1991 [textual record] – 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 52
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
52
Material Format
textual record
Date
1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Festival 1991 [textual record] – 1991.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-17; File 30
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-17
File
30
Material Format
textual record
Date
1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains a memo, a Festival proposal, correspondence, flyers, a press release, a list of corporate sponsor contacts and other records pertaining to the planning of the 1991 Festival. The correspondence relates to arrangements for a fire services vehicle and crew to be "on exhibit" at the Festival; logistics planning; entertainment; soliciting volunteers; and arts and crafts.
Source
Archival Descriptions
1991-1992 [textual record] – 1991-1992.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Director of school finances series
Chronological correspondence and memoranda sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 3-1; File 46
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Director of school finances series
Chronological correspondence and memoranda sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
3-1
File
46
Material Format
textual record
Date
1991-1992
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
1991-1992 [textual record] – 1991-1992.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 53
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
53
Material Format
textual record
Date
1991-1992
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
April 1991 [textual record] – April 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 57
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
57
Material Format
textual record
Date
April 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
May 1991 [textual record] – May 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 58
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
58
Material Format
textual record
Date
May 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
July 1991 [textual record] – July 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 60
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
60
Material Format
textual record
Date
July 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Aug. 1991 [textual record] – Aug. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 61
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
61
Material Format
textual record
Date
Aug. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Sept. 1991 [textual record] – Sept. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 62
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
62
Material Format
textual record
Date
Sept. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Oct. 1991 [textual record] – Oct. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 63
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
63
Material Format
textual record
Date
Oct. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Nov. 1991 [textual record] – Nov. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 64
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
64
Material Format
textual record
Date
Nov. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Dec. 1991 [textual record] – Dec. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 65
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
65
Material Format
textual record
Date
Dec. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
March 1993 [textual record] – March 1993.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 82
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
82
Material Format
textual record
Date
March 1993
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
March 1993 [textual record] – March 1993.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 83
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
83
Material Format
textual record
Date
March 1993
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
March of the Living [textual record] – 1995-1996.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Toronto Holocaust Museum series
Subject files sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 28-22; File 24
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Toronto Holocaust Museum series
Subject files sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
28-22
File
24
Material Format
textual record
Date
1995-1996
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of a pamphlet for March of the Living and correspondence and applicant interview guide.
Source
Archival Descriptions
March 1995 [textual record] – Mar. 1995.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Director of school finances series
Chronological correspondence and memoranda sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 3-1; File 63
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Director of school finances series
Chronological correspondence and memoranda sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
3-1
File
63
Material Format
textual record
Date
Mar. 1995
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
March 1990 [textual record] – Mar. 1990.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 38
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
38
Material Format
textual record
Date
Mar. 1990
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
March 1990 [textual record] – Mar. 1990.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 39
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
39
Material Format
textual record
Date
Mar. 1990
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Walk for Israel 1991 [textual record, graphic material, object] – 1990-1991.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-17
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Walk for Israel 1991 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-17
Material Format
textual record
graphic material
object
Date
1990-1991
Physical Description
23 cm of textual records
17 photographs : col.
1 t-shirt
1 hat
2 shoelaces
Admin History/Bio
The theme of the 1991 Walk for Israel, which was held on Sunday, 2 June, was "Operation Exodus: The Journey Home." This corresponded to UJA Federation's campaign that year. The goal of the walk was to raise enough money for five hundred Russian Jews (two planeloads) to make aliyah to Israel. Each of the eight checkpoints portrayed a different theme or "step" to freedom: "invitation to freedom," "permission to freedom," "flight to freedom," etc. Great effort was made to expand recruitment from the traditional children who participated to reach parents and other adults from UJA's divisions. The chairs of the Walk were David William Brown and David Engel, and the UJA staff coordinator was Avrum Rosensweig. Sponsors included Shopper's Drug Mart, Spring Valley Spring Water, Beatrice Foods, and Meadowvale Security. There were 8,500 participants this year, but only 2,700 of these collected any sponsors, a fact that highlights a longstanding problem facing the Walk Committee. After the event, expenditures were estimated at $23,000 and revenue (from the festival) at $14,000. The difference was made up by UJA.
The festival in 1991 was called "The Journey Home: Sharing Our Ethnicity," and it focused on the multiculturalism in the Toronto Jewish community. This year, the festival was reenvisioned as a family-picnic type of event rather than the expansive carnival atmosphere of previous years. The staff coordinator of the festival was Mark Freedman, and the lay chairs were Judy Engel and Judy Shulman. The festival included arts and crafts, puppets, storytellers, games, pony rides, and a petting zoo. There was also a varied line-up of performers and musicians and an "Israeli café" food experience.
Scope and Content
Sub-sub-series contains textual records, photographs, and a T-shirt, hat, and pair of shoelaces from the 1991 Walk for Israel. The files are arranged by function in this order: walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, sponsorship and prizes, finances, the walk event itself, the festival and post-event evaluation.
Related Material
A map of the 1991 walk route can be found in series 17-1-19 (1993), file 9.
Expenses of the 1991 walk (from July 1990 to June 1991) are in a report in Series 17-1-19, file 18 (1993).
Source
Archival Descriptions
Yom Hashoah 1991 [textual record] – 1991.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Toronto Holocaust Museum series
Yom Hashoah sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 28-14; File 25
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Toronto Holocaust Museum series
Yom Hashoah sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
28-14
File
25
Material Format
textual record
Date
1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of scripts, budgets, correspondence, press releases, flyers, and programmes related to the 1991 Yom Hashoah commemoration of the Holocaust Centre.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Jan. - Feb. 1991 [textual record] – Jan. - Feb. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 54
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
54
Material Format
textual record
Date
Jan. - Feb. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Jan. - Feb. 1991 [textual record] – Jan. - Feb. 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 55
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
55
Material Format
textual record
Date
Jan. - Feb. 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
May - June 1991 [textual record] – May - June 1991.
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 48; Series 6; File 59
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Board of Jewish Education fonds
Chronological correspondence and memoranda series
Level
File
Fonds
48
Series
6
File
59
Material Format
textual record
Date
May - June 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Source
Archival Descriptions
Programming for January - March [textual record] – 1972.
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 28; Series 4; File 12
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
Fonds
28
Series
4
File
12
Material Format
textual record
Date
1972
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
The file consists of programme time line sheets.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Programming for January - March [textual record] – 1973.
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 28; Series 4; File 16
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
Fonds
28
Series
4
File
16
Material Format
textual record
Date
1973
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
The file consists of format notes for taping of programmes and news copy.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Programming for January - March [textual record] – 1974.
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 28; Series 4; File 19
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
Shalom series
Level
File
Fonds
28
Series
4
File
19
Material Format
textual record
Date
1974
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
The file consists of format notes for taping of programmes and news copy.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Pre-March run [textual record] – 1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20; File 11
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
File
11
Material Format
textual record
Date
1994
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains two letters to participants in the 10 kilometre run that took place before the March.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Jehoshaphat victory march [textual record] – Apr. 1983-May 1983.
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
Committee for Soviet Jewry series
Protest activities sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 17; Series 3-5; File 120
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
Committee for Soviet Jewry series
Protest activities sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
17
Series
3-5
File
120
Material Format
textual record
Date
Apr. 1983-May 1983
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains notices for an inter-faith event held 22 May 1983 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Rabbi Shemen - Jul. 1991
Name
Rabbi Shemen
Material Format
sound recording
Interview Date
Jul. 1991
Source
Oral Histories
Name
Rabbi Shemen
Number
OH 284
Interview Date
Jul. 1991
Quantity
1
AccessionNumber
2004-1-4
Total Running Time
60 min or less
Biography
Rabbi Nachman Shemen was a talmudic scholar, journalist, scholar, teacher, “mediator par excellence,” and the author of more than twenty books. His contribution to Jewish scholarship included interpretations on biblical, talmudic, rabbinic, and literary studies. The two volumes, published in Tel Aviv in Yiddish, discuss issues that date back to the creation and the Book of Genesis up to more recent current day controversial issues as conversion and assimilation.
The rabbinic scholar was born in Chodel, Poland, a small town near Lublin, just before the outbreak of the First World War. Shemen's great-grandfather was a disciple of the founder of Hasidism in Poland, the “Seer of Lublin.” Both his parents were descendants of chassidism and scholars. When he was just over seventeen years old, he received rabbinic ordination, and In 1930, moved to Canada with his family.
A founder of COR the Kashruth supervisory body, Shemen made COR one of the largest and most respected kosher organizations in North America. For over 40 years, Shemen served as director of the Kashruth Council and Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Toronto Jewish Congress. He was one of the founders of Congregation Torah V’Avoda and was associated with the Eitz Chaim Schools where he taught for over 25 years. He was a longtime contributor to Yiddish newspapers and wrote many articles, sometimes using the pseudonym “A Reporter,” on Jewish issues and about the early Jewish community of Toronto. He died in 1993.
Material Format
sound recording
Language
Yiddish
Name Access
Shemen, Nachman, 1912-1993
Original Format
Audio cassette
Source
Oral Histories
Switzer's Delicatessen, 1946-1991
Address
322 Spadina Avenue
Source
Landmarks

Opened in 1946 when the neighbourhood was still teaming with Jews working and living in the neighbourhood, this deli was one of the last to close in the area, in 1946. The Switzer family lived at 35 Nassau Street.
Address
322 Spadina Avenue
Time Period
1946-1991
Scope Note
Opened in 1946 when the neighbourhood was still teaming with Jews working and living in the neighbourhood, this deli was one of the last to close in the area, in 1946. The Switzer family lived at 35 Nassau Street.
Category
Food-related business
Source
Landmarks
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Community March for Israel 1994 [textual record, graphic material, object] – 1993-1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
Material Format
textual record
graphic material
object
Date
1993-1994
Physical Description
17 cm of textual records
278 photographs : col. ; 24 x 22 cm or smaller
1 t-shirt
Admin History/Bio
In 1994, the walk was renamed the Community March for Israel to give it a strong feeling of community spirit, solidarity, and unity. The route was significantly shortened to five kilometres, and it started at a precise time so that all participants walked together; as the posters read, "We walk as one!" The event was held on Sunday, 29 May. It was chaired by Judy Engel and Alan Winer, with UJA staff coordinator Vicki Weiss overseeing the planning and the work of committees. Close to seven thousand participants raised about $100,000 to support teenage olim (immigrants) in Israel. Related fundraisers include the second annual aerobathon, dances held by BBYO and Reena-Kadima-CHAT and a pre-March run of ten kilometres.
Scope and Content
Sub-sub-series contains textual records, photographs and a T-shirt for the 1994 Walk for Israel and the festival. The files are arranged by function in this order: walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, corporate sponsorship, finances, the walk event itself, the festival, related fundraisers, and post-event evaluation and follow-up.
Source
Archival Descriptions
B.B.Y.O. Pre-March Bash [textual record] – 1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20; File 35
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
File
35
Material Format
textual record
Date
1994
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains flyers for the teen dance held the night before the March. It also contains memos exchanged between Ronit Climan of UJA and the Assistant Regional Director of B.B.Y.O. in organizing the dance, and correspondence following the event.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Reena pre-March dance [textual record] – 1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20; File 36
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
File
36
Material Format
textual record
Date
1994
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains a flyer, correspondence and minutes from a meeting planning the joint C.H.A.T.-Reena Foundation-Kadima pre-Walk dance. People who brought their sponsor books to the dance received a free March t-shirt.
Source
Archival Descriptions
[Post-March evaluation and letters] [textual record] – 1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20; File 38
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
File
38
Material Format
textual record
Date
1994
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File contains follow-up correspondence, minutes from the evaluation meeting and copies of clippings of newspaper coverage. The letters include one received from the mother of a participant suggesting that people are tired of the Walk for Israel and a 1993 feedback letter from a volunteer which has notable sections highlighted.
Notes
Title based on contents of the file.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Community March for Israel 1995 [textual record, graphic material, object] – 1994-1995.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-21
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-21
Material Format
textual record
graphic material
object
Date
1994-1995
Physical Description
8 cm of textual records
304 photographs (218 negatives) : col. ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller
1 hat
Admin History/Bio
The 1995 Community March for Israel took place on Sunday, 28 May, Yom Yerushalayim. It was chaired by Maura Cooperberg and Jeff Cohen with past chair Judy Engel serving as advisor. Campaign associate Ronit Climan was staff coordinator, and Marcy Kroach and Gilda Niman headed the planning of the festival. The theme of the March was "From Metulla to Eilat," emphasizing how UJA was helping Israel youth "throughout the length and breadth of the country." The five-kilometre route again went from the Promenade Mall at Bathurst and Clark to the Bathurst JCC. Mayors of both Metulla and Eilat (Yossi Goldberg and Gabi Kadosh) were present and led the March. At the festival, the mainstage entertainment was headlined by The Stars Band and Liberty Silver.
Scope and Content
Sub-sub-series contains textual records, photographs, and a hat from the 1995 Community March for Israel, the festival, and related fundraisers. The files are arranged by function in this order: walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and staff volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, corporate sponsorship, finances, the walk event itself, the festival, related fundraisers, and post-event evaluation and follow-up.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Community March for Israel hat [object] – 1995.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-21; Item 1
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
Item
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-21
Item
1
Material Format
object
Date
1995
Physical Description
1 hat
Scope and Content
Item is a volunteer's hat from the March. It is a purple and white painter's cap with the "From Metulla to Eilat" logo on the front, the date of the March on one side and the name "United Jewish Appeal Community March for Israel" on the other side. On the top is printed Shopper's Drug Mart [sponsor] in white.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Community March for Israel 1996 [textual record, graphic material] – 1995-1996.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1996 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-22
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1996 sub-sub-series
Level
Sub-sub-series
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-22
Material Format
textual record
graphic material
Date
1995-1996
Physical Description
8 cm of textual records
213 photographs : col. (196 negatives) ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller
Admin History/Bio
The 1996 Community March for Israel took place on Sunday, 26 May. Its theme was "Journey to Jerusalem," and the festival was called the Jerusalem 3000 Festival in honour of the city's birthday. The goal was to raise awareness and support for UJA's projects in Jerusalem, and, in the end, more than seven thousand people came out to support it. The 1996 march chairs were Maura Cooperberg and Jeff Cohen, and the staff coordinator was Karen Worb.
The festival this year was a joint effort between UJA and the Canadian Zionist Federation; its chairs were Marcy Kroach and Gilda Niman from UJA and Tillie Margolis and Ehud Savion from CZF. Due to the inclement weather the previous year, the planners opted to hold the festival indoors at the North York Centennial Arena at 580 Finch Avenue West. Once again, the march route began at the Promenade Shopping Centre and led south on Bathurst to the arena.
Scope and Content
Sub-sub-series contains textual records and photographs from the 1996 Community March for Israel, the Jerusalem 3000 Festival, and related fundraisers. The files are arranged by function in this order: walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and staff volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, corporate sponsorship, finances, the walk event itself, the festival, related fundraisers, and post-event evaluation and follow-up.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Loan receipts, March 1948 [textual record] – March 1948.
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series
Financial records sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 17; Series 47-5; File 2
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
2
Material Format
textual record
Date
March 1948
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of loan receipts and forms. Each receipt provides the recipient name, address, employer name and address, sum received and purpose of the loan.
Access Restriction
Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Sam Lipshitz - 28 May 1991
Name
Sam Lipshitz
Material Format
sound recording
Interview Date
28 May 1991
Source
Oral Histories
Name
Sam Lipshitz
Number
OH 285
Interview Date
28 May 1991
Quantity
1
Interviewer
Ben Kayfetz
AccessionNumber
2004-1-4
Total Running Time
90 min. or less
Conservation
Copied August 2003
Notes
Apparently dates from the same time as #284 (based on handwriting on label)
Recording is distorted for the first few minutes of side A.
Use Restrictions
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
Biography
Sam Lipshitz (journalist, editor, typesetter, and political activist) was born in Radom, Poland, on 14 February 1910. He was sent by his parents to live with an aunt in Montreal after graduating from high school. He joined the Jewish Cultural Club of Montreal, where several young members promoted Communism, based on the belief that the growth of Yiddish literature, schools, and other social institutions in Russia offered new equality for Jews. Sam was drawn to these views by Manya Cantor, who later became his wife.
Sam joined the Young Communist League in 1928 and later worked full-time with the Communist Party of Canada (renamed the Labor-Progressive Party in 1941 after the party was banned the previous year by the federal government), becoming editor of its newspaper, Der kamf, by 1932. He later edited Vochenblatt ("Canadian Jewish Weekly"). He was appointed secretary of the party's Anti-Fascist Committee in 1933, became head of the Jewish National Committee soon after, and sat on the party's central committee from 1943 to 1946. His prominent role in the illegal party led to a warrant issued for his arrest and life in hiding until the Communists supported the war after Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941, and Sam spent several days in the Don Jail with other party leaders in 1942.
Sam joined the executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1943, representing the United Jewish People's Order along with Joseph Baruch Salsberg. His most important work for the congress occurred in 1945, when he was sent to Poland with Hanane Meier Caiserman to report on the condition of the Jews who had been liberated from Nazi concentration camps just months earlier and the fate of those who had not survived the experience. Lipshitz wrote and lectured extensively on this experience.
Following the exposure of Soviet brutality and antisemitism under Joseph Stalin by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, a bitter rift over the Communist Party of Canada's response to these admissions led to the resignation of hundreds of Jews, including the Lipshitzs and Salsberg in 1957. Resignation from the party meant an end to employment for the Lipshitzs (Manya as a Jewish teacher, Sam as a political organizer), but Sam found work as a linotype operator. He founded Trade Typesetting in 1964 and did work for many Jewish organizations in Toronto until his retirement in 1975. The dispute carried over to the work of UJPO, which was led by members of the Communist Party. Three years of bitter and occasionally violent argument between factions led to approximately thirty percent of the membership, led by Sam Lipshitz and Morris Biderman, leaving the UJPO in 1960. Two hundred of the membership, including Sam, founded the New Jewish Fraternal Association the same year. After taking in an evening course in journalism at the University of Toronto in 1959, Sam assumed the role of editor for the association's magazine, Fraternally Yours, from March 1960 until his death in 2000. Sam also edited Voice of Radom, the periodical of the United Radomer Relief for the United States and Canada and was a member of the Yiddish committee of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto for twenty-five years, served on the Yiddish Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and wrote more than 170 bi-weekly columns in Yiddish for the Canadian Jewish News until he resigned from this post in September 1999. He suffered a massive stroke only two days after completing the Rosh Hashana issue of Fraternally Yours and died in Toronto two weeks later on 14 September 2000.
Material Format
sound recording
Name Access
Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998
Original Format
Audio cassette
Copy Format
Audio cassette
Digital file
Source
Oral Histories
United Israel Appeal : March of the Living [textual record] – [199-].
Accession Number
2006-3-4
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2006-3-4
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1.5 m of textual records
Date
[199-]
Scope and Content
Accession consists of record related to the United Israel Appeal and the March of the Living.
Use Conditions
Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
Source
Archival Accessions
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Community March for Israel event photographs [graphic material] – 29 May 1994.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-20; File 26
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-20
File
26
Material Format
graphic material
Date
29 May 1994
Physical Description
186 photographs : col. (36 negatives) ; 20 x 22 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
The file contains photographs taken on the day of the event. There are images of the crowd and individual families along the route, a large Community March for Israel banner, the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Israeli flags, the registration table, aerial shots looking down Bathurst Street, the ham radio operators at the Lipa Green Buildling, volunteer marshalls, a table outdoors with a man 'laying tefillin', the refreshment stop, a costumed turtle character with a little girl, a group of individuals with disabilities along the route, and a clown entertaining people. As well, there are group shots of volunteers from the Holocaust Remembrance Committee and Forest Heights B'nai Brith, and also walkers with banners from Leo Baeck Day School, the JIAS Integration Program, Netivot Hatorah Day School, Temple Sinai and the Downtown Jewish Community School. UJA personnel in the photographs include Brian Keshen.
Notes
One set of photographs are prints by Jay Brodbar.
A second, different set are negatives by Stephen Epstein.
Title based on contents of the file.
Repro Restriction
Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
Source
Archival Descriptions
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Community March for Israel event photographs [graphic material] – 28 May 1995.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-21; File 12
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1995 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-21
File
12
Material Format
graphic material
Date
28 May 1995
Physical Description
211 photographs : col. (151 negatives) ; 10 x 15 cm
Scope and Content
File contains photographs taken during the Community March for Israel. The images include pictures of groups of people posed, and along the route; a clown; the registration table; a checkpoint table; balloons; and marshalls in Wizard of Oz costumes. Groups or organizations represented are the JIAS Integration Program, the Association for Soviet Jewry, and Mandell Entertainment. UJA staff photographed include Jeff Springer. The negatives add additional images: of individuals, the crowd, children, and dogs.
Notes
Photographs by Stephen Epstein.
Source
Archival Descriptions
Community March for Israel event photographs [graphic material] – 26 May 1996.
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1996 sub-sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 67; Series 17-1-22; File 11
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
Annual Campaign series
Walk with Israel sub-series
Community March for Israel 1996 sub-sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
67
Series
17-1-22
File
11
Material Format
graphic material
Date
26 May 1996
Physical Description
102 photographs : col. (98 negs)
Scope and Content
File contains photographs taken on the day of the event at the check-in and opening at Promenade Shopping Centre and along the route. Images include a cotton candy stand, face painting, the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Mandell Entertainment truck, police marshalls, a clown and groups of people posed as well as walking the route. There are many shots of the crowd, families and children.
Notes
Title based on contents of the file.
Source
Archival Descriptions
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International Left Opposition demonstrators marching [graphic material] – [193-?].
Part Of
Harry Clairmont fonds
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 32; Item 14
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Harry Clairmont fonds
Level
Item
Fonds
32
Item
14
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[193-?]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition demonstration in Toronto. Demonstrators are carrying banners in support of socialist and Communist organizations and their tenets.
Notes
Image is slightly blurred.
Name Access
International Left Opposition
Subjects
Banners
Demonstrations
Repro Restriction
Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Accession Number
1979-11-18
Source
Archival Descriptions
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Maurice Solway, with Inner City Angels, marching song [graphic material] – 1989.
Part Of
Maurice Solway fonds
Photographs file
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 13; File 1; Item 18
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Maurice Solway fonds
Photographs file
Level
Item
Fonds
13
File
1
Item
18
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1989
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. ; 11 x 15 cm
Scope and Content
Maurice Solway is depicted playing his violin for a group of spectators and is surrounded by children. Most of these children are wearing white t-shirts that have "[?ing] Hands for the Arts 1989" written on them. The event is the 20th anniversary (4 Jun. 1989) of the Inner City Angels. The day involved performing works by and for inner city youths.
Source
Archival Descriptions
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United Israel Appeal of Canada, March of the Living plaque [object] – 1992.
Part Of
Morris Norman collection
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 22; Item 179
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Morris Norman collection
Level
Item
Fonds
22
Item
179
Material Format
object
Date
1992
Physical Description
1 item
Source
Archival Descriptions
Members of General Wingate marching along Bathurst Street [graphic material] – [ca. 1960].
Part Of
General Wingate Branch 256, Royal Canadian Legion fonds
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 74; Item 20
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
General Wingate Branch 256, Royal Canadian Legion fonds
Level
Item
Fonds
74
Item
20
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 12.5 x 17.5 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of a General Wingate parade along Bathurst Street in Toronto.
Physical Condition
Good
Accession Number
1987-12-1
Source
Archival Descriptions
Toronto Jewish Congress budget for 1990-1991 fiscal year [textual record] – 1990.
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
General office subject and correspondence files series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 17; Series 2; File 419
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
General office subject and correspondence files series
Level
File
Fonds
17
Series
2
File
419
Material Format
textual record
Date
1990
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Access Restriction
Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
Accession Number
2005-2-2
Source
Archival Descriptions
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International Left Opposition demonstrators marching along Bathurst Street [graphic material] – [193-?].
Part Of
Harry Clairmont fonds
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 32; Item 12
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Harry Clairmont fonds
Level
Item
Fonds
32
Item
12
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[193-?]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of an International Left Opposition demonstration held in Toronto. The demonstrators are walking down Bathurst Street at Ulster and are carrying banners saying "Fight Wage Cuts", "Workers Organize or Starve", and "For the Revolutionary Defense of the Soviet Union".
Name Access
International Left Opposition
Subjects
Banners
Demonstrations
Socialism
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
Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)
Ulster Street (Toronto, Ont.)
Accession Number
1979-11-18
Source
Archival Descriptions
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Fanny Scott marches to the Chupa with Mr. Cohen (Kirkland Lake, ON) [graphic material] – [ca. 1948].
Level
Item
ID
Item 792
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
792
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[ca. 1948]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
This item is a photograph of Fanny Scott walking down the aisle at the Adath Israel Synagogue in Kirkland Lake with Mr. Cohen of Cobalt, Ontario. This photograph was taken before the renovations of the synagogue.
Notes
Photo by Duke Studios.
Acquired in 1975.
Name Access
Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
Cohen, Mr.
Scott, Fanny
Subjects
Weddings
Repro Restriction
Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
Places
Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
Source
Archival Descriptions
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