talks the period following her marriage and her mother’s stroke
1:07:45: Charrna talks about her first pregnancy and birth of Batsheva in November 1949
1:07:54: Charna talks about moving into her parent’s home on Albany St.
1:09:25: Charna talks about thinking of buying their own home
1:10:16 Charna talks about why they waited a year before moving into their own home. She explains everything she needed was close by the house on Albany, including Starkman’s and Honest Ed’s.
1:11:28: Charna describes their first house as it looked when they moved in 1955
1:12:14: Charna talks about the shifting demographics of the neighborhood from primarily Gentile to Jewish
1:12:40: Charna talks about the neighborhood Daysbury public school her children attended
1:12:55: Charna talks about how life became easier for them when Abe’s work with the symphony increased from 26 weeks to 42 weeks a season
1:13:34: Charna talks about the death of her mother before the move to their own home and her father who moved in with them
1:13:50: Charna talks about Abe’s music students and his work with the Conservatory
1:14:26: Charna talks about her 2 youngest children attending the Bialik School
1:14:59: Charna gives the ages of her 5 children, Batsheva 69 years old, Chaya 68 years old, Devora 64 years old, Penina 56 years old, and Yanke 55 years old1:16:03
1:14:60: Break in interview as Charna speaks with her daughter Devora
1:17:40: Charna talks about Abe’s relationship with her parents
1:18:07: Charna talks about Abe’s career as a musician
1:19:02: Charna talks about Abe playing for the Israel Philharmonic in 1962 and their thoughts about making Aliyah
1:19:39: Charna talks about their return from Israel to Toronto, his work with the conservatory and some of his music students
1:20:36: Charna talks about Abe’s medical condition
1:20:51: Charna talks about how she and Abe worked as a team
1:21:11: Charna talks about accompanying Abe to New York when he played with the New York Philharmonic
1:22:08: Charna talks about Abe’s work following his heart attack
1:22:22: Charna talks about Abe giving a master class in Israel for Israeli clarinetists
1:24:00: Charna talks about Abe’s experience playing with the Palestine Symphony
1:26:25: Charna talks about how she came to know famous people such as Frank Shuster, John (Louie) Wayne, Sylvia and Ben Lennick, and pianist Leo Barkin
1:29:14: Charna talks about musicians from Israel who moved to Toronto
1:31:08: Break in conversation as Charna gets up from her chair
1:31:57: Charna talks about her children being what is most important to her
1:32:41: Charna talks about her son Jacob’s 25th wedding anniversary
1:33:15: Charna talks about her current interest in Yiddish, going to the Baycrest program and meeting interesting people
1:36:13: Charna talks accompanying Abe to China during a 3 week master class program
1:40:17: Charna talks about the evening’s upcoming anniversary party and invited guests
1:42:00: Charna talks about her service volunteering for Circle of Care and the Jewish elderly
1:42:33: Charna talks about learning to drive her first car, a blue and white chevy with wings
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Accession Number
- 2009-12-19
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-12-19
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual record
- 2 pennants
- Date
- 1943-1948
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 1945 and 1946 campers' banners for Camp Tamarack, camp newsletters from 1945 and 1950, three souvenir programmes, a song sheet, a camp songbook and The Cub Book handbook published in 1943. The programs come from the dedication of the dining and recreation hall at Camp Tamarack in 1948, a Camp Tamarack Dedication Day (n.d.), and the silver anniversary celebration of the 59th Boy Scout Groups in 1946 at Shaarei Shomayim.
- Subjects
- Boy Scouts
- Camps
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 42 photographs : b&w and col. (21 jpgs) ; 41 x 51 cm and 300dpi
- Date
- 1965-2009
- Scope and Content
- The accession consists of 21 portrait prints and corresponding digital images. These items document national and international figures and include: Bill Barber, Tony and Elizabeth Comper, Barney Danson, Tony Esposito, Victor Feldbrill, Monty Hall, Beverley Harvard, Pope John Paul II, Robert Kaplan, Sophie Milman, Henry Moore, Benjamin Netanyahu, Brad Park, Shimon Peres, Gilbert Perreault, Marjorie Pigott, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Vladislav Alexander Tretiak, Pamela Wallen, Sara and Al Waxman, and Micahel Wilson.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Popes
- Presidents--Israel
- Prime ministers--Israel
- Queens--Great Britain
- Name Access
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
- John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005
- Netanyahu, Binyamin, 1949-
- Peres, Shimon, 1923-2016
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-5-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-5-1
- Material Format
- cartographic material
- Physical Description
- 1 map
- Date
- Feb. 1975
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one map of Section D of the THBS cemetery at Dawes Road, Scarborough.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Toronto Hebrew Benevolent Society
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 13 May 1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one annual concert programme booklet for the Workmen's Circle Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language note: Yiddish and English langauge programme.
- Subjects
- Concerts
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-7-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-7-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to the Amalgamated Dawes Rd. Trustees as well as the Lamptom Mills Cemetery Association.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition information for this material. The accession number was assigned by the archivist.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Name Access
- Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees
- Lambton Mills Cemetery Association
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-2
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 5 min.) : col., si. ; super 8 mm
- Date
- 1983
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one film reel documenting the Slavens family at Camp Wahanowin and at a family farm owned by Eric's parents in Dundalk, Ontario.
- Use Conditions
- None
- Subjects
- Amateur films
- Camps
- Farms
- Name Access
- Camp Wahanowin
- Slavens (family)
- Places
- Dundalk (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1952]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting the Rosenthal family's activities in the Sudbury Jewish community and at Camp Biluim. Included is a copy photo of a Hanukkah celebration and an original photo of an unidentified celebration at the Cedar Street shul in Sudbury. Also included is a photograph of Rosenthal family members relaxing on a beach at the original Camp Biluim at Clear Lake.
- Custodial History
- Photographs were donated by Lilian Rosenthal.
- Subjects
- Hanukkah
- Camps
- Families
- Outdoor recreation
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Camp Biluim
- Rosenthal family
- Places
- Sudbury, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-12-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-12-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Date
- 2009-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting UJA Federation's Maot Chittin program in Cuba and a campaign event featuring Shimon Peres.
- Use Conditions
- UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.
- Subjects
- Presidents--Israel
- Prime ministers--Israel
- Name Access
- Peres, Shimon, 1923-2016
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 4 photograph albums
- ca. 450 photographs : b&w and col. (ca. 260 negatives) ; 36 x 30 cm and smaller
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1963]-[ca. 1995]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of graphic material and textual records documenting Canadian Young Judaea. Included are photographic albums, loose photographs, clippings, photographic contact sheets and negatives, and textual records, including meeting minutes, correspondences, etc. All of the items relate to Ontario-based Jewish summer camps such as Camp Solelim and Camp Biluim, as well as to Canadian Young Judaea.
- Custodial History
- Records came via Josefa Michaelson, c/o Canadian Young Judaea
- Subjects
- Nonprofit organizations
- Children
- Camps
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-15
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-15
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- ca. 20 cm textual records
- 3 photographs
- Date
- 1948-2007
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of documents and photographs related to Young Judaea programs. Photographs are group pictures from Camp Shalom and Camp Biluim. Among the documents are meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, songbooks, scripts, flyers, and guides for counsellors and group leaders. Also included are issues of Hebrew newsletters Daf Hat'Nua and Bat'Nua.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Camp Shalom
- Camp Biluim
- Source
- Archival Accessions
