- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Writing and lecturing series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Date
- [195-?]-[1990?]
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- 1 plaque
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records documenting J.B. Salsberg's writing and lecturing activities. The bulk of the records are textual and include: correspondence, newspaper clippings, booklets, a Smolar Award plaque, notes, articles, transcripts, lists, and a course outline.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Writing and lecturing series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 5
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1956-[ca. 1985]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of lecture notes, a reading list and a course outline for school courses related to Marxism and Canadian working class history.
- 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
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1970
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence and abstracts of book reviews It also contains a newspaper clipping taken from an unknown newspaper of the review of "The encyclopeadia of Zionism and Israel" by Reuven Surkis.
- Name Access
- Reuven Surkis
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Special events and projects sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 28-18
- File
- 33
- Material Format
- textual record
- moving images
- Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 1 folder textual records
- 1 video cassette
- Scope and Content
- File consists of flyers, programs, correspondence, and a video recording of the lecture "The Wannsee Conference: The Blackest Day in European Jewish History."
- Name Access
- Wannsee-Konferenz (1942 : Berlin, Germany)
- Subjects
- Lectures and lecturing
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 51
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 20 Aug. 1993
- Physical Description
- 1 newspaper clipping
- Scope and Content
- Item is a newspaper clipping from the 20 August 1993 edition of the Toronto Sun about a contempt of court hearing for Wolfgang Droege and the Heritage Front. The article was written by Bill Dunphy.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a PDF file.
- Name Access
- Droege, Wolfgang, 1949-2005
- Heritage Front (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Neo-Nazis
- 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
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 7
- File
- 254
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of invitations to the lecture by Moshe Sharett at Massey Hall on June 25 1952.
- Name Access
- Sharett, Moshe, 1894-1965
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Israel
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds
- Educational programming series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 100
- Series
- 6
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting the lecture series Kallah, the Gathering. Included are planning meeting minutes, agendas and correspondence, a program guide to the three-part interactive lecture series, promotional material including a conversation with Elie Wiesel, an evaluation guideline for Kallah coordinators and a list of Jewish schools located in the GTA.
- Name Access
- Kallah, the Gathering
- Subjects
- Lectures and lecturing
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2008-1-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-1-5
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 95 video cassettes
- Date
- Sept. 1998-March 2000
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of 95 video cassettes of lectures presented by the Wexner Heritage Foundation at their "Toronto sessions". There are 39 lectures in total, dealing with philosophical and religious based topics as well as one on the history of the Canadian Jewish community. The sessions are set up with a guest speaker at the head of a table facilitating the discussion amongst a group of participants.
- The guest speakers and facilitators include Rabbi Norman Laufer, Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Rabbi Jacob Schacter, Dr. Benjamin Gampel, Dr. Michael Stanislawski, Dr. Steven Bayme, Dr. Michael Brown, Rabbi Shoshana Gelfand, Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard, Dr. Larry Hoffman, Erica Brown, Dr. Michal Chernick and Arna Poupko.
- The topics of discussion include:
- Genesis: cosmos and covenant.
- Genesis: Exodus, Abraham and Moses. The nature of leadership and relationship to the covenant.
- Books of Deuteronomy, Joshua. Judges, Samuel 1: land and politics.
- Prophets and kings or prophets vs. kings.
- Judaism and the destruction of the Temple.
- The Temple's end and beginnings of modern Judaism.
- Judaism in Middle Ages.
- Jews in the orbit of Islam.
- Sephardic and Ashkenaz Jews: 11th to 15th century.
- Crusades and expulsion of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews: 13th to 16th century.
- Jews in Ashkenazi lands.
- Roads to modernity: 1550-1789.
- Jews in Medieval Spain.
- Eastern European Jewry through 1981.
- Transitions to modernity
- Enlightenment and emancipation and the Jewish response to modernity.
- Immigration and acculturation.
- Zionism first 50 years.
- The rise and decline of civic Judaism and the emergence of Jewish continuity agenda.
- Canadian Jewish history.
- Who are the hero/ines of Rosh Hashanah?
- Priest, prophet and kings: authority and rivalry.
- Triumphs and failures in biblical leadership.
- Refusing leadership: the complex leader.
- Judah, Tamar and the Book of Ruth: autonomy and vision as a foundation for leadership.
- Leadership as an outgrowth of faith and kindness.
- The risk of a leader in the Diaspora: Joseph and the Book of Esther.
- The leader as courtier: the Book of Esther.
- Suffering divine justice and personal communal redemption.
- The leader as nurturer.
- The anatomy of the Siddur.
- From Bible to Mishna: the process of Midrash.
- Rabbinic "liturature": the Mishna.
- The Talmud.
- The Mishna and its social context.
- Codes and responsa.
- The Aggadah: the spiritual world of the Talmudic tale.
- Custodial History
- These video cassettes were donated to the OJA by the Media Library, however they did not contain the usual coding used by the library. Therefore, their origins are unknown. It is possible that they were once used as a resource by the staff at the Board of Jewish Education.
- Administrative History
- The Wexner Foundation and the Wexner Heritage Foundation (now part of The Wexner Foundation) were established by Leslie Wexner in 1984. The Wexner Heritage program was designed to provide young American Jewish lay leaders with a two-year intensive Jewish learning program, thus deepening their understanding of Jewish history, values, and texts and enriching their leadership skills. By the end of 2007, over 1500 North American Jewish leaders from 31 cities will have participated in the program.
- http://www.wexnerfoundation.org/TheFoundation/HistoryandMission/tabid/61/Default.aspx
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Speeches series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 7
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1976-1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of notes and drafts as well as speeches Ben Dunkelman gave in connection with politics in the Middle East and the Allon Plan.
- Physical Condition
- Some records are fragile.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28
- Series
- 5
- File
- 85
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1970-1975
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of a confirmation of booking for a lecture by Leonard Slater, promotional information for the "Here Is Israel" programme, and correspondence regarding potential lectures.
- 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
- 253
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of a mail list and list of members of the Arrangements Committee.
- Name Access
- Sharett, Moshe, 1894-1965
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Israel
- 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
- 255
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of a press release announcing the Moshe Sharett lecture held on June 25 1952 at Massey Hall in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Sharett, Moshe, 1894-1965
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Israel
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3655
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3655
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Nov. 5, 1933
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 4 x 5 cm
- Name Access
- Leivick, H.
- 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
- 1976-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Larry Becker collection
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 34
- File
- 60
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an invitation to attend a lecture given by Mr. J. Simpson on "The Problems of Modern Society" at the Zion Institute, 206 Beverley Street, Toronto.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-119
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-119
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1975]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a handwritten speech in Yiddish for a lecture at the Good Age Club at the JCC on Bathurst Street, Toronto.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1976-1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 35 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 13 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File includes correspondence, sample invitation cards, lecture notes and photographs concerning the luncheon lecture programs of the committee. Guests lecturers in this program included Leon S. Lipson, Yoram Dinstein, Natalia Sharansky, Robert McKay, Alan Eagleson, Burton Caine, David Smith, Flora MacDonald, Charles L. Caccia, Fred King, Lynn McDonald and Jim Peterson. Floar McDonald and David Smith are photographed on one contact sheet of 34 photographs during their talk. The other photograph is of Professor of Law Burton Caine.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds
- Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 103
- Series
- 1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of handwritten lecture notes and a newspaper clipping documenting Shemen's lecture on Polish Jewry and the struggle between existence and ruin. Shemen presented this lecture to the "Not to Worry!" Club (or "Be of Good Cheer!" Club) in Radomer Hall, 210 Beverley Street.
- Subjects
- Jews--Poland
- Lectures and lecturing
- Physical Condition
- The lecture notes are rolled and difficult to unfurl.
- Places
- Beverley Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3656
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3656
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Emma Goldman was an anarchist and writer. She was born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family in 1869 and died in Toronto on 14 May 1940. In a letter to fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman dated 5 February 1935, Emma wrote, "As far as I know now Milly Desser and I will return to Toronto the 15th of March. I will have some lectures there which the new group will arrange, mostly it will deal with some phase of sex, birth control, the revolt of youth and possible crime. They are the only subjects that draw. And I simply can't afford to face further dificits [sic]. My address in Toronto will again be 471 Brunswick Ave. But keep on writing me here until the 15th of next month."
- Scope and Content
- Item is a broadside for a lecture to be given by Emma Goldman at the Labor Lyceum in Toronto.
- Name Access
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
- Labor Lyceum (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Anarchists
- Lectures and lecturing
- Youth
- 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
- 1976-12-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4980
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4980
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- Emma Goldman was an anarchist and writer. She was born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family in 1869 and died in Toronto on 14 May 1940. In a letter to fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman dated 5 February 1935, Emma wrote, "As far as I know now Milly Desser and I will return to Toronto the 15th of March. I will have some lectures there which the new group will arrange, mostly it will deal with some phase of sex, birth control, the revolt of youth and possible crime. They are the only subjects that draw. And I simply can't afford to face further dificits [sic]. My address in Toronto will again be 471 Brunswick Ave. But keep on writing me here until the 15th of next month."
- Scope and Content
- Notice is in Yiddish and reads: "A very interesting lecture by Emma Goldman on the theme 'The Youth in Revolt' will take place Sunday, 4th of April, 8:30 p.m., Labor Lyceum, 346 Spadina Ave. Don't lose the opportunity to hear Emma Goldman on this theme before her departure from Canada. Arranged by Branch 339, Arbeiter Ring (Workmen's Circle)."
- Name Access
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
- Labor Lyceum (Toronto, Ont.)
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Anarchists
- 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
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1976-12-1
- 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