File contains correspondence regarding a special Operation Exodus Haggadah for Passover 1990 which included an insert, created by the Walk for Israel Committee, with a fifth question to be asked at Passover seders that year. The question relates to the year's campaign theme, Operation Exodus, which focussed on the emigration of Soviet Jews from the U.S.S.R. to Israel.
File consists of two unique volumes with cover illustration "Quilt of the Ten Plagues" and biographies of notable Jewish women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Subjects
Passover
Repro Restriction
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File consists of correspondence between the Holocaust Remebrance Committee and a respondent to a request for information about a Holocaust survivor, Moshe Arends.
Accession consists of material pertaining to the Labour League's 10th anniversary [ca.1944] and the League's successor organization - United Jewish People's Order, including material from it's Fourth National Convention in 1954. There is memorabilia documenting asociated camps Kinderland and Naivelt. Included are newsletters, flyers, and newspaper clippings, and sketches. The photographs feature UJPO schools with children in classrooms.
Administrative History
In 1936 the Labour League (later the United Jewish People's Order) bought Eldorado Park near Brampton, Ontario from the Canadian National Railway to establish Camp Naivelt. It functioned as a camp for children and families and ran a teacher training facility.
Accession consists of volume six of UJPO News. According to UJPO president Jack Cowan, "This issue of the Order News contains materials of our Seventh National Convention held in Montreal." In addition to the President Speaks feature, the issue contains an article by Dave Ship titled "Our Convention—A Montreal View." 5½ pages are in English, while 2½ pages are in Yiddish.
Use Conditions
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Descriptive Notes
Language: English, Yiddish.
Availability of other formats: Item has been digitized.
File consists of records documenting J. B. Salsberg's involvement in the United Jewish People's Order (UJPO). Included is correspondence, reports, statements, and a national convention agenda. Also included is a twenty-fifth anniversary booklet of Toronto's Morris Winchevsky Schools, which contains a message from Salsberg.
4 photographs : b&w (2 negatives) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
The file consists of mounted display photographs of the book Pictorial History of the Jewish People by Nathan Ausubel. The file also includes the photographic negatives of the mounted display photographs.
60 cm of graphic material (ca. 700 photographs and 24 embossed prints)
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
The series consists of photographs taken at public events and portraits of Zionist Organization of Canada officers, prominent members of the Jewish community, and dignitaries from Canada, Israel, and the U.S. These photographs were used for publicity purposes by ZOC and were made available to the press through ZOC press releases.
Some of the files in the series include press releases, biographical information on the subjects of the photographs, or caption information for the photographs.
Accession consists of a pamphlet in English and Yiddish entitled "No Gentlemen - We Will Not Be Silenced". This is a statement of the National Executive of the United Jewish People's Order to the Jewish people in Canada protesting German rearmament and release of Nazi war criminals and UJPO's opposition to the Canadian Jewish Congress' support for the rearmament.
Administrative History
The United Jewish People's Order is a nation-wide fraternal, cultural, and educational organization which offers medical benefits, educational opportunities, and cultural centres and activities. The organization began as the Labour League in 1926 and changed its name to UJPO in 1945.
28 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 25 x 21 cm and smaller
Scope and Content
File consists of twenty-seven photographs of various CJC events and staff members. Photographs include:
1. A formal group portrait of I. Ackerman of Niagara Falls, ON; Mrs. M. Lerman, of Port Colborne, ON, Dr. J. Ennis of Welland, ON and Mr. Victor Seton, taken in March 1961.
2. A group photograph of young Jewish boys in front of Otzar Torah school in Tehran, featuring Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg and Rabbi Levy, the director of the school.
3. A group photograph of men at the [Nojuk?] synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, featuring Myer Gasner in a fedora hat with two rabbis.
4. A portrait of Mrs. Abe Levine [Edythe?], with negative.
5. Myer Gasner and J. Helpert
6. Portrait of M. Menachovsky
7. Portrait of Erin Schneider, dressed in a heavy belted tweed coat
8. Portrait of David Lipson from the CJC Lecture Bureau.
9. Portrait of [Henkle?] [Brantford?]
10. Portrait of Robert R. Robinson, Director of Education and Alcoholism Research Foundation of Ontario, dated Feb. 16, 1956.
11. Portrait of Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Executive Assistant of J.D.C., dated March 1964.
12. Group of panelists and speaker, including Dr. Julius Ennis of Welland, ON.; Julius Hayman of Toronto,ON; Rabbi Richard Belson of St. Catharines, ON; Rabbi J.B. Friedberg of London, ON and Mrs. Bert (Esther) Cooper of Toronto, ON.
13. Group portrait of young women on auditorium stage with audience
14. Al Brown and Mrs. AL. Kakaten of Kirkland Lake, ON, sitting on a chesterfield, dated June, 1961.
15. Rabbis W. Gunther Plaut, Erwin Schild and Albert Pappenheim at a press conference, June 6, 1972
16. Group photograph of two women and three men at the International Council of Jewish Women, held at St. Catharines, ON in June 1961, including Frances Wintrob of Toronto. The central figure has been cut out.
17. Group photograph of young people from small towns in Ontario, including Stanely Kaiken of Kitchener, ON; Blythe Acker of Guelph, ON; Beverly Rothberg of Brantford, ON; Melvin Lichtenberg of Guelph, ON; David Spring of Galt, ON; and Mrs. E. Haken of London, ON.
18. Group of conveners of meeting of young people from small towns in Ontario, including Mrs. J. Lieberman, Mrs. M.J. Hoffman, Mrs. S. Brown and Mrs. F. Steinhouse of Kitchener, ON.
19. Group of panelists and speaker, including Rabbi Gedalia Felder, two unidentified women in hats and an unidentified speaker.
20. John D. Fienberg of Toronto speaking at a podium with Moses J. Levitt sitting at table, dated 1961, possibly at a Jewish Defense Fund.
21. Group portrait of lawyer Fred Catzman and Norman Cowan and two unidentified men sitting in an office.
22. Portrait of Chaim Finkelstein of Argentina standing at a podium.
23. Portrait of Isaac Toubin, Executive Director of the American Association for Jewish Education.
24. Group portrait of CJC staff meeting with the West German Consulate regarding the Statutes of Limitation, including nine unidentified men
25. Myer Gasner, Rabbi Walter Wurzberger, Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg and Morry Wingold touring a workshop with five women in headscarves and one man preparing flatbread.
26. Portrait of Rev. Keith Kiddell on the telephone.
27. Portrait of Governor General, Georges Vanier in uniform.
Repro Restriction
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Physical Condition
Some photographs are torn, scratched and contain finger prints and smudges.
The following caption appears on verso: "23rd Anniversary of the Execution of the Soviet-Jewish Intellectuals, August 12, 1975 8:00pm, Beth Tzedec Synagogue Toronto, Ontario. Israel Emiot, Yiddish Poet and Writer from Rochester, New York, addressing the gathering."
Notes
Physical description: Photographer's stamp on verso.
Availability of other formats: Also available as a TIFF file and a JPEG file.
Name Access
Emiot, Israel
Subjects
Poets, Yiddish
Speeches, addresses, etc
Repro Restriction
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File consists of a program, Task Force newsletter, copy of a newsclipping, and photographs related to the task force on Jewish people with disabilties, co-sponsored by the NCJW, Toronto Section.
Jack Cowan was a founder of the Canadian Jewish Outlook and former president of the United Jewish Peoples' Order.
Sol Kanee (1909–2007) was a Canadian lawyer who served as president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1971 to 1974.
Scope and Content
Item is a translation of an article that appeared in the Vochenblatt on 14 May 1969. The article is largely a criticism of Ben "B. G." Kayfetz, who the author accuses of McCarthyism on account of his characterization of the United Jewish Peoples' Order (UJPO) as a "communist front organization." The article touches on the circumstances leading up to UJPO's exclusion from the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Notes
General: Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
Name Access
Kayfetz, Ben, 1916-2002
United Jewish People's Order
Subjects
Communism
Repro Restriction
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3 architectural drawings : pencil and hand col., watercolour, on verso of blueprints ; 38 cm length or smaller and 4 cm diam.
Scope and Content
File consists of three high quality drawings of the interior and exterior of "My Valet", a single storey clothing store located at 1492 1/2 Bathurst Street for Mr. C. W. Fountain.
Repro Restriction
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Dr. Murray Simon was a Toronto dentist who married Sylvia Yolles, the daughter of L.S. Yolles who owned the Park Plaza.
Scope and Content
This item is a group portrait. From left: [unknown man], [unknown woman], Murray Simon, [unknown woman], [unknown man], [unknown woman], [unknown woman].
Notes
This image has no proofs.
Subjects
Dentists
Portraits, Group
Repro Restriction
Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
Item is a statement issued following a meeting of the National Executive Board of the United Jewish Peoples Order, which was held on 8 May [1956?] "to discuss the fate of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union." The statement appears (in full) first in English and then in Yiddish.
Notes
Availability of other formats: Item has been digitized.
Name Access
United Jewish People's Order
Subjects
Jews--Soviet Union
Repro Restriction
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This is a family snapshot, taken outdoors in bright sunlight. Residential buildings and tree foliage can be seen in the background. Pictured are, left to right: Florence Roth (née Kamarner), Harry Graner, [unknown?], Jack Kamarner, [unknown?], and the shoulder of another unknown person (cut off by frame).
In August 1959, the Ed Sullivan show travelled to the USSR and taped a show in Moscow titled, "Invitation to Moscow". It aired September 27, 1959. Sylvia Schwartz photographed the show as she was in Moscow at the time.
Acts that were featured at the show included the Barry Sisters (vocal group), Margaret Tynes (opera singer) and Hubert Castle (tight-wire aerialist).
Clara and Minnie Barry were popular American Jazz and Klezmer entertainers of the 1940s to the early 1970s. Born in the Bronx, New York in a Yiddish-speaking home to a Russian-born father and a mother from Vienna, when the sisters decided to entertain by singing in Yiddish, their father told them they would need to do it in the manner of the Old World and not with American accents. The young girls got their first break as singers on WLTH Radio's "Uncle Norman" show for children and were then known as The Bagelman Sisters. They made their first recordings with RCA Records in the late 1930s and began to make a name for themselves as Yiddish jazz singers.
When the Andrews Sisters' version of the Yiddish song, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön", became a hit, musician and composer Sam Medoff started his "Yiddish Melodies in Swing" radio program on New York's WHN. Before joining the radio show, the sisters made a change of their stage surname from Bagelman to Barry. From 1937 until the mid-1950s they performed on the program, where they would sing jazz recordings in the Yiddish language. Their recordings included popular tunes, such as "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head" translated into Yiddish (Trop'ns Fin Regen Oif Mein Kop). They also performed in the New York Catskills resort hotels. They eventually toured with Mickey Katz.During the height of their popularity, they even made appearances on the Ed Sullivan and Jack Paar shows and were one of the few American acts to tour the Soviet Union in 1959. The sisters also entertained Israeli troops during the Yom Kippur War.
Hubert Castle, born Hal Silvers, was a tightrope walker for Ringling Brothers for 20 years and owned his own circus. Born and raised in Oklahoma until the age of 14, he married Mary "Bunny" Tanner, and had two children, Hal Junior and Jan.
Margaret Tynes is an African-American opera, concert and oratorio soprano and singing actress. She earned a Bachelors Degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Tynes continued her studies at Julliard School in New York City and later earned a Masters in Music Education from Columbia University. She has performed in the United States, Canada and throughout Europe. She has appeared with leading opera companies of the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Staatsoper. Her roles range from Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Carmen (Carmen), Aida (Aida) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas). She gained international acclaim for her role as Salome at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. She became the first American to perform behind the Iron Curtain when she went to Russia with Ed Sullivan for the U.S. State Department.
Scope and Content
Item consists of a group portrait of the Barry Sisters, Hubert Castle and Margeret Tynes onstage with an unidentified man and woman, all waving American flags.
Notes
This item has no proofs. This item shares a negative with F80_s6_f3_i2.
Subjects
Portraits, Group
Repro Restriction
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