- Name
- Joseph Fremar
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1974
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Joseph Fremar
- Number
- OH 21
- Subject
- Business
- Food
- Occupations
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1974
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy)
- 1 MP3 file
- Interviewer
- Bess Shockett
- Total Running Time
- 12:59 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied to cassette tape in August 2003.
- Digitized in June 2010.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Joseph "Joe the Orange Man" Fremar was a produce merchant in Kensington Market and opened his location at 234 Augusta Avenue in 1938. Fremar, commonly referred to as the "Orange Man," was a member of the Kiever Synagogue.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Fremar, Joseph
- Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Shockett, Bess
- Geographic Access
- Augusta Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the social politics and financial expectations around belonging to certain Toronto synagogues versus others.
In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the changing population of Toronto
- Name
- Anne Stein
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 10 Dec. 2018
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Anne Stein
- Number
- OH 450
- Subject
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Beauty operators
- Canadian newspapers
- Immigrants--Canada
- Jewish neighborhoods
- Refugees
- Revisionist Zionism
- United States--Politics and government
- Interview Date
- 10 Dec. 2018
- Interviewer
- Naomi Raichyk
- Total Running Time
- 1 hr. 25 min.
- Biography
- Anne Stein was born in Ostrowitz, Poland in 1919. She immigrated to Canada in 1936 and worked as a hairdresser in Toronto's Kensington Market. She married her husband in 1941. After the war, she had two children, the first born in 1945 and the second in 1950. It was in the 1950s that Anne moved to the Cedarvale area of Toronto. Anne continued to be involved in the Jewish community after the move.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Abella, Irving, 1940-2022
- Betar
- Beth Sholom Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham
- Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950
- Klein, Naomi, 1970-
- Obama, Barack
- Shaarei Tefillah (Toronto, Ont.)
- Stein, Anne, 1919-
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Geographic Access
- Augusta Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Israel
- Poland
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
