- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee meeting agendas, minutes, reports and correspondence series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- text
- Date
- 1942-1998
- Physical Description
- ca. 3.3 metres of textual records
- 14 photographs
- 1 book
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of the correspondence, minutes, agendas, and reports of a wide variety of committees of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The bulk of the material relates to the CJC National and Ontario region executive committees, officers' committees, and plenary arrangements committees. Additional records relate to committees concerned with such topics as, small Jewish communities, culture, Holocaust remembrance, student campus services, education, finance and fundraising, kashruth, and Israel.
- Notes
- Files created by the United Jewish Relief Agencies have been removed and may now be found within Fonds 17, Series 4.
- Files created by the Committee for Soviet Jewry have been removed and may now be found within Fonds 17, Series 3
- Files created by the Joint Community Relations Committee have been removed and may now be found within fonds 17, Series 5.
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Some records are closed for conservation reasons.
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Committee meeting agendas and minutes sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1970-1988
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of agendas and minutes of meetings of 1), the Toronto Committee for Soviet Jewry (its best-known name) and its predecessors 2), The Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry, 3), the Committee for Soviet Jewry and 4), the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry. Each file title reflects the name of the creator committee at that time. With the exception of 1984, there are agendas and minutes for each year of committee activity until 1988, after which time the activities of the committee were considerably reduced. 1989 and 1990 committee meeting minutes were either not created or never transferred.
- Related Material
- Committee correspondence may be found at Fonds 17, Series 3, Sub-series 3-2
- Arrangement
- Files have been arranged in chronological order and by committee name.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28
- Series
- 5
- File
- 20
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1971-1975
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of a transcript of the remarks from the Parliamentary Dinner 1973, correspondence to community leaders, agendas of meetings, an analysis of 4 questions by Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, invitation to a national policy conference, promotional flyer concerning the 17th plenary assembly of Canadian Jewish Congress, and notes for an address given by Claude Wagner MP.
- Name Access
- Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut
- Source
- Archival Descriptions