Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Women's Auxiliary series

Annual meetings sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

14

Series

4-2

File

50

Material Format

textual record

Date

21 June 1999

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting invitations.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Women's Auxiliary series

Programs and services sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

14

Series

4-6

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1957-1982, 2001

Physical Description

11 cm of textual records

365 photographs

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of textual and graphic material documenting the various programs and services of the Women's Auxiliary. Included are meeting notices, agendas, and minutes, reports, correspondence, invitations, financial records, newspaper clippings, brochures, a survey, statistics, and photographs.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Women's Auxiliary series

Programs and services sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

14

Series

4-6

File

1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1957-[ca. 1995], predominant 1974-1977

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

8 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 25 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Baycrest's library officially opened in May 1957; however library services were available to residents as early as 1956. The library distributed complimentary local newspapers to residents on a daily basis, and once a week a volunteer visited residents with the book cart so that those unable to make it to the library could access its material. A Talmudic Study Group met in the library every afternoon and a Yiddish reading group met in the library twice a week. The Library Committee's first Chairmen were Hilda Spivak and Frances Wintrob.

Scope and Content

File consists of photographs and textual records documenting the operation and activities of Baycrest's library for residents. Included are meeting notices and minutes, correspondence, event invitations, bookmarks of the Jewish Public Library, and material related to the library's involvement in Toronto's first Jewish Book Fair. Also included are images of the Talmudic Study Group meetings and library staff.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Women's Auxiliary series

Fundraising sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

14

Series

4-8

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1957-2002

Physical Description

28 cm of textual records

48 photographs (4 negatives)

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of textual and graphic material documenting the various fundraising projects and activities of the Women's Auxiliary such as theatre nights, Auxilorama, gala events, raffles, card services, and memorial funds. Included are meeting notices, agendas, and minutes, invitations, reports, speeches, event programmes, financial records, brochures, donation receipt books, a certificate, lists, flyers, canvassing material, and newspaper clippings.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1990-12-9

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

14 photographs

Date

1908-1990

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records created and collected by the Danson family. The records include a family history written by Bertram Danson, newspaper clippings, family portraits, a marriage certificate, an obiturary, correspondence and a brochure for Camp Winnebagoe, which was run by the Danson family.

The photographs are housed in scrapbook sheets with some notations. They depict members of the Danson family

Administrative History

Barnett Danson emigrated to Canada from Russia in 1874. He returned to Russia in 1878 or 1879, divorced his wife and remarried to a Bertha Brase. Together they returned to Canada and had their first child, Rose, in 1885. The Dansons also had two sons, Joseph and Leo, who helped with their clothing and men's wear store in the west end of Toronto. There was another daughter named Flo.

The Danson family belonged to the Toronto Hebrew Congregation--later to be know as Holy Blosson Synagogue. Barnett Danson was a charter member of the Bond Street Congregation.

Bertha Danson died in 1914 and Barnett Danson died in 1919.

Joseph B. Danson, along with his wife Sadie, was the founding director of Camp Winnebagoe in Muskoska, Ontario. The camp catered to the Jewish community and provided a variety of different athletic and social programmes.

Joseph and Sadie had a son named Bertram Wolfe Danson in 1916 and two younger children named Marilyn and Barney.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1992-7-1

Material Format

sound recording

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1.5 cm of textual records

2 audio cassettes

1 audio disc

12 photographs (6 negatives)

Date

[ca. 1922]-1992

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records created and collected by Marc Bernstein. Included are the following records: audio cassettes; a Sacred Service record by Ernest Bloch with Leonard Bernstein conducting; and some individual scrapbook pages, photographs, and textual files from Cantor Bernstein's Summer Hotel at Lake Shore House and Cabins in Orillia.

The audio cassettes contain recordings of Cantors Akiba Bernstein, Pinchos Borenstein, and Haynach Borenstein; a recording of Mary Simmons in early broadcasts; plus Cantors Akiva, Haynach, Hershal, and Archie Borenstein.

Photographs include some portraits of family members and several group portraits

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.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Digitized material.

Subjects

Cantors (Judaism)

Name Access

Bernstein, Akiva

Places

Orillia (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1999-10-6

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

5 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 15 cm on matte 21 x 25 cm or smaller

8 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 15 cm or smaller

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs and records relating to the Fox, Goldberg, and Dennis families, with the bulk of the materials relating to Joseph H. Fox, a storekeeper in Orillia and Toronto. Accession includes a photograph of the Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society picnic at Port Dalhousie Park on July 23, 1939. Documents include translations in English of birth registrations for Chaim Fuchs and Rose Bleich, an affadavit by a police magistrate in Orillia, Ontario for Joseph Fox, deed of sale for a seat in the University Avenue Synagogue (Goel Tzedec) by Z. Shore to Joseph Fox, and a biography of Joseph Fox by his grandson Melville Goldberg. In addition there is a military passport in German for Chaim Frichs.

Name Access

Fox, Joseph H.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1991-3-5

Material Format

object

textual record

Physical Description

Artifacts

Textual records

Date

[1950?]–[1989?]

Scope and Content

Textual records include flyers, invitations, mailings, form letters, newsletters, blank cheques, legal documents and correspondence. Organizations documented include Agudath Israel Congregation, Pirchei Agudas Yisroel of Toronto, Bnos Agudah Toronto, Bikur Cholim women's volunteer service of Toronto, Beth Jacob High School, Hachnosas Kallah, Va'ad Harabonim, Zichron Schnver, The Press Foundation and Ahavas Chesed.

Artifacts include:

Metal hooks used in the schitah process. -- [ca. 1960s]. -- 5 hooks : metal ; 25 cm in length. -- 5 bent pieces of metal with one sharp end and a hook on the other end. On the hook, it reads, "Perl's, Kosher". In good condition.

Rolls of kashrut labels. -- [ca. 1960s]. -- 2 label rolls : beige and blue ; labels are either 6 cm or 3 cm in length. -- Rolls of stickers with the Hebrew letters symbolizing kashrut In fair condition. They are faded.

Leather pouches with strings. -- [ca. 1960s]. -- 2 pouches : leather and textile, brown ; 8 cm in length. -- One tan, one dark brown leather pouch with a flap for closing. Both have shoe laces attached to the flap to close the pouch. In fair condition.

Lead kashrut stamp. -- [ca. 1960s]. -- 1 stamp : lead ; 9 cm in length In good condition.

The Associatin for Welfare of Soldiers in Israel Charity Box. -- 11 cm. -- Tin, no lid, white and blue paper wrapped around, picture of soldiers walking on the front. poor condition.

Jewish National Fund Charity Box (2) but from different accession, not using. -- 8.5 x 3.5 x 11.5 cm. -- Tin, blue and white, Hebrew and English writing, map of Israel on one side. one is poor quality, one is good quality.

Descriptive Notes

Box 93-1-1 includes a Dept. of Public Health permit to operate a poultry slaughter house, dated 7 Jan. 1953, issued to Herman Gross and Abram Perl for their slaughter house located at the rear of 54-56 Kensington Ave.

Records are in English and Yiddish.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1992-12-6

Material Format

graphic material

object

Physical Description

6 photographs : b&w (3 negatives) ; 20 x 25 cm

Artifacts

Date

1929-1991

Scope and Content

Accession consists of several artifacts including: Life member for Baycrest plaque awarded to Allan Grossman, 1981; American Israel Numismatic Association plaque awarded to Allan Grossman, November 1972; Minister of Revenue framed golden seal, ca. 1970s; Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada Award of Service plaque presented to Allan Grossman; Quinte Regional Detention Center plaque presented to Allan Grossman, 1971; B'nai Brith Convention guest badge, 1-4 June 1969; Grey Cup badge,1980; Jigsaw puzzles from the Allan Grossman Campaign; Federal-Provincial Conference of First Ministers delegate badge, 15-17 November 1991; Yellow and blue Davis sign; Yellow and blue Davis hats; Yellow and blue Davis jackets; plaque commemorating the new bridge in Toronto opened December 23, 1953; plaque commemorating 1956 visit with the Pope, 25 April 1956; Framed certificate given to Allan Grossman on his 70th Birthday from the Premier of Ontario, 4 March 1974; Harold King Farm plaque given to Allan Grossman; shovel from the Ground Breaking ceremony of the new Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 30 June 1983; B'nai Brith Distinguished Citizen Award plaque given to Allan Grossman, 3 March 1974; Small plaque from Premier William Davis honouring Allan Grossman, 1972; Memorial Groves plaque.

Photographs include a collage of portraits of members (including Allan Grossman) of the Toronto Boy Municipal Council 1929, and a photo of William McIntyre, acting clerk of the Executive Council, administering the oath of office to Allan Grossman, Minister Without Portfolio, at the Ontario Parliament on November 21, 1960. Also picured are Leslie Frost and Keiller McKay. A third photograph was taken at a visit in 1965 to the Ontario Legislature with ohn Robarts, Premier of Ontario, and Menachem Begin of Israel.

Name Access

Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1996-11-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

10 cm of textual records and some graphic material

Date

[196-]-1994

Scope and Content

This accession consists of meeting minutes and correspondence relating to the Ajalon Chapter of Hadassah and the Ajalon Lodge Auxilary from the 1960s to 1994. There are many thank-you notes and letters to and from Ajalon Chapter members.

Administrative History

Ajalon was a Chapter of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO. Maita Newton was president of the Ajalon Chapter for a term which ended in 1982. The Ajalon Lodge was a men's club for members of the Zionist Orgainization of Canada and its affiliates.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1992-2-3

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

12 cm of photographs and negatives

Date

1990-1992

Scope and Content

This accession consists of photographs taken by Allan Anshan for the Canadian Jewish News.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2000-5-4

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

2 folders of textual records

Date

1990-1994

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Operation Exodus (for Soviet Jewery) materials pertaining to Freedom Sunday/Week fund raising telethons and Women's Campaign telethons. Documents include meeting agendas and memos, registration forms, planning logistics, training session information, lists of campaign division heads, and post-event evaluation forms and a newspaper clipping There is also a book entitled "Operation Exodus:a pictorial report" which includes a historical overview with photographs.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1981-1-9

Material Format

object

Physical Description

1 button : metal ; 3 cm in diam.

Date

[19--]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a button featuring a religious scene. A bearded man is standing with his arms outstretched and an individual is kneeling before him. This is possibly a scene from the Book of Esther (Purim). Surrounding the image is either Hebrew or Yiddish text.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1997-5-5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

26 photographs : b&w and col ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller

Date

1996-2001

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a souvenir program of the opening of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham (1997), programs for a Bais Yaakov High School Play (1997), a Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association Yom Hashoah event (1997), and a flyer for a lecture at the Mizrachi Bayit (1997). As well there is an invitation to the First Annual Dinner and Auction of the Carrie and Adam Dream Fund (1997), a Firefly Books catalogue (1997) and a letter and photos regarding the opening of the caylefilm office.

The photographs document a variety of community events and oganizations including Camp Ramah in Canada, Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT), Leo Baeck Day School, Temple Har Zion, Netivot Hatorah, Mizrachi, Israel Bonds, and Chabad Lubavitch.

001: Leo Baeck Day School in Thornhill celebrated Children’s Book Week this year with a week of visits by authors, book donations to Plaut Manor, and a Dress-up Day. Among the visitors were illustrator Heather Collins, and authors Sheryl McFarlane and Bernice Thurman Hunter. Enjoying Dress-up Day are [front row] Alana Bobet and [second row from left] Jamie Bregman, Matthew Sherman, Jamie Weksberg, Lisa Mark, Adina Mann, Mindy Perlmutter and Robbie Faibish. Photo by Barry Shainbaum. 009: Gertner family reception, [ca. 2000]. Back Row (L to R): Marlene (née Gertner) Brickman, Eric Gertner, Michael Brickman, Michael Brown, Director of York’s Centre for Jewish Studies, Henry Gertner, Berek Gertner, Elinor Gerner, Reginal Gertner and Cheryle Gertner. Front Row (L to R): Visual arts student Samara Enchin, history and education major Adam Segal, visual arts student Carolyne Novak and political science and Judaic studies major Jonathan Lasky.

Custodial History

These records were donated by Leila Speisman, a former employee of the Canadian Jewish News. The CJN would regulalry receive materials from institutions and organizations when writing about their events.

Subjects

Newspapers

Name Access

Mizrachi Bayit (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1999-11-7

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 20 x 25 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Date

1999

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a group portrait of the University of Toronto Medical School class of 1939 taken at their sixtieth reunion in June 1999. Identified in the top row from the left are Dr. Harold Linton, Dr. Cam Gray, Dr Bernard Laski, and Dr. Dave Rogers. In the middle row from the left are Dr. Jack Birrell, Dr. C. McCulloch, Dr. Roger Barron, Dr. Harold Fine, and Dr. Alan Basset. In the front row from the left are Dr. J. Walmseley, Dr. Sydney Wise, Dr. Charles Sheard, Dr. McQuaid, and Dr. Phil Ryan.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Name Access

Wise, Sydney, 1915-2013

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1991-6-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1991

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Nana's Memoirs, a book by Mina Sprachman (1900-1991) transcribed from audio tape recordings made between approximately 1978 and 1986 and a Sprachman family tree compiled by Carol Bleiwas.

Use Conditions

See donation record

Name Access

Sprachman, Mina

Bliewas, Carol

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2000-11-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

2 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25 x 19 cm and 20 x 26 cm

2 scrapbooks

Date

1966-2000

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a certificate of honour awarded by the Israel Histadrut Campaign of Canada to Henry Wolfson of the Shedlower Young Men (1966) and two photographs mounted on cardboard of the Shedlover Society yearly outings at Bathurst Lawn Cemetery in Toronto. In addition there are two scrapbooks with photos, certificates, and memorabilia documenting the society's involvement with Baycrest Centre, Pioneer Women Na'amat, United Jewish Appeal, and Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1990-10-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 24 cm

1 folder of textual records

Date

1941-1990

Scope and Content

The accession consists of 1 photograph of the 1941-42 officers of Viceroy Reading Lodge, B'nai Brith, Hamilton; correspondence between Joseph Alexandroff and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Lincoln M. Alexander, 1985; a bencher for the bar mitzvah of Joseph Alexandroff's great nephew, Brandon Alexandroff, May 19, 1990 at Congregation Knesseth Israel; and photocopies of letters written to, and newspaper clippings from, the Hamilton Spectator.

Administrative History

Joseph Alexandroff was born on October 19, 1907, the first-born son of Boris and Rebecca Alexandroff and one of the first Jewish children born in the Junction. He was a long-time member and supporter of Congregation Knesseth Israel.

Use Conditions

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

Name Access

Knesseth Israel (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1990-5-6

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

10 photographs : col. ; 13 x 9 cm

Date

1990

Scope and Content

Accession consists of ten colour photographs of the Shaareh Haim Congregation procession in Richmond Hill on Weldrick Road and neighbouring streets in 1990. Procession participants include Jackie Levine who is holding up the canopy over the Torah.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1991-12-5

Material Format

sound recording

textual record

Physical Description

8 audio microcassettes

1 folder of textual records

Date

1991

Scope and Content

This accession consists of 8 microcassettes of taped interviews, conducted by Marvin Ross in 1991 for research on his book about Toronto and the Jewish community. Interviewees include: Rabbi Schild; J. L. Burke - Associated Hebrew Schools; Harry Shore - Apter Centre; Joe Packman - UJPO; Irv Chapley; Milton Berger; S. Englander - ACWU; Allan Lamport; Stanley Grizzle; ILGW retirees; Allan Grossman; Ed Mirvish; Joe Goldwasser - Eitz Chaim; and Bill Bolton - St. Albans.

The accession also contains a copy of Ross's personal essay featuring remembrances of Toronto in the post-Second World War years.

Name Access

Ross, Marvin

Schild, Irwin

Burke, J. L.

Packman, Joe

Shore, Harry

Chapley, Irving

Berger, Milton S.

Lamport, Allan

Grizzle, Stanley

Grossman, Allan

Goldwasser, Joe

Bolton, Bill

Mirvish, Ed

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

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

1998-3-14

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 file of textual records

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 29 cm

Date

1996

Scope and Content

This accession consists of a colour photograph of the Sadowski family reunion held on August 24th, 1996. A letter dated Sept. 12th, 1996 from Dianne and Richard Isaacson addressed to their cousins, pertaining to the photograph and the reunion, is also included in this accession.

Administrative History

The Sadowski family reunion was held at the Isaacson's in Kettleby, Ontario. 103 family members were present at the reunion.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1994-12-8

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

173 photographs : b&w (136 negatives) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Date

1994

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs from the Canadian Jewish News documenting activities of a number of organizations and activities including United Synagogue Day Schools, Associated Hebrew Schools, Jewish War Veterans, Baycrest Terrace, Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue, Cummer House, the Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg Memorial at the Lipa Green Building, and the Ontario Jewish Archives staff and volunteers. There are two photographs of the Hudson's Bay store at Lawrence and Bathurst Streets in Toronto.

Source

Archival Accessions

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

Accession Number

1994-6-2

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

4 photographs : col. ; 11 x 16 cm

Date

1994

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a concert programme and photographs of the choir in performance.

Administrative History

Beit Shalom (Japan Christian Friends of Israel) is a Protestant Christian group which defines itself in large measure through its prayers for the peace of Jerusalem as well as its unselfish friendship for Israel and the Jewish people.

Name Access

Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1994-9-2

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1957-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Mollie Posen's typewritten autobiography and textual documents including material from a conference "The Refugee Problem - Today and Tomorrow" held in Geneva in 1957, speeches given by Mollie Posen, and and a letter written by Mollie Posen in her position as Coordinator of the Canadian Panel of Women (sponsored by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews) regarding her participation in the UNESCO Conference on Racisim in 1971.

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

1996-5-2

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1926-1995

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material pertaining to the lives of Lillian and Israel Marder. Included are Polish passports used for entry to Canada by Lillian (1926) and Israel (1928), Canadian Naturalization Certificates for Lillian and Israel (1935), and a 1946 English translation by JIAS of a Polish application for a birth certificate by Skul Merder (Israel Marder) in 1928. In addition, there is a certificate honouring Israel for fifty years of participation in the Workman's Circle (1990), a testament to the Marder family for a "Sacred Bridge" concert by Toby Marder Cyglen (1992), and documents concerning the 1995 deaths of Israel and Lillian. These include information from Mount Sinai Cemetery, a eulogy delivered by their son-in-law Gordon Ciglen, and a faxed copy of their tombstone inscription.

Administrative History

Israel and Lillian Marder died on the same day in the same hospital.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-1-4

Material Format

sound recording

Physical Description

7 audio cassettes (ca. 7 hrs.)

Date

1990-1991

Scope and Content

Collection consists of a talk by Salsberg to the "Brotherhood" (1 Apr. 1990), 2 interviews with Salsberg by Carol Rosenthall (13 Mar. 1990 and 16 Apr. 1991), and interviews with Rabbi Shemen (July 1991) and S. Lipshitz (1991?) about Salsberg by an unknown interviewer.

Name Access

Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-6-12

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3.3 m of textual records

Date

[ca. 1970]-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the records created or accumulated by the Committee for Yiddish, which operated under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and later, the Toronto Jewish Congress (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto).

Use Conditions

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

Name Access

Committee for Yiddish (Toronto, Ont.)

Toronto Jewish Congress

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-7-2

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

2 m of textual records

1 microfilm reel

Date

1889-2004, predominant 1950-1980

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual records documenting the Toronto Zionist Council. Included is a microfilm reel of correspondence between the Zionist Organization of Canada and various European offices (1889-1915), reports of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada (1907), correspondence, meeting minutes, Director's reports, daily appointment books, Let the Truth Be Told newsletters, a programe for the 28th regional convention, and a Golden Jubilee dinner program (1957). Also incuded are United Jewish Welfare Fund Board of Directors meeting minutes, and Israel and the Jewish World newsletters (2000-2004).

Also included are four scrapbooks documenting related groups such as the Balfour Club of Young Judaea (1934-1941); Hadassah-WIZO (1941); United Palestine Appeal (1942, 1945) and the Zionist Organization of Canada (1953-1954, 1958).

Custodial History

These records appear to have originated from the Toronto Zionist Council offices on Marlee Ave., but could in fact, be the provenance of the Zionist Organization of Canada, Central Region.

Subjects

Zionism

Name Access

Toronto Zionist Council

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1995-4-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1.2 m of textual records

Date

1984-1993

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records related to UJA Young Leadership, New Leadership, the Poland mission and LDI.

Use Conditions

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

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

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Accession Number

2004-5-7

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm

Date

1990

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a photograph of the shloshim for Marnie Kimelman at Adath Israel Synagogue, Toronto on September 5, 1990 and a photograph of the interior of Perl's Kosher Meats on Bathurst Street.

Administrative History

Seventeen year old Marnie Kimelman was killed on a Tel Aviv beach by a terrorist bomb.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-15

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

11 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm and 18 x 13 cm

Date

1971-1992

Scope and Content

Accession consists of United Jewish Appeal photographs documenting events including those of the Major Gifts and Women's Campaign Divisions. Identified individuals include Phil Granovsky, Ralph Halbert, Jack Chisvin, Issy Sharp, Tom Beck, David Azrieli, Lawrence Bloomberg, Roz Davidson, Didi Urbach and Carol Kassel.

Use Conditions

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-16

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm

Date

1992

Scope and Content

This accession consists of a photograph of the annual UJA Federation meeting. Steve Ain and Alan Offman appear in the photograph.

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.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-23

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

189 photographs : b&w (184 negatives) ; 11 x 16 cm or smaller

Date

[194-?]-[199-?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a few photographs and a large number of negatives depicting a wide range of topics including portraits, mens and womens groups, children at camp, sporting teams and events,synagogue and cultural events in Canada and Israel. Identification is provided in several cases.

Custodial History

The collection may have been donated by Bill Stern

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-62

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

180 photographs : b&w and col. ( 24 negatives) ; 21 x 25 cm or smaller

Date

1928-2004

Scope and Content

Accession consists of original and copy photographs and 35 mm slides documenting activities of the Jewish communities in Toronto and other cities, including organizations, synagogues, and schools. There are photographs of rabbis, cantors, and community leaders, as well as publicity photos of prominent politicians, artists, journalists, actors, and academics. Included are photos of Israeli politicians and events, as well as a few historic images from Toronto and archives in other cities. In addition there are several photos from newspapers and magazines and some 1990 textual material from Beit Halochem (Aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel).

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-77

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

16 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Date

1999

Scope and Content

Accession Consists of photographs taken at an Israel Fair and a Purim party at the Bloor JCC, UJA Israel Walkathon, the Yiddish Cultural Club at the Borochov Centre, and dance (Rikudiyah) and choir (Zimriyah) festivals.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-98

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

5 photographs : b&w (2 negatives) ; 18 x 13 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1955]-1992

Scope and Content

Acession consists of a photograph of Dora Wilensky, her mother Mrs. Wilensky, and J. B. Salsberg; two group photographs of an unidentified organization, both of which include J. B. Salsberg; and a Toronto Star Centennial Magazine entitled "The Hundred Heroes and Villains , Memories and Legends, A celebration." It includes an entry about J. B. Salsberg "Communist at Queen's Park."

Administrative History

Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902-1998) was a labour leader, political activist, politician, insurance salesman, and journalist. He was also active in various Jewish organizations, including: the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and the New Fraternal Jewish Association. He is well-remembered by contemporaries, such as Sam Lipshitz, as a “champion of the people”, committed to social justice, the plight of the working class, and the preservation of Jewish culture.

J. B. was born in Lagov, Poland on November 5, 1902 to Abraham and Sarah-Gittel Salsberg. Abraham immigrated to Toronto in 1910 and J. B. followed with his mother and two younger sisters in 1913. They settled at 73 Cecil Street. Abraham and Sarah-Gittel had additional children in Canada: Nathan (b. 1915), Reuven (Bob or Robert, b. 1917), Betty, and Thelma. Abraham worked as a peddler in Toronto.

J. B. briefly attended Landsdowne Public School, but dropped out around 1915, against his parents' wishes, and took a job in a leather goods factory to contribute to his family’s income. J. B.’s parents had hoped he would become a rabbi and, despite his full-time employment, J. B. continued to study the Torah with scholars at the synagogue on Centre Avenue.

In 1917, J. B. decided to pursue the ideas of Zionism and socialism and, abandoning his plans to become a rabbi, became involved in establishing the Young Poale Zion organization, a Labour Zionist youth group dedicated to secular aims. Around 1922, J. B. was made secretary general of the Young Poale Zion of America in New York, where he worked for one year. Shortly after returning to Toronto, he became the organizer for the Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union of North America in Chicago. J. B. married Dora Wilensky in 1927.

In 1926, J. B. joined the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). He was an active member of the CPC for 30 years, serving as the head of its Trade Union Department for two decades. In 1929 he was suspended from the party for one year as a dissenter. In 1932, he became the Southern Ontario District union organizer for the Communist Workers' Unity League.

It was as a member of the CPC that J. B. entered electoral politics. After a series of failed bids in municipal and provincial elections between 1935 and 1937, J. B. was elected alderman of Ward 4 in Toronto in 1938. He only held the position for one year. In 1943, J. B. was elected to the Ontario Legislature as the representative for the St. Andrew riding. J. B. sat as Member of Provincial Parliament for the Labor-Progressive Party (the provincial wing of the CPC) for 12 years. For several years, he was the only elected Communist in North America. As MPP, he helped create legislation banning discrimination in public places and introduced a bill that would ensure fair employment practices in the province. He lost his seat to Allan Grossman in 1955 and unsuccessfully ran in the federal election later that year. Remembered by journalist Gordon Sinclair as “one of the best debaters in the house”, J. B. was well-respected by members of all political parties. Out of admiration for J. B., Conservative Premier Leslie Frost named Salsberg Township in Northern Ontario in his honour.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, J. B. had grown increasingly concerned about reports of Soviet antisemitism and privately urged party leaders to pursue the issue. In 1956, when Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev exposed the transgressions of Stalin’s regime, J. B. went to Moscow as part of a CPC delegation. After meeting with Khrushchev himself, it became clear to J. B. that antisemitism was indeed a problem in the USSR and that his efforts to probe the situation were being stonewalled.

J. B. publicly expressed his concerns about Soviet antisemitism in a series of articles published in the Vochenblatt from October 25, 1956 to December 13, 1956. He finally left the Communist Party in 1957. However, he remained a member of the United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), a Communist Jewish fraternal organization.

Entering the business world, J. B. established the Model Insurance Agency Limited in 1957, where he served as president for several years. In 1959 J. B.’s wife, Dora, passed away. Around this time J. B. also resigned from the UJPO, along with other members who felt the organization needed to be more critical of the Soviet Union. They founded an alternative, non-Communist left-wing Jewish organization, the New Fraternal Jewish Association, where J. B. served as president for several terms and edited its publication “Fraternally Yours”.

In his later life, J. B. was active as an executive member of organizations, such as the CJC and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. He was the first chairman for the CJC Ontario Region’s Soviet Jewry Committee and the Committee for Yiddish. He also began writing an award-winning weekly column for the Canadian Jewish News. J. B. was awarded the CJC’s Samuel Bronfman Medal for distinguished service, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto’s Ben Sadowski Award of Merit. A strong supporter of Israel, he was involved in the creation of two Israeli medical centres that are named in his honour. He also helped establish the J. B. and Dora Salsberg Fund and the J. B. Salsberg Fund for Yiddish at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. J. B. passed away in 1998.

Name Access

Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-103

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1997

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a Certificate of Merit presented to the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto in appreciation of their contribution to the Jerusalem 3000, City of David Celebrations.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-112

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

4 cm of textual records

Date

1959-1995

Scope and Content

This accession consists of a 1959 report concerning the situation in the United Jewish Peoples Order and Morris Biderman's memoirs.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-134

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

15 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Date

[ca. 1990]-[ca. 2000]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of Henry Springer outside and inside his kosher meat store on Bathurst Street in Toronto. His son, Jeff Springer, appears in one of the photographs.

Administrative History

Henry Springer (1921-2014) was born on 10 November 1921 to Mordechai and Leah Springer in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland. He had two sisters, Brenda and Faigie and one brother, Charles. Seven generations of Springers in Poland were butchers. During the Second World War, the whole family survived as prisoners of Russian labour camps. Following the end of the war, they spent four years in a displaced persons camp in Austria named Steyr, then immigrated to Canada, arriving in Quebec City in 1949. They migrated to Toronto with the assistance of JIAS and the Springer family in Kingston.

After a few years of working in an upholstery factory, Henry and his brother Charles partnered to open a kosher butcher store called Springer’s Kosher Meats, on Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market. In 1958, they opened a second location at 3393 Bathurst St., following the Jewish community's move north. A year or so later they closed the location on Augusta and focused exclusively on the Bathurst St. location until its closing in 1995. Their father Mordechai also worked at the business up until his death in 1982.

The store sold fresh meat, chicken and fish and some delicatessen and was well known for its chickens.

Henry Springer was married to Shriley Springer and together had three children: Rochelle, Hannah and Jeff. He died on 3 November 2014 just shy of his 93rd birthday.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Butchers

Kosher food

Name Access

Springer's Kosher Meats

Springer, Jeff

Springer, Henry, 1921-2014

Places

Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2004-5-146

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

19 photographs : col.

1 folder of textual records

Date

[ca. 1998]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photos and a newspaper article about the closing of the Ohav Zedeck Synagogue, Hamilton's "last sysnagogue in the core".

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-156

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

19 photographs : col. and b&w (12 negatives)

1 folder of textual records

Date

1990-2004

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photos and textual documents related to Chabad Lubavitch's Simchas Bais Hashoeva event.

Subjects

Habad

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

2004-5-80

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

23 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 15 cm

Date

[ca. 1947]-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

This accession consists of the Peretz Shule graduating class, late 1940s and photographs of an unidentified annual meeting, probably involving UJA Toronto.Identified in the meeting photogrphs are Roseanne and Steve Ain, Donald Carr, Gerald Sheff, and Ron Appleby.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-71

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

7 photographs : b&w and col. ; 15 x 11 cm and 10 x 15 cm

Date

1941-[ca. 2000]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material pertaining to Leading Aircraftman David Richard Axler of Brantford, Ontario, who was killed in an air accident near Windsor, Ontario in 1941. Included are a photograph of Axler and photographs of his grave in the Brantford Jewish Cemetery, and the Beth David Synagogue in Brantford. In addition there is a photocopy of a page in a publication about Canadian Jews in the Second World War with information about Axler.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-8-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1964-1990

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting Dr. Leo Davids participation in several community organizations and committees. Records include minutes, memorandum, correspondence, brochures and programmes.

Documented here are the Jewish Marriage Education Committee, Jewish Family Education Committee, Orthodox Jewish Community Council, Toronto Regional Council of B'nai B'rith, Canadian Jewish Council, United Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Canadian Zionist Federation

Administrative History

Dr. Leo Davids is a professor of Sociology at York University. He was also actively involved in the Toronto Jewish community as a rabbi and as a member of various organizations and committees. He began the Jewish Marriage Education Committee in the 1970s, which hosted annual workshops on jewish themes for newly married or engaged couples. He was also involved in the Jewish Family Education Committee, whose purpose was to study the declining population of Jews in Canada. Dr. Leo Davids also worked as a prison chaplin, was a member of Canadian Zionist Federation and of the Toronto Regional Council of B'nai B'rith.

Source

Archival Accessions