Accession Number

2021-10-4

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 letter

Date

19 Jun. 1945

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one letter to Nathan "Sonny" Isaacs from Rabbi Jacob Eisen. The letter is dated 19 June 1945. In it, Jacob congratulates Nathan on getting engaged and expresses his regret he could not have been in Toronto when Nathan was welcomed home. He also mentions that Nathan's best friend, Percy, was sad to learn that Nathan had departed Europe just as he arrived.

Administrative History

Nathan Isaacs (né Isaacovitch) was born on 20 November 1922. He enlisted on 5 August 1942. After training, Nathan worked in the kitchen at a Royal Canadian Air Force base in Aylmer, Ontario, while awaiting deployment to Europe. After being flown to Yorkshire, England, Nathan went on to fly thirty-five missions. He was twenty-one when he flew his first.

Following the war, bombers like Nathan received little in the way of recognition on account of the heavy civilian casualties caused by bombing. In 2013, Julian Fantino, minister of veterans affairs, gave out the Bomber Command bar to recognize Second World Bombers, including Nathan. That same year, thanks to a photograph that accompanied a Toronto Star article about Second World War bombers, Nathan was reunited with John Mulholland, the pilot with whom he flew his final mission.

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

Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described: A photograph of Rabbi Jacob Eisen in uniform can be found in the Military photographs series of the William Stern fonds. A photograph of Rabbi Eisen alongside other Jewish chaplains can be found in the Harry Moscoe fonds.

Subjects

Letters

Rabbis

World War, 1939-1945

Name Access

Isaacs, Nathan, 1922-

Places

Europe

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2022-8-4

Material Format

architectural drawing

graphic material

object

textual record

sound recording

Physical Description

ca. 11 m of textual records and other material

Date

1930-2012

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the life and career of Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg. Included are subject files, eulogies, sermons, marriage records, funeral record cards, conversion certificates, gittin (Jewish divorce documents), addresses for High Holiday services, and photographs. Also include are a few artifacts, such as felt patches and medallions, as well as sound recordings. A large number of documents are relating to Rabbi Friedberg's rabbinical career at Beth Tzedec Congregation.

Administrative History

Rabbi Joseph Benjamin Friedberg (1927-2022) was born on June 26, 1927, in Toronto to Chaim (Chamel) and Rochel Rose Friedberg. Rochel Friedberg was born in Polaniec, Poland (Russian part of Poland), the daughter of Moshe and Sura Poss. Rochel had little formal education but learned Talmud from her father. In her youth, Moshe came to Toronto to make a living and had to leave the family behind; shortly thereafter, World War I broke out, and Rochel was sent to the town of Stopnitz. She was then sent to Crackow to work. Rochel married Chaim (Chamel) Friedberg from Patchenev, who was enlisted in Pilsudski’s army. Before the Great Depression, Rochel and Chaim immigrated to Canada. Later on, Chaim took ill and had to go to the Western Sanitarium; soon after that, he passed away in 1957. Rochel passed away in 1992.

Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg was a native of Toronto and received his basic religious and secular education there. He attended Harbord Collegiate in his youth. After spending a number of years at the Yeshiva University in New York, he returned home to attended the University of Toronto, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. In 1950, Rabbi Friedberg entered the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He received his Master of Hebrew Letters degree and rabbinical ordination in 1954.

Rabbi Friedberg’s first pulpit was in Rochester, New York. He served as assistant rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation in 1955; and then as rabbi of B’nai Israel Congregation in London, Ontario. In 1959, he received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in Bible and Archaeology. As part of his doctorial program, he studied in the Department of Archaeology and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he also spent several years studying in the Department of Religion at the University of Ottawa with special emphasis on the Samaritans.

In 1961, Rabbi Friedberg was called to the pulpit of Agudath Israel Congregation in Ottawa, Ontario, where he served for thirteen years until 1974.

In 1974, he was appointed senior rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto. His major emphases in the congregation were the development of both child and adult education and emphasizing Israel as the dominant fact in Jewish life today. Much of the programming at Beth Tzedec that he instituted dealt with Israel.

Rabbi Friedberg’s interest in Jewish education was responsible for the founding of a Hebrew High School in Ottawa. His concern with Jewish youth prompted him to devote his time as counsellor to the Hillel Organization on the campuses of the University of Western Ontario, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. He taught Bible, Biblical Hebrew, and courses in Judaism at the University of Ottawa; and was an occasional lecturer at the University of Western Ontario in the Orientals Department. While living in Ottawa, he was active in a number of Jewish communal organizations. He was the founder and the organizer of the Ottawa Soviet Jewry Committee and was head of the Jews in Foreign Lands Committee and Canada-Israel Committee. Also, he was on the Social Welfare Council and was chairman of the Aliyah Committee in Ottawa.

Rabbi Friedberg was active with the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). He worked actively on behalf of the CJC’s Educational Department. He was on the executive of the CJC Central and Eastern Regions and served as national chairman of the CJC’s International Affairs Committee. As an active Zionist, he served as national chairman of the Hasbara Committee of the CZF and was president of Mercaz Canada, the Zionist organization of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement. He also organized Israel tours and led Israel tour groups for a number of times. Rabbi Friedberg was the recipient of citations of the UJA, State of Israel Bonds, and various other awards in recognition of his communal work. In addition, he had also been invited to serve as a member of Teddy Kollek’s Jerusalem Committee.

Rabbi Friedberg was a contributor to Anglo-Jewish press, television work, and radio. He was chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religious Advisory Committee and hosted his own television program called “Focus.” He had written for the London Free Press, and the Ottawa Citizen, and a number of Jewish periodicals.

Rabbi Friedberg was married to the former Lola Constant of Montreal (1930-2022). They had three children together—Mark, Gilah, and Esther. Lola Friedberg had a degree from McGill University in Arts and Music. She had given two-piano recitals in conjunction with her twin sister, Miriam “Mitzi” Leboff, on a number of occasions. Lola had taught piano and conducted choirs in Montreal and Ottawa.

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

Rabbis

Sermons

Eulogies

Name Access

Friedberg, Benjamin, 1927-2022

Beth Tzedec Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Ottawa (Ont.)

London (Ont.)

Jerusalem

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2003-5-5

Material Format

multiple media

Date

[192-?]-1975

Scope and Content

The records in this accession document the Raxlen family and the Raxlen Clinic and Doctor's Hospital that was set up by the Raxlen brothers. The records also include personal correspondence between Katie Cherney and her mother, family photographs, greeting cards, press clippings and a booklet of articles written by Rabbi Fine of Peterborough. This booklet includes translated documents that he produced as rabbi from 1926 to 1934. Finally, there are three historic postcards documenting Holy Blossom's building on Bond Street, Jarvis Collegiate, and the Doctor's Hospital

Custodial History

Records were collected by Karen Fejer, the daughter of Alexander Raxlen.

Administrative History

The Raxlen brothers were born in Toronto in Cabbagetown, where their father operated a grocery store. The four brothers were Saul, Benjamin, Alexander, and Sam. All of the brothers graduated in medicine during the 1930s, except for Sam, who became a dentist. Together, they opened up the Raxlen Clinic in 1937, which was located on Carleton Street.

In 1953, the brothers opened their own private hospital, the Doctor's Hospital, which was located on Brunswick Avenue. The hospital started in a ninety-year-old building that was owned by a religious order. The brothers modernized and expanded it from a facility accomodating 59 patients to one that could hold up to 168 beds by 1955. It soon became the largest privately-held, non-profit hospital in North America. By the time the brothers sold it during the late 1970s, it had 554 full-time staff and five hundred hospital beds.

The other family documented in this accession is the Cherney family from Peterborough. The patriarch and matriarch were Abraham and B. Cherney. They had two children, Katie ("Kaye") and Meyer. Abraham and B. divorced, and Abraham remarried and had three more kids: Harry, Helen, and Louis. The family remained in Peterbough, but the ex-wife moved to Toronto. Kaye married Dr. Alexander Raxlen, and they had three children. Karen Fejer, their daughter, is the donor.

Use Conditions

Correspondence is restricted. Researchers must contact donor for permission to access them. The rest of the collection is open.

Descriptive Notes

Restrictions on access, use, reproduction, and publication: Some of the photographs are the property of the City of Toronto Archives.

Subjects

Families

Hospitals

Rabbis

Name Access

Doctor's Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)

Fine, Abraham

Places

Peterborough (Ont.)

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1977-11-2

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

Date

1911–1934

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photocopied material documenting Rabbi Jacob Gordon.

Descriptive Notes

Language: The bulk of the documents are in Hebrew or Yiddish.

MG_RG

MG 6 C

Subjects

Rabbis

Name Access

Gordon, Jacob, 1877-1934

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

1

Item

24

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1964]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w : 13 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

Rabbi Israel Sholom Langner was born in Toronto to Rabbi Solomon and Frimet (née Babad) Langner. He is in the trucking business and is currently active with the Shaarei Tzedec and Kiever Synagogues. He is also involved with the Jewish Education Program (JEP), affiliated with Ohr Somayach International.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Rabbi Sholom Langner.

Name Access

Congregation Shaarei Tzedec (Toronto, Ont.)

Jewish Education Program (Toronto, Ont.)

Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Langner, Israel Sholom

Subjects

Rabbis

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Events and organizations series

Level

File

Fonds

18

Series

3

File

44

Material Format

graphic material

Date

2 Dec. 1970

Physical Description

7 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of images of Rabbi Moishe Feinstein, Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi from New York City, and, at the time, the supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry in North America. The images depict Rabbi Feinstein with a crowd at the Toronto airport and a Toronto City Hall with Toronto mayor William Dennision.

Name Access

Dennison, William, 1905-1981

Feinstein, Moshe, 1895-1986

Subjects

Mayors

Orthodox Judaism

Rabbis

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Events and organizations series

Level

File

Fonds

18

Series

3

File

43

Material Format

graphic material

Date

28 Jun. 1970

Physical Description

6 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of images taken at the Toronto airport upon the arrival of Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz (Reb 'Yidele' Stitshiner) of Stitshin and later the Stitshiner Rav in Brooklyn.

The images depict Rabbi Horowitz being greeted at the airport and Rabbi Horowitz and his family leaving the airport in a car. One photograph depicts Rabbi Horowitz and Rabbi Shlomo Langner of Toronto seated in a car.

Notes

Title note: This photograph was originally identified as Rabbi Dovid Flam of Montreal, the brother-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Langner. This was contested by a family member who stated that Rabbi Flam died in Israel in 1971 after living there for several years and did not make a trip to Toronto in 1970. Further verification determined that the rabbi pictured is actually Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz of Brooklyn (later London, England).

Subjects

Airports

Rabbis

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Accession Number

2017-4-7

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

8 cm of textual records

1 photograph : col. ; 13 x 18 cm

Date

2004-2010

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a photograph of Ted Sokolsky and textual records that include: Centre Square Seniors' Centre Program and Design Brief (2004), Israel Emergency Campaign Fact Finding Trip by Ted Sokolsky and Adam Minsky (2007), Israel Emergency Campaign Proposal Draft 1 (2007) and a photo scrapbook of the Hatzor Ha'Glilit Early Childhood Centre (2010) thanking the UJA for its contribution to the construction of its new building.

Custodial History

Donated by Adam Minsky's office.

Use Conditions

UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.

Subjects

Charities

Israel

Older people

Name Access

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-5-6

Material Format

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

1 textual record (electronic)

Date

1 Dec. 2003

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a letter written by Rabbi Edward Elkin and addressed to members of the First Narayever Congregation, of which he was the rabbi. In the letter, Rabbi Elkin describes his purpose as follows: "I would like to cover what I see as the salient grounds in Jewish law (halakha) which led me to the point where I can comfortably say that I am prepared to officate at a same-sex marriage."

The letter was written ahead of a congregational meeting and vote on same-sex marriage set for the end of January 2004.

Administrative History

In 1914, Jews from eastern Galicia (now in modern Ukraine) established the First Narayever Congregation in Toronto as a landsmanshaf, i.e. a society of Jewish immigrants from the same town or region. The synagogue takes its name from the small market town of Narayev, which is located in eastern Galicia. The synagogue's founders belonged to the working class and many worked in Toronto's garment industry.

Initially, congregation members met in different locations, but by 1923 their numbers and financial means had grown such that they were able to rent a small house at 70 Huron Street at the corner of Huron and Dundas. This house served as the congregation's home for twenty years.

The congregation's first president was Israel Chaim Katz and its first meeting was held at the Katz home at 156 William Street. The congregation's first rabbi was Solomon Langner, who was hired by the congregation in 1923. He retained this affiliation despite serving the Kiever Synagogue as a full-time rabbi from 1929 until he died in 1973.

In 1943, the congregation purchased property at 187-189 Brunswick Avenue from Bethel Church. This is where the the synagogue is located today.

In 1950, Henry Young became president of the congregation. He occupied that position until his death in 1976. Shalom Langner, the son of Rabbi Solomon Langner, succeeded Young as president.

As Toronto's Jewish population began to move north, the First Narayever continued to serve Orthodox Jews living downtown. In the 1980s, the congregation struggled to balance the needs of this older generation with the young generation's desire to make the synagogue more egalitarian with respect to gender. In 1983, the congregation's new leadership team successfully advanced a proposal to allow the full participation of women in traditional services. This innovation led to several long-standing members taking legal action, but their case was dismissed on the grounds that it was not a matter for civil law.

The First Narayever's identity continued to evolve. In 2009, its membership voted to allow its rabbi, Edward Elkin, who began serving the congregation in 2000, to officiate at same-sex marriages.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Jewish law

Rabbis

Same-sex marriage

Name Access

Elkin, Ed

First Narayever Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-5-7

Material Format

object

textual record

Physical Description

1 object

1 folder of textual records

Date

[197-?]-2017

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting the Beth Torah Congregation in Toronto. Included are a stole (sash) from the synagogue choir and the summer 2017 issue of the Jewish Review, which features a profile of Yossi Sapirman, the senior rabbi of Beth Torah.

Subjects

Choirs (Music)

Rabbis

Synagogues

Name Access

Beth Torah Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Sapirman, Yossi

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-6-21 [Processed]

Material Format

multiple media

Physical Description

13 cm of textual records

Date

1982-1989

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting Cantor Harold Klein and Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg. Cantor Klein's records include sound recordings and sheet music. Rabbi Rosenberg's records include certificates of conversion, divorce, and marriage; counselling and pastoral cards; decree absolutes; a letter to Mr. A. Copnick from Garry Goldberg regarding a "Burn the Mortgage Campaign" (the letter includes a note to the rabbi); a letter to Rabbi Rosenberg from Rabbi Bernard Baskin; and wedding record cards.

Custodial History

6/25/2018: Rabbi Yossi Sapirman of Beth Torah Congregation donated the records to the Ontario Jewish Archives.

Administrative History

Cantor Harold Klein was the chazzan of the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation in Toronto. Cantor Klein was a classmate, and then later a student for many years, of Professor Noach Schall of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg led Beth Torah Congregation for nine years. Prior to that, he was senior rabbi for seventeen years at Beth Tzedic, the largest Conservative congregation in Canada.

Use Conditions

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.

Subjects

Cantors (Judaism)

Rabbis

Name Access

Klein, Harold

Rosenberg, Stuart E

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Photographic and audiovisual collection series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

27

File

203

Material Format

graphic material

Date

27 Jan. 1976

Physical Description

10 photographs : b&w (7 negatives) ; 20 x 25 cm and 28 x 28 mm

Scope and Content

File consists of three photographs and seven negatives depicting a UJA event with Rabbi Shlomo Goren at Shaarei Shomayim synagogue. Wilf Posluns is identified in the photos.

Notes

Photos by Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto.

Availability of other formats: Also available as digital images.

Name Access

Goren, Shlomo, 1917-1994

Posluns, Wilf

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2930

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Weinreb, Rabbi Joseph

Subjects

Rabbis

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

1979-2-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

5039

Material Format

graphic material

Date

3 Dec. 1960

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Harry Belafonte and Rabbi Abraham Feinberg with a booklet titled "Survival or Suicide?" Belafonte may have been the guest at a State of Israel Bonds fundraiser.

Notes

Photo by Graphic Artists.

Name Access

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-

Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham

Subjects

Motion picture actors and actresses

Musicians

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1990-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

5040

Material Format

graphic material

Date

3 Dec. 1960

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Harry Belafonte shaking hands with Rabbi Abraham Feinberg while holding a booklet entitled "Survival or Suicide?" Belafonte may have been the guest at a State of Israel Bonds event.

Notes

Photo by Graphic Artists.

Name Access

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-

Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham

Subjects

Motion picture actors and actresses

Musicians

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1990-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

997

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1947

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the reception held at the installation of Rabbi Abraham Kelman at Bais Yehuda Congregation in Toronto.

Name Access

Bais Yehuda Congregation

Kelman, Rabbi Abraham

Subjects

Rabbis

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

1977-8-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4138

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Sep. 1963

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Left to right: Mrs. Gunther Plaut; Rabbi Gunther Plaut; Mr. Mort Levy; Mrs. B. Barry Shapiro.

Name Access

Plaut, Mrs. Gunther

Plaut, Rabbi Gunther

Levy, Mort

Shapiro, Mrs. B. Barry

Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-3-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3413

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1930 and 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Photograph was taken in Bronte, Ontario.

Name Access

Graubart, Yehuda Leib, 1862-1937

Subjects

Portraits

Rabbis

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

Bronte (Ont.)

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-10-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

757

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Rabbi Benjamin Hauer.

Notes

Acquired June 1976.

Name Access

Hauer, Rabbi Benjamin

Subjects

Portraits

Rabbis

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3406

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1901 and 1919]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Jacobs, Rabbi Solomon

Subjects

Rabbis

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

547

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1968]

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 col. negative)

Scope and Content

Right: Rabbi Solomon Langner.

Centre: Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Shochet.

Notes

Not to be reproduced without permission.

Acquired February 25, 1976.

Name Access

Langner, Rabbi Solomon

Subjects

Ketubah

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3043

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1933

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

This halftone photograph depicts an anti-Nazi protest meeting, Massey Hall.

Name Access

Gordon, Jacob, Rabbi

Sachs, Samuel, Rabbi

Subjects

Rabbis

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3750

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1950]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Left to right: Rabbi Schild; Laura Schild; Seymour Shachter; Beatrice Shachter. The wedding took place at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue.

Name Access

Schild, Erwin, 1920-

Schild, Laura

Shachter, Beatrice

Shachter, Seymour

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Rabbis

Weddings

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-5-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1788

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rabbi Isaac Langner at his home on D'Arcy Street, Toronto, 1977. Rabbi Isaac Langner was the son of Rabbi Moishe Langner, the Strettiner Rebbe of Toronto. His three brothers were Abraham, Solomon, and Mordecai, who all became rabbis as well.

Notes

Credit must be given to Stephen Epstein in display and/or publication.

See also photos: 1789-1791.

Name Access

Langner, Rabbi Isaac

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-12-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1789-1790

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rabbi Isaac Langner (seated) and his shammes, Reb Lozor, Toronto, 1977. Rabbi Isaac Langner was the son of Rabbi Moishe Langner, the Strettiner rebbe of Toronto. His three brothers were Abraham, Solomon, and Mordecai, who all became rabbis as well.

Notes

Credit must be given to Stephen Epstein in display and/or publication.

See also photos: 1788 and 1791.

Name Access

Langner, Rabbi Isaac

Lozor, Reb

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-12-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Item

Item

1791

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rabbi Isaac Langner presiding over a "tish" at his home on D'Arcy Street, Toronto, 1977. Rabbi Isaac Langner was the son of Rabbi Moishe Langner, the Strettiner Rebbe of Toronto. His three brothers were Abraham, Solomon, and Mordecai, who all became rabbis as well.

Notes

Credit must be given to Stephen Epstein in display and/or publication.

See also photos: 1788-1790.

Name Access

Langner, Rabbi Isaac

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-12-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

561-562

Material Format

graphic material

Responsibility

Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photographs of Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, Chaplain, CJC. Central Region, at dedication of Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Toronto, Oct. 12, 1975.

Notes

Acquired Oct. 24, 1975.

Name Access

Pardes Shalom Cemetery

Steinberg, Rabbi Sheldon

Subjects

Consecration of cemeteries

Cemeteries

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

565

Material Format

graphic material

Responsibility

Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto

Date

1975

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of dedication of Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Toronto, official party, Oct. 12, 1975. Left to right, front row: Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, Robert Eisen, Jack Rose, David Rotenberg, Martin Mendelow, and other unidentified individuals. Second row: Charles Goldsbie, Rabbi Jordan Pearlson, and others (unidentified).

Notes

Acquired Oct. 24, 1975.

Name Access

Eisen, Robert

Goldsbie, Charles

Mendelow, Martin

Pardes Shalom Cemetery

Pearlson, Rabbi Jordan

Rose, Jack

Rotenberg, David

Steinberg, Rabbi Sheldon

Subjects

Consecration of cemeteries

Cemeteries

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

566

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 Oct. 1975

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rabbi Jordan Pearlson at dedication of Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Toronto, Oct. 12, 1975.

Notes

Acquired Oct. 24, 1975.

Photo by Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto.

Name Access

Pardes Shalom Cemetery

Pearlson, Rabbi Jordan

Subjects

Consecration of cemeteries

Cemeteries

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

581-582

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : col. ; 13 x 9 cm

Notes

Acquired Dec. 1975.

35 mm negative location: 7:6:13 and 7:6:14.

Name Access

Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)

Steinberg, Rabbi Sheldon

Subjects

Bronze doors

Rabbis

Synagogues

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

• 

Level

Item

Item

4008

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Sep. 1984

Physical Description

1 photograph : col

Notes

No restrictions.

For identification of others, see accession record.

Name Access

John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005

Pearlson, Rabbi Jordan

Toronto Board of Rabbis

Subjects

Rabbis

Popes

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-9-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4499

Material Format

graphic material

Date

4 Oct. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph

Notes

Original photo by Dale Studio.

Name Access

Eisendrath, Maurice N., 1902-1973

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-11-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

914-917

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1964]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Notes

Credit: Boris Spremo, Globe and Mail.

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Rabbis

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

510

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1969

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rabbi Bernard Baskin of Anshe Sholom Temple, Hamilton, addressing the conference dinner on the topic "Jewish Life Today: Perspectives and Prospects." Shown also, from left: Saul Hayes, QC, congress executive vice-president, who also addressed the session on the same topic; Mrs. Sidney M. Harris and Mr. Harris, chairman of central region; Mrs. Baskin; Monroe Abbey, QC, president of congress.

Notes

Acquired 9 July 1975.

No negative.

Name Access

Abbey, Monroe

Baskin, Rabbi Bernard

Canadian Jewish Congress. Central Region

Harris, Sidney M.

Hayes, Saul

Temple Anshe Sholom (Hamilton, Ont.)

Subjects

Congresses and conventions

Rabbis

Speeches, addresses, etc

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2359

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1948]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) : 20 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the unveiling of the Kieltzer section of the Dawes Road cemetery. Left to right: Yankel Cooperberg, Rabbi Silverstein.

Name Access

Cooperberg, Yankel

Dawes Road Cemetery (Toronto, Ont.)

Silverstein, Rabbi S. Z.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Rabbis

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

1980-11-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1466

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1964]

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

On right: Rabbi J. Wohlgelenter, principal.

Name Access

Eitz Chaim (Toronto, Ont.)

Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993

Wohlgelenter, Rabbi J.

Subjects

Rabbis

Students

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4334

Material Format

graphic material

Date

11 Apr. 1980

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Right to left: Rabbi Yitzchok Kerzner; Rabbi Gedalia Felder; Rabbi Zolty, chief rabbi of Jerusalem; Yitz Feldman; and Rabbi Nachman Shemen.

Name Access

Felder, Gedalia, 1922-1991

Feldman, Yitz

Kerzner, Yitzchok

Shemen, Nachman, Rabbi, 1912-1993

Zolty, Yaacov Bezalel, 1920-1982

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1987-12-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

5006

Material Format

graphic material

Date

24 Jun. 1958

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is a portrait of Rabbi David Monson seated at a desk.

Notes

Photo by Graphic Artists.

Name Access

Monson, Rabbi David

Subjects

Portraits

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1990-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3347

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of two identical copy prints of Rabbi Abraham A. Price of Toronto.

Name Access

Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994

Subjects

Portraits

Rabbis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions