Accession Number

2021-10-5

Material Format

moving images

graphic material

Physical Description

1.2 m of graphic material and moving images

Date

[198-]-[202-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting the Jewish National Fund of Canada. Much of the material is photographic and audiovisual.

Name Access

Jewish National Fund of Canada

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2010-10-13

Material Format

moving images

Physical Description

1 videocassette (ca. 12 minutes)

Date

2000

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO Toronto) tribute video for the 75th anniversary of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B'nai B'rith Girls.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2013-12-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

moving images

Physical Description

11.1 m of textual records and other material

Date

[ca. 2000]-[ca. 2010]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records related to the operations of the CJC Ontario Region. Included are records related to the activities of the Community Relations Committee, reports, correspondence, political affairs records, communications, meeting minutes and agendas, photographs, and moving images of various events.

Descriptive Notes

Physical description note: Includes graphic material and audio-visual records

Subjects

Nonprofit organizations

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2014-5-9

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

moving images

Physical Description

90 cm of textual records and graphic material

3 film ; 16 mm

7 VHS

Date

[194-]-1989

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the Labour Zionist Alliance and its precurssor organizations including the Borochov Branches and the Independent Friendly Worker's Circle.Records include photographs of past members, governance documents, correspondence, publicity materials and anniversary and program books for the Cloakmakers Branch of the Independent Worker's Circle, the Zerubavel Branch and the B. Borochov Branch 124 of the Farband. Also included are meeting minutes and membership ledgers for the Independent Worker's Circle (1944-1950; 1962-1971) and the Farband Labour Zionist Order (1959-1961). The films document the intiatives in Israel supported by the Labour Zionist Order.

Custodial History

Records were in the possession of the Labour Zionist Order until they ceased functioning in May 2014.

Subjects

Labor Zionism

Societies

Name Access

Labour Zionist Order (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

1175

Material Format

moving images

sound recording

Date

24 Nov.1990-25 Nov. 1990

Physical Description

3 videocassettes (120 min.) : VHS

2 audio cassettes (3 hrs.)

Scope and Content

File consists of three videocassette recordings of the planning and events and addresses by staff at the 27th Central Region Regional Plenary, held Saturday, November 24, 1990 to Sunday, NOvember 25, 1990, including a segment "In Appreiciation: Eli Rubinstein", and presentations from the Small Community Committee and a presentation on education. ALso includes two audio cassettes labelled "27th Regional Plenary Planning Committee Meeting April 5, 1990"; and "27th Regional Plenary Planning Committee Meeting May 3, 1990".

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

1176

Material Format

moving images

Date

28 Nov. - 16 Dec. 1987

Physical Description

6 videocassettes (2 hrs.) : VHS

Scope and Content

File consists of eight VHS videocassette recordings of events and addresses by staff at the 26th Central Region Regional Plenary, held between Nov. 28 and 29, 1987, with presentations titled "The Universal and the Particular Again : Where Are We Headed?"; "Distortions and Misuse of the Holocaust"; "Let My People Go : Emigration or Aliyah?"; "Assimilation, Intermarriage and Jewish Identity"; "Overview of World Jewry and the State of Israel"; and a segment on multiculturalism. File also includes six audio cassettes labelled "Luncheon Address 26th Regional Plenary SUnday 29/Nov."; "Plenary Sat. Nov. 28/87"; "26th Plenary Assimilation - Morninig 9:00- 10:30"; "Newspaper Workshop 26th Regional Plenary Sunday 29 November"; "Plenary Nov. 30/87 "Universal & Particular"; and "Regional Plenary Evaluation Dec. 16/87".

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

General office subject and correspondence files series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

2

File

1177

Material Format

moving images

sound recording

Date

28 Nov. - 16 Dec. 1987

Physical Description

1 videocassettes (2 hrs.) : VHS 6 audio cassettes (9 hrs.)

Scope and Content

File consists of one VHS videocassette recording a segment on multiculturalism at the 26th Central Region Regional Plenary, held between Nov. 28 and 29, 1987, as well as six audio cassettes labelled "Luncheon Address 26th Regional Plenary SUnday 29/Nov."; "Plenary Sat. Nov. 28/87"; "26th Plenary Assimilation - Morninig 9:00- 10:30"; "Newspaper Workshop 26th Regional Plenary Sunday 29 November"; "Plenary Nov. 30/87 "Universal & Particular"; and "Regional Plenary Evaluation Dec. 16/87".

Access Restriction

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Accession Number

2005-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

28

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

moving images

Date

1908-1979, predominant 1955-1976

Physical Description

7.4 m of textual records and other material

Admin History/Bio

The Zionist Organization of Canada (ZOC) (1921-1978) acted as the official voice of Zionism in Canada, promoting the aims of Zionism in communities across the country. The ZOC adhered to the principles of the Jerusalem Program of the Zionist movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1898 during the First Zionist Congress held in Basle Switzerland. These principles included: 1) the promotion of immigration to Israel; 2) raising funds to carry out the aims of Zionism; 3) encouraging investment in Israel; 4) fostering Jewish consciousness; and 5) mobilizing public opinion about Israel and the Jewish communities of the Diaspora.

The Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada (FZSOC) was founded in 1898 as the national collective of groups representing Zionist interests in Canada. In 1921 the organization changed its name and was incorporated as the Zionist Organization of Canada, becoming the primary umbrella organization for Zionist groups in Canada.

The ZOC was a broad-based organization that embraced an ideology of nationhood which attracted influential national leaders within the Jewish community as well as thousands of members across the country. ZOC's main office was located in Montreal until 1970, when it moved to the Toronto Zionist Centre on Marlee Ave, Toronto. ZOC provided smaller communities, which had few institutional supports, with vital linkages to the metropolitan centres through their programs that were run out of the regional offices and local Zionist councils. The Zionist Organization of Canada operated as an umbrella group that oversaw Zionist funds and administered the budgets of such organizations as Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, the Men's Zionist Organization of Canada and Young Judaea. ZOC programs promoted a stronger Jewish identity amongst Canadian Jews and familiarity with Hebrew through the periodical, Canadian Zionist. These programs included book clubs, lunch clubs, film exhibits, youth camps, travel offices, and two television programs during the 1970s on cable television in Montreal and Toronto.

In 1967, ZOC became a constituent member of the new Federated Zionist Organization of Canada (FZOC), along with Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, the Labour Zionist Movement of Canada, Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi Organization of Canada, Zionist Revisionist Organization of Canada, Achdut Avoda, and Friends of Pioneering Israel (Mapam). In 1972, FZOC became the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). During the 1970s, ZOC's functions were gradually absorbed by the Canadian Zionist Federation, the CZF Central Region based in Toronto, and by the Toronto Zionist Council. By 1978, the Zionist Organization of Canada had ceased to function as an organization.

Scope and Content

The Zionist Organization of Canada (ZOC) records span a 70 year period between 1908, with the formation of the Toronto Zionist Council (and its affiliated corporation, the United Zionists of Toronto) and the creation of the Zionist Organization of Canada in 1921, until 1978. The bulk of the records in the fonds were created after 1950.

The fonds is organized into two sous-fonds and eight record series. The sous-fonds contain records of the ZOC Central Region and the Toronto Zionist Council, which exercised considerable autonomy in their work under the ZOC umbrella. The record series include records relating to: ZOC's executive bodies, the National Administrative Council and Executive Board, and their predecessor, the Executive Committee of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada (1919-1976); the National Camps Association, responsible for overseeing the administration of summer camps owned by ZOC (1961-1968); Canadian Young Judaea, the youth wing of ZOC which was also responsible for the operation of ZOC summer camps (1957-1978); the ZOC Department of Education and Culture's cable television programme, Shalom (1971-1977); ZOC national conventions (1946-1975); the Federated Zionist Organization of Canada, of which ZOC became a member organization on its formation in 1967 (1972-1978); and the 28th World Zionist Congress held in 1972. The fonds also includes a series of subject files, the primary recordkeeping system for ZOC's administration, and a series of photographs of prominant persons and events maintained by ZOC for its public relations work.

Notes

Physical description note: Includes: ca. 1100 photographs (b&w and col.; some negatives), 24 embossed prints, 3 film reels (col., Super 8 mm), and 1 videocassette (col., VHS).

Associated material note: Additional records of the Zionist Organization of Canada can be found at the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives (Montreal), Library & Archives Canada (Ottawa), and the World Zionist Organization's Central Zionist Archives (Jerusalem)

Name Access

Zionist Organization of Canada

Subjects

Zionism

Access Restriction

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

Creator

Zionist Organization of Canada (1921-1978)

Source

Archival Descriptions