This file contains Board of Director lists for the Mount Sinai Hospital and an itinerary for a volunteer training workshop held at the Bloor and Spadina YM-YWHA.
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.
File consists of correspondence regarding the building of, and fundraising for, the New Mount Sinai Hospital. Also included is a summary report on fundraising pledges.
With the post-war expansion of Toronto's Jewish population, the original Mount Sinai Hospital on Yorkville Avenue became overcrowded, while its treatment capacities appeared ever-more outdated. By 1949, an improved economy made it possible to begin the necessary planning for a much large replacement hospital at 550 University Avenue. Although fundraising for the construction this facility was not the responsibility of the United Jewish Welfare Fund, many of its senior executives were also on the hospital's board. Also, the entire Toronto Jewish Community was to be canvassed for the funds to build it. The proven fundraising expertise of the UJWF, its donor lists, and the goals of its own annual campaign ensured that constant correspondence and cooperation between the two was both necessary for success and vital to the avoidance of campaign competition. The continued success and growth of community contributions to both was the outcome of this ongoing collaboration. The New Mount Sinai Hospital opened in mid-1953, while the campaigns to continue improving and expanding its resources continue to the present.
Scope and Content
Series consists of correspondence and occasional reports documenting the relationship between the UJWF and the board of the New Mount Sinai Hospital about the fundraising campaigns for the new hospital being constructed on Univeristy Avenue during the 1950s. Also included are two photographs of the new hospital. Files in this sub-series have been arranged chronologically.
This accession consists of two photographs taken by Judith Ghert of the former Mount Sinai Hospital facade on Yorkville Ave. The facade was saved from demolition, moved back from the sidewalk and is now being incorporated into a new condo development on the site that will feature retail space on the ground level.
This file consists of a letter from Z. Sacks representing the Building Fund for the Newi Mount Sinai Hospital concerning their campaign for collections.
File consists of one clinic schedule and correspondence between the JFWB and the Mount Sinai Hospital documenting patients receiving medical attention at the hospital.
Access Restriction
Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.
Accession consists of photographs documenting the construction of the New Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto.Included are photos of a building fund exhibit, surgeons in an operating room, and mother and baby in a maternity ward room.
Administrative History
The New Mount Sinai Hospital was first envisioned in 1944 and the sod turning was held in 1948. The hospital moved from the Yorkville location with the opening of the new building in 1953. In 1974 Mount Sinai moved to a third location next door at 600 University Avenue. The old site at 550 University has been used by several rehabilitation organizations, and is currently a branch of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
Accession consists of material documenting Mount Sinai Hospital. Included are issues of Highlights for February 1978, June 1978, October 1978, April 1979, and November 1979.
Accession consists of invitations, programs, tributes and dedications relating to Holy Blossom Temple, along with photographs from Mount Sinai Hospital events.
Accession consists of two Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary magazines. Included is one issue of "Highlights" (Apr. 1971) and one issue of "Perspectives" (2008)
Custodial History
No donor information available. Archivist assigned the accession number.
Photograph of the Mount Sinai Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary in the garden at Yorkville hospital. Dora Dworkin is sitting in the second row, fourth from the right, and Celia Goodman (née Goldstick) is in the top row on the far left.
Notes
Title taken from back of photograph.
Inscription, recto, lower right: "BY SIMON".
Name Access
Goodman, Celia
Goldstick, Celia
Mount Sinai Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary
Subjects
Women
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 item 11 for another sitting of this group
Photograph of the Mount Sinai Ladies' Hospital Auxiliary in the garden of the hospital on Yorkville. Dora Dworkin is in the second row, fifth from the right.
Notes
Title taken from back of photograph.
Inscription, recto, lower right: BY SIMON.
Subjects
Women
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 fonds #10, item #10 for another sitting of this group.
3 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 22 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of Dorothy Dworkin and group at Mount Sinai Hospital. In the back row, from left to right are: hospital president, Ephraim Frederick Singer, Dora Dworkin, [unknown], nurse, and Dr. Maxwell Bochner. In the front row, from left to right are: a nurse, a woman in a wheelchair who may have been one of the hospitals permanent patients who the nurses acquired much affection for, and Miss Pickels, the hospital superintendent.
Name Access
Bochner, Maxwell
Mount Sinai Hospital
Pickels, Miss
Singer, E. F.
Singer, Ephraim Frederick
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 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.
58 photographs : col. (14 negatives) ; 10 x 15 cm and 35 mm
other material
Admin History/Bio
Mount Sinai Cemetery Association (MSCA) is responsible for providing services to the cemetery owners at Mount Sinai Memorial Park. Some of these services include grass cutting, grounds maintenance, and interment services. The beginning of Mount Sinai Memorial Park in 1934 is attributable to a non-Jew, Reuben Phillips. In 1934, he applied to the Ontario Department of Health to establish a cemetery for “members of the Hebrew faith.” After the registration of the cemetery was completed in 1935, Reuben became the first manager of the cemetery and started to subdivide the cemetery lands and sell sections to Jewish organizations. A management committee (MSCA), composed of delegates from the organizations owning cemeteries in Mount Sinai Memorial Park, was formed in 1943 to co-ordinate the management of the cemetery. The first president of MSCA was Louis Palter. In 1989, a new administration building was built.
As of today (2022), Mount Sinai Memorial Park serves seventeen synagogues and organizations, including Beth Lida Synagogue, Beth Radom Congregation, Beth Sholom Synagogue, Canadian Hebrew Benevolent Society, Chevra Mishnais, Congregation Rodfei Sholom Anshei Kiev (Kiever Synagogue), Farband (JCMI), Independent Friendly Workers (JCMI), Jewish Canadian Veteran's Memorial Park Association (JCMI), Ozrower Mutual Benefit Society, Pride of Israel Sick Benefit Society, Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, Shaarei Tefillah Congregation, Sunnyside Cemetery Association, Toronto Independent Benevolent Association, Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring), and Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA).
Scope and Content
Series consists of records documenting the administration and operational activities of Mount Sinai Cemetery Association. Included are meeting minutes, by-laws and regulations, financial statements, burial records, lists of delegates and executives, and documents and architectural drawings relating to the additions and alterations to the administrative building at Mount Sinai Memorial Park. Also present are a map of the memorial park and photographs featuring different cemetery sections and the opening ceremony of the new administration building in 1989.
Notes
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION NOTE: Also included are 1 map and 12 architectural drawings.
Access Restriction
Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
This item is a copy photograph of Dr. Harold Pritzker seated in his laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital, located at 100 Yorkville Avenue in Toronto. Dr. Pritzker was a pathologist with the hospital.
Name Access
Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Ont.)
Pritzker, Harold G., 1909-1963
Subjects
Hospitals
Laboratories
Pathologists
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.
File contains a news clipping and two photographs in connection with David Dunkelman, Tip Top Tailors and Mount Sinai Hospital. Dunkelman took part in opening the hospital's new extension in 1966, along with Marvin Gerstein and Morry Wingold.
Subjects
Building
Hospitals
Repro Restriction
Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, who assumed the role of rabbi for the Kiever after Rabbi Langner’s death, also contributed greatly to the religious identity of the Jewish community. He co-founded the She’arim day school, was Director of Chaplaincy Services at Jewish Family and Child Services, acted as Chaplain for Jails and Asylums, and was the Chaplain for Mount Sinai Hospital. He was renowned for his respect, concern, and compassion for those in unfortunate situations.