Part Of

George Morrison fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

99

Item

69

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1978]

Physical Description

1 slide : col. ; 35 mm

Name Access

Beth Tikvah Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Architecture

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

George Morrison fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

99

Item

72

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1978]

Physical Description

1 slide : col. ; 35 mm

Name Access

Beth Tikvah Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Architecture

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2444

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1937

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Photo is a group shot of campers and staff at Camp Yungvelt with posters which read: "War is murder, the promoters - murderers" and "We want our fathers with us and not in war."

Name Access

Workmen's Circle

Camp Yungvelt

Arbeter Ring

Arbeiter Ring

Subjects

Demonstrations

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Pickering (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-4-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2556

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1931

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Name Access

Bialik Club

Farband

Subjects

Clubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1273

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[before 1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph are: Mr Causen, Mr Frankel, Zalman Cohen, Dave Gold, Mr Mitchell, Lewis Freedman, Gittel Shapiro

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2463

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of members of the Farband group, taken in a yard. Identified are Willie Silverberg; Abi Shatz; Benny Shatz; and Mr. Frankel.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Farband

Frankel, Mr.

Shatz, Abi

Shatz, Benny

Silverberg, Willie

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2462

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of members of the Farband, taken in a yard. Identified are Joe Cash and Louis Shatz.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Farband

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2920

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1935

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Anniversaries

Students

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2919

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[19--]

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification, see accession record.

Notes

Photo by Schlochter.

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Students

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2471

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1920 or 1921]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the Farband, Borochov Branch 124 at a picnic in Toronto. Pictured back row sixth from left, [?] Krackover; [?] Freedman.

Pictured middle row, second from left: Joe Cash; Willie Silverberg.

Pictured middle row, third from right: [?] Hoffman; Jack Herzog; Benny Cohen.

Pictured first row, left: Benny Shatz; [?] Frankel; [?] Manson (third from right).

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Borochov

Cash, Joe

Cohen, Benny

Farband

Frankel

Freedman

Herzog, Jack

Hoffman

Krackover

Manson

Shatz, Benny

Silverberg, Willie

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1268

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1942

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

This photograph was taken at the Borochov Branch's 25th anniversary banquet.

Name Access

Borochov

Farband

Jewish Organizations

Subjects

Anniversaries

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2477

Material Format

graphic material

Date

25 July 1926

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

See items #1271 and #2453 for similar image.

Name Access

Borochov

Jewish National Workers' Alliance

Farband

Trafalgar

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2466

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1918

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of delegates at the first Ontario conference of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance (Farband) in Toronto. Identified in the photograph are Steinhouse (George's father); Moshe [Kirshenbaum?]; Zalman Cohen; H. M. Kirshenbaum; Avrom Freiman; Benny Shatz; Louis Shatz; Abi Shatz.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Jewish National Workers' Alliance

Farband

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2918

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Top row, far left: [?] Rigelhoff, choir master.

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Students

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2917

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Name Access

Farband

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2915

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Students

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2916

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1928]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Seated, left to right: Esther Walerstein; Bayla Lax; Alte Freiman.

Standing, left to right: Haim Noach Kirshenbaum; Yisroel Starr; E. Chaikes (teacher); Yosef Lubek; Shlomo Zuker.

Notes

Half-tone photograph from newspaper.

Original photo by Schlachter.

Name Access

Chaikes, E.

Farband

Freiman, Alte

Kirshenbaum, Haim Noach

Lax, Bayla

Lubek, Yosef

Starr, Yisroel

Walerstein, Esther

Zuker, Shlomo

Subjects

Students

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2468

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of the Ladies' auxiliary of Farband Borochov Branch 124, at a picnic in Toronto. Identified are Lillian Edelstein, Max Hoffman, Charlie Krackover; Ida Krackover; Joe Cash; [?] Frankel; Fanny Herzog; [?] Herzog; Willie Silverberg; [Leiblele?] Monson; Max Monson; Florence Monson; Chaika Levinsky; [Loyke?] Freedman; Penny Shatz; Mr. Freedman; Nachman Levinsky.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Borochov

Cash, Joe

Edelstein, Lillian

Farband

Frankel

Freedman, Loyke

Herzog, Fanny

Hoffman, Max

Krackover, Charlie

Krackover, Ida

Levinsky, Chaika

Levinsky, Nachman

Monson, Florence

Monson, Leiblele

Monson, Max

Shatz, Penny

Silverberg, Willie

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2473

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1918

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a copy print of the members composite of the Borochov Branc 124 of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Borochov

Farband

Jewish National Workers' Alliance

Subjects

Labor movement

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1271

Material Format

graphic material

Date

25 July 1926

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

This photograph shows a group of people at a picnic for the Borochov Branch 124.

Name Access

Farband

Borochov

Trafalgar

Jewish Organizations

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Physical Condition

Poor condition.

Related Material

See photo 2453 for a copy print and negative of this image.

Accession Number

1977-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2561

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1927

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Notes

Photo by Modern Studio, 452 Queen St. W., Toronto.

Name Access

Sholom Aleichem Club

Farband

Subjects

Clubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1617

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1939 or 1940]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

Photo by Modern Studio

Name Access

Farband

Independent Workers' Circle Joint Committee

Leivick, H.

Jewish Organizations

Subjects

Committees

Lectures and lecturing

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto Islands (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2933

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Name Access

Farband

Poalei Zion

Subjects

Zionism

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-7-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1455

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1915 and 1918]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the Toronto Poalei Zion group in front of a house.

Individuals in the photograph include: Abraham Walerstein, Esther Walerstein (child), [?] Lapidus, [Gertler?], Matisyohu Kramer, Leibe Bograd, H. H. Kirshenbaum, Louie Coldoff, S. Shapiro, Minnie Shapiro, Florence Manson, [?] Mitchell, [?] Green, Ziskind Socol, Taibeh Socol, Harry Sher, Mr. & Mrs. Schwartzbaum, [?] Heller, Archie Edelstein, [Kalman?] Wagner, Harry Green, [Mrs. Green?], Dave Gold.

Notes

Photograph was copied by the archives in 1977 and the original was subsequently donated to the archives in 1992.

See accession form for information on the locations of these individuals in the photograph.

Name Access

Poalei Zion

Farband

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1977-8-27

1992-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1454

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1915 and 1918]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of Toronto Poalei Zion members.

Notes

Photograph was copied by the archives in 1977 and the original was subsequently donated to the archives in 1992.

Name Access

Poalei Zion

Farband

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-27

1992-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1453

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1915 and 1918]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Poalei Zion group standing in front of a statue at Queen's park in Toronto.

Notes

Photograph was copied by the archives in 1977 and the original was subsequently donated to the archives in 1992.

Name Access

Poalei Zion

Farband

Subjects

Statues

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-27

1992-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2538

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1926]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Poalei Zion

Farband

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Queenston (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2465

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1918 or 1919]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the Poalei Zion assembled in front of an unidentified house in Toronto. Indentified in the photograph are: Archie Edelstein; Izzie Edelstein; Mr. and Mrs. Frankel; [?] Belke; Mr. Feldman; Zalman Cohen; Abie Shatz; David Gold; Abe Wolerstein; Esther Wolerstein (m. Grant); Sholom Katz; Chaim Langer; Mr. and Mrs. Sokol; Harry Sher; Louis Koldoff; H. M. Kirshenbaum; Leibe Bograd; Mr. Shapiro (Ben-Zion's father); Min Shapiro; Kalmen Wagner; David Lewis; Pesach Kates; Mr. Mitchell; Florence Monson; Max Monson.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Farband

Poalei Zion

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2914

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Name Access

Farband

Poalei Zion

Subjects

Zionism

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2913

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1913

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification notes, please see accession record.

Name Access

Borochov, Ber

Farband

Poalei Zion

Subjects

Zionism

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2537

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1926]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Poalei Zion

Farband

Subjects

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Queenston (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2557

Material Format

graphic material

Date

March 1928

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Farband

Poalei Zion

Yehoash

Subjects

Clubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2559

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1933

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of members of the Moses Hess, Young Poalei Zion Club.

Top row: Louis Lazoniek; Daniel Jessel; [?] Garber; Akiva Skidell, [unidentified]; Ben Harold.

Fourth row: Joshua Wohlgelenter; Hymie Kirshenbaum; Al Pearlstein; David Wise; Sam Greenbaum; Louis Sand.

Third row: Harrie Steiner; Sadie Sorosky (m. Roebuck); Lillian Dworkin (m. Singer); Sophie Chait; Esther Sorosky (m. Steinhouse); [unidentified]; [unidentified].

Second row: Sol Barkai (Borkofsky); Ben Taub; Jacob Katzman; Zalman Yonai (Yanofsky); [unidentified]; George Steinhouse.

Front row: Esther Wallerstein (m. Grant); Elsie Freeman (m. Harold); [Mucie?] Brick (m. Kaplansky); Pearl Tennenbaum (m. Boxenbaum); [unidentified].

Name Access

Chait, Sophie

Farband

Hess, Moses

Poalei Zion

Roebuck, Sadie

Sorosky, Sadie

Sorosky, Esther

Steinhouse, Esther

Subjects

Clubs

Labor Zionism

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2319

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1940]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Menachovsky, M.

Poalei Zion

Farband

Subjects

Anniversaries

Dinners and dining

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2562

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1925 or 1926]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification see accession record.

Notes

Photo by M. Schlochter, 452 Queen St. W., Toronto.

Name Access

Farband

Subjects

Students

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4749

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1948 and 1952]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Copy photograph of Club One, Pioneer Women, Cecil Street, Toronto.

Name Access

Club One Pioneer Women

Farband

Subjects

Clubs

Women

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-2-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Isaac Matenko fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

89

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Date

1911-1971, predominant 1911-1935

Physical Description

6 cm of textual records

17 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Isaac Matenko (1874–1960) was a founder, teacher, and principal of the I. L. Peretz School. He worked tirelessly to preserve and promote secular Jewish culture and the Yiddish language in Toronto. He was also a prominent member of local Jewish organizations, such as the Socialist-Territorialist Club and the Yiddish Kultur Gesellshaft.

Isaac was born on 1 February 1874 in the town of Makariv, located in the Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. He married Elke Yelia Moshkevitch (1878–19 November 1953) on 4 August 1900 in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro). They immigrated from czarist Russia to Toronto in 1906, passing first through New York with their two children, Percy (30 June 1901–May 1987) and Theodore (1903–1906, died of measles at Ellis Island), and Yelia’s three sisters, Dvora, Bracha, and Celia, and Isaac’s younger half-brother, Paul Frumhartz. They had two more children after arriving: Abraham (14 August 1908–October 24, 1989) and Shoshana (Sue) (1911–2001). Although he had been a teacher in Russia, Isaac worked as an operator in a cloak factory in Toronto, where he was instrumental in forming the union (likely the Cloakmakers’ Union of Toronto, which later affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union).

As a child, Isaac received a traditional Jewish education. This, combined with his self-taught secular education and the teachings of Yiddish nationalist Dr. Chaim Zhitlovski, informed his future career and philosophies. He was described as an idealist by his friends, whose dedication to Yiddish culture and language motivated him to bring this knowledge to a younger generation.

On 11 July 1911, Isaac and his fellow Socialist-Territorialist members established the Toronto Yiddish National-Radical School. By 1916, it had been taken over by the Workmen’s Circle and renamed the I. L. Peretz School, after the well-known Yiddish author and playwright. The school began in a rented room at the Zionist Institute on Simcoe Street, moving to larger locations on Richmond Street West, then Beverley Street as it grew. Eventually, several more branches opened, such as the Maria Street school that Isaac was affiliated with. He taught at the school for free in the evenings after working during the day in a shop. His brother Paul was also a founding teacher at the school.

Isaac was described by family, friends, and community members as a passionate teacher with an iron will. He was well-versed in Jewish knowledge, with a desire to pass it on to a younger generation and his fellow union members. He remained involved in the school and in teaching, even after retirement. He died on 2 June 1960 at the age of eighty-six.

Custodial History

These records were donated to the OJA by Sue Levy, daughter of Isaac Matenko.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting Isaac Matenko's involvement with the Workmen's Circle and other Jewish organizations. Included are photographs, programmes, certificates, I. L. Peretz School jubilee books, a songbook, a yearbook, articles, and newsclippings.

Fonds has been arranged into one series for the Workmen's Circle. There are also two files attached to the fonds-level. The records are described at the series and file-level, with some item-level descriptions.

Name Access

Arbeiter Ring

Arbeiter Ring Schools

Arbeter Ring

Camp Yungvelt

Frumhartz, Paul

I.L. Peretz

Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960

Matenko, Percy

National Radical School

Peretz Shule

Workman's Circle

Workmen's Circle

Subjects

Schools

Teachers

Yiddish language

Related Material

For additional Workmen's Circle records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1980-2-2, 1983-6-3, 1984-10-1, 1986-4-1, 1992-1-2, 1997-2-1, 1998-3-32, 2004-5-41, 2004-5-105, and fonds 30.

For additional Camp Yungvelt records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1986-4-1, 1991-12-4, 1993-6-6, 1999-5-1, 2004-5-37, 2005-6-4, 2006-12-3, photographs # 2964, # 4014, # 6021, MG2N1K, Benjamin Brown fonds 49, and Dorothy Dworkin Fonds 10 (item 14).

Creator

Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960

Accession Number

1987-11-4

1991-4-2

2007-5-3

2007-6-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr standing with a doll at the family home at 374 Markham Street, Toronto.

Name Access

Mehr, Ethel

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Pincus and Ethel Mehr in the backyard of the family home at 374 Markham Street, Toronto.

Name Access

Mehr, Pincus

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

44

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr and Sylvia Brenner with two other unidentified women. They are all wearing fur coats and standing on the running board of a car.

Name Access

Brenner, Sylvia

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

40

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr holding a set of golf clubs and standing next to Rita Cooper in Sutton, Ontario.

Name Access

Cooper, Rita

Mehr, Ethel

Subjects

Golf

Portraits

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Sutton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto. She is wearing a fur coat.

Name Access

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr and Sylvia Brenner standing in the backyard of the Mehr family home at 374 Markham St., Toronto.

Name Access

Brenner, Sylvia

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Markham Street (Toronto, Ont.).

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

45

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This tiem is a photograph of Ethel Mehr (left) and Sylvia Brenner (second from left) seated on the running board of a car with two other women.

Name Access

Brenner, Sylvia

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

46

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr (left) and Sylvia Brenner (right) seated in a car. Two other friends are seated in the back seats.

Name Access

Brenner, Sylvia

Mehr, Ethel

Subjects

Automobiles

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1918

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of members of the Mehr family, possibly taken on University Avenue. Pictured in the rear, from left to right are: [unknown], Jacob Mehr, Ethel Mehr, Joseph Rosenblatt.

In front, left to right: [unknown], [unknown].

Jacob Mehr and Joseph Rosenblatt were the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Ethel Mehr.

Name Access

Mehr, Jacob

Mehr, Ethel

Rosenblatt, Joseph

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

43

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1923]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Ethel Mehr with four friends. They are all wearing fur coats and hats. Pictured from left to right are: Ethel Mehr, Saide Hartman, Sylvia Brenner, [unidentified], [unidentified].

Name Access

Brenner, Sylvia

Hartman, Sadie

Mehr, Ethel

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

18

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 76 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a photograph of members of a social club, which may be a sorority, either Alpha Epsilon Phi or Delta Phi Epsilon.

Pictured left to right are: Molly Levinter; Jennie Fremes (m. Isadore Brodey); [unknown]; Sylvia Brenner (m. Lionel Fogler); Mary Wilder (m. Sam Yolles); Ethel Mehr (m. Henry Greisman); Lily Waldman (m. Abe Cass); Bertha Rosenfeld (m. Allen); [unknown]; Ella Fremes (m. Cherniofsky); Rose (m. Rafelman); Dorothy Andrews (m. Silverman).

Name Access

Allen, Bertha

Andrews, Dorothy

Brenner, Sylvia

Brodey, Jennie

Cass, Lily

Cherniofsky, Ella

Fogler, Sylvia

Fremes, Ella

Fremes, Jennie

Greisman, Ethel

Levinter, Molly

Mehr, Ethel

Rafelman, Rose

Rosenfeld, Bertha

Silverman, Dorothy

Waldman, Lily

Wilder, Mary

Yolles, Mary

Subjects

Clubs

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Physical Condition

This photo is very dirty and cracked in several places.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

35

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1919]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the finish line of the Henley Regatta. The photograph was sent to Ethel Mehr by Dr. Bainess Goldblatt.

Name Access

Goldblatt, Dr. Bainess

Mehr, Ethel

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

47

Material Format

graphic material

Date

15 Dec. 1925

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm on matte 33 x 33 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the Mehr family taken on Ethel Mehr's wedding day. Pictured from left to right are: Pincus (brother), Lucille (sister), Leonard (brother), Bessie (mother), Ethel, Mendel (father), and Bernice Mehr (sister).

Name Access

Mehr, Pincus

Mehr, Ethel

Mehr, Lucille

Mehr, Leonard

Mehr, Bessie

Mehr, Mendel

Mehr, Bernice

Greisman, Henry

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Weddings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions