Accession Number

1982-7-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1939-1947

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Canadian Jewish Congress records related to a study carried out by Saul Hayes and Jacob Finkelman on discriminatory employment practices in Ontario. The title of the resulting report is "Evidence of Unequal Opportunity in Employment and a Suggested Fair Employment Practices Legislation". Included are reports, memorandi, correspondence, sample applications from different employers, and a booklet by Gurston Allen entitled "Jewish Occupational Difficulties" (1939).

Subjects

Antisemitism

Name Access

Hayes, Saul

Finkelman, Jacob

Allen, Gurston

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1977-4-3

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1926-1965

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material relating to the Associated Hebrew Schools, including correspondence and a certificate awarded to the school choir. In addition there is a Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region timeline of the history of the Toronto Jewish Community (1954), a CJC abstract of the proceedings of the Sixth Regional Conference on Jewish Education (1957), as well as editions of the Jewish Herald, the Jewish Standard, and the Canadian Jewish News. In addition, there is material documenting the activities of the Kehillah of Toronto, a religious organization of synagogues and organizations, such as mutual benefit societies. Included are correspondence, a ballot page listing congregations and organizations, a financial report, and a legal document in the form of an agreement between the Kehilla of Toronto and shochtim regarding the ritual slaughter of beef.

Administrative History

Samuel Kurtz was the executive vice president of the Associated Hebrew Schools.

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MG3A5

Name Access

Kurtz, Samuel A.

Associated Hebrew Schools

Kehilla of Toronto

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

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1975-005

Physical Description

15 cm of textual records

Date

1928, 1936-1959

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the account books and constitution for the Adath Israel Congregation in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.

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MG3B14

Subjects

Synagogues

Name Access

Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)

Places

Kirkland Lake, Ont.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2005-11-9

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1934-1956

Scope and Content

Accession consists of historical material collected by the CJC Central Region Centenary Committee or Historical Committee (both committee names appear in the file). These materials include several CJC Ontario Division documents dating from 1934. The bulk of the accession consists of reports of interviews conducted in 1956 with members of Holy Blossom as part of a Holy Blossom Centennial research project.

Name Access

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

Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2009-6-4

Material Format

object

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

M6 artifacts

1 postcard

1 textual record

Date

[193-?]-[195-?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a Tip Top Tailors wall clock and five tzedakah boxes from Israel. Also included is a postcard of the Mossington Park resort on Lake Simcoe featuring a Gentiles Only sign, several copies from the mid-1940s of the CJC Committee on Social and Economic Studies Information and Comment bulletins, as well as a programme for the twenty-seventh anniversary celebrations for the Soviet Union, held at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1944. The program included a message from the prime minister, W. L. MacKenzie King, and a broadcast from Paul Robeson. The master of ceremonies was Lorne Greene. The content of the CJC studies include: research projects of the CJC (1946), racial discrimination and public policy (1946), the use of the terms "racial origin" and "religion" in the Canadian census (1946), opinion polls and social control (1946), intermarriage and children of intermarriages (1946), prejudice and Canadian unity (1946), comparative occupational distribution (1947), community action versus racial prejudice (1947), audience reaction analysis to the film "Don't Be a Sucker" (1947), Fair Employment Practices Laws for Canada (1947), age distribution of Jewish population in Ontario (1949), Immigration of Jews to Canada (1948), Saskatchewan Bill of Rights Act (1949), Jews in the professions in Canada (1949), answering the bigot: a summary of the Incident control project (1949), Canadian public opinion on racial restrictive covenants (1949), anti-minority discrimination and the law: a Canadian progress report (1950), immigration to Canada 1945 to 1949: official figures, refugee industries in Canada: latest available statistics (1947), and from juvenile immigrant to Canadian citizen (1950). Authors of CJC reports include Dr. A. F. Citron, Dr. J. Harding, Dr. Louis Rosenberg, Dr. Manfred Saalheimer, Professor F. R. Scott and Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher.

Custodial History

The items were bought by Morris Norman, a collector of Judaica, and donated to the archives on 3 June 2009.

Subjects

Human rights

Discrimination in employment

Name Access

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

Tip Top Tailors

Source

Archival Accessions

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Level

Item

Item

2385

Material Format

graphic material

Date

8 May 1934

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the Jewish community of Kirkland Lake assembled in front of the Adath Israel Synagogue. A man in the front is carrying the congregation's Torah, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Max Berjansky.

Notes

For identification, see accession record.

Photo by Duke Studio.

Name Access

Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)

Berjansky, Max

Berjansky, Mrs.

Subjects

Communities

Torah scrolls

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

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2519

Material Format

graphic material

Date

4 Oct. 1936

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the Jewish community assembled in the Adath Israel Synagogue banquet hall for the bar mitzvah party of Larry Kussner. The large crowd is seated at several banquet tables in the hall, which is decorated for the occasion.

Notes

Title taken from writing on original photograph matte.

Duke Studio.

Name Access

Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)

Kussner, Larry

Subjects

Bar mitzvah

Parties

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

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-2-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1930 and 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original and copy photograph of the engagement party of Mr. Mont's eldest daughter in the social hall of the Kirkland Lake synagogue (Legion Hall) in the early 1930s. Outside, left to right: Fanny Scott, Alter Scott, Eli Dubinsky, Mrs. D., Mrs. Friedman and husband, Rabbi Rabinowitz, Mr. Mont, Mary Mont, Mont family.

In corner, a young Bill Jacks and wife Bella, Kay Kadish and wife.

Facing camera, starting left corner: Mrs. Ben Portnoy, Mrs. Faye (Kaplan) Atkins, Mrs. Nathan Kaplan, Max Berjansky, Rose Berjansky, next unknown.

Back to camera with hat on: Hyman Kaplan, Mr. and Mrs. S. Garshon, Mrs. Rabinowitz, her daughter and son-in-law, Rabbi now in Detroit.

Notes

Photo by Duke Studio.

Acquired in 1976.

Identifications of individuals on sheet included with photo; also see accession 2003-12-5 for further identifications.

Name Access

Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)

Atkins, Faye

Berjansky, Max

Berjansky, Rose

Dubinsky, Eli

Mont, Mary

Scott, Alter

Scott, Fanny

Jacks, Bill

Kaplan, Hyman

Kadish, Kay

Kaplan, Nathan

Portnoy, Ben

Subjects

Bethrothal

Parties

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.

Related Material

2003-12-5

Places

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions