- Name
- Rabbi Elimelech Ittamar
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 11 May 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rabbi Elimelech Ittamar
- Number
- OH 141
- Subject
- Education
- Immigrants--Canada
- Rabbis
- Synagogues
- Zionists
- Interview Date
- 11 May 1976
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Doris Newman
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 minutes Side 2: 19 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Rabbi Ittamar was born in Poland. He came to Toronto in 1923. He attended Landsdowne and Ryerson Public Schools in Toronto for one year and then continued his education at a theological seminary in New York, which later became Yeshiva University. Throughout his life, Rabbi Ittamar was an ardent Zionist. From 1930 until June 1932, Rabbi Ittamar served as rabbi of Beth Jacob and Adas Yisroel Synagogues in Hamilton. He then worked as principal of the Seattle Talmud Torah and attended graduate school at the University of Washington for three and a half years. He served for twenty years in Detroit as rabbi and president of Yeshiva. He made aliyah in 5715 (1955), when he was invited by Chief Rabbi Herzog to become secretary of the chief rabbinate. He was married (nee Unger) in 1936 and had two children, Tamar and Yehoshua.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Ittamar, Elimelech
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Hamilton
- Detroit
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 141, Rabbi Elmelech Ittamar\OH 141 notes.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Rabbi Ittamar shares some of his early memories as a boy in Toronto.
While attending Yeshiva in New York, Rabbi Ittamar headed the debating team. In this clip he describes his first English-speaking public presentation while representing the debating team in 1930 at the Jewish People’s Institute in Chicago.
- Name
- Morris Silbert
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1986
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Morris Silbert
- Number
- OH 123
- OH 124
- Subject
- Agriculture
- Immigrants--Canada
- Nonprofit organizations
- Communities
- Interview Date
- 1986
- Quantity
- 2
- Interviewer
- Brooky Robins
- Total Running Time
- OH123_001: 30 minutes OH123_002: 31 minutes OH124_001: 46 minutes OH124_002: 44 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Morris Silbert was born in 1912 on a farm outside of Hamilton. His parents came from Lithuania. His father arrived in Canada in 1905, and his mother and three older siblings joined him in 1906. Morris spent his youth growing up on farms. At the age of sixteen in 1928, he and his family moved to Hamilton. In his youth, Morris was involved in several Jewish organizations, including Young Judaea, AZA, and Hashomer Hatzair. He was married in 1938. He served in the army in 1943 during the Second World War. Morris was the second vice president of the Council of Jewish Organizations. He also served on the executive board as chair of the nursery school board and participated in several committees.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Silbert, Morris
- Robins, Brooky
- Geographic Access
- Hamilton
- Wentworth
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 123, OH 124 - Silbert\OH123_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 123, OH 124 - Silbert\OH123_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 123, OH 124 - Silbert\OH124_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 123, OH 124 - Silbert\OH124_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Morris Silbert shares memories about Jewish peddlers who were welcomed on his family's farm in southern Ontario. He includes names of peddlers with descriptions of their wares and their carts.
In this clip, Morris Silbert shares memories about Jewish peddlers who were welcomed on his family
In this clip, Morris Silbert describes the restructuring of the Hamilton Jewish community as a result of the Depression in the 1930s. He explains how the Council of Jewish Organizations was formed to replace United Hebrew Association.
