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Arab protest [graphic material] – 1966.

Part Of: Zionist Organization of Canada fonds; Central Region sous-fonds; Subject files series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 28-1; Series 7; File 13

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Zionist Organization of Canada fonds; Central Region sous-fonds; Subject files series

Level: File

Fonds: 28-1

Series: 7

File: 13

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1966

Physical Description: 7 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: The file consists of photographs taken of an Arab protest against Israel.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Israel

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstration [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 6

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 6

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 3 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition (ILO) demonstration depicting a large group of protestors walking carrying banners. This is likely the large anti-fascist protest, which took place in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Notes: One copy is a close-up photograph.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Anti-fascist movements; Banners; 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.

Related Material: See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 8, 9, 11, 13, and 15.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Workers' Party of Canada, Toronto Branches [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 7

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 7

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 7 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a demonstration, likely organized by the International Left Opposition. Several people are walking together displaying banners, one of which reads the Workers' Party of Canada, Toronto Branches.

Name Access: International Left Opposition; Workers' Party of Canada

Subjects: Banners; Communism; 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: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Woman holding banner at International Left Opposition demonstration [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 8

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 8

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a woman holding a banner at an International Left Opposition demonstration. There are others holding banners behind her and people sitting along the side watching the demonstration. This image was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration, which took place in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Anti-fascist movements; Banners; 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.

Related Material: See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 9, 11, 13, and 15.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Protestors holding banners [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 9

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 9

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a group of male and female demonstrators holding banners at an International Left Opposition demonstration. This photo was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Anti-fascist movements; Banners; 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.

Related Material: See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 8, 11, 13, and 15.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstrators with banners [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 11

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 11

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a group of International Left Opposition demonstrators standing together with their banners. This photo was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration, which took place in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Anti-fascist movements; Banners; 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.

Related Material: See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 8, 9, 13, and 15.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstrators marching along Bathurst Street [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 12

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 12

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition demonstration held in Toronto. The demonstrators are walking down Bathurst Street at Ulster and are carrying banners saying "Fight Wage Cuts", "Workers Organize or Starve", and "For the Revolutionary Defense of the Soviet Union".

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Banners; Demonstrations; Socialism

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: Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.); Ulster Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Demonstrators holding banner at International Left Opposition demonstration [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 13

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 13

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of two men holding a banner with a slogan which reads "To Victory! Under the Banner of Lenin and Trotsky" at an International Left Opposition demonstration in Toronto. This photo was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration that took place in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Banners; Communism; 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.

Related Material: See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 8, 9, 11, and 15.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Western Guard [graphic material] – 1966.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 17; Series 5-3; File 260

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 17

Series: 5-3

File: 260

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1966

Physical Description: 15 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: File consists of photographs of members of the Western Guard white supremacist group at a mass demonstration in Toronto.

Notes: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access: Western Guard Party

Subjects: Demonstrations; White supremacy movements

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Morris Lofsky scrapbook [textual record] – 1930-1955.

Accession Number: 1988-4-8

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 1988-4-8

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Date: 1930-1955

Scope and Content: Accession consists of a scrapbook created by Morris Lofsky. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of Zionist and labour materials. Of particular note is a stop-work broadside featuring information about the march and demonstration at Queen's Park from 1933 in protest of the pogroms of German Jews leading up to the Second World War. There are also several strike notices from the furrier, dressmakers, and other unions.

Administrative History: Morris Lofsky lived with his family in the downtown Kengsington market area of Toronto. He worked as a fur worker and was an active member of the Jewish community.

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.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Labor; Zionism

Places: Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Chaim Weizmann at rally at Varsity Stadium, Toronto – [ca. 1939].

Accession Number: 2004-9-1

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2004-9-1

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Date: [ca. 1939]

Scope and Content: This accession consists of one black-and-white original photograph depicting Chaim Weizmann speaking at a rally in Toronto at Varsity Stadium on Bloor Street. Pictured from left to right are: Rabbi Samuel Sachs, J. J. Glass, Chaim Weizman, David Dunkelman. The photo was taken by Mel Hundert (the donor), who was present at the rally

Custodial History: Photo was kept by donor

Subjects: Demonstrations

Name Access: Weizmann, Chaim.; Glass, J.J.; Dunkelman, David.; Sachs, Samuel, Rabbi

Places: Bloor Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

J. B. Salsberg - Sep. 1985

Name: J. B. Salsberg

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: Sep. 1985

Source: Oral Histories

Name: J. B. Salsberg

Number: OH 71

Subject: Labor movement; Labor unions; Women; Demonstrations

Interview Date: Sep. 1985

Quantity: 1

Total Running Time: OH71_001: 44:50 minuets OH71_002: 35:55 minuets

Conservation: Copied August 2003

Use Restrictions: Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Biography: Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902–1998) was a labour leader, political activist, politician, newspaper columnist, and a man who dedicated his life to Yiddishkeit and the advancement of social justice. He was active in various Jewish organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and the New Fraternal Jewish Association. In 1938, he was elected as alderman on Toronto’s City Council; in 1948, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is well remembered by contemporaries, such as Sam Lipshitz, as a "champion of the people," committed to social justice, the plight of the working-class, and the preservation of Jewish culture.

Material Format: sound recording

Language: English

Name Access: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998

Geographic Access: Toronto

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Transcript: G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 71 - Salsberg\OH71_001_Log.pdf; G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 71 - Salsberg\OH71_002_Log.pdf

Source: Oral Histories

In this clip, Joseph Salsberg discusses the events that led to the birth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in America and the ILGWU's influence on the Canadian garment industry.

In this clip, Joseph Salsberg discusses the first sit down strike by tailors in Canada in recognition of women

Fire at W. Leff & Co. plant (London, ON) [graphic material] – [193-].

Level: Item

ID: Item 2437

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2437

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-]

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 print and corresponding negative of the destruction caused by fire at the W. Leff scrap plant in London, Ontario. The photograph depicts the burned out building, surrounded by rubble.

Name Access: W. Leff & Co.

Subjects: Factories; Fires

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: London (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1978-8-10

Source: Archival Descriptions

Factory for Mr. Samuel Godfrey on King Street West [architectural drawing] – [ca.1930].

Part Of: Benjamin Brown fonds; Commercial building plans and drawings series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 49; Series 3; File 67

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Benjamin Brown fonds; Commercial building plans and drawings series

Level: File

Fonds: 49

Series: 3

File: 67

Material Format: architectural drawing

Date: [ca.1930]

Physical Description: 6 architectural drawings : pencil on tracing paper ; 62 cm length or smaller and 5 cm diam.

Admin History/Bio: Samuel Godfrey was the owner of S. Godfrey tailor supplies and trimmings.

Scope and Content: File consists of architectural drawings of a three-storey factory for Mr. Samuel Godfrey on King Street West. Elevations, floor plans, a roof plan, and a section are included.

Subjects: Factories

Related Material: See File 49-5-14 for plans of a house for Mr. Samuel Godfrey designed by Douglas E. Kertland.

Places: King Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Protester holding sign that reads, "We shall not forget" [graphic material] – 31 May 1981.

Level: Item

ID: Item 3077

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3077

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Date: 31 May 1981

Physical Description: 2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a protester holding a sign that reads, "We shall not forget." The protester was attending an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of neo-Nazi Ernst Zündel's home in Toronto, Ontario.

Notes: Source of title proper: Title based on contents of image.; Statement of responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access: Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects: Demonstrations; Neo-Nazis

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region [textual record] – 1973-1974.

Accession Number: 2015-9-12

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2015-9-12

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual material

Date: 1973-1974

Scope and Content: Accession file consists of letters, posters, press releases, minutes of meeting and policy statements regarding Israeli prisoners of war in Syria. The documents are from many organizations such as the Labor Zionist Alliance, National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, Toronto Jewish Youth Council, and the Canada-Israel Committee.

Custodial History: There is no information on the acquisition of this material.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Israel--Armed Forces

Name Access: Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Places: Toronto, Ont.

Source: Archival Accessions

Debby Solomon-Natan Sharansky [graphic material, textual record] – 1976-[ca. 1990].

Accession Number: 2016-6-12

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2016-6-12

Material Format: graphic material; textual record

Physical Description: ca. 60 cm of textual records; 11 photographs (3 negatives) : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Date: 1976-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of textual and graphic records that trace Natan Sharansky's history as a prisoner of political conscience; the broader Refusenik issue; and the community advocacy efforts of Debby and Stan Solomon from 1976 and into the late 1980s at the local, national and international scales. Included are memos and newsletters from the Committee for Soviet Jewry (Ontario Region and national-level); background information as well as petition templates, speeches and planning documentation produced by the Committee to Release Anatoly Sharansky and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in conjunction with community organizations, including the CJC and its Soviet Jewry social action committees, to support on-going advocacy efforts; correspondence with Canadian and American political representatives at the provincial/state and national levels; white papers/grey literature from non-governmental organizations about the persecution of the Soviet Jewry; planning documentation from the First Annual Sharansky Lectureship on Human Rights in 1980; correspondence, articles and ephemera associated with the granting of Sharansky's honourary law doctorate from York University in 1982; 1985 Freedom Rally/Weekend in Ottawa planning documentation and correspondence; 1987 National Conference on the Soviet Jewry and Mobilization for Freedom planning documentation; 1987 Community Rally at Massey Hall promotional materials; and promotional materials from Sharansky's autobiographical "Fear No Evil" 1988 book launch. Graphic material includes photographs of Sharansky's release during the February 11, 1986 American-Soviet prisoner exchange on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.; Identified in the photographs are: Debby Solomon; Stan Solomon; Natan Sharansky; Avital Sharansky; U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt;

Custodial History: Material was collected and/or created by Debby Solomon, Natan Sharansky's cousin. Debby donated it to the OJA.

Administrative History: Debby Solomon is the cousin of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, the Soviet born Israeli politician, human activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Debby's father Boris Landis (born 1900) and Sharansky's father were first cousins.Their grandfathers were brothers. Debby's father immigrated 1929 to Toronto from Russia as his older brothers were already in Toronto. Debby and her husband Stan Solomon got involved in the community's activism efforts to free Sharansky and other Refuseniks.They were worked for many years on these efforts by planning programs through their synagogue Beth Tikvah and with Sam Filer, a lawyer and volunteer at the CJC who was also a member of Beth Tikvah.

Subjects: Antisemitism; Politics and government; Human rights; Demonstrations; Synagogues; Committees

Source: Archival Accessions

E. Miller [textual record] – [192-?]-1953.

Accession Number: 2016-3-63

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2016-3-63

Material Format: textual record

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Date: [192-?]-1953

Scope and Content: Accession consists of material primarily documenting kosher meat scandals and strikes in Toronto in the 1920s and 1930s as well as the Kehilla (Toronto Rabbinical Board). There are complete pages of some documents and portions of others. The documents are flyers (public notices) in Yiddish (with some Hebrew in religious context and quotations) to do with a scandal or several scandals in which it became clear a number of butchers were operating outside Rabbinical Board supervision and therefore selling (assumed to be) treif meat to Toronto Jews. Secondary scandal with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, who allegedly split off from the Rabbinical Board with six butchers to do business outside the union, with wholesalers, and gaining more money than union butchers and the rabbis working with them. Another thread relates to a strike for cheaper meat, including meetings of women picketers, and then for better conditions for local butchers. The flyers mostly fall between 1920-1940. All are from Toronto. Lists of local butchers’ shops with addresses and names are included.; Additional flyers cover Communist protests and protest meetings against German fascism and pogroms, specifically Hitler's government's prosecution of the Communist Party of Germany related to the Reichstag fire. Also included are a 1953 flyer for the tenth anniversary commemoration of the Latvian-Lithuanian Jews’ annihilation, and an open letter to Rabbi Abraham Aaron Price regarding his title.

Custodial History: There is no information on the acquisition of this material. However, retrieved from the original package in which the material was lodged was a note "Kashruth fliers from E. Miller" or Mitler.

Descriptive Notes: Language: Yiddish with some Hebrew (phrases and quotations).

Subjects: Demonstrations; Kosher food; Rabbis

Places: Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.); College Street (Toronto, Ont.); Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.); Kensington Avenue (Toronto, Ont.); Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.); Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)