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Sheldon Kert
- Accession Number
- 1993-1-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-1-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1938-[ca.1980]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Goel Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto. Included are a script of a sisterhood play; copies of the religious-school newsletter Keren Ami; a program for Beth Tzedec's First Congregational (1955); a certificate for charter members of the North Toronto YMHA awarded to the law firm of Singer and Kert; a Young Judaea publication The Leader (1938), which includes a prize-winning address by Shelton Kert; and a menu from Old Ed's, one of Ed Mirvish's restaurants.
- Administrative History
- The Singer and Kert law partnership lasted from 1920-1965. Joseph Singer was a gold metalist at Osgoode Hall in 1911. He was the first Jewish Controller in Toronto, and legal adviser to the Primrose Club. At the time of his death in 1967 he had practiced law for 56 years.
- Lawrence Kert helped organize the Associated Hebrew Schools and the Oakdale Golf and Country Club. He was on the board of Goel Tzedec Synagogue. When he passed away in 1976 he had been a lawyer for 56 years.
- Name Access
- Kert, Sheldon
- Kert, Lawrence
- Singer, Joseph
- Goel Tzedec Synagogue
- Source
- Archival Accessions