Part Of

Hoffman family fonds

Personal series

Level

Series

Fonds

6

Series

3

Material Format

multiple media

Date

[195-]-1962

Physical Description

5 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Max and Celia Hoffman lived in Hamilton with their 2 children, Stephen and Jay. They were members of Adas Israel synagogue and the Beverley Golf and Country Club. The children attended the Hamilton Talmud Torah.

Scope and Content

Series contains correspondence and blueprints relating to the construction of the Hoffman residence. Also included are the Westlake Secondary School yearbook, the school attended by the Hoffman children and a biography of Meyer Hoffman, a relative of Max Hoffman. In addition, there is correspondence relating to the Hoffman family membership in the Beverly Golf and Country Club.

Subjects

Building

Education

Golf

Recreation

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2018-8-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 25 cm (sight) in mat 24 x 34 cm

Date

1939

Scope and Content

Item is a group portrait of Workmen's Circle Branch 384. The photograph was taken on the occasion of the branch's thirtieth anniversary. Leo Badash of Hamilton is seated in the front row, third right.

Custodial History

George Leaf (né Lipshitz), who is depicted in the group portrait fourth from the left in the top row, was a member of Workmen's Circle Branch 384. He died in 1945.

George's youngest daughter, Rose, who lived in the family home from her birth in 1922 until her death in 2012, had two copies of the framed photograph in her possession when she died.

A neighbour and good friend of Rose's, who received much of Rose's estate, saved photographs and personal possessions, which she gave to Jeffrey Levinn, Rose's first cousin once removed.

In 2018, Jeffrey Levinn donated a copy of the framed photograph to the Ontario Jewish Archives.

Administrative History

The Workmen's Circle (Yiddish: Arbeiter Ring) was founded in the United States by Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Circle branches were established in Canada in the first decade of the twentieth century. The Hamilton branch's number was 384.

Use Conditions

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.

Descriptive Notes

Language: Title is in English; text below is in Yiddish.

Subjects

Nonprofit organizations

Portraits, Group

Name Access

Workmen's Circle (Hamilton, Ont.)

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions