- Accession Number
- 1976-10-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1976-10-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 26 cm of textual records and graphic material
- Date
- 1925-1960
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of: Toronto Jewish Medical Association minute book (1925–1936); minutes, clinical records, research papers and other records of the Mount Sinai Clinical Association (1932–1953); Mount Sinai Hospital medical staff minute book (1943–1953); a copy of Dr David Eisen's publication "Toronto's Jewish doctors" (1960); and a photograph of the installation of officers of the Mt. Sinai Hospital Clinical Society (1939).
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Dr. Eisen's "Toronto's Jewish Doctors" publication has been digitized and is available as a PDF file. The photograph of the officers' installation has also been digitized and is available as a JPEG image.
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Eisen, David
- Pollock, Ira
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Toronto Jewish Medical Association
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-53
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-53
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 46 photographs : b&w (26 negatives) ; 9 x 13 cm and 35 mm
- Date
- 1986
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of interior and exterior photographs of United Bakers Dairy Restaurant on Spadina Avenue before the move to Lawrence Plaza; Anshe Minsk Synagogue; and Rotman's Shoe Store, Spadina Avenue.
- Custodial History
- Donated by Cyrel Troster.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Stores, Retail
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Anshei Minsk Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- United Bakers Dairy Restaurant
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 78; File 3; Item 12
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 78
- File
- 3
- Item
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1907]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the interior of Louis Henkle's store on Market Street in Brantford, Ontario. The photo shows several chairs, carpets, cushions and clothing for sale. There is a man, possibly Louis Henkle, pictured at the back of the store.
- Name Access
- Henkle, Louis
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 78; File 3; Item 20
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 78
- File
- 3
- Item
- 20
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print of Sam Nyman (behind counter) and Ben Foster (at the back) inside Nyman's store on Market Street in Brantford, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Foster, Ben
- Nyman, Sam
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Dr. Coleman Solursh
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Jan. 1985
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Coleman Solursh
- Number
- OH 40
- OH 41
- Subject
- Physicians
- Societies
- Occupations
- Medical care
- Interview Date
- 3 Jan. 1985
- Quantity
- 2
- Interviewer
- Morris Silbert
- Total Running Time
- 040A: 34 minutes 040B: 31 minutes 041A: 11 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Coleman Solursh was born in Toronto in 1906. He graduated as a physician in 1932. He worked as a lodge doctor. He was involved in the Toronto Jewish Lodge Doctors Association. He worked in the field of family medicine and was appointed chief of the Department of Family Practice at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was appointed associate chief of medicine at Baycrest, Jewish Home for the Aged. He married Zelda Singer, a third-generation Canadian. Zelda's maternal grandfather was appointed colonization chairman in 1897 for Baron de Hirsch settlement for Jewish immigrants. Zelda's father, Manny Singer, was the first Jewish pharmacist in Toronto. Zelda's uncle, Fred Singer, was the first Jewish member of parliament for Ontario.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Solursh, Coleman
- Silbert, Morris
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Singer, Zelda
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
- Geographic Access
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH40_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH40_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 40, OH 41 - Solursh\OH41_001_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Dr. Coleman Solursh describes a meeting between executives from the Toronto Jewish Lodge Doctors' Association and representatives from various Jewish Lodges. The meeting resulted in significant changes to the way medical services and payment were provided to the physicians.
In this clip, Dr. Coleman Solursh describes his role as Chief of the Department of Family Practice in the new Mount Sinai Hospital in 1953. He explains how this department pioneered the model for family practice within a hospital setting across Canada.
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Dr. Sydney Wise
- Number
- OH 278
- Subject
- Business
- Immigrants--Canada
- Physicians
- Interview Date
- 29 Sep. 2003
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Ellen Scheinberg
- Total Running Time
- Side 1: 46 min.
- Side 2: 30 min.
- Conservation
- Digital copy made April 11, 2011.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Sydney Wise was a Toronto physician and a long-time volunteer at the Ontario Jewish Archives. Sydney was married to Mimi Wise, who had been an active member of Hadassah-WIZO for most of her life. Sydney's father, Anshel Wise, opened a cigar store on Dundas Street, which later turned into a steamship agency called A. Wise Travel Bureau. The latter helped bring immigrants over from Europe.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Wise, Anshel
- Wise, Sydney
- Scheinberg, Ellen
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Digital file
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this portion of the interview, Syd describes his father Anshel Wise’s cigar store and travel business, which opened in the Ward in 1918. Anshel was one of the first steamship agents in Toronto.
In this portion of the interview, Sydney describes his entry into medical school at the University of Toronto. He outlines some of the challenges encountered by Jewish medical students in their search for internship positions.
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 18; Series 1; Item 36
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 36
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1955]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Murray (Moishe) Reingold was born in 1918. Reingold graduated from the University of Toronto in 1943, although his Canadian Medical Association license was issued as "Dr. Maurice Reingold". Reingold completed his training in thoracic surgery at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Reingold served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as an MD. He worked as a Specialist in Thoracic Surgery, primarily lung surgery, and a Certified Specialist in General Surgery. He was married to Isabelle Ruth Reingold (née Rodger) by Rabbi Samuel Sachs in Toronto on Feb 26, 1944, and had two children: Debbie (Hamann) and Bryan. Wife Ruth Reingold worked as a Registered Nurse. Murray Reingold died on 25 December 2000, at the age of 82.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Murray Reingold.
- Name Access
- Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 24 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Identified from left to right are: Geshia & Joseph Abramsky and daughter Katherine.
- Notes
- Original photograph by J. W. Wilson Co., 169 Queen St. W, Toronto
- Photograph is a copy.
- Name Access
- Abramsky, Geshia
- Abramsky, Joseph
- Abramsky, Katherine
- Subjects
- Families
- Portraits, Group
- Stores, Retail
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Kingston (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of men in front of a store located at 1043 3rd Avenue East in Owen Sound, Ontario. Pictured left to right are: Jack Salter, Frank [?], Ezekiel Cadesky, Norman [?], Philipp [?], and Rabbi Klein.
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Rabbis
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Owen Sound (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-7-19
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3374
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3374
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 12 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the interior of a confectionery store in Sudbury, Ontario. There is a man standing behind the counter.
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- 1982-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 885
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 885
- 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 building that once housed the Atkins brothers' grocery business on Second Street in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The business was begun in the 1930s by Ben, Al, and Harry Atkins.
- Name Access
- Atkins, Ben
- Atkins, Al
- Atkins, Harry
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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 4048
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4048
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1909
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of the Ginsberg grocery store interior, located at Clarence and Horton Streets in London, Ontario. Pictured from left to right are: Rose Ginsberg, William Ginsberg (in apron), Nathan Freidkin, Bary Hyman Ginsberg (son of Rose and William), Dave Ginsberg, Joseph Levine.
- Name Access
- Freidkin, Nathan
- Ginsberg, Bary Hyman
- Ginsberg, Dave
- Ginsberg, Rose
- Ginsberg, William
- Levine, Joseph
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- 1986-8-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 770
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 770
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is studio portrait of Dr. Isadore Goldstick, of London, Ontario.
- Notes
- Acquired in June 1976.
- Reproduction restriction note: Copyright owned by Bill Barrett, London. Please credit upon publication.
- Name Access
- Goldstick, Dr. Isadore
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- London (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 14; Item 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 14
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1965]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Dr. Syd Wax.
- Notes
- Photograph is by Gordon Mendly Famous Studio.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-7-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 51 x 44 cm on mat 62 x 55 cm
- Date
- 1909
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one composite photograph of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine's graduating class of 1909. Included is L. J. Solway.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition informaiton for this photograph. It was found in the processing room in July 2013.
- Subjects
- Education
- Physicians
- Name Access
- University of Toronto
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-1-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- 1 photograph: b&w ; 35 x 25 cm
- Date
- 1899-[ca. 1903]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of Dr. Samuel Lavine's certification from the State Board of Medical Colleges of New Jersey and and the Board of Medical Registration and Examination, State of Ohio. Also included is one photograph believed to be of Samuel and Ida Lavine.
- Custodial History
- Donor found items among her mother's papers, donor was Samuel Lavine's great-granddaughter.
- Administrative History
- Dr. Samuel Lavine (1874-1959) was the first Jewish doctor to practice in Toronto. He graduated from Trinity University Medical School in 1899. Understanding that Jewish practitioners had little future in Toronto, he moved to the United States and received his medical certification in New Jersey and Ohio. However, he returned to Toronto one year later and opened an office at John and Adelaide Streets. He was known for making house calls on his bicycle. Dr. Lavine was also part of the Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society, and became the first Jewish Lodge doctor in 1907. In 1909, he helped found, and later remained active in, the Free Jewish Dispensary. As of 1911 he lived at 159 Beverly Street. After 1922 he lived and practiced at 30 Dunvegan Road. The building was designed by Benjamin Brown. By 1931, Lavine's practice was located at 2 Wells Hill. Around 1903 he married Ida (nee Levy? Levi?) (1880-1958), and they had two daughters, Ruth (Levinson) and Helen (Sterling), and a son Bernard. Helen's husband, Theodore "Ted" Sterling, is said to be the first Jewish stockbroker.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Lavine, Samuel, 1874-1959
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-12-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records
- ca. 250 photographs : b&w and col.
- Date
- 1776, [191-]-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records related to the life and career of Dr. Fred Wienberg. Included are textual and photographic records documenting his personal and family life, his medial career, scholarly activities, involvement with the Jewish community, his collecting of Judaica, medical antiques and art, and his synagogue involvement. Other items include the Ostrovtzer Mutual Benefit Society minute book and a 1776 letter from Jonas Phillips, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and an American merchant in New York City and Philadelphia.
- Administrative History
- Fred Weinberg (1919-2003) was born in Ostrawiec, Poland on July 6, 1919 to Rose and Israel Weinberg. Israel immigrated to Canada in 1920 and his wife and children joined him several years later in March of 1924. The family settled in Toronto where Israel worked in the fur manufacturing business. Israel was a supporter and aficionado of cantorial music as well as a founder of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto and the Ostrovtzer Synagogue on Cecil Street.
- Fred completed his primary and secondary education at Clinton Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate. He also attended the Brunswick Talmud Torah, celebrating his bar mitzvah in 1932. Fred decided to pursue a medical career, graduating from the University of Toronto’s medical school in 1944. During his studies he enlisted in the army and completed officers’ training in April 1945, attaining the rank of Captain. During his military career he served in the RCAMC at Camp Borden, Christie St. Hospital and at the Stanley Barracks in Toronto. Towards the end of the war he served as Officer in charge of repatriation of the POWs.
- After the war Fred pursued his post-graduate work at Seaview and Bellevue hospitals in New York City from 1946 to 1947 and then moved on to the Children’s and Washington University hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri the following year. He was subsequently accepted as a resident at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto and was ultimately appointed Chief Resident under the supervision of the internationally renowned paediatrician, Dr. Alan Brown. In 1950, Dr. Weinberg was hired as a physician in paediatrics at Sick Kids Hospital, making him the first Jewish doctor on staff. In addition to his staff responsibilities, he also lectured and was a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Medical School for many years.
- By the mid-point of his career, Dr. Weinberg went on to specialise in Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), delivering lectures and publishing articles in medical journals. He also ran his own practice, which operated from 1950 to 1976, and later become Associate Medical Director of the Child Development Clinic, Neurology Division of Sick Kids until his retirement in 1984. He later continued his service at Sick Kids as a senior staff consultant and ran a specialized practice in Developmental Pediatrics for close to twenty years, which was later situated at 208 Bloor Street West.
- Fred married Joy Cherry on December 16, 1952 at Goel Tzedec Synagogue. The couple had four children: Joel (b. 1953), Barry (b. 1955), Sari (b. 1956) and Deena (b. 1961). Throughout his life, Fred was actively engaged in Jewish communal work in a variety of capacities: assisting with the establishment of the United Synagogue Day School during the 1950s; as a fundraiser for the United Jewish Appeal (UJA); and as a participant in two of UJA’s early study missions to Israel in 1960 and 1961. He was also an influential figure within his synagogue, joining the Board of Directors of Beth Tzedec Synagogue during the late 1960s and serving as president from 1972 to 1975.
- Fred and his wife Joy also collected Judaica, antiques and artwork. As a physician, Fred developed a passion and expertise in the area of medical antiques. He published articles in both the mainstream and Jewish press on subjects related to Jewish rituals, Judaica and art. He also had a regular column in the Canadian Journal of Diagnosis from 1998 to 2002 entitled “Antique instruments”. Over time, the Weinberg’s assembled a world-class collection of Judaica and became increasingly active in the museum world. Fred assisted in the establishment of Beth Tzedec’s Helene and Rubin Dennis Jewish Museum, contributing items from the couple’s Judaica collection and securing the acquisition of the renowned Cecil Roth collection for the Museum during the early to mid-1960s. As a result of his significant contributions, he was bestowed the title of honourary curator to the Museum. Dr. Weinberg later branched out and assisted with the Koffler Gallery’s Lifecycle exhibition in 1984 as guest curator. The following year, he served as a special presenter and instructor to the docents at the “Precious Legacy” Czech Judaica exhibition at the ROM. The Weinberg’s most significant contribution to the museum world, however, was marked in September of 2000, when they were honoured at the opening of the Dr. Fred and Joy Cherry Weinberg Gallery of Judaica at the ROM, featuring some of their most valuable and treasured pieces.
- Dr. Fred Weinberg passed away on October 30, 2003 at 84 years of age. The Weinberg Endowment Fund was established by the family at the University of Toronto’s Jewish Studies Program to honour Fred’s passion for Jewish history, rituals and artefacts. That year the Weinberg family also set up a fund in Fred’s name in support of the Therapeutic Clown Program, a highly visible and successful program within Sick Kids’ Pediatric Division.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Use Conditions Note: Records contain patient names and medical information.
- Subjects
- Families
- Physicians
- Societies
- Name Access
- Weinberg, Fred, 1919-2003
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of graphic material and textual records
- 1 folder (oversize) of graphic material and textual records
- 1 scrapbook ; 37 x 31 cm
- Date
- 1916-2008, predominant 1940-1998
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Rother family, in particular Irving and Florence Rother. Included are: three of Irving Rother's Second World War letters; professional and educational certificates for Irving Rother; service records for Irving Rother; records documenting the sale of the family's Rother Cigar Store; a letter to Dr. and Mrs. Rother from Lester C. Sugarman welcoming the couple and their family to Holy Blossom Temple; records (including group portraits) of Hadassah-WIZO Rishon Chapter, which Florence Rother belonged to; and an Alpha Phi Pi scrapbook.
- Administrative History
- Florence Rother (née Warshavsky) was born in 1919. In 1998, she was honoured for her service to the Rishon Chapter of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO. She died at home on 9 July 2016.
- Dr. Irving Rother was born in 1919. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he was part of the Phi Delta Epislon Fraternity. He graduated in January 1943 with a Doctor of Medicine degree. During the Second World War, he held the rank of captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) and served in Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. After the war, Rother moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he served on the house staff of Sinai Hospital first as assistant resident on the pathology service and then as intern and assistant resident on the medical service.
- In 1953, Dr. and Mrs. Rother and their family became members of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.
- 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
- Families
- Physicians
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Rother (family)
- Rother, Florence
- Rother, Irving, 1919-2018
- Places
- Baltimore (Md.)
- England
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 19 cm of graphic material and textual records
- Date
- 1931-1999
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Brown family. Included are: business records, clippings, correspondence, eulogies, notes, an issue of the LIFE Institute's L.i.f.e.lines newsletter, photographs, résumés and cover letters, school records, and vital statistics. A significant amount of the material documents the donor's father, Jack Brown, a community leader in Brantford, Ontario, and friend of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Of note are autographed pictures of Former Prime Ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean Chrétien.
- Administrative History
- The son of Rose and William Brown, Jack Irving Brown was born in Toronto on January 4, 1926. His family moved to Brantford, Ontario when he was a boy. Upon graduating from high school, Jack went to work at his father's retail store. When he eventually bought the store, he renamed it Brown's of Brantford. In addition to running his business, Jack held leadership positions with the Beth David Congregation, Brant Liberal Association, and the Rotary Club of Brantford. Upon moving to Toronto, he became president of the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University.
- Jack and Joy Brown (née Greenberg) had four children: Andrew, Marlene (1952-2007), Holli (b. 1954), and Harriette (b. 1958). Later in life, Jack and Joy separated. For the final years of his life, Jack's companion was Rheta Rhosen. Jack died on September 23, 1999.
- Subjects
- Businesspeople
- Families
- Stores, Retail
- Name Access
- Brown (family)
- Brown, Andrew, 1950-
- Brown, Harriette, 1958-
- Brown, Jack, 1926-1999
- Brown, Rose
- Brown, William
- Chrétien, Jean, 1934-
- Katzman, Marlene, 1952-2007
- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000
- Verkade, Holli, 1954-
- Places
- Brantford (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 folders
- Date
- 1911-1987
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting two generations of the Singer family. Included are: a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario certificate for Bessie Thelma Pullan (1911), a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1937), a Department of National Defense (Army) certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1946), a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons (RAM) of Canada constitution (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM by-law booklet (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM invitation to its sixty-first convocation (1954), and a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1987).
- Custodial History
- Records were donated by Burrel and Carolyn Singer's son Tom.
- Administrative History
- Louis Michael Singer, K.C. was born in Austria in 1885. When he was three, Louis and his family immigrated to Canada. In Toronto, he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute. He went on to study law at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1908. Afterwards, he set up the Singer and Singer law office. In 1914, Louis ran for Toronto City Council, representing Ward 4, and became Toronto's second Jewish alderman. He was re-elected in 1915, 1916, and 1917 only to be defeated in the 1918 election. Thereafter, he returned to his law practice full-time. Louis died on September 23, 1959.
- Dr. Bessie Thelma Singer (née Pullan) was born in Russia on June 5, 1888. On July 6, 1911, she married Louis Singer. Two days later, on July 8, 1911, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario admitted her as a member, entitling her to practice physic, surgery, and midwifery in the province. Bessie never practiced medicine; instead, she became a homemaker. She died on January 4, 1947, surived by her husband, Louis, and two sons, Burrell and Ralph.
- Burrell Milton Singer, Q.C. was born in Toronto on November 1, 1912. On September 7, 1937, the Law Society of Upper Canada called him to the bar. Burell and his wife Carolyn had two sons: Jeff and Tom. Burrell died on September 26, 1989.
- Descriptive Notes
- Conservation: Certificates deframed.
- General: An annotated copy of Burrell M. Singer's Handbook of Canadian Military Law, which the former co-authored with Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. S. Langford, is available in the OJA's library.
- History/Bio note: Bessie Singer's tombstone lists her birth date as July 28, 1890, however, JewishGen has her birth registration as June 5, 1888 and the 1901 Census lists it as July 14, 1888. Bessie's youngest brother Sydney, Harry Pullan was born on Aug. 11, 1890 and therefore the July 28, 1890 date is likely erroneous.
- Subjects
- Lawyers
- Physicians
- Politicians
- Name Access
- Singer (family)
- Singer, Bessie Thelma, 1890-1947
- Singer, Burrell M., 1912-1989
- Singer, Louis, 1885-1959
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-10
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1945-[1990]
- Scope and Content
- Accession record consists of business cards from several Gwartzman family owned business first established on Baldwin Street by Moshe Aaron Gwartzman and his wife Bella (née Weinstock) as M. A. Gwartzman Silks and Wollens. In addition, there is a 1945 change of address card indicating that the business moved from 421 Spadina Avenue to 448 Spadina Avenue along with business cards from the 448 Spadina location for Gwartzman's Drapery Bargain Centre, Gwartzman's Canvas, Art and Graphic Supplies, and Masters, Fine Art and Stationary Products.
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-16
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-5-16
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 cm. of textual records (1 vol.)
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm and 18 x 23 cm
- Date
- 1897-1963
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting aspects of A. I. Willinsky's life. Included are: two portrait photographs of Willinsky as a boy (ca. 1897) and as an adult (ca. 1940s); a scrapbook related to the publication of A.I. Willinsky's book, A Doctor's Memoirs; a booklet with information referencing Willinsky's travel films; and Gertrude Kronick's handwritten "putterkuchen" recipe. Included in the scrapbook are congratulatory letters, newspaper clippings related to the book, and a proof copy for submission to Who's Who in Canadian Jewry.
- Administrative History
- Abraham Isaac Willinsky (1885-1976) was born 29 March1885, in Omaha, Nebraska to Sarah Rebecca (née Vise) and Myer Lionel Willinsky. Sarah had immigrated to Canada as a child in the 1860s; the Myers family was originally from Lithuania. Abraham had seven siblings: Abey (b. 1885), Ida (b. 1886), Faly (b. 1888), Minnie (b. 1890), Gertrude (b. 1893), Lila (b. 1899) and Bernard (“Bunny”) (b. 1900). Willinsky’s family moved to the east end of Toronto in 1890 where his father worked as a merchant
- Most of Abraham's siblings eventually married: Ida married Maurice Kamman in 1909; Faly married Sam Mehr in 1912; Minnie married Arthur Jacobs in 1912; Gertrude married Sam Kronick in 1912; Lila married Jospeh Lisson in 1920; and Bernard married Florence Samuel in 1930, but divorced soon after.
- When Willinsky was a child he helped his uncle, Solomon Vise, in his photography business, which was located at 439 King Street East. Working in his uncle's darkroom and studio on Saturdays awakened Willinsky's interest in photography.
- Willinsky graduated from biological and physical sciences at the University of Toronto in 1906, and from medicine in 1908, earning the George Brown Memorial Scholarship. He married Sadie Dobensky, from Bancroft, Ontario, in July of 1911. They had three children: Dorothy, Jack, and Myra. Dorothy eventually married Garfield Cass and worked as a social worker. Jack married Cecily Samuel and became a urologist and, later, a radiologist. Myra married Dr. N. Simon, a dental surgeon.
- As one of the early Jewish doctors in Toronto, Willinsky initially had difficulty launching his career due to discrimination and prejudice. After joining the Academy of Medicine in 1910, he began his first practice as a “lodge doctor”, working out of his office and home at College and Henry Streets.
- With other possible internships and appointments denied him, A. I. accumulated his early clinical training with resourcefulness, by performing “ghost-surgery” and by studying abroad in Dublin at the Rotunda Hospital, Paris and Vienna. In 1916, under the adopted name of Wills, and with a claim to Greek Orthodoxy, Willinsky managed to secure a position at the Polyclinic in New York, where he began as an ambulance doctor. He also interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His skill was, in time, recognized in Toronto and he was accepted at the Toronto Western Hospital in 1918, where he pioneered spinal anaethesia and began his work as a urologist. In 1923, Willinsky became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1925, all forty practicing Jewish physicians formed the Toronto Jewish Medical Association. In turn, the same members would become the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital, which was established in 1923 at 100 Yorkville Avenue.
- Willinsky was probably the most prominent of Mount Sinai’s original staff, dividing his time between the new Jewish hospital and Toronto Western, where he was the head of genito-urinary surgery. He became chief of surgery at Mount Sinai and produced a number of papers that dealt primarily with spinal anaesthesia. He later opened a practice at 316 Bloor Street West, above which he temporarily resided. In 1928, he set up a clinic and office at 569 Spadina Avenue. His practice remained at this location until his retirement.
- Throughout his life, he remained enthralled by photography and prolific in his production of travel movies. In 1934, he became a founding member of the Toronto Amateur Movie Club. Around this same time, he created films to help Holy Blossom fundraise for a new building. In 1941, he gave a lecture on the principles of amateur moviemaking before the Royal Canadian Institute, in which he advocated holding the movie camera steady and letting the action move into the frame as a strategy to encourage careful composition. For sound in his early movies, he played records bought in the country where the picture was taken, stacking them in order and playing them at intervals during the commentary. Later on, he manufactured his own gramophone records, and eventually, bona fide soundtracks. Often shooting as much as 3600 feet of film on a single trip, he tended, in his more senior years, to invest long hours editing and framing sequences in the basement of his own home at 120 Madison Avenue. Here, he set up a miniature theatre and often held film evenings for friends. In 1945, Willinsky won an award for a medical film, Cystometrography, in which he used the animation technique of filming drawings. Aortography and advances in X-ray technology provided other cross-overs between medical and filmic experiments, and most of his chronicled travels were the extra-curricular benefits of regular attendance at medical conferences.
- Towards the end of his life in 1960, Willinsky dictated the stories for A Doctor’s Memoirs to his transcriber, Margaret Avison. He spent the last 14 years of his life at Toronto's Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. He passed away in 1976 at the age of ninety-one.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Name Access
- Willinsky, Abraham Isaac, 1885-1976
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3556
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3556
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 20 cm on mat 36 x 32 cm
- Scope and Content
- Identified in this photograph is David Eisen. He is pictured in the centre wearing glasses.
- For locations, see accession record.
- Notes
- Original photo by Alex J. McLean, 435 Spadina Ave., Toronto.
- Name Access
- University of Toronto
- Bochner, David Eisen
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1981-4-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 528
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 528
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- April 28, 1918
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of David Eisen in the backyard amid sunflowers at 12 Bellevue Ave., Toronto
- Name Access
- Eisen, David
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Bellevue Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- Acquired July 23, 1975.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Roza Brown with her newphew, a well-known Park Avenue physician, in Kirkland Lake.
- Name Access
- Brown, Roza
- Subjects
- Physicians
- 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
- Part Of
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 45
- Item
- 34
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on mat 20 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Isadore and David working in a jewellery store located at 304 Yonge Street. David is on the left; Isadore is on the right. The photograph was likely taken before Isadore completed his PhD and David completed his law degree.
- Name Access
- Goldstick, David
- Goldstick, Isidore
- Subjects
- Employees
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4688
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4688
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1907]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm and 17 x 19 cm
- Scope and Content
- Original and copy photograph of Mr. Meyer Michalson holding his daughter, Esther (m. Cooper), in his crockery store at Queen near Parliament at 360 Queen St. East. Eventually Mr. Michalson expanded his business to establish Michalson's Wholesale China at Parliament and Dundas Street. He also opened Michalson's East End Bargain House at the same corner.
- Name Access
- Cooper, Esther
- Michalson, Esther
- Michalson, Meyer
- Michalson's Wholesale China
- Subjects
- Fathers and daughters
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Queen Street East (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-3-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1544
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1544
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1935]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Gary's Groceries (Toronto, Ont.)
- Gary, Joseph
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- College Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2944
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2944
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Pictured in this photograph is Mrs. Richards.
- Name Access
- Richard's Grocery
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-4-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Weingluck fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 44
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Name Access
- Health Bread
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Streets
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- College Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-11
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1556
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1556
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1913]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The Hoffmans emigrated to Toronto from Czestochowa, Poland in 1908. According to The Might Directory, the Hoffmans opened their first grocery store in "The Ward" in 1909 at 134 Centre Avenue. Subsequent locations listed include 141 Centre Avenue (1910-1913), 339 Spadina Avenue (1914-1920), 350 Spadina Avenue 1922-1928 and 270 Spadina Avenue (1936 - ca. 1950).
- Scope and Content
- This photograph was likely taken at 141 Centre Avenue (1910-1913) prior to the Hoffmans moving their shop to 339 Spadina Avenue in 1914. Pictured are Rivka and Nathan (Nahum) Hoffman.
- Name Access
- Hoffman family
- Hoffman, Nahum
- Hoffman, Nathan
- Hoffman, Rivka
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Centre Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-9-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1504
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1504
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the exterior of Hirsch Harold Achber Grocery in Toronto. Pictured left to right are: Miriam (Achber) Hurvitz, Robert Hurvitz, Freda Hurvitz, Jacob Hurvitz.
- Name Access
- Achber, Harold
- Achber, Hirsch
- Achber, Hurvitz
- Hurvitz, Freda
- Hurvitz, Jacob
- Hurvitz, Miriam
- Hurvitz, Robert
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Storefronts
- 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
- Auburn Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-2-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1485
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1485
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Left to right: Mrs. Greenburg, Goldie Sherman, Murray Greenburg, Phillip Greenburg.
- Name Access
- Greenburg, Goldie
- Greenburg, Murray
- Greenburg, Phillip
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-28
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 557
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 557
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1910
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Albert Fine (on right) and another man in Fine's store in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Fine, Albert
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3288
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3288
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Sprachman, Jacob
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- 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
- King Street East (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5013
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5013
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 4 Jul. 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the interior of Honest Ed's Bargain store. The photograph depicts a line-up of customers waiting to recieve free salamis.
- Notes
- Original photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5014
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5014
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 4 Jul. 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of customers outside of Honest Ed's waiting in line for a free salami. There are two costumed police officers pictured.
- Notes
- Original photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Consumers
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5018
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5018
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Oct. 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- item is a photograph of a radio broadcaster in a "country" studio set inside Honest Ed's during the opening of the store's expansion.
- Notes
- Original by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- CKEY Broadcasting
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5019
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5019
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Oct. 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a CKEY broadcaster in a "country" studio set inside Honest Ed's during the opening of the store's expansion. The broadcaster is seated in an outhouse.
- Notes
- Original photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- CKEY Broadcasting
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5020
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5020
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Oct. 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the exterior of Honest Ed's during their expansion opening. The image depicts the checkouts.
- Notes
- Original photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5021
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5021
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Oct. 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- item is a photograph of a group of men and women inside Honest Ed's during the opening of the store's expansion. There is a banquet table with sweets and a coffee urn.
- Notes
- Original by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Stores, Retail
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 5017
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 5017
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Oct. 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Ann and Ed Mirvish standing inside Honest Ed's at the opening of the store's expansion.
- Notes
- Photo by Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Honest Ed's
- Mirvish, Ann
- Mirvish, Ed, 1914-2007
- Subjects
- Businesspeople
- Stores, Retail
- Theatrical producers and directors
- Places
- Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1943
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 8 cm and 13 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Rose Abromowitz (1908–2001) was born in Toronto in 1908. Her parents were David Abromowitz (1884–1963) and Sarah Abromowitz (née Winfield) (1885–1955). David arrived in Toronto in 1906. Sarah and her parents, Jacob Winfield and Anna Winfield, settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, around 1880. Jacob worked as a grocer and relocated his family to Toronto around 1894. Sarah and David were married at the McCaul Street Synagogue in Toronto on 6 March 1906. They resided at 159 York Street after their nuptuals. David's father, Shevach, served as the cantor at Adath Israel. Rose's siblings included Murray and Oscar. Several members of the family later changed their surname to Abron during the early 1940s.
- Rose studied at the University of Toronto and became a physician in 1932. She married Harry Lahman. In November 1943, Rose and Harry moved from Toronto to Altanta, Georgia. Rose passed away on 7 January 2001 at the age of ninety-three. She was survived by a son, Jerome. Her obituary stated, "She officially retired in 1990, but continued to see herself as a doctor until the day she died."
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Abron.
- Notes
- Associated material note: See the New York Public Library's American Jewish Committee and Oral History Library for further holdings.
- Name Access
- Abron, Rose, Dr., 1908-2001
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See accession 2010-3/1.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 1; Item 14
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 1
- Item
- 14
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Feb. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 9 cm and 12 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Anna Gelber (née David) (1907-2007) was born in Palestine in 1907 and passed away on 20 November 2007. Anna received her doctor of science from Sorbonne Univeristy in Paris, France, and her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto. An obstetrician, at one point she worked in the medical department of Toronto's Women's College Hospital. Anna was also a prominent communal worker, active as a member of the National Executive Board of the Canadian Hadassah.
- Anna married Eddie Gelber, a prominent communal worker. They had three children, Edna, Lynn, and David. She and Eddie travelled significantly between Israel and Toronto during their marriage.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Anna Gelber.
- Name Access
- Gelber, Anna, 1907-2007 (subject)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See also Fonds 80, Series 1-1, Item 13 for portrait of Anna's husband, Mr. Eddie Gelber.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 2; Item 35
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 35
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Dec. 1944
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Sydney Wise (1915-2013) was born in Toronto on May 3, 1915. His parents were Anshel (b. 10 Jan 1890) and Esther (née Weissblum) Wise. Born in Poland, Anshel came to Canada in August 1910 and became a travel agent. They had three children: Lillian (Sharpe), Dr. David K. Wise and Dr. Sydney Wise. Syd attended high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1931. He then went on to complete his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto.
- Syd met his future wife, Mimi (née Marin) in 1938. Born in Toronto in 1920, Mimi (d. 2004) was the daughter of Joseph and Sonia (née Stern) Marin. The following year, Sydney moved to the United States to begin his medical internship at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mimi stayed behind in Toronto and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. In 1941, she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy, although she never practiced. In 1942, Sydney and Mimi married and Mimi joined Syd in the United States. The couple had 2 children, Mark and Joel.
- In 1944, Sydney was sent overseas with the United States Army as a Captain in the Medical Corps. After the war Syd and Mimi returned to Toronto where Syd opened his own practice as a pediatrician. After more than 50 years, Syd retired from his medical practice in 1997. Since then, Syd has been an active volunteer at the OJA.
- During their marriage, Syd and Mimi traveled to Israel frequently, often as part of Mimi's volunteer commitments with Hadassah. On a trip to Jerusalem in 1969, Syd met and had his picture taken with Prime Minister Golda Meir.
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of Dr. Sydney Wise.
- Name Access
- Wise, Sydney, 1915-1913, (subject)
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See Mimi Wise fonds (Fonds 16) for further records regarding Syd Wise (including the photo of Syd with Prime Minister Golda Meir).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 27; File 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950-1960
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two exterior views of the new Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto. The remaining five photos are interior shots of equipment, a research lab, and Dr. N. N. Levinne.
- Name Access
- Levinne, N. N.
- Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Physicians
- Places
- 550 University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 27; File 70
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 70
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two photos of a meeting of the Physicians' Division.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series
- Photograph collection sub-series
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 61; Series 2-2; Item 22
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series
- Photograph collection sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 61
- Series
- 2-2
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1972]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of one portrait photograph of Dr. William R. Drucker.
- Subjects
- Physicians
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 56
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1947]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the interior of the Lady Ellis shop in Ottawa, Ontario. The photo depicts a large crowd of women at the counter and looking at the merchandise on the racks.
- Subjects
- Consumers
- Stores, Retail
- Women's clothing
- 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
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ethel Mehr fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 68
- Item
- 57
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1947]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of the interior of the Lady Ellis shop in Ottawa, Ontario. The photo depicts a large crowd of women looking at the merchandise on the racks and display tables.
- Name Access
- Lady Ellis Shop
- Subjects
- Consumers
- Stores, Retail
- Women's clothing
- 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
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-12-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions