- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [ca. 1900]-2000
- Physical Description
- 37 cm of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Sol Edell had a large family and a large circle of friends and aquaintenances. Consequently, he was invited to many circumcisions, weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs. He also set up several memorial funds in memory of his sister and wives.There are also documents in this sub-series that relate to family members.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of correspondence, receipts, diplomas, photographs and films documenting various family celebrations, vacations and home life. There is a selection of invitations, cards and benchers sent by the Edell, Weinstock and Hoffman families as well as ones that they received from family and friends. In addition, there are newspaper clippings and notices of the deaths of Edell family members and friends as well as correspondence and receipts relating to memorial funds set up in their memory. The sub-series also contains films of family and friends taken at home, on vacation and at family celebrations.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes 10 photographs, 7 film reels, and 1 audio reel.
- Name Access
- Hoffman family
- Weinstock family
- Edell, Dolly
- Edell, Celia
- Subjects
- Families
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- 1952-[ca. 1965]
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 30 min.) : col. and b&w, si. ; 16 mm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a film reel containing footage of Sol and Dolly Edell's wedding reception as well as family vacations in the United States of America. Wedding footage includes shots of the greeting line, dancing, and guests socializing at the reception. Vacation footage includes shots of landmarks around Washington D.C. and Miami, Florida. Also included is footage of a family relaxing by a pool likely at a Miami hotel.
- Notes
- Title on film can was "Sol / Dolly Edell Wedding / Vacation / Home"
- During processing, film was assigned reel #12.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Date
- [197-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 audio reel (2 hr., 56 min., 38 sec.) : polyester, 3 3/4 ips, 4 tracks, mono ; 1/4 in.
- Admin History/Bio
- Dr. Judah Goldwasser was a research chemist in the Synthesis and Formations Branch of the Naval Surface Weapons Centre in the United States of America. He earned his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. He married Sol Edell's daughter, Ethel.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of the recording of Ethel and Judah Goldwasser's orthodox wedding ceremony and reception. After the procession and kiddushin, Rabbi Mordechai, the groom's cousin, reads the ketubah, followed by the Sheva Brachot, recited by seven different Rabbis and male family members. The recording follows into the reception, at the Four Seasons Hotel, MC'ed by Aaron Weinstock, the bride's maternal uncle. He invites Solomon Rogen, father of Celia Rogen, Solomon Edell's second wife, to make the HaMotzi, followed by the introduction of the head table. After the formal start of the banquet, speeches follow, in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Speakers are: Harry Botnick, member of the presidium of Eitz Chaim, who presents a gift on its behalf; Aaron Weinstock; Rabbi Yitzchok Kerzner, of Clanton Park Synagogue; Rabbi Moses J. Burak, Rav of Beth Jacob Synagogue; Moishe Weinstock, the bride's maternal grandfather; Joseph Goldwasser, the groom's father; Solomon Edell, the bride's father; and Rabbi Samuel Schafler, the bride's paternal uncle. The speeches are followed by the Birkat Hamazon, after which more music is played until the end of the recording (interrupted).
- Notes
- Physical Descr.: Only tracks 1 and 2 are recorded.
- Subjects
- Marriage service
- Weddings
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Tape is tail out. Tape is in good condition. Audio quality is good. No signs of mold or SBS.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- [ca. 1972]
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 10 min.) : col., si. ; 8 mm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a film reel containing footage of a gangster themed home movie skit likely filmed by Sol Edell's children or step-children. Included are shots of young men driving in a car, pretending to have a gun fight on a residential street and pretending to dump a body in the forest.
- Notes
- During processing, assigned reel #22.
- Physical Condition
- A splice near the beginning of the film is damaged.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- [ca. 1972]
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 10 min.) : col., si. ; 8 mm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a film reel containing home movie footage of various Toronto scenes and a home movie skit likely filmed by Sol Edell's children and step-children based on the story of Frankenstein. The first few minutes includes footage of a woman walking down a Toronto street, a Lubavitch youth van, and various shots of Toronto from a moving car. This is followed by the Frankenstein skit, which includes scenes of Dr. Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant bringing the creature to life, the creature escaping from the laboratory, the creature climbing a tree and attacking people passing by, and various characters fighting the creature. The skit is filmed on a residential street.
- Notes
- During processing, reel was assigned reel #23.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- [21 Aug. 1956?]
- Physical Description
- 2 film reels (ca. 10 min.) : col., si. ; 8 mm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a home movie of Phyllis Freed's wedding in Toronto. Phyllis Freed was the granddaughter of Rabbi Joseph Weinreb and the daughter of Ruth (née Weinreb) Freed and Murray Freed (a pharmacist).
- Notes
- During processing, reels were assigned reel #13 & #15.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 6
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 4 min.) : col., si. ; 16 mm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a film reel containing home movie footage of an unidentified family celebration. Identified in the footage is Sol Edell, Dolly Edell, the Weinstock family, Ruth Freed, Murray Freed, Aaron Freed, Paul Edell, and the Kurtz family.
- Notes
- During processing, reel was assigned reel #17
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- moving images
- Date
- June 1954
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 4 min.) : col., si. ; 16 mm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a film reel containing home movie footage of the reception party for David Freed's bar mitzvah. David was the son of Ruth Free (née Weinreb) and Murray Freed. He was the grandson of Rabbi Joseph Weinreb.
- Notes
- During processing, reel was assigned reel #16
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]-[ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of family photographs. Included is a portrait of Rabbi Joseph Weinreb (ca. 1900), the first Eastern European Rabbi in Toronto and head of the Galacian community in Toronto, a portrait of Mrs. Weinberg (1921), and a photograph of Sol Edell's girlfriend, Lillian Hollinger at Niagara Falls (1948). Also included is a photograph of Sol's parents and Dolly Edell at an unidentified event, and of Sol's cousin, David Yaffe (third from the left), being honoured with colleagues upon retiring as a tailor from the ladies garment industry.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Family photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 1
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Rabbis
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]-[ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of unidentified photographs. Included is a graduation portrait of Melvin from Trinity College, an image of a couple in Atlantic City, two boys dressed in Russian costumes, Second World War soldiers boarding a St. Clair Streetcar in Toronto, a woman standing with her two sons, a portrait of a woman with the name Willy Lobel written on the bottom, and a shot of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip receiving flowers from a girl at a train station. These photographs may document the Edell, Weinstock, Hoffman, or Rogan families.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of textual records documenting the marriage of Sol Edell and Dolly Weinstock. Included are invitations, a list of people invited to the bridal shower, a greeting card, a bencher, and a scrapbook containing telegrams from well-wishers.
- Subjects
- Weddings
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1942-1961
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, death notices, and memorial service notices for Rabbi Joseph Weinreb.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1950]-[ca. 1961]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings documenting the activities of the Edell family. Included are articles regarding Clanton Park Synagogue, Belle Ewart, and Oshawa's B'nai Brith Lodge. Also included is a death notice for Malka Edell.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1961
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings documenting the activities of the Edell family and their friends. Included are articles regarding Clanton Park Synagogue and death notices for Berl Sapirstein, Duora Tenen, Yoshua Barsh and Leah Nobel.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978-1999
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of funeral cards and obituaries for the following individuals: Arje Krengel, Louis Kesten, Solomon Rogen, Louis Weisfeld, Rebecca Feldman, Joseph Hafner, Max Podolski, Lillian Troster, Jennie Silverberg, Philip Givens, Cheryl Kleinberg, Anna Shaul, and Moishe (Maurice) Weinstock.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1969-1975
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and an agreement documenting Jack Collins's application for the Jewish Home for the Aged and the payment of his account after being admitted. Mr. Collins was the uncle of Celia Edell.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1982
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of graduation programmes and correspondence regarding the Ethel Edell Prize at Harbord Collegiate Institute.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [1989?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of lyrics for songs that were written for the bar mitzvah of Yoel Micha Meir.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 15
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962-1997
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of bar and bat mitzvah invitations.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the celebrations can be found in the file.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Bat mitzvah
- Invitation cards
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1958-1999
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of wedding invitations.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the weddings can be found in the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 17
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1963]-1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of invitations and correspondence documenting the marriages, births, and bar mitzvahs of the Edell family. Also included are greeting cards that were sent to family and friends by the Edell family and that were given to Sol and Celia Edell from their children.
- Notes
- A finding aid listing the names, dates, and locations for the celebrations can be found in the file.
- Subjects
- Families
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 20
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [1969?], [1973?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of condolence cards and letters that were sent after the passing of Celia's mother, Sara Rogen. Also included are the thank you notes that Sol and his children sent out after Celia's passing.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 21
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1949-1995
- Physical Description
- 4 cm folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of benchers colleced by Sol Edell at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other events. Of note is a bencher from the dedication of the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation's dedication (1949), a bencher from Clanton Park Synagogue, and a souvenir bencher from the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.
- Name Access
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Shaarei Tefillah Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Synagogue dedication services
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1959-1998, predominant 1959-1982
- Physical Description
- 7 cm folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of benchers collected at the weddings and Bar Mitzvahs of members of Sol Edell's family.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 24
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Date
- [ca. 1920]-[ca. 1935]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 notebook cover : leather ; 20 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a business card and letterheads for the Royal Printing Company as well as a leather notebook cover for the United Paper Mills Limited with Paul Edell's name written on it.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 25
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1964-1968
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and a mortage indenture regarding the property at 478 Palmerston Blvd.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of condolence and donation cards and a list of individuals and organizations that sent condolences to the Edell family after Sol Edell's death.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Personal series
- Life cycle and family events sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 1-5
- File
- 27
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1926
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photocopies of Joseph Baruch Newman's passport. This passport was shared with his wife Gitel. They were the grandparents of Dolly Edell.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions