Part Of

Julius P. Katz fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

55

Series

2

File

19

Material Format

textual record

Date

1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

This file consists of correspondence between Katz and Rabbi N. Braun from Montreal.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ida Lewis Siegel fonds

Photographs file

Level

Item

Fonds

15

File

37

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1912

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Rycus family were neighbours to the Siegel family when they lived at 136 Elizabeth Street. Hinda Falick (née Swartz) was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Swartz, who were originally from Romania and later lived in Montreal. She married a man named Avrom Falick, who lived in Toronto. Their second daughter, Mary, married Goodman Rycus.

Scope and Content

Item is a formal portrait postcard of Dr. and Mrs. Schwab, Marv Rycus and Hinda Falick. Dr. Schwab is wearing a military uniform with a Magen David on his cap.

Standing, left to right: Marv Rycus; Hinda Falick; Dr. Schwab.

Seated: Mrs. Mary Schwab.

Notes

Title taken from notes of Ida Siegel. Her notes also state that Dr. Schwab was part of the medical unit for Palestine, however this is unconfirmed.

There is writing on the back of the photograph that reads: To our friends Mr. and Mrs. Siegal (sic). From Mary and [Arny?].

Subjects

Physicians

Portraits

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

1988-2-13

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

1

Item

36

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1955]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Murray (Moishe) Reingold was born in 1918. Reingold graduated from the University of Toronto in 1943, although his Canadian Medical Association license was issued as "Dr. Maurice Reingold". Reingold completed his training in thoracic surgery at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Reingold served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as an MD. He worked as a Specialist in Thoracic Surgery, primarily lung surgery, and a Certified Specialist in General Surgery. He was married to Isabelle Ruth Reingold (née Rodger) by Rabbi Samuel Sachs in Toronto on Feb 26, 1944, and had two children: Debbie (Hamann) and Bryan. Wife Ruth Reingold worked as a Registered Nurse. Murray Reingold died on 25 December 2000, at the age of 82.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Dr. Murray Reingold.

Name Access

Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Subjects

Physicians

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2015-1-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder textual records

1 photograph: b&w ; 35 x 25 cm

Date

1899-[ca. 1903]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Dr. Samuel Lavine's certification from the State Board of Medical Colleges of New Jersey and and the Board of Medical Registration and Examination, State of Ohio. Also included is one photograph believed to be of Samuel and Ida Lavine.

Custodial History

Donor found items among her mother's papers, donor was Samuel Lavine's great-granddaughter.

Administrative History

Dr. Samuel Lavine (1874-1959) was the first Jewish doctor to practice in Toronto. He graduated from Trinity University Medical School in 1899. Understanding that Jewish practitioners had little future in Toronto, he moved to the United States and received his medical certification in New Jersey and Ohio. However, he returned to Toronto one year later and opened an office at John and Adelaide Streets. He was known for making house calls on his bicycle. Dr. Lavine was also part of the Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society, and became the first Jewish Lodge doctor in 1907. In 1909, he helped found, and later remained active in, the Free Jewish Dispensary. As of 1911 he lived at 159 Beverly Street. After 1922 he lived and practiced at 30 Dunvegan Road. The building was designed by Benjamin Brown. By 1931, Lavine's practice was located at 2 Wells Hill. Around 1903 he married Ida (nee Levy? Levi?) (1880-1958), and they had two daughters, Ruth (Levinson) and Helen (Sterling), and a son Bernard. Helen's husband, Theodore "Ted" Sterling, is said to be the first Jewish stockbroker.

Subjects

Physicians

Name Access

Lavine, Samuel, 1874-1959

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2019-5-16

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

3 cm. of textual records (1 vol.)

2 photographs : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm and 18 x 23 cm

Date

1897-1963

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting aspects of A. I. Willinsky's life. Included are: two portrait photographs of Willinsky as a boy (ca. 1897) and as an adult (ca. 1940s); a scrapbook related to the publication of A.I. Willinsky's book, A Doctor's Memoirs; a booklet with information referencing Willinsky's travel films; and Gertrude Kronick's handwritten "putterkuchen" recipe. Included in the scrapbook are congratulatory letters, newspaper clippings related to the book, and a proof copy for submission to Who's Who in Canadian Jewry.

Administrative History

Abraham Isaac Willinsky (1885-1976) was born 29 March1885, in Omaha, Nebraska to Sarah Rebecca (née Vise) and Myer Lionel Willinsky. Sarah had immigrated to Canada as a child in the 1860s; the Myers family was originally from Lithuania. Abraham had seven siblings: Abey (b. 1885), Ida (b. 1886), Faly (b. 1888), Minnie (b. 1890), Gertrude (b. 1893), Lila (b. 1899) and Bernard (“Bunny”) (b. 1900). Willinsky’s family moved to the east end of Toronto in 1890 where his father worked as a merchant

Most of Abraham's siblings eventually married: Ida married Maurice Kamman in 1909; Faly married Sam Mehr in 1912; Minnie married Arthur Jacobs in 1912; Gertrude married Sam Kronick in 1912; Lila married Jospeh Lisson in 1920; and Bernard married Florence Samuel in 1930, but divorced soon after.

When Willinsky was a child he helped his uncle, Solomon Vise, in his photography business, which was located at 439 King Street East. Working in his uncle's darkroom and studio on Saturdays awakened Willinsky's interest in photography.

Willinsky graduated from biological and physical sciences at the University of Toronto in 1906, and from medicine in 1908, earning the George Brown Memorial Scholarship. He married Sadie Dobensky, from Bancroft, Ontario, in July of 1911. They had three children: Dorothy, Jack, and Myra. Dorothy eventually married Garfield Cass and worked as a social worker. Jack married Cecily Samuel and became a urologist and, later, a radiologist. Myra married Dr. N. Simon, a dental surgeon.

As one of the early Jewish doctors in Toronto, Willinsky initially had difficulty launching his career due to discrimination and prejudice. After joining the Academy of Medicine in 1910, he began his first practice as a “lodge doctor”, working out of his office and home at College and Henry Streets.

With other possible internships and appointments denied him, A. I. accumulated his early clinical training with resourcefulness, by performing “ghost-surgery” and by studying abroad in Dublin at the Rotunda Hospital, Paris and Vienna. In 1916, under the adopted name of Wills, and with a claim to Greek Orthodoxy, Willinsky managed to secure a position at the Polyclinic in New York, where he began as an ambulance doctor. He also interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His skill was, in time, recognized in Toronto and he was accepted at the Toronto Western Hospital in 1918, where he pioneered spinal anaethesia and began his work as a urologist. In 1923, Willinsky became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1925, all forty practicing Jewish physicians formed the Toronto Jewish Medical Association. In turn, the same members would become the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital, which was established in 1923 at 100 Yorkville Avenue.

Willinsky was probably the most prominent of Mount Sinai’s original staff, dividing his time between the new Jewish hospital and Toronto Western, where he was the head of genito-urinary surgery. He became chief of surgery at Mount Sinai and produced a number of papers that dealt primarily with spinal anaesthesia. He later opened a practice at 316 Bloor Street West, above which he temporarily resided. In 1928, he set up a clinic and office at 569 Spadina Avenue. His practice remained at this location until his retirement.

Throughout his life, he remained enthralled by photography and prolific in his production of travel movies. In 1934, he became a founding member of the Toronto Amateur Movie Club. Around this same time, he created films to help Holy Blossom fundraise for a new building. In 1941, he gave a lecture on the principles of amateur moviemaking before the Royal Canadian Institute, in which he advocated holding the movie camera steady and letting the action move into the frame as a strategy to encourage careful composition. For sound in his early movies, he played records bought in the country where the picture was taken, stacking them in order and playing them at intervals during the commentary. Later on, he manufactured his own gramophone records, and eventually, bona fide soundtracks. Often shooting as much as 3600 feet of film on a single trip, he tended, in his more senior years, to invest long hours editing and framing sequences in the basement of his own home at 120 Madison Avenue. Here, he set up a miniature theatre and often held film evenings for friends. In 1945, Willinsky won an award for a medical film, Cystometrography, in which he used the animation technique of filming drawings. Aortography and advances in X-ray technology provided other cross-overs between medical and filmic experiments, and most of his chronicled travels were the extra-curricular benefits of regular attendance at medical conferences.

Towards the end of his life in 1960, Willinsky dictated the stories for A Doctor’s Memoirs to his transcriber, Margaret Avison. He spent the last 14 years of his life at Toronto's Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. He passed away in 1976 at the age of ninety-one.

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.

Subjects

Physicians

Name Access

Willinsky, Abraham Isaac, 1885-1976

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

3556

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 20 cm on mat 36 x 32 cm

Scope and Content

Identified in this photograph is David Eisen. He is pictured in the centre wearing glasses.

For locations, see accession record.

Notes

Original photo by Alex J. McLean, 435 Spadina Ave., Toronto.

Name Access

University of Toronto

Bochner, David Eisen

Subjects

Physicians

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

1981-4-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

528

Material Format

graphic material

Date

April 28, 1918

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of David Eisen in the backyard amid sunflowers at 12 Bellevue Ave., Toronto

Name Access

Eisen, David

Subjects

Physicians

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

Bellevue Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

Acquired July 23, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Responsibility

Duke Studio

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Roza Brown with her newphew, a well-known Park Avenue physician, in Kirkland Lake.

Name Access

Brown, Roza

Subjects

Physicians

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.

Places

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 8 cm and 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Rose Abromowitz (1908–2001) was born in Toronto in 1908. Her parents were David Abromowitz (1884–1963) and Sarah Abromowitz (née Winfield) (1885–1955). David arrived in Toronto in 1906. Sarah and her parents, Jacob Winfield and Anna Winfield, settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, around 1880. Jacob worked as a grocer and relocated his family to Toronto around 1894. Sarah and David were married at the McCaul Street Synagogue in Toronto on 6 March 1906. They resided at 159 York Street after their nuptuals. David's father, Shevach, served as the cantor at Adath Israel. Rose's siblings included Murray and Oscar. Several members of the family later changed their surname to Abron during the early 1940s.

Rose studied at the University of Toronto and became a physician in 1932. She married Harry Lahman. In November 1943, Rose and Harry moved from Toronto to Altanta, Georgia. Rose passed away on 7 January 2001 at the age of ninety-three. She was survived by a son, Jerome. Her obituary stated, "She officially retired in 1990, but continued to see herself as a doctor until the day she died."

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Dr. Abron.

Notes

Associated material note: See the New York Public Library's American Jewish Committee and Oral History Library for further holdings.

Name Access

Abron, Rose, Dr., 1908-2001

Subjects

Physicians

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.

Related Material

See accession 2010-3/1.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 12 x 9 cm and 12 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Anna Gelber (née David) (1907-2007) was born in Palestine in 1907 and passed away on 20 November 2007. Anna received her doctor of science from Sorbonne Univeristy in Paris, France, and her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto. An obstetrician, at one point she worked in the medical department of Toronto's Women's College Hospital. Anna was also a prominent communal worker, active as a member of the National Executive Board of the Canadian Hadassah.

Anna married Eddie Gelber, a prominent communal worker. They had three children, Edna, Lynn, and David. She and Eddie travelled significantly between Israel and Toronto during their marriage.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Dr. Anna Gelber.

Name Access

Gelber, Anna, 1907-2007 (subject)

Subjects

Physicians

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.

Related Material

See also Fonds 80, Series 1-1, Item 13 for portrait of Anna's husband, Mr. Eddie Gelber.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Jewish military portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

2

Item

35

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Dec. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Sydney Wise (1915-2013) was born in Toronto on May 3, 1915. His parents were Anshel (b. 10 Jan 1890) and Esther (née Weissblum) Wise. Born in Poland, Anshel came to Canada in August 1910 and became a travel agent. They had three children: Lillian (Sharpe), Dr. David K. Wise and Dr. Sydney Wise. Syd attended high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1931. He then went on to complete his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto.

Syd met his future wife, Mimi (née Marin) in 1938. Born in Toronto in 1920, Mimi (d. 2004) was the daughter of Joseph and Sonia (née Stern) Marin. The following year, Sydney moved to the United States to begin his medical internship at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mimi stayed behind in Toronto and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. In 1941, she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy, although she never practiced. In 1942, Sydney and Mimi married and Mimi joined Syd in the United States. The couple had 2 children, Mark and Joel.

In 1944, Sydney was sent overseas with the United States Army as a Captain in the Medical Corps. After the war Syd and Mimi returned to Toronto where Syd opened his own practice as a pediatrician. After more than 50 years, Syd retired from his medical practice in 1997. Since then, Syd has been an active volunteer at the OJA.

During their marriage, Syd and Mimi traveled to Israel frequently, often as part of Mimi's volunteer commitments with Hadassah. On a trip to Jerusalem in 1969, Syd met and had his picture taken with Prime Minister Golda Meir.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Dr. Sydney Wise.

Name Access

Wise, Sydney, 1915-1913, (subject)

Subjects

Physicians

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.

Related Material

See Mimi Wise fonds (Fonds 16) for further records regarding Syd Wise (including the photo of Syd with Prime Minister Golda Meir).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Photographic and audiovisual collection series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

27

File

70

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1973

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of two photos of a meeting of the Physicians' Division.

Subjects

Physicians

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series

Photograph collection sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

61

Series

2-2

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1972]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

This file consists of one portrait photograph of Dr. William R. Drucker.

Subjects

Physicians

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

68

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1920

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm and 6 x 4 cm

Admin History/Bio

David Eisen was a Toronto physician.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of David Eisen standing at Bellevue Square in Toronto.

Notes

Includes original photograph and a larger copy.

Name Access

Eisen, David

Bellevue Square

Subjects

Physicians

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

Bellevue Square Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Portraits of prominent Jewish Torontonians series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

1

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1953

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 8 cm 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Mitchell Kohan was a prominent Toronto internist and cardiologist. He married Lena Kohan in July 1924. Dr. Kohan was also an associate professor of medicine in the University of Toronto and the chief of medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. The Dr. Mitchell Kohan Scholarship was established in the Faculty of Medicine by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cohen in his memory; it is awarded annually to a student in the final year who has achieved honours standing, with an emphasis on excellence in medicine.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Dr. Mitchell Kohan.

Name Access

Schwartz, Sylvia, 1914-1998 (creator)

Subjects

Physicians

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Jewish military portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

2

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 12 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Lieutenant Victor Oscar Hertzman was born in Toronto in July, 1918. He received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1942, and was in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Core during the Second World War. He married his wife Eileen in 1943, and they had two children, Clyde and Owen. Hertzman and his family moved to Vancouver, where he would be a founding member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and the Yukon, and a chair of the British Columbia Society of Internal Medicine. He died in Vancouver in 1994.

Hertzman specialized in cardiology, and frequently conducted experiments on his sons to prove that carefully prescribed activity was better for heart patients than rest. Prior to these experiments in the early 1960s, this was an idea, but Hertzman research helped turn that idea into an accepted practice. Hertzman's son, Clyde went on to become a doctor whose research would lead to the coining of the now widely used term “biological embedding” to describe how early environment is more a determinant of a child’s future behaviour than genetic makeup. Clyde died on Februrary 8, 2013 of an apparent heart attack.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Lt. Victor Oscar Hertzman.

Name Access

Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Subjects

Physicians

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

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Jewish military portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

2

Item

34

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Jan. 1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Captain Julian White served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, and was prominent Toronto Pediatrician.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Captain Julian White.

Name Access

Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Subjects

Physicians

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

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Jewish military portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

2

Item

36

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Dec. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 10 cm and 12 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Sydney Wise (1915-2013) was born in Toronto on May 3, 1915. His parents were Anshel (b. 10 Jan 1890) and Esther (née Weissblum) Wise. Born in Poland, Anshel came to Canada in August 1910 and became a travel agent. They had three children: Lillian (Sharpe), Dr. David K. Wise and Dr. Sydney Wise. Syd attended high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1931. He then went on to complete his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto.

Syd met his future wife, Mimi (née Marin) in 1938. Born in Toronto in 1920, Mimi (d. 2004) was the daughter of Joseph and Sonia (née Stern) Marin. The following year, Sydney moved to the United States to begin his medical internship at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mimi stayed behind in Toronto and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. In 1941, she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy, although she never practiced. In 1942, Sydney and Mimi married and Mimi joined Syd in the United States. The couple had 2 children, Mark and Joel.

In 1944, Sydney was sent overseas with the United States Army as a Captain in the Medical Corps. After the war Syd and Mimi returned to Toronto where Syd opened his own practice as a pediatrician. After more than 50 years, Syd retired from his medical practice in 1997. Since then, Syd has been an active volunteer at the OJA.

During their marriage, Syd and Mimi traveled to Israel frequently, often as part of Mimi's volunteer commitments with Hadassah. On a trip to Jerusalem in 1969, Syd met and had his picture taken with Prime Minister Golda Meir.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Dr. Sydney Wise.

Name Access

Wise, Sydney, 1915-1913, (subject)

Subjects

Physicians

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.

Related Material

See Mimi Wise fonds (Fonds 16) for further records regarding Syd Wise (including the photo of Syd with Prime Minister Golda Meir).

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Family series

Portraits sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

5-1

Item

20

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 1951

Physical Description

2 photographs: b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Isaac Shleser was a doctor of internal medicine. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1937. He was married to Helen Schwartz (d. 3 August 2007), the sister of Sylvia Schwartz, and had two daughters, Jill and Jan. He had five grandchildren, Dean, Natalie, Samantha, Duncan, and Douglas, and one great-grandson, Henry. He died on 10 July 2007.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Dr. Isaac Shleser.

Notes

This negative has two images on it.

Subjects

Physicians

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Family series

Recreation sub-series

Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

5-2

File

1

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1941

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Isaac Shleser was a doctor of internal medicine. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1937. He was married to Helen Schwartz (d. 3 August 2007), the sister of Sylvia Schwartz, and had two daughters, Jill and Jan. He had five grandchildren, Dean, Natalie, Samantha, Duncan and Douglas, and one greatgrandson, Henry. He died on the 10 July 2007.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Dr. Isaac Shleser and Leonard Hauser.

Notes

This item has no proofs.

Subjects

Physicians

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

Dr. Isadore M. Cass fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

40

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1909-1995

Physical Description

45 cm of textual records

14 photographs : b&w (8 negatives) ; 18 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Isadore M. Cass (1916-1996), a well-known pathologist and practicing mohel--Jewish ritual circumcisor--for the Toronto Jewish community, was born and educated in Toronto, attending the University of Toronto's medical school. After serving with the army during the Second World War, Dr. Cass returned to Toronto to private practice. He began studying pathology in 1953, and performed research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Connaught Labs and the Ontario Department of Health throughout his career. He was chief of pathology at Ajax and Pickering hospitals for twenty-three years, until his retirement in 1986.

In 1945, Dr. Cass began doing ritual circumcisions and was the first medical doctor in Toronto to do so. He performed over 40,000 circumcisions throughout Canada and the eastern United States and trained many physicians to perform them as well.

Dr. Cass was a member of the following organizations: New York Academy of Sciences; the Academy of Medicine, Toronto; the Israel Medical Association; General Wingate Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion; and many other associations and societies.

Dr. Cass studied Torah under Rabbi Jacob Gordon and was a Torah reader at Goel Tzedec Synagogue and later, Beth Tzedec. He also studied and taught Torah throughout his life, chairing the Canadian Jewish Congress' Tanach study group for many years, and leading weekly Gemara classes at Beth Tzedec. He belonged to Shaarei Shomayim and Beth Lida synagogues, as well as Lubavitch. In 1987, Dr. and Mrs. Cass were honoured as "Couple of the Year" by Machanaim, The Network of Educational Institutions in Kiryat Gat, Israel, for their great contributions to this charity over the years.

Dr. Cass was married to Miriam Cass and they had four daughters: Sharon, Hylah, Judy, and Elaine. He had four brothers: the late Rabbi Samuel Cass, Harry, Al, and Elie (who was a Reform mohel), and two sisters: Miriam Cass and Zelda Fink. He also had seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Dr. Cass died on January 24, 1996 of cancer.

Scope and Content

The fonds consists of records relating to the personal and professional life of Dr. Isadore Cass. These records include appointment books documenting circumcisions he performed, correspondence, writings, Tanach study group notes, a Machanaim invitation and programme, prayer books, certificates, memorial cards, and photographs.

Name Access

Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996

Subjects

Physicians

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.

Physical Condition

The prayer book is in poor condition and some of the early daytimers are in fair condition.

Related Material

See also the Ontario Jewish Archives' reference news clipping file under "Cass, Dr. Isadore".

Creator

Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996

Accession Number

1997-5-1

1997-8-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1976-10-3

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

26 cm of textual records and graphic material

Date

1925-1960

Scope and Content

Accession consists of: Toronto Jewish Medical Association minute book (1925–1936); minutes, clinical records, research papers and other records of the Mount Sinai Clinical Association (1932–1953); Mount Sinai Hospital medical staff minute book (1943–1953); a copy of Dr David Eisen's publication "Toronto's Jewish doctors" (1960); and a photograph of the installation of officers of the Mt. Sinai Hospital Clinical Society (1939).

Use Conditions

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Dr. Eisen's "Toronto's Jewish Doctors" publication has been digitized and is available as a PDF file. The photograph of the officers' installation has also been digitized and is available as a JPEG image.

Subjects

Hospitals

Physicians

Name Access

Eisen, David

Pollock, Ira

Mount Sinai Hospital

Toronto Jewish Medical Association

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

770

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

This item is studio portrait of Dr. Isadore Goldstick, of London, Ontario.

Notes

Acquired in June 1976.

Reproduction restriction note: Copyright owned by Bill Barrett, London. Please credit upon publication.

Name Access

Goldstick, Dr. Isadore

Subjects

Physicians

Portraits

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

London (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

14

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1965]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Dr. Syd Wax.

Notes

Photograph is by Gordon Mendly Famous Studio.

Subjects

Physicians

Portraits

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

Accession Number

2013-7-3

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 51 x 44 cm on mat 62 x 55 cm

Date

1909

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one composite photograph of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine's graduating class of 1909. Included is L. J. Solway.

Custodial History

There is no acquisition informaiton for this photograph. It was found in the processing room in July 2013.

Subjects

Education

Physicians

Name Access

University of Toronto

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Photographic and audiovisual collection series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

27

File

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1950-1960

Physical Description

7 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of two exterior views of the new Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto. The remaining five photos are interior shots of equipment, a research lab, and Dr. N. N. Levinne.

Name Access

Levinne, N. N.

Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Hospitals

Physicians

Places

550 University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

66

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph

Admin History/Bio

Dr. Bernard Manace was a Toronto pediatrician. There is an award in his name at the University of Toronto for a medical student who is undertaking an elective or summer medical experience in Israel.

Scope and Content

Item is a black-and-white photograph at Dr. Bernard Manace's stag party. The photographs depicts a large group of men seated in a dining hall.

Back row, left to right: [Jack Slavens?]; [Trachter?]; [Solway?]; Dr. Louis Kazdan, father of Dr. Manace; Dr. Bernard Manace; Dr. M.A. Pollock; Dr. Harry Leizner; Dr. Charles Markson (Markowitz); Dr. Samuel Norris; Dr. M.K. Bochner; Dr. Bernard Willinsky; Dr. Joseph Gollom; Dr. David Perlman; [unknown]; Dr. Adolf A. Appell; Dr. I.M. Golden; Dr. Jacob Markowitz (at U.of T.); Dr. William Harris; Dr. Samuel Perlman, dentist, brother of David Perlman.

Front row, left to right: Emanuel Pullan; [Ed or Gordon Pullan]; Dr. Lou Harris; Dr. Murray Dyment; Dr. Ben Garfield; Dr. Irwin Smith; Dr. Milton Raymers; Dr. David Eisen; Dr. Gordon Manace; Dr. Nathan Shaul; Dr. Max Sibberman; Dr. Mitchell Cohen; Dr. Jacob Goldstein; Dr. Benjamin Cohen; Dr. Aaron G(lassberg) Volpe; Dr. A.A. Track; Dr. Oscar Lewin; Dr. Harold Taube; Dr. Jacob Pollack; Dr. Maurice Selznick; [unknown]; Mannie Starkman.

Notes

See photo for identification order of front row.

Name Access

Manace, Dr. Bernard

University of Toronto

Slavens, Dr. Jack

Trachter

Solway

Kazdan, Dr. Louis

Pollack, Dr. M.A.

Leizner, Dr. Harry

Markson, Dr. Charles

Norris, Dr. Samuel

Bochner, Dr. M.K.

Willinsky, Dr. Bernard

Gollom, Dr. Joseph

Perlman, Dr. David

Appell, Dr. Adolf

Golden, Dr. I.M.

Markowitz, Dr. Jacob

Harris, Dr. William

Perlman, Dr. Samuel

Pullan, Dr. Emanuel

Pullan, Dr. Gordon

Pullan, Dr. Ed

Harris, Dr. Lou

Dyment, Dr. Murray

Garfield, Dr. Ben

Smith, Dr. Irwin

Raymers, Dr. Milton

Eisen, Dr. David

Shaul, Dr. Nathan

Sibberman, Max

Cohen, Dr. Mitchell

Goldstein, Dr. Jacob

Cohen, Dr. Benjamin

Volpe, Dr. Aaron

Track, Dr. A.A.

Lewin, Dr. Oscar

Taube, Dr. Harold

Pollack, Dr. Jacob

Selznick, Dr. Maurice

Starkman, Mannie

Subjects

Parties

Physicians

Access Restriction

Restricted until April 1984.

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

Item

754

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original portrait of Dr. J. M. Ennis (formerly Enushevsky) of Welland, Ontario.

Notes

Acquired in June 1976.

Name Access

Ennis, Dr. Julius M.

Subjects

Physicians

Portraits

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.

Places

Welland (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

782

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original portrait of Dr. H. O. Singer of Welland, Ontario.

Notes

Acquired in June 1976.

Name Access

Singer, Dr. H. O.

Subjects

Physicians

Portraits

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.

Places

Welland (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2007-6-15

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 11 cm

Date

1919

Scope and Content

Accession contains a portrait of an unidentified couple. Writing on the original folder of the photo says Mr. & Mrs. Sheinberg, 1919.

Subjects

Married people

Portraits

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Jewish military portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

2

Item

33

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Dec. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 11 x 8 cm

Admin History/Bio

Mr. Switzer served as a Sergeant with the St. John Ambulance Association in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Switzer.

Name Access

Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force

St. John Ambulance Association

Subjects

Married people

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

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Lifecycle Events series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

7

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Nov. 1951

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Argyros.

Subjects

Married people

Weddings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Lifecycle Events series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

7

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Feb. 1944

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ezrin.

Subjects

Married people

Weddings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Lifecycle Events series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

7

Item

16

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 1951

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 15 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Levine.

Subjects

Married people

Portraits

Weddings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sylvia Schwartz fonds

Lifecycle Events series

Level

Item

Fonds

80

Series

7

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

19 Oct. 1945

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 14 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a wedding portrait of Mr and Mrs. Siegal.

Subjects

Married people

Weddings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Bliss family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

8

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond in London, England.

Notes

Mounted in card frame

Photographer: Mayfair Portraits

Name Access

Raymond family

Subjects

Married people

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

England

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Sax family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

13

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1896]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

The item has been identified as a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Sax in Middletown, Pennsylvania. This could possibly be Fayge and her husband.

Notes

Albumen print mounted on cabinet card.

Photographer: Collins, 205 North Union St., Middletown, Pa.

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

Pennsylvania

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Atkinson, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

479

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Ausdin, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

802

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Barber, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

754

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Berman, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

404

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Broadbridge, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

485

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Brownstein, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

688

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Bushby, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

646

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Debring, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

683

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Dewfal, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

446

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Fenton, Mr. & Mrs. A.

Page Number

503

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Gardland, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

638

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Groves, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

566

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Hall, Mr. & Mrs.

Page Number

603

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger