- Accession Number
- 1986-3-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1950]–1958
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of Chana Wilder's school documents including graduation certificates (in Yiddish) from Borochov Schools Kindergarten and High Schools and an invitation to the Borochov Schools and Kindergarten graduation. In addition, there is correspondence in Hebrew from the Israel Boy Scouts listing several names and a Jewish National Fund of Canada certificate.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1987-7-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1987-7-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1929-1985
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Hillcrest Progressive School. Included are minutes, financial statements, letters, and other documents.
- Descriptive Notes
- Central Jewish Institute.
- MG_RG
- MG2 G1w
- Subjects
- Schools
- Name Access
- Hillcrest Progressive School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1977-11-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1977-11-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records (1 vol.)
- Date
- 1953-1956
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one bound register documenting the students of the Toronto Hebrew Free School (Brunswick Talmud Torah) in Toronto from 1953 to 1956.
- MG_RG
- MG2G1E
- Subjects
- Schools
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Brunswick Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : b&w (9 negatives)
- 1 film reel
- Date
- 1959-1965
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring) Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt. Also included is a film reel of activities at Camp Yungvelt from 1959.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Camp Yungvelt
- Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-25
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-25
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 12 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm or smaller
- Date
- [194-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of students, parents, teachers, the principal, and the building of the Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah on D'Arcy Street.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Name Access
- Eitz Chaim Schools (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 30
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919-1921
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring was founded in 1900. It was originally created to protect the rights of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who were trying to enter the North American labour force. The Workmen's Circle's main purpose was to protect the labour movement and ensure economic justice for its members
- Still strong today, the organization promotes Jewish and Yiddish culture through educational and cultural programs, and as well, is a leader against injustice in the Middle East. They also organize protests for a variety of causes, including unethical labour practices, abortion rights, and gun violence prevention
- Some of their programs include adult lecture series, secular Jewish children's schools, summer camps, and dramatic and choral organizations
- Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring's call to action is "for all to create a more beautiful and better world"
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs depicting the Peretz Shule's students and staff members.
- Name Access
- Arbeòter-ring Y.L. Perets-Shuln
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Schools
- Creator
- Workmen's Circle
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 2 Jul. 1974
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich
- Number
- OH 22
- Subject
- Antisemitism
- Hospitals
- Rabbis
- Schools
- Teachers
- Interview Date
- 2 Jul. 1974
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Stephen Speisman
- Total Running Time
- Side One - 43 minutes
- Side Two - 3 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003.
- Digitized in 2014.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Sam Hurwich was involved in a number of organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and several Labour Zionist groups.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Hurwich, Rivka
- Hurwich, Sam
- Geographic Access
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_001_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_002_Log.docx
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mary Soskin
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 15 Nov. 1974
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mary Soskin
- Number
- OH 1
- Subject
- Neighborhoods
- Schools
- Synagogues
- Interview Date
- 15 Nov. 1974
- Interviewer
- Sophie Milgram
- Total Running Time
- 001: 30.41 minutes
002: 20.58 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Mary Soskin (née Levine), the eldest child of Moses Levine and Sarah Levine (née Cass), was born in 1896 in Midland, Ontario. Her father, Moses Joseph Levine (1864–1919), immigrated to Toronto from Minsk in 1887. Moses first worked as a peddler and later became a grocer. Mary’s mother, Sara Levine (b. 1876), emigrated from Russia to Toronto around 1892 and worked as a seamstress. Mary had six siblings: Fanny (1898–1923), Anne Thuna (1899–1964), Abraham (“Abe”) (b. 1901–1984), Harry (b. 1903), Rita (1905–1975), and Dorothy Bliss (1909–1992).
- Mary’s parents, Moses Levine and Sarah Cass, met in Toronto. Following their marriage in 1895, they moved to Midland, Ontario, where they opened a store. After several years in Midland, they returned to Toronto. The family lived in several locations in Toronto including Chestnut Street, Centre Avenue, Spadina Avenue, near Dundas, and 224 Beverley Street, near College. The Levine family belonged to the Goel Tzedec Synagogue, which was located in a former church on University Avenue at Elm Street.
- Mary attended both the McCaul Street School and Phoebe Street School, one of the oldest schools in Toronto. She completed her studies at the Shaw School of Business. Mary first worked as a bookkeeper for several years before joining her father in his wholesale grocery business, located at 25 Jarvis Street. Tragically, Moses died in 1919 at the age of fifty-four after accidentally falling down an elevator shaft. The family closed the business shortly thereafter and continued to live on Beverley Street.
- Mary Levine married Saul Soskin (d. 1953) around 1920. They lived in Toronto and later moved to Los Angeles. They had three children: Estelle (1922–2010), Morton (“Bud”) (d. 2001), and Fred (1929–2000). In 1945, during a family visit to Toronto, Estelle met Irving Liss, the son of Morris Liss, Mary’s long-time friend. Estelle and Irving were married at the Beth Am Synagogue in Los Angeles in 1946 and settled in Toronto.
- Mary Soskin returned to Toronto in 1964 and passed away in 1990.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Levine, Moses
- Levine, Sarah
- Soskin, Mary
- Geographic Access
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Midland (Ont.)
- St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 1 - Soskin\OH1_001_Log.docx
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 1 - Soskin\OH1_002_Log.docx
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of students standing in front of the Jewish community center and Hebrew school in Sudbury, Ontario.
- Front row, from left to right: Mitchell Speigel, Debbie Steinberg, Wally Greenspoon.
- Second row, from left to right: Ethel Helpert, Claudia Greenspoon, Judy Leve, Brenda Rubin, Susan Stickles, Mort Grimmson, Rabbi Bereson.
- Third row, from left to right: Steven Silverman, [identified], Billy Braverman, Jackie Greenspoon, Charles Schwartz.
- Back row, from left to right: Douglas Stickles, Donnie Richmond, Frances Goodman, Miriam Rubin, [identified], Mrs. Stickles, Ester Nudleman, Bill Greenspoon, [identified].
- Subjects
- Community centers
- Schools
- Students
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Sudbury (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- General community activities series
- 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
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 13 May 1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one annual concert programme booklet for the Workmen's Circle Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language note: Yiddish and English langauge programme.
- Subjects
- Concerts
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-5-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-5-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1933
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of an issue of what is likely the school yearbook for Parkdale Collegiate, called the Parkdalian. Autographs can be found on page 102.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Name Access
- Parkdale Collegiate Institute
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-4-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- 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
- 2018-6-22
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-6-22
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1947, 1972-1992
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of materials assembled by Stanley Emerson and donated to the Ontario Jewish Archives. Included are: one hardbound book commemorating the Toronto Hebrew Free School's liquidation of its capital debt on May 8, 1947; one spiral-bound book assembled on the occassion of Shomrai Shaboth Congregation's twentieth anniversary testimonial dinner honouring Rabbi Gedalia Felder to be held on Sunday, June 18, 1972; one Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto programme for its annual dinner to be held on Thursday, June 22, 1978; one programme for a Machanaim Testimonial Dinner honouring Dr. Isadore Cass on Wednesday, May 2, 1979; one Associated Hebrew Schools graduation programme for Wednesday, June 27, 1979; one newspaper clipping from the Thursday, June 6, 1985 edition of the Canadian Jewish News relating to Rabbi Gedalia Felder, former spiritual leader of Shomrai Shaboth-Chevra Mishnayoth Congregation; one newspaper clipping from the Thursday, June 13, 1985 edition of the Canadian Jewish News relating to Harold Dessen, former president of Associated Hebrew Schools; and one paperbound book assembled on the occassion of a Sol Edell tribute dinner commoemorating the fiftieth yahrzeit (death anniversary) of HaRav Yosef Weinreb and the establishment of the Saol Edell Family Endowment Fund to be held on Saturday, October 31, 1992.
- Subjects
- Anniversaries
- Schools
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996
- Dessen, Harold
- Felder, Gedalia, 1922-
- Shomrai Shabbos Chevrah Mishnayos (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1712
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1712
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2602-2604
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2602-2604
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1979]
- Physical Description
- 3 slides
- Name Access
- Co-ordinated Services to Jewish Elderly
- Subjects
- Charities
- Older people
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-2-9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 5027
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5027
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 30 Dec. 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Joe Berman and Harold Green examining a building model for Temple Sinai's new school building.
- Notes
- Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Berman, Joe
- Green, Harold
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- Synagogues
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 5028
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5028
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 30 Dec. 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the Temple Sinai building model for the new school.
- Notes
- Photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- Synagogues
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 5029
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5029
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 30 Dec. 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of several men and one woman standing behind a model of the proposed Temple Sinai School.Second from left: Harry Pollock. Third from right: Harold Green.
- Notes
- Photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Green, Harold
- Pollock, Harry
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- Synagogues
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- George Morrison fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 99
- Item
- 41
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1978]
- Physical Description
- 1 slide : col. ; 35 mm
- Name Access
- Lincoln Place Nursing Home
- Subjects
- Older people
- Religion
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Accession Number
- 1980-6-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Roza Brown, the first Jewish person in Kirkland Lake.
- Notes
- Acquired in 1976.
- See more handwritten notes on back.
- Name Access
- Brown, Roza
- Subjects
- Older people
- 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
- Item
- ID
-
Item 948
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 948
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Shaarei Shomayim School students and the teacher, Mr. Novak.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Accession Number
- 1975-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 6130
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 6130
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1912?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of students and teachers of the Jewish National Radical School in Toronto at City Hall.
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Schools
- Students
- 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
- 1995-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4285
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4285
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 5 Dec. 1921
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Photo by Modern Studio, 452 Queen St. W.
- Name Access
- Winchevsky, Morris, 1856-1932
- Subjects
- Children
- Schools
- 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
- 1985-3-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4230
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4230
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- For identification see accession record.
- Name Access
- National Radical School (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Schools
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-4-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4416
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4416
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- December 1985
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Rabbi Danny Gottlieb of Temple Har Zion placing mezuzah.
- Students, left to right: Jodi Wolfe; Ariela Guttman; Ezra Title.
- Dr. David Cohen (director of Leo Baeck) on left and Rabbi Arthur Bielfeld of Temple Emanuel also present.
- Notes
- Photo by Graphic Artists.
- Subjects
- Mezuzah
- Schools
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1212
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1212
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of students standing on the front steps of the McCaul Street School in Toronto.
- Name Access
- McCaul Street School
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Schools
- Students
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-1-5
- 1983-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4018
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4018
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Left to right: Marilyn Kirshenblatt; Helen Alspector; Renee Hackman.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Places
- Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2894
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2894
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- This photograph depicts from left to right: Chaver Zerubauel; Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Menachovsky, standing in front of Borochov Shul.
- Name Access
- Borochov School
- Menachovsky, Moshe
- Zerubauel, Chaver
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- 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
- Major Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-4-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4019
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4019
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1955 or 1956]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Notes
- General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- General: For identification see back of photo.
- Subjects
- Schools
- Students
- Teachers
- Places
- Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 703
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 703
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the exterior of the Ulpanot Orot Girls' School.
- Name Access
- Ulpanot Orot Girls' School
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- 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
- Vaughan (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 704
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 704
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the exterior of the Ulpanot Orot Girls' School.
- Name Access
- Ulpanot Orot Girls' School
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- 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
- Vaughan (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1016
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1016
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Sep. 1976
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- Places
- Neptune Drive (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1018
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1018
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Sep. 1976
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Associated Hebrew Day Schools
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- Places
- Neptune Drive (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 149
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1986, 1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and one report regarding the teaching of the Merchant of Venice in Ontario schools.
- Notes
- Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
- Name Access
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice
- Subjects
- Drama
- Schools
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Isaac Matenko fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 89
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1911-1971, predominant 1911-1935
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- 17 photographs
- Admin History/Bio
- Isaac Matenko (1874–1960) was a founder, teacher, and principal of the I. L. Peretz School. He worked tirelessly to preserve and promote secular Jewish culture and the Yiddish language in Toronto. He was also a prominent member of local Jewish organizations, such as the Socialist-Territorialist Club and the Yiddish Kultur Gesellshaft.
- Isaac was born on 1 February 1874 in the town of Makariv, located in the Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. He married Elke Yelia Moshkevitch (1878–19 November 1953) on 4 August 1900 in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro). They immigrated from czarist Russia to Toronto in 1906, passing first through New York with their two children, Percy (30 June 1901–May 1987) and Theodore (1903–1906, died of measles at Ellis Island), and Yelia’s three sisters, Dvora, Bracha, and Celia, and Isaac’s younger half-brother, Paul Frumhartz. They had two more children after arriving: Abraham (14 August 1908–October 24, 1989) and Shoshana (Sue) (1911–2001). Although he had been a teacher in Russia, Isaac worked as an operator in a cloak factory in Toronto, where he was instrumental in forming the union (likely the Cloakmakers’ Union of Toronto, which later affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union).
- As a child, Isaac received a traditional Jewish education. This, combined with his self-taught secular education and the teachings of Yiddish nationalist Dr. Chaim Zhitlovski, informed his future career and philosophies. He was described as an idealist by his friends, whose dedication to Yiddish culture and language motivated him to bring this knowledge to a younger generation.
- On 11 July 1911, Isaac and his fellow Socialist-Territorialist members established the Toronto Yiddish National-Radical School. By 1916, it had been taken over by the Workmen’s Circle and renamed the I. L. Peretz School, after the well-known Yiddish author and playwright. The school began in a rented room at the Zionist Institute on Simcoe Street, moving to larger locations on Richmond Street West, then Beverley Street as it grew. Eventually, several more branches opened, such as the Maria Street school that Isaac was affiliated with. He taught at the school for free in the evenings after working during the day in a shop. His brother Paul was also a founding teacher at the school.
- Isaac was described by family, friends, and community members as a passionate teacher with an iron will. He was well-versed in Jewish knowledge, with a desire to pass it on to a younger generation and his fellow union members. He remained involved in the school and in teaching, even after retirement. He died on 2 June 1960 at the age of eighty-six.
- Custodial History
- These records were donated to the OJA by Sue Levy, daughter of Isaac Matenko.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records documenting Isaac Matenko's involvement with the Workmen's Circle and other Jewish organizations. Included are photographs, programmes, certificates, I. L. Peretz School jubilee books, a songbook, a yearbook, articles, and newsclippings.
- Fonds has been arranged into one series for the Workmen's Circle. There are also two files attached to the fonds-level. The records are described at the series and file-level, with some item-level descriptions.
- Name Access
- Arbeiter Ring
- Arbeiter Ring Schools
- Arbeter Ring
- Camp Yungvelt
- Frumhartz, Paul
- I.L. Peretz
- Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
- Matenko, Percy
- National Radical School
- Peretz Shule
- Workman's Circle
- Workmen's Circle
- Subjects
- Schools
- Teachers
- Yiddish language
- Related Material
- For additional Workmen's Circle records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1980-2-2, 1983-6-3, 1984-10-1, 1986-4-1, 1992-1-2, 1997-2-1, 1998-3-32, 2004-5-41, 2004-5-105, and fonds 30.
- For additional Camp Yungvelt records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1986-4-1, 1991-12-4, 1993-6-6, 1999-5-1, 2004-5-37, 2005-6-4, 2006-12-3, photographs # 2964, # 4014, # 6021, MG2N1K, Benjamin Brown fonds 49, and Dorothy Dworkin Fonds 10 (item 14).
- Creator
- Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
- Accession Number
- 1987-11-4
- 1991-4-2
- 2007-5-3
- 2007-6-28
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 68; Item 31
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 31
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the exterior of Bishop Strachan School. There are several people pictured standing in a field covered with snow.
- Name Access
- Bishop Strachan School
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Schools
- 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
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Young Judaea series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 4
- File
- 43
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence regarding press and publicity for the conference, Congregation B'Nai Israel hosting the conference and the arrangement of billets and hotel accommodations, and preliminary draft of the schedule.
- Subjects
- Older people
- Places
- London (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4083
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4083
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a Jewish school in Poland. The photograph depicts the students and teachers of the school assembled in front of it. The photograph was sent to Sarah Low of Peterborough, Ontario.
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Schools
- Students
- 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
- Poland
- Accession Number
- 1978-7-12
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1713
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1713
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1714
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1714
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Women
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1715
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1715
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1716
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1716
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1717
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1717
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1718
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1718
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.)
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Old age homes
- Older people
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-3-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gilbert Studios fonds
- Jewish community events series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 7
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- November 1970
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Eitz Chaim school was founded by a group of boys who were concerned about the education of the Jewish youth. Some of the founding members included: Itsheh Meyer, Sam Korolnek; and Samuel and Louis Cooper. Together, with a few other boys, they started a small gathering in the Bes Medrash Shul on Elm Street in 1914. The official founding date for the Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim School was in 1915, with the move to temporary quarters on Chestnut Street, and eventually moving to the newly rennovated building on D'Arcy Street in 1917.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is of a dedication ceremony at the Eitz Chaim School in Toronto.
- In attendance were: Phil Givens (far left), Rabbi Itche Meyer Korolnek & Mrs. Korolnek (2nd & 3rd from left), and Joe Tanenbaum (standing behind the Korolnek's).
- Name Access
- Eitz Chaim School
- Givens, Philip, 1922-1995
- Korolnek, Rabbi Itche Meyer
- Tanenbaum, Joe
- Subjects
- Dedication services
- Portraits, Group
- Schools
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Scheuer family fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 47
- Item
- 37
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1937
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 mounted on card) ; 23 x 17 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a photographic portrait taken of Edmund Scheuer at ninety-years old. He is seated, leaning forward with his head on his hand, reading a book.
- Notes
- Studio: Simpson Brothers, Toronto, 357 Yonge Street.
- Subjects
- Older people
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Physical Condition
- The unmounted photograph is starting to deteriorate at the edges and the matting is damaged.
- Accession Number
- The unmounted photograph is from accession 2004-7-1 and the mounted photograph is from accession 1989-4-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions