- Part Of
- Dr. Isadore M. Cass fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 40
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1909-1995
- Physical Description
- 45 cm of textual records
- 14 photographs : b&w (8 negatives) ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Isadore M. Cass (1916-1996), a well-known pathologist and practicing mohel--Jewish ritual circumcisor--for the Toronto Jewish community, was born and educated in Toronto, attending the University of Toronto's medical school. After serving with the army during the Second World War, Dr. Cass returned to Toronto to private practice. He began studying pathology in 1953, and performed research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Connaught Labs and the Ontario Department of Health throughout his career. He was chief of pathology at Ajax and Pickering hospitals for twenty-three years, until his retirement in 1986.
- In 1945, Dr. Cass began doing ritual circumcisions and was the first medical doctor in Toronto to do so. He performed over 40,000 circumcisions throughout Canada and the eastern United States and trained many physicians to perform them as well.
- Dr. Cass was a member of the following organizations: New York Academy of Sciences; the Academy of Medicine, Toronto; the Israel Medical Association; General Wingate Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion; and many other associations and societies.
- Dr. Cass studied Torah under Rabbi Jacob Gordon and was a Torah reader at Goel Tzedec Synagogue and later, Beth Tzedec. He also studied and taught Torah throughout his life, chairing the Canadian Jewish Congress' Tanach study group for many years, and leading weekly Gemara classes at Beth Tzedec. He belonged to Shaarei Shomayim and Beth Lida synagogues, as well as Lubavitch. In 1987, Dr. and Mrs. Cass were honoured as "Couple of the Year" by Machanaim, The Network of Educational Institutions in Kiryat Gat, Israel, for their great contributions to this charity over the years.
- Dr. Cass was married to Miriam Cass and they had four daughters: Sharon, Hylah, Judy, and Elaine. He had four brothers: the late Rabbi Samuel Cass, Harry, Al, and Elie (who was a Reform mohel), and two sisters: Miriam Cass and Zelda Fink. He also had seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
- Dr. Cass died on January 24, 1996 of cancer.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of records relating to the personal and professional life of Dr. Isadore Cass. These records include appointment books documenting circumcisions he performed, correspondence, writings, Tanach study group notes, a Machanaim invitation and programme, prayer books, certificates, memorial cards, and photographs.
- Name Access
- Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Physical Condition
- The prayer book is in poor condition and some of the early daytimers are in fair condition.
- Related Material
- See also the Ontario Jewish Archives' reference news clipping file under "Cass, Dr. Isadore".
- Creator
- Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996
- Accession Number
- 1997-5-1
- 1997-8-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 14; Item 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 14
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1965]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Syd Wax.
- Notes
- Photograph is by Gordon Mendly Famous Studio.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 754
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 754
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original portrait of Dr. J. M. Ennis (formerly Enushevsky) of Welland, Ontario.
- Notes
- Acquired in June 1976.
- Name Access
- Ennis, Dr. Julius M.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- 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
- Welland (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 782
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 782
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original portrait of Dr. H. O. Singer of Welland, Ontario.
- Notes
- Acquired in June 1976.
- Name Access
- Singer, Dr. H. O.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- 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
- Welland (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 18; Series 1; Item 36
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 36
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1955]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Murray (Moishe) Reingold was born in 1918. Reingold graduated from the University of Toronto in 1943, although his Canadian Medical Association license was issued as "Dr. Maurice Reingold". Reingold completed his training in thoracic surgery at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Reingold served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as an MD. He worked as a Specialist in Thoracic Surgery, primarily lung surgery, and a Certified Specialist in General Surgery. He was married to Isabelle Ruth Reingold (née Rodger) by Rabbi Samuel Sachs in Toronto on Feb 26, 1944, and had two children: Debbie (Hamann) and Bryan. Wife Ruth Reingold worked as a Registered Nurse. Murray Reingold died on 25 December 2000, at the age of 82.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Murray Reingold.
- Name Access
- Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- 1 photograph: b&w ; 35 x 25 cm
- Date
- 1899-[ca. 1903]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of Dr. Samuel Lavine's certification from the State Board of Medical Colleges of New Jersey and and the Board of Medical Registration and Examination, State of Ohio. Also included is one photograph believed to be of Samuel and Ida Lavine.
- Custodial History
- Donor found items among her mother's papers, donor was Samuel Lavine's great-granddaughter.
- Administrative History
- Dr. Samuel Lavine (1874-1959) was the first Jewish doctor to practice in Toronto. He graduated from Trinity University Medical School in 1899. Understanding that Jewish practitioners had little future in Toronto, he moved to the United States and received his medical certification in New Jersey and Ohio. However, he returned to Toronto one year later and opened an office at John and Adelaide Streets. He was known for making house calls on his bicycle. Dr. Lavine was also part of the Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society, and became the first Jewish Lodge doctor in 1907. In 1909, he helped found, and later remained active in, the Free Jewish Dispensary. As of 1911 he lived at 159 Beverly Street. After 1922 he lived and practiced at 30 Dunvegan Road. The building was designed by Benjamin Brown. By 1931, Lavine's practice was located at 2 Wells Hill. Around 1903 he married Ida (nee Levy? Levi?) (1880-1958), and they had two daughters, Ruth (Levinson) and Helen (Sterling), and a son Bernard. Helen's husband, Theodore "Ted" Sterling, is said to be the first Jewish stockbroker.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Lavine, Samuel, 1874-1959
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1943
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 8 cm and 13 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Rose Abromowitz (1908–2001) was born in Toronto in 1908. Her parents were David Abromowitz (1884–1963) and Sarah Abromowitz (née Winfield) (1885–1955). David arrived in Toronto in 1906. Sarah and her parents, Jacob Winfield and Anna Winfield, settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, around 1880. Jacob worked as a grocer and relocated his family to Toronto around 1894. Sarah and David were married at the McCaul Street Synagogue in Toronto on 6 March 1906. They resided at 159 York Street after their nuptuals. David's father, Shevach, served as the cantor at Adath Israel. Rose's siblings included Murray and Oscar. Several members of the family later changed their surname to Abron during the early 1940s.
- Rose studied at the University of Toronto and became a physician in 1932. She married Harry Lahman. In November 1943, Rose and Harry moved from Toronto to Altanta, Georgia. Rose passed away on 7 January 2001 at the age of ninety-three. She was survived by a son, Jerome. Her obituary stated, "She officially retired in 1990, but continued to see herself as a doctor until the day she died."
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Abron.
- Notes
- Associated material note: See the New York Public Library's American Jewish Committee and Oral History Library for further holdings.
- Name Access
- Abron, Rose, Dr., 1908-2001
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See accession 2010-3/1.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 14
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Feb. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 9 cm and 12 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Anna Gelber (née David) (1907-2007) was born in Palestine in 1907 and passed away on 20 November 2007. Anna received her doctor of science from Sorbonne Univeristy in Paris, France, and her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto. An obstetrician, at one point she worked in the medical department of Toronto's Women's College Hospital. Anna was also a prominent communal worker, active as a member of the National Executive Board of the Canadian Hadassah.
- Anna married Eddie Gelber, a prominent communal worker. They had three children, Edna, Lynn, and David. She and Eddie travelled significantly between Israel and Toronto during their marriage.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Anna Gelber.
- Name Access
- Gelber, Anna, 1907-2007 (subject)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See also Fonds 80, Series 1-1, Item 13 for portrait of Anna's husband, Mr. Eddie Gelber.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 35
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 35
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Dec. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Sydney Wise (1915-2013) was born in Toronto on May 3, 1915. His parents were Anshel (b. 10 Jan 1890) and Esther (née Weissblum) Wise. Born in Poland, Anshel came to Canada in August 1910 and became a travel agent. They had three children: Lillian (Sharpe), Dr. David K. Wise and Dr. Sydney Wise. Syd attended high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1931. He then went on to complete his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto.
- Syd met his future wife, Mimi (née Marin) in 1938. Born in Toronto in 1920, Mimi (d. 2004) was the daughter of Joseph and Sonia (née Stern) Marin. The following year, Sydney moved to the United States to begin his medical internship at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mimi stayed behind in Toronto and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. In 1941, she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy, although she never practiced. In 1942, Sydney and Mimi married and Mimi joined Syd in the United States. The couple had 2 children, Mark and Joel.
- In 1944, Sydney was sent overseas with the United States Army as a Captain in the Medical Corps. After the war Syd and Mimi returned to Toronto where Syd opened his own practice as a pediatrician. After more than 50 years, Syd retired from his medical practice in 1997. Since then, Syd has been an active volunteer at the OJA.
- During their marriage, Syd and Mimi traveled to Israel frequently, often as part of Mimi's volunteer commitments with Hadassah. On a trip to Jerusalem in 1969, Syd met and had his picture taken with Prime Minister Golda Meir.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Sydney Wise.
- Name Access
- Wise, Sydney, 1915-1913, (subject)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See Mimi Wise fonds (Fonds 16) for further records regarding Syd Wise (including the photo of Syd with Prime Minister Golda Meir).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 21
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 21
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1953
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 8 cm 13 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Mitchell Kohan was a prominent Toronto internist and cardiologist. He married Lena Kohan in July 1924. Dr. Kohan was also an associate professor of medicine in the University of Toronto and the chief of medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. The Dr. Mitchell Kohan Scholarship was established in the Faculty of Medicine by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cohen in his memory; it is awarded annually to a student in the final year who has achieved honours standing, with an emphasis on excellence in medicine.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Mitchell Kohan.
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998 (creator)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 36
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 36
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Dec. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Sydney Wise (1915-2013) was born in Toronto on May 3, 1915. His parents were Anshel (b. 10 Jan 1890) and Esther (née Weissblum) Wise. Born in Poland, Anshel came to Canada in August 1910 and became a travel agent. They had three children: Lillian (Sharpe), Dr. David K. Wise and Dr. Sydney Wise. Syd attended high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1931. He then went on to complete his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto.
- Syd met his future wife, Mimi (née Marin) in 1938. Born in Toronto in 1920, Mimi (d. 2004) was the daughter of Joseph and Sonia (née Stern) Marin. The following year, Sydney moved to the United States to begin his medical internship at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mimi stayed behind in Toronto and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. In 1941, she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy, although she never practiced. In 1942, Sydney and Mimi married and Mimi joined Syd in the United States. The couple had 2 children, Mark and Joel.
- In 1944, Sydney was sent overseas with the United States Army as a Captain in the Medical Corps. After the war Syd and Mimi returned to Toronto where Syd opened his own practice as a pediatrician. After more than 50 years, Syd retired from his medical practice in 1997. Since then, Syd has been an active volunteer at the OJA.
- During their marriage, Syd and Mimi traveled to Israel frequently, often as part of Mimi's volunteer commitments with Hadassah. On a trip to Jerusalem in 1969, Syd met and had his picture taken with Prime Minister Golda Meir.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Sydney Wise.
- Name Access
- Wise, Sydney, 1915-1913, (subject)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See Mimi Wise fonds (Fonds 16) for further records regarding Syd Wise (including the photo of Syd with Prime Minister Golda Meir).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 5-1; Item 20
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-1
- Item
- 20
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- June 1951
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs: b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Isaac Shleser was a doctor of internal medicine. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1937. He was married to Helen Schwartz (d. 3 August 2007), the sister of Sylvia Schwartz, and had two daughters, Jill and Jan. He had five grandchildren, Dean, Natalie, Samantha, Duncan, and Douglas, and one great-grandson, Henry. He died on 10 July 2007.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Isaac Shleser.
- Notes
- This negative has two images on it.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 15; File 37; Item 10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 37
- Item
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1912
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The Rycus family were neighbours to the Siegel family when they lived at 136 Elizabeth Street. Hinda Falick (née Swartz) was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Swartz, who were originally from Romania and later lived in Montreal. She married a man named Avrom Falick, who lived in Toronto. Their second daughter, Mary, married Goodman Rycus.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a formal portrait postcard of Dr. and Mrs. Schwab, Marv Rycus and Hinda Falick. Dr. Schwab is wearing a military uniform with a Magen David on his cap.
- Standing, left to right: Marv Rycus; Hinda Falick; Dr. Schwab.
- Seated: Mrs. Mary Schwab.
- Notes
- Title taken from notes of Ida Siegel. Her notes also state that Dr. Schwab was part of the medical unit for Palestine, however this is unconfirmed.
- There is writing on the back of the photograph that reads: To our friends Mr. and Mrs. Siegal (sic). From Mary and [Arny?].
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- 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
- 1988-2-13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 5-2; File 1; Item 9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-2
- File
- 1
- Item
- 9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Isaac Shleser was a doctor of internal medicine. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1937. He was married to Helen Schwartz (d. 3 August 2007), the sister of Sylvia Schwartz, and had two daughters, Jill and Jan. He had five grandchildren, Dean, Natalie, Samantha, Duncan and Douglas, and one greatgrandson, Henry. He died on the 10 July 2007.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Isaac Shleser and Leonard Hauser.
- Notes
- This item has no proofs.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records
- ca. 250 photographs : b&w and col.
- Date
- 1776, [191-]-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records related to the life and career of Dr. Fred Wienberg. Included are textual and photographic records documenting his personal and family life, his medial career, scholarly activities, involvement with the Jewish community, his collecting of Judaica, medical antiques and art, and his synagogue involvement. Other items include the Ostrovtzer Mutual Benefit Society minute book and a 1776 letter from Jonas Phillips, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and an American merchant in New York City and Philadelphia.
- Administrative History
- Fred Weinberg (1919-2003) was born in Ostrawiec, Poland on July 6, 1919 to Rose and Israel Weinberg. Israel immigrated to Canada in 1920 and his wife and children joined him several years later in March of 1924. The family settled in Toronto where Israel worked in the fur manufacturing business. Israel was a supporter and aficionado of cantorial music as well as a founder of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto and the Ostrovtzer Synagogue on Cecil Street.
- Fred completed his primary and secondary education at Clinton Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate. He also attended the Brunswick Talmud Torah, celebrating his bar mitzvah in 1932. Fred decided to pursue a medical career, graduating from the University of Toronto’s medical school in 1944. During his studies he enlisted in the army and completed officers’ training in April 1945, attaining the rank of Captain. During his military career he served in the RCAMC at Camp Borden, Christie St. Hospital and at the Stanley Barracks in Toronto. Towards the end of the war he served as Officer in charge of repatriation of the POWs.
- After the war Fred pursued his post-graduate work at Seaview and Bellevue hospitals in New York City from 1946 to 1947 and then moved on to the Children’s and Washington University hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri the following year. He was subsequently accepted as a resident at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto and was ultimately appointed Chief Resident under the supervision of the internationally renowned paediatrician, Dr. Alan Brown. In 1950, Dr. Weinberg was hired as a physician in paediatrics at Sick Kids Hospital, making him the first Jewish doctor on staff. In addition to his staff responsibilities, he also lectured and was a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Medical School for many years.
- By the mid-point of his career, Dr. Weinberg went on to specialise in Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), delivering lectures and publishing articles in medical journals. He also ran his own practice, which operated from 1950 to 1976, and later become Associate Medical Director of the Child Development Clinic, Neurology Division of Sick Kids until his retirement in 1984. He later continued his service at Sick Kids as a senior staff consultant and ran a specialized practice in Developmental Pediatrics for close to twenty years, which was later situated at 208 Bloor Street West.
- Fred married Joy Cherry on December 16, 1952 at Goel Tzedec Synagogue. The couple had four children: Joel (b. 1953), Barry (b. 1955), Sari (b. 1956) and Deena (b. 1961). Throughout his life, Fred was actively engaged in Jewish communal work in a variety of capacities: assisting with the establishment of the United Synagogue Day School during the 1950s; as a fundraiser for the United Jewish Appeal (UJA); and as a participant in two of UJA’s early study missions to Israel in 1960 and 1961. He was also an influential figure within his synagogue, joining the Board of Directors of Beth Tzedec Synagogue during the late 1960s and serving as president from 1972 to 1975.
- Fred and his wife Joy also collected Judaica, antiques and artwork. As a physician, Fred developed a passion and expertise in the area of medical antiques. He published articles in both the mainstream and Jewish press on subjects related to Jewish rituals, Judaica and art. He also had a regular column in the Canadian Journal of Diagnosis from 1998 to 2002 entitled “Antique instruments”. Over time, the Weinberg’s assembled a world-class collection of Judaica and became increasingly active in the museum world. Fred assisted in the establishment of Beth Tzedec’s Helene and Rubin Dennis Jewish Museum, contributing items from the couple’s Judaica collection and securing the acquisition of the renowned Cecil Roth collection for the Museum during the early to mid-1960s. As a result of his significant contributions, he was bestowed the title of honourary curator to the Museum. Dr. Weinberg later branched out and assisted with the Koffler Gallery’s Lifecycle exhibition in 1984 as guest curator. The following year, he served as a special presenter and instructor to the docents at the “Precious Legacy” Czech Judaica exhibition at the ROM. The Weinberg’s most significant contribution to the museum world, however, was marked in September of 2000, when they were honoured at the opening of the Dr. Fred and Joy Cherry Weinberg Gallery of Judaica at the ROM, featuring some of their most valuable and treasured pieces.
- Dr. Fred Weinberg passed away on October 30, 2003 at 84 years of age. The Weinberg Endowment Fund was established by the family at the University of Toronto’s Jewish Studies Program to honour Fred’s passion for Jewish history, rituals and artefacts. That year the Weinberg family also set up a fund in Fred’s name in support of the Therapeutic Clown Program, a highly visible and successful program within Sick Kids’ Pediatric Division.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Use Conditions Note: Records contain patient names and medical information.
- Subjects
- Families
- Physicians
- Societies
- Name Access
- Weinberg, Fred, 1919-2003
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 66
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 66
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Bernard Manace was a Toronto pediatrician. There is an award in his name at the University of Toronto for a medical student who is undertaking an elective or summer medical experience in Israel.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white photograph at Dr. Bernard Manace's stag party. The photographs depicts a large group of men seated in a dining hall.
- Back row, left to right: [Jack Slavens?]; [Trachter?]; [Solway?]; Dr. Louis Kazdan, father of Dr. Manace; Dr. Bernard Manace; Dr. M.A. Pollock; Dr. Harry Leizner; Dr. Charles Markson (Markowitz); Dr. Samuel Norris; Dr. M.K. Bochner; Dr. Bernard Willinsky; Dr. Joseph Gollom; Dr. David Perlman; [unknown]; Dr. Adolf A. Appell; Dr. I.M. Golden; Dr. Jacob Markowitz (at U.of T.); Dr. William Harris; Dr. Samuel Perlman, dentist, brother of David Perlman.
- Front row, left to right: Emanuel Pullan; [Ed or Gordon Pullan]; Dr. Lou Harris; Dr. Murray Dyment; Dr. Ben Garfield; Dr. Irwin Smith; Dr. Milton Raymers; Dr. David Eisen; Dr. Gordon Manace; Dr. Nathan Shaul; Dr. Max Sibberman; Dr. Mitchell Cohen; Dr. Jacob Goldstein; Dr. Benjamin Cohen; Dr. Aaron G(lassberg) Volpe; Dr. A.A. Track; Dr. Oscar Lewin; Dr. Harold Taube; Dr. Jacob Pollack; Dr. Maurice Selznick; [unknown]; Mannie Starkman.
- Notes
- See photo for identification order of front row.
- Name Access
- Manace, Dr. Bernard
- University of Toronto
- Slavens, Dr. Jack
- Trachter
- Solway
- Kazdan, Dr. Louis
- Pollack, Dr. M.A.
- Leizner, Dr. Harry
- Markson, Dr. Charles
- Norris, Dr. Samuel
- Bochner, Dr. M.K.
- Willinsky, Dr. Bernard
- Gollom, Dr. Joseph
- Perlman, Dr. David
- Appell, Dr. Adolf
- Golden, Dr. I.M.
- Markowitz, Dr. Jacob
- Harris, Dr. William
- Perlman, Dr. Samuel
- Pullan, Dr. Emanuel
- Pullan, Dr. Gordon
- Pullan, Dr. Ed
- Harris, Dr. Lou
- Dyment, Dr. Murray
- Garfield, Dr. Ben
- Smith, Dr. Irwin
- Raymers, Dr. Milton
- Eisen, Dr. David
- Shaul, Dr. Nathan
- Sibberman, Max
- Cohen, Dr. Mitchell
- Goldstein, Dr. Jacob
- Cohen, Dr. Benjamin
- Volpe, Dr. Aaron
- Track, Dr. A.A.
- Lewin, Dr. Oscar
- Taube, Dr. Harold
- Pollack, Dr. Jacob
- Selznick, Dr. Maurice
- Starkman, Mannie
- Subjects
- Parties
- Physicians
- Access Restriction
- Restricted until April 1984.
- 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
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Roza Brown with her newphew, a well-known Park Avenue physician, in Kirkland Lake.
- Name Access
- Brown, Roza
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Number
- OH 278
- Subject
- Business
- Immigrants--Canada
- Physicians
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Ellen Scheinberg
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 min.
- Side 2: 30 min.
- Conservation
- Digital copy made April 11, 2011.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Sydney Wise was a Toronto physician and a long-time volunteer at the Ontario Jewish Archives. Sydney was married to Mimi Wise, who had been an active member of Hadassah-WIZO for most of her life. Sydney's father, Anshel Wise, opened a cigar store on Dundas Street, which later turned into a steamship agency called A. Wise Travel Bureau. The latter helped bring immigrants over from Europe.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Wise, Anshel
- Wise, Sydney
- Scheinberg, Ellen
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this portion of the interview, Syd describes his father Anshel Wise’s cigar store and travel business, which opened in the Ward in 1918. Anshel was one of the first steamship agents in Toronto.
In this portion of the interview, Sydney describes his entry into medical school at the University of Toronto. He outlines some of the challenges encountered by Jewish medical students in their search for internship positions.
- Part Of
- Dorothy Dworkin fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 10
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 25 x 19 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a Dr. Simon Fines using a stethoscope to listen to the heartbeat of a little boy at old Mount Sinai Hospital. Dorothy Dworkin, a nurse, and Ephraim Frederick Singer, President, are standing behind them from left to right. The photograph appears to have been taken for publicity purposes.
- Notes
- Stamp on verso: Daylight Studio Photographer, 361 Queen St. East, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Singer, E. F.
- Singer, Ephraim Frederick
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Nurses
- Physicians
- 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
- 2005-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Dr. Coleman Solursh
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Jan. 1985
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Coleman Solursh
- Number
- OH 40
- OH 41
- Subject
- Physicians
- Societies
- Occupations
- Medical care
- Interview Date
- 3 Jan. 1985
- Quantity
- 2
- Interviewer
- Morris Silbert
- Total Running Time
- 040A: 34 minutes 040B: 31 minutes 041A: 11 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Coleman Solursh was born in Toronto in 1906. He graduated as a physician in 1932. He worked as a lodge doctor. He was involved in the Toronto Jewish Lodge Doctors Association. He worked in the field of family medicine and was appointed chief of the Department of Family Practice at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was appointed associate chief of medicine at Baycrest, Jewish Home for the Aged. He married Zelda Singer, a third-generation Canadian. Zelda's maternal grandfather was appointed colonization chairman in 1897 for Baron de Hirsch settlement for Jewish immigrants. Zelda's father, Manny Singer, was the first Jewish pharmacist in Toronto. Zelda's uncle, Fred Singer, was the first Jewish member of parliament for Ontario.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Solursh, Coleman
- Silbert, Morris
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Singer, Zelda
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
- Geographic Access
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH40_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH40_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH41_001_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Dr. Coleman Solursh describes a meeting between executives from the Toronto Jewish Lodge Doctors' Association and representatives from various Jewish Lodges. The meeting resulted in significant changes to the way medical services and payment were provided to the physicians.
In this clip, Dr. Coleman Solursh describes his role as Chief of the Department of Family Practice in the new Mount Sinai Hospital in 1953. He explains how this department pioneered the model for family practice within a hospital setting across Canada.
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 15
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 15
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Sept. 1952
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 10 x 13 cm and 13 x 18 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Anna Gelber (née David) (1907-2007) was born in Palestine in 1907 and passed away on 20 November 2007. Anna received her doctor of science from Sorbonne Univeristy in Paris, France, and her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto. An obstetrician, at one point she worked in the medical department of Toronto's Women's College Hospital. Anna was also a prominent communal worker, active as a member of the National Executive Board of the Canadian Hadassah.
- Anna married Eddie Gelber, a prominent communal worker. They had three children, Edna, Lynn, and David. She and Eddie travelled significantly between Israel and Toronto during their marriage.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Anna Gelber andher children, Edna, Lynn and David.
- Name Access
- Gelber, Anna, 1907-2007 (subject)
- Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998 (creator)
- Subjects
- Mothers and daughters
- Mothers and sons
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See also Fonds 80, Series 1-1, Item 13 for portrait of Anna's husband, Mr. Eddie Gelber.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-16
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-16
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 cm. of textual records (1 vol.)
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm and 18 x 23 cm
- Date
- 1897-1963
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting aspects of A. I. Willinsky's life. Included are: two portrait photographs of Willinsky as a boy (ca. 1897) and as an adult (ca. 1940s); a scrapbook related to the publication of A.I. Willinsky's book, A Doctor's Memoirs; a booklet with information referencing Willinsky's travel films; and Gertrude Kronick's handwritten "putterkuchen" recipe. Included in the scrapbook are congratulatory letters, newspaper clippings related to the book, and a proof copy for submission to Who's Who in Canadian Jewry.
- Administrative History
- Abraham Isaac Willinsky (1885-1976) was born 29 March1885, in Omaha, Nebraska to Sarah Rebecca (née Vise) and Myer Lionel Willinsky. Sarah had immigrated to Canada as a child in the 1860s; the Myers family was originally from Lithuania. Abraham had seven siblings: Abey (b. 1885), Ida (b. 1886), Faly (b. 1888), Minnie (b. 1890), Gertrude (b. 1893), Lila (b. 1899) and Bernard (“Bunny”) (b. 1900). Willinsky’s family moved to the east end of Toronto in 1890 where his father worked as a merchant
- Most of Abraham's siblings eventually married: Ida married Maurice Kamman in 1909; Faly married Sam Mehr in 1912; Minnie married Arthur Jacobs in 1912; Gertrude married Sam Kronick in 1912; Lila married Jospeh Lisson in 1920; and Bernard married Florence Samuel in 1930, but divorced soon after.
- When Willinsky was a child he helped his uncle, Solomon Vise, in his photography business, which was located at 439 King Street East. Working in his uncle's darkroom and studio on Saturdays awakened Willinsky's interest in photography.
- Willinsky graduated from biological and physical sciences at the University of Toronto in 1906, and from medicine in 1908, earning the George Brown Memorial Scholarship. He married Sadie Dobensky, from Bancroft, Ontario, in July of 1911. They had three children: Dorothy, Jack, and Myra. Dorothy eventually married Garfield Cass and worked as a social worker. Jack married Cecily Samuel and became a urologist and, later, a radiologist. Myra married Dr. N. Simon, a dental surgeon.
- As one of the early Jewish doctors in Toronto, Willinsky initially had difficulty launching his career due to discrimination and prejudice. After joining the Academy of Medicine in 1910, he began his first practice as a “lodge doctor”, working out of his office and home at College and Henry Streets.
- With other possible internships and appointments denied him, A. I. accumulated his early clinical training with resourcefulness, by performing “ghost-surgery” and by studying abroad in Dublin at the Rotunda Hospital, Paris and Vienna. In 1916, under the adopted name of Wills, and with a claim to Greek Orthodoxy, Willinsky managed to secure a position at the Polyclinic in New York, where he began as an ambulance doctor. He also interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His skill was, in time, recognized in Toronto and he was accepted at the Toronto Western Hospital in 1918, where he pioneered spinal anaethesia and began his work as a urologist. In 1923, Willinsky became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1925, all forty practicing Jewish physicians formed the Toronto Jewish Medical Association. In turn, the same members would become the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital, which was established in 1923 at 100 Yorkville Avenue.
- Willinsky was probably the most prominent of Mount Sinai’s original staff, dividing his time between the new Jewish hospital and Toronto Western, where he was the head of genito-urinary surgery. He became chief of surgery at Mount Sinai and produced a number of papers that dealt primarily with spinal anaesthesia. He later opened a practice at 316 Bloor Street West, above which he temporarily resided. In 1928, he set up a clinic and office at 569 Spadina Avenue. His practice remained at this location until his retirement.
- Throughout his life, he remained enthralled by photography and prolific in his production of travel movies. In 1934, he became a founding member of the Toronto Amateur Movie Club. Around this same time, he created films to help Holy Blossom fundraise for a new building. In 1941, he gave a lecture on the principles of amateur moviemaking before the Royal Canadian Institute, in which he advocated holding the movie camera steady and letting the action move into the frame as a strategy to encourage careful composition. For sound in his early movies, he played records bought in the country where the picture was taken, stacking them in order and playing them at intervals during the commentary. Later on, he manufactured his own gramophone records, and eventually, bona fide soundtracks. Often shooting as much as 3600 feet of film on a single trip, he tended, in his more senior years, to invest long hours editing and framing sequences in the basement of his own home at 120 Madison Avenue. Here, he set up a miniature theatre and often held film evenings for friends. In 1945, Willinsky won an award for a medical film, Cystometrography, in which he used the animation technique of filming drawings. Aortography and advances in X-ray technology provided other cross-overs between medical and filmic experiments, and most of his chronicled travels were the extra-curricular benefits of regular attendance at medical conferences.
- Towards the end of his life in 1960, Willinsky dictated the stories for A Doctor’s Memoirs to his transcriber, Margaret Avison. He spent the last 14 years of his life at Toronto's Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. He passed away in 1976 at the age of ninety-one.
- 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
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Willinsky, Abraham Isaac, 1885-1976
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3556
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3556
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 20 cm on mat 36 x 32 cm
- Scope and Content
- Identified in this photograph is David Eisen. He is pictured in the centre wearing glasses.
- For locations, see accession record.
- Notes
- Original photo by Alex J. McLean, 435 Spadina Ave., Toronto.
- Name Access
- University of Toronto
- Bochner, David Eisen
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- 1981-4-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 528
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 528
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- April 28, 1918
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of David Eisen in the backyard amid sunflowers at 12 Bellevue Ave., Toronto
- Name Access
- Eisen, David
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Bellevue Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- Acquired July 23, 1975.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 27; File 70
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 70
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two photos of a meeting of the Physicians' Division.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series
- Photograph collection sub-series
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 61; Series 2-2; Item 22
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series
- Photograph collection sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 61
- Series
- 2-2
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1972]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of one portrait photograph of Dr. William R. Drucker.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 68
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 68
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm and 6 x 4 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- David Eisen was a Toronto physician.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of David Eisen standing at Bellevue Square in Toronto.
- Notes
- Includes original photograph and a larger copy.
- Name Access
- Eisen, David
- Bellevue Square
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Bellevue Square Park (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Oct. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 8 cm and 13 x 11 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Mr. (Himel?) Braun was a Doctor and First Lieutenant in the United States Army.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Mr. Braun.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 14
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1943
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 12 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Lieutenant Victor Oscar Hertzman was born in Toronto in July, 1918. He received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1942, and was in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Core during the Second World War. He married his wife Eileen in 1943, and they had two children, Clyde and Owen. Hertzman and his family moved to Vancouver, where he would be a founding member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and the Yukon, and a chair of the British Columbia Society of Internal Medicine. He died in Vancouver in 1994.
- Hertzman specialized in cardiology, and frequently conducted experiments on his sons to prove that carefully prescribed activity was better for heart patients than rest. Prior to these experiments in the early 1960s, this was an idea, but Hertzman research helped turn that idea into an accepted practice. Hertzman's son, Clyde went on to become a doctor whose research would lead to the coining of the now widely used term “biological embedding” to describe how early environment is more a determinant of a child’s future behaviour than genetic makeup. Clyde died on Februrary 8, 2013 of an apparent heart attack.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Lt. Victor Oscar Hertzman.
- Name Access
- Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 34
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 34
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jan. 1943
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Captain Julian White served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, and was prominent Toronto Pediatrician.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Captain Julian White.
- Name Access
- Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- ID
- Fonds 121; Series 1; Item 24
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 121
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 24
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col ; 21 cm x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a colour portrait of Murray Rosenbaum on his grauation as a medical doctor (Toronto, Ontario), 1983.
- Subjects
- Graduation (School)
- Physicians
- Portraits
- 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
- Accession Number
- 1976-10-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-10-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 26 cm of textual records and graphic material
- Date
- 1925-1960
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of: Toronto Jewish Medical Association minute book (1925–1936); minutes, clinical records, research papers and other records of the Mount Sinai Clinical Association (1932–1953); Mount Sinai Hospital medical staff minute book (1943–1953); a copy of Dr David Eisen's publication "Toronto's Jewish doctors" (1960); and a photograph of the installation of officers of the Mt. Sinai Hospital Clinical Society (1939).
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Dr. Eisen's "Toronto's Jewish Doctors" publication has been digitized and is available as a PDF file. The photograph of the officers' installation has also been digitized and is available as a JPEG image.
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Eisen, David
- Pollock, Ira
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Toronto Jewish Medical Association
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 51 x 44 cm on mat 62 x 55 cm
- Date
- 1909
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one composite photograph of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine's graduating class of 1909. Included is L. J. Solway.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition informaiton for this photograph. It was found in the processing room in July 2013.
- Subjects
- Education
- Physicians
- Name Access
- University of Toronto
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 27; File 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950-1960
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two exterior views of the new Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto. The remaining five photos are interior shots of equipment, a research lab, and Dr. N. N. Levinne.
- Name Access
- Levinne, N. N.
- Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Physicians
- Places
- 550 University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 folders
- Date
- 1911-1987
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting two generations of the Singer family. Included are: a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario certificate for Bessie Thelma Pullan (1911), a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1937), a Department of National Defense (Army) certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1946), a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons (RAM) of Canada constitution (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM by-law booklet (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM invitation to its sixty-first convocation (1954), and a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1987).
- Custodial History
- Records were donated by Burrel and Carolyn Singer's son Tom.
- Administrative History
- Louis Michael Singer, K.C. was born in Austria in 1885. When he was three, Louis and his family immigrated to Canada. In Toronto, he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute. He went on to study law at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1908. Afterwards, he set up the Singer and Singer law office. In 1914, Louis ran for Toronto City Council, representing Ward 4, and became Toronto's second Jewish alderman. He was re-elected in 1915, 1916, and 1917 only to be defeated in the 1918 election. Thereafter, he returned to his law practice full-time. Louis died on September 23, 1959.
- Dr. Bessie Thelma Singer (née Pullan) was born in Russia on June 5, 1888. On July 6, 1911, she married Louis Singer. Two days later, on July 8, 1911, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario admitted her as a member, entitling her to practice physic, surgery, and midwifery in the province. Bessie never practiced medicine; instead, she became a homemaker. She died on January 4, 1947, surived by her husband, Louis, and two sons, Burrell and Ralph.
- Burrell Milton Singer, Q.C. was born in Toronto on November 1, 1912. On September 7, 1937, the Law Society of Upper Canada called him to the bar. Burell and his wife Carolyn had two sons: Jeff and Tom. Burrell died on September 26, 1989.
- Descriptive Notes
- Conservation: Certificates deframed.
- General: An annotated copy of Burrell M. Singer's Handbook of Canadian Military Law, which the former co-authored with Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. S. Langford, is available in the OJA's library.
- History/Bio note: Bessie Singer's tombstone lists her birth date as July 28, 1890, however, JewishGen has her birth registration as June 5, 1888 and the 1901 Census lists it as July 14, 1888. Bessie's youngest brother Sydney, Harry Pullan was born on Aug. 11, 1890 and therefore the July 28, 1890 date is likely erroneous.
- Subjects
- Lawyers
- Physicians
- Politicians
- Name Access
- Singer (family)
- Singer, Bessie Thelma, 1890-1947
- Singer, Burrell M., 1912-1989
- Singer, Louis, 1885-1959
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-10-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record
- Date
- Sep. 2022
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a publication authored by Joanna Krongold and published in September 2022 titled "In Their Own Words: Jewish Doctors, Antisemitism, and the Restrictive Quota System at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine." The publication was made available at no cost to those attending the event Reflecting on Historic Jewish Student Quotas in Toronto Medical Education, which was held at Innis Town Hall in Toronto, Ontario, on 29 September 2022
- Dr. Joanna Krongold is a 2022–2023 joint postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's Office of Inclusion and Diversity. She received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Toronto in 2020.
- Custodial History
- The donor acquired the item at the event Reflecting on Historic Jewish Student Quotas in Toronto Medical Education.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Discrimination in higher education
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Krongold, Joanna
- University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-2-10
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-2-10
- Material Format
- textual record (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 2 textual records (docx)
- Date
- 2022-2023
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting two members of the Drutz family: Dr. Meyer George Drutz (1911–1984) and Dr. Harold Paul Drutz (1944–). Included is a "bio profile" for Harold and a document titled "Drutz family in medicine" that primarily relates to the life of Meyer.
- Administrative History
- Meyer George Drutz was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1911 to Barnett and Hannah Drutz. He was the third of five children. His parents had immigrated from eastern Europe (what is now Belarus) in 1908. Barnett's grandson, Harold, reports that Barnett was a tailor who earned eight dollars a week. They lived on Denison Avenue.
- Growing up in Toronto's Jewish community, Meyer was known as Mickey. An outstanding student, Meyer entered Jarvis Collegiate at the age of eleven. He continued to excel in school, and his marks were so high that he was able to meet the entrance criteria for University of Toronto's medical school at the time when there was a strict quota on the number of Jews and women in any given year.
- Meyer graduated from medical school in 1936 and interned at the original Mount Sinai Hospital at 100 Yorkville Avenue, which was one of the few hospitals where Jews were allowed to intern.
- In 1935, Meyer met Belle Ostry (1913–2001). Belle was born in Nikopol, Ukraine, which was on the Dnieper River, north of Odessa. In 1923, Belle's family immigrated to Canada, initially settling in Wadena, Saskatchewan, where Belle's father ran a general store.
- Belle went to business school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the early 1930s, she and a friend bought a car and drove to Toronto. After a period of courtship that their son Harold would describe as "very austere," Meyer and Belle married in Toronto in June 1936.
- With Canada, and the world, still in the grip of the Great Depression, Meyer accepted a job to go to Malartic, Quebec, where he became a doctor for the Malartic Goldfield Mines. Because the locals were not familiar with the name Meyer, he went by his middle name George, which continued for the rest of his life.
- When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the Quebec government refused to conscript Meyer on the grounds that he was the only doctor in three hundred square miles. Meyer's son, Harold, writes that in the winter his father used a dog sled to get to homes and deliver babies. Harold recalls the stories told to him by his mother of how George was trapped in an underground mine for three days when he went underground to help miners trapped after a cave-in.
- Belle and Meyer had their first child, a daughter, at Toronto Western Hospital in 1942. The baby was born in Toronto, because Belle had problems with hypertension, and Meyer sent her to Toronto for care. Their second child, Harold, was born in August 1944.
- In 1948, the family moved to Kitchener, Ontario, where Meyer practiced for less than a year.
- The family moved back to Toronto in 1949, where George set up a practice in the Keele Street/Rogers Road area. He was a founding member of the Northwestern General Hospital and was on the founding family practice staff of the New Mount Sinai Hospital (1956) and Baycrest Geriatric Hospital.
- Harold Drutz received his bachelor of arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1965 and his doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto in 1969. Upon graduating, he did his residency in urology, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Toronto from 1970–1974.
- He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1974 in obstetrics and gynecology. The same year, he became a fellow in the bladder function unit at the Toronto General Hospital. In 1975, he was awarded a McLaughlin Fellowship and did pioneer training in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery in Europe, Ethiopia, and the United States of America.
- In 1998, he became a full professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 1987–2015, he was the professor and head of the Division of Urogynecology (AKA Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery [FPMRS]) at the University of Toronto. From 1976–2015, he was the head of urogynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital. From 1986–2022, he was the head of urogynecology at Baycrest Geriatric Hospital. Baycrest Hospital was the first geriatric hospital in Canada to have a program in female pelvic medicine.
- From 1988–1991, he served on the American Urogynecological Association (AUGS) board of directors. From 1994–1996, he was president of the International Urogynecological Association (IUGA), the only Canadian to have been president of the society. In 1996, he received the degree of professor honoris causa from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. From 2000–2002, he served as the first president of the Canadian Society of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery (CSURPS). From 2017–2019, he served as founding president of the Canadian Society for Pelvic Medicine (CSPM). The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto has given Professor Drutz the title of "the founding father of urogynecology in Canada."
- Harold is the recipient of fifty-nine externally-funded peer reviewed grants. He is the author of 139 peer-reviewed papers, eighteen chapters in textbooks, and is the senior of author of two textbooks. He has trained forty-four fellows who practice all over the world.
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- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Discrimination in higher education
- Families
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Drutz, Harold, 1944-
- Drutz, Meyer George , 1911-1984
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of graphic material and textual records
- 1 folder (oversize) of graphic material and textual records
- 1 scrapbook ; 37 x 31 cm
- Date
- 1916-2008, predominant 1940-1998
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Rother family, in particular Irving and Florence Rother. Included are: three of Irving Rother's Second World War letters; professional and educational certificates for Irving Rother; service records for Irving Rother; records documenting the sale of the family's Rother Cigar Store; a letter to Dr. and Mrs. Rother from Lester C. Sugarman welcoming the couple and their family to Holy Blossom Temple; records (including group portraits) of Hadassah-WIZO Rishon Chapter, which Florence Rother belonged to; and an Alpha Phi Pi scrapbook.
- Administrative History
- Florence Rother (née Warshavsky) was born in 1919. In 1998, she was honoured for her service to the Rishon Chapter of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO. She died at home on 9 July 2016.
- Dr. Irving Rother was born in 1919. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he was part of the Phi Delta Epislon Fraternity. He graduated in January 1943 with a Doctor of Medicine degree. During the Second World War, he held the rank of captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) and served in Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. After the war, Rother moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he served on the house staff of Sinai Hospital first as assistant resident on the pathology service and then as intern and assistant resident on the medical service.
- In 1953, Dr. and Mrs. Rother and their family became members of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.
- 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
- Families
- Physicians
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Rother (family)
- Rother, Florence
- Rother, Irving, 1919-2018
- Places
- Baltimore (Md.)
- England
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3078
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3078
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 31 May 1981
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Ernst Zundel (pictured centre in a hard hat) with his supporters on the front lawn of his home in Cabbagetown. They are holding signs with various slogans denying the Holocaust.
- Notes
- Photo by Ben Lechtman.
- Name Access
- Zundel, Ernst, 1939-2017
- Subjects
- Demonstrations
- Holocaust deniers
- Portraits, Group
- Places
- Carlton Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions