This series consists of records documenting other organzations that Dora Till was involved with. The records include correspondence, mintues, program booklets, pamphlets, invitations and a photograph. The series is described to the file level and in the case of the photograph to the item level.
34 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 25 cm or smaller
1 presentation piece : b&w ; 42 x 30 cm
Scope and Content
Sub-series consists of textual records, photographs, and a presentation piece documenting Phil Givens’ interaction with a wide range of Jewish organizations in Canada, America, and Israel. Included are speeches and correspondence, as well as photographs of Givens attending various events.
Notes
Photographers and photography studios are identified on the photographs.
File consists of publicity flyers advertising religious and educational programmes sponsored by a number of different organizations including B'Nai Torah Congregation, Darche Noam and National Council for Synagogue Youth. Many of these programmes were co-sponsored by Clanton Park or took place at the Synagogue.
File consists of membership lists of other Jewish organizations that were collected by the Women's Auxiliary. Included are lists for the Oakdale Golf and Country Club Limited, Youth Aliyah Women's Organizations, and Youth Aliyah Men's Organizations.
Series consists of textual records documenting the JCWA's relationship with other social welfare organizations. Included is correspondence, reports, client and membership lists, memos, meeting notices and agendas, and an event invitation. Records are arranged according to organization and files are in chronological order. Liaison with some organizations began through the Jewish Children's Bureau and was continued by the JCWA.
Access Restriction
Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing some of the records.
Series consists of correspondence documenting the JCB's relationship with other social welfare organizations. Some correspondence details case load statistics and financial information as well as information about the overall structure and functioning of the JCB. Records are arranged according to organization and files are in chronological order.
Series consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's relationship with other social welfare organizations. Included is correspondence, programmes, meeting notices and minutes, reports, statistics, bulletins, newspaper clippings, memos, surveys, questionnaires, case summaries, and membership and client lists.
Access Restriction
Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing some of the records.
The Service Groups and Service Clubs Committee (or Service Groups and Societies Committee) was responsible for encouraging B'nai Brith lodges and other Jewish groups to financially support Baycrest and assist with the programming for residents. Gordon Mendly served as Chairman and Co-Chairman several times throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Scope and Content
File consists of meeting notices, minutes, correspondence, and lists of Jewish organizations.
66 photographs : b&w and col. ; 22 x 28 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
Series consists of records relating to other societies and cemeteries, which David Pinkus collected for research or out of personal interest. Included are photographs, constitution handbooks, booklets and brochures, bulletins, printed copies of newspaper clippings and legal documents, magazines, correspondence, prayers, and articles.
Societies and cemeteries being documented are: Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Sunnyside Cemetery Association, Holy Blossom Religious School, the First Narayever Congregation, Adath Israel Congregation, Beach Hebrew Institute, Pride of Israel Congregation, Beth Tzedec Congregation, the Junction Synagogue (Congregation Knesseth Israel), the Hebrew Men of England Synagogue, Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am, Emunah Shleima Synagogue, Beth El (Windsor, ON), Shaar Hashomayim (Windsor, ON), Or Shalom (London, ON), the Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv, Ukraine), Kollel Kovno and Kollel Beth Israel (New York, U.S.), Achdut Ha-avoda Poale Zion Toronto, the Lizzies Old Timers Association, Steeles College Memorial Chapel, St. Michael’s Hospital, Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim, Baycrest, and Herzl Zion Club.
File consists of photographs collected from various sources including a copy of a photograph of Sam Bronfman and David Ben Gurion held at the Ontario Jewish Archives. These photographs were probably collected for research purposes.
The series consists of newsletters and bulletins published by the BJE as part of its outreach and promotional activities. The intended audiences for these publications were parents, teachers at affiliated schools, and school principals and administrators. The newsletters for teachers are "Likutim : a bulletin for teachers" (1951-1955; in Hebrew and English), and "Teachers' bulletin" (1957-1959). Likutim was intended primarily to keep teachers informed of new developments in pedagogy. Teachers' bulletin contains information on the BJE, its programs and services.
A newsletter specifically aimed at parents was initially titled "Our children" (1954), and then "Home and school" (1954-1963). This newsletter contained articles on Jewish holidays and other aspects of Judaism, news articles on the BJE and Jewish education, and articles on how parents could encourage and be involved in their children's education.
In the 1970s, the BJE published the "Board of Jewish Education newsletter," which contains short articles on current events relating to the BJE and Jewish education, and the services and activities of the BJE.
The file consists of 2 photographs. Photograph "A" is of Harvey Greenberg and his wife. From left to right in photograph "B" are Ralph Goren; Maurice Helperin; Lt. Col. Getreuer; Allan Brown; and Harvey Greenberg.
File contains correspondence with organizations that were involved in the Festival, for example by running information booths. The organizations documented are the Committee for Sephardi Studies at York University, the Canadian Jewish News, Scout's Canada of Greater Toronto, JCC, and the Friends of Yiddish.
Series consists of records documenting the various Jewish organizations that Lipa Green was involved with. Record include general correspondence, invitations, meeting minutes, donation receipts, program books, newsletters and informaiton bulletins, membership cards, and one photograph of the Canadian Committee for Yiddish.
Series consists of records of Folks Farein services offered to the community. Of note are Bathurst Lawn architectural drawings, cemetery deeds and delegates, resolution of the board of directors, the notification of registration as a charitable organization, the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies report of meeting held on January 5, 1945. There are also several photographs depicting Passover dinners and volunteer service performed by various Folks Farein volunteers at Ontario hospitals.
61 photographs : b&w and col. (1 negative) ; 30 x 20 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
File consists of photographs of other individuals and families that David Pinkus collected and possibly used as part of his genealogical research material. Individuals and families being featured in these photographs include Mr. and Mrs. Simon Cassels; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Morris; Sam Smith (brother of B. B. Smith); Meyer Wilson (former president of the Kiever Shul); Herbie Brodsky; Sam Shiaman with brother Louis Shiaman and nephew Norman Shiaman; and Shaun Duffy with David Pinkus, Dora E. Shrimpton, Dr. Victor Lawson, and Hon. Roland Michener. Also included are photographs documenting wedding ceremonies of the following couples: Barbara and Michael Blugerman, Natalie Starr and Arthur Chairman, and Sam and Esther Wucher.
Notes
ACCOMPANYING MATERIAL NOTE: The photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Cassels comes with two pieces of newspaper clippings that contain the obituary of Simon Cassels (1946). The newspaper clippings are in English and [Yiddish?].
File consists of the Council of National Ethnocultural Organizations of Canada Service Award received by Ben Kayfetz and a brochure and article about the event.
File consists of material pertaining to the Zionist Organization of Canada and associated organizations such as the Toronto Zionist Council, Arbeiter Ring, Jewish National Fund, Habonim, Hadassah and Junior Hadassah, and the Hebrew Liberal Club. Many of these organizations were housed in the Zionist Building at 651 Spadina Avenue.
Included are correspondence with the Zionist Institute on Beverley Street, the Toronto Zionist Council regarding insurance matters for the Spadina building, the Zionist Council of Canada tax filing with the provincial secretary, and letters patent reincorporating the Toronto Zionist Council. As well there are minutes of the Toronto Zionist Council executive and a list of officers of that organization, as well as a memoranda submitted by the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Zionist Organization of Canada to a United Nations conference in San Francisco.
Name Access
Canadian Jewish Congress
Toronto Zionist Council
Zionist Organization of Canada
Physical Condition
Some of the docments are in poor condition and are housed in plastic.
File consists of correspondence concerning the discharge of the Toronto Zionist Council Canada Life Assurance Company Mortgage, contact with other insurance companies, as well as documentation of tax filings for the council. and accounts of a successful mission to the Halifax Jewish community by way of a retreat at Camp Kadimah.
There is a report of the call-up of army reservists during the Six-Day War in Israel, a proposal and report concerning a move of the Zionist Organization of Canada headquarters from Montreal to Toronto, and a reprint of an article from the Jewish Standard titled "Zionism in Canada" by Julius Hayman, and conversations concerning revisions to the Zionist Organization of Canada's constitution.
Name Access
Toronto Zionist Council
Zionist Organization of Canada
Subjects
Israel-Arab War, 1967
Physical Condition
Some of the documentts are in fragile condition and are enclosed in plastic.
File contains lists of Jewish camps, youth groups, and schools. There is also a form letter for youth group leaders from the chair of Youth Recruitment, and a list of professional youth directors and shlichim (education assistants) in Toronto.
1371 negatives : b&w and col. ; 20 x 26 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
Series consists of negatives documenting events hosted by various Toronto Jewish organizations, such as conventions, meetings and fundraising campaigns, as well as individuals from the Jewish community participating in social activities. The images have been arranged alphabetically by organization and chronologically by event and are described to the file or item level. There are six sub-series as part of this series, namely: B'nai Brith lodges, Israel Histadrut of Toronto, Herzl Zion Club of Toronto, Jewish Home for the Aged, Zionist Organization of Canada, and Benevolent societies.
3 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm and 15 x 18 cm and 10 x 14 cm
Admin History/Bio
David Vanek was involved in a number of community organizations, several of which he helped to establish. These included Temple Sinai in the 1950s. In 1963, he ran for the Ontario Provincial Legislature but failed to win his seat. He was a founder of the Lawrence Manor Ratepayers Association and of the Credit Counselling Service of Metropolitan Toronto.
Scope and Content
The material consists of publicity brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs documenting Vanek's association with various organizations.
This file consists of programs from the first conference of the Mizrachi Organization of Canada from 1939, publications put out by Mizrachi World Central from 1935-1939, a 1944 publication from the Mizrachi Organization in New York.
Among the major organizations that cooperated with the Committee for Soviet Jewry, the women's organizations and student groups frequently acted as co-organizers and co-sponsors of protest activities and collaborated in the preparation of documents for awareness campaigns. Many of these activities originated from the efforts of such groups as the Toronto Student Councils, the Women for Soviet Jewry and the Group of 35.
Scope and Content
Sub-series consists of records documenting the activities of various Jewish organizations which worked in cooperation with the Committee for Soviet Jewry, Ontario Region. These records include some photographs, but consist primarily of correspondence, notices and press materials.
Arrangement
Records in this series have been organized alphabetically according to the name of the organization, and then chronologically within the records of each file.
File consists of correspondence and bulletins received by Sol Edell from a variety of Zionist organizations, including: Teens for Israel, Canadian Technion Society (Toronto Chapter), Canadian Friends of the Yeshivot Hesder, Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel, and the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Many of the smaller Jewish communities in Ontario could not support a central communal organization. The Canadian Jewish Congress, therefore, assisted them in all aspects of their communal activities. Congress field workers would visit on a regular basis, assess local problems and refer them to the appropriate agencies for resolution. The name was later changed to Community Services.
Scope and Content
Series consists of general files of the Community Organization.
Series includes records created by community organizations such as the Radomer Society. There are programs and souvenir booklets from Yizkor services and bound copies of the Voice of Radom 1963-1965 (Yiddish), and 1983–1989.
This series consists of the meeting minutes and agendas created by the various ad-hoc committees of the Association. Also included are minutes taken at meetings with other organizations and representatives of other branches of the men's clothing industry, such as the coat and vest contractors.
Access Restriction
Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
File consists of clippings from newspapers of advertisements for Na'amat fundraisers including bazaars, auctions, Las Vegas Night, Charity Casino, Pleasures of the Palate, Shoppers Fair, Share the Magic, and others.
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.
Original and copy photograph of a group of Zionists led by Rose Dunkelman on board the "Manhattan" en route to Palestine, Feb. 1934. Participants identified in the photo include Rose Dunkelman, David Dunkelman, [Theo (Theodroe) Dunkelman], [Miss Dunkelman], Mrs. Gertrude (Sam) Kronick, Mrs. Miller (Mrs. Dunkelman's mother), Mrs. Anna Selig (Raginsky), Mr. Solomin Heifetz travel agent), Mr. Elias Pullan, Mrs. Bessie Rash Kofsky (Elias Pulann's daughter), Mrs. Dora (Meyer) Brenner (née Pullan),
Notes
See accession file for identification of those on board.
Message beginning with "Dear Children" written in faint pencil on verso.
A copy negative is available.
Name Access
Dunkelman, Ben, 1913-1997
Subjects
Ships
Portraits, Group
Zionists
Repro Restriction
Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.