Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1896

Physical Description

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

Admin History/Bio

David Dunkelman (1883-1978) was born in Poland to Elias and Leah Dunkelman. He came to Canada with his parents in 1895, settling in Toronto. On 19 January 1910, he married Rose Miller (1889-1949), and together they had 6 children: Joseph, Ernest, Benjamin, Theodora, Veronica (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner). David Dunkelman was very active throughout his life in Zionist causes and in philanthropic and communal work. He was the founder, president and chairman of the board of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. (1911) which was one of the largest clothing manufacturers in Canada.

For over 50 years David was one of the leaders of the Zionist Organization of Canada. He was also director of the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital, one of the founders of the North Toronto YMHA, a founder and supporter of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, and one of the founders of a village in Israel known as Gan Chaim. He was a member of several clubs and lodges including B'nai Brith, the Empire Club, the Primrose Club and the Canadain Friends of Hebrew University.

David married Pearl Greisman Rotenberg in 1950, after the death of his wife Rose Dunkelman in 1949.

Scope and Content

Photograph is of David Dunkelman standing outside a shoe store on a Brooklyn street. He was 13 years of age at the time of the photo.

Subjects

Portraits

Storefronts

Teenagers

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.).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1949-1955

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains writings and correspondence mainly paying tribute to Rose Dunkelman and her Zionist work.

Physical Condition

Some records are fragile.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-1991

Physical Description

5 cm of textual records

3 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Rose and David Dunkelman, Benjamin Dunkelman's parents, were staunch supporters of Toronto's Zionist community. David was a leader of the Zionist Organization of Canada for more than 50 years, while Rose was publisher and first managing editor of the Jewish Standard, a Toronto-based Zionist magazine she founded with her husband. In addition, she was the first vice-president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada and president of the Hadassah Organization of Ontario. Both fervently supported Zionist projects.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of photographs, clippings, obituaries, correspondence and biographical information in connection with Rose, David and Ben Dunkelman. The sub-series contains a pamphlet from the Toronto Zionist Council in 1957 celebrating the council’s 50th anniversary and praising Rose Dunkelman. There are also copies of articles about Rose Dunkelman by H.M. Kaiserman and Meyer W. Weisgal.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

39

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1896-1979

Physical Description

30 cm of textual records

28 photographs : b&w (11 negatives) ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

2 scrapbooks

Admin History/Bio

Rose Dunkelman (1889–1949) was born Rose Miller in Philadelphia to Harry Miller and Dora Miller (née Belkin). At the age of thirteen, she moved to Toronto where she received her education and where she resided with her family until her death in 1949 at the age of fifty-nine. Rose Dunkelman devoted her life to helping the less fortunate, particularly children and orphans, and to championing the cause of Zionism at home and abroad. She was internationally known and respected for her philanthropic work and for her knowledge of, and dedication to, Zionist causes. She was a leader in the Canadian-Jewish community for more than thirty years.

On 19 January 1910, she married David Dunkelman (1883–1978), founder and president of Tip Top Tailors Ltd. The couple had six children: Joseph, Ernest, Benajamin, Theodora, Veronica (Annenberg) (Ourisman), and Zelda (Wilner).

Rose was a founding member of the Zionist Organization of Canada, vice-president of the Ontario Zionist Region, and founded and chaired the Canadian branch of Youth Aliyah in 1933. For over twenty-five years, Rose held various positions within the Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada, including president of the Toronto Council of Hadassah (1921), honorary president on the executive board (1938–40), joint chair of the war effort (1941), president of the Hadassah Organization of Canada Central Chapter of Toronto (1937–8, 1945-6), and honorary national vice-president. Rose also founded the Hadassah Bazaar in 1924. There is currently a Canadian Hadassah day care centre in Neve Sharett that is named in her honour, as well as the Rose Dunkelman Memorial Community Center in Hadassim erected in 1950 in her memory.

In 1930, prompted by the 1929 attack on Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and in Hebron, Rose and David Dunkelman founded the magazine the Jewish Standard as a Zionist forum for the English-speaking Jewish population of Canada. She was the periodical's first publisher and managing editor.

After the First World War, Rose worked as an officer with the Canadian Red Cross, bringing war orphans to Canada from eastern Europe, for which she was presented with the Coronation Medal by King George VI in 1937. She was also active in the rehabilitation of First World War veterans.

During the Second World War, as chair of Ontario Youth Aliyah, Rose helped rescue children from Nazi persecution at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps and helped secure their passage to and resettlement in Palestine. Dunkelman held leadership positions in many domestic and international Jewish and Zionist programs and projects—many focused on the welfare of Jewish children—including the Jewish National Fund, Karen Hayesod, Karen Kayemeth, Young Judaea, the Toronto Hebrew Free Schools, and the YM-YWHA. She also served on the Canadian Family Allowance Board after the Second World War.

After a lengthy illness, Rose died on 20 October 1949 in Toronto at the age of fifty-nine. She was buried at Goel Tzedec's cemetery on Dawes Road and was later re-interred in Israel's national cemetery at Degania on 14 January 1953, as she requested in her will.

Scope and Content

The fonds consists of personal and business correspondence, family letters, newsclippings, event invitations, articles, two scrapbook albums and other textual material relating to Dunkelman's death and re-interment in Israel, her philanthropic activities with Hadassah and Youth Aliyah, and her business activities with the Jewish Standard.

One scrapbook contains a testimonial certificate presented to Rose by Toronto Hadassah on her recovery from ill health (1926), while the other was presented to her by Toronto Hadassah on the occasion of her 57th birthday in 1946. This scrapbook contains photographs of the banquet along with several pages of signatures from members of local Hadassah chapters.

The photographs include: Rose Dunkelman's re-interment in Israel (1953), a birthday banquet for Rose hosted by Hadassah (date uncertain), a portrait of Rose as a young woman (ca. 1905), David Dunkelman as a young boy in Brooklyn, NY (1896), the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto) extension (1966), a portrait of Benjamin Dunkelman in Israel (1953), and one photograph of Rose Dunkelman with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt (1941).

Name Access

Cohen, Israel

Dunkelman, Ben, 1913-1997

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Ernest

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Dunkelman, Theodore

Dunkelman, Veronica

Dunkelman, Zelda

Dunkelman, Joseph

Family Allowance Board

Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada

Hebrew Free Schools

Jewish Federated Charities

Jewish National Fund

Jewish Standard

Karen Hayesod

Karen Kayemeth

Red Cross

Steinglass, Meyer F.

Tip Top Tailors

Weisgal, Meyer

YM-YWHA

Zionist Organization of Canada

Subjects

Businesspeople

Philanthropists

Zionists

Physical Condition

Some of the documents are very brittle.

Related Material

Ben Dunkelman fonds 2: (accession 2000-3-4)

Ben Dunkelman accession: 1978-6-6

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds 28, series 6, file 27

photo #4690

Hadassah accession: 1978-1-2, 1984-12-3, 2003-3-1, MG2 J1I

The Jewish Standard: MG9

Creator

Dunkelman, Rose, 1889-1949

Accession Number

1988-5-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Publicity photographs of people and events series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

6

File

27

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of a photograph of Ben and Rose Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4690

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1934

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm and 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

Original and copy photograph of a group of Zionists led by Rose Dunkelman on board the "Manhattan" en route to Palestine, Feb. 1934. Participants identified in the photo include Rose Dunkelman, David Dunkelman, [Theo (Theodroe) Dunkelman], [Miss Dunkelman], Mrs. Gertrude (Sam) Kronick, Mrs. Miller (Mrs. Dunkelman's mother), Mrs. Anna Selig (Raginsky), Mr. Solomin Heifetz travel agent), Mr. Elias Pullan, Mrs. Bessie Rash Kofsky (Elias Pulann's daughter), Mrs. Dora (Meyer) Brenner (née Pullan),

Notes

See accession file for identification of those on board.

Message beginning with "Dear Children" written in faint pencil on verso.

A copy negative is available.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Ben, 1913-1997

Subjects

Ships

Portraits, Group

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.

Accession Number

1988-3-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

• 
• 

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 22 x 17 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman cutting into her birthday cake as guests look on. The party was thrown for Rose's 57th birthday by Toronto Hadassah.

Far right: Rose Dunkelman.

To her left: [Mrs. Rotenberg].

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the headstone at Rose Dunkelman's gravesite. The headstone is covered with a wreath brought by the children of the Hadassah youth village "Hadassim."

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 6 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman strewn with flowers.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman's headstone in Israel. There are flowers laying on the grave.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1958

Physical Description

1 folder of one textual record

Scope and Content

File contains one photocopied cover article from the Ontario Zionist Digest in connection with a memorial plaque and painting unveiled in honour of Rose Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of guests seated at tables at Rose Dunkelman's birthday party. The party was thrown in honour of Rose's fifty-seventh birthday by Toronto Hadassah. The head table can also be seen on the far right.

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

33

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1912

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 8 cm on mat 20 x 14 cm

Admin History/Bio

Anna Nathanson was the wife of Dr. Isadore Goldstick. She was born in New Jersey in 1893. She married Isadore in 1917, and they had two daughters, Reva and Esther. She organized the first Hadassah in London, Ontario, and continued her involvement in that organization throughout her life. She also served the B'nai Israel Congregation in London and its Hebrew school.

Scope and Content

Portrait of Anna Nathanson as a teenager. The child in the photograph is likely her sibling or a cousin.

Name Access

Nathanson, Anna

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

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

Other records for the Dr. Isadore Goldstick family can be found at the Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1928]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ellen Dworkin, the daughter of Dorothy and Henry, was called Honey by her parents. She was born on 19 June 1912. She married Lewis Raxlan in 1932. They divorced, and she married Leon Arthurs. They had two children, Harry and Linda. Harry later became the dean of Osgoode Law School.

Scope and Content

The image is a portrait of Honey Dworkin as a teenager. Her parents had her photograph taken each year. This one was created by Ashley & Crippen Photographs located on Bloor Street West.

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

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

Bloor Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm (sight) on mat 25 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Portrait of Betty Goldstick as a teenager. This collodion print was taken at Dayou Photo Studios on Yonge Street.

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

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

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Level

Item

Fonds

2

Series

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[198-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a formal portrait of Ben Dunkelman.

Notes

Photograph is by Leo Hausman.

Name Access

Hausman, Leo, 1912-1982

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Physical Condition

Item is in good condition.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1

File

18

Material Format

textual record

Date

1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains correspondence between Ben Dunkelman and Shirley Gold, who wrote on behalf of the Rose Dunkelman Chapter of Hadassah in Niagara Falls, Ontario, inviting Ben to be the chapter's guest speaker at its upcoming 35th anniversary.

Notes

For more information about Rose Dunkelman, please see the Rose Dunkelman Fonds.

Physical Condition

Records are fragile but in good condition.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the head table at Rose Dunkelman's birthday party. The party was thrown in honour of Rose's 57th birthday by Toronto Hadassah.

Far right: [Mrs. Rotenberg].

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Birthdays

Parties

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

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 13 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of two children from Canadian Wizo's youth village "Hadassim" carrying a wreath on behalf of the pupils and staff of Hadassim to the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Rose

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Subjects

Children

Wreaths

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Levy family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

15

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Rose Levy taken at a studio in Toronto likely in the 1920's.

Notes

Mounted in card frame

Photographer: Rembrandt Studio, 141 Yonge Street, Toronto

Name Access

Levy, Rose

Subjects

Portraits

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

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Anti-Semitism cases sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-3

File

113

Material Format

textual record

Date

1954

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding fighting between Jewish and non-Jewish teenagers at Jackson's Point

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Subjects

Teenagers

Places

Jackson's Point (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Joseph Baratz leaning on Rose Dunkelman's headstone. The gravesite is covered with flowers.

Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

748

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w. ; 12 x 17 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Professor Albert Rose of Toronto.

Notes

Acquired on June 1976.

Photograph by Ashley and Crippen.

Name Access

Rose, Albert

Subjects

Portraits

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

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 12 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Mrs. Rose Ginossar, speaking at the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman. To her right is Joseph Baratz. Behind him is Shimon Hacohen.

Mrs. Rose Ginossar was chairman of the World WIZO executive. Mr. Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, David

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Ginossar, Rose

Hacohen, Shimon

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 16 cm and 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of a group of Wizo executive members at the gravesite of Rose Dunkelman.

Left to right: Zila Shoham (executive member); Dr. Eva Kirstein (secretary of the publicity department); Tonie Zeissler-Hauser (chairman of the fundraising department); Nanny Margulies (chairman of the publicity department); Hanna Maisel-Shochat (principal of Nahalal, the Canadian Wizo's agricultural school); Rachel Kagan (chairman of the Israel Wizo Federation); Dr. Salomea Levite (vice-chairman of the World Wizo executive); Rahel Shapira (Hadassim); Rose Ginossar (chairman of World Wizo executive); Mr. Yeremiahu Shapiro (principal of Hadassim); Fay Grovem (chairman of the organization and cultural department).

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Ginossar, Rose

Grovem, Fay

Kagan, Rachel

Kirstein, Dr. Eva

Levite, Dr. Salomea

Maisel-Shochat, Hanna

Margulies, Nanny

Shoham, Zila

Shapiro, Rahel

Shapiro, Mr. Yeremiahu

Zeissler-Hauser, Tonie

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sadie Stren fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

78

File

3

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a portrait of Rose Simon, of Brantford, Ontario.

Notes

Original photograph by J. C. Walker, 148 Colborne, Brantford.

Subjects

Children

Portraits

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

1978-11-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Miscellaneous collection series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

9

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca 1915]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Tiana Koffler was born in Romania but moved to Saskatchewan with her family while still a baby. She attended the University of Saskatchewan for liberal arts and married Leon Koffler in 1922. Together, they parented their only child, Murray Koffler.

Scope and Content

Photograph of a sixteen-year-old Tiana Reinhorn Koffler (née Reinhorn).

Name Access

Koffler, Ernestiana (Mrs. Leon)

Koffler's drugstore

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

Portraits

Teenagers

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

see also photographs: 37-S4-3-item-2, 37-S4-3-item-3, 37-S4-3-item-9, 37-S4-3-item-20

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sadie Stren fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

78

File

3

Item

18

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1924

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of a group of Jewish teenagers on a picnic in Paris, Ontario. A few accompanying adults are also pictured. Identified are:

Back row, left to right: Harry Wise, Eva Lunenfeld, R. Bomberg, A. Pless, B. Joseph.

Second row, left to right: O. Strenkovsky, Max Noble, S. Strenkovsky, B. Stemeroff, R. Wise, P. Gomberg, C. Smookler.

Front row, left to right: A. Stemeroff, L. Stemeroff, A. Gazer.

Subjects

Picnics

Teenagers

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

Paris (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

422

Material Format

graphic material

Date

May 1913

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 16 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Admin History/Bio

Smith and his father, Gedaliah Janofsky, were founding members of the Kiever Synagogue. The family, like many Jews, changed their surname to a more Anglicized name. Both father and son were storeowners. B. B. was a peddlar in Sunderland at the time of this photograph.

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Benjamin B. Smith (B. B.) seated on some logs in Sunderland, Ontario. A dog is sitting with him on his right.

Notes

Information taken from Toronto's First Synagogue's website.

Name Access

Smith, Benjamin B.

Subjects

Dogs

Teenagers

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

Sunderland (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

14 Jan. 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 17 x 12 cm and 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Ben Dunkleman saying Kaddish at the gravesite of his mother, Rose Dunkelman. Abe Friedgut, Joseph Baratz, and a few young children look on.

Joseph Baratz was co-founder of Degania in 1909, the first kibbutz in Israel.

Mr. Abe Friedgut was the Israel representative of the Zionist Organization of Canada.

Notes

Writing on the back of the photo reads: "Shoshana Rose Dunkelman the daughter of Miller from Toronto died [date] devoted all her life to the building of the country only after her death were her wishes fulfilled." This is probably the inscription on Rose's tombstone.

Name Access

Baratz, Joseph

Dunkelman, Benjamin

Dunkelman, David

Friedgut, Abe

Subjects

Sepulchral monuments

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Israel

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Joseph Bernard Dunkelman was born on 18 December 1911 in Toronto. His parents, David Dunkelman (1883-1978) and Rose Dunkelman (née Miller), were married on 19 January 1910. Originally from Poland, David came to Canada with his parents in 1895 and settled in Toronto. Rose was born in Philadelphia in 1889 and moved to Canada at the age of thirteen and resided there until her death in 1949, at the age of fifty-nine. Her father, Harry, was an entrepreneur in the menswear business, and it was through his business contacts that she met and married David at the age of twenty. They had six children: Joseph, Ernest, Zelda, Veronica, Theodora, and Benjamin. The latter fought in both the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence.

In 1911, David Dunkelman founded Tip Top Tailors, a high-end men's clothing store, which currently has about one hundred branches nationwide. Joseph ran Tip Top Tailors from the early 1940s until the late 1940s, when Ben returned from the war and bought Joseph's shares of the business. The business was sold to Dylex, who subsequently sold it to Grafton-Fraser in 2000. Joseph used the money he received from selling his share of the family business to invest in a television and movie production company (possibly Sony Screen Gems).

Joseph married Jean Lenore Samuels (born 25 February 1912). Joseph and Jean had three children, Richard "Dick" Howard, Peter, and a third child who was handicapped and institutionalized. After Joe and Jean's marriage ended, Joe married Claire Olsen and remained with her until his death. They had one son, Lex. Claire was a movie reviewer and television interviewer.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Joseph Dunkelman.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Joseph, 1911- (subject)

Subjects

Businesspeople

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

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Business series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

3

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1985-1986

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Dunkelman's was a restaurant near the corner of Yonge and St. Clair that Ben and Yael Dunkelman opened in the early 1980s. They provided customers with a Californian-style cuisine.

Scope and Content

File consists of two favourable reviews of Dunkelman’s restaurant from the Toronto Sun and Avenue magazine.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Zionist series

Level

Item

Fonds

2

Series

2

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Ben Dunkelman sitting on a horse. The photo was taken in Palestine during the 1930s.

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

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of a Mourner's Kaddish for David Dunkelman, Ben's father, who died in 1978. The file includes a 2-page speech about David Dunkelman's business success, and refers to Rose Dunkelman's role in assisting David with Tip Top Tailors. The file also contains a photograph of David Dunkelman and four other men (likely all businessmen) walking along a boardwalk, likely in Atlantic City. Identified in the photo is (left to right): [Samuel Posluns?], Louis Gelber, Percy Hermant, [unidentified], and David Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

5

File

45

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1971

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

The file consists of portait photographs of Ben Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3559

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1921

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia toned ; 14 x 20 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Bochner on her wedding day on 28 June 1921. She married Charles Rotstein.

Notes

Original photo by: J. Kennedy, 101 King St. W., Toronto.

Name Access

Bochner, Rose

Rotstein, Rose

Subjects

Portraits

Weddings

Repro Restriction

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Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-4-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

944

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of Mrs. Rose Penzner and children, 172 Chestnut Street, Toronto.

Name Access

Penzner, Rose

Subjects

Mother and child

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

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Places

Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1975-12-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Weddings series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

6

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1921]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Morris B. Kaufman was president and owner of Kaufman Metal Company. Rose Kaufman (née Bearg) was a member of Beth Tzedec Sisterhhod, State of Israel Bonds and Hadassah. Together they had three children named Linda Joy, Deena Karen, and Ira David.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose and Morris Kaufman on their wedding day taken by Nathan Gilbert.

Name Access

Kaufman, Morris

Kaufman, Rose

Subjects

Married people

Portraits

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

Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds

Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series

Level

File

Fonds

103

Series

1

File

104

Material Format

textual record

Date

1947-1948

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence with Paul Dunkelman regarding a request for Lemberg Landsleit Ferein.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

2

Material Format

multiple media

Date

1898, [192-?]-1997

Physical Description

80 cm of textual records and other material

Admin History/Bio

Benjamin Dunkelman (1913–1997) was a successful businessman and president of Tip Top Tailors. He had a distinguished military career in both the Canadian Army during the Second World War and in the Haganah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Benjamin was born in Toronto to David Dunkelman (1883–1978) and Rose (née Miller, 1889–1949). He had three sisters and two brothers: Joseph, a movie executive; Ernest, a manufacturer; Zelda; Veronica; and Theodora. His father, David, was a successful entrepreneur who established Tip Top Tailors in 1910. Both David and his wife Rose were fervent Zionists.

Benjamin attended Upper Canada College and, at the age of eighteen, visited Palestine for the first time. While in Palestine, he worked for a year on a kibbutz, mostly as a guard. During the Second World War, he served as a major in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada; as major, he gained respect for his knowledge of mortars. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1945 for his role in the final Allied assault on Germany. Two years later, Benjamin returned to Palestine to join the Haganah in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. As a commander, he captured Nazareth and brought northern Galilee under Jewish control. Near the end of the war, he met and married Yael Lifshitz (m. Dunkelman), a corporal in the Israeli army. Benjamin was elected national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Canada in 1977.

In addition to his work as a soldier, Benjamin was a successful businessman. He served as president of Tip Top Tailors after his father stepped down; he was also director of Colonial Finance Corporation, president of Cloverdale Shopping Centre, and president of Renforth Developments. Besides operating the Dunkelman Gallery, Benjamin and his wife, Yael, ran the Constellation Hotel and Dunkelman’s Restaurant.

Dunkelman later wrote of his experiences in both wars in his autobiography "Dual Allegiance" (published by MacMIllan). As well as the DSO, Dunkelman was awarded the Fighter’s Decoration of the State of Israel (1970), and an Israel Bonds Award Dinner in Tribute to Ben Dunkelman (1977). He was a guest of honour both at a reception hosted by the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science and the veterans of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada (1976) and at a 7th Brigade Reunion in Israel (1991).

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting Benjamin Dunkelman's personal, business, and military activities. Included is personal and business correspondence and other records, maps, photographs, news clippings, and scrapbooks assembled by Dunkelman. The bulk of the records relate both to Dunkelman’s autobiography Dual allegiance and to his military career in the Second World War and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Other records relate to his business work with Tip Top Tailors, the Constellation Hotel, Dunkelman’s Restaurant, and the Dunkelman Gallery, as well as to his Zionist actvities, his writing and public speeches, and his personal life.

The fonds is organized into the following series: Personal records and correspondence, Zionist materials, Businesses, Second World War, Arab-Israeli War, Dual Allegiance, and Speeches.

Notes

Physical description note: Includes 218 photographs, 60 maps, 7 postcards, 5 architectural drawings, and 3 albums.

Associated material note: see the Ben Dunkelman fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

Name Access

Dunkelman, Benjamin, 1913-1997

Subjects

Authors

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949

World War, 1939-1945

Related Material

See fonds #39 (Rose Dunkelman fonds).

Creator

Dunkelman, Benjamin, 1913-1997

Accession Number

2000-3-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1

File

23

Material Format

textual record

Date

1931-1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Dunkelman received this passport in 1931 and over the next nine years used it to travel to such places as Palestine--when he went to work for a year on a kibbutz--Italy and the United States.

Scope and Content

File consists of one Canadian passport.

Physical Condition

Passport is in good condition.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

David and Rose Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-1

File

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?]-[194-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 20 cm and 19 x 25 cm

Scope and Content

File contains two portraits of David Dunkelman.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Theodora Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-2

File

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-?], Nov. 1953

Physical Description

26 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm or smaller

2 postcards : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of graphic material relating to Theodora Dunkelman. The majority of the images are of Theodora as a young girl during a family trip to Florida. Also included are photographs taken at Camp Modin and of Theo with her father, David Dunkelman. Finally, file includes a post card of a sulphuric acid plant in Haifa and a boat.

Physical Condition

One photograph is torn.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Personal series

Theodora Dunkelman sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

1-2

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1946

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Theodora Dunkelman received the degree in 1946.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Business series

Dunkelman Gallery sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

3-3

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1967

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains one Globe and Mail article about the opening of the Dunkelman Gallery on 3 April 1967.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Dunkelman fonds

Speeches series

Level

File

Fonds

2

Series

7

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976-1977

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains two speeches, one a lecture given to the Adath Israel Synagogue in Toronto and the other entitled "On the Brink". Both relate to Israeli politics.

Name Access

Adath Israel Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Adath Israel Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Rose Dunkelman fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

39

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 May 1941

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Dunkelman seated at a table with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt and an unidentified man. Mrs. Roosevelt was visiting Toronto as a guest of Toronto Hadassah to help with their War Service Drive. This photograph was taken at the donor's luncheon.

Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt was the mother of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Name Access

Dunkelman, David

Roosevelt, Mrs. Sara Delano

Subjects

Luncheons

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Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1980-11-2

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

69 photographs

3 cm of textual records

Date

1910-1959

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs, a marriage certificate, a notebook and several pocket books. The photographs are of Rose Freidman's family and friends, including the Solomon family. Some of the photographs are pasted into a scrapbook that has been annotated to include the names of the photograph subjects and some additional commentary. The notebook contains goodwill messages from Rose's friends prior to her wedding. There is a marriage ceritificate for Harry Solomon and Dora Rogowitch dated August 23, 1907.

In addition, there several small pocket size books including a Jewish calendar from the Jewish National Fund of Canada, six annual hebrew calendars from the Toronto Jewish Old Folks Home, and an abridged five year calendar from the Hebrew National Kosher Sausage Company. Finally, there is a booklet entitled "Afikim: The Story of a Kibbutz" by Lionel Feitelberg.

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.

Name Access

Freidman, Rose

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

1982-8-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

2 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 26 and 13 x 18 cm

Date

1908-1961

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a photograph of a group of people in front of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queens Park in the 1930s, a photograph of J. Irving Oelbaum, national vice president of Canadian Jewish Congress, presenting a Scroll of Honour to Mr. and Mrs. J. Donnenfeld (1961), and a United Zionists of Toronto certificate awarded to Paul Levi in 1908.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1990-5-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

11 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm or smaller

Date

[ca. 1900]-1946

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material pertaining to the Rosen, Silver, and Winkler families. Photographs include views of Abraham Silver's two tobacco and grocery stores in Toronto ( one at Spadina and Adelaide), and pictures of family members in unidentified locations. Documents include a marriage registration certificate for the 1912 marriage of Alexander and Freda Rosen, a 1939 letter attesting to the Canadian naturalization of Elik Rosen in 1914, and a Certificate of Canadian Naturalization for Rachel Rosen (1946).

Name Access

Winkler Family

Rosen Family

Silver, Abraham

Source

Archival Accessions