- Part Of
- John J. Glass fonds
- Documents series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 109
- Series
- 2
- File
- 25
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1937-1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a letter to John Glass from the Toronto Board of Control inviting him to a meeting concerning the recent price of milk and an excerpt from an article in Consumers' Guide about milk pricing, the size of containers, and the advantages of skim milk. There is also a letter from a concerned consumer in Ottawa expressing support for Glass' campaign for lower milk prices.
- Physical Condition
- The magazine excerpt is in poor condition.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w
- 1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 8 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1927], 1960
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a school photograph of Jack Price at the McCaul Street school (front row, third from the right), and a photograph of the first group of Baycrest volunteers at an outing (Sunny Price is in the front row, far right).
- Custodial History
- The Baycrest photograph was originally in the possession of Shirley Banks and she gave the photo to Sunny Price in 1982. It later came into the possession of Sunny's son David.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Rabbi A. A. Price file
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 180
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [between 1936 and 1949]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a brief written by Rabbi A. A. Price.
- Name Access
- Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds
- Clothing Centre series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 87
- Series
- 9
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1939] - 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of price lists for clothing which were used by the JFWB's Clothing Centre.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Passenger Names
- Price, A. & David
- Date Range
- June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915
- Source
- Rotenberg Ledger
- Passenger Names
- Price, A. & David
- Page Number
- 229
- Date Range
- June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915
- Photographer
- Harvey and Adena Glasner
- Source
- Rotenberg Ledger
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Executive director series
- Teacher files sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 2-4
- File
- 326
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1949-1960
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Name Access
- Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2017-12-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-12-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 15 cm of textual records
- 22 photographs : col. (12 negatives) ; 9 x 9 cm and 35 mm
- 3 signs
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records belonging to Rabbi Abraham A. Price. The bulk of the records are marriage registers from 1938 to 1982. There are also some loose marriage certificates spanning 1939 to 1946, Price's registration certificate as a marriage officiant from 1938, a letter in Yiddish, and his Isaac Kook Award of Merit certificate, as well as some photographs and corresponding negatives of a family vacation. Also included are three kashruth signs. One was issued by the Kashruth Council of the Canadian Jewish Congress (likely in the 1950s); the other two are hand-painted and were issued by Rabbi Price (likely in the 1940s). They are in both Yiddish and English and read: "Certificate of Kashruth. All meat and meat products of this butcher shop is strictly Kosher under the supervision of Rabbi Abraham A. Price."
- Custodial History
- The donor is the son-in-law of Rabbi Price.
- Administrative History
- Rabbi Abraham A. Price (1900–1994) was a prominent rabbi and Talmudic scholar in Toronto. He was born on 10 December 1900 in Stopnitz, Poland, to Rabbi Joseph and Basia Price. He married Sarah Wine and had two children: a son, Moshe Leib, who predeceased him, and a daughter, Leah (Lola) Zuchowsky. He also had a brother, Lazar.
- Price lived in Poland until 1923, when he moved to Berlin and became a banker. He left Berlin for Paris in 1931 and lived there for six years, before fleeing to the United States in 1937. Rabbi Price originally went to New York City but spent only ten days there before moving to Toronto.
- Rabbi Price studied with world-famous scholars Rabbis Abraham Borenstein and Sillman, by whom he was ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary Sochatzow (Sochatov), Poland, in 1919. He was hired in 1937 by Moishe Oelbaum, Moishe Sigal, and W. J. Silverberg to head Yeshivah Torath Chaim and to act as the official rabbi of Chevra Shas Congregation. Price remained dean of the yeshivah until at least 1985. He published ten volumes of highly-acclaimed rabbinical studies, including three volumes of Mishnath Avraham with commentaries of the Book of the Pious "Sefer Chasidim," which were awarded the Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Award of Merit in 1965. It was the first time this prize was given to an author outside Israel.
- Price was one of Toronto's most influential rabbinic authorities. He worked tirelessly to help European yeshivah students during and after the Second World War. In 1942, he orchestrated the release of over fifty German-Jewish men from an internment camp in Quebec and brought them to study at the yeshivah. In 1948, he again intervened to sponsor fifty-five young yeshivah boys from Prague. He brought these boys to study at Torath Chaim as well.
- Rabbi Price died on Thursday, 31 March 1994, in Toronto.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language: Records are in Yiddish and English.
- Subjects
- Marriage records
- Rabbis
- Name Access
- Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3347
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3347
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item consists of two identical copy prints of Rabbi Abraham A. Price of Toronto.
- Name Access
- Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Rabbis
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-9-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Morris Norman collection
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 22
- Item
- 139
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Pinkus fonds
- The Kiever Shul series
- Funeral service price lists file
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 138
- Series
- 5
- File
- 51
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1995-2006
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of price lists of funeral services provided by Hebrew Basic Burial and Steeles Memorial Chapel.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim Theological Seminary of Canada fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 21
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1942-1962
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Rabbi Abraham A. Price was a prominent Rabbi and Talmudic scholar in Toronto. He was born on December 10, 1900 in Stopnitz, Poland to Rabbi Joseph and Basia Price. He married Sarah Wine, and had two children: a son, Moshe Leib, who predeceased him, and a daughter, Leah (Lola) Zuchowsky. He also had a brother Lazar.
- Price lived in Poland until 1923, when he moved to Berlin and became a banker. He left Berlin for Paris in 1931, and lived there for 6 years before fleeing to the United States in 1937. Rabbi Price originally went to New York City, but spent only ten days there before moving to Toronto.
- Rabbi Price studied with world-famous scholars Rabbi Abraham Borenstein and Rabbi Sillman, by whom he was ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary Sochatzow (Sochatov), Poland in 1919. He was hired in 1937 by Moishe Oelbaum, Moishe Sigal, and W.J. Silverberg to head Yeshivah Torath Chaim and to act as the official rabbi of Chevra Shas Congregation. Price remained dean of the yeshivah until at least 1985. He published ten volumes of highly acclaimed rabbinical studies, including three volumes of Mishnath Avraham with commentaries of the Book of the Pious "Sefer Chasidim," which were awarded the Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Award of Merit in 1965. It was the first time this prize was given to an author outside Israel.
- Price was one of Toronto's most influential rabbinic authorities. He worked tirelessly to help European yeshivah students during and after the Second World War. In 1942 he orchestrated the release of over 50 German-Jewish men from an internment camp in Quebec, and brought them to study at the yeshivah. In 1948 he again intervened to sponsor 55 young yeshivah boys from Prague. He brought these boys to study at Torath Chaim as well.
- Rabbi Price died on Thursday, March 31, 1994 in Toronto. His estate donated his collection of over 3000 printed rabbinical works to the University of Toronto Library, including over 300 items printed before 1800.
- Scope and Content
- This file contains correspondence sent and received by Rabbi Abraham A. Price between 1942 and 1962. The letters relate to Rabbi Price's involvement in having Jewish-German internees released from internment camps in 1942, and Czechoslovakian refugees brought over to study at the yeshivah in 1948. It also includes inquiries made and references given about former students.
- Name Access
- Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994
- Subjects
- Rabbis
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Pinkus fonds
- The Kiever Shul series
- Documents from the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations file
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 138
- Series
- 5
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1984-2004
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of documents issued by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, most of which are forms filed by the Kiever Shul and their accompanying correspondence and notices. Also included is an order of revival issued by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations in 1982 to revive the Kiever Shul.
- The Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations was renamed the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services in 2001. Therefore, documents from 2002 to 2004 were issued under the name of the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services. This institution is now known as the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery.
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1722
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1722
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1904]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Hyman (Chaim) Sprachman (b. 1856) arrived in Toronto at the end of the nineteenth century with his eldest son Benjamin (b. 1877), who was twenty at the time. They both worked as peddlars and resided in a boarding home for a while. Hyman sent for his family in Austria and they arrived in 1904. His family included his wife Sheindel and children Rebecca (b. 1887), Lena (b. 1891), Fanny (b. 1892) and Abraham (b. 1897). The family originally lived at 30 Gerrard and then relocated to 123 Baldwin around 1914. Abraham became a prominent architect and married his cousin Mina Sprachman in 1921. They had two children: Mandel and Sheila. Mandel followed in his father's footsteps and also became a nationally recognized and acclaimed architect. Both specialized in theatre design and renovations.
- Scope and Content
- This photograph is a portrait of the Sprachman family taken around 1900 at Price's Lane, Toronto.
- The Sprachman photograph includes the following family members from left to right and top to bottom: Hyman Sprachman, Sheindel Sprachman, Beckie Sprachman (?), unknown, unknown, Fanny Sprachman, Lena Sprachman, Abe Sprachman and Jacob Sprachman.
- Name Access
- Price's Lane
- Sprachman, Abe
- Sprachman, Beckie
- Sprachman family
- Sprachman, Fanny
- Sprachman, Hyman
- Sprachman, Jacob
- Sprachman, Lena
- Subjects
- Families
- 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
- Price's Lane (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Zionist Book Club series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 3
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962-1978
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of pre-publication offers; publisher suggestions of new publications; packages including pricing; and recommendations for additions to the book club's list.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1990-10-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1990-10-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Date
- 1940
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of one original photograph of a Consumers' Gas Labour Day Parade float that appears in front of Goel Tzedec Synagogue on University Avenue in Toronto, 1940.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
