- Level
- Item
- ID
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Item 6703
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 6703
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1937]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph depicting Chaim Weizmann speaking at a rally in Toronto at Varsity Stadium on Bloor Street. The photo was taken by Mel Hundert, the donor, who was present at the rally.
- Pictured from left to right are: Rabbi Samuel Sachs; J. J. Glass; Chaim Weizman; David Dunkelman.
- Name Access
- Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952
- Dunkelman, David
- Sachs, Samuel, Rabbi
- Glass, John Judah, 1895-1973
- Subjects
- Demonstrations
- Presidents--Israel
- 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
- 2004-9-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Rose Dunkelman fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 39
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1896-1979
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- 28 photographs : b&w (11 negatives) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- 2 scrapbooks
- Admin History/Bio
- Rose Dunkelman (1889–1949) was born Rose Miller in Philadelphia to Harry Miller and Dora Miller (née Belkin). At the age of thirteen, she moved to Toronto where she received her education and where she resided with her family until her death in 1949 at the age of fifty-nine. Rose Dunkelman devoted her life to helping the less fortunate, particularly children and orphans, and to championing the cause of Zionism at home and abroad. She was internationally known and respected for her philanthropic work and for her knowledge of, and dedication to, Zionist causes. She was a leader in the Canadian-Jewish community for more than thirty years.
- On 19 January 1910, she married David Dunkelman (1883–1978), founder and president of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. The couple had six children: Joseph, Ernest, Benajamin, Theodora, Veronica (Annenberg) (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner).
- Rose was a founding member of the Zionist Organization of Canada, vice-president of the Ontario Zionist Region, and founded and chaired the Canadian branch of Youth Aliyah in 1933. For over twenty-five years, Rose held various positions within the Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada, including president of the Toronto Council of Hadassah (1921), honorary president on the executive board (1938–40), joint chair of the war effort (1941), president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada Central Chapter of Toronto (1937–8, 1945-6), and honorary national vice-president. Rose also founded the Hadassah Bazaar in 1924. There is currently a Canadian Hadassah day care centre in Neve Sharett that is named in her honour, as well as the Rose Dunkelman Memorial Community Center in Hadassim erected in 1950 in her memory.
- In 1930, prompted by the 1929 attack on Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and in Hebron, Rose and David Dunkelman founded the magazine the Jewish Standard as a Zionist forum for the English-speaking Jewish population of Canada. She was the periodical's first publisher and managing editor.
- After the First World War, Rose worked as an officer with the Canadian Red Cross, bringing war orphans to Canada from eastern Europe, for which she was presented with the Coronation Medal by King George VI in 1937. She was also active in the rehabilitation of First World War veterans.
- During the Second World War, as chair of Ontario Youth Aliyah, Rose helped rescue children from Nazi persecution at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps and helped secure their passage to and resettlement in Palestine. Dunkelman held leadership positions in many domestic and international Jewish and Zionist programs and projects—many focused on the welfare of Jewish children—including the Jewish National Fund, Karen Hayesod, Karen Kayemeth, Young Judaea, the Toronto Hebrew Free Schools, and the YM-YWHA. She also served on the Canadian Family Allowance Board after the Second World War.
- After a lengthy illness, Rose died on 20 October 1949 in Toronto at the age of fifty-nine. She was buried at Goel Tzedec's cemetery on Dawes Road and was later re-interred in Israel's national cemetery at Degania on 14 January 1953, as she requested in her will.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of personal and business correspondence, family letters, newsclippings, event invitations, articles, two scrapbook albums and other textual material relating to Dunkelman's death and re-interment in Israel, her philanthropic activities with Hadassah and Youth Aliyah, and her business activities with the Jewish Standard.
- One scrapbook contains a testimonial certificate presented to Rose by Toronto Hadassah on her recovery from ill health (1926), while the other was presented to her by Toronto Hadassah on the occasion of her 57th birthday in 1946. This scrapbook contains photographs of the banquet along with several pages of signatures from members of local Hadassah chapters.
- The photographs include: Rose Dunkelman's re-interment in Israel (1953), a birthday banquet for Rose hosted by Hadassah (date uncertain), a portrait of Rose as a young woman (ca. 1905), David Dunkelman as a young boy in Brooklyn, NY (1896), the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto) extension (1966), a portrait of Benjamin Dunkelman in Israel (1953), and one photograph of Rose Dunkelman with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt (1941).
- Name Access
- Cohen, Israel
- Dunkelman, Ben, 1913-1997
- Dunkelman, David
- Dunkelman, Ernest
- Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949
- Dunkelman, Theodore
- Dunkelman, Veronica
- Dunkelman, Zelda
- Dunkelman, Joseph
- Family Allowance Board
- Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada
- Hebrew Free Schools
- Jewish Federated Charities
- Jewish National Fund
- Jewish Standard
- Karen Hayesod
- Karen Kayemeth
- Red Cross
- Steinglass, Meyer F.
- Tip Top Tailors
- Weisgal, Meyer
- YM-YWHA
- Zionist Organization of Canada
- Subjects
- Businesspeople
- Philanthropists
- Zionists
- Physical Condition
- Some of the documents are very brittle.
- Related Material
- Ben Dunkelman fonds 2: (accession 2000-3-4)
- Ben Dunkelman accession: 1978-6-6
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds 28, series 6, file 27
- photo #4690
- Hadassah accession: 1978-1-2, 1984-12-3, 2003-3-1, MG2 J1I
- The Jewish Standard: MG9
- Creator
- Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949
- Accession Number
- 1988-5-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions