- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 181
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1947-1950
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence with Rabbi L. Rudensky, Executive Director of Rabbinical Seminary of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 182
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1959
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence with regards to fund-raising on behalf of the Rabbinical Seminary of America. Included are official receipts, a Bank of Toronto bank book for the Rabbinical Seminary of America account and a list of donors.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 103
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1943-1945
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College in New York, N.Y. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1948-1950
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence between Katz and representatives from Beth Jacob Teachers Seminary of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim Theological Seminary of Canada fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 21
- File
- 24
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [194-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file contains the curricula of Yeshivah Torath Chaim from the 1940s. It contains details in both Hebrew and English for each grade.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim Theological Seminary of Canada fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 21
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1937-[197-?]
- Physical Description
- 37 cm of textual records
- 8 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- 2 posters : 36 x 28 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim was incorporated in December 1937 and was in operation until the mid-1980s. It was the first yeshivah in Canada. Following the Orthodox tradition, the yeshivah offered rabbinical training and ordination, after-school Jewish education for boys in elementary and high school, and operated Gan Yelodim, a day nursery and kindergarten for boys and girls. The yeshivah had a synagogue and banquet hall. Many graduates of the yeshivah went on to occupy rabbinical positions in the United States and Canada, including Rabbis Erwin Schild of Adath Israel Congregation, Gedalia Felder, Joseph Kelman, and Bernard Rosensweig.
- The yeshiva's history can be traced to 1935, when Rabbi Nachman Shemen organized a small class in the attic of the Chevra Shass building on Cecil Street. Soon thereafter, lessons were relocated to a small rented home on College street. Philanthropist Moses Oelbaum, first president of the yeshivah, purchased a building for the yeshivah at 414 Markham Street in 1938. In 1942 the yeshivah took possession of a second building at 399 Markham to use as a dormitory for out of town students and refugees, and a chapel. In 1946 the yeshivah bought a new facility at 709 College Street. In 1949 they opened Gan Yelodim Hebrew Day Nursery and Kindergarten for boys and girls. In September 1959, the yeshivah moved to 475 Lawrence Avenue, where they remained until they closed. Yeshivah Torath Chaim received financial support from the United Jewish Welfare Fund from 1944 to 1960, and was affiliated with the Bureau of Jewish Education for many years.
- The yeshivah had a board of directors with elected officers. Moses Oelbaum was the first president, succeeded after his death by his son J. Irving Oelbaum, who served from 1942 until 1946. J.I. Oelbaum served as president from 1942 To 1946. Louis Zuker took over as acting president, until elected to the position of president in 1948. Zuker was president until at least the mid-1970s. Rabbi Abraham Price served as dean of the yeshivah from its founding until his death in 1994.
- The yeshivah was involved in several instances of refugee sponsorship. In 1942, Rabbi Price orchestrated the release of around 50 refugee students from European Yeshivas who were being interned at a camp in Quebec, and brought them to Yeshivah Torath Chaim. In 1949 the yeshivah collaborated with the Canadian Jewish Congress to bring over around 55 Holocaust survivors from a yeshivah in Prague. These students worked in Toronto while studying at Torath Chaim.
- Custodial History
- The custodial history for this fonds is unclear. No accession records exists for this fonds.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds documents the administrative, educational, and religious functions of Yeshivah Torath Chaim from 1942 to 1977. The 38 files include minutes, financial reports, correspondence, legal documents, and enrollment records. Most of the records relate to the school, but there is some documentation and financial records relating to the yeshivah synagogue, and a very little relating to Gan Yelodim kindergarten. The fonds also includes some personal correspondence of Rabbi Price.
- Also included are 8 photographs, including two of the building on College Street.
- Name Access
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim Theological Seminary of Canada
- Subjects
- Yeshivas
- Related Material
- See accession 1995-8-1.
- Creator
- Yeshivah Torath Chaim Theological Seminary
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Financial series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 4
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1941-1948
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of deposit slips and lists of donors, including names, addresses and donation amounts paid to The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College, Amsterdam Avenue and 186th Street, New York. Also included is correspondence with Yeshiva College and Yeshiva University.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 92
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1937-1941
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 93
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1941-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Katz served as Treasurer for the Canadian Scholarship Fund. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 94
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Katz served as Treasurer for the Canadian Scholarship Fund. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 95
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Katz served as Treasurer for the Canadian Scholarship Fund. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 97
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 98
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1947-1949
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Katz served as Treasurer for the Canadian Scholarship Fund. Included are lists of Canadian donors, bank deposit slips and bank draft receipts for the donated funds and a Bank of Toronto bank book .
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 96
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1944-1951
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds. Also included is correspondence concerning the Jewish National Fund, Mizrachi Organizations in Canada and United States, Rabbi & Rebbetzin Taub, Mr. Margolit, Rabbi Avigdor Cyperstein and arrangements for Katz's trip to Israel in 1949.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 99
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1955-1960
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence pertaining to fund-raising for the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, Illinois. Included are lists of Canadian donors and bank deposit slips for the donated funds, bank books (1949-1958), bank draft receipts and a receipt book for donations to the scholarship fund for Canadian students at the Hebrew Theological College.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Personal series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- Series
- 1
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [194-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains one essay written by Phil Givens entitled "Yiddish in America".
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Community activities series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 2
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1960-1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- David Hoffman was the convention chair of the 1963 convention which was held in Hamilton.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence, programmes and newspaper clippings relating to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America convention.
- Name Access
- Hoffman, David
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Photographic and audiovisual collection series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 536
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 8 Jan. 1981
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (2 negatives) ; 28 x 28 mm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two negatives of two unidentified men and one unidentified woman looking at an article titled, "America's New Wave of Jewish Immigrants."
- Notes
- Photos by Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- General community activities series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 11
- File
- 92
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1955-1972
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a issues of the "Jewish Action" newsletter, booklets, conference programmes and handbooks, and an annual dinner programme book.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Financial series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 4
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1943-1951
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of deposit slips and lists of donors, including names, addresses and donation amounts paid to the credit of Rabbinical Seminary of America in Brooklyn, N.Y. Also included is correspondence with the Rabbinical Seminary of America
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 2
- File
- 201
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1938-1940
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence with from the Theological College of the New Yishuv in Palestine (1133 Broadway, New York City). Also included is a poster of the Rabbis of the Zionist movement.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Photographs series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 8
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1951
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of three photographs taken during the convocation ceremonies at the Hebrew Theological College on April 18, 1951. Moshe Shapira, Minister of Internal Affairs of Israel, is present in all three photos. Other participants are unknown.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1938-1955
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence with the Mizrachi Organization of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 48
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936-1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a press release, letters, meeting agenda/minutes and a 1936 publication from the Mizrachi Organization of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 70
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1955
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of correspondence between Katz and executives from the Mizrachi Organization of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28
- Series
- 5
- File
- 173
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1970-1976
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence between executives of the Zionist Organization of America and the Zionist Organization of Canada concerning elections of Organizational presidents, invitations to conventions and meetings with Israeli officials.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Financial series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 4
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of deposit slips and lists of donors, including names, addresses and donation amounts paid to the credit of Beth Jacob Teachers Seminary of America in Brooklyn 11, New York. Also included is correspondence with Beth Jacob Teachers Seminary of America and Bank of Toronto bank book.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 720
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1974
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence regarding Midrasha L'Morim, the Jewish Teacher's Seminary Committee, including a copy of the Central Region Senior Officers' meeting minutes for October 10, 1973 which discussed the committee.
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- General community activities series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 11
- File
- 93
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1950-1972
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting Ontario's Women's Division of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Included is a sisterhood manual, programmes, invitations, correspondence, issues of the "Hachodesh" newsletter, and a brochure on Kashrus. Also included is a photograph of the first conference of the Ontario Chapter Women's Branch in Toronto (1960).
- Physical Condition
- The photograph is in poor condition. It is torn in half, missing some pieces along the edges, and has a number of deep crease marks throughout the image.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 33
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of minutes of the Administrative Committee of the Mizrachi Organization of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds
- Labour Zionism and union activities series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- object
- Date
- Jul. 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 medallion : bronze ; 6 cm in diameter
- Scope and Content
- Item is a ZOA eightieth national convention medallion that was presented by the Government of Israel.
- Notes
- Artifact number 140
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 76
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file consists of a cetificate for life membership for Jehudah P. Katz with Mizrachi Organization of America.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions