Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[188-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Camilla, Emma, and Ida Scheuer. The photograph was taken in Europe in the late nineteenth century.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

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

The image is stained and torn.

Two of the corners of the card are broken off.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2441

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a portrait of Oda Scheuer of Toronto.

Name Access

Scheuer, Oda

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.)

Accession Number

1980-12-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[187-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Isaac Scheuer taken in a studio in Europe.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: St. Johann A/D Saar H. Leonhard Bahnhofstr. 139.

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.

Physical Condition

Good.

Places

Europe

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1891

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Edmund Scheuer taken in Toronto.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Bruce 132 King St. W., Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

38

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Isadore Scheuer taken in Toronto. The photograph shows his face and torso and he is wearing a suit and glasses.

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.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1900]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 15 cm (sight) on mat 35 x 27 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Edmund Scheuer. Edmund is sitting in a large chair that is carved with lion heads and other details.

Notes

Studio: Esson, Preston, Ontario.

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.

Physical Condition

Mat is faded and damaged.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[188-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 2.5 x 2 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a small photographic portrait of Benno Scheuer.

Notes

Tintype.

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.

Physical Condition

Surface is a bit scratched.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1971]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is a portrait of Ida Siegel, possibly taken at the Dewson Street Public School.

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[188-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a full-length portrait of Gatella Scheuer taken in Europe in the late nineteenth century.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on card.

Studio: S. Wilhelm, Photogr. Atelier Neunkirchen Bahnhofstrasse.

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

Europe

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Oda Scheuer taken in Toronto.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Gagen and Fraser, 79 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1879

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Gatella Scheuer at twenty, taken in Europe in the late nineteenth century. The portrait is of her head and torso and she is wearing a velvet jacket and her hair is pinned up.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on card.

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.

Physical Condition

The card has been cut into an oval.

Places

Europe

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

19

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Benno Scheuer taken at a studio in Toronto. The portrait is of his head and torso.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: J. Fraser Bryce, 107 King Street West, Toronto.

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.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

7 August 1882

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 original copy) ; 25 x 12 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Benno Scheuer taken at a studio in Hamilton, Ontario. One copy of the photograph has the name of the studio printed on the cabinet card while the other does not and is a bit larger in size with gold trim.

Notes

Albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards.

Studio: Farmer Brothers Photographers, 8 & 10 King St. West, Hamilton, Ontario.

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.

Physical Condition

The emulsion is ripped and curling off the card.

The images are stained and scratched.

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

• 

Level

Item

Item

1199

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1895]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 11 cm and 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Ida Rosenthal.

Name Access

Rosenthal, Ida

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.)

Accession Number

1977-1-5

1983-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1208

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1895]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 16 x 12 cm and 13 x 11 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ida Rosenthal was the sister of Harry and Mollie Rosenthal.

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Ida Rosenthal.

Name Access

Rosenthal, Ida

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.)

Accession Number

1977-1-5

1983-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

25

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Always involved in the field of education, Ida Siegel became the first Jewish woman to be elected to the Toronto Board of Education in 1930. She held this post for six years. She was later named honourary secretary of the Toronto Board of Jewish Education.

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Ida Siegel. She is in formal dress. The photograph was used for the Board of Education composite portrait for 1933.

Notes

Stamp, verso:

Photograph by Ashley & Crippen

Please give credit line

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.

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[188-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Edmund Scheuer taken in Toronto in the late nineteenth century.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Perkins 293 Yonge Street, Toronto.

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.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

27

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 12 cm (sight, oval) on card 22 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Rhoda Simonsky (née Scheuer).

Notes

Studio: Leatherdale, Toronto.

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.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1877

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w (1 negative, 1 reprint) ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a full-length photographic portrait of Oda Scheuer taken at a studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Farmer Brothers Photography, London and Hamilton, Ontario.

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

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[187-]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w (1 negative, 1 reprint) ; 16 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

Born 14 October 1851 at Bernkastel, Moselle. Née Strauss. Married: 2 July 1873 at Forbach, Fr. to Edmund Scheuer. Died 16 November 1913, Toronto.

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Oda Scheuer probably taken in Hamilton, Ontario in the 1870's. The portrait is a partial facial profile of Oda wearing an elaborate flowered hat.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on card.

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

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

37

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1937

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 mounted on card) ; 23 x 17 cm

Scope and Content

Item consists of a photographic portrait taken of Edmund Scheuer at ninety-years old. He is seated, leaning forward with his head on his hand, reading a book.

Notes

Studio: Simpson Brothers, Toronto, 357 Yonge Street.

Subjects

Older 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.

Physical Condition

The unmounted photograph is starting to deteriorate at the edges and the matting is damaged.

Accession Number

The unmounted photograph is from accession 2004-7-1 and the mounted photograph is from accession 1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

• 

Level

Item

Item

3771

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item consists of a portrait postcard of Meyer and Ida Berger taken at a local studio.

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.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1892

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 4 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ida would have been seven years old when this photograph was taken. Rebecca Schaeffer was likely a family friend or relative.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait photograph of Rebecca Schaeffer and Ida Lewis as young girls, posed with a small tea set. The photograph was taken in Pittsburgh. Ida is standing on the right.

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.

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[197-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

For ten years, during her 80s, Ida volunteered her time to teach civics classes to immigrant children at the Dewson Street Public School in Toronto. She spoke with the children about her own experiences as an immigrant in Canada and arranged for special field trips.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait photograph of Ida Siegel in a children's library. It was likely taken at the Dewson Street Public School in Toronto.

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

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

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

20

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1905]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a studio portrait of Ida Siegel in a profile position.

Notes

Photo by Milne Studios Limited, Toronto.

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.

Physical Condition

Photograph is in very poor condition. It has become brittle and cracked and is torn is several areas.

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

27

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1901]

Physical Description

3 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 14 x 10 cm on matte 21 x 14 or smaller

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Ida Lewis at the age of sixteen. The photograph was taken for Ida's high school graduation. She is dressed in a gown and hat and is standing next to an ornate chair in a studio setting.

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.

Accession Number

2005-5-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

18

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[189-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rhoda, Eddie, and Isadore Scheuer. Rhoda is seated at left, Eddie is standing at centre, and Isadore is seated at right.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on card.

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.

Physical Condition

The card is in poor condition.

The image is scratched.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1884

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Eddie Scheuer Jr. as a baby taken in a studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

W. Farmer's Artistic Studio, Hamilton.

Subjects

Infants

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.

Physical Condition

The emulsion and card are damaged.

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1908]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 9 cm (sight, oval) and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is a copy of a matted portrait of Ida Abramsky (1882-1950), daughter of Joseph Abramsky and Chaia Novack Abramsky. She was born in Bellorussia and came to Kingston with her family in 1896. She married Moe Breslin 1905 and lived in Toronto until her death in 1950.

Name Access

Abramsky, Ida

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

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

Kingston (Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[190-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 7 cm on matte 9 x 11 cm

Admin History/Bio

A. Hershop may have been a cousin of Ida's, since she had a cousin named Max Wershop who lived in New York State.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait photograph of the nephew of Ida Siegel and another unidentified man. The handwriting on the verso of the photo reads: From your affectionate nephew [A. Wershop?].

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.

Accession Number

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

24

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1927]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 14 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Canadian Jewish Farm School was established in 1927 by Morris Saxe, president of the Federated Jewish Farmers of Ontario. It was a training school for Polish war orphans brought to Canada after the First World War. It was owned and operated by Morris Saxe on his Main Street South farm in Georgetown, Ontario. Saxe, along with Eli Greenblatt of Detroit, was responsible for bringing the orphans over from Mezritch, Poland. Greenblatt raised the funds for their transportation and Saxe arranged for their entry permits. The children were allowed to enter the country, provided that they lived and worked on the farm. Their duties involved milking cows, looking after chickens, and harvesting corn and other crops. The Saxe family also owned a creamery business, first in Acton, and then on Guelph Street in Georgetown.

The Jewish Farm School was the second attempt by Saxe to assist Jewish immigrants with agricultural training. The first was established a year prior in 1926, to help European immigrants gain knowledge of Canadian farm life. However, it succumbed to several problems, mostly related to Jewish interests in the community using the school as a way of gaining entry for immigrants who would otherwise not be eligible -- a plan which Saxe disapproved of, which created dissention within the community. When Greenblatt became involved the following year, the focus shifted to helping Jewish war orphans.

Edmund Scheuer and Ida Siegel were most likely at the school event because of their mutual interest and involvement in aiding Jewish immigrants and in Jewish education and training.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Ida Siegel standing alongside Edmund Scheuer at the Jewish Farm School in Georgetown, Ontario. Edmund is wearing a tuxedo. The photograph may have been taken at the official opening of the school.

Notes

One photograph is a copy of the original.

The writing on the copy photograph indicates that the farm was located in Guelph, which is incorrect. The date is also written as 1923, which is also incorrect, since the first school was not established until 1926, with the likely date of the photograph being 1927.

The writing on the original photograph states that the photograph was taken in Acton, which is incorrect as the Jewish Farm School was located a short distance away in Georgetown.

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

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1887]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic portrait of Eddie Scheuer Jr. as a young boy taken in a studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Farmer Brothers Photoraphers, Hamilton, Ontario.

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.

Physical Condition

The corners of the card are damaged.

Places

Hamilton (Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3158

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : col. ; 9 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of Edmund Scheuer. The print was made from a slide.

Name Access

Scheuer, Edmund

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

Accession Number

1982-8-10

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3 items

Date

1944-1967

Scope and Content

This accession consists of three items collected by Ida Bernstein. They include: a programme from McCaul Street Synagogue on the occasion of the burning of the mortgage, an invitation to Mrs. Bernstein to meet with the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and finally, a programme from the Alpha Omega Fraternity honouring Harry Jolley

Administrative History

Beth Hamidrash Hagadol was a Toronto synagogue which amalgamated with Goel Tzedec in 1952 to form the Beth Tzedec Congregation.

Alpha Omega is a Jewish dental fraternity which has an alumni chapter in Toronto. Harry Jolley was the national president of the fraternity in 1952.

Keillar Mackay was the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1957 to 1963

Descriptive Notes

McCaul Synagogue.

Beth Midrash Hagadol.

Lieutenant Governor.

Harry Jolley.

Alpha Omega.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1982-8-7

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1941-1972

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the October 12, 1941 edition of the Yiddisher Zhurnal (Daily Hebrew Journal), a souvenir programme for the Workmen's Circle Peretz School's Jubilee Banquet and a celebration of I. Matenko's 80th birthday. Also included are 3 invitations to annual meetings of the United Jewish Welfare Fund in the 1960s and a National Conference On Jewish Education Report (1972).

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1976-11-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1915-1923

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a text book of the Toronto Jewish Free School at 202 Berverly Street that was printed and published by Edmund Scheuer in 1915 and a letter written by Abraham Landsky in 1923 authorizing his son Harry Landsky to use his seats in Beth Medrosh Hagodol Chevra Tehillim (McCaul Street Synagogue) during the father's absence from Toronto.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: The letter written by Abraham Landsky has been digitized and is available as a PDF file.

Subjects

Synagogue seating

Name Access

Landsky, Abraham

Landsky, Harry

Benstein, Ida

McCaul Street Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

McCaul Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

33

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Apr. 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 8 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

Ida Siegel (née Lewis) (1885-1982) was born 14 February 1885 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally from Lithuania, her parents Samuel and Hannah Ruth (née Ticktin) Lewis immigrated to the United States in the mid-1880s with their two sons, Abe and Charles. Ida was the only Lewis child to be born in the United States. In 1894, Ida and her family moved to Toronto. Ida was educated in both Pittsburgh and Toronto public schools and attended the University of Toronto.

On 14 February 1905, Ida married Isidore Hirsch Siegel at the Elm Street Synagogue. They had 6 children: Rohama, Leah Gittel (Labovitz), David Isar, Sarah (Sairlee), Avrom Fichel, Rivka Hadassah.

An extremely active communal leader, Ida helped found the Daughters of Zion, the first ladies Zionist society in Canada, in 1899. She was also responsible for founding the Herzl Girls Club in 1904 and Hadassah in 1916. She was instrumental in the organization of the first free Jewish dispensary in Toronto, located on Elizabeth Street in the Ward. This eventually developed into Mount Sinai Hospital. Ida was also very active in womens peace movements and the Toronto Board of Education (elected to Board, 1930-36) and the Toronto Bureau of Jewish Education (honorary secretary). In 1917, Ida helped to organize a fundraising body for the Jewish community known as the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. This would later become the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Ida Siegel.

Name Access

Siegel, Ida, 1885-1982 (subject)

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 Fonds 15 (Ida Lewis Siegel fonds).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Refusnik cases sub-series

Individual Refusnik cases sub-sub series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

3-6-1

File

187

Material Format

textual record

Date

1976-1986

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Goldberg, Ida

Page Number

294

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Goldberg, Ida

Page Number

294

Comments

Name crossed out.

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

47

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

object

Date

[187-]-1959

Physical Description

6 folders of textual records

2 window plates : brass

58 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

The Scheuer family dates back to at least the eighteenth century in Germany to Moise Scheuer (1765-1846) and Esther Ackerman (1770-1847). Their son, Isaac Scheuer (1809-1889), married Hannchen (Johanna) Strauss (1815-1878) in 1843. Isaac and Johanna had six children: Gabriel (1844-1922), Camilla (1845-1916), Edmund (1847-1943), Emma (1853-1916), Ida (1855-1902), and Benno (Benjamin) (1857-1921).

While Gabriel, Emma, and Ida remained in Europe, Camilla, Edmund, and Benno immigrated to Canada in the late nineteenth century. Camilla came to Hamilton, Ontario after her marriage in 1866 to Herman Levy, co-founder of the Levy Brothers jewellery business. Edmund became a partner in the business when he first immigrated to Canada in 1871, and lived with Camilla and Herman. Camilla became the acknowledged leader of Jewish women in Hamilton. She served in organizations such as the Deborah Ladies' Aid Society, which eventually became an auxiliary of Temple Anshe Sholom, Canada's oldest Reform congregation, often referred to as the Hughson Street Temple. Edmund established the first Sabbath School in Ontario at Anshe Sholom in 1872 and served as president from 1873 to 1886.

After he was established in Hamilton, Edmund returned to Europe in 1873 to marry Oda Strauss (1854-1913) at Forbach, Lorraine, and then brought her back to Canada with him. The couple moved to Toronto in 1886, where he established a wholesale jewellery business on Yonge Street called Scheuer's under his company Edmund Scheuer Limited. Scheuer's was one of the oldest jewellery firms in Toronto and the oldest established wholesale diamond importer in Canada. Edmund's brother, Benno, also worked for the business as the accountant and then secretary-treasurer. Benno was married to Gatella Strauss (1859-1903) and they had three children: Eddie Jr. (1884-1967), Rhoda (1886-1963) and Isadore (1887-1969). Eddie Jr. and Isadore also worked for their uncle's business. Eddie Jr. started as a clerk and then became vice-president, while Isadore started out as a travelling salesman and jeweller. When their uncle retired in 1922, Eddie Jr. took over as president and his brother Isadore became vice-president of Scheuer's.

In addition to his jewellery business, Edmund Scheuer also taught and supervised the religious school at Holy Blossom Synagogue. He went on to serve in every official capacity at Holy Blossom, including vice-chairman and treasurer of the building committee for the Bond Street building. He also founded The Jewish Free School at 206 Beverley Street for Jewish girls and wrote his own textbook for the school, the first Jewish religious school book printed in Toronto. In 1892, he founded the first Jewish benevolent society in Toronto and was later president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. In 1927, the Beverley Street building, which housed Federation offices, was dedicated in his honour and named the "Scheuer House".

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting the Scheuer family in Germany, Hamilton, and Toronto. The fonds is made up primarily of photographs of Scheuer family members and friends. It also includes some textual records, including correspondence, marriage certificates, a Toronto Jewish Free School text book, and Holy Blossom Temple Bulletins. Also included are two brass "Scheuer's" window plates which were likely from Edmund Scheuer's jewellery business of the same name.

Notes

Associated Material Note: See the CJC National Archives collection for Edmund Scheuer at: http://www.cjc.ca/template.php?action=archives&Type=1&Language=EN&Rec=253

Name Access

Scheuer (family)

Subjects

Families

Related Material

See OJA vertical file cabinet for "Scheuer, Edmund" and "Levy, Camilla"

See MG3 A1 Holy Blossom

See MG2 G1C - Edumund Scheuer's Zionist Free School

Saarbrücken City Archives - May have records pertaining to Edmund's brother Gabriel Scheuer (1844-1922) who remained in Germany.

Arrangement

The textual records have been arranged in chronological order into five files. The objects have been described as one file. The fifty-eight photographs have been described as two files and thirty-nine items arranged chronologically

Accession Number

1989-4-2

2004-7-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

File

Fonds

47

File

8

Material Format

object

Date

[188-?]

Physical Description

2 window plates : brass, green and brass ; 3.5 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of two brass Scheuer's window plates with green background. The plates are attached to a stand which allow them to remain upright. The plates were likely used at the Scheuer's jewellery store.

Notes

Artifact #29 and #30.

Physical Condition

Fair.

Paint is chipped.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1877

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Edmund Scheuer at age thirty taken at a studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Farmer Brothers Photography, London and Hamilton, Ontario.

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

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1889]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Eddie and Rhoda Scheuer taken in a studio in Toronto in the late nineteenth century. Both children are dressed in overcoats and hats and are posed leaning against a tree trunk. There is a snowy, cottage scene behind the children, used as a backdrop.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Studio: Perkins Photographer, 293 Yonge Street, Toronto.

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

Slightly stained and torn.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

35

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1935]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Edmund Scheuer in Whitby, Ontario, outside of the King home. He is seated on a chair next to the front steps of the home and in front of the window which is surrounded by leaves and bushes. He is wearing a suit and hat.

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

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

34

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Rose was married to Eddie Scheuer Jr.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Rose Scheuer in Toronto. Rose is standing outside and leaning against a gate with a tree in the background.

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

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

47

Item

36

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 June 1935

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Edmund Scheuer in Toronto. He is standing outside of a home in front of a garden. He is wearing a suit and is standing with his arms crossed.

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

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

File

Fonds

47

File

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

15 Feb. 1881

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 16 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of two photographic portraits taken of Benno Scheuer in a studio in Hamilton, Ontario on February 15th, 1881. In one photograph, Benno's head and torso are framed in a raised oval on the card. The other photograph is almost a full-length portrait and Benno has his arms crossed. This photograph is inscribed to his fiancee.

Notes

Albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards.

Studio: Farmer Bros. Photography, Hamilton, Ontario.

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Accession Number

2007-6-3

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm

Date

[ca. 1915]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of two class photos of a public school in the early 20th century, possibly the Orde Street Public School. The first image is of students of an all female cooking class, one of whom was Ida Fine Ruderman (1899-1999). The second image is of staff and students of an all male shop class, one of whom is Joseph Fine (Ida's brother).

Subjects

Education

Name Access

Ruderman, Ida

Fine, Joseph

Orde Street Public School (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions