- Accession Number
- 1982-7-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- 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
- 1976-5-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-5-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1943-1944
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records relating to the work of the JPRC Summer Resorts Sub-Committee, which Hart D. Wintrob chaired. Material includes advice offered to Jews on appropriate behaviour at resorts frequented by non-Jews and efforts to have "Gentiles only" signs removed from resorts and other businesses. Also included is a list of JPRC members from which the members of the subcommitte were chosen and an agenda for a meeting of this group.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Resorts
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-7
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1964-2003
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of Canadian Jewish Congress Joint Community Relations Committee files pertaining to incidents of antisemitism in Canada. Files include examples of material distributed by neo-Nazi groups, clippings documenting hate crimes trials and antisemitism in scholarship, and JCRC correspondence.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Name
- Mike Rabovsky
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 13 Jun. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mike Rabovsky
- Number
- OH 296
- Subject
- Owen Sound
- Family history
- Cadesky family
- Beth Ezekiel
- furniture business
- World War, 1939-1945
- Rabbi Kirschenbaum
- Bar mitzvah
- Mr. Amsterdam
- Antisemitism
- Sauble Beach
- Cemeteries
- Interview Date
- 13 Jun. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DV's, 1 archival DVD and 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Notes
- Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project
- Availability of other formats: Also available as an M4V Video File
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Mike Rabovsky married Miriam Levinson, and their story is best told through this historical narrative:
- Owen Sound's Beth Ezekiel Synagogue, a designated building under Ontario’s Heritage Act, remains the last example of the early small town synagogue that was once so common across Canada. The most compelling window in the synagogue is dedicated to the Rabovsky and Levison's families and tells the story of two immigrant families and the establishment of a Jewish community in Owen Sound.
- The jagged shards of glass depict the Levison family's harrowing experience of Kristallnacht (night of broken glass), prelude to the Holocaust. Desperate to escape Germany, the family was just one boat ticket away from freedom. Moments before they were to leave, an elderly couple offered their tickets to the Levisons, effectively sealing their own fate as victims of the Final Solution, while giving the young family a chance to escape the coming storm. Waiting out the war in China, the family eventually made it to Canada where Manfred Levison immediately began to look for work as a Rabbi. At the same time, Isaac Ezekiel Cadesky, a refugee of the Russian pogroms and the man for whom our Synagogue is named, was looking for a Rabbi to serve Owen Sound's bourgeoning Jewish community. Manfred Levison took the job, and in time his daughter Miriam married Isaac's grandson Mike.
- Miriam met Myer (Mike) Rabovsky. He was 29 and she was 19. Theirs was a happy marriage, lasting more than fifty years. Miriam and Mike had one daughter, Goldie (m. Bruce Ronald) and two grandchildren.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Eleanor Jourard
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 18 Sep. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Eleanor Jourard
- Number
- OH 310
- Subject
- Belleville
- keeping kosher
- Hadassah
- synagogue
- Jewish education
- Antisemitism
- Interview Date
- 18 Sep. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs; 2 reference copy DVDs; 2 archival DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Eleanor Jourard's parents and grandparents came to Montreal from Russia and Poland. Eleanor attended McGill University but left after her third year. She met her husband, veteran broadcaster Lee Jourard (1929–2014), when he was a camp counsellor at Lake Temagami, north of North Bay. Eleanor and Lee were married in 1951 and moved to Belleville shortly after. A radio job at Quinte Broadcasting’s CJBQ station drew Lee to the Quinte region.
- Eleanor went back to university to get her teaching degree and worked as a high school teacher from 1970 to 1990. She and her husband were affiliated with the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville and were original Belleville Theatre Guild members who helped create an outstanding community theatre. They had four children—Lewis (d. 2013), Mike, Andrew, and Tigger—and three grandchildren.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rheta Rosen
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 19 Sep. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rheta Rosen
- Number
- OH 317
- Subject
- Immigration and settlement
- Education
- Antisemitism
- Clubs
- Business
- Recreation
- Interview Date
- 19 Sep. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs
- 2 reference DVDs
- 2 archival DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 1:31 minutes
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Rheta Rosen (née Rosen) was the daughter of Nathan Rivelis, the owner of Rivelis, a large clothing store in North Bay from 1926 until 1986. The business grew from a small, family-run store into a large department store employing between twenty-five and thirty people. The store was famous for their annual sale held yearly on 16 November. Rheta became a full-time professor in family studies at Ryerson University. She was coordinator of the Learning and Teaching Office and coordinator of the Interpersonal Skills Teaching Centre, Simulation Program. Rheta's area of interest and research lay in the area of intergenerational relationships in the older family. She was a family mediator focusing on issues in the older family, adult children, and their ageing parents. Rheta Rosen died on 22 August 2016.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Name Access
- Rosen, Rheta
- Geographic Access
- North Bay (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Merle Koven
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 17 Oct. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Merle Koven
- Number
- OH 324
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Synagogues
- Interview Date
- 17 Oct. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs, 2 archival DVDs, 2 reference DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 2 hrs
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Merle Koven grew up in Kingston, Ontario and attended Kingston Collegiate. After high school, Merle enrolled in teachers college in Toronto. He later taught school in Kingston. Merle married Philip Koven, a well-known local businessman, philanthropist and community volunteer, who died in 2008. He was owner of Rosen Heating and Cooling, which merged with another old, established city business to form Rosen, Triheat and Anglin, now run by their two sons.
- During their forty-five years of marriage, the Kovens raised three children, Adam, Kenneth, and Rebecca. Both Phil and Merle Koven were prominent in the community. In 1982, Merle Koven broke new ground when she became president of Beth Israel in Kingston, possibly the first woman president of an Orthodox synagogue in North America. She was vice chair of Queens 1990s, although she did not have a degree.
- The Merle and Philip Koven Bursary in Art History at Queen's University was initially established by Philip Koven in honour of his wife, Merle Koven, both passionate supporters of the arts in Kingston. This fund provides financial support for upper-year students in art history. After Philip Koven passed away in 2008, the fund received many gifts in his memory.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Name Access
- Queen's University
- Hadassah WIZO Organization of Canada
- Bader, Alfred
- Geographic Access
- Kingston
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Laura Bowman (née Petersiel)
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 31 Oct. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Laura Bowman (née Petersiel)
- Number
- OH 330
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Communities
- Families
- Interview Date
- 31 Oct. 2007
- Quantity
- 1 mini DV; 1 archival DVD; 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 60 mins Microphone disconnected for final 10 minutes; volume is reduced but still audible.
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project. No restrictions.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Laura Bowman (née Petersiel) grew up in Peterborough when antisemitism was latent in the community. She experienced it personally when she went to work as a young teacher in the early 1950s for the Catholic School Board in Campbellford. Laura married Sydney Bowman and they had three children, Carol, David and Gayle, and six grandchildren. She passed away in February 2010.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Peterborough (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Eve Gordon
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 29 Jan. 2008
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Eve Gordon
- Number
- OH 354
- Subject
- Kitchener
- immigration
- scrap business
- Jewish education
- Antisemitism
- Hadassah
- Weiss, Lillian
- synagogue
- Tarraday family
- Budds
- Rabbi Feivel Rosensweig
- Brown, Bessie
- Rabbi Levy
- Interview Date
- 29 Jan. 2008
- Quantity
- 1 mini DV; 1 archival DVD; 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 61 mins
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Eve Gordon (née Rosen) was born in 1923 in Russia. She came to Canada in 1927 with her sister, three-week-old brother, parents, and paternal grandparents. They settled in Kitchener, Ontario. Her father, Israel, began working for his brother in the scrap metal business before being able to build a large industrial waste business that provided for three families. As a youth, Eve joined Young Judaea and attended Commercial College, where she was a top student.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories