- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [ca. 1900]-2000
- Physical Description
- 37 cm of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell had a large family and a large circle of friends and aquaintenances. Consequently, he was invited to many circumcisions, weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs. He also set up several memorial funds in memory of his sister and wives.There are also documents in this sub-series that relate to family members.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of correspondence, receipts, diplomas, photographs and films documenting various family celebrations, vacations and home life. There is a selection of invitations, cards and benchers sent by the Edell, Weinstock and Hoffman families as well as ones that they received from family and friends. In addition, there are newspaper clippings and notices of the deaths of Edell family members and friends as well as correspondence and receipts relating to memorial funds set up in their memory. The sub-series also contains films of family and friends taken at home, on vacation and at family celebrations.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes 10 photographs, 7 film reels, and 1 audio reel.
- Name Access
- Hoffman family
- Weinstock family
- Edell, Dolly
- Edell, Celia
- Subjects
- Families
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978-1999
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of funeral cards and obituaries for the following individuals: Arje Krengel, Louis Kesten, Solomon Rogen, Louis Weisfeld, Rebecca Feldman, Joseph Hafner, Max Podolski, Lillian Troster, Jennie Silverberg, Philip Givens, Cheryl Kleinberg, Anna Shaul, and Moishe (Maurice) Weinstock.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [1989?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of lyrics for songs that were written for the bar mitzvah of Yoel Micha Meir.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1982
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of graduation programmes and correspondence regarding the Ethel Edell Prize at Harbord Collegiate Institute.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1958-1999
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of wedding invitations.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the weddings can be found in the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 15
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962-1997
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of bar and bat mitzvah invitations.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the celebrations can be found in the file.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Bat mitzvah
- Invitation cards
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 17
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1963]-1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of invitations and correspondence documenting the marriages, births, and bar mitzvahs of the Edell family. Also included are greeting cards that were sent to family and friends by the Edell family and that were given to Sol and Celia Edell from their children.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the celebrations can be found in the file.
- Subjects
- Families
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 21
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1949-1995
- Physical Description
- 4 cm folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of benchers colleced by Sol Edell at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other events. Of note is a bencher from the dedication of the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation's dedication (1949), a bencher from Clanton Park Synagogue, and a souvenir bencher from the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.
- Name Access
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Shaarei Tefillah Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Synagogue dedication services
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1959-1998, predominant 1959-1982
- Physical Description
- 7 cm folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of benchers collected at the weddings and Bar Mitzvahs of members of Sol Edell's family.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Executive director series
- Personal correspondence and writings sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 2-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1969-1993
- Physical Description
- 72 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The sub-series consists of Dr. Joseph Diamond's and Rabbi Irwin Witty's personal correpondence, filed with their executive director records, the text of public talks and of commentaries made on Zelda Young's "Jewish hour" radio programme, broadcast every Sunday on the CHIN (Toronto) radio station. The topics of these commentaries varied widely, including Talmudic commentaries, Israeli and Diaspora Jewish politics, as well as matters relating to Jewish education in Toronto and elsewhere. Although much of the personal correspondence is routine in nature, some of the letters include discussions of Jewish education and activities of the BJE.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions