- Accession Number
- 2022-12-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-12-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1958-1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Nancy Levy, primarily education records, such as citizenship awards and scholarship awards issued by the Board of Education for the City of Hamilton, Ontario. It also consists of certificates and patches issued by the Canadian Red Cross Society and the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada while at Camp Kadimah and Hamilton's Recreation Centre as well a photograph of a Temple Anshe Sholom confirmation class taken in 1967. Identified in the photograph are: (back row) Michael Epstein, Paul Simon, Leslie Mitchinick, Rabbi Baskin, Michael Isaac, Robert Mitchnick, Harold Barnett, Brian Singer, (front row) Cheryl Hebscher, Sharon Leutcher, Robin Raphael, Gerrie Perrell, Nancy Levy, Jacqueline Houston, Elaine Hotz, Ethel Landrecht, and Debbie Minden.
- Administrative History
- Nancy Levy was born in 1951 to Corinne (née Cohn) and Edgar Levy. (Corinne and Edgar's name was originally Moshe Noss. He was born in the Ukraine and orphaned at an early age. Around 1921 he immigrated to Canada through the help of a Mr. Grafstein. Once in Canada, Edgar and his brothers were adopted into different families. The Levy family adopted Edgar and he took their name.
- Edgar married Corrine Cohn in 1946. Edgar had a business in Hamilton called Piston Service, which was a wholesaler for car parts. Corrine drove a truck for this business and eventually became the bookkeeper for another firm. After marriage, they lived in Hamilton at 18 West Third.
- Nancy had two younger siblings: Ann (1956–) and Lois (1958–2018). She married Wayne Greenberg in 1979 and they divorced around 1985. She studied medical lab technology at a community college and worked at various hospitals and businesses, including Henderson Hospital in Hamilton and Baycrest.
- 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.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Confirmation (Jewish rite)
- Education
- Name Access
- Temple Anshe Sholom (Hamilton, Ont.)
- Places
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Research Records sub-series
- Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 17; Series 5-4-8; File 53
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Research Records sub-series
- Small Ontario Jewish Communities sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5-4-8
- File
- 53
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence regarding Jewish related issues in Ottawa. Issues examined include government funding for Jewish Day Schools and Christian-Jewish Relations.
- Notes
- Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
- Subjects
- Education
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity
- Places
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3.9 m of textual records
- 1 painting : oil on canvas
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the Borochov School and Kindergarten, as well as one oil portrait of an unknown individual.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Education
- Name Access
- Borochov School and Kindergarten (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a 1967 letter from Dr. S. B. Ullmann, school consultant with the Bureau of Jewish Education, to Wilferd Gordon and a copy of Ullman's report on his duties and activities as school consultant. Ullman apparently submitted this report to the UJWF committee studying the restructuring of the bureau, which led to the establishment of the Board of Jewish Education in 1968. There are also a few items from Congregation Shearith Israel Anshe Lida, including a forty-year anniversary commemorative book (1950) and an announcement of a meeting of the ladies' auxiliary of the shul.
- Administrative History
- Wilferd Gordon, QC, was the son of Rabbi Jacob Gordon and was a president of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.
- MG_RG
- MG 3 A 19
- Subjects
- Education
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Gordon, Wilferd
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-16
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1975
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records relating to a "Teach-In on Israel" held at the university on 22 January 1975. There is also an announcement of a meeting of the Revolutionary Marxist Group at York.
- MG_RG
- MG2 P1d
- Subjects
- Education
- Children
- Politics and government
- Name Access
- Jewish Student Federation (York University)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1.8 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records pertaining to the operation of the Kashruth Department of the Toronto Jewish Congress. The department was situated within the Orthodox Division.
- Use Conditions
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Subjects
- Religion
- Food
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- Toronto Jewish Congress
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-9-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-9-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1939
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a notice in Yiddish from Rabbi Meir Levy announcing to the Jewish community that shochtim Yichiel Wagman and Soloway, Hymie Weisfeld, Lazar Salkovitch, and Moishe Gross are valid, certified kosher butchers. These shochtim, it states, are well known in Toronto, learned in Torah, and they have been certified under the strictest rules of kashrut.
- Subjects
- Religion
- Food
- Occupations
- Name Access
- Levy, Meir Zvi
- Wagman, Yichiel
- Weisfeld, Hymie
- Salkovitch, Lazar
- Gross, Moishe
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-5-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-5-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 item
- Date
- 1985
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one Shopsy's Delicatessen menu from March 1985. The deli introduced a new menu on 1 April 1985. It is a laminated, oversized, three-panel menu and is from the deli located at Yonge and Front Streets, across from the former O'Keefe Centre.
- Administrative History
- Harry and Jennie Shopsowitz started the family business, Shopsy's Delicatessen, in 1921. The first location was on Spadina Avenue at Dundas Street and was initially an ice-cream parlour, although they quickly converted it into a delicatessen in 1922. Shopsy's became an institution in the city where the likes of Bob Hope, Al Waxman, Dennis Hull and Scotty Bowman were regular customers. Harry's three sons took over the business in 1947. The brothers, Sam and Israel, expanded the business by packaging and distributing their hotdogs and corned beef to grocery stores. Sam Shopsowitz, the more gregarious of the two brothers, was known as the "Corned Beef King."
- Subjects
- Food
- Business
- Restaurants
- Name Access
- Shopsy's Delicatessen (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1915]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two class photos of a public school in the early 20th century, possibly the Orde Street Public School. The first image is of students of an all female cooking class, one of whom was Ida Fine Ruderman (1899-1999). The second image is of staff and students of an all male shop class, one of whom is Joseph Fine (Ida's brother).
- Subjects
- Education
- Name Access
- Ruderman, Ida
- Fine, Joseph
- Orde Street Public School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-16
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-16
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 9 photographs : col ; 15 x 10 cm
- Date
- 1998-1999
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of nine photographs of events at the Borochov Centre and the Toronto Heschel School. Seven of the photos are of childern observing Yom Hazikaron, one photo is of a Yom Ha'atz-Maul celebration, and one photo is a Yiddish Cultural Club group photo at the Borochov Centre.
- Subjects
- Religion
- Education
- Children
- Name Access
- Borochov Centre
- Toronto Heschel School
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-7-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-7-5
- Material Format
- textual record (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 1 document (pdf)
- Date
- 1962
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of one scanned copy of the Lakehead Hadassah cookbook from 1962.
- Custodial History
- The original records are in the possession of the donor. The OJA was granted permission to scan the records in July 2007, as part of the Ontario Small Jewish Communities initiative. These copies were then donated to the Archives on 2007-07-19.
- 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
- Communities
- Food
- Women
- Name Access
- Safir, Shari-Lyn
- Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada
- Places
- Thunder Bay (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1953, 1956-1957
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of three cookbooks produced by the Toronto B'nai Brith Women. The first is entitled "Party Book", the second is "Oven Magic", and the third is "What's Cooking?".
- Subjects
- Food
- Women
- Name Access
- Toronto B'nai B'rith Women
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1995
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one dinner invitation and journal entitled "From Tears to Triumph" presented by the Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah at a testimonial dinner marking fifty years since the end of the Second World War. The dinner was in honour of the survivors of the Holocaust and their impact on religious life in Toronto. It was held at the Regal Constellation Hotel in Toronto on Sunday, April 2, 1995 and featured Rabbi Ezriel Tauber as guest speaker. The journal features stories of survivors and photographs depicting Jewish religious life in Europe during and after the Second World War.
- Administrative History
- Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah was founded in 1945 as Shlomei Emunei Yisroel. It was founded as a school for boys by survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Canada with their children.
- Descriptive Notes
- Shlomei Emunei Yisroel
- Subjects
- Education
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Name Access
- Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Walk and Festival event photographs file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 17-1-16; File 26
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Walk and Festival event photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 21 May 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Negative of UJA Walk for Israel volunteers grilling hot dogs. Identified are Gerarld Halbert and Julia Koschitzky.
- Notes
- Title based on content of negative
- Negative by Graphic Artists Photographers
- Subjects
- Food
- Volunteers
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Joseph Fremar
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1974
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Joseph Fremar
- Number
- OH 21
- Subject
- Business
- Food
- Occupations
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1974
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy)
- 1 MP3 file
- Interviewer
- Bess Shockett
- Total Running Time
- 12:59 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied to cassette tape in August 2003.
- Digitized in June 2010.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Joseph "Joe the Orange Man" Fremar was a produce merchant in Kensington Market and opened his location at 234 Augusta Avenue in 1938. Fremar, commonly referred to as the "Orange Man," was a member of the Kiever Synagogue.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Fremar, Joseph
- Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Shockett, Bess
- Geographic Access
- Augusta Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the social politics and financial expectations around belonging to certain Toronto synagogues versus others.
In this clip, Joseph Fremar, also known as "Joe the Orange Man," talks about the changing population of Toronto
- Name
- Harry Finkelman
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1972
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Harry Finkelman
- Number
- OH 28
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Occupations
- Pharmacists
- Interview Date
- 1972
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Morris Silbert
- AccessionNumber
- 1978-2-2
- Total Running Time
- 028A: 46 minutes 028B: 7 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Notes
- Parts inaudible
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Harry Finkelman was born in 1909 in Hamilton and was one of the first Jewish pharmacists in Hamilton. His father was a tailor and an active member of several Jewish organizations including the Hess Street Synagogue and the Talmud Torah. Harry attended the Talmud Torah and was involved with Young Judaea and groups from the Talmud Torah. In this interview, he discusses the early history of Hamilton and discrimination against Jews entering the professions.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Finkelman, Harry
- Silbert, Morris
- Geographic Access
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 28 - Finkelman\OH28_001_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 28 - Finkelman\OH28_002_Log.docx
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Harry Finkelman shares some of his early memories of the Hamilton Jewish community in the 1910s. He notes name of shops, shop owners, streets and describes some of the synagogues
In this clip, Harry Finkelman describes the difficulty for a Jew in the 1920s to find a placement to complete a mandatory three-year apprenticeship before he could enter pharmacy at aniversity.
- Name
- Sadie Stren
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 14 Jun. 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Sadie Stren
- Number
- OH 91
- Subject
- Communities
- Education
- Interview Date
- 14 Jun. 1976
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy) 2 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Larry Troster
- Total Running Time
- OH91_001:44.37 minutes OH91_002:37.34 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied November 2006
- Digitized 2010
- Sound distorted on side 1 and side 2
- Notes
- Significant sound distortion.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
- Biography
- Sadie Stren was born 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. Stren graduated from Wayne State University and worked as a social studies teacher. Following her marriage to Maurice Strenkovsky in 1947, she moved to Brantford, Ontario. In Brantford, Sadie was actively involved in both Jewish and non-Jewish community organizations including Haddassah, the Family Service Bureau, and the University Women’s Club. She was also a board member of the YM-YWCA. In Toronto, Sadie was a member of the Baycrest Women's Auxillary and also authored the History of the Brantford community.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada
- B’nai Brith Youth Organization. Lake Ontario Region
- Hadassah
- Geographic Access
- Brantford (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 91 - Stren\OH91_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 91 - Stren\OH91_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Himel
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 24 Jan. 1983
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Himel
- Number
- OH 135
- Subject
- Communism
- Education
- Fraternal organizations
- Labor unions
- Zionism
- Interview Date
- 24 Jan. 1983
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Stephen Speisman
- Total Running Time
- OH135_001: 26.40 minutes OH135_002: 29.20 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
- Ben Himel was vice president and founder of the Borochov School and Kindergarten. Himel was affliated with the Poale Zion Jewish National Workers Alliance (Farband), the Independent Workers Circle, and the Board of Jewish Education.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Himel, Ben
- Speisman, Stephen
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 135 - Himel\OH135_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 135 - Himel\OH135_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Benjamin Himel discusses the ideologies of Canada's labour Movements during the 1930s and 1940s.
In this clip, Benjamin Himel discusses the Zionist movement within the Toronto Jewish community during the 1930s and 1940s.
- Name
- Dr. Alexander Brown
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 4 May 1977
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Alexander Brown
- Number
- OH 140
- Subject
- Education
- Interview Date
- 4 May 1977
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Stephen Speisman
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 minutes 22 seconds Side 2: 41 minutes 13 seconds good
- 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
- Dr. Alexander Brown was a leader in the field of Jewish education in Toronto. He held various positions with Toronto's Board of Education and the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto. He was actively involved with other Jewish organizations, such as the Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Jewish Welfare Fund. Dr. Brown was born in the Ukraine in 1909 and was the son of Louis and Bessie Brown.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Brown, Alexander
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Board of Jewish Education (Toronto, Ont.)
- United Jewish Welfare Fund (Toronto, Ont.)
- Associated Hebrew Schools (Toronto, Ont.)
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Dr. Brown describes his tenure as executive secretary of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), its organizational structure, and the CJC's position within the Toronto Jewish community.
In this clip, Dr. Brown discusses the Board of Jewish Education, the Welfare Fund, and the Canadian Jewish Congress in relation to the subsidization of Associated Hebrew Schools.
- Name
- Rabbi Elimelech Ittamar
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 11 May 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rabbi Elimelech Ittamar
- Number
- OH 141
- Subject
- Education
- Immigrants--Canada
- Rabbis
- Synagogues
- Zionists
- Interview Date
- 11 May 1976
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Doris Newman
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 minutes Side 2: 19 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
- Rabbi Ittamar was born in Poland. He came to Toronto in 1923. He attended Landsdowne and Ryerson Public Schools in Toronto for one year and then continued his education at a theological seminary in New York, which later became Yeshiva University. Throughout his life, Rabbi Ittamar was an ardent Zionist. From 1930 until June 1932, Rabbi Ittamar served as rabbi of Beth Jacob and Adas Yisroel Synagogues in Hamilton. He then worked as principal of the Seattle Talmud Torah and attended graduate school at the University of Washington for three and a half years. He served for twenty years in Detroit as rabbi and president of Yeshiva. He made aliyah in 5715 (1955), when he was invited by Chief Rabbi Herzog to become secretary of the chief rabbinate. He was married (nee Unger) in 1936 and had two children, Tamar and Yehoshua.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Ittamar, Elimelech
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Hamilton
- Detroit
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 141, Rabbi Elmelech Ittamar\OH 141 notes.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Rabbi Ittamar shares some of his early memories as a boy in Toronto.
While attending Yeshiva in New York, Rabbi Ittamar headed the debating team. In this clip he describes his first English-speaking public presentation while representing the debating team in 1930 at the Jewish People’s Institute in Chicago.
- Name
- Edna Jacobs
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- Dec. 1985, Mar. 1986
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Edna Jacobs
- Number
- OH 125
- Subject
- Families
- Travel
- Education
- Occupations
- Antisemitism
- Girl Guides
- Religion
- Volunteers
- Interview Date
- Dec. 1985, Mar. 1986
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Nancy Draper
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 36 minutes Side 2: 46 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
- Edna Jacobs (née Frankel) was born on 20 March 1904 in Toronto. Her parents, Sigmund and Paula Frankel, were early immigrants from Germany. Edna attended Havergal from kindergarten through high school. She studied general arts for two years at the University of Toronto. She married Arthur Jacobs, the son of Rabbi Solomon Jacobs, in 1936. Together, they had one daughter, Patsy, and a baby who died during infancy. Edna was involved with the Girls Club and the Junior Council of Jewish Women.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Toronto Girl's Club
- Toronto Council of Jewish Women
- Geographic Access
- Toronto
- Germany
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 125 - Jacobs\OH125_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 125 - Jacobs\OH125_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Edna Jacobs shares memories from a trip she and her family took to Biblis, Germany to celebrate her grandparents’ golden anniversary.
In this clip, Edna Jacobs reminisces about several prominent Toronto Jewish families.
- Name
- Anne Edell and I. S. Edell
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 7 Feb. 1984
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Anne Edell and I. S. Edell
- Number
- OH 208
- Subject
- Recreation
- Education
- Occupations
- Antisemitism
- Interview Date
- 7 Feb. 1984
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Phyllis Platnick
- Total Running Time
- AC 208A: 40 minutes AC 208B: 18 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
- Anne Edell grew up in Toronto. She worked as a bookkeeper in several local Jewish businesses. During summer vacation, Anne would travel to Port Dalhousie, Crystal Beach, and Jackson's Point. I. S. Edell grew up in Toronto. He graduated in education from OCE but was unable to find a teaching position. He worked at the post office for a short time and later in his father-in-law's business.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Edell, Anne
- Edell, I.S.
- Platnick, Phyllis
- Geographic Access
- Port Dalhousie
- Crystal Beach
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Anne Edell shares memories of summer vacations.
In this clip, I. S. Edell discusses the antisemitism encountered by Jewish graduates in the field of education in Ontario in the 1930s.
- Name
- Rheta Rosen
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 19 Sep. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rheta Rosen
- Number
- OH 317
- Subject
- Immigration and settlement
- Education
- Antisemitism
- Clubs
- Business
- Recreation
- Interview Date
- 19 Sep. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs
- 2 reference DVDs
- 2 archival DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 1:31 minutes
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Rheta Rosen (née Rosen) was the daughter of Nathan Rivelis, the owner of Rivelis, a large clothing store in North Bay from 1926 until 1986. The business grew from a small, family-run store into a large department store employing between twenty-five and thirty people. The store was famous for their annual sale held yearly on 16 November. Rheta became a full-time professor in family studies at Ryerson University. She was coordinator of the Learning and Teaching Office and coordinator of the Interpersonal Skills Teaching Centre, Simulation Program. Rheta's area of interest and research lay in the area of intergenerational relationships in the older family. She was a family mediator focusing on issues in the older family, adult children, and their ageing parents. Rheta Rosen died on 22 August 2016.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Name Access
- Rosen, Rheta
- Geographic Access
- North Bay (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Merle Koven
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 17 Oct. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Merle Koven
- Number
- OH 324
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Synagogues
- Interview Date
- 17 Oct. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs, 2 archival DVDs, 2 reference DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 2 hrs
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Merle Koven grew up in Kingston, Ontario and attended Kingston Collegiate. After high school, Merle enrolled in teachers college in Toronto. He later taught school in Kingston. Merle married Philip Koven, a well-known local businessman, philanthropist and community volunteer, who died in 2008. He was owner of Rosen Heating and Cooling, which merged with another old, established city business to form Rosen, Triheat and Anglin, now run by their two sons.
- During their forty-five years of marriage, the Kovens raised three children, Adam, Kenneth, and Rebecca. Both Phil and Merle Koven were prominent in the community. In 1982, Merle Koven broke new ground when she became president of Beth Israel in Kingston, possibly the first woman president of an Orthodox synagogue in North America. She was vice chair of Queens 1990s, although she did not have a degree.
- The Merle and Philip Koven Bursary in Art History at Queen's University was initially established by Philip Koven in honour of his wife, Merle Koven, both passionate supporters of the arts in Kingston. This fund provides financial support for upper-year students in art history. After Philip Koven passed away in 2008, the fund received many gifts in his memory.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Name Access
- Queen's University
- Hadassah WIZO Organization of Canada
- Bader, Alfred
- Geographic Access
- Kingston
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Part Of
- Mimi Wise fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 16
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (jpg)
- Scope and Content
- This item is an electronic copy photograph of Mimi Wise cooking cabbage rolls in her kitchen for the Hadassah Bazaar. The photograph was taken for the Toronto Telegram.
- Subjects
- Food
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Toronto Telegram. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Accession Number
- 2006-9-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 17; Series 2; File 1256
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 1256
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Name Access
- Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools
- Subjects
- Education
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [189-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Abraham Zivian lived in Gananoque and worked as a teacher in Kingston, Ontario.
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy photograph of Abraham Zivian with twelve young students, in Grodno, Lithuania.
- Subjects
- Education
- Children
- 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
- Lithuania
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 502
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 502
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1963
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of a Professor Morris Ben-Nathan, from Yeshiva University and the Board of Jewish Education in New York, addressing a group at the CJC's Ninth Regional Conference on Jewish Education, held in Hamilton, Ontario. Pictured at the head table are: Meyer W. Gasner, Harry Steiner, [Shammai Ogden?] and several rabbis and educators from the various Ontario communities.
- Notes
- Original photograph by Aron Studio, Hamilton.
- Acquired in July 1975.
- Name Access
- Ben-Nathan, Morris
- Board of Jewish Education (New York, N.Y.)
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Gasner, Meyer W.
- Ogden, Shammai
- Steiner, Harry
- Yeshiva University
- Subjects
- Congresses and conventions
- Education
- Places
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 838
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 838
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of Joe Dash, Mr. Blackstone, and Harry Atkins, of the Kirkland Lake B'nai Brith lodge, in the kitchen of the Adath Israel Synagogue. The men were helping to prepare some hot dogs for a group of Jewish boy cubs and boy scouts.
- Name Access
- Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
- Atkins, Harry
- Blackstone, Mr.
- Dash, Joe
- Subjects
- Food
- Kitchens
- 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
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 61; Series 1-1; File 54
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 61
- Series
- 1-1
- File
- 54
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1955
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file contains a guide and curriculum outline for youth study groups interested in continuing their Jewish education, prepared by the Educational and Cultural Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and an outline for teaching history by Joseph Klinger, head teacher at B'nai Israel Congregation in London, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Education
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Dr. Alexander Brown fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 95
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1934-1982
- Physical Description
- 58 cm of textual records
- 125 photographs
- 1 print
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Alexander Brown (1909-1984) was a leader in the field of Jewish education in Toronto. He held various positions with Toronto’s Board of Jewish Education (BJE) and the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, and was actively involved with other Jewish organizations, such as the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the United Jewish Welfare Fund (UJWF).
- Brown was born in the Ukraine on 14 February 1909 to Louis and Bessie Brown. The family immigrated to Canada in 1920. Brown attended the Simcoe Street Talmud Torah and studied under Rabbi Jacob Gordon. He continued his education at the Hebrew Theological College of Chicago and returned to Toronto in 1933. Between 1934 and 1936 Brown served as the first executive secretary of the CJC, Central Region. From 1936 to 1937 he was an announcer for the Jewish Radio Hour, where he read the News of the Week. In 1945 he graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA and then again in 1948 with an MA in Oriental languages. Brown was married to Dorothy Mercovitch (1912-2009) of London, Ontario, and together they had two children: Martin and Paul.
- Brown entered the field of Jewish education as the principal of Shaarei Shomayim Hebrew School from 1942 to 1948, as a principal of the AHS of Toronto and as dean of the Midrasha L'Morim. From 1957 to 1964 he worked as a consultant with the BJE in Toronto and then became the BJE's associate director until the early 1980s. He also was a member of the UJWF’s Study Committee on Jewish Education, the National Council of Jewish Education, the Toronto Zionist Council, and the Educational and Cultural Committee of the CJC. In 1969, he received an honourary doctorate in Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois.
- Dr. Brown died on 15 September 1984 at the age of 75.
- Custodial History
- Records were in the possession of Paul Brown, Dr. Brown's son, until their donation to the OJA.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of textual and graphic material documenting the professional activities of Dr. Alexander Brown. The bulk of the material relates to his involvement with the BJE and the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto. Included are meeting notices, agendas, and minutes, reports, studies, speeches, proposals, constitutions, correspondence, financial records, publications, questionnaires, photographs, booklets, articles, biographies, press releases, newspaper clippings, programmes, invitations, flyers, lists, applications, statistics, and a directory.
- Records have been arranged into the following four series: 1. Board of Jewish Education; 2. Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto; 3. United Jewish Welfare Fund Study Committee on Jewish Education; and, 4. Jewish communal activities. Two files are attached directly to the fonds level. Records are described to the file level with a selection of item level descriptions.
- Notes
- Fonds was reduced from approximately 1.2 metres to 0.74 metres. Records that were culled include duplicate or damaged photographs, duplicate graduation programmes and invitations, duplicate UJWF Study Committee Interim reports that are located elsewhere in OJA's holdings, and other duplicated material. Also removed were American and other non-Canadian booklets.
- Photographers and photography studios are identified on the photographs.
- Name Access
- Brown, Alexander, 1909-1984
- Gordon, Jacob, Rabbi
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Board of Jewish Education (Toronto, Ont.)
- United Jewish Welfare Fund (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Education
- Physical Condition
- The photographs are in poor condition. They have begun to curl and have become stiff from being stored in a dry environment. They should be flattened through humidification and encapsulated in mylar to prevent re-curling.
- Related Material
- See: Oral history interview with Dr. Brown (AC 140), Board of Jewish Education fonds 48, United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds 67, AHS of Toronto MG2 G-1E, accession 1981-11-4, United Synagogue Day School accession 1990-5-2, accession 1991-12-5, and accession 1988-11-3. For photographs of Jewish schools see Gordon Mendly fonds 18, series 3.
- Arrangement
- Arrangement has been created by the archivist since there was no discernable original order.
- Creator
- Brown, Alexander, 1909-1984
- Accession Number
- 2009-7-9
- 2010-12-9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [ca. 1900]-2000
- Physical Description
- 49 cm of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell, the son of Paul and Mollie Edell, was one of five siblings. He and Dolly Weinstock, the daughter of Moishe and Sylvia Weinstock, had two daughters and two sons and lived in Toronto. After Dolly died in 1961, he married Celia (née Rogen) Hoffman, a widow, in 1966. He became the stepfather to the two sons of Max and Celia Hoffman who had been residents of Hamilton. Some members of the family remained in Toronto while others moved to other parts of Canada, the United States and Israel. Sol Edell was actively involved in or provided financial support to many educational, professional and religious organizations.
- Scope and Content
- Series includes correspondence, invitations, publications, photographs, family films and a sound recording. The series is made up of seven sub-series: Associations, Charities, Community Activities, Education and Extra-Curricular Activities, Life Cycle and Family Events, Religious, and Residence.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes 12 photographs, 7 film reels, 1 audio reel, 1 plaque, 4 badges, and 47 architectural drawings.
- Name Access
- Hoffman, Max
- Hoffman, Celia
- Rho Pi Phi
- Harbord Collegiate
- Subjects
- Education
- Greek letter societies
- Physical Condition
- Film and sound reels should be digitized.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 5
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1958-2008
- Physical Description
- 21 cm of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Adas Israel is an orthodox congregation that was founded in the 1920s. The original building was on Cannon Street in downtown Hamilton. After the arrival of Rabbi Morton Green in 1958, a decision was made to move the synagogue to the western suburbs of Hamilton. The new building was built in 1961 and also included the Hamilton Hebrew Academy Day School. Since its move, synagogue membership has increased from 75 families to 350 families. Sol Edell became a member in 1966 after he married Celia Hoffman who was a member of the congregation. He did not attend the synagogue and had no regular involvement but did supervise a number synagogue renovation projects.
- Custodial History
- The material in this series was originally collected by the Hoffman family who were members of the congregation in the 1960s. Sol Edell became a member of the congregation after his marriage to Celia Hoffman in 1966. After her death in 1973, he inherited the material that she had collected and he continued to receive material from the congregation since he maintained his membership until his death in 2000.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, blueprints, photographs, audiotapes and films relating to the establishment and construction of the new synagogue in 1961. It also includes correspondence and anniversary books documenting a variety of synagogue activities such as the dedication of the synagogue and a tribute dinner honouring Rabbi Mordechai Green. Also included are synagogue bulletins from 1958 to 2000. The series is made up of 6 sub series: Building, Clergy, Religious, Programmes, Administration and Finance, and Publications.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes 27 photographs, 3 audio reels, 1 film reel, 15 architectural drawings, and 1 key.
- Name Access
- Green, Morton, Rabbi
- Hoffman, Celia
- Hamilton Hebrew Academy Day School
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Education
- Synagogues
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 11
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 11
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1950-2010
- Physical Description
- 77 cm of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- In addition to his ongoing involvement with Clanton Park, the Canadian Jewish Congress Archives, the Aliyah Support Group, Jones Avenue Cemetery, Shomrai Shabbos and Adas Israel, Sol Edell undertook special projects on behalf of a wide array of Jewish organizations. These include cultural (Toronto Cantorial Scholarship Fund), educational (Netivot Hatorah and Yeshivat Or Chaim Ulpanat Orot), religious (Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations), social welfare (Association of Jewish Seniors and Co-Ordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly) and Zionist (Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel and State of Israel Bonds) organizations.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records documenting Sol Edell's involvement with a wide variety of Jewish educational, social and religious organizations and institutions in Canada, the United States, and Israel. Included are meeting minutes, publications, reports, photographs, correspondence, invitations, programmes, financial records, an architectural drawing, and a sound recording. While many of these organizations such as Eitz Chaim, Or Chaim Ulpanat Orot (educational), Mizrachi Organization of Canada, Emunah Women (Zionist) and Beth Jacob V’Anshe Drildz (synagogue) are orthodox, others such as Associated Hebrew Day Schools (educational), State of Israel Bonds (Zionist) and Co-ordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly (social welfare) have no religious affiliation.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes 26 photographs, 1 audio cassette, and 1 architectural drawing.
- Name Access
- Eitz Chaim
- Or Chaim Ulpanat Orot
- Mizrachi Men’s Organization
- Emunah Women
- Beth Jacob V'Anshei Drildz (Toronto, Ont.)
- Associated Hebrew Day Schools
- State of Israel Bonds
- Co-ordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly
- Camp Moshava
- Harbord Collegiate
- Netivot Hatorah
- Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations
- B'Nei Akiva
- Toronto Committee for Bikur Cholim Hospital
- Subjects
- Charities
- Children
- Education
- Fund raising
- Older people
- Religion
- Zionism
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 6; Series 2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1969
- Physical Description
- 10 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Max and Celia Hoffman were involved in many community activities including the synagogue and Jewish education. They raised funds on behalf of the community and also made financial contributions to a variety of Jewish organizations.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, financial reports and programme books relating to educational, religious and fraternal organizations and institutions in Hamilton. Series also contains material from local events such as the dedication of Adas Israel synagogue and regional events such as the convention of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Ontario Region. In addition, there are correspondence and a certificate from Yeshiva University in regards to a scholarship established by Max and Celia Hoffman. Other material includes a calendar published by the Hamilton chapter of B’Nai Brith and the Hamilton District Jewish Community Telephone Directory.
- Name Access
- B'nai B'rith
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Ontario Region
- Central Fund for Traditional Institutions
- Hamilton Talmud Torah
- National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
- Hamilton District Jewish Community Telephone Directory
- Subjects
- Education
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 6; Series 3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 3
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [195-]-1962
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Max and Celia Hoffman lived in Hamilton with their 2 children, Stephen and Jay. They were members of Adas Israel synagogue and the Beverley Golf and Country Club. The children attended the Hamilton Talmud Torah.
- Scope and Content
- Series contains correspondence and blueprints relating to the construction of the Hoffman residence. Also included are the Westlake Secondary School yearbook, the school attended by the Hoffman children and a biography of Meyer Hoffman, a relative of Max Hoffman. In addition, there is correspondence relating to the Hoffman family membership in the Beverly Golf and Country Club.
- Subjects
- Building
- Education
- Golf
- Recreation
- Places
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 1-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1997
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell made charitable donations to a large number of Jewish organizations mainly ones located in Canada, Israel and the United States.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of correspondence, receipts and certificates from Canadian, American and Israeli educational, religious and welfare organizations and institutions that received charitable donations from the Edell family.
- Subjects
- Charities
- Education
- Israel
- Religion
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 1-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Date
- 1968-1995
- Physical Description
- 3 folders of textual records
- 1 plaque
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell was involved in a variety of religious, educational and cultural organizations. Not only did he make financial donations to organizations, but he also became personally involved and organized specific projects. As well, representatives of foreign institutions would stay at his home when they came to Toronto on speaking engagements or fundraising missions.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of awards that relate to Sol Edell’s fundraising efforts on behalf of “Yeshiva Hatalmid” and for hosting speakers and fundraisers who were visiting Toronto. Also included is a day book listing community meetings as well as family events. As well, there is correspondence relating to an item loaned to the Baycrest Heritage Museum, and a plaque.
- Name Access
- Yeshiva Hatalmid
- Baycrest Heritage Museum
- Subjects
- Education
- Fund raising
- Religion
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- ID
- Fonds 4; Series 1-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Date
- 1921-1999
- Physical Description
- 4 folders of textual records
- 1 photograph
- 4 badges
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell attended Harbord Collegiate and was an honours student winning awards in several extra curricular activities. His children and grandchildren also excelled scholastically while attending a variety various Jewish parochial schools in Toronto such as the Associated Hebrew Day Schools, Eitz Chaim, Netivot Hatorah and Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Or Chaim Ulpanat Orot.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of material relating to the educational and recreational activities of the Edell family. There are newspaper clippings relating to Sol Edell’s participation in the Harbord Collegiate’s First Aid team and a University of Toronto graduation photograph. Sub-series includes correspondence, notices and booklets from his sisters’ and children’s elementary, high school and university graduation commencement exercises. In addition, sub-series consists of correspondence with the Associated Hebrew Day Schools relating to a scholarship awarded in memory of Sol Edell's grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Weinreb.
- Name Access
- Harbord Collegiate
- First Aid team
- Rabbi Yosef Weinreb Scholarship
- University of Toronto
- Subjects
- Education
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2011-6-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-6-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photo album
- 12 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1963-2004
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the involvement of Itshe Meyer Korolnek and his children in the Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah and Jewish education in Toronto. Eitz Chaim records include a graduation programme (1968), an annual dinner book honouring Harry and Max Korolnek (1992), and a dedication journal (1963). Also included are anniversary dinner programmes for the Beth Jacob High School and the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation, a memorial breakfast booklet for the Toronto Cheder (2003), a publication by Mayer S. Abramowitz titled "Toronto's Sages," and a CJC book commemorating seventy years of Jewish life in Canada. Finally, the accession also includes a photo album documenting a testimonial dinner for Itshe Korolnek and issues of the Jewish Times (1983), the Canadian Jewish Review (1950), and the Hebrew Journal (Yiddisher Zhurnal) (1972).
- Subjects
- Education
- Name Access
- Bais Yaakov High School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- 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
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1950-1989
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to the Bureau of Jewish Education (later the Board of Jewish Education). Included is the inaugural meeting invitation, general correspondence, commencement and festival programmes, newsletters, a report on the schools of Beth Tikvah Synagogue and a BJE Dropouts' Study performed in 1989.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition information for these records. Cantor Stolnitz's stamp is visible on many of the records and some of the correspondence is addressed to him.
- Subjects
- Education
- Name Access
- Board of Jewish Education (Toronto, Ont.)
- Stolnitz, Nathan
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 certificate
- Date
- 1930
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a University of Toronto graduation diploma for Sara Selma Mirochnick.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition information for this accession. The record was found in the processing room in July 2013.
- Subjects
- Education
- Name Access
- Mirochnick, Sara
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-8-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-8-3
- Material Format
- text
- Physical Description
- 1 book : 166 p.
- Date
- [198-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one cookbook published by the Sisterhood of the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue and the Dorothy Rothschild Chapter of Hadassah (Sudbury).
- Subjects
- Food
- Women
- Name Access
- Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue
- Hadassah-Wizo
- Places
- Subury, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-3-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-3-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1970]-[ca. 1999]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of various meeting minutes of the Masada Chapter, Farband of Lithuanian Jews. The minutes are written in Yiddish and document different meetings, such as, Chanukah meetings, closing meetings, luncheons, and teas. Also included is one Borochov School Nurseries brochure. Jennie Kernkraut is the teacher in the classroom pictured on the cover of the brochure.
- Custodial History
- Records were in the possession of Jennie Kernkraut's daughter, Judy Kasman, unitl their donation to the OJA.
- Administrative History
- Jennie Kernkraut (nee Golomb) was born in 1916 in Vilno. She came to Canada in 1948 and worked as a nursery school and Yiddish teacher at the Borochov school in Toronto. She was an active member of the Masada Chapter, Farband of Lithuanian Jews and served on its executive for many years as Secretary.
- Subjects
- Societies
- Education
- Name Access
- Kernkraut, Jennie
- Farband of Lithuanian Jews (Toronto, Ont.)
- Borochov School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-1-15
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-1-15
- Material Format
- textual record
- moving images
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- ca. 3 m of textual records
- ca. 20 video cassettes
- ca. 5 audio cassettes
- Date
- [ca. 1970]-[ca. 2010]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records, and audio-visual material documenting the operations of Hillel and its predecessor organization, the Jewish Students Federation.
- Subjects
- Education
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- Hillel of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- Date
- 1937-1970
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of personal records of Bunny Bergstein. Included is his certificate of graduation from "shule", or Yiddish school, and documents related to the B'Nai Brith Lodge.
- Subjects
- Education
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Bergstein, Bunny
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ca. 30 cm textual records
- Date
- 1995-2007
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of documents related to Hillel of Greater Toronto. Types of materials include meeting minutes, flyers, correspondence employee manuals and financial statements.
- Subjects
- Education
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- Hillel of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-9-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-9-4
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records and other material
- Date
- [ca. 1936]-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the activities of Eitz Chaim. Included are photographs, yearbooks, class lists and registers, teachers record books and student grade reports, curriculum materials, anniversary books and 2 DVDs from a gala dinner and fundraising event. Also included is the Beth Jacob High School dedication and founders dinner book.
- Administrative History
- Known then as the Poylishe Talmud Torah, Eitz Chaim began in 1915 with a few students in one classroom guided by one teacher. The school’s first premises were in the Elm Street Shul. Within a year, a second teacher, Reb Leibish Noble, was hired, and he remained actively involved in Eitz Chaim for 30 years. There were now 30 students in two classes. The four-hour nightly sessions were held at the end of the regular public school day with an additional six hours on Sunday. Classes continued throughout the summer as well.
- The school’s first building on Chestnut Street was inaugurated in August 1916, with additional classes held at a branch on Simcoe Street. The second president of the school, Yosef Shidlowsky, in a move to be more inclusive of all Orthodox Jews, changed the name of the school to Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim.
- In 1917, Mr. Shidlowsky, Itshe Meyer Korolnek, and Joseph Cooper managed not only to obtain a provincial charter to open a religious school, but were also instrumental in purchasing the Italian Club at 68 D’Arcy St. to accommodate the school’s growing enrollment.
- In 1920, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart arrived from Stashow, Poland, and assumed the post of spiritual leader of the Talmud Torah. He introduced more Hebrew instruction and a more intensive Torah curriculum.
- In 1926, Rabbi Pinchas Ravad became the next principal, a position he retained for the next nine years. During that time, a separate girls’ class was formed and the first female teacher was hired. Although a fire in 1927 destroyed the wooden school building on D’Arcy St., a new, larger school was constructed on the same site and dedicated on December 30, 1927. After moving into the new building, student enrollment increased dramatically. Beginning with 300 students in 1929, the student body grew to 400 in 1931, 503 in 1933, and 600 in 1938.
- After the passing of Rabbi Graubart, an evening high school yeshiva, the Maharil Graubart Yeshiva, was founded in 1939 to serve boys 14 years of age and up with Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky acting as rosh yeshiva beginning in 1941. The building next door to the Talmud Torah, at 80 D’Arcy Street, was purchased to provide space for the yeshiva and was connected via a walkway to the Talmud Torah. As the students of Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah graduated from the elementary school, they would eventually attend the Maharil Graubart Yeshiva. That same year, Rabbi Jacob I. Wohlgelernter became principal of the Talmud Torah and a kindergarten was added in 1942.
- Seven years later, Rabbi Chaim Nussbaum officially assumed the role of principal of Eitz Chaim Schools. Beginning with only a grade 1, new grades were added every year until grades 1 through 9 were in place. Eitz Chaim gradually broadened its scope, welcoming Jewish students from many diverse backgrounds and establishing afternoon and day classes beginning in 1950 at a branch on Burnside Ave. To meet the growing demand for classes, the Torath Emeth Jewish Centre was established at 1 Viewmount Avenue in 1956.
- By 1958, in response to the geographical shift of the Jewish population northward, the Tanenbaum Building was added to the complex, followed by the Korolnek Building in 1961, both at 1 Viewmount Avenue. By this time, Eitz Chaim had two principals: Rabbi Nussbaum, who oversaw Hebrew studies, and Rabbi Shlomo Jakubovitz, who oversaw general studies.
- The two buildings on D’Arcy St. were sold in 1966 and the proceeds were designated toward purchasing a new school building to the north of the city. Rabbi Shlomo Jakobovits, Avraham Bleeman, Joe Goldwasser and Sam Wortsman led the way in persuading the Board of Directors to purchase the land at Patricia and Bathurst Streets. Patricia and Bathurst Streets served as the temporary location for portable units until the large, permanent building was completed in 1970. This location evolved into the boys’ campus, servicing students from all areas of the city.
- Rabbi Shneur Weinberg succeeded Rabbi Nussbaum in 1969 and served as the Hebrew principal until his retirement in 1995, when Rabbi Aaron Levine took over. The position of Hebrew studies principal for the girls’ school was created in 1974 and was held by Rabbi Leibish Adler for 26 years. Rabbi Mordechai Gewirts succeeded Rabbi Adler in 2002 and was principal of the girls’ school until 2012. Eitz Chaim Schools developed rapidly and acquired an excellent reputation among North American day schools.
- The female graduates of Eitz Chaim, for the most part, attended public high school. To counter this trend, Beth Jacob High School, with the guidance of Eitz Chaim, was launched in 1963, with classes conducted near the Viewmount branch. In 1966, the Beth Jacob High School and Teacher’s Seminary was completed on Lawrence Avenue, culminating in the opening of a girls’ high school that became completely independent of Eitz Chaim. Today, many female graduates of Etiz Chaim continue their education at Beth Jacob High School.
- The Spring Farm campus, named for the farm formerly on that site, opened its doors in 1988. Currently, Eitz Chaim serves primarily as an elementary educational institute under the guidance of Rabbi Isser Pliner.
- History from http://www.eitzchaim.com/index.php?page=history (viewed Oct. 6, 2014)
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Physical Description note: Includes ca. 500 photographs, texts, 2 DVDs and 1 betacam cassette.
- Use Conditions note: student grade reports are closed until 30 years after the death of the individual.
- Subjects
- Education
- Children
- Name Access
- Eitz Chaim Schools (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-12-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-12-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Date
- 1957-1958
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two photographs of Bernie Shiner's class at Associated Hebrew Schools on Neptune Avenue, Toronto.
- Identified individuals from 1957 are: David Zweig; Mitchell (?); Phillip Granovsky; Ian Eckler; Mark Greenspan; Hillel Eisen; Mark Gottlieb; Heidi (?); Mark Shapiro; Bernie Shiner; Gordon Lindsay; Carol Ogden; Vernon Kurtz; Milton Davis; Allan Greenspan; Leonard Feldman; Bobby Posen; Avram Steinman; and Sima Godfrey. The teacher was Mr. Clodman.
- Identified individuals from 1958 are: Avram Steinman; David Zweig; Evelyn Klein; Bobby Posen; Emma Applebaum; Vernon Kurtz; Gordon Lindsay; Leonard Feldman; Allan Greenspan; Alan Frankel; Henry Metkiewitz; Bernie Shiner; Ronnie Rosenberg; Phil Granovsky; Deena Mandel; Mitchell (?).
- Descriptive Notes
- See accession form for location of individuals.
- Subjects
- Education
- Children
- Name Access
- Zweig, David
- Granovsky, Phillip
- Eckler, Ian
- Greenspan, Mark
- Eisen, Hillel
- Gottlieb, Mark
- Shapiro, Mark
- Shiner, Bernie
- Lindsay, Gordon
- Ogden, Carol
- Kurtz, Vernon
- Davis, Milton
- Greenspan, Allan
- Feldman, Leonard
- Posen, Bobby
- Steinman, Avram
- Godfrey, Sima
- Shapiro, Mark
- Davis, Milton
- Klein, Evelyn
- Applebaum, Emma
- Frankel, Alan
- Metkiewitz, Henry
- Rosenberg, Ronnie
- Mandel, Deena
- Associated Hebrew Schools
- Source
- Archival Accessions