Level

Item

Item

4068

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1930 and 1939]

Physical Description

1 postcard : col.

Name Access

Beth Midrash Hagadol Synagogue

Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Architecture

Streets

Synagogues

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

University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-12-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6032

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

For identification, see accession record.

Perhaps Geverkshaften.

Includes: Abe Freeman, Max Manson, Nachman Lovinsky, A. Rhinewine; H.M.Kirshenbaum; Dr. Sam Hurwich; Israel Freeman; I.J. Weinrob; Louis Coldoff; Yisroel Meriminski of Israel; Sonya and Joseph Marin.

Notes

Photo by M. Schlachter, Modern Studio, Toronto.

Name Access

Coldoff, Louis

Freeman, Israel

Kirshenbaum, H.M.

Rhinewine, A.

Weinrob, I.J.

Subjects

Committees

Labor Zionism

Portraits, Group

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

1992-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1617

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1939 or 1940]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

Photo by Modern Studio

Name Access

Farband

Independent Workers' Circle Joint Committee

Leivick, H.

Jewish Organizations

Subjects

Committees

Lectures and lecturing

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 Islands (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1942]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Helen Fineberg (née Simon) and Sam Fineberg (in uniform), walking down a Toronto street.

Name Access

Simon, Helen

Fineberg, Sam

Fineberg, Helen

Subjects

Military uniforms

Streets

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

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of Teraulay St. (now Bay St.) showing pedestrian activity, 2 men on bicycles, a peddler's cart and several storefronts and buildings. The name on the window of the second hand furniture store is Liptchts (Lipchitz's). The Old City Hall clock tower can be faintly seen on the left hand side of the photo.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title is taken from a label on the slide.

Name Access

Lipchitz's

Subjects

Streets

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

Bay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Teraulay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

946

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1927

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Copy photograph of Borochov Young Poale Zion Executive Committee, taken in New York, 1927. Left front, Morris Lofsky, Toronto.

Name Access

Borochow Young Poale Zion Executive Committee

Lofsky, Morris

Subjects

Committees

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

New York (N.Y.).

Accession Number

1975-12-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Health Bread

Subjects

Stores, Retail

Streets

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2899

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2867

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1948]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Left to right: Rabbi Stohman (?), Rabbi A. A. Price, Harry Gula.

Name Access

Gula, Harry

Price, Rabbi A. A.

Stohman, Rabbi

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

Rabbis

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

Monarch Road (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-2-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2866

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1948]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph from left to right are: Yossel Osolky, Irving Gula, Rabbi A. A. Price, Rabbi Erwin Schild, Rabbi Albert Pappenheim, [unknown], [unknown], Rabbi Joshua Hershon (Montreal), [unknown], Harry Gula, [unknown].

Name Access

Gula, Harry

Gula, Irving

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Herson, Rabbi Joshua

Osolky, Yossel

Pappenheim, Rabbi Albert

Price, Rabbi A. A.

Schild, Erwin

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

Rabbis

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

Monarch Road (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-2-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

499

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the CJC Committee for Jewish Music Month in Kitchener, Ontario

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Music

Repro Restriction

Credit Kitchener-Waterloo Record

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

Kitchener (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2452

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Oct. 1962

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Simchas Torah, 1962.

Right to left: Ben Kayfetz, Nissan Yoeli (Mapam shaliach and principal in Albert Einstein School), Israeli ambassador and wife (Prato), Moises Baldas (chairman of Co-ordinating Committee), Elizer Anonowski, [unknown], Jaime Terner.

Name Access

Anonowski, Elizer

Baldas, Moises

Kayfetz, Benjamin, 1916-2002

Terner, Jaime

Yoeli, Nissan

Subjects

Committees

Places

Havana (Cuba)

Accession Number

1980-12-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

424

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 Jun. 1974

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Committees

Places

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1794

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1975?]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Sol Edell is on left.

Notes

Photograph was taken by the archives.

Name Access

Edell, Sol, 1919-2000

Mendelow, Martin

Subjects

Architects

Committees

Synagogues

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3728

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Subjects

Committees

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

Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-1-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1168

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 23, 1918

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the backyards and laneway behind Menachem Mendel Hyman's residence on Baldwin Street. A man seated on a horse-drawn wagon is in the laneway. The photo appears to have been taken from a second floor window.

Name Access

Hyman, Menachem Mendel

Subjects

Dwellings

Streets

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

Baldwin Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-1-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4033

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1947 or 1948]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Benjamin Barsh was the music director for the Standard Theatre and played viola with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Joseph Barsh with his son Preston Barsh. The photograph was taken in front of Standard Barber Shop, which was owned by Joseph's father Joshua and mother Gittel. In the background is Goldenberg's Restaurant, Shopsowitz', and the Victory Theatre.

Subjects

Conductors (Music)

Fathers and sons

Streets

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

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-3-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4497

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

From the Benjamin Brown Collection : Commission CLV.

Name Access

Brown, Benjamin

Subjects

Architecture

Streets

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

Cumberland Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1987-9-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3157

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1850]

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. print

Notes

This photograph is printed from a colour slide.

Name Access

A. & S. Nordheimer Co.

Subjects

Architecture

Streets

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

King Street East (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

672

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1965

Physical Description

2 photographs (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the southeast corner of Queen and Bay Streets, Toronto.

Subjects

Streets

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

Bay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

678

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1965

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a Toronto streetscape.

Subjects

Streets

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

Bay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

673

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1965

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Queen Street West at York Street.

Subjects

Streets

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

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

York Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

674

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1965

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the south side of Queen Street West, Toronto.

Name Access

Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Streets

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

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3414

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Subjects

Children

Streets

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Euclid Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1960 and 1965]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

This photograph depicts a Good Friday procession along College Street. The view is from a second floor window.

Subjects

Good Friday

Processions

Streets

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

601

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Autumn 1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Subjects

Streets

Places

Baldwin Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Henry Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3772

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Lazer "Louis" Rottenberg taken at the corner of Yonge and Queen Streets in Toronto.

Notes

Photo by Newsreel Snaps, Yonge St. Arcade, Toronto.

Name Access

Rotenberg, Lazer

Subjects

Portraits

Streets

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

Queen Street East (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Level

Series

Fonds

17

Series

5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1938-1978, 1991

Physical Description

6.5 m of textual records

15 photographs

Admin History/Bio

The Joint Community Relations Committee was created in 1938 by the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and the Toronto Lodge B’nai Brith. It was originally named the Joint Public Relations Committee and was responsible for combating antisemitism in Ontario. Public statements, by agreement, were made only by the Canadian Jewish Congress as B’nai Brith recognized the uniqueness of its national constitution. The committee was led by lay leaders from the community and a staff representative from the CJC. Shortly thereafter, similar committees were set up in Montreal and in Western Canada, and soon a National Joint Community Relations Committee was established.

The committee played a key role in achieving the early anti-discrimination act of 1944, and the Fair Employment Practices Act of 1951, leading to the Human Rights Code of today. It was prominent in the action against the spread of sectarian religious teachings in the public schools and took the lead in pressing for legislation against the dissemination of racial hatred. It acted for the preservation of religious and human rights and worked with numerous religious, fraternal and ethnic organizations in the wider community. The committee also investigated and acted upon all complaints of discrimination, antisemitism and other such incidents. They supplied Jewish and secular schools with educational materials including pamphlets and books, and conducted intercultural and inter-religious work in the community through organized lectures, seminars, institutes, and plenary sessions.

The committee was composed of equal representation from both the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the B’nai Brith. The money for the operation of the Committee was first provided by both organizations, however, in a 1947 agreement between the National CJC and B’nai Brith Canada, the parties stated that the finances for the committee would be raised in the name of the CJC, with B’nai Brith agreeing to make “token” contributions and co-operate with Congress’ fundraising campaign. As well, the professional staff and support persons for the committee, along with their salaries, came solely from the Central Region CJC.

The executive director (also referred to as the executive secretary) was the primary staff person responsible for carrying out the policy and activities of the JPRC, which included preparing press releases, liaisoning with affiliated groups, organizations, individuals, journalists, government representatives and any others wanting or needing information on issues relating to the JPRC’s work. The executive director acted as the recording secretary at all committee meetings and was the keeper of all official documents.

Around 1978, due in part to the earlier creation of the B’nai Brith’s League for Human Rights in 1970, the Canadian Jewish Congress and the B’nai Brith terminated their joint relationship with the committee. At the time, the CJC felt that B’nai Brith was playing a dual role in advocacy through the League and through the JPRC. B’nai Brith, in turn, felt that the CJC was shutting out the B’nai Brith’s voice. Nevertheless, the “Joint” was not dropped from the name until around 1991.

In 2011 the Community Relations Committee ceased to exist when the CJC Ontario office was closed and the functions of the CJC were folded into the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).

Committee name changes were: Community Relations Committee, CJC, Ontario Region (ca. 1991-2011) Joint Community Relations Committee, CJC, Ontario Region (ca. 1978-ca. 1991) Joint Community Relations Committee, Central Region (1962-1978) Joint Community Relations Committee, (1938-1962)

Scope and Content

Series consists of five sub-series. Sub-series 1 contains the agendas, minutes and associated documentation supporting meetings of the Community Relations Committee. Sub-series 2 contains speeches , publications, press releases and reports presented and/or distributed by the Committee. Sub-series 3 consists of case files documenting the Committee's activities of combating specific antisemitism and Holocaust-denying activities in Canada. Extensive documentation about Ernst Zundel is included Sub-series 4 contains 9 sub-sub-series documenting various categories of research files accumulated by the Committee. Sub-series 5 contains the general office records of the Committee and includes correspondence and memos of the Executive Director and records providing insight to the internal organization and management of the Committee's internal functions.

For more details see descriptions within the scope and contents notes at the sub-series and sub-sub-series levels.

Notes

Previously processed and cited a MG8 S

Physical extent note: when originally listed in 1988, this series contained about 20.5 metres of textual records. When partial processing and reorganization had been completed in 2013, 14 metres had been culled because those documents were duplicates, newspaper clippings, created by outside agencies or maintained in other agencies.

Associated material note:Library and Archives of Canada holds the records for the National B’nai Brith which does contain 30cm of material on the National Joint Community Relations Committee. The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives in Montreal holds the records for the National Joint Community Relations Committee, which contains some files on the Ontario Region, as they reported to the National office. The whereabouts of the B’nai Brith records pertaining to the Central Region activities are currently unknown.

Subjects

Committees

Arrangement

Because records in this series had been previously organized in a manner that proved difficult for use by archivists and researchers, the records, during 2010 and 2011, were totally rearranged and described to comply with RAD standards, to provide ease of access by researchers, and to fully reflect the activities and organizational history of the Community Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress during and after the period when it was a joint committee with the B'Nai Brith.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

9 Nov. 1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Yonge Street looking south from Wilton Square.

Subjects

Streets

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

The City of Toronto Archives has the same image in Fonds 16, series 71, item 7435.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

General Wingate Branch 256, Royal Canadian Legion fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

74

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Name Access

Royal Canadian Legion

Yonge Street

Subjects

Flags--Israel

Parades

Streets

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

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1976-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds

Jewish community involvement series

Level

File

Fonds

92

Series

4

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967-1973

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.

The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.

Scope and Content

File consists of records documenting J. B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are booklets, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, meeting minutes of the National Committee on Soviet Jewry and the Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry, reports, newsletters, conference booklets, and a brochure.

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Soviet Union

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds

Jewish community involvement series

Level

File

Fonds

92

Series

4

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1975

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.

The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.

Scope and Content

File consists of records documenting J. B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are newspaper clippings, bulletins, executive committee meeting minutes of the Committee for Soviet Jewry, a booklet, and a programme for the 23rd anniversary of the execution of Soviet Jewish poets, novelists and artists at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue.

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Soviet Union

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds

Jewish community involvement series

Level

File

Fonds

92

Series

4

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1986-1991

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help Refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.

The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.

Scope and Content

File consists of records documenting J.B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are booklets, reports, agendas, correspondence, meeting minutes, conference material for the Regional Conference on Israel and Soviet Jewry, and newspaper clippings.

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Soviet Union

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1918

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Bernice Mehr seated on a tricycle on Markham St., where the family home was located.

Name Access

Mehr, Bernice

Subjects

Children

Streets

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

Markham (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 Jun. 1942

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of members of the Office[rs] Committee of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, taken at their annual conference in Toronto. The members are identified on the front of the photograph.

Notes

General: Photograph was acquired on 21 June 1974.

Name Access

Jewish National Workers Alliance

Subjects

Committees

Congresses and conventions

Portraits, Group

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

Part Of

Toronto Cloakmakers Union fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

8

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph taken of the 25th Jubilee Arrangement Committee in 1936. Included in the photograph are the following people: A. Kirzner; Mrs. Lovich; A. Weingarten; A. Maggerman, CHMN; B. Havelock,sec.;H. Smith, treas.; A. Weinstock; M. Greenberg;L. Ginsberg; M. Wagman; S. Weiss; H. Newmark; H. Wise; D. Kirshenbaum; N. Neslin; O. Isenberg; H. Wagner; N. Cohen; M. Drillick; Z. Finkelstein; S. Langer; Ch. Blumenstein; H. Gluskin; Ch. Schatz; J. Tureck; S. Kraisman; J. Rodinsky; M. Saunders

Name Access

Blumenstein, Ch

Cohen, N

Drillick, M

Finkelstein, Z

Ginsberg, L

Gluskin, H

Greenberg, M

Havelock, B

Isenberg, O

Kirshenbaum, D

Kirzner, A

Kraisman, S

Langer, S

Lovich, Mrs

Magerman, A

Newmark, H

Neslin, N

Rodinsky, J

Saunders, M.

Schatz, Ch

Smith, H

Tureck, J

Wagman, M

Wagner, H

Weingarten, A

Weinstock, A

Weiss, S

Wise, H

Subjects

Anniversaries

Committees

Portraits, Group

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

70

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1974

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item consists of a photograph taken of the CJC Central Region Archives Exhibition Committee at the Kiever Synagogue in 1974. Committee members include from left to right: Stephen Speisman, Susan Cohen, Cyrel Troster, Bess Shockett, Susan Geller, and Martin Mendelow.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress. Central Region

Subjects

Archives

Committees

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Toronto Cloakmakers Union fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

8

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1919

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a the General Strike Committee for the Toronto Cloakmakers' Union, which was the Toronto local for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Subjects

Committees

Portraits, Group

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Admin History/Bio

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in the United States in 1900 by amalgamating seven local unions. The ILGWU was dominated by the Jewish and Italian immigrants who worked in the garment industries. The union was formed to protect their interests. In the early years it was troubled by politics, but still continued to grow. In Canada, the Toronto Cloakmakers Union became affilitated with the ILGWU in 1911, which was two years after their official formation.

Scope and Content

Item is a black-and-white photograph of the General Strike Committee of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in 1934.

Name Access

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Magerman, A

Subjects

Committees

Labor unions

Portraits, Group

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.

Physical Condition

Good.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3694

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm on matte 30 x 36 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of members of the Labour League's Camp Naivelt Committee. Pictured are:

Back row, left to right: Harry Levin, Mr. Boxenbaum, Sam Lipshitz, [unidentified], Fishel Rose.

Middle row, left to right: P. Hoffman, Harry Goldstein, Rose Freedman, Morris Starkman, Mrs. Nobleman, Mr. Sniderman, Philip Larger.

Front row, left to right: I. Milton, Harry Holtzman, I. Strasuner, Becky Lapides, Jack Cowan, Sam Speisman.

Name Access

Labor League (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Committees

Camps

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.

Accession Number

1983-6-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Level

Series

Fonds

17

Series

3

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1967-1992

Physical Description

4.5 m of textual records

1822 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

The earliest impetus for the creation of a Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) committee to focus on the issue of Soviet Jews was in response to the infamous “Leningrad trials” of thirty-one dissident Soviet Jews in the winter of 1970. Concurrently, the Soviet government began to systematically persecute almost all Jews who applied for permission to emigrate. The issuing of exit visas was refused (the genesis of the term “refusenik”), usually on exaggerated claims of national security, after which the applicants were often dismissed from their jobs, recalled to military service, or similarly persecuted by state authorities. Those who publicly protested such treatment were subsequently arrested, detained for long periods, or tried as examples to others and sent to Siberian labour camps.

When information about the plight of Soviet Jews reached Canada, Toronto’s Jews responded immediately and decisively. Synagogue congregations, student groups, women’s organizations, professional organizations and community groups all established independent committees to aid Soviet Jews directly and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. Very quickly these committees began organizing mass rallies, letter writing campaigns, petitions, targeted protests and direct aid involving large numbers of people and considerable fundraising efforts. From 1971 to the late 1980s the cause of Soviet Jewry remained, along with support for The State of Israel, the most significant issue to the Jewish community.

The Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC in early 1971 in order to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, the various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Toronto and the rest of Ontario. Organizations coordinated by the Action Committee included university student groups, the Group of 35, Women for Soviet Jewry (WSJ), B’nai B’rith, and the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the Steering Committee reporting to the Action Committee. By 1977, the Action Committee and the Steering Committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee).

The first Chairman of the SCSJ was the prominent Toronto politician and activist Joseph B. Salsberg. Later chairs, including Sam Filer, Phyllis Sugar, Reg Adelman, author Jeanette Goldman, Joyce Eklove, and Judge Ted Matlow were also involved with affiliated local groups whose activities were coordinated by the SCSJ. Sam Filer, its first permanent Secretary, became in 1976 its second Chairman. He also served as Chairman of the Toronto Action Committee for Soviet Jewry and was an original co-founder of Lawyers and Jurists for Soviet Jewry. Similarly, Phyllis Sugar was a Co-chair of the ACSJ with Reg Adelman in the early to mid-1970s, while simultaneously serving as the Chair of WSJ. Genya Intrator, the first Chair of WSJ in the early 1970s, later served as first Chair of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry. Despite having its first meeting in Winnipeg, the Canadian Committee had most of its leadership and activities in Toronto. Toronto residents Sydney Harris (later Judge Harris), David Satok, Genya Intrator and David Sadowski all chaired this committee as it developed a national agenda through contacts with affiliated organizations across the country, while coordinating internationally with groups such as the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews based in New York.

Towards the end of the 1980s, many of the restrictions regarding exit visas for refusniks were removed and increasingly Russian Jews began to immigrate to Israel, the United States and Canada. A large percentage of the latter settled in Toronto. By 1991, in response to the changes in Russia and the former Soviet republics, the CJC’s local and national Soviet Jewry Committees were wound up and their leadership began to focus on new issues, such as the integration of Soviet Jewish immigrants into Canada and the continuing struggle to fight antisemitism in the successor states of the former Soviet Union. To this end, the CJC formed a Political Liaison Committee in the early 1990s. Internationally, however, many Russian Jewish advocacy groups continued to operate on the foundation of activism and community organization established during the decades of solidarity built around the Soviet Jewry cause.

Custodial History

The records in this series were accumulated and maintained in the offices of the CJC under the jurisdiction of Samuel Resnick, in his role as the Director of the Community Action for Israel Committee, and as the main CJC staff employee for overseeing the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry and Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry, which eventually coalesced as simply the Committee for Soviet Jewry circa 1977. By 1980, Resnick’s title was Director of the Committee for Soviet Jewry, Central Region, making him the primary full-time staffer of the CJC involved in the Soviet Jewry cause.

Scope and Content

Series consists of extensive planning, administrative and operational records including meeting minutes, correspondence, budgets and membership lists. Records pertaining to activities include numerous event and protest photographs, articles, petitions, posters and other press materials. Records related to the gathering of information regarding Soviet Jewry include transcripts of telegrams and telephone conversations, background fact sheets and many individual case files.

This series has been arranged into six sub-series. Sub-series 1 consists of Ontario Region committee meeting agendas and minutes. Sub-series 2 consists of the correspondence files documenting various activities of that committee. Sub-series 3 consists of the agendas, minutes and general correspondence of the National Committee for Soviet Jewry. Sub-series 4 consists of records documenting affiliated Jewish organizations that collaborated with the CJC in protesting the persecution of Soviet Jews. Sub-series 5 consists of records documenting the various protest activities such as lobbying, letter writing, public rallies, marches and demonstrations. Sub-series 6 , Rufusnik Cases, consists of 3 sub-sub-series, containing individual case files, large published lists, and reference publications about Soviet Jews who were refused permission to emigrate (refusniks).

Notes

Physical extent note: although over 28 m of Soviet Jewry records were originally transferred to the OJA, more than 23 m of those records have been culled due to their origin (non-Canadian sources), format (outside periodicals and publications), because they were merely externally-created reference materials, or because they were part of the very large volumes of duplicates that made up the majority of the box contents. Records documenting the activities of other CJC Committees have also been removed for future processing within more appropriately-titled series within Fonds 17.

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Soviet Union

Arrangement

Because the Soviet Jewry records donated by the Canadian Jewish Congress had not been maintained in a discernable original order, they had to be reorganized into their current arrangement by the processing archivist.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1921

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1908 or 1909]

Physical Description

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

Custodial History

This item is a copy photograph of employees in the workshop of a cigar factory in Montreal. Abraham Walerstein is pictured at the far left.

Name Access

Walerstein, Abraham

Subjects

Cigar industry

Employees

Factories

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

Montréal (Québec)

Accession Number

1980-2-12

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Cemetery Committee series

Level

Series

Fonds

17

Series

22

Material Format

textual record

Date

1951-1959

Physical Description

18 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

The Ontario government was putting pressure on the Jewish cemeteries spread around Toronto to clear up the disorder in the burial grounds to ensure a system of perpetual care. The cemeteries were approached with this in view. In the end, through the efforts of Al Ginsburg of Beth Tzedec, the Dawes Rd. and Jones Avenue properties were reorganized, a permanent fulltime groundskeeper was engaged (A.M. Levy) and adminstration was improved. The other cemeteries remained outside of this new organization which was named the Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees. Some of these made their own arrangements. Canadian Jewish Congress lent its administrative help to the Amalgamated Dawes Rd. Trustees, hence this committee.

Scope and Content

Series consists of general files of the Cemetery Commitee.

Notes

Series formerly described and cited as RG254.

Subjects

Committees

Cemeteries

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2900

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2901

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2902

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2903

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2905

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2906

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2907

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1948

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item consists of image of Gula's Matza Factory, Toronto.

Name Access

Gula Matzah Factory (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Factories

Matzos

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

1981-4-3

Source

Archival Descriptions