- Accession Number
- 1992-7-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-7-1
- Material Format
- sound recording
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual records
- 2 audio cassettes
- 1 audio disc
- 12 photographs (6 negatives)
- Date
- [ca. 1922]-1992
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records created and collected by Marc Bernstein. Included are the following records: audio cassettes; a Sacred Service record by Ernest Bloch with Leonard Bernstein conducting; and some individual scrapbook pages, photographs, and textual files from Cantor Bernstein's Summer Hotel at Lake Shore House and Cabins in Orillia.
- The audio cassettes contain recordings of Cantors Akiba Bernstein, Pinchos Borenstein, and Haynach Borenstein; a recording of Mary Simmons in early broadcasts; plus Cantors Akiva, Haynach, Hershal, and Archie Borenstein.
- Photographs include some portraits of family members and several group portraits
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Bernstein, Akiva
- Places
- Orillia (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-10-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-10-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph
- Date
- [ca. 1935]-[ca. 1970]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Cantor Boris Charloff. Included are a photograph of Cantor Charloff and choir, a book of music entitled "Tfilas N'yiloh," a composition for Psalm 30, and music for Hanukkah.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: two of the books of music—"Mizmor shir Chanukah" and "Music by Cantor Boris Charloff"—have been digitized and are available as PDF files.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Charloff, Boris
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2002-10-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2002-10-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 32 cm of textual records
- 4 photographs
- Date
- [ca. 1960]-1966
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records created and collected by Rabbi Mordechai Oppenheim. There are several music books with Oppenheim's compositions, as well as loose sheet music and other composers song sheets. There is a concert program and correspondence from the Cantor's Assembly of America and the Jewish Ministers Cantors' Association.
- Included is a record of Canto Eliazar Zaslavsky's Prayers and Songs.
- Photographs depict Mordechai Oppenheim, as well as an unidentified individual and group portrait
- Administrative History
- Rabbi Mordechai Oppenheim was a cantor who lived in Toronto
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Rabbis
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-7-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-7-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 75 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records created and collected by Rabbi Nachum Shemen. Included are correspondence, newsclippings, writings, and organizational records.
- Among the organizational records are subject files including: Vegetarianism (1944); Warsawer-Lodzer mutual Benefit Association; Rabbi Berel Wein; Kurt Weinberg; Weizmann Institute of Science; Windsor; Anselm Wise obituary (1977); Attitudes Toward Women; World Jewish Congress; Rabbi Dr. W. W. Wurzburger; Yad Vashem; Yavneh - Nir-Etzion Projects; Yeshiva Gedorah Ateres Yaakov, Yeshiva of Staten Island; Yeshiva Torah Chaim; Yeshiva Tiferes Shmiel D'Aleksander; Yeshiva University; Yeshivas; Yiddish Cultural Council; Yizkor Fund; Yivo Institute; York University; Rabbi Aaron Zimmerman; Zionist Organization of Canada; Zionist Revisionist organization of Canada; Rabbi Zolty; Louis Zuker.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Rabbis
- Yeshivas
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-12-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-12-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1930--1969
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Cantor Nathan Stolnitz, his interests, and the organizations he was involved in. Included are clippings, bulletins, letters, minutes, and promotional materials for a variety of events and organizations.
- Administrative History
- Cantor Nathan Stolnitz was born in Vilna. He settled in Toronto in 1926. He founded the Ontario Cantors Association and was involved with Yivo, the Canada Jewish Congress, and Toronto's Jewish Public Library. He was also an author. Cantor Stolnitz died on 11 March 1969 while vacationing in Miami Beach. He was seventy-seven.
- MG_RG
- MG6C
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Stolnitz, Nathan
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1989-2-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1989-2-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1927-1974
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of programs for music concerts in Toronto including a childrens' Yiddish concert at Farband Folk Shule (1928), the Toronto Centennial Public and High School Concert (1934), the Jewish National Choir "Hazamir" (1939-1941), Hashomer Hatzair Ninth Annual Concert (1940), The Toronto Star Good Music Concert (1955) and a concert at Beth Tikvah Synagogue (1974). There is a newspaper clipping about a choir concert at Beth Sholom Synagogue (1950). Also included are pages from a book which display cameo photos of teachers at Peretz School, and the Toronto Arbeiter Ring Workmen's Circle School and Camp Committees (1927-1928). This material was collected by Cantor Louis Danto of Toronto.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Danto, Louis
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-5-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-5-9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 17 cm
- Date
- [between 1912 and 1916]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of one original photograph of Cantor Bernhard Wladowsky wearing a top hat. The writing on the photograph reads: Bernhard Wladowsky, Obercantor, Der -- Goal -- Zedek -- Gemeinde, 42 Boldwin (sic) Street, Toronto Canada.
- Custodial History
- This item was left on top of one of the exhibit display cases on the fourth floor of the Lipa Green building. There is no information on the original owner of the item.
- Descriptive Notes
- This item is the same image as photo 985.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Wladowsky, Bernard, 1870-1963
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-6-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-6-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 187 photographs : b&w and col. ; 24 x 20 cm or smaller
- 20 audiocassettes
- 10 videocassettes
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 object
- Date
- [193-]-2006
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists predominantly of records collected by Bess Shockett in her work with UJA Federation's Committee for Yiddish and Friends of Yiddish. The accession also contains some personal family records. The photographs document programmes of the Committee for Yiddish in the late 1980s and 1990s, including an outdoor Yiddish concert, several International Conferences of Yiddish Clubs (1995, 1998, 1999), Sunday morning Yiddish classes, and a 1993 Hanukah concert. There are also three photographs of the New Fraternal Jewish Association and its celebration of J. B. Salsberg's eightieth birthday in 1980. The videocassettes contain recordings of other events including a storytelling workshop, Purim Mystery Night, a farewell for Miriam Waddington and several Sof Vokh (weekend retreat) programmes of 1993.
- The twenty cassette tapes feature panel discussions, lectures and interviews, including "Yiddish education," "Yiddish and the Media," "Yiddish and the Younger Generation," "Yiddish and the Performing Arts," and "Yiddish Language and Translation." There are several interviews with Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, as well as two Toronto Yiddish concerts. Other tapes contain radio interviews with [Aaron?] Lansky; "Chava Rosenfarb--Book Fair", 1988; "Plenary reports and presentations"; and an episode of the program The Forward Hour on Peretz Miransky, an influential Polish writer in the inter-war years.
- Personal records in the accession consist of family snapshots dating from the 1930s and 1940s. These were taken in Israel and include images of farming, landscapes, travel, a canal, groups of people, city buildings, and processions. These photos all have Yiddish writing on the back. There is one formal portrait, ca. 1890s, of an elderly Jewish man. As well, there is a folder of original and photocopied poetry (in Yiddish) written by a Jack Shockett.
- Accession also includes a Yiddish typewriter, in case, that Bess used in the late 1960s/early 1970s when the Committee for Yiddish was under Congress.
- Custodial History
- Records were entrusted to the estate of Bess Shockett after her death, and given to her Committee for Yiddish colleague Ethel Cooper, who brought them to the archives.
- Administrative History
- Bess Shockett was born in the Ukraine in 1919. Her father, Solomon Maltin, was the mayor of the town and helped establish a number of Jewish community institutions. He and his wife had two sons along with Bess: Sam and Ben. In 1925, the family moved to Montreal. As an adolescent, Bess became very active in the Jewish community and joined the United Jewish People's Order. She helped organize a union for workers in the knitting industry and later did the same for fur workers. She also travelled to Winnipeg to organize a laundry workers union. She met her husband, Barry Shockett, in Toronto and they married in 1952 and had three children: Michael, Elka and Eric. Bess eventually became very active in the Toronto Jewish community, particularly in regards to supporting and launching several innovative Yiddish programs. She staffed the office of CJC's Committee for Yiddish in its early years, and was Director from 1974 to 1989. She helped found the Friends of Yiddish in 1985 and served as executive vice-president until her death on August 27, 2007.
- Descriptive Notes
- There is little written material; what there is (captions and poetry) is mostly in Yiddish; some captions are in English.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Committee for Yiddish (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Name
- Ben Collis
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1 Jun. 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Collis
- Number
- OH 93
- Subject
- Musicians
- Cemeteries
- Synagogues
- Antisemitism
- Farmers
- Yiddish language
- Interview Date
- 1 Jun. 1976
- Quantity
- 2 audio cassettes (1 copy)
- 2 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Larry Troster and Elaine Kahn
- Total Running Time
- OH93_001:43.50 minutes
OH93_002:18.45 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitized 2014
- Notes
- poor sound quality in some sections
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Ben Collis, the son of Russian immigrants, was born in 1911. He grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. In 1944, he moved to Peterborough, Ontario. Ben's interest in music led him to form his own dance band and play gigs throughout Ontario.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Geographic Access
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Peterborough (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 93 - Collis\OH93_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 93 - Collis\OH93_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Minnie Cohen
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- October/November 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Minnie Cohen
- Number
- OH 143
- Subject
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Discrimination in higher education
- Women physicians
- Interview Date
- October/November 1976
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy)
- Interviewer
- Doris Newman
- Total Running Time
- 1:25 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitied
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please conact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Minnie Cohen was born in Russia in 1900. She immigrated to Toronto around 1910. After graduating as the first Jewish woman from the University of Toronto's medical school, she interned and joined the staff of Women's College Hospital. Dr. Cohen specialized in pediatrics. worked as a clinician in the 1920s for Toronto's first well baby clinic, and was on the staff of Mount Sinai's pediatric clinic. Her husband, Dr. Benjamin Cohen, was the first Jewish specialist in obstetrics and gynecology to practice in Toronto, and he was chief at the old Mount Sinai Hospital on Yorkville Avenue.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Cohen, Ben
- Cohen, Minnie
- Wladowsky, Bernard, 1870-1963
- Geographic Access
- Berlin (Germany)
- Boston (Mass.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Dublin (Ireland)
- Moscow (Russia)
- New York (N.Y.).
- Paris (France)
- Romania
- Saint Petersburg (Russia)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- Personal Family History
0-14.20-25.35: Minnie born in Russia in 1900 tells the story of her family’s move from Russia to Turkey and subsequently to Romania, where they remained from 1907–1909. Minnie talks about her father, Bernard, a renowned cantor, and about her life in Romania as an accomplished child pianist. In 1909, the family moved to New York and then Chicago, where Bernard Wladowsky continued his cantorial career.
Education
29.00-32.00: Minnie graduated high school from Jarvis Collegiate and went on to study medicine at the University of Toronto’s medical school between 1919 and 1922.
Life in Toronto
32.04-38.38: In 1912, the family moved to Toronto, where Bernard Wladowsky began a five-year contract as cantor of the Goel Tzedec Synagogue. Bernard Wladowsky and Goel Tzedec went into arbitration, with Wladowsky subsequently leaving Goel Tzedec prior to the end of his contract. In 1915, Wladowsky become the cantor of the Londoner Shul, and for the following thirty-four years Wladowsky remained cantor of the McCaul Street Synagogue
Side 2:
University of Toronto Medical School
0.18-8.04: Minnie discusses the discrimination she experienced as the first and only Jewish woman enrolled in the University of Toronto’s medical school. Minnie discusses her internship and personal experiences at Women’s College Hospital and talks about her medial school colleagues David Eisen, Joe Trachman, Ivan Vale, and Aaron Volpe
Medical Career
8:09-8:57: Minnie tells about her job offer with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York. Rather than leave her husband, Minnie gave her job offer to her classmate Dr. Glenna Garrett, one of the leading psychiatrists in the United States.
8:58-9:59: Minnie talks about her husband, Dr. Ben Cohen, and his medical education and service overseas during the First World War.
10:00-11:37: Minnie discusses Ben's medical career at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and his close relationhip with Robert Briscoe, the then mayor of Dublin.
11:38- 14:06: Minnie talks about Ben's return to Toronto in 1920 and their marriage in 1922.
14:07-15:11 Minnie talks about her first office at 62 Brunswick Avenue and Ben's first office on Dundas Street. Minnie limited her practice to pediatrics and as a fill in for other doctors.
15:12:- 15:45: Minnie talks about her husband's practice, which he shared with Dr. Abe Roby and Dr. Soloway
15:46-16:36: Minnie talks about how they found their first apartment.
16:37-17:32: Minnie recounts how her husband was the first surgeon who operated at Mt. Sinai Hospital. In 1928, he was the first doctor in the world to make his patients get out of bed and walk after surgery.
17:33-18:16: Minnie discusses how the idea of the first Mt. Sinai Hospital came to be in 1923 and the physicians who were instrumental in the formation of the original Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1923. Mentioned are Drs. Ben Cohen, Abraham Wilinsky, M. A. Pollack, Louis Breslin, and Simon Fine.
18:17- 19:37: Minnie explains the Ezras Noshim Women’s Auxillary, which, together with Dorothy Dworkin, worked to fundraise for Mt. Sinai Hospital.
19:38:- 20:23: Minnie describes some the Mt. Sinai fundraising campaigns.
20:24:-20:31: Minnie talks about Ben's role with the hospital's planning committee and his passing before the hospital's completion.
20:32:-21:23: Minnie talks about going with Ben to Boston to investigate the obstetric and gynecology services of the Beth Israel Hospital.
21:24:-22:44: Minnie talks about becoming part of the Mt. Sinai staff following the passing of her husband and working in the outpatient department doing free pediatric clinics.
21:45:-25:28: Minnie discusses the billing of patients for their medical care.
25:29-25:56: Minnie talks about working as a clinician in the 1920s at Toronto’s first “Well Baby Free Clinic,” which was located at Euclid and College.
25:57:-27:06: Minnie talks about working for the government for free as a restaurant inspector.
27:07-28:08: Minnie talks about working on the staff of the Mt. Sinai Hospital's pediatric clinic.
28:09-29:00: Minnie recalls Dr. Lowry, with whom she brought soup to miners and their families living in northern Ontario during the Depression.
29:01:-30:32: Minnie talks Toronto's first social service on McCaul Street and bringing soup to women frequenting the service.
30:33:-31:12: Minnie talks about her work as she travelled to locations outside of Toronto.
31:13:-32:55: Minnie recalls Ben's invitation in to perform a surgical operation in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in 1932.
32:56:-34:49: Minnie recalls the honour bestowed on Ben for the surgery he performed.
34:50:-36:07: Minnie recalls their experiences traveling by train through Communist Russia.
36:08:-36:56: Minnie recalls relatives they visited in the Ukraine.
36:57:-38:37: Minnie recalls her first plane ride from Leningrad to Paris.
38:38:-39:13 Minnie recalls refueling in Berlin during the time when there was already Hitler talk.
39:14:-40:10: Minnie describes the quality of life in Leningrad during the late 1930s.
40:11:-41:10: Minnie recalls their experiences dealing with customs while aboard a ship.
41:11:-42:54: Minnie recalls their hotel, the Metropol, in Moscow.
42:53-45:00: Minnie recalls overhearing a conversation with a relative who spoke out against the Communist government.
45:01-46:15 Minnie recalls the tense atmosphere in Berlin during the late 1930s.
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Number
- OH 448
- Subject
- Immigrants--Canada
- Synagogues
- Camps
- Musicians
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish literature
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Quantity
- 1 MP4 file
- Interviewer
- Naomi Raichyk
- Total Running Time
- 1:42 minutes
- Biography
- Charna Galper was born in 1921 in Bershet, Ukraine and immigrated with her family to Toronto in 1923. Charna grew up and lived in the Kensington Market area until 1955, when she moved north of the downtown core. Charna attended Landsdowne Public School and Harbord Collegiate, where she graduated as a legal secretary. She was a member of Hashomer Haztair and attended its summer camp at the Stroud, Ontario location. Charna married Abe Galper in 1947. Abe's career as a musician allowed them to travel to New York, Israel, and China. Charna has volunteered for Circle of Care and today spends her time pursuing her interest in Yiddish and attending programs at the Baycrest Centre.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Transcript
- 0:40: Charna born in 1921 in Bershet, Urkaine, tells the story of how she her parents and siblings fled Ukraine for Canada. Sponsored by Joe and Philip Finkler her mother’s brothers, the family arrived in Toronto in 1923.
3:24: Charna describes the living conditions of the family’s first home at 237 Beverley St., Fitzroy Terrace in the Kensington area and Grange Ave.
4:55: Charna talks about her elder sister’s contracting diphtheria and the resulting quarantine her family had to endure
5:2: Charna talks her parents first home at 210 Robert St. and the family’s move to Albany Ave.
6:15: Charna describes in detail the family’s living conditions prior to their move to 210 Robert St.
7:15: Charna talks about some of the challenges her parents faced when they first came to Toronto. She describes the hardships her father endured working as a carpenter during the depression
9:40: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler as instrumental in helping her parents buy the house on Robert St. in 1926, the year her brother Shloime was born
10:00: Charna recalls some memories of the Robert St neighborhood, a closely knit Jewish immigrant community with Yiddish spoken as the primary language and her experiences at the Landsdowne Public school
11:40: Charna recalls her grandmother as being a wonderful davener
13:00: Charna talks about the details of the Robert St. house mortgage
14:1: Charna talks about her first job working for Harry Grainer as a legal secretary and later with Lou Rasminsky, the first Jewish governor of the Bank of Canada.
15:33: Charna recalls the area around Rasminsky’s storefront at 418 Spadina Ave. Spadina was filled with many businesses, egg stores, Hyman’s bookstore and Goodmans on the corner of Oxford, “we all knew each other, it was a leibedik velt.
16:00: Charna talks in more detail about her job as a legal secretary for Lou Rasminsky
18.45: Charna describes her daily walk to Harbord Collegiate
19:30: Charna talks about not having enough money for carfare and riding the bus for free
20:33: Charna talks about her best friend Rose Ruskin
21:35: Charna talks about how as a child she was spoiled by her older sisters Nechama and Ethel
22:04: Charna talks about helping with the household chores
22:15: Charna describes family laundry day on Sunday. We had laundry tubs in the backyard, my sisters and I had scrubbing boards and my mother was good at wringing, it was a team effort
22:46: Charna talks about the Kosoys who owned a home laundry at Borden and Harbord St. They had what was called wet wash, they would bring the clean laundry back to us wet and we would hang it to dry.
23:27: Charna talks about getting their first refrigerator
23:41: Charna describes their first refrigerator
24:01: Charna describes their icebox and Katz the iceman who came once a week to deliver ice
24:44: Charna talks about buying groceries on credit
25:37: Charna talks about why her parents wanted her to go to school rather than working in a factory
25:50: Charna talks about helping with the shopping in Kensington market
26:05: Charna talks about going to Kensington market on Thursday morning to buy a big carp, bring it home, put it in the tub until Friday morning when her grandmother would kill it and turn it into gefilte fish
27:33: Charna describes her own gefilte fish recipe
28:35: Charna recalls going to the market on Friday to buy a live chicken for Shabbat and taking it to the Schoichet on Major St. to be killed and plucked
29:03: Charna describes how to hold a live chicken
29:23: Charna describes bargaining for goods in the market
30:41: Charna recalls the pickled crabapple treats from a delicatessen located at Dundas in Kensington Market
32:04: Charna recalls Tryman’s family run grocery store on Baldwin St., Little Eaton’s on Kensington that sold Eaton’s castoffs, Hyman’s bookstore on Spadina Ave that sold office supplies, religious books and had a registry for bar-mitzvahs and weddings.
34:45: Charna describes her brother Shloime’s bar-mitzvah held at their Robert St. home and catered by her grandmother
35:42: Charna recalls about the days when her grandmother was a caterer in Russia and also in Toronto
37:12: Charna describes her grandmother’s cooking
37:49: Charna talks about her grandmother as a very orthodox woman who wore both a sheitel and kerchief
38.22: Charna talks about the family’s traditional observance of Shabbos and Jewish holidays, the Russian Shul on Centre St, and her grandmother’s cooking for Rosh Hashanah
40:36: Charna talks about the Russian Shul’s move to Markham St. and describes its interior
42:39: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler’s connection with the Kiever Shul
43:42: Charna talks about her grandmother’s passing in 1939
44:04: Charna talks about her sisters Elsie and Nechama
45:35: Charna talks about her surprise birthday party in celebration of her 95th year
46:08: Charna talks about her sister Nechama’s move to Palestine
46:34: Charna talks about her father in-law’s move to Palestine in 1930
47:30: Charna talks about her involvement with Hashomer Hatzair
49:24: Charna talks about Hashomer Hatzair’s summer camp locations in Keswick, Stroud, Parry Sound, and Lake Ooty in Perth, Ontario
50:25: Charna describes her camp experience at the Stroud location
52:05: Charna talks about accompanying her husband Abe, a clarinet teacher to camp Hashomer Hatzair in Perth, Ontario
52:59: Charna talks about her past and present affiliation with schlichim coming to Toronto
53:45: Charna talks about her affiliation with Pioneer Women, now known as Na’amat
54:32: Charna tells the story of how she met her husband Abe in 1947
57:18: Charna describes her first date with Abe
57:43: Charna talks about walking with Abe to the Tivoli theatre at Victoria and Shuter. “Who used cars, who used streetcars, we walked. On the way back I got the most terrible blisters, I was with new shoes, with high heels.”
58:26: Charna continues to describe her first date with Abe
59:01: Charna describes the inside of the Tivoli theatre
59:49: Charna talks about City Dairy where she and Abe went for ice cream on their first date. City Dairy was located at Spadina Crescent near College St.
1:00:36: Charna explains why she and Abe decided to get their marriage license in May 1948
1:02:08: Charna talks about the attraction she and Abe had for one another
1:02:42: Charna talks about her wedding held in the family’s backyard at Albany Ave. in August of 1948
1:04:47: Charna describes her wedding cake and how she preserved it in a tin box until her 25th wedding anniversary
1:06:04 Charna talks about her first apartment with Abe at College and Crawford
1:06:52: Charna talks the period following her marriage and her mother’s stroke
1:07:45: Charrna talks about her first pregnancy and birth of Batsheva in November 1949
1:07:54: Charna talks about moving into her parent’s home on Albany St.
1:09:25: Charna talks about thinking of buying their own home
1:10:16 Charna talks about why they waited a year before moving into their own home. She explains everything she needed was close by the house on Albany, including Starkman’s and Honest Ed’s.
1:11:28: Charna describes their first house as it looked when they moved in 1955
1:12:14: Charna talks about the shifting demographics of the neighborhood from primarily Gentile to Jewish
1:12:40: Charna talks about the neighborhood Daysbury public school her children attended
1:12:55: Charna talks about how life became easier for them when Abe’s work with the symphony increased from 26 weeks to 42 weeks a season
1:13:34: Charna talks about the death of her mother before the move to their own home and her father who moved in with them
1:13:50: Charna talks about Abe’s music students and his work with the Conservatory
1:14:26: Charna talks about her 2 youngest children attending the Bialik School
1:14:59: Charna gives the ages of her 5 children, Batsheva 69 years old, Chaya 68 years old, Devora 64 years old, Penina 56 years old, and Yanke 55 years old1:16:03
1:14:60: Break in interview as Charna speaks with her daughter Devora
1:17:40: Charna talks about Abe’s relationship with her parents
1:18:07: Charna talks about Abe’s career as a musician
1:19:02: Charna talks about Abe playing for the Israel Philharmonic in 1962 and their thoughts about making Aliyah
1:19:39: Charna talks about their return from Israel to Toronto, his work with the conservatory and some of his music students
1:20:36: Charna talks about Abe’s medical condition
1:20:51: Charna talks about how she and Abe worked as a team
1:21:11: Charna talks about accompanying Abe to New York when he played with the New York Philharmonic
1:22:08: Charna talks about Abe’s work following his heart attack
1:22:22: Charna talks about Abe giving a master class in Israel for Israeli clarinetists
1:24:00: Charna talks about Abe’s experience playing with the Palestine Symphony
1:26:25: Charna talks about how she came to know famous people such as Frank Shuster, John (Louie) Wayne, Sylvia and Ben Lennick, and pianist Leo Barkin
1:29:14: Charna talks about musicians from Israel who moved to Toronto
1:31:08: Break in conversation as Charna gets up from her chair
1:31:57: Charna talks about her children being what is most important to her
1:32:41: Charna talks about her son Jacob’s 25th wedding anniversary
1:33:15: Charna talks about her current interest in Yiddish, going to the Baycrest program and meeting interesting people
1:36:13: Charna talks accompanying Abe to China during a 3 week master class program
1:40:17: Charna talks about the evening’s upcoming anniversary party and invited guests
1:42:00: Charna talks about her service volunteering for Circle of Care and the Jewish elderly
1:42:33: Charna talks about learning to drive her first car, a blue and white chevy with wings
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Cantor Harry Harris.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 42
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1955]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Cantor Rubien (Reuben) Schwebel was a well-known cantor in Toronto. Most notably, he became the cantor of the Anshei Minsk Synagogue in Kensington Market in 1949, and led the congregation in Shabbat and holiday services for over fifty years.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Cantor Rubien Schwebel.
- Name Access
- Anshei Minsk Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Schwebel, Rubien
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 45
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Cantor Samuel Stolnitz was born in 1914, in Vilna, Lithuania, the son of Cantor Nathan and Jennie Stolnitz. He came to Canada with his parents at the age of twelve, first arriving in Ottawa in 1926. The family later moved to Toronto in 1929. He was married to Anne Stolnitz.
- Cantor Stolnitz first served as Cantor in Vancouver and Minneapolis, before becoming the Cantor of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, and later, the Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue. Cantor Stolnitz died on 19 April 2004.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Cantor Samuel Stolnitz.
- Name Access
- Stolnitz, Samuel
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Immigrants--Canada
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3661
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3661
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1956]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4 x 4 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original portrait of Rev. Ephraim Daviat, cantor in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Portraits
- Places
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2524
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2524
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1928]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Crystal Beach is approximately ten kilometres from Kirkland Lake. It was a popular summer destination for Jewish residents in the area.
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of a group of children from Kirkland Lake with their cantor, Mr. Rabin, at Crystal Beach, Ontario. The photograph depicts the assembled group in front of a log house on the beach. Standing on the far right is David Duke.
- Name Access
- Duke, David
- Rabin, Mr.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- 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
- Crystal Beach (Fort Erie, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-2-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2527
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2527
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy studio portrait and corresponding negative of Cantor Rabin, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
- Notes
- The original photograph has Hebrew writing on the verso. See accession record for more information.
- Name Access
- Rabin, Cantor
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- 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
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-2-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Women's Auxiliary series
- Scrapbook file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 4
- File
- 2
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of residents listening to Mr. H. Levine (resident) reading from a Yiddish text. Mr. Levine read every Thursday.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Adas Israel Synagogue series
- Clergy sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 5-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1963-2008
- Physical Description
- 3 folders of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of correspondence relating to Adas Israel's search for a rabbi and cantor. It also includes programme books from tribute dinners honouring Rabbi Morton Green and Cantor Kirshblum.
- Name Access
- Adas Israel Congregation (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Jewish National Fund
- Green, Morton (Rabbi)
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Rabbis
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 1
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [196-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a Yiddish language and literature quiz, and the answers to the quiz in English.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish literature
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Larry Becker collection
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 34
- File
- 76
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- June 1986
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a flyer for the Hazzanim in Recital event held at Temple Sinai Synagogue on Wednesday, June 11, 1986.
- Name Access
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
- Toronto Council of Hazzanim
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Organizations series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 3
- File
- 17
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1965-1967
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two newsletters.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds
- Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 15
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1948-[1951?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence with Nioma Waldman and Cantor Moshe Kusevitsky regarding Kusevitsky's performances in 1950 and 1951.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds
- Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of tickets, invoices, newspaper clippings, programs, pamphlets, and correspondence related to Cantor Moshe Kusevitsky's performances in 1950, 1951, and 1952.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zelda Young fonds
- Miscellaneous series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 135
- Series
- 27
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Date
- [between 1982 and 1986]
- Physical Description
- 1 audio reel (27 min., 42 sec.) : polyester, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, stereo ; 1/4 in.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of Cantor Benzion Miller live in concert, accompanied by piano, on unspecified date and place. Program consists of three songs:
1 - L'Olam Yehai
2 - Hashem Moloch
3 - Habeit Mishomayim
- Name Access
- Miller, Benzion, 1947-
- Subjects
- Cantorial music
- Cantors (Judaism)
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Tape is in good condition. Audio quality is good. No signs of mold or SBS.
- Accession Number
- 1986-12-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- Date
- 1937-1970
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of personal records of Bunny Bergstein. Included is his certificate of graduation from "shule", or Yiddish school, and documents related to the B'Nai Brith Lodge.
- Subjects
- Education
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Bergstein, Bunny
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-3-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-3-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- 7 photographs : b&w ; 23 x 36 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1928-2014
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the life and cantorial career of Rev. Alexander Steinberg, and to a lesser extent his son, Ben Steinberg. Included are photographs of Cantor Steinberg, fellow cantors and the Shaarei Shomayim cheder class; Cantor Steinberg's scrapbook; hand-copied solo and choral music books; correspondence; and materials relating to Ben Steinberg's cantata Echoes of Children memorializing the children who perished in the Holocaust.
- Students identified in Cheder class include: Avrom Buckstein, Arnie Morrison, Reuvein Landsberg, Jack Geller, David Satok, Norman Rasky, Leon Gasner, Gerry Benson, Harvey Kofman, Leo Snowbell, Ben Steinberg, Earl Farber, Albert Strauss, Jerome Levine, and Saul Goodman (sitting third from the front against the wall).
- Administrative History
- Chazzan Alexander Steinberg was born Eliyahu Steinberg in Zhitomeir, Ukraine in 1893 to Chava and Chaim Steinberg. His father was the owner and operator of a lumber yard and, as a devout Jew, brought his son Eliyahu regularly to the synagogue where he developed a love of chazzanut and, in the then traditional apprenticeship method, studied the skills which would lead him eventually to a lifetime career in the music of the traditional synagogue.
- At the age of 15 he emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada and worked in a men's clothing store until he could find employment as a cantor. He began his professional life as a visiting cantor in the 1920s, travelling to smaller communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan, officiating at services for Shabbat, High Holy Days and the Fesitvals, as well as presenting concerts of Hebrew and Yiddish song.
- By the 1930s, he officiated regularly at the Atereth Yisrael Synagogue in Winnipeg and appeared as a concert cantor throughout the western Canadian provices (Lethbridge, Regina, Prince Albert, Edenbridge, Melville, Edmonton, Calgary, etc.) as well as Ontario (London, Hamilton, Kitchener, Sarnia, Ottawa, Fort William and Toronto) and as far away as St. Louis, Missouri and Detroit, Michigan.
- He was appointed cantor of Atereth Yisrael Congregation of Winnipeg in 1930 and maintained a relationship with that Shul throughout his time in Toronto, visiting regularly to daven and present concerts.
- After the death of his first wife, he married Polly Shapiro in 1928, and in 1933 he moved his family including four children (three, Sam, Ida and Laurie from his previous marriage) to Toronto, where for a time he served as cantor at Goel Tzedec Congregation.
- In Toronto, Cantor Steinberg became renowned for his beautiful tenor voice and his knowledge of the liturgy. He was much sought after and officiated througout the Toronto area in synagogues such as the Hebrew Men of England, Ostrovtzer, Beth Jacob, Kiever, Goel Tzedec, Palmerston, Anshei Minsk and Lubavitcher. All this activity brought him to the attention of various synagogues in the United States as well and he travelled to Detroit and Rochester on several occasions.
- In 1941, he was appointed Cantor at Shaarei Shomayim on St. Clair Ave., a congreation he served until 1950. He continued to serve outlying congregations in Hamilton, London and Sarnia until he was invited in 1953 to establish the King David Congregation in Toronto, to serve the unaffiliated during the High Holy Days. His cantorial career came to an end in April 1960 when he experienced a heart attach in London, Ontario while leading that community's Pesach service. He died at home in Toronto two days before Yom Kippur in 1960.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Benjamin Steinberg is a composer, conductor, organist, and teacher. He was born in Winnipeg on 22 January 1930 and received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto in 1961. He and his wife Mildred have two children.
- A soloist at age 8 in the synagogue choir conducted by his father, Cantor Alexander Steinberg, he began conducting choirs himself at age 12. At the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 1948-1951 and 1957-1960 he studied composition with John Weinzweig, piano with Samuel Dolin, and voice with Weldon Kilburn. After teaching from 1953-1958 in public schools in the Toronto area and studying music education at the University of Toronto, he served from 1961-1964 as head of the music department at Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute and from 1961-1964 and in the same capacity at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute from 1964-1986. He was director of school music (1950-1960) and music director (1960-1969) at Holy Blossom Temple, and in 1970 he became music director at Temple Sinai. His method for youth choirs, "Together Do They Sing" (New York 1961), was commissioned and published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
- Steinberg's music includes five sacred services (four published - 1963, 1969, 1969, and 1990 - by Transcontinental Music); works for choir and/or soloist and organ or orchestra (some published by Transcontinental Music and Israeli Music Publications); The Vision of Isaiah (1970) for tenor, choir, and organ or instrumental ensemble; Yerushalayim (1973) for soprano, choir, and orchestra; Echoes of Children (1979), a cantata for soloist, narrator, chorus, and orchestra (which won the International Gabriel Award and has twice been televised on PBS); and instrumental works including a suite for flute and string trio based on Israeli folksongs. Steinberg was invited by the city of Jerusalem to be an artist-in-residence in 1978 and 1980; he received the Kavod (Honour) Award of the Cantor's Assembly in 1983, and that same year received a composer's award from the American Harp Society for his Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp (1981, commissioned by Suzanne Shulman). A number of temples, synagogues, and congregations in the USA commissioned some 18 works from Steinberg between 1980 and 1991. He has also received commissions from Paul Brodie (Suite Sephardi 1980), the Chamber Players of Toronto (Suite for String Orchestra 1983), and Lawrence Cherney (Invocations 1990). Baritone Richard Allen recorded several of Steinberg's works on the cassette A Ben Steinberg Concert. (ca 1989, Transcontinental unnumbered).
- Of Steinberg's music Michael Isaacson wrote, 'While conservative, pragmatic and always well-mannered, it is also gratefully mindful of its tradition in a deeply lyrical way' (Journal of Synagogue Music, June 1973). Steinberg has presented Jewish music on the CBC, has published articles on it, and has given many lecture-recitals on it in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the USA. He is a contributor to EMC, a member of the CLComp, and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.
- Descriptive Notes
- Biographical Note: Further biographical information on Ben Steinberg is available with the accession record.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Families
- Heder
- Name Access
- Steinberg, Alexander, 1893-1960
- Steinberg, Ben
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-1-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-1-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 11 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 12 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1943-2016, predominant 1943-1966
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of personal records and photographs relating to Miriam Beckerman née Dashkin. Textual records include correspondence with Miriam's childhood friend Bea Madger, Bialik School reports belonging to her son Dan Beckerman (1962-1966), Dan Beckerman's YM & YWHA swim badge (1968), seven Jewish National Fund (JNF) certificates (1956-65); Toronto Happening Brochure listing Dan Beckerman's performance at the St. Lawrence Centre (1978); Newspaper clipping of death notice for Miriam's father David Dashkin (1976); Yiddish newspaper clipping of death notice for Miriam's grandmother Malka Yadashkin (Dashkin) Cohen; Yiddish correspondence; typed letter by Miriam Beckerman's mother Ethel Dashkin describing the Toronto Yiddish theatre scene; and photocopies of photographs documenting Miriam's trip to Palestine as part of the Habonim, a Jewish Labour Zionist youth movement (1945-47).
- Administrative History
- Miriam Beckerman (née Dashkin) is an award-winning Yiddish literature translator. She was raised in a Yiddish-speaking home, surrounded by Yiddish books and newspapers, and attended the Farband Folkshule in Toronto in the 1930s. An ardent Zionist in her teens, she trained at the Smithville Hachsharah farm to prepare for making aliyah. She later worked as a bilingual secretary (Yiddish and English) at the Ontario region, Canadian Jewish Congress.
- In 1946, she travelled to Israel where she met her husband, Moshe Beckerman, at a kibbutz. The couple and their children emigrated from Israel to Toronto in 1952. Beckerman continues to work as a Yiddish translator. She has a number of published translations, including her recent collaborative work "A Thousand Threads: A story through Yiddish letters."
- Beckerman received a 1998 prize from the Dora Teitelbaum Foundation Inc. in Choral Gables, Fla., for her accomplishments in translation. She said if it were not for translations, "many things would be lost to future generations. Moshe passed away in 1993.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Beckerman, Miriam Dashkin
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-1-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-1-11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records (2 vol. and 1 folder)
- Date
- 1919-[195-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a bound volume of cantorial music used by Cantor Akiva Bernstein of Beth Tzedec Congregation (Toronto) from the 1930s to the 1950s; and a published book of synagogue music Synagogen-Gesange: fur kantor und gemischten chor by Cantor Joshua S. Weisser (Pilderwasser) and Cantor Samuel Kavetzky (Bedrokowetzky) from 1919. The accession also includes handwritten drafts of music scores by an unknown author, possibly Elie Spivak.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Synagogue music
- Name Access
- Beth Tzedec Congregation (Toornto, Ont.)
- Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-6-21 [Processed]
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-6-21 [Processed]
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 13 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1982-1989
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Cantor Harold Klein and Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg. Cantor Klein's records include sound recordings and sheet music. Rabbi Rosenberg's records include certificates of conversion, divorce, and marriage; counselling and pastoral cards; decree absolutes; a letter to Mr. A. Copnick from Garry Goldberg regarding a "Burn the Mortgage Campaign" (the letter includes a note to the rabbi); a letter to Rabbi Rosenberg from Rabbi Bernard Baskin; and wedding record cards.
- Custodial History
- 6/25/2018: Rabbi Yossi Sapirman of Beth Torah Congregation donated the records to the Ontario Jewish Archives.
- Administrative History
- Cantor Harold Klein was the chazzan of the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation in Toronto. Cantor Klein was a classmate, and then later a student for many years, of Professor Noach Schall of Yeshiva University.
- Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg led Beth Torah Congregation for nine years. Prior to that, he was senior rabbi for seventeen years at Beth Tzedic, the largest Conservative congregation in Canada.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Rabbis
- Name Access
- Klein, Harold
- Rosenberg, Stuart E
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-7-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-7-12
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 450 cm of textual records and other material
- ca. 350 audio cassettes
- 164 audio discs : vinyl
- Date
- [19--]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Cantor Harold Klein. Included are audio recordings that belonged to Klein, sheet music, and other textual records.
- Administrative History
- Cantor Harold Klein was born in Borough Park, Brooklyn in 1929. The child of eastern European immigrants, Klein was the second of three sons. When he was four, the family moved to Williamsburg. It was there that he attended yeshiva.
- As a child, Klein was inspired by Rabbi Levi Greenwald, Rabbi Dovid Rabinowitz, and Earl Spero to pursue his vocation as a cantor. He studied with Cantor Noah Schall and [Frederick?] Pugel. In a 1984 interview with author Mark Slobin, Klein credited both with his later success.
- In the course of his career, Klein sung for several congregations. The first was Sutton Place Synagogue, aka the U.N. Synagogue, where he introduced congregational singing. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and became cantor at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue. After several years at Beth Emeth, he went to Shaarei Shomayim, where he sung for many years.
- In addition to regular singing, Klein occupied a number of important posts within the cantorial community. In the 1970s, he was elected to the executive council of the Cantors Assembly of America. At the time he was elected, Klein was serving as the president of the Toronto Council of Hazzanim.
- Klein was also a published author. After a friend encouraged him to write a songbook, he formed Mydas Music Company, which published his Let's Sing and Daven songbook in 1985. The songbook, which was accompanied by a ninety-minute cassette of Klein singing to piano accompaniment, won praise from a number of cantors. A sequel, Let's Sing and Celebrate,was released in 1987.
- In 1988, the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary inducted Klein as one of its honourary fellows.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Music by Jewish composers
- Synagogue music
- Name Access
- Klein, Harold
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-11-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-11-2
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 71 audio cassettes
- Date
- [19--]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 71 cassette tapes that belonged to Cantor Harold Klein.
- Administrative History
- Cantor Harold Klein was born in Borough Park, Brooklyn in 1929. The child of eastern European immigrants, Klein was the second of three sons. When he was four, the family moved to Williamsburg. It was there that he attended yeshiva.
- As a child, Klein was inspired by Rabbi Levi Greenwald, Rabbi Dovid Rabinowitz, and Earl Spero to pursue his vocation as a cantor. He studied with Cantor Noah Schall and [Frederick?] Pugel. In a 1984 interview with author Mark Slobin, Klein credited both with his later success.
- In the course of his career, Klein sung for several congregations. The first was Sutton Place Synagogue, aka the U.N. Synagogue, where he introduced congregational singing. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and became cantor at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue. After several years at Beth Emeth, he went to Shaarei Shomayim, where he sung for many years.
- In addition to regular singing, Klein occupied a number of important posts within the cantorial community. In the 1970s, he was elected to the executive council of the Cantors Assembly of America. At the time he was elected, Klein was serving as the president of the Toronto Council of Hazzanim.
- Klein was also a published author. After a friend encouraged him to write a songbook, he formed Mydas Music Company, which published his Let's Sing and Daven songbook in 1985. The songbook, which was accompanied by a ninety-minute cassette of Klein singing to piano accompaniment, won praise from a number of cantors. A sequel, Let's Sing and Celebrate,was released in 1987.
- In 1988, the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary inducted Klein as one of its honourary fellows.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Name Access
- Klein, Harold
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-6-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-6-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1926-1990
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of Esther and Jack Gelman, as well as of a sports team at the YMHA and the "Afro Communitee Negro Fliers" sports team. In addition, two copies of Yiddish dictionary books written by Jack Gelman and one copy of a book about Kensington Market by Jean Cochrane. Also included are two pieces of poetry by Jack Gelman, one about Toronto (1974) and one about Terry Fox (1981).
- Accession also consists of a number of original and photocopied newspaper clippings regarding the history of Kensington Market in Toronto (ca. 1988-2010). In addition, two booklets of self-guided tours and the history of Kensington Market are included in accession.
- Custodial History
- Donated by Esther Gelman. Clippings about the history of Kensington Market are from the collection of husband Jack Gelman.
- Administrative History
- Jack Gelman was born in Toronto, ON on October 28, 1929. Jack's parents emigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe in 1926. In the 1930s, the Gelman family lived at 105 Denison Street in Toronto, south of Dundas and near Spadina. His father, Philip Gelman, owned a horse and wagon that would stable at Sarah Kegerman's house, 26 Nassau St. Philip operated a vegetable stall at 206 Baldwin St. weekly from Thursday to Saturday. Jack attended Ryerson Public School in Alexander Park, and would often fight back at his peers that would beat and bully him for being Jewish.
- Esther Gelman (nee Davidson) was born August 18, 1934. In 1950 she worked at Homebread, and had her Sweet Sixteen party at Club Elgamour on Bloor Street. In 1951, after meeting at the YM-YWHA, Jack Gelman and Esther Davidson married.
- In 1953, Jack became a truck driver for Canadian Paper and Specialties. Esther and Jack's son Alan was born in 1953. The family lived above Jack's parents' shop on Baldwin Street. The couple had three other children: Sharon, Glenn (b. 1960), and Mandy. The children attended Camp Northland and Camp B'nai Brith.
- In 1959, the family moved from Baldwin Street to Bathurst Manor (235 Pannahill Road), as a group of Esther's friends had moved to the neighbourhood. Son Alan had his bar mitzvah at Beth Emeth Bais Yehudah in 1966.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)--Tours
- Sports
- Places
- Bathurst Manor (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-3-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-3-12
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual records
- 7 photographs : col
- 2 photographs : b&w
- Date
- 1949-2011
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Miriam Beckerman's work as a translator. Included are correspondence, English translations with corresponding Yiddish texts, awards, and some promotional materials relating to published translations. Also included are several photographs of Miriam.
- Subjects
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish literature
- Name Access
- Beckerman, Miriam
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-7-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-7-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- sound recording
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 15cm of textual records
- 11 audio cassettes
- 27 photographs : col ; 15 x 10 cm
- Date
- ca. 1986-2005
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Friends of Yiddish organization including audio recordings of guest lectures and study groups, photographs of Eda Schiff's retirement party and photogaphs of a special event honouring Bess Shockett. The event included performances by Cantor Louis Danto, folk singer Jenny Eisenstein, and Mitch Smolken.
- Accession also includes promotional material related to Der Yiddisher Mikado consisting of original poster and programs and photocopies of newspaper clippings, and photographs of the production. In addition there is a poster for the Klezmer Conservatory Band concert and assorted event flyers, programs and newspaper clippings concerning activities of Friends of Yiddish, specifically their Yiddish Mikado event.
- The accession also includes meeting minutes (2000-2004) and issues of the newsletter Dos Bletl (1986-2005), as well as separate copies of recipes created and assembled by "Kokhlefl" Etke Patt. All receipes were published in Dos Bletl. Each issue of Kokhlefl includes a recipe and local event listing section titled "Vos Tut Zikh In Shtot".
- Custodial History
- Materials from Friends of Yiddish. Donated by former persident Eda Schiff.
- Administrative History
- Friends of Yiddish is a Toronto-based organization founded in order to "promote the artistic and authentic expression of Mameloshn and Yiddish culture by offering and co-sponsoring concerts, lectures, films, Freylekhs, conversation groups, scholarships with community–wide frayndshaft". Friends of Yiddish was founded in 1984.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Theatrical posters, Yiddish
- Theater, Yiddish
- Yiddish language
- Ashkenazic cooking
- Jews--Ontario--Toronto
- Klezmer music
- Name Access
- Friends of Yiddish
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1266
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1266
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1913]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Negative #1266A has no writing.
- Name Access
- Wladowsky, Bernard, 1870-1963
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 6128
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 6128
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1954
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Custodial History
- The congregation was formed in 1909, and its first building was opened on Spadina Avenue in 1921. Around 1960, the congregation moved to the Bathurst and Sheppard area after the synagogue was damaged by fire. In 1975, the congregation merged with Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a group photograph. Identified from left: Mr. Itzkowitz, David Newman, Leon Zelicki, Conductor A. Lutsky, Mr. Weiner, Cantor Jacob Zigelman, Mr. Shilit, [unknown], and Mr. Ber.
- Notes
- For identification, see accession record.
- No restrictions on access.
- Name Access
- Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Zigelman, Cantor
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Choirs (Music)
- Synagogues
- 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
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1993-10-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1046-1047
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1046-1047
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Sep. 1976
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : (2 negatives)
- Notes
- Negative: 11:6:33; 11:6:34.
- Name Access
- Anshei Libavitch Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Miller, Cantor Ben-Zion
- Shaarei Tefillah Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Synagogues
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3828
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3828
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1929 or 1930]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Applebaum was cantor in New York and New Jersey.
- Was a founder of Mendelsohn choir and Tzozmirer Society.
- He worked as a salesman for Henzman Piano Co.
- He died in 1963.
- Name Access
- Applebaum, Isadore M.
- Heinzman Piano Co.
- Subjects
- Cantors (Judaism)
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-10-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4235
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4235
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duncan McLaren
- Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Copy photograph of Congregation Anshei Minsk, St. Andrews Street, Toronto, August 1985. Notice on door indicates that the High Holiday services conducted by the well-known cantor Rubien Schwebel.
- Name Access
- Anshei Minsk Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Schwebel, Rubien
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Synagogues
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Saint Andrew Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
