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Blanche Haber - 18 Dec. 1987
- Name
- Blanche Haber
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 18 Dec. 1987
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Blanche Haber
- Number
- OH 189
- Subject
- Boardinghouses
- Families
- Immigrants--Canada
- Occupations
- Interview Date
- 18 Dec. 1987
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Kaylee Gollom Miller
- Total Running Time
- Side 1 - 31 minutes Side 2 - 31 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Blanche Haber (née Heller) was born in a small town in Russia in 1893. She came to Toronto at age eight. Her father worked as a peddler. She married Isadore Haber in 1915. Three of her five children died from illness in their childhood. Before her marriage, Blanche worked as a seamstress. Isadore worked as a tailor, primarily for Eaton's. Like her mother, Blanche took boarders into her home at 112 Parliament Street once married.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Name Access
- Haber, Blanche, 1893-1994
- Haber, Isadore, 1887-1982
- Manischewitz (family)
- Geographic Access
- Halifax (N.S.)
- Parliament Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 189 Haber\OH 189 notes.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Blanche Haber describes taking boarders into her mother’s and her own home at 112 Parliament Street.
In this clip, Blanche Haber fondly remembers the warm relationship that developed between her family and the Manischewitz family. She explains that Joe Manischewitz boarded at her family’s home while his family built a matzah factory in Toronto.
