Accession Number

1981-1-7

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1936

Scope and Content

This accession consists of one photocopy of the diary of Sammy Luftspring, recounting an aborted trip to Barcelona, Spain for a competition during his boycott of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

2516

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Sammy Luftspring (1915–2000) was a professional boxer and Canadian welterwight champion. Luftspring married Elise and together they had two children, Brian and Orian.

Scope and Content

Sammy Luftspring was fourteen years old at the time of this photograph.

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Subjects

Boxers (Sports)

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-1-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

82

Material Format

multiple media

Date

1922-2000

Physical Description

2 scrapbooks ; 65 x 48 cm and 34 x 30 cm

Admin History/Bio

Sammy Luftspring was born on 14 May 1916 in Toronto's Ward neighbourhood. His parents were working-class Jews who emigrated from eastern Europe. Sammy began training as a youth at the Brunswick YMHA. He lived in Kensington Market and attended B'nai Brith summer camp as a youngster. In 1932 he started entering boxing matches. He competed in 105 fights and only lost five bouts, capturing the Golden Glove tournaments in weight classes ranging from bantamweight to welterweight. Sammy became famous for his fighting prowess and Jewish pride, always sporting a Star of David on his boxing shorts.

By 1933, he became the Ontario lightweight champion, representing the Elm Grove Athletic Club. That same year, he took part in the Christie Pits riot. Because of his accomplishments in the ring and his contribution to his community, he became a highly respected athlete within the Jewish community.

In 1936, he was selected for the Canadian team to take part in the Berlin Olympics that year. Although he was eager to compete, his parents and the community pressured him to boycott the games in protest over the Nazis' treatment of Jews in Germany. Luftspring and "Baby Yak," another famous local Jewish boxer, decided to participate instead in the alternate games in Barcelona, Spain, called the People's Olympics. After making the trip to Europe by ship, the two faced the disappointment of having the event cancelled after the Spanish Civil War broke out on the eve of the opening ceremonies.

After his return to Toronto, Luftspring began to box professionally. In 1938, he won the Canadian welterweight championship after a fifteen-round fight where he defeated Frank Genovese. He held the title for two years. During a fight in New York against Steve Belloise, Luftspring was poked in the eye, resulting in a detached retina. This injury left him blind in one eye, ending his boxing career.

By 1948, he began a new career as a boxing referee. He refereed for several decades, overseeing some of the most celebrated fights of that time. He also ran a nightclub in Toronto called the Mercury Club with three partners. It attracted famous entertainers such as Henry Youngman, Vic Damone, and Tony Bennett. He subsequently ran other nightclubs such as the Tropicana.

In addition to his boxing career, Sammy was also a devoted family man. He married his wife, Elsie, in 1938 at the McCaul Street synagogue. Three hundred and fifty people attended and hundreds waited outside of the synagogue to wish them well. They had two children: Brian and Orian.

His biography, Call Me Sammy, was published in 1975. Luftspring was given the great honour in 1985 of being inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He passed away on 27 September 2000.

Custodial History

The scrapbooks were created by Sammy Luftspring. He kept them at his house and when he passed away they were safeguarded by his son Brian.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of two scrapbooks that reflect Sammy Luftspring's personal life and various careers as a boxer, referee, author, and nightclub manager/owner. Scrapbooks contain correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings, brochures, autographs, coins, and approximately seven hundred photographs.

Personal records include photographs of Sammy and his family during his childhood, family weddings, trips and vacations, and other family events, such as birthday parties and his son's bar mitzvah. There are also letters and cards from Sammy's wife, children, grandchildren and friends, and other ephemeral items Sammy collected, such as ticket stubs from baseball games.

Professional records include images of Sammy training for upcoming boxing matches, portraits of Sammy posing in his boxing attire, images from the grand opening of the Mercury Club, photographs of Sammy as a referee, as well as photographs of Sammy at various celebrity boxing matches. There is also correspondence and a brochure documenting Sammy's incorporation into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and some correspondence regarding the publication and promotion of his book. Finally, there are numerous newspaper clippings relating to all of Sammy's professional endeavours.

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Subjects

Boxers (Sports)

Physical Condition

The scrapbooks are in poor condition. Many of the photographs, documents and clippings were glued to the pages and the pages have almost all fallen out of the bindings.

Related Material

1981-1-7

Arrangement

The scrapbooks have been kept intact and no arrangement has been done. However, some of the key images have been scanned and item level descriptions have been completed for them.

Creator

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6086

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1926]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Joseph Graner with his son, Irwin, changing a flat tire at the side of the road.

Name Access

Graner, Joseph

Graner, Irwin

Subjects

Fathers and sons

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1991-5-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Family series

Recreation sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

5-2

File

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm

Admin History/Bio

Herbert Solway received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1953 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1955. He was called to the Bar in 1957. Herbert was a founding member of Goodmans LLP, joining the firm in 1955. He has played a significant role in helping build the foundation of the firm, serving as its chair from 1980 to 1992. He served as a Chariman until 1994 and Partner until 1998. He continues to serve as Counsel to Goodmans. He was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in 1968.

Herbert has also been a Director of Gluskin Sheff and Associates Inc. since May 2006. He is a Director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a Founding director of the Tarragon Theatre Company. He was a Founding director of Sun Media Corporation, as well as a Director of John Labatt Ltd.

Gary Solway was born in 1957 and is the eldest son of Herbert Solway and Elaine Solway (née Basin) and the great-nephew of Sylvia Schwartz. He began his Bachelor of Commerce at Queen's University in 1976, completeing three years there and then finishing the degree in 1981, after doing his first year of a Bachelor of Laws at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in 1979-1980. He completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Toronto in 1983.

Gary was a Partner with Torys LLP firm from 1983 to 2006 until becoming the Co-Head of the Bennett Jones LLP firm's Private Equity Group and Managing Partner of the Technology, Media and Entertainment Group.

Gary speaks frequently at conferences on topics related to financing of technology businesses. A regular writer, he contributed a number of chapters to Directors' Duties in Canada, 5th Edition, published in Canada by CCH Canadian Limited in 2012, and the Ontario Corporations Law Guide, published in Canada by CCH Canadian Limited. Gary is also the secretary of the CVCA, Canada's venture capital and private equity association.

Scope and Content

This item is a portrait of Herbert and Gary Solway.

Notes

This item has no negative.

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Related Material

See Fonds 80, series 5 for more information and photographs on the Solway family.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

648

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1954

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Harry Lugen of Wardsville, Ontario, holding his son. He is standing in a garden, presumably in front of his home.

Notes

Acquired on May 20, 1976.

Name Access

Lugen, Harry

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Places

Wardsville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

27

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1955

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring with Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight boxing champion. Photograph was taken at the Mercury Club in Toronto.

Notes

Image is located on page 58 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Rocky Marciano and Sammy Luftspring were both managed by Al Weill during their respective careers.

Name Access

Marciano, Rocky, 1923-1969

Mercury Club (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Nightclubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4440

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1916 or 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Left to right: Joseph Lazarus (son, age nineteen), Samuel Lazarus (father), Rebecca Lazarus (daughter, age twelve or thirteen).

Name Access

Lazarus, Joseph

Lazarus, Rebecca

Lazarus, Samuel

Lazarus Tailoring and Dyeing Shop

Subjects

Fathers and daughters

Fathers and sons

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.

Places

Dundas Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-11-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1940

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the Luftspring family at the Slipia Synagogue Section of Dawes Road Cemetery in Scarborough, Ontario. Sammy's mother, Bella Luftspring, passed away on 24 March 1940. The family is standing around her grave stone. Sammy Luftspring is seen on the left side of the image.

Notes

Image is located on page 35 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

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.

Places

Scarborough (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3261

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1950?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 8 x 5 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original print and copy negative of Philip Fingold holding with his son, Douglas, in front of the Capitol Theatre in Meaford, Ontario.

Name Access

Capitol Theatre (Meaford, Ont.)

Fingold, Douglas

Fingold, Philip

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Theaters

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.

Places

Meaford (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-6-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1505

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1921]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Jacob Hurvitz and his daughter Florence standing in front of the Western Furniture Exchange on Queen St. West in Toronto.

Name Access

Hurvitz, Florence

Hurvitz, Jacob

Western Furniture Exchange (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Storefronts

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.

Places

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-2-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

URL

http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Themed-Topics/Sammy-Luftspring

Source

OJA Website

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1922

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring at age six at the family home on Baldwin Street in Toronto. Sammy is holding two puppies.

Notes

Image is located on page 27 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook

Subjects

Boys

Puppies

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.

Places

Baldwin Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

This photograph of Sammy Luftspring was taken while he was a junior counselor at Camp B'nai Brith in Orillia, Ontario.

Notes

Image is located on page 50 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Camp B'nai Brith (Orillia, Ont.)

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.

Places

Orillia (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

18

Material Format

graphic material

Date

6 Nov. 1938

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a wedding photograph of Elsie and Sammy Luftspring. Taken at the McCaul Street Synagogue (Beth Hamidrash Hagadol) on 6 November 1938.

Notes

Image is located on Page 17c of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

McCaul Street Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Weddings

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.

Places

McCaul Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

25

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1952

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring performing with the Nat King Trio at Yeshiva Hall, location unknown.

Notes

Image is located on page 30 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Come out fighting scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

2

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Oct. 1974

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring performing at the opening of the Oriental Palace, a club in Toronto that Sammy often hosted at.

Notes

Image is located on Page 4 of the 34 x 30 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Oriental Palace (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Nightclubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2517

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Sammy Luftspring (b.1915-d.2000) was a professional boxer and Canadian Welterwight Champion. Luftspring married Elise and together they had two children, Brian and Orian.

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Subjects

Boxers (Sports)

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-1-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Group photograph of Sammy Luftspring and his campers while Sammy was a junior counsellor at Camp B'nai Brith in Orillia, Ontario. Also pictured is Neddie Adler, another counsellor.

Notes

Image is located on page 50 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Camp B'nai Brith (Orillia, Ont.)

Subjects

Camps

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.

Places

Orillia (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 tintype

Scope and Content

Item is a tintype of Sammy Luftspring and Elsie Goldman (m. Luftspring) at Sunnyside Beach. This photograph was taken while they were still dating. They married in 1938. Item would have been produced as a souvenir.

Notes

Image is located on page 13 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Subjects

Couples

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.

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

The People's Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain was intended as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly-elected, left-wing Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host its own games following its election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world. Buildings built for the 1929 World's Fair were supposed to be used for an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from 19 July to 26 July and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games.

A total of 6,000 athletes from twenty-two nations registered for the games, including boxers Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack from Canada.

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and Communist parties, and other left-wing groups rather than by state-sponsored committees. Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack were sent with donations from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just as the games were to begin, the alternate games were cancelled.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring mid-ocean aboard the SS Alaunia on route to Barcelona and the People's Olympics.

Notes

Image is located on page 2 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Barcelona (Spain)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

29

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1971

Physical Description

1 photograph : col.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring, Muhammed Ali, and Murray Pezim in Vancouver. Murray Pezim was a Vancouver business person and promoter. He had organized the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Chavulo, the event at which the photograph was taken.

Notes

Image is located on page 29 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016

Pezim, Murray, 1921-1998

Subjects

Businesspeople

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Vancouver (B.C.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4812

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia

Admin History/Bio

Lou Roseman was a relative of Ray Havelock, Toronto.

Name Access

Roseman, Lou

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Fur trade

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-10-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Zwetnick, Yossel & Sore

Page Number

270

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Jack "Spider" Armstrong was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but he made Toronto his home. He became the featherweight chamption of the world in 1940. He died in 1990.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy and Jack "Spider" Armstrong play-boxing at the Palliser Hotel in Calgary while on a boxing tour.

Notes

Image is located on page 50 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Armstrong, Jack

Fairmont Palliser Hotel (Calgary, Alta.)

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.

Places

Calgary (Alta.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

The People's Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain was intended as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly-elected, left-wing Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host its own games following its election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world. Buildings built for the 1929 World's Fair were supposed to be used for an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from 19 July to 26 July and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games.

A total of 6,000 athletes from twenty-two nations registered for the games, including boxers Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack from Canada.

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and Communist parties, and other left-wing groups rather than by state-sponsored committees. Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack were sent with donations from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just as the games were to begin, the alternate games were cancelled.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring aboard the SS Alaunia on route to the People's Olympics in Barcelona.

Notes

Image is located on page 22 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Barcelona (Spain)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring at Niagara-on-the-Lake when he was serving with the reserves as a trainer. He was a member of the Toronto Scottish Regiment. He was unable to enlist for active duty because of the injury to his eye and resulting blindness. As a result, his only participation in the World War II was as a trainer in Ontario.

Notes

Image is located on page 15c of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Niagara-on-the-Lake (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

26

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy, Elsie, and Brian Luftspring at Brian's bar mitzvah at the Barclay Hotel, Toronto.

Notes

Image is located on page 55 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Barclay Hotel (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Bar mitzvah

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1493

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1922

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Phillip Clarfield and his son Morris in front of their mens clothing store at 3124 Dundas St. W., in the West Toronto Junction.

Name Access

Clarfield, Morris

Clarfield, Phillip

Subjects

Fathers and sons

Men's clothing

Storefronts

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.

Places

West Toronto Junction (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4033

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1947 or 1948]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Benjamin Barsh was the music director for the Standard Theatre and played viola with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Joseph Barsh with his son Preston Barsh. The photograph was taken in front of Standard Barber Shop, which was owned by Joseph's father Joshua and mother Gittel. In the background is Goldenberg's Restaurant, Shopsowitz', and the Victory Theatre.

Subjects

Conductors (Music)

Fathers and sons

Streets

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.

Places

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-3-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

URL

http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Blog/Sammy-Luftspring-Albums-The-Conservation-Project

Source

OJA Website

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Davey Paul (né Peters) was born in 1916. He was a Canadian featherweight boxer who boxed from 1935 to 1938. Paul won Canadian Golden Gloves flyweight title in 1935. He is a member of the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame and had over fifty professional fights in his career. He also was a physical training officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. After the war he went into the retail business. He died in 1998.

Scope and Content

Item is of three boxers photographed together.

Notes

Image is located on page 32 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1937

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Sammy Luftspring in what is known as a "ready pose" in boxing: he has one foot behind him and his fists up. He is pictured in the backyard of his family home on Nassau Street in Toronto.

Notes

Image is located on page 50 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2514

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Sammy Luftspring (b.1915-d.2000) was a professional boxer and Canadian Welterwight Champion. Luftspring married Elise and together they had two children, Brian and Orian.

Scope and Content

Item consists of a copy of an advertisement for Adam Hat, featuring Welterweight Champion of Canada Sammy Luftspring.

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Subjects

Boxers (Sports)

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-1-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

The People's Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain was intended as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly-elected, left-wing Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host its own games following its election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world. Buildings built for the 1929 World's Fair were supposed to be used for an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from 19 July to 26 July and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games.

A total of 6,000 athletes from twenty-two nations registered for the games, including boxers Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack from Canada.

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and Communist parties, and other left-wing groups rather than by state-sponsored committees. Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack were sent with donations from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just as the games were to begin, the alternate games were cancelled.

Scope and Content

Photograph features Sammy Luftspring with an unknown child on his way to Barcelona to participate in the People's Olympics aboard the SS Alaunia.

Notes

Image is located on page 17 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Subjects

Children

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.

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

28

Material Format

graphic material

Date

10 May 1971

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring refereeing a fight between George Chuvalo and Jimmy Ellis at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Notes

Image is located on page 18 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Chuvalo, George, 1937-

Ellis, Jimmy, 1940-2014

Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd.

Subjects

Boxing matches

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Come out fighting scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

2

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

9 Jun. 1922

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Luftspring family. Picture was taken at the Cecil Street Synagogue to mark the wedding of Max Lightstone and Goldie Grossman.

Front row (left to right) are: Jean, Freida, Sammy. Back row (left to right) are: Annie, Bella Luftspring (Sammy's mother), Pearl, Sammy's grandfather, Molly, Sammy's grandmother, Clara, Yossel Luftspring (Sammy's father), Rose.

Notes

General: Image is located on page 28 of the 34 x 30 cm scrapbook.

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Weddings

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.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

The People's Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain was intended as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly-elected, left-wing Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host its own games following its election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world. Buildings built for the 1929 World's Fair were supposed to be used for an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from 19 July to 26 July and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games.

A total of 6,000 athletes from twenty-two nations registered for the games, including boxers Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack from Canada.

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and Communist parties, and other left-wing groups rather than by state-sponsored committees. Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack were sent with donations from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just as the games were to begin, the alternate games were cancelled.

Scope and Content

Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack aboard the SS Alaunia en route to Barcelona and the People's Olympics.

Notes

Image is located on page 24 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Barcelona (Spain)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

The People's Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain was intended as a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin during the period of Nazi rule. The newly-elected, left-wing Popular Front government in Spain decided to boycott the Berlin Olympics and host its own games following its election in February 1936. Invitations were made to the nations of the world. Buildings built for the 1929 World's Fair were supposed to be used for an Olympic Village. The games were scheduled to be held from 19 July to 26 July and would have therefore ended six days prior to the start of the Berlin games.

A total of 6,000 athletes from twenty-two nations registered for the games, including boxers Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack from Canada.

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and Communist parties, and other left-wing groups rather than by state-sponsored committees. Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack were sent with donations from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just as the games were to begin, the alternate games were cancelled.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring and Norman "Baby" Yack in a casual boxing match on route to Barcelona for the People's Olympics aboard the SS Alaunia.

Notes

Image is located on Page 11 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Subjects

Boxing matches

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.

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

19

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy celebrating his knockout win over Frank Genovese, earning him the title of Canadian welterweight champion. He is pictured with Playfair Brown (a fight promoter) and Uncle Doc Cooke (Sammy's manager) at Union Station in Toronto.

Notes

Image is located on Page 54 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

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.

Places

Union Station (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Come out fighting scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

2

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

29 Mar. 1985

Physical Description

1 photograph : col.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring riding down Yonge Street in the Canadian Cancer Society Parade with Earl Walls, Jim Proudfoot, and Stan Brock. This photograph was taken the same year Sammy was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

Notes

Image is located on page 53 of the 34 x 30 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Brock, Stan, 1936-2018

Canadian Cancer Society

Proudfoot, Jim, 1933-2001

Walls, Earl, 1928-1996

Subjects

Parades

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

30

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Oct. 1974

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sammy Luftspring, Brian Park, Sang Yua, and Sheldon Gross at the Oriental Palace, a nightclub in Toronto that Sammy often hosted at.

Notes

Image is located on page 24 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Oriental Palace (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Nightclubs

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4030

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

For identification see accession record.

Name Access

Barsht, Yehoshua

Barsh, Yehoshua

Subjects

Chamber music groups

Fathers and sons

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-3-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2513

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1939

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Luftspring, Sammy, 1916-2000

Subjects

Boxers (Sports)

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.

Places

New York (N.Y.).

Accession Number

1981-1-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Norman "Baby" Yack was born Benjamin Norman Yakubowitz in Toronto in 1915. As an amateur bantamweight boxer, Yack won over ninety of one hundred fights. In 1936, he opted out of competing in the Berlin Olympics as a protest to Nazi rule. Instead, he travelled to Barcelona with fellow Jewish boxer Sammy Luftspring to compete in the People's Olympics, which was cancelled at the last minute due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Later that year, Yack turned professional and, under the management of Steve Rocco, became the fourth ranked bantamweight in the world. Yack retired in Toronto. He died in 1987.

Harry Sniderman was a well-known Toronto sportsman. In 1936, Sniderman organized the financial backing from the Canadian Jewish Congress that allowed himself, Sammy Luftspring, and Norman "Baby" Yack to go to Barcelona to participate in the People's Olympics. His role at the event was to act as coach and organizer for the athletes. Later in life he was the owner of the Warwick Hotel, which was located at the corner of Jarvis and Dundas Street.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring, Harry Sniderman and Norman "Baby" Yack aboard the S.S. Alaunia as they travelled to Barcelona for the People's Olympics. They are dressed casually and are standing on the deck of the ship.

Notes

Image is located on page 75 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Sniderman, Harry

Yakubowitz, Norman

Subjects

Pitchers (Baseball)

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.

Creator

Unknown

Places

Barcelona (Spain)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Family photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

1

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Lebil Shternshis was Bill Stern's paternal grandfather. Peah and Jonas were his aunt and uncle. Peah Shternshis was brought to Canada by Bill's father Moishe in 1927, and married a Tepperman in 1930. Jonas left Poland for Brazil in 1919.

Scope and Content

This item is a copy photograph of Lebil Sternshis with his daughter Peah and son Lebil in Lagov, Poland.

Pictured from left to right are: Peah, Lebil and Jonas.

Subjects

Father and child

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.

Places

Poland

Accession Number

2004-5-96

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6087

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1926]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Joseph Graner changing a flat tire at the side of the road with his daughter Ida Graner.

Name Access

Graner, Joseph

Graner, Ida

Subjects

Fathers and daughters

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1991-5-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3789

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sam Berger with his daughter Beatrice when she was about 2 years of age.

Name Access

Berger, Sam

Berger, Beatrice

Denison Avenue

Subjects

Fathers and daughters

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.

Places

Denison Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Military photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

2

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1942

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Admin History/Bio

Bill Stern's parents were not supposed to take the train with him, but they insisted, and travelled as far as Newcastle, Ontario with their son.

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Bill and his mother Fanny Stern. The photograph was taken at Exhibition grounds before Bill boarded the train to Halifax, where he would sail overseas to the fighting in Europe. Bill is standing in front of the train with his arm around his mother's shoulder.

Subjects

Mothers and sons

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.

Accession Number

2004-5-96

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6054

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1906

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Minnie Lerner with her son, Mayer in Woodstock, Ontario. Mayer is in a wicker baby carriage.

Subjects

Mothers and sons

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.

Places

Woodstock (Ont.)

Accession Number

1993-6-2

Source

Archival Descriptions