Part Of

Julius P. Katz fonds

Mizrachi series

Level

File

Fonds

55

Series

1

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

This file consists of a cash book recording office and organizational transactions for Mizrachi. Included is a list of campaign donors and members and their contributions.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series

Financial records sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

47-5

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

June 1948-Oct 1948, 1957

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of petty cash vouchers for expenses relating to the DP tailor project.

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2004-5-35

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

5 cm of textual records

Date

1876-1938

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the Canadian Jewish Congress Special Refugee Committee (1938), the history of pioneers of Toronto's Jewish community, Dorothy Dworkin and the founding of Mount Sinai Hospital, biographies of Toronto rabbis, the Canadian Nationalist Party (1930s), the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue on Richmond Street (Holy Blossom), and a B'nai Brith research project on the early Jewish community of Toronto. Documents of interest include biographies of Rabbis F. M. Isserman (Holy Blossom 1925-1929), Maurice Eisendrath (Holy Blossom 1929-1943), and Norman Shapiro (Goel Tzedek and Beth Tzedec 1949-1955), an autobiography of the life of Dorothy Dworkin (1907-1911), a reprint of a 1912 article in the Jewish Times on the history of the pioneers of Toronto's Jewish community during the nineteenth century, and an antisemitic proclamation by the Canadian Nationalist Party.

Custodial History

There is no acquisition information for this accession. It was assigned the accession number by the archivist.

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

52

Material Format

textual record

Date

1919-1965

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

53

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967-1970

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

54

Material Format

textual record

Date

1970-1973

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

55

Material Format

textual record

Date

1974-1976

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

56

Material Format

textual record

Date

1978-1983

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

57

Material Format

textual record

Date

1983-1986

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series

Photograph collection sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

61

Series

2-2

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

architectural drawing

Date

[ca. 1920]-1993

Physical Description

1866 photographs : b&w, sepia and col. (199 negatives) ; 35 x 28 or smaller

3 cm of textual records

1 architectural drawing

Custodial History

Most of the photographs were in the custody of Ted Winick, who sat on the Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee. They were donated to the OJA in 1982 and 1984.

Scope and Content

This sub-series contains photographs collected by the Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee. The photographs document the executive and general membership, special events, sporting groups and teams, and YM-YWHA owned camps and properties, including the construction and completion program of the northern branch. There are also a small amount of textual records and an architectural drawing, which has been kept in the file with the accompanying graphic images.

Arrangement of the photographs has been imposed by the archivist, as no original order existed when the records were acquired. The photos have been arranged into alphabetical files by function, where one exists, otherwise they have been grouped together by subject, event or individual. This approach was taken so that images pertaining to certain subjects or events could be easily accessed by the researcher. The images have been described at the file and item levels.

Accession Number

1984-7-2

1982-12-2

2004-5-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Miscellaneous collection series

Level

Series

Fonds

37

Series

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[1914-1935]

Physical Description

7 negatives : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Custodial History

This series was compiled by the Gilbert family and transferred to the Archives in 1991.

Scope and Content

Series consists of photographs collected by the Gilbert family. The Gilbert family collected historically significant photographs. Included in the sub-series are photographs of the Koffler family, Leon Mendelson, and Elias Pullan, which were given to Al Gilbert by the families.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ben Kayfetz fonds

Collected materials series

Level

Series

Fonds

62

Series

3

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

object

Date

1919-1970

Physical Description

11 cm of textual records

18 photographs

1 object

Scope and Content

Series consists of various materials collected by Ben Kayfetz. It includes various items from Nazi Germany including a Jewish yellow star and number on a badge, Nazi hymn book and a service book of a Nazi Stormtrooper. Among the other materials are photographs of the Bronfman family, World War II enlistment posters, Peretz School Composition books and Jewish Old Folks Home Committee minutes.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

United Jewish Relief Agencies, Toronto (UJRA) series

Collections Committee sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

17

Series

4-8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1951-1960

Physical Description

6 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

The UJRA Collection Committee was appointed in November 1951 when the UJRA's Loan Committee, established earlier that year, decided to hand over responsibility for collection of its loans, the oldest of which dated back to 1939. The Collections Committee worked hand in hand with the Loan Committee, and engaged the services of the Guardian Credit Corporation to locate delinquent borrowers and encourage repayment. Loans had been granted by the Canadian Jewish Congress direct and by the Hebrew Free Loan, and guaranteed by CJC, Jewish Child & Family Service, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services and UJRA. The Collection Committee operated with a flexible policy, considering loans on a case-by-case basis. In each case they had to ascertain if the monies given were relief or loans, whether documents of indebtedness, such as chattel mortgages or promissory notes, had been obtained, and whether these were still valued. Mindful that it was connected to a social services agency and not an inflexible financial institution, the committee stopped short of forceful measures, and some loans were deemed unrecoverable and written off.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of minutes, reports, lists and correspondence of the UJRA Collections Committee. The records relate to the creation of collection procedure, policies and rates, lists of loan recipients with the amounts owing and comments, and loan account updates/outlines with decisions reached at committee meetings. The records are arranged in chronological order.

Notes

This sub-series is composed of former RG 210B and files from RG 296.

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.

Related Material

Related records may be found in the minutes of the Loan Committee, in sub-series 6 of series 4. Client case files may match with cases discussed by the Collections Committee; these case files are in sub-series 11: Refugee case files.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Photographic and audiovisual collection series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

27

File

563

Material Format

graphic material

Date

29 Oct. 1981

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (2 negatives) ; 28 x 28 mm

Scope and Content

File consists of two negatives of four men looking inside a cash box full of money; one of the men wears two sashes and holds a cane of some kind (possibly a magician?).

Notes

Photos by Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Morris Norman collection

Level

Collection

Fonds

22

Material Format

multiple media

Date

1856-1995

Physical Description

1.1 m of textual records and other material

Admin History/Bio

Morris Norman (b. 1946) is a chartered accountant living and working in Toronto. He is an avid collector of Canadiana, specifically Judaica. He purchases lots at auction and donates them to the Ontario Jewish Archives, as well as other institutions.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the individual items collected at auction by Morris Norman. The records relate to the Toronto Jewish community and Ontario Jewry and include textual documents, photographs, near-prints, publications, artifacts, posters and broadsheets, sound recordings, and ephemera. Most of the items relate to various Jewish organizations, businesses, synagogues and individuals, and to Christian missionary work in Toronto. The material has been described at the file level, or where appropriate, the item level.

There are also four distinct series of records which document Berul Sugarman, who was a concert violinist and orchestral leader; the Franklin family, who owned a large amount of property in Toronto in the late 1800s and early 1900s; radio and television scripts written by Wayne and Shuster, Henry Karpus and Russell Bradley; and a collection of Turofsky photographs.

Notes

Physical description note: Includes 49 objects, 25 photographs, 7 audio recordings and 4 prints.

Name Access

Norman, Morris

Norman, Jessie

Creator

Norman, Morris (1946-)

Accession Number

1995-9-3

1995-9-4

1995-9-8

1996-6-3

1996-7-3

1996-9-1

1997-7-1

1998-1-1

1998-3-44

1998-7-2

1999-10-1

2000-7-4

2000-12-3

2001-3-3

2001-4-3

2001-8-5

2001-10-6

2001-11-1

2002-4-1

2002-5-1

2002-7-1

2002-9-1

2002-10-5

2002-10-58

2002-12-3

2003-5-3

2003-10-6

2004-7-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

Negotiations Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

31

Series

5

File

58

Material Format

textual record

Date

1955

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Accession Number

2008-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Larry Becker collection

Level

Collection

Fonds

34

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1882-1996

Physical Description

58 cm of textual records

11 photographs : col. and b&w ; 28 x 36 cm or smaller

4 lantern slides : col. (hand painted) ; 5 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Larry Becker (1939-1998) was a collector with a focus on his native Toronto. He grew up in central Toronto, near Dundas and Ossington, where his father ran a cigar store. Around 1948, the family moved north to Vaughan. Larry attended Lakeshore Teachers' College and married fellow teacher, Rose Weber, in 1961. He taught primary school in Welland, Ontario

Larry returned to Toronto in June 1965, and began collecting for profit and posterity. That year, with the active assistance of his wife Rose, opened the first of three businesses that sold collectables. Both his father and grandfather had been small-scale collectors. From 1965 to 1996, the growing Becker family lived at 25 Lesgay Crescent in North York. In December 1996, the Beckers moved to a larger place in the Kettleby countryside, where Larry had planned to retire and work on his collection

Larry Becker died on February 20th, 1998

Scope and Content

The collection consists of items collected by Larry Becker including postcards, bulletins from Ontario Jewish organizations, sermons, periodicals, books, hand painted lantern slides documenting scenes of Jews in early Toronto, and other material relating to Ontario's Jewry

Notes

Information for biographical sketch gathered and cited from "Collecting Toronto: Through the Eyes of Larry Becker" virtual exhibit from the City of Toronto website at: http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/archives/becker_collections/

The lantern slides have been rehoused and moved to the negative cabinet.

Associated material note: The City of Toronto Archives has an extensive collection in the Larry Becker fonds, Fonds 70 (see Accession file for details)

Physical Condition

The textual records are in good condition. The colour photographs are suffering from severe dark fading and have taken on a distinct red cast.

Creator

Becker, Larry (1939-1998)

Accession Number

2002-12-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sharon Chapter of Hadassah fonds

Finance and accounting series

Level

File

Fonds

90

Series

4

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1958-[ca. 1970]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of financial statements for various funds and special collections, including; the World's Child Day collection (1966), Mogen Dovid Adam collection (ca. 1970), the Flower Fund, and the Jewish National Fund.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

David Pinkus fonds

The Kiever Shul series

Cash books (part 1 of 2) file

Level

File

Fonds

138

Series

5

File

21

Material Format

textual record

Date

1922-1926

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

David Pinkus fonds

The Kiever Shul series

Cash books (part 2 of 2) file

Level

File

Fonds

138

Series

5

File

22

Material Format

textual record

Date

1926-1932

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2460

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Left to right: Joe Cash; Louis Shatz.

Notes

From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.

Name Access

Cash, Joe

Shatz, Louis

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

1980-12-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2004-5-98

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

5 photographs : b&w (2 negatives) ; 18 x 13 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1955]-1992

Scope and Content

Acession consists of a photograph of Dora Wilensky, her mother Mrs. Wilensky, and J. B. Salsberg; two group photographs of an unidentified organization, both of which include J. B. Salsberg; and a Toronto Star Centennial Magazine entitled "The Hundred Heroes and Villains , Memories and Legends, A celebration." It includes an entry about J. B. Salsberg "Communist at Queen's Park."

Administrative History

Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902-1998) was a labour leader, political activist, politician, insurance salesman, and journalist. He was also active in various Jewish organizations, including: the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and the New Fraternal Jewish Association. He is well-remembered by contemporaries, such as Sam Lipshitz, as a “champion of the people”, committed to social justice, the plight of the working class, and the preservation of Jewish culture.

J. B. was born in Lagov, Poland on November 5, 1902 to Abraham and Sarah-Gittel Salsberg. Abraham immigrated to Toronto in 1910 and J. B. followed with his mother and two younger sisters in 1913. They settled at 73 Cecil Street. Abraham and Sarah-Gittel had additional children in Canada: Nathan (b. 1915), Reuven (Bob or Robert, b. 1917), Betty, and Thelma. Abraham worked as a peddler in Toronto.

J. B. briefly attended Landsdowne Public School, but dropped out around 1915, against his parents' wishes, and took a job in a leather goods factory to contribute to his family’s income. J. B.’s parents had hoped he would become a rabbi and, despite his full-time employment, J. B. continued to study the Torah with scholars at the synagogue on Centre Avenue.

In 1917, J. B. decided to pursue the ideas of Zionism and socialism and, abandoning his plans to become a rabbi, became involved in establishing the Young Poale Zion organization, a Labour Zionist youth group dedicated to secular aims. Around 1922, J. B. was made secretary general of the Young Poale Zion of America in New York, where he worked for one year. Shortly after returning to Toronto, he became the organizer for the Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union of North America in Chicago. J. B. married Dora Wilensky in 1927.

In 1926, J. B. joined the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). He was an active member of the CPC for 30 years, serving as the head of its Trade Union Department for two decades. In 1929 he was suspended from the party for one year as a dissenter. In 1932, he became the Southern Ontario District union organizer for the Communist Workers' Unity League.

It was as a member of the CPC that J. B. entered electoral politics. After a series of failed bids in municipal and provincial elections between 1935 and 1937, J. B. was elected alderman of Ward 4 in Toronto in 1938. He only held the position for one year. In 1943, J. B. was elected to the Ontario Legislature as the representative for the St. Andrew riding. J. B. sat as Member of Provincial Parliament for the Labor-Progressive Party (the provincial wing of the CPC) for 12 years. For several years, he was the only elected Communist in North America. As MPP, he helped create legislation banning discrimination in public places and introduced a bill that would ensure fair employment practices in the province. He lost his seat to Allan Grossman in 1955 and unsuccessfully ran in the federal election later that year. Remembered by journalist Gordon Sinclair as “one of the best debaters in the house”, J. B. was well-respected by members of all political parties. Out of admiration for J. B., Conservative Premier Leslie Frost named Salsberg Township in Northern Ontario in his honour.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, J. B. had grown increasingly concerned about reports of Soviet antisemitism and privately urged party leaders to pursue the issue. In 1956, when Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev exposed the transgressions of Stalin’s regime, J. B. went to Moscow as part of a CPC delegation. After meeting with Khrushchev himself, it became clear to J. B. that antisemitism was indeed a problem in the USSR and that his efforts to probe the situation were being stonewalled.

J. B. publicly expressed his concerns about Soviet antisemitism in a series of articles published in the Vochenblatt from October 25, 1956 to December 13, 1956. He finally left the Communist Party in 1957. However, he remained a member of the United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), a Communist Jewish fraternal organization.

Entering the business world, J. B. established the Model Insurance Agency Limited in 1957, where he served as president for several years. In 1959 J. B.’s wife, Dora, passed away. Around this time J. B. also resigned from the UJPO, along with other members who felt the organization needed to be more critical of the Soviet Union. They founded an alternative, non-Communist left-wing Jewish organization, the New Fraternal Jewish Association, where J. B. served as president for several terms and edited its publication “Fraternally Yours”.

In his later life, J. B. was active as an executive member of organizations, such as the CJC and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. He was the first chairman for the CJC Ontario Region’s Soviet Jewry Committee and the Committee for Yiddish. He also began writing an award-winning weekly column for the Canadian Jewish News. J. B. was awarded the CJC’s Samuel Bronfman Medal for distinguished service, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto’s Ben Sadowski Award of Merit. A strong supporter of Israel, he was involved in the creation of two Israeli medical centres that are named in his honour. He also helped establish the J. B. and Dora Salsberg Fund and the J. B. Salsberg Fund for Yiddish at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. J. B. passed away in 1998.

Name Access

Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Executive director series

Subject files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

61

Series

1-1

File

36

Material Format

textual record

Date

1956

Physical Description

1 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

The Combined Building Campaign began in 1950 in order to raise $2 750 000 for a new YM-YWHA building and a new Jewish Home for the Aged. The campaign co-chairmen were Samuel Godfrey and Abe Posluns.

Scope and Content

This file contains textual records related to the collection of the money pledged to the Combined Building Campaign. This includes correspondence and collection lists.

Accession Number

2004-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Research Records sub-series

Civil and Human Rights Legislation sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-4-1

File

103

Material Format

textual record

Date

1965

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of documentation from the Bronfman Collection

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

URL

http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Research/Our-Collection

Source

OJA Website

Part Of

Solomon Edell fonds

Heritage series

Level

File

Fonds

4

Series

10

File

51

Material Format

textual record

Date

[1967?]

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of lyrics written by Anne Kaplan for the 100th anniversary of Canada's conferderation. This document was likely collected by Sol Edell for the OJA.

Name Access

Ontario Jewish Archives

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2021-10-10

Material Format

moving images (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

22 videos : mp4 ; 1113 GB

Textual records (electronic) ; ca. 4.3 MB

ca. 670 photographs and pdfs (electronic)

Date

2017-2020

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records created during the production of Ron Chapman's film, Shelter. Included are video interviews and written transcripts, and family photographs and documents collected and copied from the interviewees. Signed release forms accompany the interviews. Also included is the finished film and trailer as mp4 files.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Buildings

Holocaust survivors

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2000-7-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

sound recording

Physical Description

31 audio cassettes

18 cm of textual records

3 photographs

Date

[192-?]-1976

Scope and Content

This accession consists primarily of materials created during an oral history project with seniors from the Hamilton Jewish community. This project was coordinated by Sylvia Klein initially through funding from a government Local Initiative Programme and then on a volunteer basis. Klein conducted this work under the guidance of Dr. Stephen Speisman, then Director of the Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region Archives. The records include oral histories on audio cassettes, transcripts, notes, reports, programmes, handbooks, and photographs.

Source

Archival Accessions

URL

http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/Donate/What-We-Collect

Source

OJA Website

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Refusnik cases sub-series

Reference publications sub-sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

3-6-3

File

2

Material Format

text

Responsibility

Written and edited by Judith Matz and Margery Sanford ; coordinated by Tina Freiman and Myriam Wolf ; translation by Irving Dalin

Date

Aug. 1976

Physical Description

1 v. : unbound

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Christian Jewish Dialogue sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-11

File

9

Material Format

textual record

Date

1987

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a Program/Activities report for the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews; and the Christian Jewish Dialogue of Toronto.

Name Access

Canadian Council of Christians and Jews

Christian Jewish Dialogue of Toronto

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Education sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-12

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1982-1983, 1990

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports and evaluations of the Holocaust Education sub-committee programs.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Executive director series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

2

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1933-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports written by the JFWB's Executive Director documenting the agency's structure, activities, policies, and services. Of particular note are reports outlining the effects of the Second World War on the agency's services. These reports were likely presented to the JFWB's Board of Directors.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Case Committee series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

5

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports documenting the purpose, function and meetings of the JFWB's Case Committee.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Joint Application Bureau series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

7

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936-1937, 1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports of the Joint Application Bureau. Included are reports regarding intake statistics, budgets, and the set-up and efficiency of centralizing intake. Agencies documented in the reports include, the JFWB, the Jewish Children's Bureau (later the Jewish Child Welfare Association), the Jewish Big Sister Committee and the Federation Employment Service.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Homemaking Clubs series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

8

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports on the JFWB's Homemaking Groups. Included are reports on the Parent Education and Recreation Groups and general reports on all the Homemaking groups.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Clothing Centre series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

9

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1940-1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports documenting the JFWB's Clothing Centre. Included are reports detailing the Centre's expenses, clothing distribution statistics, and overall operation.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Finance and accounting series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

12

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1933-1938, 1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of four reports documenting the JFWB's finances. Included in the reports are details regarding the costs of managing the Scheuer House building and problems encountered due to a low budget. Also included is one copy of the preliminary report of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Budget Committee for 1934.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Publications, speeches, press releases, and reports sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-2

File

60

Material Format

textual record

Date

1968

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of various reports, including reports from the 15th plenary convention.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds

Reports series

Level

Series

Fonds

9

Series

3

Material Format

textual record

Date

1926-1956

Physical Description

18 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

Series consists of official (published) and unofficial reports the Toronto JIAS office produced between 1926 and 1952. Several different kinds of reports were produced over time: executive secretary reports were those presented to the Toronto JIAS executive at its monthly meetings. These are detailed reports that record the number of clients and describe the services offered by the Toronto office: information bureau, legal aid, location of relatives overseas, reception of newly-arrived immigrants, employment, detention work, United States visas, remittances, refugees and fundraising efforts. Unique cases are often described in detail. Executive secretary reports may correspond to extant executive meeting minutes in Series 1.

The reports after 1935 are more concise “Monthly Reports” and “Reports of Activities” that the regional offices were required to submit to the National Office. These record statistics for meeting immigrant trains, the legal aid department, international services, remittances, information bureau, correspondence department, parcels, naturalization, translations, visits, U.S. visas, deportation, immigrants arrived, and the employment bureau. The Monthly Report was a form shared by the Montreal, Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver offices, though the reports in this series have only the Toronto numbers filled in.

Social Services reports from the 1950s give departmental statistics not included in the general JIAS monthly reports, including the total expenditure, the number of new applicants, the number assisted, the cases carried over from the previous month and to the next month, the total caseload and the number of cases closed.

In addition the series contains some year-in-review reports from the annual meetings of the executive and membership, and annual reports which include meeting proceedings. As well there is a small number of monthly cash statements.

Notes

This series is an amalgam of series formerly known as MG2 I1a B and MG2 I1a D.

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.

Arrangement

Series has been compiled and arranged chronologically by the archivist.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds

Reports series

Level

File

Fonds

9

Series

3

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1928-1929

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains regular reports of the executive secretary to the executive, a brief refugee report, and monthly cash statement.

Notes

Title based on contents of the file.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds

Reports series

Level

File

Fonds

9

Series

3

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1929-1930

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains executive secretary reports and monthly cash statements.

Notes

Title based on contents of the file.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds

Reports series

Level

File

Fonds

9

Series

3

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1930-1931

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains summary of activities, executive secretary reports and a summary of the year’s work.

Notes

Title based on contents of the file.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds

Reports series

Level

File

Fonds

9

Series

3

File

13

Material Format

textual record

Date

1940-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of several monthly reports on the activities of Toronto branch as well as some reports of the Executive Secretary.

Notes

Title based on contents of the file.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Federated Zionist Organization of Canada series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

9

File

3

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of the reports of the founding convention.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Holocaust Remembrance Committee sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-1

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1975-1983

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports of the Holocaust Remembrance Committee. Included are annual reports and memoranda. Of note are a proposal of educational programs and items that laid the groundwork for the future of the Holocaust Education Centre.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto fonds

Fund-raising campaign series

Reports sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

66

Series

10-1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1931-1935

Physical Description

3 folders of textual records

1 ruler : 6 in.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of reports, copies of newspaper clippings, and promotional materials about annual fundraising campaigns. Also here is a six-inch wooden ruler used to promote the 1931 FJPT fund-raising campaign.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Budget and Finance Committee series

Meeting minutes sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

7-1

File

31

Material Format

textual record

Date

1981-1982

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists reports for the UJWF Budget Committee.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Association for Ethiopian Jews fonds

Administrative records series

Level

File

Fonds

125

Series

2

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1 Mar. 1982

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a report of the International Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Ethiopian Jewry dated 1 March 1982.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Women's Auxiliary series

Board of Directors and Executive Committee sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

14

Series

4-1

File

18

Material Format

textual record

Date

1971-1981, predominant 1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of reports submitted to the Board of Directors by various committees.

Source

Archival Descriptions