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Anti-Semitism cases [textual record, graphic material] – 1938-1985.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: Sub-series

ID: Fonds 17; Series 5-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: Sub-series

Fonds: 17

Series: 5-3

Material Format: textual record; graphic material

Date: 1938-1985

Physical Description: 1.65 m of textual records; 15 photographs

Scope and Content: Series consists of case files on individual and long-term antisemitic activities, events, publications, and individuals tracked by this committee. Case files are organized by name of subject, organization, or individual and may consist of documentation assembled over several years and contained within many folders.; Files containing detailed information about the Toronto trial of Ernst Zundel, along with transcripts of the Ontario and Canadian Supreme Court appeal rulings, are now within boxes 25 and 26 of the JCRC records.

Notes: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects: Antisemitism

Related Material: For more detailed information concerning hate crimes and literature see also: Fonds 17, Sub-sub-series 5-4-6, Hate Crimes and Hate Literature.; See also Fonds 17, Sub-sub-series 6-4-7, War Crimes and Criminals.

Arrangement: Because records in this series had previously been organized in a manner that proved impossible for use by archivists and researchers, the records in this fonds have been totally rearranged and described to comply with RAD standards, to provide ease of access by researchers, and to fully reflect the activities and organizational history of the Community Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress during and after the period when it was a joint committee with the B'nai Brith.; Case files in this sub-series have been titled according to place names, individuals, and organizations.

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry [textual record, graphic material] – 1972-1991.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry sub-series

Level: Sub-series

ID: Fonds 17; Series 3-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry sub-series

Level: Sub-series

Fonds: 17

Series: 3-3

Material Format: textual record; graphic material

Date: 1972-1991

Physical Description: 28 cm of textual records; 37 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio: In order to facilitate the cooperation between regional committees, a National Committee for Soviet Jewry was created in December 1972 at a meeting of regional CJC directors in Winnipeg. Its names "National Committee" and "Canadian Committee" were used interchangeably within its records. While meetings of this committee were fewer in number than those of the regional committees, there was a certain amount of overlapping jurisdiction between the Central Region, based in Toronto, and the Canadian Committee, given that most of the executive members for both were based in Ontario. Further, executive members serving on the national committee also frequently served concurrently on the local committee. The first Chair of the Canadian Committee, elected to the position in Dec. 1972, was Toronto resident (later Judge) Sydney Harris. David Satok, Genya Intrator and David Sadowski, all from Toronto, also served as Chairs for this committee. Unsurprisingly, a majority of activities were thus coordinated in the Central Region office in Toronto. The various regional committees, however, remained largely autonomous, with Montreal, Ottawa and Winnipeg being the most active outside of Toronto.

Scope and Content: Sub-series consists of meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, news releases and reports of the Canadian (National) Committee for Soviet Jewry. Also included are numerous examples of the bulletins, notices and newsletters issued by the committee.

Subjects: Antisemitism

Arrangement: Aside from the culling of duplicate documents, files have here been maintained with their original contents and internal order. As some files have date ranges spanning several years, they have been arranged in chronological order by their start dates.

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Creative Department, UJA Federation, samples of communications records [textual record] – 1979-2008.

Accession Number: 2009-12-5

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2009-12-5

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 60 cm of textual records

Date: 1979-2008

Scope and Content: Accession consists of six binders containing communications items created by the Creative/Communications department of UJA. The records include invitations, flyers, bulletins and programmes. They were produced for events of Annual Campaign, various Divisions, Top Gifts, Major Gifts, Women's Campaign, Impact Toronto, Leadership, missions, telethons and tribute cards. There is also a canvasser training package ("canvasser motivation"). Additional marketing materials include a Wierzbniker Friendly Mutual Benefit Society 50th Jublilee (1984) which includes a history of the organization.

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: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Antisemitism; AIDS (Disease); Immigrants--Israel

Source: Archival Accessions

Bernard Wolf restrictive covenant court case [textual record] – 1949-1985.

Accession Number: 2011-6-5

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2011-6-5

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook : 28 x 41 cm

Date: 1949-1985

Scope and Content: Accession consists of one scrapbook documenting the Supreme Court of Canada case between Bernard Wolf, Annie Noble and property owners at the Beach O' Pines resort regarding antisemitic restrictive property covenants. The scrapbook includes news clippings, correspondence, CJC Public Relations Information bulletins, one photograph of Wolf, factums of court proceedings and a resolution of London's B'nai Brith Lodge #1012. Also included are event programmes and invitations that do not appear related to the court case.

Use Conditions: None

Subjects: Antisemitism; Human rights

Name Access: Wolf, Bernard

Source: Archival Accessions

Lipa Green Building [graphic material] – [199-].

Accession Number: 2012-10-8

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2012-10-8

Material Format: graphic material

Physical Description: 5 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Date: [199-]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of three photographs of the exterior of the Lipa Green Building from the parking lot, and two photographs of the Lipa Green Building at the Bathurst Street entrance. A Nazi ensignia and the words PLO IRAQ and PLO have been spraypainted on the exterior brick. The photos of the Bathurst Street entrance were taken on 21 Jan. 1991.

Custodial History: There is no acquisition information for these photographs. The accession number has been assigned by the archivist.

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

Subjects: Antisemitism; Architecture

Name Access: Palestine Liberation Organization; UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Source: Archival Accessions

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region : Joint Community Relations Committee [multiple media] – 1964-2003.

Accession Number: 2015-6-7

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2015-6-7

Material Format: multiple media

Physical Description: 30 cm of textual records and other material

Date: 1964-2003

Scope and Content: Accession consists of Canadian Jewish Congress Joint Community Relations Committee files pertaining to incidents of antisemitism in Canada. Files include examples of material distributed by neo-Nazi groups, clippings documenting hate crimes trials and antisemitism in scholarship, and JCRC correspondence.

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

Subjects: Antisemitism

Name Access: Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Debby Solomon-Natan Sharansky [graphic material, textual record] – 1976-[ca. 1990].

Accession Number: 2016-6-12

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2016-6-12

Material Format: graphic material; textual record

Physical Description: ca. 60 cm of textual records; 11 photographs (3 negatives) : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Date: 1976-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of textual and graphic records that trace Natan Sharansky's history as a prisoner of political conscience; the broader Refusenik issue; and the community advocacy efforts of Debby and Stan Solomon from 1976 and into the late 1980s at the local, national and international scales. Included are memos and newsletters from the Committee for Soviet Jewry (Ontario Region and national-level); background information as well as petition templates, speeches and planning documentation produced by the Committee to Release Anatoly Sharansky and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in conjunction with community organizations, including the CJC and its Soviet Jewry social action committees, to support on-going advocacy efforts; correspondence with Canadian and American political representatives at the provincial/state and national levels; white papers/grey literature from non-governmental organizations about the persecution of the Soviet Jewry; planning documentation from the First Annual Sharansky Lectureship on Human Rights in 1980; correspondence, articles and ephemera associated with the granting of Sharansky's honourary law doctorate from York University in 1982; 1985 Freedom Rally/Weekend in Ottawa planning documentation and correspondence; 1987 National Conference on the Soviet Jewry and Mobilization for Freedom planning documentation; 1987 Community Rally at Massey Hall promotional materials; and promotional materials from Sharansky's autobiographical "Fear No Evil" 1988 book launch. Graphic material includes photographs of Sharansky's release during the February 11, 1986 American-Soviet prisoner exchange on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.; Identified in the photographs are: Debby Solomon; Stan Solomon; Natan Sharansky; Avital Sharansky; U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt;

Custodial History: Material was collected and/or created by Debby Solomon, Natan Sharansky's cousin. Debby donated it to the OJA.

Administrative History: Debby Solomon is the cousin of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, the Soviet born Israeli politician, human activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Debby's father Boris Landis (born 1900) and Sharansky's father were first cousins.Their grandfathers were brothers. Debby's father immigrated 1929 to Toronto from Russia as his older brothers were already in Toronto. Debby and her husband Stan Solomon got involved in the community's activism efforts to free Sharansky and other Refuseniks.They were worked for many years on these efforts by planning programs through their synagogue Beth Tikvah and with Sam Filer, a lawyer and volunteer at the CJC who was also a member of Beth Tikvah.

Subjects: Antisemitism; Politics and government; Human rights; Demonstrations; Synagogues; Committees

Source: Archival Accessions

Hilary Edwards [textual record] – 1987, 1996, 2001.

Accession Number: 2018-10-15

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2018-10-15

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: 1987, 1996, 2001

Scope and Content: Accession consists of transcripts of interviews with Dr. Stephen Speisman, former director of the Ontario Jewish Archives, and Joe Black, a participant at the Christie Pits Riot in 1933. Also included is a newspaper article written in Starweek by Jocko Thomas, a reporter for the Toronto Daily Star who covered the Christie Pits Riot, as well as a review by David Lewis Stein of Levitt and Shaffir's book, published in the Toronto Star. Finally, also included is Hilary's final essay on the Riot, submitted for an undergraduate Canadian Jewish History course in 2001.

Subjects: Riots; Antisemitism

Places: Christie Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Jack Jacobson [textual record] – 1978-1987.

Accession Number: 2018-5-5

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2018-5-5

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 6 cm of textual records

Date: 1978-1987

Scope and Content: Accession consists of various newsclippings and letters written by Jacobson in response to the editors of various Toronto-based publications and individuals related to issues of Jewish identity, Orthodox Judaism, and the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 1978. Of particular note is a letter written by June Callwood to Jacobson defending her stance on recent strikes in Toronto by doctors and meatpackers and a copy of an open letter by Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel.

Administrative History: Jack Jacobson (1920-2007) was born in Toronto in 1920. As a youth, he belonged to Hashomer Hatzair. He was married to Lillian Jacobson.