- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936-1941
- Physical Description
- 5 folders of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of textual records documenting the activities of JCWA's executive director. Included is a report, book review, correspondence, and speeches.
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two speeches delivered by JCWA's Executive Director at various events. Included is one speech delivered at a Big Sister Committee Luncheon, and one speech delivered at both a United Jewish Welfare Fund annual meeting and a B'nai Brith meeting.
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936-1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of the Executive Director's general correspondence.
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an Activity and Financial Report submitted to the Board of Trustees.
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1933-1943
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of textual records documenting the activities of the JFWB's executive director. Included is correspondence, reports, and meeting notices.
- Repro Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing some of the records.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1933-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of reports written by the JFWB's Executive Director documenting the agency's structure, activities, policies, and services. Of particular note are reports outlining the effects of the Second World War on the agency's services. These reports were likely presented to the JFWB's Board of Directors.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1934-1938
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of meeting notices for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Board of Management meetings.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1933-1938
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of general correspondence between the JFWB's Executive Director and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies's Executive Director.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1938-1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of textual records documenting the involvement of JFWB's Executive Director on the United Jewish Welfare Fund's Council of Exectives. Included is general correspondence, meeting notices and minutes, and a report.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence between the JFWB's Executive Director and other United Jewish Welfare Fund agencies in Division I of the organization.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1932-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of general correspondence of the JFWB's Executive Director.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 30 May 1940
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence between the JFWB's executive director and president.
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 2
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1934-1935
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence between the JFWB's Executive Director and Toronto's Commissioner of Public Welfare regarding the provision of relief to single unemployed men and women. Also included is one Department of Public Welfare account voucher.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of general correspondece of the United Jewish Welfare Fund's Division I.
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds
- Executive director series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 86
- Series
- 2
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Jan. 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a book review of "Social Case Work with Children - Studies in Structure and Process".
- Accession Number
- 2004-1-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Executive Director series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1936-2000
- Physical Description
- 2.2 m of textual records
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 16 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The executive director is responsible for the administration and management of the Board of Jewish Education, including its committees. During the 1950s, the executive director was one of five staff members, along with a school consultant, assistant director (i.e., administrative assistant to the executive director), secretary stenographer, and stenographer. In the 1960s and 1970s, as the Jewish education system in Toronto grew, additional positions were created to assist the executive director, including an associate director, director of school finances, and later, the director of educational technology.
- The responsibilities of the executive director have included the supervision of administrative and professional staff, assembling board and committee agendas, planning new projects, recruiting and hiring of new personnel, monitoring the availability of scholarships and bursaries for students pursuing higher Jewish education, consulting with teachers and principals of subsidized schools on such matters as curriculum and professional development, acting as the BJE representative in dealings with government agencies and other organizations, and public relations and education activities like conferences and media interviews. The executive director is an ex officio member of many BJE committees and other organizations, such as the Principals Council.
- The executive director liaises with the schools on inter-school activities such as the Bible Contest and Jewish Book Month Contest, works with the Midrasha Board of Governors in the preparation and supervision of its curriculum and budget, consults with staff at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT), and assists in the administration of the Israel study programs. The executive director has also carried the title of director of CHAT, stemming from the initial founding of the school by the UJWF. This position has involved serving on the board of directors of CHAT, dealing with staff needs, helping determine policies and plans for the school, and reviewing the school's budget and operations. The executive director has been the dean of the Midrasha L'Morim since its establishment in 1953.
- Dr. Joseph Diamond was the first executive director of the BJE, serving in this position for 18 years. In 1969, Rabbi Irwin E. Witty became executive director and served in this position for 28 years. In 1997 and 1998, Rabbi Dr. Jeremiah Unterman held the position. In 1999, Dr. Seymour Epstein became executive director of the BJE and, as of 2006, also holds the position of Vice-President for Jewish Education, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
- Scope and Content
- This series documents the executive directors' work with the UJWF Study Committee on Jewish Education in the early 1970s, and with agencies of the municipal, provincial and federal governments to secure funding for Jewish schools. The series also documents the executive director's public relations work on behalf of the BJE, through public speaking engagements and radio programs and the recruitment and hiring of teachers and principals for the various schools. The series contains personal correspondence of Dr. Diamond and Rabbi Witty, which they kept in the BJE's filing system and contain some references to their work as executive director.
- The series is organized into four sub-series: Personal correspondence and writings, Government aid to schools, United Jewish Welfare Fund Study Committee on Jewish Education, and Teacher files.
- Related Material
- Please note that much of the material in other series of the fonds -- especially the Subject files (series 4), School files (series 5) and Chronological correspondence (series 6) -- include records created or accumulated by the executive director in his work on BJE projects and programs.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Executive Director series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 61
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- architectural drawing
- Date
- 1936-1993
- Physical Description
- 2.66 m of textual records (12 v.) and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- The role of the executive director was to oversee the administrative operations of the YM-YWHA, including staffing and personnel, budgetary activities, maintenance, programming, special events and festival celebrations, membership, community outreach and fundraising activities.
- Although a staff position, the executive director was also a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, as acting secretary. As such, the executive director was responsible for attending and taking the minutes at all committee meetings, and for the collection and maintenance of all official files documenting the activities of the YM-YWHA, and later, the Jewish Community Centres. The executive director also acted as executive director of the Jewish Camp Council, which operated out of the Bloor and Spadina YM-.YWHA building.
- In the late 1940s, George Horrowitz was the YM-YWHA's executive director, and in 1952, David Andrews succeeded him. Andrews served as executive director until 1976, at which point he became executive vice-president and Martin Park, his former assistant, succeeded him as executive director. Sid Brail became the executive director in 1979.
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of the records created and collected by the office of the executive director of the YM-YWHA and the Jewish Community Centre of Toronto. The records include operating files, correspondence, financial records, program material, reports, photographs, course registration ledgers and architectural drawings.
- The records are organized alphabetically as subject files, which reflects the original arrangement of the records. The exceptions are the financial reports, the course registration ledgers and the architectural plans, which were maintained separately.
- The records have been arranged into the following sub-series: subject files, financial reports, architectural drawings and Y-Arts Council registration ledgers.
- Notes
- Includes 142 photographs, 41 architectural drawings, 2 artifacts and 2 posters.
- Arrangement
- As the executive director oversaw operations at both the Bloor and Spadina branch and the northern branch of the YM-YWHA, the records relating to both branches were filed together. There has been no attempt made to separate the records of the individual branches.
- Creator
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-2
- 1988-11-7
- 1983-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Executive director series
- Teacher files sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 2-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936-1983
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The BJE was responsible for recruiting, hiring and dismissing teachers and principals at the request of the various schools, for setting codes of practice, and for establishing salary scales in accordance with provincial standards. As such, it was the responsibility of the executive director to perform these tasks and maintain the appropriate files. The executive director worked closely with the Jewish Teacher’s Alliance, which represented the teachers, specifically when dealing with salary, pension and discipline issues. The Personnel Committee was often consulted on matters of importance and for making procedural and other decisions on topics such as personnel budgeting, grievances or other problem cases, and when dealing with the Jewish Teacher’s Alliance. Any teacher appointed to a school had to be made in consultation with and approved by the BJE. This procedure had been in place since the BJE’s founding in 1950 until the late 1970s or early 1980s.
- Scope and Content
- The series contains teacher personnel records, organized alphabetically by the teacher's name. The files include resumes and teacher applications; employment records indicating affiliated school, salary, days absent and other administrative information; BJE questionnaires; information on work visas and related government requirements; correspondence to and from the BJE Executive Director regarding performance, special citations or awards, and school placements; letters of reference from past employers; and on occasion, grievance letters to the UJWF, BJE Executive Director and BJE Personnel Committee.
- There are also several files documenting the recruitment of Israeli teachers for schools in Toronto, which include applications and resumes, correspondence between the BJE Executive Director and the Jewish schools in Toronto, as well as representatives of the Jewish Agency and other organizations in Israel.
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions