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Janet Charendoff (Belleville, ON) [graphic material (electronic)] – [ca. 1948].

Accession Number: 2009-9-4

Source: Archival Accessions

Accession Number: 2009-9-4

Material Format: graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Date: [ca. 1948]

Scope and Content: Accession consists of one scanned photograph of a cheder class in the basement of the synagogue in Belleville. Identified are: Bill Mayer, Rabbi Babb, Ron Gitelman, Sandra Yanover, Stanley Albert, Janet Salz (nee Charendoff), Steven Schwab, Barbara Abramsky, Jane Yanover, Paul Yanover, and Gloria Lipes.

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: Children; Heder; Portraits, Group

Places: Belleville (Ont.)

Source: Archival Accessions

Cheder class [graphic material] – [ca. 1916].

Part Of: Congregation Beth David fonds; Religious programs and services series; Beth David Hebrew School file

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 88; Series 2; File 1; Item 1

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Congregation Beth David fonds; Religious programs and services series; Beth David Hebrew School file

Level: Item

Fonds: 88

Series: 2

File: 1

Item: 1

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [ca. 1916]

Physical Description: 2 photographs (1 negative) : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a Brantford Hebrew Association (later Congregation Beth David) cheder class. Pictured is Rabbi Jack Corsonsky (Corson) surrounded by his students. Pictured in the front—second and third from the left—are Ida and Alice Gazer.

Subjects: Heder

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: 1976-6-8

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Rev. W. Gringorten and cheder class (Brantford, ON) [graphic material] – [ca. 1920].

Part Of: Sadie Stren fonds; Photographs file

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 78; File 3; Item 8

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Sadie Stren fonds; Photographs file

Level: Item

Fonds: 78

File: 3

Item: 8

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [ca. 1920]

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Rev. W. Gringorten with his cheder class in Brantford, Ontario. The photograph was taken during Purim celebrations and all of the children are wearing white paper hats.

Subjects: Heder; Purim; Students

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: Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1978-11-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Cheder Hanukkah party (Brantford, ON) [graphic material] – [ca. 1959].

Level: Item

ID: Item 1133

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1133

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [ca. 1959]

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of cheder students from Beth David Synagogue in Brantford, Ontario, lighting the Hanukkah candles, while their rabbi looks on.; Pictured in rear are Rabbi Jerry Pruzansky and Mrs. Sybil Pruzansky. Pictured left to right are Neil Spiegal, Ian Gotlieb, Howard Rotberg, Marlene Cohen, Bobby Willinsky, Helene Raimer, Jeffrey Kanter, Andy Brown and Martin Abeles.

Notes: Acquired on June 28, 1976.

Name Access: Beth David Synagogue (Brantford, Ont.)

Subjects: Hanukkah; Heder; Parties

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

Places: Brantford (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1976-6-5

Source: Archival Descriptions

Joseph Abramsky's store, Princess Street (Kingston, ON) [graphic material] – [191-?].

Level: Item

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [191-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a street shot showing Abramsky's store and a street trolley.

Notes: Photograph is a copy.

Name Access: Abramsky, Joseph

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: Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-3-5

Source: Archival Descriptions

Street scene, Kirkland Lake, Ontario [graphic material] – 1976.

Level: Item

ID: Item 875

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 875

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Duke Studio

Date: 1976

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: This item is an original print of a street scene in Kirkland Lake. Pictured is a Woolworth's store, a restaurant and several other shops.

Name Access: Woolworth's (Kirkland Lake, 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: Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

Street scene, Kirkland Lake, Ontario [graphic material] – 1976.

Level: Item

ID: Item 877

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 877

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Duke Studio

Date: 1976

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: This item is an original print of a street in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Pictured is an Eaton's store among others. One of the buildings occupies the former site of Roza Brown's home.

Name Access: Brown, Rosa; T. Eaton Co

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: Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

Rosenstein building and Seymour's men's boys' and ladies' wear store (Kirkland Lake, ON) [graphic material] – 1976.

Level: Item

ID: Item 897

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 897

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Duke Studios

Date: 1976

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: This item is an original print of the Rosenstein building, owned by Mrs. Rosenstein of Sturgeon Falls, and Seymour's men's boys' and ladies' wear store in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Seymour's was owned by Seymour Sukerman and was established in the early 1930s.

Name Access: Sukerman, Seymour

Subjects: Clothing trade; 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: Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

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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Nablus [graphic material] – 1967.

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 145; Series 1; Item 13

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

Fonds: 145

Series: 1

Item: 13

Material Format: graphic material

Other Title Information: Title taken from writing on back of photograph.

Date: 1967

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph depicting a bustling street scene in Nablus, with an array of pedestrians and a variety of shops lining the street. People are dressed in a mix of traditional and western clothing. Arabic signage is visible above the shopfronts.

Notes: Availability of other formats: Also available as TIFF file.; General: The following is written on the back of the photograph: "Nablus."

Subjects: Streets

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

Places: Nablus

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Street market with baked goods and pedestrians [graphic material] – 1967.

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 145; Series 1; Item 27

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

Fonds: 145

Series: 1

Item: 27

Material Format: graphic material

Other Title Information: Title based on contents of image.

Date: 1967

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 9 cm

Notes: Availability of other formats: Also available as TIFF file.

Subjects: Baked products; Markets; Streets

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

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Desolated street scene [graphic material] – 1967.

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 145; Series 1; Item 98

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Samuel Crystal fonds; 1967 UJA Mission series

Level: Item

Fonds: 145

Series: 1

Item: 98

Material Format: graphic material

Other Title Information: Title based on contents of image.

Date: 1967

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Notes: Availability of other formats: Also available as TIFF file.

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.

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Cheder Chabad Lubavitch [textual record] – 1996-1998.

Part Of: Board of Jewish Education fonds; School files series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 48; Series 5; File 82

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Board of Jewish Education fonds; School files series

Level: File

Fonds: 48

Series: 5

File: 82

Material Format: textual record

Date: 1996-1998

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Subjects: Habad; Heder

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Steinberg family [textual record, graphic material] – 1928-2014.

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.