Accession Number

2008-12-2

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

30 cm of textual records

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

Date

1924-1996

Scope and Content

This accession consists of records documenting the Jewish community of Cornwall. The records include newsclippings; B'nai Birth meeting minutes, dues ledger book, and membership pins; Hadassah meeting minutes; photographs; Beth-El Synagogue correspondence, memorial book, president speeches, congregational meeting minutes, annual general meeting minutes, and financial statements; and a cemetery plan and ledger book.

Custodial History

The records were in the custody of Mark Goldhamer, former president of the Beth El Synagogue and were originally lent to the Archives for research purposes for the Small Jewish Communities project. Upon discussion with the director of the Archives, Mark decided to donate the records to the OJA and thus they were transferred via Sharon Gubbay Helfer, oral historian and researcher/writer on the small Jewish Communities project.

Subjects

Communities

Places

Cornwall (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2007-6-38

Material Format

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

6 documents (13 jpgs)

Date

1948-1991

Scope and Content

This accession consists of electronic copies of original textual records, documenting the Jewish community of Owen Sound, Ontario. The records include a community draw ticket (1959); the Canadian Jewish Congress Educational Department code of practice, for discussion at the sixth regional conference on Jewish education (1957); a page from a donation ledger for the United Palestine Appeal (1948); the Beth Ezekiel Synagogue historic plaquing program book (1991); and an employment contract between the Synagogue and Rabbi H. Lasher (1962).

Custodial History

The original records are in the possession of the donor. The OJA was granted permission to scan the documents in June 2007, as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative. These copies were then donated to the Archives on 2007-06-11.

Administrative History

Jeff Elie is the current president of Beth Ezekiel Synagogue in Owen Sound. For a history of the Synagogue and the Owen Sound Jewish community, see the OJA's Small Communities Exhbit: http://ontariojewisharchives.org/exhibits/osjc/communities/owensound/index.html

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Synagogues

Communities

Name Access

Beth Ezekiel Synagogue

Places

Owen Sound, Ont.

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-8-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

4 photographs : b&w (jpg)

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

Date

[194-]-2005

Scope and Content

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

Use Conditions

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Subjects

Communities

Purim

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2017-3-18

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1107 photographs : b&w and col. ; JPG

36 col. contact sheets

1 folder textual records

Date

1906-2002

Scope and Content

Accession consists of 1107 colour and black and white photographs of Jewish life in Windsor, Ontario. The digital photographs on four discs are scanned from original photographs found on 36 colour contact sheets. There is also a finding aid detailing the Photo #, Category, Date, and Caption/Description.

Custodial History

Likely originated from Rabbi Plaut and somehow ended up at Windsor Jewish Community Centre.

Administrative History

Jonathan Plaut was an important rabbi in Windsor, Ontario who wrote a history of Windsor's Jewish community.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Communities

Places

Windsor (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Hamilton Jewish community photographs series

Level

Series

Fonds

33

Series

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]-1984

Physical Description

96 photographs : b&w and col. (10 negatives) ; 21 x 26 or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Bill Stern was the director of activities for the Hamilton Jewish Community Centre (JCC) from 1956-1960. He was the director of the JCC from 1963-1964 and then executive director of the Hamilton Council of Jewish Organizations (CJO) from 1964-1973.

He arrived in Hamilton as a graduate in social work, specializing in group work and camping activities. He played a major role in developing the Hamilton Jubilee Club, a senior day centre, kosher meals-on-wheels, an expanded camping program, and the Hamilton Council of Jewish Education. He was responsible for the separation of the JCC and the CJO, and the establishment of the CJO's successor, the Hamilton Jewish Federation.

Scope and Content

This series consists of photographs of the Hamilton Jewish community, taken during Bill Stern's professional involvement with the Hamilton Jewish Community Centre and the Hamilton Council of Jewish Organizations. There are also a few images that Bill had acquired that were taken shortly before his arrival and shortly after his departure.

The images depict various Hamilton community members, as well as CJO and community centre events and meetings. They have been arranged chronologically and described at the file and item level.

Subjects

Communities

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

2004-5-96

2004-5-135

2005-5-2

2006-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

294

Material Format

textual record

Date

1989 - 1990

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3894

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sam Resnick of the Canadian Jewish Congress standing behind the podium at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth Daivd Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3889

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Jul. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 7 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sadie Stren speaking at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth David Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Related Material

See photo #3584.

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3891

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Willie Siegler, president of Beth David Congregation, speaking at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Related Material

See photo #3590.

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3890

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Dr. Melvin Wise standing behind the podium at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth David Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3893

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Lena Rothberg and Willie Ziegler at a podium at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth David Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

61

Material Format

multiple media

Date

[ca. 1920]-1994

Physical Description

3 m of textual records (19 v.) and other material

Admin History/Bio

The Schwartz-Reisman Jewish Community Centre, the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre (formerly the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre or BJCC) and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (MNJCC) in Toronto are the current incarnations of what began, in 1919, as the Hebrew Association of Young Men's and Young Women's Clubs, later known as the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Toronto (YM-YWHA). The YM-YWHA, in turn, began as a merger between several other small athletic clubs operating in the city. The original mandate was strictly athletic, but soon broadened to include other areas of interest, in order to provide a sense of Jewish identity and camaraderie through physical, educational, cultural and community based programming. During the 1920s, the 'Y' became known simply as the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) – the name under which it was incorporated in 1930.

For close to two decades, the ‘Y’ had rented rooms in the Brunswick Avenue and College Street area, including the basement facilities of the Brunswick Avenue Talmud Torah. By the mid-1930s, these facilities were overcrowded and unable to support the growing membership, particularly when the young women’s programming was reintroduced in 1936.

As a result, in 1937, the YM-YWHA constructed its own athletic building at 15 Brunswick Avenue, next door to the Talmud Torah, to ease the overcrowding. However, the ‘Y’ still had to make use of five scattered buildings to meet its needs, including the Central YMCA gym for its basketball teams. The early ‘Y’ was staffed by volunteers who were granted free memberships in exchange for their time and expertise.

On 3 February 1953, a new Jewish Community Centre was dedicated at the corner of Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue. By the end of the 1950s, the ‘Y’ was providing services for all ages, ranging from a nursery school to their Good Age Club for seniors.

As the Jewish community moved northward, so too did the ‘Y’, with the dedication of a new northern branch on 1 May 1961. This new branch, located at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue, was created in order to address the athletic, educational, cultural and community needs of the expanding Jewish community in the north end of the city. Fourteen years later, an improved cultural and physical education wing was added as part of the completion campaign. This included the addition of the Leah Posluns Theatre and the Murray Koffler Centre of the Arts. In 1978, the YM-YWHA changed its name to the Jewish Community Centre of Toronto, in order to better reflect its broader role in the community. A new Northeast Valley branch was also established in Thornhill in the early 1980s and later closed in the late 1990s.

In 1994, the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto took over the operation of the northern branch, due to financial difficulties. At this point, all three branches became independent of one another and were no longer constituted as the Jewish Community Centre of Toronto. They each had independent boards of directors, while still receiving some of their operating funds from the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto.

Scope and Content

This fonds consists of the records created and accumulated by the Jewish Community Centre of Toronto -- which included the Bloor branch and the northern Bathurst Jewish Community Centre -- and its predecessor, the YM-YWHA. The records include textual records maintained by the office of the executive director, financial reports, architectural plans, Y-Times newsletters, program material, photographs and oral histories.

The records have been arranged into the following series: Executive director, Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee, Publication Committee, Communications Department, Sports Celebrity Dinner, and Combined Building Campaign Committee.

Notes

Includes 2539 photographs, 42 architectural drawings, 13 sound recordings, 4 artifacts, and 2 posters.

Name Access

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto

Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre

Subjects

Community centers

Related Material

See photo #2369-2646, 3412, 3519, 3804, 4201, 5004, 6125, accession #1986-7-8, MG2 N1a

Creator

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

2004-6-6

2004-5-13

2004-5-2

1988-11-7

1988-4-9

1984-7-2

1983-12-1

1982-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3903

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of guests seated on lawn chairs at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3904

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of two men standing in the field at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress. There are also several other people seated on lawn chairs and blankets.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3905

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of several men and women conversing with each other at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3907

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of two children and an adult standing in the water at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3912

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of several adults conversing with each other at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2013-8-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

13 photographs : col. ; 52 x 41 cm

Date

[195-]-1992

Scope and Content

Accession consists of 13 portrait photographs of past presidents of the YM-YWHA and the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre. Included are: Sam Granatstein; Bernard J. Kamen, Q.C., 1985-1989; Allan B. Zender, 1989-1992; Jack Wahl, 1972-1974; Wilfred Posluns, 1974-1978; Irwin Soren; Bert Fine; Louis Borsook; Alex Fisher; Martin Mendelow, 1982-1985; Ellis I. Shapiro; Bernard S. Dales, 1978-1982; and Max Schwartz.

Custodial History

There is no acquisition information for these photographs. The accession number has been assigned by the archivist. It is likely that the photographs originated at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre.

Subjects

Community centers

Portraits

Name Access

Bathurst Jewish Community Centre (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

3892

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 7 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Dr. Moishe Zaltz and Ron Kanter standing behind the podium at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth David Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Synagogues

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3897

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a sing-along at a picnic organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The photo depicts a group of people seated in a semi-circle around a guitarist.

Notes

This photo is similar to photo #3900.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3900

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a sing-along at a picnic organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The photo depicts a group of people seated in a semi-circle around a guitarist.

Notes

This photo is similar to photo #3897.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3899

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a sing-along at a picnic organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The photograph depicts a group of people seated on picnic benches listening to a man with a guitar.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3906

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a mother and child at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3913

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of several adults and children seated on lawn chairs and eating popsicles at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3914

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of an unidentified man and woman at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3908

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of two children playing at the beach at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Beaches

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3911

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of several adults and children playing volleyball at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Volleyball

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1991-10-8

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

Date

1974-1991

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material pertaining to the Sephardic community in Toronto including a "Final Report - Integration - North African Jewish Community in Metro Toronto" (1974), two reports by Joseph Kage, a presentation by Leon Oziel (1984), listings of Sephardic congregations and Chevra Kadisha and their officers, and letterheads for organizations and schools. In addition there is a paper titled "A History of the Sephardim in Toronto" written by a student William Myers for a university course in history. The course director was Professor Irving Abella.

Subjects

Communities

Sephardim

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

3895

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Leonard Wise of Brantford, Ontario, with Marci Gilbert of the Canadian Jewish Congress, at a picnic organized by the CJC for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. There is also an unidentified man in the photo.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3594

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 13 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is photograph of the cake at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Beth David Congregation and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration was held at the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Cake

Communities

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3896

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Rabbi Moshe Yeres at a picnic organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. He is standing with an unidentified man, woman and child.

Name Access

Yeres, Moshe

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Rabbis

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3901

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of an unidentified man barbequing hot dogs at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Communities

Food

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3909

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of several children playing in the beach sand at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

Beaches

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3915

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a young girl waiting for a hot dog at a picnic for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The picnic was organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Children

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3595

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1983

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 13 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Beth David Congregation's rabbi speaking at the podium at the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the synagogue and Brantford's Jewish community. The celebration took place in the synagogue.

Notes

Acquired in 1983.

Subjects

Anniversaries

Communities

Rabbis

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2007-6-31

Material Format

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

1 document (4 jpgs) : col.

Date

[19--]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of scanned copy of the constitution of the B'nai Jacob Congregation of Niagara Falls, 4 pages in four separate files.

Subjects

Synagogues

Communities

Name Access

B'nai Jacob Congregation (Niagara Falls, Ont.)

Places

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-11-12

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

technical drawing

Physical Description

56 cm textual records

172 photographs

2 technical drawings

Date

[194?]-1998

Scope and Content

Accession consists of minutes of meetings, ledgers, correspondence, notes, and photographs documenting the former B'nai Jacob Congregation in Niagara Falls. The material includes records of the Rose Dunkelman chapter of Hadassah (1940s–1950s), Sisterhood (1970s), the merged Hadassah-Sisterhood (1977–1986), Lundy's Lane Cemetery, and the Niagara Falls Jewish Federation (1943-1966). The records include a file with lists of Torah Fund donations, the constitutions of Sisterhood and of B'nai Jacob, many copied newspaper clippings about the Greenspans and Barbara Frum, and a copy of the 1953 CJC Community Self-Survey. There are also two copies of the 1977 Sisterhood New Year's community directory and textual and graphic material on the Holocaust Memorial at the cemetery. Records also include a photocopied chapter from a young adult book telling the story of Niagara Falls resident Irving Milchberg and how as an adolescent he survived the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Warsaw after escaping from the ghetto.

Accession includes 172 photographs; ninety-six are colour prints from the 1998 Holocaust Memorial dedication ceremony in the cemetery and the rest are special events and shul members in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition there is a collage of twelve photographs picturing music classes and performances. Finally, two oversized landscape technical drawings also relate to the proposed Holocaust Memorial.

Photo Caption 001-007: Festival of Holidays at B’nai Jacob Congregation, Niagara Falls, 1980.

Administrative History

B'nai Jacob Synagogue was a Conservative shul founded in 1918. It amalgamated with the Reform congregation in St. Catharines and became B'nai Tikvah in 1998 and is still located in the original shul building in Niagara Falls.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Communities

Synagogues

Name Access

B'nai Jacob Congregation (Niagara Falls, Ont.)

Places

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

688

Material Format

textual record

Date

1991

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence, promotional material and reports from the National Jews in Arab Lands Committee and the National Task Force for Syrian Jews, and the Bicentennial Foundation commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Sephardic Jews in Turkey.

Subjects

Communities

Jews--Arab countries

Sephardim--Turkey

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

348

Material Format

textual record

Date

1994

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Subjects

Arabs

Communities

Muslims

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2008-8-26

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

8 photographs : b&w and col. ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1920]-1994

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs pertaining to the Salit family and the Jewish community of Niagara Falls, Ontario. There is a newspaper clipping, an advertisement for Myer Salit Limited and a fiftieth-anniversary commemorative book for Congregation B'Nai Israel, St Catharines, Ontario (1975).

Use Conditions

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Synagogues

Places

Niagara Falls (Ont.)

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Part Of

Congregation Beth David fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

88

Material Format

multiple media

Date

[ca. 1916]-1996, predominant 1940-1996

Physical Description

38 cm of textual records (9v.) and other material

Admin History/Bio

The Brantford Hebrew Association, Congregation Beth David’s precursor, was founded in 1907 when Rabbi Backer officiated Brantford’s first public Jewish religious service in an upper hall on George Street. Services had previously taken place in the homes of Jewish families, who had begun settling in the area around the turn of the century. By 1911, services had moved to the old Conservative Hall at Dalhousie and King Street. In 1915, the congregation purchased a building at 33 Palace Street and remodeled it into a synagogue. This building was also used as a community centre and for the Congregation’s Hebrew school.

On October 13th, 1911 the congregation was incorporated, and the following year it purchased land for a cemetery in the northeast corner of Mount Hope Cemetery. Due to increasing membership, a new synagogue was built at 50 Waterloo Street in 1948. In January 1950, the congregation changed its name to Beth David in honour of member David Axler, who died during the Second World War while training as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The congregation was at its peak in the 1960s with 150 member families. However, membership drastically fell after the children of this generation moved to larger cities and their parents followed after retirement. By 1999, only 28 families remained as members and services were reduced to being held on the High Holidays and special occasions, such as, b'nai mitzvah. Dwindling resources and membership forced the congregation to close around 2001. Throughout its existence, over 30 rabbis served the congregation, including Rabbi Saul Wolfe Gringorten (ca. 1910-1923). Its cemetery continues to be looked after by Allan Norris, a past president of the congregation.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting the acitivities, religious programs and services, membership, and finances of Congregation Beth David, as well as the recognition and honours awarded by and to Brantford's Jewish community. Included are meeting minutes, photographs, plaques, a key, a marriage register, general ledgers, ledgers and lists of membership dues and receipts, audited financial statements, budgets, correspondece, bulletins, office stationary, newsclippings, certificates, library book cards, bookplates, rabbi contracts, and surveys.

Fonds has been arranged into the following six series: 1. Meetings ; 2. Religious programs and services; 3. Finances & accounting ; 4. Administrative functions ; 5. Bulletins ; and, 6. Events.

Notes

Includes 10 microfiches of textual records, 5 architectural drawings, 11 photographs (4 negatives), 3 plaques, 1 mounted letter and 1 key.

Fonds was reduced from ca. 1 metre to ca. 45 cm. See accession 2001-10-3 for further information about the culled material.

Name Access

Congregation Beth David (Brantford, Ont.)

Subjects

Architecture

Communities

Synagogues

Physical Condition

The binding on some of the general ledgers is fragile and coming apart. They have been stored flat to reduce any strain.

The architectural drawings have some tears and should be flattened.

Related Material

Please see the Sadie Stren fonds 78 for other records documenting Brantford's Jewish community and the Beth David Congregation, including the synagogue's original letters of incorporation.

For other photographs documenting Congregation Beth David, see: accesssion 1976-6-5 (photo # 1133); accession 1976-6-6 (photos # 1138, 1137, 1136); accession 1976-6-13; accession 1986-2-2 (photos #3593-3595, 3856, 3889-3894), photo #918; and, photo #578.

For records related to Beth David's namesake, David Axler, and photographs of its cemetery, please see accession #2004-5-71.

For records of Rabbi Gringorten, see accession #2009-2-5 and 2008-11-3

For additional records related to Brantford families and other Jewish organizations, such as the Hadassah chapter and B'nai Brith lodge, please see accession #2001-10-3; MG 2J29a, #2009-7-1, 1978-11-4, 1977-8-16, 1992-8-3, 1980-1-14, 1978-1-2, 2008-7-1, photo# 109, photo# 755, and photo #758.

Arrangement

Fonds is arranged to the file-level, but only described to the series-level. Three file-level descriptions exist for files attached directly to the fonds. Photographs with existing item-level descriptions were also attached to the fonds.

Creator

Congregation Beth David (Brantford, Ont.)

Places

Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number

2001-10-3

1978-11-4

1981-12-2 / MG3 B16

1976-6-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1999-2-2

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

2 folders of textual records

4 photographs : col. (2 negatives) ; 13 x 18 cm

Date

1976-1978

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material pertaining to the Jewish community of Sarnia and Ahavas Isaac Synagogue. Included is a 25th anniversary commemorative book, newsletters, bulletins, flyers, programs for religious events, information for synagogue visitors, correspondence, and press clippings documenting shule and community events. There are 2 photos of children at an Israel dance festival (Rikudiyah) in a gymnasium.

Administrative History

The Sarnia Jewish community worshiped at the old Davis Street Synagogue which was established in 1922. In 1950 ground was broken and the cornerstone laid for the Ahavas Isaac Synagogue and Community Centre. The new building opened in 1951.

Alvin Fox was president of the congregation in the early 1980s and his wife Valerie was active in the Sisterhood.

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Dr. Alexander Brown fonds

Jewish communal activities series

Level

Series

Fonds

95

Series

4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1934-1982, predominant 1958-1982

Physical Description

7 cm of textual records

37 photographs

Scope and Content

Series consists of textual records documenting Dr. Alexander Brown's various Jewish communal activities. Included are meeting minutes, speeches, publications, correspondence, invitations, flyers, photographs, biographies, newspaper clippings, brochures, a list, and a program.

Notes

Photographers and photography studios are identified on the photographs.

Physical Condition

A number of the photographs are starting to curl along the edges and have become stiff due to poor storage conditions.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Special events and projects sub-series

Anne Frank exhibition sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-18-2

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1989

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence with Jewish community organizations regarding the exhibition Anne Frank in the World.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds

Jewish community involvement series

Level

Series

Fonds

92

Series

4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

object

Date

1914-1993

Physical Description

11 cm of textual records (1 v.) and other material

Scope and Content

Series consists of records documenting J.B. Salsberg's involvement with various Jewish organizations, including: the I.L. Peretz School, the Canadian Jewish Congress, UJA Federation, the New Fraternal Jewish Association, the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and the Canadian Zionist Federation. Included are medallions, pins, a coin, a poster, certificates, photographs, meeting minutes, a test, booklets, event programmes, a transcript, bulletins, notes, newspaper clippings, articles, reports, newsletters, a brochure, and a flyer.

Notes

Physical description note: includes 17 photographs, 4 pins, 4 medallions, 1 coin, 1 poster, and 1 certificate.

Related Material

For other records documenting the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry see also fonds 17, series 3.

For other NFJA records see MG 2B-1P and MG9 ("Fraternally Yours" publications).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Philip Givens fonds

Jewish communal service series

Level

Series

Fonds

51

Series

9

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

object

Date

[194-]-1988

Physical Description

323 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller and other material

Scope and Content

Series consists of textual records and graphic material documenting Phil Givens' involvement with the Jewish community. In particular, the textual records include general correspondence, speeches and convention materials documenting his role as national president of the Canadian Zionist Federation and his involvement with many other Jewish organizations. The records also consist of certificates, scrapbooks, objects, photographs of various events within the community as well as photographic albums presented to Givens on the occasion of his 1968 Jewish National Fund Negev dinner and his 1985 Canadian Zionist Federation testimonial dinner.

The majority of the records has been arranged into nine sub-series: 9-1. B’nai Brith; 9-2. Canadian Zionist Federation; 9-3. Jewish National Fund; 9-4. Keren Hayesod; 9-5. Rho Pi Phi fraternity; 9-6. State of Israel Bonds; 9-7. United Jewish Welfare Fund / United Jewish Appeal; and 9-8. Other Jewish organizations.

Notes

Includes 12.15 cm of textual records, 2 objects and 1 presentation piece.

Arrangement

Any files not clearly associated with a specific Jewish organization were attached to the Jewish communal service series itself.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

347

Material Format

textual record

Date

1994

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Subjects

Arab Canadians

Communities

Muslims--Canada

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2009-3-5

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1980

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a report prepared by JIAS Canada detailing the situation of recent immigrant arrivals to various small communities in Ontario. The communities discussed are Cambridge, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Ottawa, St. Catharines and Windsor.

Custodial History

The custodial history for this item is unknown. The accession number has been assigned by the assistant archivist.

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

Communities

Name Access

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Cambridge (Ont.)

Hamilton (Ont.)

Kitchener (Ont.)

London (Ont.)

Ottawa (Ont.)

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Windsor (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2006-8-18

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

2.7 m of textual records and graphic material

Date

1978-2001

Scope and Content

This accession consists of textual and graphic records relating to the Downtown Jewish Community School. The records include family education grants, applications and reports, class lists, board meeting minutes and correspondence, financial records and audited statements, photographs, children's artwork, news clippings, program material, and a scrapbook.

Custodial History

The records were kept in the offices of Joan Schoenfeld, principal of the Downtown Jewish Community School until their transfer to the OJA on 2006-08-24.

Administrative History

The Downtown Jewish Community School is an independent afternoon and Sunday school of approximately 200 students affiliated with the Board of Jewish Education UJA Federation of Toronto. It caters to children in the public school system. Although the objectives of the DJCS are primarily educational, encouragement of a sense of community among Jews in downtown Toronto has always been, and continues to be, a prime concern.

The DJCS opened in the Bloor "Y" on Sunday, September 7, 1979 with a full student enrollment of forty-seven children in three grade levels. The full school-community consisted of seventy-seven families -- members, whose children attended the school, and associate members, most of whose children were on the waiting list. Programs included classes in Jewish heritage, culture, values and Hebrew language, community holiday celebrations as well as adult and family education.

Use Conditions

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2009-6-7

Material Format

architectural drawing (electronic)

Physical Description

5 architectural drawings (pdf)

Date

[1992?]

Scope and Content

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

Custodial History

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

Source

Archival Accessions