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Yiddish Vinkl 13th anniversary meeting invitation
- Accession Number
- 2008-3-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-3-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 4 June 1992
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of an invitation to the 13th anniversary meeting of the organization which became known as the Yiddish Vinkl.
- Custodial History
- Invitation document originally sent to and property of group member David Greenspan, deceased husband of OJA donor Lisa Newman Greenspan.
- Administrative History
- The Yiddish Vinkl was an informal Toronto Yiddish-speaking dinner-club formed in 1980. Among the group’s original founders were well-know Toronto Jewish community leaders Ben Kayfetz and Bill Stern. Its first dinner meeting was held at Simpson’s Arcadian Court restaurant on 4 June 1980. Later venues included the Essex Park Hotel, the Lipa Green Building, Old Ed’s restaurant, and Toronto City Hall. The group, which currently had about sixty members as of 2008, now meets monthly at the Free Time Café. Between ten and twenty-five members attend each meeting.
- Descriptive Notes
- Document was removed from glass-covered metal frame in which it arrived, but maintained within acid-free cardboard mounting. Administrative history details supplied by Ethel Cooper, Coordinator, Committee for Yiddish.
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions