Level

Item

Item

1511

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1930 and 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photo of the Kieltzer Sick Benifit Society. Pictured in the back row from left to right are: Gordon Mendly (1902-1998); [unknown]; Avrum Urman (?-1967) (president of Bakers' Union); Nathan (?) Rotfoge (?- 1964); Avromele Stancer (bakery on College St.); Getzel Tannenbaum (recording secretary); [?] Sugar (Sugar Bros. Tailors, College St.).

Seated left to right: Dovid Levy (worked at Eaton's); Aaron Ladovsky (United Bakers, called "Tate Fun Keltzer"); Noson Yasne (president); [?] Bader (vice-president); [unknown].

Notes

Photo by Famous Studios.

Name Access

Bader

Eaton's

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Ladovsky, Aaron

Levy, Dovid

Mendly, Gordon, 1904-1998

Rotfogel

Stancer, Avromele

Sugar Bros. Tailors

Tannenbaum, Getzel

Urman, Avrum

United Bakers

Yasne, Noson

Subjects

Societies

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1975-008

Material Format

object

Physical Description

2 badges

Date

[192-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of two Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society members' badges.

Subjects

Societies

Name Access

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Morris Norman collection

Level

Item

Fonds

22

Item

96

Material Format

textual record

Date

1930

Physical Description

1 item

Notes

Language note: Several Yiddish language advertiements.

Subjects

Societies

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1219

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of members of the University of Toronto Menorah Society Executive.

Back row, left to right: B. Weinberg (arts representative); E. E. Gelber (executive president); M. Pusitz (medicine representative).

Middle row, left to right: E. Lazaresco (BA general secretary); I. Greenberg (dental representative); R. Rotenberg (women's arts representative); I. L. Kenen (publicity); S. Soskin (treasurer).

Front row, left to right: B. Bain (corresponding secretary); D. Garfinkel (president); L. Sher (vice-president).

Absent: R. Breslin (BA, medicine representative).

Name Access

Bain, B.

Breslin, R.

Garfinkel, D.

Gelber, E.E.

Greenberg, I.

Kenen, I.L.

Lacaresco, E.

Pusitz, M.

Rotenberg, R.

Sher, L.

Soskin, S.

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Weinberg, B.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1977-1-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ladovsky family fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

83

File

9

Item

19

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm on matte 28 x 35 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of Toronto members of the Kieltzer Society on the roof top of the United Bakers Restaurant.

Seated left to right: S. Levy; A. Ladovsky; F. Bimko, _ Levy.

Standing left to right: Joe Eisenberg (Isenberg); Lazor Ladowsky; Harry Charendoff; Moshe Cooper; Joe Berkowsky; H. Kornbloom; Noson Yasne; _ Eisenberg (Isenberg).

Name Access

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Levy, S.

Ladovsky, A.

Bimko, F.

Levy

Eisneberg, Joe (Isenberg)

Ladowsky, Lazor

Charendoff, Harry

Cooper, Moshe

Berkowsky, Joe

Kornbloom, H.

Yasne, Noson

Eisenberg

Isenberg

Subjects

Societies

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

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1983-11-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2925

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1915

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph at the front, from left to right are: David Brown (Superindendent of Jewish Old Folks Home); [unknown]; [unknown]; Layefsky; Jacob Zelick Rosenberg (father of Henry S. Rosenberg).

Name Access

Brown, David

Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.)

Layefsky

Mozirer Mutual Benefit Society

Rosenberg, Henry S.

Rosenberg, Jacob Zelick

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1981-7-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Jewish clubs, businesses and organizations series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

8

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917-1918

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Menorah Society grew out of the Yiddish Club at the University of Toronto in 1917. The had a semi-official status and superseded most of the other Jewish student groups. Most often they met off campus, but they did have a faculty advisor named Professor W. R. Taylor, who taught Hebrew at University College. The society was a branch of an intercollegiate Jewish society formed at Harvard in 1906 for the study of Jewish history and culture. In Toronto, they flourished until it was undermined by the Greek-letter fraternities in the late 1920s. It dissolved in 1931.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Society executives for 1917–1918.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

550

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 20 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of executive members of the Mozirer Sick Benefit Society Young Men's Executive, copied from the Society's Silver Jubilee book.

Name Access

Mozirer Sick Benefit Society

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ladovsky family fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

83

File

9

Item

32

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Admin History/Bio

Fishel Bimko (1890–1965) was a Yiddish author and playwright who was born in Kielce, Poland.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Aaron Ladovsky welcoming the Yiddish playwright Fishel Bimko on behalf of the Kieltzer Society.

Notes

Copyright: Toronto Star, G199-1. Originally cited as photo # 3830.

Name Access

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Bimko, Fishel

Ladovsky, Aaron

Kieltzer Society

Subjects

Authors, Yiddish

Dramatists

Societies

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

Kielce (Poland)

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1983-11-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Toronto Jewish community photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

4

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1935]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w (2 negatives); 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Bill's father Moishe Stern and his uncle Joseph Glass were active members of the Hebrew Sick Benefit Society, and both sat on the executive during the 1930s.

Scope and Content

This item is a studio portrait of the executive members of the Hebrew Sick Benefit Society in Toronto. Pictured are:

Back row, left to right: [unidentified], [unidentified], Joseph Frydman, Shime Dillick, [unidentified], [?] Zarnitsky.

Front row, left to right: Hymie Pozner, Joseph Glass, Hartzke Kornblum (president), Iszhe Kornblum, and Joseph Frankel.

Notes

There is an original photograph, a 35mm negative and a 10 x 12 cm negative for this item.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1991-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

995

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1918

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of the members of the Hebrew Men of England Ladies' Society. Pictured are Ms. Levy, Ms. Abrams; Ms. Katz; Ms. Neiman; Mrs. Rosen; Mrs. Brass.

Name Access

Abrams, Ms.

Brass, Mrs.

Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Katz, Ms.

Levy, Ms.

Neiman, Ms.

Rosen, Mrs.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

Women

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

1977-8-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3040

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1935 and 1939]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of members of the Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society Ladies' Auxiliary seated around a table in someone's home.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

Women

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

1974-001

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2927

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1940

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a panoramic photograph of individuals and families who were part of the Mozirer Sick Benefit Society sitting outside at a picnic at Appleton Farms, Ontario.

Notes

See also #1891 for negative.

Name Access

Appleton Farms

Mozirer Sick Benefit Society

Subjects

Picnics

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1981-7-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

36

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1906

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 18 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of the Herzl Girls' Zionist Society on what is probably Toronto Island. Ida Siegel is second from the left in the back row. Betty Goldstick was an active member of this organization and was likely included in this photograph.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

Zionists

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.

Related Material

The textual records for the Herzl Girls' Zionist Society that Betty donated can be found in MG2J1K.

Places

Toronto Islands (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1985-5-3

Material Format

object

Physical Description

1 pin

Date

[193-?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a gold Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society pin engraved with "for not drawing ten years benefit".

Administrative History

The Kieltzer Society was organized in 1913 by a handful of immigrants from the city of Kieltz (Kielce) in Poland with the objective of creating a home away from home for themselves and the arriving new immigrants. They helped each other find jobs and accommodations, and they arranged opportunities to socialize with one another. As the Society became more established, it created a Free Loan Casa (fund). Members could borrow money for down payments on homes, starting businesses, and sending home parcels. Each member was also entitled to receive weekly sick benefits when necessary and free doctor visits.

Following the devastation of the Holocaust, there were new obligations and responsibilities for the Society. Members welcomed recently arrived immigrants from Kieltz into the Society and helped them adjust to a new life. These new members reinvigorated the Society with active participation and the organization of more social events. Once the immigrants became more settled in Toronto, the Kieltzer Society turned its efforts to strengthening the new State of Israel by raising funds, buying Israel Bonds and teaching the next generation the importance of its security. The members of the Society were awarded with pins and badges in recognition of their leadership and tzedakah. As the Kieltzer Society celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2013, it remains steadfast in its commitment to Israel and to preserving its legacy for future generations.

Name Access

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

4490

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : sepia (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Mr. Rigelhaupt as conductor.

Notes

Photo by Simpson Bros., Toronto.

Subjects

Societies

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

1988-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1512-1517

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[196-]

Physical Description

6 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Born in Jerusalem, Cantor Jacob Zigelman (1913–2003) married Anna née Horowitz in Brooklyn, New York, on 3 December 1939. In 1945, Cantor Zigelman was hired by the Hebrew Men of England Synagogue and consequently immigrated to Toronto with his wife Anna and two daughters Rochelle and Sharon. Soon after, their son Daniel "Danny" was born.

Scope and Content

Left to right: Rabbi Benjamin Hauer, Cantor Zigelman.

Notes

Photo by Famous Studios.

Name Access

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Hauer, Rabbi Benjamin

Zigelman, Cantor

Subjects

Cemeteries

Holocaust memorials

Societies

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Level

Item

Item

2564

Material Format

graphic material

Date

3 Aug. 1914

Physical Description

2 photograph : b&w (1 negative) ; 20 x 25.5 cm

Scope and Content

Item consists of a group portrait of the First Hungarian Sick and Benevolent Society of Toronto.

Name Access

First Hungarian Sick and Benevolent Society

Subjects

Picnics

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1981-3-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1854

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[19--]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph in the centre is Isaac Goldfield, and to his left is Mrs. Goldfield.

Name Access

Rachover Friendly Help Society

Goldfield, Isaac

Goldfield, Mrs. Isaac

Subjects

Dinners and dining

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1979-11-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1183

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) + identification key

Name Access

Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society

Subjects

Portraits

Societies

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

1977-1-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2004-5-45

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph

Date

1924-1925

Scope and Content

Item is a group portrait photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Society executive members from 1924-25. Pictured (left to right) is: top row; B. Weinberg, arts rep. E. E. Gelber, ex. president. M. Pusitz, medical rep. middle row; E. Lazaresco, BA gen. secretary. I. Greenberg, dental rep. R. Rotenberg, women's arts rep. I. L. Kenen, publicity. S. Soskin, treasurer. bottom row; B. Bain, Cor. secretary D. Garfinkel, president L. Sher, Vice president

Administrative History

The University of Toronto Menorah Society (1917) was founded on 11 October 1917, as a constituent of the Intercollegial Menorah Society formed at Harvard in 1906. Its purpose, as stated in the Torontonenensis Yearbook of 1918, was “to study Jewish history and culture and modern Jewish life and thought.” The Menorah Society was non-sectarian and open to members of the university of any faith. During its tenure the Menorah Society published the Menorah Journal and the Menorah Mentor magazine. Bi-weekly meetings held at the University YMCA featured lectures by prominent speakers, or student forums, and had an average attendance of two hundred people. The Menorah Society organized study circles, debates, annual plays, a “smoker” (party for men only), teas, and dances. It also maintained a Jewish Collection at the University Library. As Greek-letter fraternities proliferated at the University in the 1920s, the popularity of the Menorah Society waned, and it dissolved in 1931. The University of Toronto Menorah Society grew out of a series of organizations for Jewish students at U of T in the early twentieth century, a Toronto Hebrew Students’ association and a Yiddish club. Both these organizations and the Menorah Society were Predecessors of Hillel.

Use Conditions

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.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Also available as TIF file.

Subjects

Societies

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Larry Becker collection

Level

File

Fonds

34

File

43

Material Format

textual record

Date

[ca. 1950]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of blank stationery with Graduate Menorah Society of Toronto letterhead.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

742

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of members of the All for One Mutual Benefit Society on an outing, likely in High Park.

Name Access

All For One Society

Subjects

Societies

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

High Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

741

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1955]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Left to right: Jack Anger; Rabbi I. Hurwitz; [unknown]; Mr. Namak.

Name Access

All For One Society

Anger, Jack

Hurwitz, Rabbi I.

Namak, Mr.

Namak, Mrs. Tobie Weidman

Subjects

Societies

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

495

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1927 and 1928]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Club Executive.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

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

Acquired Jan. 17, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

496

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1927 and 1928]

Physical Description

2 photographs: b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

Access Restriction

No restrictions on access

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

Acquired Jan. 14, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

494

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[bewteen 1926 and1927]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Society Executive.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

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

Acquired 17 Jan. 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1277

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1917-1918

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph are: M. Wladowsky, B.B. Enushevsky, Sol. Eisen, J.A. Sweet, Abram Slone, M. Schott, F.A. Silverman, Prof. Taylor, S. Orechkin, H. Godelph, M. Levi, Lilian C. Smith

Name Access

Eisen, Sol.

Enushevsky, B. B.

Godelph, H.

Levi, M.

Orechkin, S.

Schott, M.

Silverman, F. A.

Smith, Lilian C.

Slone, Abram

Sweet, J. A.

Taylor, Prof.

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Wladowsky, M.

Subjects

Societies

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

1977-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1278

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1918-1919

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph are: M. Schott, Abe Greenbaum, Chas. Rotenberg, Jean Goldstick, L. Jessel, Prof W.R. Taylor, Mattie Levi, Sol Eisen, J. Markus, T.L. Granovsky, Lilian C. Smith

Name Access

Eisen, Sol

Goldstick, Jean.

Granovsky, T. L.

Greenbaum, Abe

Jessel, L.

Levi, Mattie

Markus, J.

Rotenberg, Chas.

Scott, M.

Smith, Lilian C.

Taylor, Prof. W. R.

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1977-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2865

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1928-1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 23 cm mounted on card frame

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Society Executive for 1928 to 1929. In the back row, from left to right are: H. Graner, McMaster representative; M. Zackheim, dental representative; W. Schlein, School of Practical Science representative; Miss L. Prager, musical director; N. Borinsky, corresponding secretary; Miss R. Abramowitz, junior meds. representative; S. J. Bochner, senior meds. representative; and P. H. Barrs, Osgoode Hall representative. In the front row, from left to right are: N. S. Goldhar, BA, second vice-president; Miss F. Gordon, first vice-president; Miss R. Neveren, senior arts representative; F. M. Catzman, BA president; Miss B. Kaplan, junior arts representative; Miss A. Gussack, recording secretary; and J. Kaplan, treasurer.

Notes

Photographer: Simpson Brothers, Toronto.

The names of the individuals are printed on the card mount.

Name Access

Abramowitz, Miss R.

Barrs, P. H.

Bochner, S. J.

Borinsky, N.

Catzman, F. M.

Goldhar, N. S.

Gordon, Miss F.

Graner, H.

Gussack, Miss A.

Kaplan, J.

Kaplan, Miss B.

Neveren, Miss R.

Prager, Miss L.

Schlein, W.

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Zackheim, M.

Subjects

Societies

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.

Physical Condition

Card mount is torn and fragile.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-12

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2958

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1925-1926

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

For identification notes, see negative.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1979-3-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2957

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1924 or 1925]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph, in the back, left to right: Bernard Weinberg; Edward Gelber.

For complete identification, see negative.

Name Access

Gelber, Edward

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Weinberg, Bernard

Subjects

Societies

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

1979-3-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

63

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Menorah Society grew out of the Yiddish Club at the University of Toronto in 1917. The had a semi-official status and superseded most of the other Jewish student groups. Most often they met off-campus, but they did have a faculty advisor named Professor W. R. Taylor, who taught Hebrew at University College. The Menorah Society was a branch of an intercollegiate Jewish society formed at Harvard in 1906 for the study of Jewish history and culture. In Toronto, they flourished until it was undermined by the Greek-letter fraternities in the late 1920s and in 1931 they dissolved.

Lillian Rappaport (Horwitz) was born 15 May 1909 in Toronto. She was married 2 Jan. 1936 to Sidney A Horwitz in Atlanta, Georgia and lived nearly all the rest of her life in Atlanta. She died on 8 Feb. 1998 in New York State. Lillian's parents were Aaron and Jennie Rappaport. They owned several movie theaters in Toronto, Brighton, and Campbellford.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the University of Toronto Menorah Society executives for 1929-1930. Seated in the front row are Philip Barrs, Sam Bochner, Vera Alexander (Eisen), Sam Goldhar, Renee L., unknown, Joe Kardish. Standing in the back row are Edward Richmond, Toby Ellias (Isaacs), Sydney Hermont, Vera Weinstein, Mannie Brown, Lillian Rappaport (Horwitz), Harry Luzuer.

Name Access

University of Toronto Menorah Society

Subjects

Societies

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1520

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Judean Benevolent and Friendly Society

Subjects

Portraits

Societies

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

1978-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6020

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1927

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Czenstochower Aid Society

Subjects

Photomontage

Societies

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

1991-8-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

• 

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Events and organizations series

Benevolent societies sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

18

Series

3-6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1958-1971

Physical Description

88 negatives : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Benevolent societies, or landsmenshaften, were formed in the early part of the twentieth-centurey along shtetl lines by Eastern European Jewish immigrants to Toronto. The societies served to unite members of the community who originated from the same town or region, and also helped to secure passage to Toronto for those who were still in Europe. The societies also provided services to its dues-paying membership such as: aid in finding employment or accomodation, hospital and special medical care, doctor's visitation, sick benefit payments, funeral benefits and arrangements, and in many cases a burial plot. Some societies also provided a loans to its membership through a credit society. In later years, many benevlent societies also began to act as fraternal organizations that engaged in cultural and philanthropic programming.

The benevolent societies included in this sub-series were founded on the following dates: Chenstochover, 1914; Chmielnicker, ?; Drildzer, 1934; Hebrew Sick Benefit, 1910; Ivansker, 1931; Keltzer, 1913; Lagover, 1932; Lubliner, ?; Ostrovtzer Independent, 1925; Pride of Israel, 1905; Radomer, 1935; Stashiver, 1918; Warshaver Lodzer, 1929.

[Dates taken from: Rosenberg, Louis. "Jewish Mutual Benefit & Friendly Societies in Toronto: The First Fifty Ayears. 1896-1945"]

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of images documenting several sick benefit and mutual benefit societies in Toronto, such as: the Chenstochover Hilfs Farein, the Chmelnicker Society, the Drildzer Young Society, the Hebrew Sick Benefit Society, the Ivansker Mutual Benefit Society, the Keltzer Sick Benefit Society, the Lagover Mutual Benefit Society, the Lubliner Society, the Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society, the Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society, the Radomer Mutual Benefit Society, the Stashiver Young Men's Mutual Benefit Society, and the Warshaver Lodzer and Mutual Benefit Society. The images include members at banquets, dinners and meetings, members partaking in fundraising campaigns, and group photographs of the officers and ladies' auxiliaries.

The images have been arranged alphabetically by society and chronologically by event. They have been described at the file or item level.

Subjects

Societies

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Societies Division series

Level

Series

Fonds

17

Series

33

Material Format

textual record

Date

1946-1950

Physical Description

12 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

This was a very active committee consisting of representatives from the fraternal orders, sick benefit societies and landsmanshaften. An early chairman was Alfred Green. In 1947, it was Carl Herlick, K.C. The committee dealt - or tried to deal - among other issues, with the relationship of the societies and the medical profession. After the expulsion of the United Jewish Peoples Order in 1950, it seemed to peter out. The Societies Division held annual social events - one year at the Prince George Hotel.

Scope and Content

Series consists of general files of the Societies Division.

Notes

Series formerly described and cited as RG265.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region (creator)

Subjects

Societies

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1912

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1923

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Name Access

Zion Benefit Association

Zion Benevolent Association

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

1980-2-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

488

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1919]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Toronto. Second from left in front row is Harry Shaberman who had a tailor shop at 518 Queen Street West and lived above the store.

Notes

A 4 x 5 negative is also available.

Name Access

Independent Order of Odd Fellows

Shaberman, Harry

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

Acquired July 8, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2924

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

The society badge is probably from Ezra's Noshem.

Name Access

Ezras Noshem Society

Grossman, Ida

Subjects

Societies

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

1981-3-9

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3763

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

Photo by M. Schlachter.

Name Access

Hebrew Sick Benefit Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1985-6-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3704

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Notes

Photo by Elite Studio, 615 Queen St. W., Toronto.

Name Access

Ezras Noshem Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1985-3-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1279

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1919-1920

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

This photograph shows the members of the Exexcutive Committee of the Mathematical and Physical Society.

Name Access

University of Toronto

Subjects

Societies

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

1977-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2006-1-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Date

1922

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one photograph of the founders of the Tzomer Friendly Society. Some of the members established some of the prominent fur and cloak factories on Spadina Avenue.

Top, left to right: Morris Samborsky; David Greenbloom; Lou Greenbloom; Nathan Green (Greenbloom).

Bottom, left to right: Irving Green (Greenbloom), Joe Stone (Milstein), Joe Kerbel.

Administrative History

Sheila Zeldin was the daughter of Irving Green, one of the members of the Tzomer Friendly Society.

Subjects

Portraits, Group

Name Access

Tzomer Friendly Society.

Sambirsky, Morris.

Greenbloom, David.

Greenbloom, Lou.

Green, Nathan.

Green, Irving.

Stone, Joe.

Kerbel, Joe.

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

6071

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

Photo by Schlachter.

Name Access

Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1993-9-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4491

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1928

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Composite photograph.

Notes

Photo by M. Schlachter, 452 Queen St. W., Toronto.

Name Access

Sons of Jacob Benevolent Society

Subjects

Societies

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

1987-11-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2540

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 29 x 36 cm on matte 44 x 36 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original composite photograph of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Hebrew Sick Benefit Society of 1930.

Subjects

Societies

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

1981-1-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

7 Aug. 1922

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of the West Toronto Ladies Aid Soceity in High Park, Toronto.

Subjects

Societies

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

High Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2003-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Events and organizations series

Benevolent societies sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

3-6

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

11 Oct. 1970

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a group photograph of the officers of the Lubliner Society. Seated left to right: M. Alspector; M. Fridman, President; Anna Brom; J. Cukierfajn, Vice president; M. Waksbaum. Standing left to right: C. Fefferman; H. Sigelman; P. Yablonski; A. Laufer

Subjects

Societies

Repro Restriction

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

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Melamed fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

7

Item

24

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1939

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society was founded in 1913 to provide aid to members of the Jewish community.

Scope and Content

Item is a composite photograph of the past presidents of the Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society.

Name Access

Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society

Subjects

Portraits

Societies

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions