- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1960-1966
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work as Chairman of the Jewish Labour Committee. The records include correspondence, event invitations and flyers and activity summaries.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1967-1972
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 26 x 21 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of records relating to Harry Simon's work as Chairman of the Jewish Labour Committee. The records include correspondence, event invitations and flyers, activity summaries, press releases, speeches and one photograph.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Jewish Labour Committee file
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1976-1984
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work as chairman of the Jewish Labour Committee. The records include correspondence, event invitations and flyers, and press releases.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 6032
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 6032
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- For identification, see accession record.
- Perhaps Geverkshaften.
- Includes: Abe Freeman, Max Manson, Nachman Lovinsky, A. Rhinewine; H.M.Kirshenbaum; Dr. Sam Hurwich; Israel Freeman; I.J. Weinrob; Louis Coldoff; Yisroel Meriminski of Israel; Sonya and Joseph Marin.
- Notes
- Photo by M. Schlachter, Modern Studio, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Coldoff, Louis
- Freeman, Israel
- Kirshenbaum, H.M.
- Rhinewine, A.
- Weinrob, I.J.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Labor Zionism
- Portraits, Group
- 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
- 1992-2-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Committees and meetings series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1985
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records documenting the various committees and ad hoc meetings of Baycrest Centre as well as its participation on joint committees with other agencies. Included are meeting notices, agendas and minutes, reports, correspondence and lists.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1938-1978, 1991
- Physical Description
- 6.5 m of textual records
- 15 photographs
- Admin History/Bio
- The Joint Community Relations Committee was created in 1938 by the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and the Toronto Lodge B’nai Brith. It was originally named the Joint Public Relations Committee and was responsible for combating antisemitism in Ontario. Public statements, by agreement, were made only by the Canadian Jewish Congress as B’nai Brith recognized the uniqueness of its national constitution. The committee was led by lay leaders from the community and a staff representative from the CJC. Shortly thereafter, similar committees were set up in Montreal and in Western Canada, and soon a National Joint Community Relations Committee was established.
- The committee played a key role in achieving the early anti-discrimination act of 1944, and the Fair Employment Practices Act of 1951, leading to the Human Rights Code of today. It was prominent in the action against the spread of sectarian religious teachings in the public schools and took the lead in pressing for legislation against the dissemination of racial hatred. It acted for the preservation of religious and human rights and worked with numerous religious, fraternal and ethnic organizations in the wider community. The committee also investigated and acted upon all complaints of discrimination, antisemitism and other such incidents. They supplied Jewish and secular schools with educational materials including pamphlets and books, and conducted intercultural and inter-religious work in the community through organized lectures, seminars, institutes, and plenary sessions.
- The committee was composed of equal representation from both the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the B’nai Brith. The money for the operation of the Committee was first provided by both organizations, however, in a 1947 agreement between the National CJC and B’nai Brith Canada, the parties stated that the finances for the committee would be raised in the name of the CJC, with B’nai Brith agreeing to make “token” contributions and co-operate with Congress’ fundraising campaign. As well, the professional staff and support persons for the committee, along with their salaries, came solely from the Central Region CJC.
- The executive director (also referred to as the executive secretary) was the primary staff person responsible for carrying out the policy and activities of the JPRC, which included preparing press releases, liaisoning with affiliated groups, organizations, individuals, journalists, government representatives and any others wanting or needing information on issues relating to the JPRC’s work. The executive director acted as the recording secretary at all committee meetings and was the keeper of all official documents.
- Around 1978, due in part to the earlier creation of the B’nai Brith’s League for Human Rights in 1970, the Canadian Jewish Congress and the B’nai Brith terminated their joint relationship with the committee. At the time, the CJC felt that B’nai Brith was playing a dual role in advocacy through the League and through the JPRC. B’nai Brith, in turn, felt that the CJC was shutting out the B’nai Brith’s voice. Nevertheless, the “Joint” was not dropped from the name until around 1991.
- In 2011 the Community Relations Committee ceased to exist when the CJC Ontario office was closed and the functions of the CJC were folded into the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).
- Committee name changes were:
Community Relations Committee, CJC, Ontario Region (ca. 1991-2011)
Joint Community Relations Committee, CJC, Ontario Region (ca. 1978-ca. 1991)
Joint Community Relations Committee, Central Region (1962-1978)
Joint Community Relations Committee, (1938-1962)
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of five sub-series. Sub-series 1 contains the agendas, minutes and associated documentation supporting meetings of the Community Relations Committee. Sub-series 2 contains speeches , publications, press releases and reports presented and/or distributed by the Committee. Sub-series 3 consists of case files documenting the Committee's activities of combating specific antisemitism and Holocaust-denying activities in Canada. Extensive documentation about Ernst Zundel is included Sub-series 4 contains 9 sub-sub-series documenting various categories of research files accumulated by the Committee. Sub-series 5 contains the general office records of the Committee and includes correspondence and memos of the Executive Director and records providing insight to the internal organization and management of the Committee's internal functions.
- For more details see descriptions within the scope and contents notes at the sub-series and sub-sub-series levels.
- Notes
- Previously processed and cited a MG8 S
- Physical extent note: when originally listed in 1988, this series contained about 20.5 metres of textual records. When partial processing and reorganization had been completed in 2013, 14 metres had been culled because those documents were duplicates, newspaper clippings, created by outside agencies or maintained in other agencies.
- Associated material note:Library and Archives of Canada holds the records for the National B’nai Brith which does contain 30cm of material on the National Joint Community Relations Committee. The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives in Montreal holds the records for the National Joint Community Relations Committee, which contains some files on the Ontario Region, as they reported to the National office. The whereabouts of the B’nai Brith records pertaining to the Central Region activities are currently unknown.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Arrangement
- Because records in this series had been previously organized in a manner that proved difficult for use by archivists and researchers, the records, during 2010 and 2011, were totally rearranged and described to comply with RAD standards, to provide ease of access by researchers, and to fully reflect the activities and organizational history of the Community Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress during and after the period when it was a joint committee with the B'Nai Brith.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2452
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2452
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Oct. 1962
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Simchas Torah, 1962.
- Right to left: Ben Kayfetz, Nissan Yoeli (Mapam shaliach and principal in Albert Einstein School), Israeli ambassador and wife (Prato), Moises Baldas (chairman of Co-ordinating Committee), Elizer Anonowski, [unknown], Jaime Terner.
- Name Access
- Anonowski, Elizer
- Baldas, Moises
- Kayfetz, Benjamin, 1916-2002
- Terner, Jaime
- Yoeli, Nissan
- Subjects
- Committees
- Places
- Havana (Cuba)
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 946
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 946
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Copy photograph of Borochov Young Poale Zion Executive Committee, taken in New York, 1927. Left front, Morris Lofsky, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Borochow Young Poale Zion Executive Committee
- Lofsky, Morris
- Subjects
- Committees
- 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.).
- Accession Number
- 1975-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 424
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 424
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 16 Jun. 1974
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Name Access
- Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Committees
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Cemetery Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 22
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1951-1959
- Physical Description
- 18 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Ontario government was putting pressure on the Jewish cemeteries spread around Toronto to clear up the disorder in the burial grounds to ensure a system of perpetual care. The cemeteries were approached with this in view. In the end, through the efforts of Al Ginsburg of Beth Tzedec, the Dawes Rd. and Jones Avenue properties were reorganized, a permanent fulltime groundskeeper was engaged (A.M. Levy) and adminstration was improved. The other cemeteries remained outside of this new organization which was named the Amalgamated Dawes Road Trustees. Some of these made their own arrangements. Canadian Jewish Congress lent its administrative help to the Amalgamated Dawes Rd. Trustees, hence this committee.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of general files of the Cemetery Commitee.
- Notes
- Series formerly described and cited as RG254.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Cemeteries
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Labour Division Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 29
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1955
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- At some point in the 1950s, there was talk of establishing a Congress committee on labour. A meeting was convened of representatives chaired by David Lewis. There was no follow-up, probably because the Jewish Labour Committee already existed.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of general files of the Labour Division Committee.
- Notes
- Series formerly described and cited as RG261.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 499
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 499
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the CJC Committee for Jewish Music Month in Kitchener, Ontario
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Subjects
- Committees
- Jews--Music
- Repro Restriction
- Credit Kitchener-Waterloo Record
- 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
- Kitchener (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3728
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3728
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Subjects
- Committees
- 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
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-1-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3694
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3694
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm on matte 30 x 36 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of members of the Labour League's Camp Naivelt Committee. Pictured are:
- Back row, left to right: Harry Levin, Mr. Boxenbaum, Sam Lipshitz, [unidentified], Fishel Rose.
- Middle row, left to right: P. Hoffman, Harry Goldstein, Rose Freedman, Morris Starkman, Mrs. Nobleman, Mr. Sniderman, Philip Larger.
- Front row, left to right: I. Milton, Harry Holtzman, I. Strasuner, Becky Lapides, Jack Cowan, Sam Speisman.
- Name Access
- Labor League (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Committees
- Camps
- 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
- 1983-6-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Documentation sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 28-17
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1986-1987
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of meeting minutes and correspondence related to the plans for taping and preservation of Holocaust survivor testimony.
- Subjects
- Archives
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 70
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 70
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1974
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a photograph taken of the CJC Central Region Archives Exhibition Committee at the Kiever Synagogue in 1974. Committee members include from left to right: Stephen Speisman, Susan Cohen, Cyrel Troster, Bess Shockett, Susan Geller, and Martin Mendelow.
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress. Central Region
- Subjects
- Archives
- Committees
- Synagogues
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-9-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1950-1953
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a letter from Rabbi Slonim convening a meeting and minutes of meetings of the Rabbinical Welfare Committee over the period.
- Custodial History
- There is no information on the aquisition of the documents. However, the first letter in the textual records is from Rabbi Reuben Slonim and his name is included on all of the documents in the textual record.
- Administrative History
- The purpose of the Rabbinical Welfate Committee was (quoting from a document dated March 22, 1950) 'to consider matters that are strictly religious in nature. In matters of a community or public relations nature, the Committee will work closely with Congress.'
- Subjects
- Committees
- Meetings
- Religion
- Name Access
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Women's Auxiliary series
- Fundraising sub-series
- Auxilorama '69 file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 4-8
- File
- 11
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Identified in the photograph is (left to right): Mrs. Posluns, Abe Posluns, Ruth Smith, Mr. Smith, Dora Till, Morris Till, [?], and [?].
- Notes
- Photographer unknown.
- Name Access
- Till, Dora, 1896-1987
- Subjects
- Committees
- Portraits, Group
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Jewish community involvement series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 4
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1967-1973
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.
- The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting J. B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are booklets, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, meeting minutes of the National Committee on Soviet Jewry and the Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry, reports, newsletters, conference booklets, and a brochure.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Jews--Soviet Union
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Jewish community involvement series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 4
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.
- The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting J. B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are newspaper clippings, bulletins, executive committee meeting minutes of the Committee for Soviet Jewry, a booklet, and a programme for the 23rd anniversary of the execution of Soviet Jewish poets, novelists and artists at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Jews--Soviet Union
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Jewish community involvement series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 4
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1986-1991
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1970 many Jewish groups in Ontario organized to help Refusniks who were being persecuted in the Soviet Union and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. In early 1971, the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, these various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Ontario.
- The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the steering committee reporting to the action committee. By 1977, the action committee and the steering committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee). J. B. Salsberg was the first SCSJ Chairman, serving in this capacity until 1976.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting J.B. Salsberg's involvement in the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry. Included are booklets, reports, agendas, correspondence, meeting minutes, conference material for the Regional Conference on Israel and Soviet Jewry, and newspaper clippings.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Jews--Soviet Union
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2009-6-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-6-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 187 photographs : b&w and col. ; 24 x 20 cm or smaller
- 20 audiocassettes
- 10 videocassettes
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 object
- Date
- [193-]-2006
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists predominantly of records collected by Bess Shockett in her work with UJA Federation's Committee for Yiddish and Friends of Yiddish. The accession also contains some personal family records. The photographs document programmes of the Committee for Yiddish in the late 1980s and 1990s, including an outdoor Yiddish concert, several International Conferences of Yiddish Clubs (1995, 1998, 1999), Sunday morning Yiddish classes, and a 1993 Hanukah concert. There are also three photographs of the New Fraternal Jewish Association and its celebration of J. B. Salsberg's eightieth birthday in 1980. The videocassettes contain recordings of other events including a storytelling workshop, Purim Mystery Night, a farewell for Miriam Waddington and several Sof Vokh (weekend retreat) programmes of 1993.
- The twenty cassette tapes feature panel discussions, lectures and interviews, including "Yiddish education," "Yiddish and the Media," "Yiddish and the Younger Generation," "Yiddish and the Performing Arts," and "Yiddish Language and Translation." There are several interviews with Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, as well as two Toronto Yiddish concerts. Other tapes contain radio interviews with [Aaron?] Lansky; "Chava Rosenfarb--Book Fair", 1988; "Plenary reports and presentations"; and an episode of the program The Forward Hour on Peretz Miransky, an influential Polish writer in the inter-war years.
- Personal records in the accession consist of family snapshots dating from the 1930s and 1940s. These were taken in Israel and include images of farming, landscapes, travel, a canal, groups of people, city buildings, and processions. These photos all have Yiddish writing on the back. There is one formal portrait, ca. 1890s, of an elderly Jewish man. As well, there is a folder of original and photocopied poetry (in Yiddish) written by a Jack Shockett.
- Accession also includes a Yiddish typewriter, in case, that Bess used in the late 1960s/early 1970s when the Committee for Yiddish was under Congress.
- Custodial History
- Records were entrusted to the estate of Bess Shockett after her death, and given to her Committee for Yiddish colleague Ethel Cooper, who brought them to the archives.
- Administrative History
- Bess Shockett was born in the Ukraine in 1919. Her father, Solomon Maltin, was the mayor of the town and helped establish a number of Jewish community institutions. He and his wife had two sons along with Bess: Sam and Ben. In 1925, the family moved to Montreal. As an adolescent, Bess became very active in the Jewish community and joined the United Jewish People's Order. She helped organize a union for workers in the knitting industry and later did the same for fur workers. She also travelled to Winnipeg to organize a laundry workers union. She met her husband, Barry Shockett, in Toronto and they married in 1952 and had three children: Michael, Elka and Eric. Bess eventually became very active in the Toronto Jewish community, particularly in regards to supporting and launching several innovative Yiddish programs. She staffed the office of CJC's Committee for Yiddish in its early years, and was Director from 1974 to 1989. She helped found the Friends of Yiddish in 1985 and served as executive vice-president until her death on August 27, 2007.
- Descriptive Notes
- There is little written material; what there is (captions and poetry) is mostly in Yiddish; some captions are in English.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Yiddish language
- Name Access
- Committee for Yiddish (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 12
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 12 Jun. 1942
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of members of the Office[rs] Committee of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, taken at their annual conference in Toronto. The members are identified on the front of the photograph.
- Notes
- General: Photograph was acquired on 21 June 1974.
- Name Access
- Jewish National Workers Alliance
- Subjects
- Committees
- Congresses and conventions
- Portraits, Group
- 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
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1967-1992
- Physical Description
- 4.5 m of textual records
- 1822 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- The earliest impetus for the creation of a Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) committee to focus on the issue of Soviet Jews was in response to the infamous “Leningrad trials” of thirty-one dissident Soviet Jews in the winter of 1970. Concurrently, the Soviet government began to systematically persecute almost all Jews who applied for permission to emigrate. The issuing of exit visas was refused (the genesis of the term “refusenik”), usually on exaggerated claims of national security, after which the applicants were often dismissed from their jobs, recalled to military service, or similarly persecuted by state authorities. Those who publicly protested such treatment were subsequently arrested, detained for long periods, or tried as examples to others and sent to Siberian labour camps.
- When information about the plight of Soviet Jews reached Canada, Toronto’s Jews responded immediately and decisively. Synagogue congregations, student groups, women’s organizations, professional organizations and community groups all established independent committees to aid Soviet Jews directly and to pressure local, national and international governments to address Soviet antisemitism. Very quickly these committees began organizing mass rallies, letter writing campaigns, petitions, targeted protests and direct aid involving large numbers of people and considerable fundraising efforts. From 1971 to the late 1980s the cause of Soviet Jewry remained, along with support for The State of Israel, the most significant issue to the Jewish community.
- The Action Committee for Soviet Jewry (ACSJ) was formed by the (then) Central Region of the CJC in early 1971 in order to coordinate the activities of, and provide stable funding and administrative support for, the various ad hoc committees and action groups that had sprung up across Toronto and the rest of Ontario. Organizations coordinated by the Action Committee included university student groups, the Group of 35, Women for Soviet Jewry (WSJ), B’nai B’rith, and the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). The ACSJ originally reported to the CJC’s Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ), but by the mid-1970s the reporting of the two committees was reversed, with the Steering Committee reporting to the Action Committee. By 1977, the Action Committee and the Steering Committee were merged into the newly-renamed CJC Ontario Region’s Committee for Soviet Jewry (occasionally referred to as the Toronto Committee).
- The first Chairman of the SCSJ was the prominent Toronto politician and activist Joseph B. Salsberg. Later chairs, including Sam Filer, Phyllis Sugar, Reg Adelman, author Jeanette Goldman, Joyce Eklove, and Judge Ted Matlow were also involved with affiliated local groups whose activities were coordinated by the SCSJ. Sam Filer, its first permanent Secretary, became in 1976 its second Chairman. He also served as Chairman of the Toronto Action Committee for Soviet Jewry and was an original co-founder of Lawyers and Jurists for Soviet Jewry. Similarly, Phyllis Sugar was a Co-chair of the ACSJ with Reg Adelman in the early to mid-1970s, while simultaneously serving as the Chair of WSJ. Genya Intrator, the first Chair of WSJ in the early 1970s, later served as first Chair of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry. Despite having its first meeting in Winnipeg, the Canadian Committee had most of its leadership and activities in Toronto. Toronto residents Sydney Harris (later Judge Harris), David Satok, Genya Intrator and David Sadowski all chaired this committee as it developed a national agenda through contacts with affiliated organizations across the country, while coordinating internationally with groups such as the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews based in New York.
- Towards the end of the 1980s, many of the restrictions regarding exit visas for refusniks were removed and increasingly Russian Jews began to immigrate to Israel, the United States and Canada. A large percentage of the latter settled in Toronto. By 1991, in response to the changes in Russia and the former Soviet republics, the CJC’s local and national Soviet Jewry Committees were wound up and their leadership began to focus on new issues, such as the integration of Soviet Jewish immigrants into Canada and the continuing struggle to fight antisemitism in the successor states of the former Soviet Union. To this end, the CJC formed a Political Liaison Committee in the early 1990s. Internationally, however, many Russian Jewish advocacy groups continued to operate on the foundation of activism and community organization established during the decades of solidarity built around the Soviet Jewry cause.
- Custodial History
- The records in this series were accumulated and maintained in the offices of the CJC under the jurisdiction of Samuel Resnick, in his role as the Director of the Community Action for Israel Committee, and as the main CJC staff employee for overseeing the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry and Steering Committee for Soviet Jewry, which eventually coalesced as simply the Committee for Soviet Jewry circa 1977. By 1980, Resnick’s title was Director of the Committee for Soviet Jewry, Central Region, making him the primary full-time staffer of the CJC involved in the Soviet Jewry cause.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of extensive planning, administrative and operational records including meeting minutes, correspondence, budgets and membership lists. Records pertaining to activities include numerous event and protest photographs, articles, petitions, posters and other press materials. Records related to the gathering of information regarding Soviet Jewry include transcripts of telegrams and telephone conversations, background fact sheets and many individual case files.
- This series has been arranged into six sub-series. Sub-series 1 consists of Ontario Region committee meeting agendas and minutes. Sub-series 2 consists of the correspondence files documenting various activities of that committee. Sub-series 3 consists of the agendas, minutes and general correspondence of the National Committee for Soviet Jewry. Sub-series 4 consists of records documenting affiliated Jewish organizations that collaborated with the CJC in protesting the persecution of Soviet Jews. Sub-series 5 consists of records documenting the various protest activities such as lobbying, letter writing, public rallies, marches and demonstrations. Sub-series 6 , Rufusnik Cases, consists of 3 sub-sub-series, containing individual case files, large published lists, and reference publications about Soviet Jews who were refused permission to emigrate (refusniks).
- Notes
- Physical extent note: although over 28 m of Soviet Jewry records were originally transferred to the OJA, more than 23 m of those records have been culled due to their origin (non-Canadian sources), format (outside periodicals and publications), because they were merely externally-created reference materials, or because they were part of the very large volumes of duplicates that made up the majority of the box contents. Records documenting the activities of other CJC Committees have also been removed for future processing within more appropriately-titled series within Fonds 17.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Jews--Soviet Union
- Arrangement
- Because the Soviet Jewry records donated by the Canadian Jewish Congress had not been maintained in a discernable original order, they had to be reorganized into their current arrangement by the processing archivist.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work as Chairman of the Anti-Nazi Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress/B'nai Brith Joint Community Relations Committee. The records include correspondence, newsclippings, meeting notices and minutes, bulletins and flyers.
- Subjects
- Anti-Nazi movement
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1979-1982
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work as Chairman of the Anti-Nazi Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress/B'nai Brith Joint Community Relations Committee. The records include correspondence, newsclippings, and meeting notices and minutes.
- Subjects
- Anti-Nazi movement
- Committees
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Toronto Cloakmakers Union fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 8
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1919
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a the General Strike Committee for the Toronto Cloakmakers' Union, which was the Toronto local for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
- Subjects
- Committees
- Portraits, Group
- 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
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 7
- File
- 161
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1964-1970
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Kalmen Berger arrived in Toronto from Stashiv, Poland in 1927. He became involved with multiple groups and organizations within the Jewish community, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, landsmanshaften, the Yiddish Culture Society and Welfare, the Jewish Library, Israel Bonds, and the Jewish National Fund. His energy found a special outlet in the Labour Zionist Movement: Farband, Histadrut, youth and camps, and education. The latter was a passion of his: he was associated with the Folk shul before associating himself with Bialik Hebrew Day School, which was a major commitment in the final eleven years of his life.
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence between the Zionist Organization of Canada and the Labour Zionist Movement of Canada concerning the birthday celebrations honouring Kalmen Berger, The Farband, and a copy of the June 1967 edition of the View.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available in PDF.
- Name Access
- Berger, Kalman
- Labour Zionist Movement of Canada
- Subjects
- Labor Zionism
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-24
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-24
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm + identification key
- Date
- [between 1940 and 1943]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a photograph of the Mandolin Orchestra of the Jewish Labour League, with a chart identifying some of the members. The Jewish Labour League is the precursor to the United Jewish People's Order. Those that can be identified are: Jules Londin, Natalie Bruner, Claire Posen, Al Davidson, Shirley Seigel, Daniel Halperin, Pearl (nee Shimmerman) Fromstein?, Morris Ant?, Jack Parlow, Sol Shiner, Sol Blackman, Irving Schwartz, Sid Dolgay, Leon Temkin, Jack Kirk, , Mr. Philip Padoliak/Podoliak (teacher and conductor), Sol Baker (League Worker), Lilly Rosen, Al Bloom, Mae Harris and Lennie Dolgay.
- Subjects
- Mandolin orchestras
- Name Access
- Jewish Labour League
- United Jewish People's Order
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds
- Labour Relations Committee meeting minutes and agendas series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 31
- Series
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1976
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of the meeting minutes and agendas taken at the meetings of the Labour Relations Committee of the Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario.
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.
- Accession Number
- 2008-12-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Jewish Labour Committee file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 4
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 26 x 21 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy photograph and negative of Harry Simon speaking at a Jewish Labour Committee conference in Montreal, Quebec. He is standing behind a banquet table, speaking into a microphone. Pictured from left to right are: David Orlikow (MP), Kalman Kaplansky, Stanley Knowles, Harry Simon, and Emanuel Murawchick (Director, Jewish Labor Committee, New York).
- Subjects
- Congresses and conventions
- Speeches, addresses, etc
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Montréal (Québec)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Toronto Cloakmakers Union fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 8
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph taken of the 25th Jubilee Arrangement Committee in 1936. Included in the photograph are the following people: A. Kirzner; Mrs. Lovich; A. Weingarten; A. Maggerman, CHMN; B. Havelock,sec.;H. Smith, treas.; A. Weinstock; M. Greenberg;L. Ginsberg; M. Wagman; S. Weiss; H. Newmark; H. Wise; D. Kirshenbaum; N. Neslin; O. Isenberg; H. Wagner; N. Cohen; M. Drillick; Z. Finkelstein; S. Langer; Ch. Blumenstein; H. Gluskin; Ch. Schatz; J. Tureck; S. Kraisman; J. Rodinsky; M. Saunders
- Name Access
- Blumenstein, Ch
- Cohen, N
- Drillick, M
- Finkelstein, Z
- Ginsberg, L
- Gluskin, H
- Greenberg, M
- Havelock, B
- Isenberg, O
- Kirshenbaum, D
- Kirzner, A
- Kraisman, S
- Langer, S
- Lovich, Mrs
- Magerman, A
- Newmark, H
- Neslin, N
- Rodinsky, J
- Saunders, M.
- Schatz, Ch
- Smith, H
- Tureck, J
- Wagman, M
- Wagner, H
- Weingarten, A
- Weinstock, A
- Weiss, S
- Wise, H
- Subjects
- Anniversaries
- Committees
- Portraits, Group
- 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
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1617
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1617
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1939 or 1940]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Photo by Modern Studio
- Name Access
- Farband
- Independent Workers' Circle Joint Committee
- Leivick, H.
- Jewish Organizations
- Subjects
- Committees
- Lectures and lecturing
- 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 Islands (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1794
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1794
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1975?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Sol Edell is on left.
- Notes
- Photograph was taken by the archives.
- Name Access
- Edell, Sol, 1919-2000
- Mendelow, Martin
- Subjects
- Architects
- Committees
- Synagogues
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Labour Zionism and union activities series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 2
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1952]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one pamphlet printed by the Labour Zionist Organization of Toronto.
- Subjects
- Labor Zionism
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Clairmont fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 32
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 71 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of attendees seated at tables at a Labour Day banquet of the Canadian Labour Council. The event was held in Toronto in 1958.
- Subjects
- Dinners and dining
- Labor Day--Canada
- Portraits, Group
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1984-1-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1987
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work as the Chairman of the National Co-ordinating Committee of the Labour Zionist Movement, and as representative of Achdut Ha'Avodah on the Jewish Labour Council. The records consist of correspondence, bulletins, program booklets and meeting minutes.
- Subjects
- Labor Zionism
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- ID
-
Fonds 23; File 10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Simon fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 23
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1961-1975
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of textual records relating to Harry Simon's work with the Canadian Labour Congress as the Regional Director of Organizing for Ontario. The file consists of correspondence to Simon from Meyer Gasner, David Lewis and J. B. Salsberg among others, as well as an invitation to Simon's retirement testimonial dinner.
- Name Access
- Salsberg, J. B.,1902-1998
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 90 cm of textual records and graphic material
- 3 film ; 16 mm
- 7 VHS
- Date
- [194-]-1989
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the Labour Zionist Alliance and its precurssor organizations including the Borochov Branches and the Independent Friendly Worker's Circle.Records include photographs of past members, governance documents, correspondence, publicity materials and anniversary and program books for the Cloakmakers Branch of the Independent Worker's Circle, the Zerubavel Branch and the B. Borochov Branch 124 of the Farband. Also included are meeting minutes and membership ledgers for the Independent Worker's Circle (1944-1950; 1962-1971) and the Farband Labour Zionist Order (1959-1961). The films document the intiatives in Israel supported by the Labour Zionist Order.
- Custodial History
- Records were in the possession of the Labour Zionist Order until they ceased functioning in May 2014.
- Subjects
- Labor Zionism
- Societies
- Name Access
- Labour Zionist Order (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions