- 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
- Accession Number
- 1997-5-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-5-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 26 photographs : b&w and col ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1996-2001
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a souvenir program of the opening of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham (1997), programs for a Bais Yaakov High School Play (1997), a Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association Yom Hashoah event (1997), and a flyer for a lecture at the Mizrachi Bayit (1997). As well there is an invitation to the First Annual Dinner and Auction of the Carrie and Adam Dream Fund (1997), a Firefly Books catalogue (1997) and a letter and photos regarding the opening of the caylefilm office.
- The photographs document a variety of community events and oganizations including Camp Ramah in Canada, Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT), Leo Baeck Day School, Temple Har Zion, Netivot Hatorah, Mizrachi, Israel Bonds, and Chabad Lubavitch.
- 001: Leo Baeck Day School in Thornhill celebrated Children’s Book Week this year with a week of visits by authors, book donations to Plaut Manor, and a Dress-up Day. Among the visitors were illustrator Heather Collins, and authors Sheryl McFarlane and Bernice Thurman Hunter. Enjoying Dress-up Day are [front row] Alana Bobet and [second row from left] Jamie Bregman, Matthew Sherman, Jamie Weksberg, Lisa Mark, Adina Mann, Mindy Perlmutter and Robbie Faibish. Photo by Barry Shainbaum. 009: Gertner family reception, [ca. 2000]. Back Row (L to R): Marlene (née Gertner) Brickman, Eric Gertner, Michael Brickman, Michael Brown, Director of York’s Centre for Jewish Studies, Henry Gertner, Berek Gertner, Elinor Gerner, Reginal Gertner and Cheryle Gertner. Front Row (L to R): Visual arts student Samara Enchin, history and education major Adam Segal, visual arts student Carolyne Novak and political science and Judaic studies major Jonathan Lasky.
- Custodial History
- These records were donated by Leila Speisman, a former employee of the Canadian Jewish News. The CJN would regulalry receive materials from institutions and organizations when writing about their events.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Mizrachi Bayit (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-2-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-2-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25 x 21 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1991
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a colour photograph of Hanna Schusheim, Emunah Toronto Council co-president (centre) with bazaar co-chairman Agnes Deutsch (left) and Malka Deutsch; a photograph of the entrance to Pardes Shalom cemetery with (L-R) Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, Jewish community chaplain; Sidney Freedman, founding president of Toronto Hebrew Memorial Park; Bill Draimin, current president; and Lorna Jackson, mayor of the city of Vaughan; a photograph of Rabbi Yitzchak Witty (right) and Mr and Mrs. Yitz Feldman; and a photograph of Anna Cohen and family.
- Custodial History
- Thes pohtographs came to the OJA from the Canadian Jewish News through Leila Speismanm, a former journalist with the paper.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish News
- Pardes Shalom Cemetery (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1986-12-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1986-12-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 14 photographs : b&w and col. ; 20 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1980]-1986
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs from the Canadian Jewish News documenting the activities of a number of organizations including United Synagogue Day School, Associated Hebrew Schools, Maccabi World Union, Lubavitch Women's Organization, Jewish Community Centre (JCC), Yeshiva University, and Bar Ilan University.
- Descriptive Notes
- There are handwritten and taped pieces of paper on the backs of the photographs with descriptive and identifying information.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-6
- Material Format
- object
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 poster
- 3 cm of textual records
- Artifacts
- Date
- 1928-[ca. 1944]
- Scope and Content
- This accession includes a Standard Theatre poster for the play Sheindele from Slabodke, staring Mischa and Lucy German (1928). This production was also known as Papirosn-makherin (Cigarette Maker) and Reizele from Slabodke and was staged in 1927 in the Hopkinson Theatre then in Philadelphia with Clara Young, Lucy German, and Vera Rosanka.
- Also included are pages from a scrapbook with Jewish Standard editorial writings from the 1930s by Hye Bossin. Topics include life on Spadina Avenue and in Kensinton Market, Yiddish entertainers, Emma Goldman's visit to Toronto, Caplan's Cafe, athletes, and the Toronto Islands. As well, there is a metal plate for F. B. Harris, circa 1944, with an inscription on it in memory of Sgt. F. B. Harris who "died in his country's service 6 June, 1944."
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: The Standard Theatre poster and Emma Goldman interview are available as digital files.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Theatrical posters, Yiddish
- Name Access
- Bossin, Hye
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
- Harris, Fred. B.
- Standard Theatre (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- 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
- Accession Number
- 2012-7-23
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-7-23
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 60 cm of textual records and graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of graphic and textual records that were used for research or publication by the Canadian Jewish News.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition information for these records. The accession number has been assigned by the archivist.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish News (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- text
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- 7 books
- Date
- 1966-1974
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of several copies of the Canadian Jewish Review, the Chronicle Review and the Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review. Also included is an Ottawa Jewish bulletin and several books.
- Custodial History
- Records were in the possession of Stanley Shankman.
- Administrative History
- Stanley Shankman was the former owner of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review. He purchased the Canadian Jewish Chronicle (est. 1914, successor to the Jewish Times, est 1897) in Montreal in 1962 when it was experiencing financial difficulties. Max Melamet was his first editor. He later purchased the Canadian Jewish Review (est. 1921) and combined the two publications into one: the Candian Jewish Chronicle Review (ca. 1967), which published editions in both Montreal and Toronto. Carol Frilegh was the paper's first edtor.
- When Ray Wolfe, Donald Carr and Charles Bronfman purchased the Candian Jewish News from M. J. Nurenberger, Shankman sold them the Candian Jewish Chronicle Review to incorporate into one community paper serving the two cities.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Shankman, Stanley
- Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review
- Canadian Jewish Review
- Canadian Jewish Chronicle
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-8-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-8-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2.7 m of textual records (35 v.)
- 6.3 m of photographs : b&w and col.
- Date
- 1949, [197-]-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of bound Canadian Jewish News newspapers from 1996 to 2012; bound copies of the Canadian Jewish Review from 1949 and the Canadian Jewish News' photograph collection. The photographs are arranged alphabetcially by subject, with the exception of two blocks of photographs related to "rabbis" and "places".
- 001: Anti-Zundel rally in front of Old City Hall, 19 Jan. 1984. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, accession 2013-8-2. Photo by Graphic Artists.
- Custodial History
- The records were in the custody of the Canadian Jewish News.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish News
- Places
- Canada
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 20 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1934-1966
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records created or accumulated by Suzann (Cohen) Hutner related to the operations of the Canadian Jewish Review. Included are circulation reports, financial records, correspondence related to advertisers and the sale of the publication, issue summaries prepared by Suzann and a history of the paper written by Suzann. There also a few issues of the CJR from the 1930s.
- Custodial History
- The records were in the custody of Harold Hutner, the stepson of Suzann Hutner.
- Administrative History
- The Canadian Jewish Review was established in 1921 by George and Florence Cohen. The couple had founded the short-lived Buffalo Jewish Review prior to them immigrating to Canada. The CJR was not bound by any particular religion or organization. Their offices were located in the Hermant Building at Dundas Square. The paper was sold to the Canadian Jewish Chronicle in 1966.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- Hutner, Suzann
- Cohen, Florence
- Cohen, George
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- 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
- 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
- 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.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-12-68
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-12-68
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1967-1981
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 9 monthly periodicals of The Canadian Zionist dating from December 1967 to September/October 1981. Published by Canadian Zionist Federation, national office, 1310 Greene Ave., Montreal, Quebec.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Name Access
- The Canadian Zionist
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-2-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-2-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1946
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of pages from the Jewish Chronicle dated Friday January 18, 1946. The front page reported the death of British Empire's Chief Rabbi Rev. Dr. J. H. Hertz, C.H.
- Custodial History
- Clipping was discovered while processing CJC (Fonds 17) holdings.
- Administrative History
- The Jewish Chronicle is a London, England based Jewish weekly newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Places
- England
- Source
- Archival Accessions