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Morris Lofsky scrapbook [textual record] – 1930-1955.

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

Chaim Weizmann at rally at Varsity Stadium, Toronto – [ca. 1939].

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

Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich - 2 Jul. 1974

Name: Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: 2 Jul. 1974

Source: Oral Histories

Name: Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich

Number: OH 22

Subject: Antisemitism; Hospitals; Rabbis; Schools; Teachers

Interview Date: 2 Jul. 1974

Quantity: 1

Interviewer: Stephen Speisman

Total Running Time: Side One - 43 minutes; Side Two - 3 minutes

Conservation: Copied August 2003.; Digitized in 2014.

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

Biography: Dr. Sam Hurwich was involved in a number of organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and several Labour Zionist groups.

Material Format: sound recording

Name Access: Hospital for Sick Children; Hurwich, Rivka; Hurwich, Sam

Geographic Access: Toronto (Ont.)

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Transcript: G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_001_Log.docx; G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_002_Log.docx

Source: Oral Histories

J. B. Salsberg - Sep. 1985

Name: J. B. Salsberg

Material Format: sound recording

Interview Date: Sep. 1985

Source: Oral Histories

Name: J. B. Salsberg

Number: OH 71

Subject: Labor movement; Labor unions; Women; Demonstrations

Interview Date: Sep. 1985

Quantity: 1

Total Running Time: OH71_001: 44:50 minuets OH71_002: 35:55 minuets

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: Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902–1998) was a labour leader, political activist, politician, newspaper columnist, and a man who dedicated his life to Yiddishkeit and the advancement of social justice. He was active in various Jewish organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and the New Fraternal Jewish Association. In 1938, he was elected as alderman on Toronto’s City Council; in 1948, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is well remembered by contemporaries, such as Sam Lipshitz, as a "champion of the people," committed to social justice, the plight of the working-class, and the preservation of Jewish culture.

Material Format: sound recording

Language: English

Name Access: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998

Geographic Access: Toronto

Original Format: Audio cassette

Copy Format: Audio cassette; Digital file

Transcript: G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 71 - Salsberg\OH71_001_Log.pdf; G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 71 - Salsberg\OH71_002_Log.pdf

Source: Oral Histories

In this clip, Joseph Salsberg discusses the events that led to the birth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in America and the ILGWU's influence on the Canadian garment industry.

In this clip, Joseph Salsberg discusses the first sit down strike by tailors in Canada in recognition of women

John Devor with Sunday school group in front of Beth Israel Synagogue (Kingston, ON) [graphic material] – May 1941.

Level: Item

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Material Format: graphic material

Date: May 1941

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

Scope and Content: This item is a photograph of John Devor standing on the steps of Beth Israel Synagogue with a group of Sunday school children, taken at the closing of the school for the summer. John Devor was the teacher. Pictured are:; Top row, left to right: Jerry Dardick, Bernice Abramsky, John Devor, Betty Cohen, Barry Tenhouse.; Middle row, left to right: Teddy Tevan, [?] Dardick, Jerry Springer, Sydney Lannis, Isadore Lannis.; Front row, left to right: Marilyn Abramsky, Shirley Tenhouse.

Notes: This item is almost identical to photo #3421.

Name Access: Abramsky, Bernice; Abramsky, Marilyn; Beth Israel Congregation (Kingston, Ont.); Cohen, Betty; Dardick, Jerry; Devor, John; Lannis, Isadore; Lannis, Sydney; Springer, Jerry; Tenhouse, Barry; Tenhouse, Shirley; Tevan, Teddy

Subjects: Children; Portraits, Group; Teachers

Repro Restriction: Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places: Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1981-6-2

Source: Archival Descriptions

John Devor with Sunday school group in front of Beth Israel Synagogue (Kingston, ON) [graphic material] – May 1941.

Level: Item

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Material Format: graphic material

Date: May 1941

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

Scope and Content: This item is a photograph of John Devor standing on the steps of Beth Israel Synagogue with a group of Sunday school children, taken at the closing of the school for the summer. John Devor was the teacher. Pictured are:; Top row, left to right: Jerry Dardick, Bernice Abramsky, John Devor, Betty Cohen, Barry Tenhouse.; Middle row, left to right: Teddy Tevan, [?] Dardick, Jerry Springer, Sydney Lannis, Isadore Lannis.; Front row, left to right: Marilyn Abramsky, Shirley Tenhouse.

Notes: This item is almost identical to photo #3056.

Name Access: Abramsky, Bernice; Abramsky, Marilyn; Beth Israel Congregation (Kingston, Ont.); Cohen, Betty; Dardick, Jerry; Devor, John; Lannis, Isadore; Lannis, Sydney; Springer, Jerry; Tenhouse, Barry; Tenhouse, Shirley; Tevan, Teddy

Subjects: Portraits, Group; Students; Teachers

Repro Restriction: Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places: Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1982-5-6

Source: Archival Descriptions

North Bay Hebrew school students (North Bay, ON) [graphic material] – 1948-1949.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1858

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1858

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1948-1949

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w ; 28 x 36 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: This item is an original composite photograph and copy negative of the students and teachers of the North Bay Hebrew school.

Name Access: North Bay Hebrew School

Subjects: Students; Teachers

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: North Bay (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1980-1-8

Source: Archival Descriptions

Junior Hebrew class (Sudbury, ON) [graphic material] – [ca. 1948].

Level: Item

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [ca. 1948]

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

Scope and Content: This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a junior Hebrew class in Sudbury, Ontario. The photograph depicts a group of students seated a two desks and the teacher standing in the middle.; Pictured from left to right are: Judy Leve, Wally Greenspoon, Bill Braverman, Gilbert Zamonsky, Susan Stickles, Brenda Rubin, Jackie Greenspoon, Harold Nudelman, Claudia Greenspoon.; Teacher: Florrie Smith.

Subjects: Students; Teachers

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: Sudbury (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1982-6-10

Source: Archival Descriptions

School class in front of Anshe Sholom Temple (Hamilton, ON) [graphic material] – [192-].

Level: Item

ID: Item 3351

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3351

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [192-]

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

Scope and Content: This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of children and teachers in front of the Anshe Sholom Temple in Hamilton, Ontario. The temple was located on Hughson Street.

Notes: The photograph is somewhat pixilated and may have been copied from a book or newspaper.

Name Access: Temple Anshe Sholom (Hamilton, Ont.)

Subjects: Children; Synagogues; Teachers

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: Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1982-8-14

Source: Archival Descriptions

Book donation to Westmount Collegiate Institute [graphic material] – 1997.

Part Of: United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds; Toronto Holocaust Museum series; Education sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 67; Series 28-12; File 30

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds; Toronto Holocaust Museum series; Education sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 67

Series: 28-12

File: 30

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1997

Physical Description: 6 photographs: col. (2 negatives) ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content: File consists of photographs of the Holocaust Centre presenting books to students and teachers of Westmount Collegiate Institute in honour of the school's new Holocaust studies program. Those identified in the photograph include: Michael Herman, Stephen Bloom, Natalie Shats, and David Major.

Name Access: Westmount Collegiate Institute (Thornhill, Ont.)

Subjects: Books; Students; Teachers

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Protester holding sign that reads, "We shall not forget" [graphic material] – 31 May 1981.

Level: Item

ID: Item 3077

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3077

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Date: 31 May 1981

Physical Description: 2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of a protester holding a sign that reads, "We shall not forget." The protester was attending an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of neo-Nazi Ernst Zündel's home in Toronto, Ontario.

Notes: Source of title proper: Title based on contents of image.; Statement of responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access: Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects: Demonstrations; Neo-Nazis

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region [textual record] – 1973-1974.

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

Debby Solomon-Natan Sharansky [graphic material, textual record] – 1976-[ca. 1990].

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

E. Miller [textual record] – [192-?]-1953.

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

Simchat Torah rally for Soviet Jewry, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – 1970.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4771

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4771

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1970

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Notes: JCRC Box 44, File 155A.; Copyright: Globe and Mail.; See photos for negative number.

Name Access: Simchat Torah; City Hall

Subjects: Demonstrations; Human rights

Source: Archival Descriptions

North American High School Network (NAHON) students protest for Soviet Jewry at postal station, 6035 Bathurst St., Toronto [graphic material] – Apr. 1986.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4428

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4428

Material Format: graphic material

Date: Apr. 1986

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Notes: Photo by Graphic Artists.

Name Access: North American High School Network

Subjects: Demonstrations; Human rights

Places: Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-12-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

Anti-war demonstration, Workmen's Circle Camp Yungvelt (Pickering, ON) [graphic material] – 1937.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2444

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2444

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1937

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Photo is a group shot of campers and staff at Camp Yungvelt with posters which read: "War is murder, the promoters - murderers" and "We want our fathers with us and not in war."

Name Access: Workmen's Circle; Camp Yungvelt; Arbeter Ring; Arbeiter Ring

Subjects: Demonstrations

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: Pickering (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-4-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

Students and teachers of Slobodka - Kovna Yeshiva [graphic material] – 1929.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1852

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1852

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1929

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Identified in this composite photograph, on the right is: Abraham Greenspan.

Name Access: Greenspan, Abraham; Slobodka-Kovna Yeshiva

Subjects: Students; Teachers; Yeshivas

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: 1979-12-11

Source: Archival Descriptions

International Left Opposition demonstrators marching [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 14

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 14

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition demonstration in Toronto. Demonstrators are carrying banners in support of socialist and Communist organizations and their tenets.

Notes: Image is slightly blurred.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Banners; Demonstrations

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: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Participants holding banners at International Left Opposition demonstration [graphic material] – 1933.

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 15

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 15

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio: On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of participants holding various banners at an International Left Opposition demonstration in Toronto. This photo was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration which took place in Toronto on July 11, 1933.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Anti-fascist movements; Banners; Demonstrations

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 accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 8, 9, 11, and 13.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstration [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 16

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 16

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition demonstration depicting participants carrying banners for the Workers Party of Canada, Toronto Branches and banners containing slogans against fascism.

Name Access: International Left Opposition; Workers' Party of Canada

Subjects: Banners; Communism; Demonstrations

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: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstrators in park [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 17

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 17

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of International Left Opposition demonstrators standing in a park holding banners for the Workers Party of Canada, Toronto Branches and others with slogans such as "To Victory Under the Banner of Lenin and Trotsky", and "Forward to the New 4th International".

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Banners; Communism; Demonstrations

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: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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International Left Opposition demonstrators marching down Bathurst Street [graphic material] – [193-?].

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 32; Item 10

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Harry Clairmont fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 32

Item: 10

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of International Left Opposition demonstrators walking down Bathurst Street in Toronto carrying banners with socialist slogans.

Name Access: International Left Opposition

Subjects: Banners; Demonstrations

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: Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-11-18

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Mr. Robinson (Reubinson), probably Toronto [graphic material] – [between 1920 and 1939].

Level: Item

ID: Item 6103

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 6103

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [between 1920 and 1939]

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

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of Mr. Robinson (Reubinson), a teacher (?), probably in Toronto, in the 1920s or 1930s.

Name Access: Robinson; Reubinson

Subjects: Postcards; Teachers

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: 1984-8-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

B'nai Brith Chanukkah candle lighting ceremony for Soviet refuseniks, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto [graphic material] – 1985.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4406

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4406

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1985

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Wally Reinstein, National Hillel Co-ordinator.

Notes: Original photos by Graphic Artists, Toronto.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Hanukkah; Refuseniks

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: Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-12-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

First Simchat Torah rally for Soviet Jews, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – 28 Oct. 1967.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1340-1373

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1340-1373

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 28 Oct. 1967

Physical Description: slide: col.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Jews--Soviet Union; Simhat Torah

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1977-6-6

Source: Archival Descriptions

Students hold all-day rally on behalf of refusenik Vladimir Lifshitz, Queen's Park, Toronto [graphic material] – 1986.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4203

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4203

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1986

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Refuseniks

Repro Restriction: Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places: Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-12-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

Protest rally on anniversary of 1952 killing of Jewish writers in the Soviet Union circa 1972, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto [graphic material] – 1972.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4241

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4241

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Photography by Gadi Hoz.

Date: 1972

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Item is a black-and-white photograph depicting David Satok speaking at a podium. He is addressing protesters assembled at Nathan Phillips Square on the occassion of the anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Name Access: Satok, David

Subjects: Demonstrations; Jews--Soviet Union

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: Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-1-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

Protest rally on the twentieth anniversary of the 1952 killing of Jewish writers in the Soviet Union, Toronto [graphic material] – [ca. 1972].

Level: Item

ID: Item 4242

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4242

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Photograph by Gadi Hoz.

Date: [ca. 1972]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Item is a black-and-white photograph of a man addressing protesters assembled on the occasion of the anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets. Visible in the background is Old City Hall.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Jews--Soviet Union

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: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-1-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

Rabbi Nachum Rabinovitch speaking to a Soviet Jewry rally, Bathurst St. and Hotspur Ave., Toronto [graphic material] – 19 May 1971.

Level: Item

ID: Item 4240

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4240

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 19 May 1971

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Notes: Availability of other formats: Also available as a digital image.

Name Access: Rabinovitch, Nachum L., 1928-2020

Subjects: Demonstrations; Jews--Soviet Union; Rabbis

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

Places: Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-1-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

Vigil for Soviet Jewish Refusnik Anatoly Sharansky, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – Jul. 1979.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2647-2651

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2647-2651

Material Format: graphic material

Date: Jul. 1979

Physical Description: 5 slides

Name Access: Sharansky, Anatoly; Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Demonstrations; Refuseniks

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1981-2-9

Source: Archival Descriptions

Neo-Nazis Ernst Zundel and others taunt demonstrators at an anti-Nazi rally, Carlton St., Toronto [graphic material] – 31 May 1981.

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

Anti-Nazi demonstration, Carlton St., Toronto [graphic material] – 31 May 1981.

Level: Item

ID: Item 3076

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3076

Material Format: graphic material

Responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Date: 31 May 1981

Physical Description: 2 photographs : (1 negative) ; b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of anti-Nazi demonstrators in front of neo-Nazi Ernst Zündels home.

Notes: Statement of responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access: Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects: Demonstrations; Neo-Nazis

Places: Carlton Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

Warsaw Ghetto rally, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – 30 Apr. 1978.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2624

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2624

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 30 Apr. 1978

Physical Description: 1 slide

Scope and Content: Julius Hayman.

Name Access: Hayman, Julius; Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Demonstrations; Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1981-2-9

Source: Archival Descriptions

Warsaw Ghetto rally, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – 30 Apr. 1978.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2630

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2630

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 30 Apr. 1978

Physical Description: 1 slide

Scope and Content: Honourable John Roberts, secretary of state.

Name Access: Roberts, John; Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Demonstrations

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1981-2-9

Source: Archival Descriptions

Warsaw Ghetto rally, City Hall, Toronto [graphic material] – 30 Apr. 1978.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2608-2635

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2608-2635

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 30 Apr. 1978

Physical Description: 26 slides

Name Access: Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Demonstrations; Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1981-2-9

Source: Archival Descriptions

D. Brick, teacher at I. L. Peretz Schools, and his graduating class, Toronto [graphic material] – 1936.

Level: Item

ID: Item 3960

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3960

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1936

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Notes: Photo by Simon.

Subjects: Teachers

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: 1986-4-1

Source: Archival Descriptions

Mr. Sigmund Sokol's Cheder, Toronto [graphic material] – 1937.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1179

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1179

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1937

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph of Sigmund Sokol with a large group of pupils from his cheder.

Subjects: Heder; Students; Teachers

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: 1977-1-1

Source: Archival Descriptions

Teachers at Ogden School [graphic material] – 1933.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1495

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1495

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1933

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of teachers at Ogden School. In the rear on the far right is David Siegal.

Name Access: Ogden School; Siegal, David

Subjects: Teachers

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: 1977-8-28

Source: Archival Descriptions

"Mitl shule" class of Mr. Aryeh Ben Gurion at the Borochov School, Lippincott St., Toronto [graphic material] – [1955 or 1956].

Level: Item

ID: Item 4019

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4019

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [1955 or 1956]

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Notes: General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.; General: For identification see back of photo.

Subjects: Schools; Students; Teachers

Places: Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-3-6

Source: Archival Descriptions

"Mitl shule" class of the Borochov School, Lippincott St., Toronto [graphic material] – [1955 or 1956].

Level: Item

ID: Item 4020

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 4020

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [1955 or 1956]

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Notes: General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.; General: For identification see back of photograph.

Subjects: Students; Teachers

Places: Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number: 1986-3-6

Source: Archival Descriptions

Teachers and students in front of the Farband Folks Shul, Toronto [graphic material] – June 3, 1940.

Level: Item

ID: Item 3509

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 3509

Material Format: graphic material

Date: June 3, 1940

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes: The negative shows the complete sign.; For a similar photograph, see also #2918.

Subjects: Students; Teachers

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: 1983-1-6

Source: Archival Descriptions

Workmen's Circle Peretz School class, Toronto [graphic material] – Dec. 1960.

Level: Item

ID: Item 2442

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 2442

Material Format: graphic material

Date: Dec. 1960

Physical Description: 2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Teacher is Mrs. Fenigstein.

Name Access: Workmen's Circle

Subjects: Flags--Israel; Students; Teachers

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1979-4-4

Source: Archival Descriptions

Reb. Israel Fortinsky with teachers and students at F, Toronto [graphic material] – 1928.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1733

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1733

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1928

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content: Reb. Israel Fortinsky in pictured in the second row, extreme right.

Name Access: Fortinsky, Israel; Yeshiva Toras Chaim

Subjects: Students; Teachers; Yeshivas

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: 1979-7-3

Source: Archival Descriptions

Isadore Goldstick, Toronto [graphic material] – [ca. 1910].

Part Of: Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 45; Item 13

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level: Item

Fonds: 45

Item: 13

Material Format: graphic material

Date: [ca. 1910]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm in mat 18 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio: Dr. Isadore Goldstick was the son of William Goldstick and Sarah Goldstick. He was born in Latvia in 1890. He graduated with a PhD from the University of Toronto in the Department of Pedagogy in 1928. He married Anna Nathanson in December 1917, and they had two daughters, Reva and Esther. The family lived in London, Ontario. He spent many years teaching at the secondary school level and later became a professor at the University of Western Ontario. He was the author of eight German and French texts that were used in Canadian schools.

Scope and Content: Portrait of Isadore Goldstick as a young man.

Notes: The image is an albumen print glued on a mat board.

Subjects: Authors; Immigrants--Canada; Teachers

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: There is a fonds for the Isadore Goldstick family at the Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number: 1978-10-1

Source: Archival Descriptions

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I. L. Madorsky, Toronto [graphic material] – 1928.

Level: Item

ID: Item 1711

Source: Archival Descriptions

Level: Item

Item: 1711

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1928

Physical Description: 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio: I. L. Madorsky was a teacher.

Name Access: Madorsky, I. L

Subjects: Teachers

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: 1979-3-8

Source: Archival Descriptions

Chaim Weizmann at rally at Varsity Stadium, Toronto [graphic material] – [ca. 1937].

Level: Item

ID: 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

Allan Gardens incident [textual record] – 1965-1966.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 17; Series 5-3; File 1

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 17

Series: 5-3

File: 1

Material Format: textual record

Date: 1965-1966

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of detailed documentation about the public meeting and demonstration by the Canadian Nazi Party at Allan Gardens, 30 May 1965. This event provoked a a much larger same-day counter-demonstration at the park by members of Toronto's Jewish community, actions sometimes referred to as the Allan Gardens riot. Documentation of these events and the reactions of Toronto's Jewish community and the general populace are also contained within this file.

Notes: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects: Demonstrations; Riots

Places: Allan Gardens (Toronto, Ont.)

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Teacher bigotry at Bathurst Heights Collegiate [textual record] – 1956.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 17; Series 5-3; File 8

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 17

Series: 5-3

File: 8

Material Format: textual record

Date: 1956

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of a letter from Ben Kayfetz to the principal of Bathurst Heights Collegiate regarding a complaint against a teacher, and another letter describing the principal's response.

Notes: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access: Kayfetz, Ben, 1916-2002

Subjects: Teachers

Source: Archival Descriptions

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Beattie, John [textual record] – 1970.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 17; Series 5-3; File 16

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Community Relations Committee series; Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 17

Series: 5-3

File: 16

Material Format: textual record

Date: 1970

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of one news clipping documenting a rally held by John Beattie (leader of the Canadian National Socialist Party or Nazi Party of Canada) and one letter written by Beattie to apply for a salesclerk job.

Notes: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects: Demonstrations

Source: Archival Descriptions

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