- Accession Number
- 1980-12-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 vol. of textual records
- Date
- 1960-1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two bound srapbooks documenting the political and communal life of Herbert Orliffe. Included are newsclippings and official invitations to ceremonies and events.
- Administrative History
- Herbert Orliffe (1905-1967) was a QC barrister and solicitor who owned his own practice, Herbert Orliffe QC. He specialized in labour law and was the first Chairman of the Ontario Jurisdictional Disputes Commission. He was born on May 5, 1905 to Anne and Charles Orliffe in Newcastle, England. Herbert married Ida Goren and they had four children: Annabel, Joan, Barbara and Robert. His affiliations included: Jewish Public Library, Canadian Jewish News, Jewish Welfare Fund, Board of Jewish Education, Beth Tzedec Congregation, Sunnyside Lodge IOOF, Palestine Lodge AF & AM, Toronto Board of Trade, and the Empire Club. Herbert was also the first Jewish Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education in 1952, an alderman for Ward Four in 1954, and a member of Municipality Toronto Council in 1956. He died suddently of a heart attack in 1967.
- Subjects
- Politicians
- Scrapbooks
- Name Access
- Orliffe, Herbert, 1905-1967
- 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
- Part Of
- Maurice Solway fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 13
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1926-1958
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file contains low quality photocopies from the original scrapbook. These are primarily of newspaper clippings regarding recitals and reviews from Toronto newspapers in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 876
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 876
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of the Strand Theatre in Kirkland Lake, which was built in the 1920s by the Kaplan brothers with the help of Harry Oakes.
- Name Access
- Kaplan
- Oakes, Harry
- Strand Theatre (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Theaters
- 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 893
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 893
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studios
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of the former Uptown Theatre, built by the Kaplan brothers in the 1930s and then converted to use as Children's Aid offices and apartments.
- Name Access
- Kaplan
- Uptown Theatre (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- 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
Louis and Jenny Fingold outside their Elmwood Theatre (London, ON)
[graphic material]
– 15 May 1947.
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3256
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3256
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 15 May 1947
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 7 x 12 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print and copy negative of Louis and Jenny Fingold standing with their daughter in front of their Elmwood Theatre in London, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Elmwood Theatre (London, Ont.)
- Fingold, Jenny
- Fingold, Louis
- Subjects
- Families
- Theaters
- 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
- London (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
Louis and Jenny Fingold outside their Elmwood Theatre (London, ON)
[graphic material]
– 15 May 1947.
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3257
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3257
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 15 May 1947
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 8 x 7 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print and copy negative of Louis and Jenny Fingold, and their daughter, standing in front of their Elmwood Theatre in London, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Elwood Theatre (London, Ont.)
- Fingold, Jenny
- Fingold, Louis
- Subjects
- Families
- Theaters
- 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
- London (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3260
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3260
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1948?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 9 x 7 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print and copy negative of Esther Fingold holding her son, Douglas, in front of the Capitol Theatre in Meaford, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Capitol Theatre (Meaford, Ont.)
- Fingold, Douglas
- Fingold, Esther
- Subjects
- Mothers and sons
- Theaters
- 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
- Meaford (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3261
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3261
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1950?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 8 x 5 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print and copy negative of Philip Fingold holding with his son, Douglas, in front of the Capitol Theatre in Meaford, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Capitol Theatre (Meaford, Ont.)
- Fingold, Douglas
- Fingold, Philip
- Subjects
- Fathers and sons
- Theaters
- 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
- Meaford (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-6-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1905-1929
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook containing telegrams and cards with notes of congratulations to mark occasions of wedding, anniversaries, and son's bar mitzvah
- Subjects
- Anniversaries
- Scrapbooks
- Weddings
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1930-1931
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing memorabilia to commemorate Ida Lewis Siegel's campaign to run as School Trustee with the Board of Education in Toronto in 1930. Included are newspaper clippings in English and Yiddish, letters endorsing Ida Lewis Siegel, congratulatory letters and telegrams, a municipal elections pamphlet listing the polling stations for Ward 4, 2 cards (in English and Yiddish) to promote Ida Lewis Siegel's campaign and a booklet titled "Text Book of the Toronto Jewish Free School".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 38
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook ; 32 x 42 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook assembled for Ida Siegel's 80th birthday in 1965. Included are newsclippings and various letters and cards of congratulations.
- Subjects
- Birthdays
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The scrapbook is very brittle. The items that had been taped onto the pages are all now loose within the scrapbook.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 39
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1955-1971
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook ; 31 x 38 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook documenting Ida Siegel's involvment with vairous Jewish organizations, including the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Zionist Organization of Canada. Records include newsclippings, and letters, cards and telegrams of congratulations on her 70th birthday and for being honoured by the BJE.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The scrapbook is very brittle. The items that had been taped onto the pages are all now loose within the scrapbook.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-14
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-14
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and 21 x 25 cm
- Date
- 1941-1951, 1959-1961
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a scrapbook documenting the military career of Seymour Bernard. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, the transcript for a CFRB radio segment featuring Bernard, invitations for dinners honouring Bernard, a booklet (possibly by the Canadian Jewish Congress) entitled "Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom", and a torn black ribbon that was likely worn by Bernard's parents during shiva after he died in 1951 (kriah). The scrapbook was likely assembled by Bernard's parents.
- Accession also includes material documenting Joel Snitman's confirmation at Holy Blossom Temple and involvement in the BBYO. Included are photographs and programs documenting Holy Blossom Temple's confirmation class of 1959, the program book of the B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO) Southern Ontario Region Fall Conclave (1960), a BBYO AZA Sweetheart Ball booklet (1961), and the Lorac Letter newsletter (1959) which was a chapter of the AZA BBYO. Identified in the photographs are: Joel Snitman, Susie Romm, Karen Smith (?), Don Smith, Rabbi Eisen, and Rabbi Feinberg.
- Administrative History
- Beatrice Bernard (1913-1998) was born to Louie Bernard (1895?-1956) and Esther Berger (1892-1983) in Toronto in 1913. She had two younger siblings: Seymour (was a tailgunner in the RAF during the Second World War) and Gertrude. The family lived at 410 Crawford Street and Louie owned his own dress store at St. Clair and Yonge Street. Beatrice helped her father in the dress store in the 1930s. Louie eventually owned a coat manufacturing business which was located in the Balfour Building. Beatrice married Michael Snitman in 1935. Michael Snitman (1910-1978) was born to Harry and Lottie in Russia in 1910. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1912 and had two younger siblings who were born in Toronto: Bill (1912-2013) and Judy (Judith). Michael attended Harbord Collegiate and ran his own business called Plastwood Products in the early 1940s. Around 1947 he entered the photographic business as a distributor. He ran the Toronto branch of Montreal-based Anglophoto, which was owned by his brother-in-law, Abe Feigelson. Michael and Beatrice had two children together: Joel (b. 1943) and Bernard (Bernie) (b. 1948). Joel received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and taught Biology for five years before entering the real estate and property management business. He met his wife Blossom (nee Houpt) in the B'nai Brith Youth Organization and they had their first date on April 9, 1960. They later married in Aug. 1964 and had three children together: Aryeh, Sheri, and Aviella.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Canada--Armed Forces
- Scrapbooks
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Bernard, Seymour
- Snitman, Beatrice, 1913-1998
- Snitman, Michael, 1910-1978
- Snitman, Joel, 1943-
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-23
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [194-]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a bound document entitled 'This Is Our Faith'. The subtitle is 'The Religion of the Jews' and it appears to have been presented at a seminar of religions, under the auspices of Community Programs Branch, Department of Education, Province of Ontario.
- Custodial History
- There is no information on the acquisition of this material.
- Subjects
- Religion
- Politics and government
- Name Access
- Cohen, Julius
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-6-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-6-12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ca. 60 cm of textual records
- 11 photographs (3 negatives) : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1976-[ca. 1990]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual and graphic records that trace Natan Sharansky's history as a prisoner of political conscience; the broader Refusenik issue; and the community advocacy efforts of Debby and Stan Solomon from 1976 and into the late 1980s at the local, national and international scales. Included are memos and newsletters from the Committee for Soviet Jewry (Ontario Region and national-level); background information as well as petition templates, speeches and planning documentation produced by the Committee to Release Anatoly Sharansky and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in conjunction with community organizations, including the CJC and its Soviet Jewry social action committees, to support on-going advocacy efforts; correspondence with Canadian and American political representatives at the provincial/state and national levels; white papers/grey literature from non-governmental organizations about the persecution of the Soviet Jewry; planning documentation from the First Annual Sharansky Lectureship on Human Rights in 1980; correspondence, articles and ephemera associated with the granting of Sharansky's honourary law doctorate from York University in 1982; 1985 Freedom Rally/Weekend in Ottawa planning documentation and correspondence; 1987 National Conference on the Soviet Jewry and Mobilization for Freedom planning documentation; 1987 Community Rally at Massey Hall promotional materials; and promotional materials from Sharansky's autobiographical "Fear No Evil" 1988 book launch. Graphic material includes photographs of Sharansky's release during the February 11, 1986 American-Soviet prisoner exchange on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.
- Identified in the photographs are: Debby Solomon; Stan Solomon; Natan Sharansky; Avital Sharansky; U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt;
- Custodial History
- Material was collected and/or created by Debby Solomon, Natan Sharansky's cousin. Debby donated it to the OJA.
- Administrative History
- Debby Solomon is the cousin of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, the Soviet born Israeli politician, human activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Debby's father Boris Landis (born 1900) and Sharansky's father were first cousins.Their grandfathers were brothers. Debby's father immigrated 1929 to Toronto from Russia as his older brothers were already in Toronto. Debby and her husband Stan Solomon got involved in the community's activism efforts to free Sharansky and other Refuseniks.They were worked for many years on these efforts by planning programs through their synagogue Beth Tikvah and with Sam Filer, a lawyer and volunteer at the CJC who was also a member of Beth Tikvah.
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Politics and government
- Human rights
- Demonstrations
- Synagogues
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-2-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-2-12
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 45 cm of textual records and other material
- 230 photographs : sepia and b&w ; 23 x 30 cm and smaller
- 8 sound recordings (50 wav files; 1 microcassette)
- 1 artifact
- Date
- 1937-2004
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual records, photographs and audio recordings documenting the lives of Dick Steele, his wife Esther, and friend Bill Walsh. The materials are mostly correspondences between Dick and Esther during his internment at the Don Jail and Ontario Reformatory in Guelph, and from Dick and Bill's military service overseas during the Second World War. They also include correspondences between Esther and Bill, Bill and Anne Walsh, "Jack" and Esther, and other family and friends. Some of the letters show evidence of being censored. There are news clippings in English and Yiddish about the family from various newspapers including the Canadian Tribune (a Communist Party paper). There is a letter Esther wrote to campaign for Dick's release from internment, part of women's activism in this period. There is also a photocopy of a memoir written by Moses Kosowatsky and Moses Wolofsky "From the Land of Despair to the Land of Promise" ca. 1930s.
- The photographs include Dick and Bill in the army during the Second World War, a signed picture of Tim Buck addressed to Esther and the twins and a photo of Dick delivering a speech related to the Steel Workers. Also included is a recording of edited sound clips of Bill and Esther talking about Dick, Esther speaking about the letters, (how she received letters and flowers from Dick after he had already been killed), Bill reading a letter Dick wrote to Esther that he left with friends in England to send her in the case that he was killed (which he was), recordings of "Bill Walsh Oral history" Vols.1 and 2 compiled by Leib Wolofsky's (Bill's nephew), and 5 audio recordings by Adrianna Steele-Card with her grandparents Bill and Esther. There is also a microcassette labelled "Joe Levitt."
- The accession also includes the stripe of a German corporal that Bill captured as a prisoner, peace stamps and an early copy of Cy Gonick's A Very Red Life: The Story of Bill Walsh, edited by Bill.
- Administrative History
- Richard "Dick" Kennilworth Steele is the name adopted by Moses Kosowatsky. He was born in 1909 in Montreal to Samuel Kosowatsky and Fanny Held. He lived in a laneway off Clark Street, below Sherbrooke, where his father collected and recycled bottles. He grew up with his siblings, Joseph, Mortimer, Matthew, Gertrude, and Edward.
- Bill Walsh (birth name Moishe Wolofsky) was born in 1910, to Sarah and Herschel Wolofsky, the editor of the Keneder Adler (Montreal's prominent Yiddish newspaper). He attended Baron Byng and then Commercial High School, where he met Dick Steele. Bill recalled that Dick denounced militarism in the school when a teacher tried to recruit students to be cadets.
- Bill moved to New York City in 1927. His brother, who was living there, helped him get a job as a messenger on Wall Street. He also worked in the drug department at Macy's while attending courses at Columbia University in the evening. Dick worked on a ship for a year and then joined Bill in New York City in 1928. Dick worked at a chemical plant called Linde Air Products while also studying in the evenings at Columbia University.
- In 1931, Dick and Bill boarded a ship together in New York bound for Copenhagen. Together, they travelled across Europe, witnessed a Nazi demonstration in Breslau, Germany, and found work in Minsk and Moscow, Russia. This trip inspired them to become Communists. In 1933, Bill's father was on a Canadian trade mission to Poland, which he left to "rescue" his son from the Bolsheviks. Bill agreed to return to Canada after being advised to do so by the Comintern. He then changed his name to Bill Walsh to protect his family.
- In 1934, Bill moved to Toronto. He worked as the educational director for the Industrial Union of Needle Trade Workers and the Communist Party, where he met Esther Slominsky/Silver, the organization's office manager. Dick joined Bill in Toronto soon after. Bill introduced Dick and Esther, who then married. In 1940, Esther gave birth to twin sons, Michael and John Steele. Esther was born in Toronto in 1914 to Joseph Slominsky and Fanny (Blackersany?). Her siblings were Bella, Eileen, Morris, and step-sister Eva. Her father, Joseph, was a cloak maker and Esther also worked in the garment industry. Her mother Fanny passed away in 1920 at the age of twenty-six from tuberculosis.
- Dick was a metal worker and became a union organizer in the east end of Toronto. He was the head organizer of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of Canada (SWOC) until 1940, when he was dismissed for being a Communist. Bill helped organize Kitchener's rubber workers into an industrial union and was also an organizer for the United Auto Workers of Windsor, Ontario.
- Jack Steele, an alias for Dick's brother Mortimer, fought with the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Jack Steele was recalled to Canada in October 1937 to rally support for the efforts in Spain, returned to the front in June 1938, and was killed in action in August. Some of Dick's letters to his wife, Esther, are signed "Salud, Jack" and were likely written in 1940 when the Communist Party (CP) was banned by the Canadian government under the War Measures Act.
- In November 1941, after Mackenzie King's call for enlistment, Dick wrote to the Department of Justice to ask permission to join the army. He never received a reply. On 1 April 1942, Dick's home was raided and he was interned at the Don Jail until September 1942, when he was moved to the Ontario Reformatory in Guelph. Esther wrote a letter to the minister of justice, Louis St. Laurent, to appeal on his behalf.
- Major public campaigning by Communists and the wartime alliance with the USSR after 1941 shifted public opinion toward the CP, and the Canadian government slowly began releasing internees in January 1942. Dick was released in October 1942 and enlisted at the end of the month. Dick died on 17 August 1944 in Normandy, France. He was a tank driver in the Canadian Army.
- Bill was similarly arrested in 1941, spending time in jail and then an internment camp with other members of the CP. He joined the Canadian Army in 1943 and fought in Holland and Belgium. Bill was first married to Anne Weir who died of a brain hemorrhage in 1943, just before he enlisted. The family believes this may have been due to drinking unpasteurized milk. Encouraged by Dick Steele to take care of his family should he pass in the war, Bill married Esther Steele in 1946. They had a daughter named Sheri and were members of the United Jewish People's Order. For twenty years, Walsh worked for the Hamilton region of the United Electrical Workers (UE). Bill remained a member of the CP until 1967, when we was expelled for criticizing another union leader. He died in 2004. Esther passed away in 2010 at age ninety-six.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- RELATED MATERIAL NOTE: Library and Archives Canada has the William Walsh fonds and MG 28, ser. I 268, USWA, vol.4, SWOC Correspondence, has various letters from Dick Steele ca. 1938. Museum of Jewish Montreal has an oral history with Leila Mustachi (daughter of Max Wolofsky, Bill's brother) where she speaks about Bill, Dick and Esther. USE CONDITION NOTES: For "Bill Walsh Oral history" Vols.1 and 2, some contributors stipulate that recordings are restricted to personal use only and must not be used for any commercial purpose.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
- Politics and government
- Labour and unions
- Name Access
- Steele, Michael
- Steele, Dick
- Walsh, Bill
- Walsh, Esther Steele
- Places
- England
- Fort William (Ont.)
- Germany
- Guelph (Ont.)
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Montréal (Québec)
- Netherlands
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Thunder Bay (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Address
- 42 St George Street
- Source
- Landmarks
In 1919, Mr. Mendel Granatstein commissioned Benjamin Brown and Robert McConnell to design a three storey Classical Georgian style house located at 42 St. George Street. The house contained a unique feature -- a retractable roof used on Sukkoth. In 1947, the house was acquired by the University of Toronto and was used for a variety of purposes until it was demolished in 1999. The Bahen Centre for Information Technology now stands in its place.
- Address
- 42 St George Street
- Time Period
- 1919-1999
- Scope Note
- In 1919, Mr. Mendel Granatstein commissioned Benjamin Brown and Robert McConnell to design a three storey Classical Georgian style house located at 42 St. George Street. The house contained a unique feature -- a retractable roof used on Sukkoth. In 1947, the house was acquired by the University of Toronto and was used for a variety of purposes until it was demolished in 1999. The Bahen Centre for Information Technology now stands in its place.
- History
- Mr. Mendel Granatstein was a member of one of the early Jewish families of Toronto. In 1895, he founded M. Granatstein and Sons, Ltd., a junk dealing company, and by the early 20th century, he had become one of the most prosperous Jews in Toronto. Mr. Granatstein was also a community leader, having a hand in the foundation of Beth Jacob Synagogue.
- Category
- Architecture
- Residences
- Source
- Landmarks
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 73; Series 2; File 7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 73
- Series
- 2
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1958-1975
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook (1958-1979), which contains graphic and textual material documenting initiation dinners and pledge shows, Founder's Day celebrations, fraternity picnics, themed frat parties (Hallowe'en, playboy, Hawaii luau, and beatnik), and tributes to members who passed away. The scrapbook also includes newspaper clippings of articles written by and about fraternity members; correspondence with members, alumni and other chapters of the fraternity; wedding invitations and holiday greeting cards; and the signatures of people who attended various events. There is a large reunion sign-in card tucked in at the back of the scrapbook as well as photographs.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- Some loose material
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 603
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 603
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- The "New Strand Building".
- Notes
- Negative: 8:5:13.
- Acquired November 1975.
- Name Access
- Victory Theatre (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 605
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 605
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- The "New Strand Building".
- Notes
- Acquired November 1975.
- Negative: 8:6:15.
- Name Access
- Victory Theatre
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 604
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 604
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- The "New Strand Building".
- Notes
- Acquired November 1975.
- Negative: 8:5:14.
- Name Access
- Victory Theatre (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 606
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 606
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- The "New Strand Building".
- Notes
- Acquired November 1975.
- Negative: 8:6:16.
- Name Access
- Victory Theatre (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4035
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4035
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Features: M. rotstein; Max Seifert; Chayale Luxenburg; Jennie Eisenstat; Maurice Turk; Eva Fishman.
- Subjects
- Concerts
- Posters
- Theaters
- Places
- Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-3-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4294
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4294
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1925 or 1926]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Identified third from left: William Shankman.
- Notes
- Photo by Midland Press Agency, 520 Suffolk St., Birmingham.
- Subjects
- Orchestra
- Theaters
- 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
- Birmingham (England)
- Accession Number
- 1987-9-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 676
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 676
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Feb. 1965
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a Broadway Theatre and another building on the south side of Queen Street West, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Broadway Theatre
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Theaters
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- National history research and subject files series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 38; Series 5; File 8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- National history research and subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 5
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of scrapbook pages with newspaper articles and other material about Lucille Lorie and letters that were of importance to her during her presidency.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 177
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 177
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing mass meeting information and an invitation, meeting notices, meeting minutes, resolutions, conference invites, clothing drive information, a member appeal letter, memorandum about Dr. Emil Sommerstein, Yiddish handwritten notes, and newspaper articles. Someone had labelled this material "scrapbook #5."
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 178
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 178
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1944-1945
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing meeting minutes, meeting notices, conferece and convention invitations and publicity, a convention agenda, Yiddish handwritten notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and telegraphs.
- See the first page in the file for further details on the contents of the folder. The 5 refers to someone labelling it "scrapbook #5".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 179
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 179
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing meeting notices, meeting minutes, a speech for the national executive meeting in 1946, recommendations for organizing committee of national convention, a Canadian Jewish Congress people's conference invitation, a Canadian Federation of Polish Jews reception event invitation, copies of radiograms from Tenenbaum in Poland, a bulletin from the World Federation of Polish Jews, and newspaper clippings.
- Someone had labelled this material "scrapbook #4".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 180
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 180
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1947
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing conference invitations, meeting notices, meeting minutes, Yiddish handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, a membership appeal letter, telegrams, and welcoming remarks by Vincent R. Inpellitteri at the World Federation of Polish Jews Conference in 1947.
- See the first page in the file for further details on the contents of the folder. The 1 refers to someone labelling it "scrapbook #1".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 181
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 181
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1947
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, book and clothing drive information, a "Polish Jew" publication, telegrams, a report from Joseph Tenenbaum, correspondence regarding relief efforts, notices and invitations for local and national executive meetings, meeting minutes, agendas, and reports.
- See the first page in the file for further details on the contents of the folder. The 4 refers to someone labelling it "scrapbook #4".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 182
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 182
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1947-1951
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing meeting notices, meeting minutes, agendas, a summary of executive meetings, correspondence regarding adopted resolutions, property claims, telegrams, finances, annual membership and donations, and appeal letters, newspaper clippings, Kusevitsky concert planning material, Yizkor-Warsaw Ghetto Memorial posters from 1951, a Samuel Tenenbaum mass gathering poster, and a dinner invitation in honour of Montreal delegates.
- See the first page in the file for further details on the contents of the folder. The 3 refers to someone labelling it "scrapbook #3".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 183
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 183
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca.1950]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a newspaper clipping from a scrapbook.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 103; Series 1; File 184
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 184
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1951-1955
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing meeting notices, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, memoranda regarding a schedule of a day in Montreal, a speech in Montreal, correspondence, newspaper clippings, fundraising appeal letters, Yizkor-Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial material from 1952-53, Kusevitsky concert planning, a Shloyme Bikl ticket from 1953, a Congress Bulletin from1953, and a letter about Rachmil Bryks' book.
- See the first page in the file for further details on the content of the folder. The 2 refers to someone labelling it "scrapbook #2".
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 20; Series 1; File 10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 1
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [196-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook containing various newspaper clippings and letters from organizations such as the Bergen Belsen Association, the Canadian Jewish Review, the Labour Zionist Order and Farband.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Cowan family fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 102
- File
- 91
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1956-1989
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook ; 32 x 31 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook documenting the participation of Trudy Cowan, her brother Michael Cowan, and cousin Phil Cowan in dramatic productions in high school, university, and beyond. Included are events staged by the drama group at Bathurst Heights Collegiate, B'nai Brith Youth, Simpson's Collegiate Drama Festival, the Ontario One Act Play Festival, and the Univerity College Follies at Hart House, University of Toronto. Trudy played leading roles in many of the productions and Michael acted as musical director and played piano at rehearsals. Memorabilia in the scrapbook includes tickets, programmes, newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence. The last event is a 1989 production at Heritage Park Calgary in which Trudy Cowan portrayed Nellie McClung as well as producing the event.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- Toronto Section series
- Service Portfolio sub-series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 38; Series 7-11; File 10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- Toronto Section series
- Service Portfolio sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 7-11
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1969-1970
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : b&w and col. ; 14 x 10 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of scrapbook pages of photographs, plus additional photographs of children in junior kindergarden playing and interacting.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Folks Farein fonds
- Scrapbooks series
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 105; Series 2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Folks Farein fonds
- Scrapbooks series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 105
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1929-1965
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of photocopied scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings relating to Folks Farein activities. The majority of clippings are from the Daily Hebrew Journal, the Daily Packet and Times, the Mail and Empire, the Evening Telegram, the Toronto Daily Star, the Globe and Mail, the Jewish Standard, the Yiddisher Zhurnal, View, the Toronto Jewish Reporter and the Canadian Jewish News. A large number of articles relate to Folks Farein charitable activities for the sick and needy in Ontario hospitals, sanatoriums, and asylums, Passover meals and seders, concerts, the annual fund raising campaign, beauty contest and New Years Eve Ball, the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Year celebration, the Children's Haven at Kfar Saba Israel, and the Toronto Israel Bond Drive. Of note is an article entitled Folks Farein 35 years of devoted service to the Jewish community. Included in the article are reprints of excerpts from the Hebrew Journal of 1914 addressing the activity of missionary groups seeking to convert members of the immigrant Jewish community and the Anti-Conversion Farein society organized to counteract the work of the missionaries.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 51; Series 9-1; File 7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- Series
- 9-1
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Aug. 1965
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records and other material (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a scrapbook documenting Phil Givens' B'nai Brith / State of Israel Bond Organization 1965 tribute. Included are: the text of several press releases; event tickets; flyers and posters; the text of the tributary scroll; and photographs of the event itself.
- Notes
- Scrapbook also contains photographs and ephemera
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The paper on which the textual items and photographs are glued is acidic (browning and brittle)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Jan.-Apr. 1965
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as the City of Toronto Mayor. The scrapbook is made up entirely of newspaper clippings, including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ time as Mayor.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Jun.-Sept.1965
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as the City of Toronto Mayor. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings (including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns), an issue of “Canadian Weekly,” and ephemera pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ time as Mayor.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 13
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Oct.-Dec.1965
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as the City of Toronto Mayor. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ time as Mayor.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Jan.-Jul.1966
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as the City of Toronto Mayor. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ time as Mayor.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Nov. 1963-Dec. 1964
- Physical Description
- 8 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as the City of Toronto Mayor. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ campaign for, and time as, mayor. Also included are letters of congratulation for his December 1964 election victory.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1968-1971
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as a Member of Parliament for Toronto’s York West riding. The scrapbook contains mostly newspaper clippings, including news coverage, editorials, editorial cartoons, and columns pertaining almost exclusively to Givens’ time as an MP. Some of his work / association with Jewish organizations is also covered.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1949-1953
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records (1 vol.) and other material
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as a City of Toronto Alderman and his ongoing work with Jewish organizations. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, photographs, pins, and flyers.
- Notes
- Includes photographs, pins, and flyers.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1954-1956
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records (1 vol.) and other material
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as a City of Toronto Alderman and his ongoing work with Jewish organizations. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera such as balloons, flyers, and matchbook covers.
- Notes
- Includes photographs and ephemera.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1958
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as a City of Toronto Alderman his ongoing work with Jewish organizations, and his federal campaign for the Toronto Spadina Riding. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, political cartoons, and ephemera such as post-cards, posters, and matchbook covers.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records (1 vol.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one scrapbook documenting Phil Givens’ tenure as a City of Toronto Alderman, his work with the Liberal Riding Association, and his ongoing work with Jewish organizations. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and political cartoons.
- Subjects
- Scrapbooks
- Physical Condition
- The clippings have been glued or taped onto highly acidic paper. The paper pages are browning and brittle, as are the clippings themselves. Some of the adhesive tape is failing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions