Accession Number
1986-3-6
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1986-3-6
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Date
[ca. 1950]–1958
Scope and Content
Accession consists of Chana Wilder's school documents including graduation certificates (in Yiddish) from Borochov Schools Kindergarten and High Schools and an invitation to the Borochov Schools and Kindergarten graduation. In addition, there is correspondence in Hebrew from the Israel Boy Scouts listing several names and a Jewish National Fund of Canada certificate.
Subjects
Schools
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1987-7-3
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1987-7-3
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
30 cm of textual records
Date
1929-1985
Scope and Content
Accession consists of material documenting Hillcrest Progressive School. Included are minutes, financial statements, letters, and other documents.
Descriptive Notes
Central Jewish Institute.
MG_RG
MG2 G1w
Subjects
Schools
Name Access
Hillcrest Progressive School (Toronto, Ont.)
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1977-11-1
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1977-11-1
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records (1 vol.)
Date
1953-1956
Scope and Content
Accession consists of one bound register documenting the students of the Toronto Hebrew Free School (Brunswick Talmud Torah) in Toronto from 1953 to 1956.
MG_RG
MG2G1E
Subjects
Schools
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Brunswick Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1979-4-4
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
1979-4-4
Material Format
graphic material
moving images
Physical Description
18 photographs : b&w (9 negatives)
1 film reel
Date
1959-1965
Scope and Content
Accession consists of photographs documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring) Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt. Also included is a film reel of activities at Camp Yungvelt from 1959.
Subjects
Camps
Schools
Name Access
Camp Yungvelt
Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
Places
Ontario
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2007-6-25
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2007-6-25
Material Format
graphic material
Physical Description
12 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm or smaller
Date
[194-?]
Scope and Content
Accession consists of photographs of students, parents, teachers, the principal, and the building of the Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah on D'Arcy Street.
Descriptive Notes
Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
Subjects
Schools
Name Access
Eitz Chaim Schools (Toronto, Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Part Of
Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring fonds
Level
Fonds
ID
Fonds 30
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring fonds
Level
Fonds
Fonds
30
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1919-1921
Physical Description
4 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
Admin History/Bio
The Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring was founded in 1900. It was originally created to protect the rights of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who were trying to enter the North American labour force. The Workmen's Circle's main purpose was to protect the labour movement and ensure economic justice for its members
Still strong today, the organization promotes Jewish and Yiddish culture through educational and cultural programs, and as well, is a leader against injustice in the Middle East. They also organize protests for a variety of causes, including unethical labour practices, abortion rights, and gun violence prevention
Some of their programs include adult lecture series, secular Jewish children's schools, summer camps, and dramatic and choral organizations
Workmen's Circle / Arbeiter Ring's call to action is "for all to create a more beautiful and better world"
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs depicting the Peretz Shule's students and staff members.
Name Access
Arbeòter-ring Y.L. Perets-Shuln
Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
Subjects
Schools
Creator
Workmen's Circle
Source
Archival Descriptions
Name
Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich
Material Format
sound recording
Interview Date
2 Jul. 1974
Source
Oral Histories
Name
Rivka Hurwich and Sam Hurwich
Number
OH 22
Subject
Antisemitism
Hospitals
Rabbis
Schools
Teachers
Interview Date
2 Jul. 1974
Quantity
1
Interviewer
Stephen Speisman
Total Running Time
Side One - 43 minutes
Side Two - 3 minutes
Conservation
Copied August 2003.
Digitized in 2014.
Use Restrictions
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
Biography
Dr. Sam Hurwich was involved in a number of organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and several Labour Zionist groups.
Material Format
sound recording
Name Access
Hospital for Sick Children
Hurwich, Rivka
Hurwich, Sam
Geographic Access
Toronto (Ont.)
Original Format
Audio cassette
Copy Format
Audio cassette
Digital file
Transcript
G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_001_Log.docx
G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 22 - Hurwich\OH22_002_Log.docx
Source
Oral Histories
Name
Mary Soskin
Material Format
sound recording
Interview Date
15 Nov. 1974
Source
Oral Histories
Name
Mary Soskin
Number
OH 1
Subject
Neighborhoods
Schools
Synagogues
Interview Date
15 Nov. 1974
Interviewer
Sophie Milgram
Total Running Time
001: 30.41 minutes 002: 20.58 minutes
Conservation
Copied August 2003
Use Restrictions
Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
Biography
Mary Soskin (née Levine), the eldest child of Moses Levine and Sarah Levine (née Cass), was born in 1896 in Midland, Ontario. Her father, Moses Joseph Levine (1864–1919), immigrated to Toronto from Minsk in 1887. Moses first worked as a peddler and later became a grocer. Mary’s mother, Sara Levine (b. 1876), emigrated from Russia to Toronto around 1892 and worked as a seamstress. Mary had six siblings: Fanny (1898–1923), Anne Thuna (1899–1964), Abraham (“Abe”) (b. 1901–1984), Harry (b. 1903), Rita (1905–1975), and Dorothy Bliss (1909–1992).
Mary’s parents, Moses Levine and Sarah Cass, met in Toronto. Following their marriage in 1895, they moved to Midland, Ontario, where they opened a store. After several years in Midland, they returned to Toronto. The family lived in several locations in Toronto including Chestnut Street, Centre Avenue, Spadina Avenue, near Dundas, and 224 Beverley Street, near College. The Levine family belonged to the Goel Tzedec Synagogue, which was located in a former church on University Avenue at Elm Street.
Mary attended both the McCaul Street School and Phoebe Street School, one of the oldest schools in Toronto. She completed her studies at the Shaw School of Business. Mary first worked as a bookkeeper for several years before joining her father in his wholesale grocery business, located at 25 Jarvis Street. Tragically, Moses died in 1919 at the age of fifty-four after accidentally falling down an elevator shaft. The family closed the business shortly thereafter and continued to live on Beverley Street.
Mary Levine married Saul Soskin (d. 1953) around 1920. They lived in Toronto and later moved to Los Angeles. They had three children: Estelle (1922–2010), Morton (“Bud”) (d. 2001), and Fred (1929–2000). In 1945, during a family visit to Toronto, Estelle met Irving Liss, the son of Morris Liss, Mary’s long-time friend. Estelle and Irving were married at the Beth Am Synagogue in Los Angeles in 1946 and settled in Toronto.
Mary Soskin returned to Toronto in 1964 and passed away in 1990.
Material Format
sound recording
Language
English
Name Access
Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
Levine, Moses
Levine, Sarah
Soskin, Mary
Geographic Access
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Midland (Ont.)
St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)
Original Format
Audio cassette
Copy Format
Audio cassette
Digital file
Transcript
G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 1 - Soskin\OH1_001_Log.docx
G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 1 - Soskin\OH1_002_Log.docx
Source
Oral Histories
Level
Item
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[194-]
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm
Scope and Content
This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of students standing in front of the Jewish community center and Hebrew school in Sudbury, Ontario.
Front row, from left to right: Mitchell Speigel, Debbie Steinberg, Wally Greenspoon.
Second row, from left to right: Ethel Helpert, Claudia Greenspoon, Judy Leve, Brenda Rubin, Susan Stickles, Mort Grimmson, Rabbi Bereson.
Third row, from left to right: Steven Silverman, [identified], Billy Braverman, Jackie Greenspoon, Charles Schwartz.
Back row, from left to right: Douglas Stickles, Donnie Richmond, Frances Goodman, Miriam Rubin, [identified], Mrs. Stickles, Ester Nudleman, Bill Greenspoon, [identified].
Subjects
Community centers
Schools
Students
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
Sudbury (Ont.)
Accession Number
1982-6-10
Source
Archival Descriptions
Accession Number
2011-11-7
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2011-11-7
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Date
13 May 1967
Scope and Content
Accession consists of one annual concert programme booklet for the Workmen's Circle Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt.
Descriptive Notes
Language note: Yiddish and English langauge programme.
Subjects
Concerts
Camps
Schools
Name Access
Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2012-5-3
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2012-5-3
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Date
1933
Scope and Content
Accession consists of an issue of what is likely the school yearbook for Parkdale Collegiate, called the Parkdalian. Autographs can be found on page 102.
Subjects
Schools
Name Access
Parkdale Collegiate Institute
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2018-6-22
Source
Archival Accessions
Accession Number
2018-6-22
Material Format
textual record
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Date
1947, 1972-1992
Scope and Content
Accession consists of materials assembled by Stanley Emerson and donated to the Ontario Jewish Archives. Included are: one hardbound book commemorating the Toronto Hebrew Free School's liquidation of its capital debt on May 8, 1947; one spiral-bound book assembled on the occassion of Shomrai Shaboth Congregation's twentieth anniversary testimonial dinner honouring Rabbi Gedalia Felder to be held on Sunday, June 18, 1972; one Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto programme for its annual dinner to be held on Thursday, June 22, 1978; one programme for a Machanaim Testimonial Dinner honouring Dr. Isadore Cass on Wednesday, May 2, 1979; one Associated Hebrew Schools graduation programme for Wednesday, June 27, 1979; one newspaper clipping from the Thursday, June 6, 1985 edition of the Canadian Jewish News relating to Rabbi Gedalia Felder, former spiritual leader of Shomrai Shaboth-Chevra Mishnayoth Congregation; one newspaper clipping from the Thursday, June 13, 1985 edition of the Canadian Jewish News relating to Harold Dessen, former president of Associated Hebrew Schools; and one paperbound book assembled on the occassion of a Sol Edell tribute dinner commoemorating the fiftieth yahrzeit (death anniversary) of HaRav Yosef Weinreb and the establishment of the Saol Edell Family Endowment Fund to be held on Saturday, October 31, 1992.
Subjects
Anniversaries
Schools
Synagogues
Name Access
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
Cass, Isadore M., 1916-1996
Dessen, Harold
Felder, Gedalia, 1922-
Shomrai Shabbos Chevrah Mishnayos (Toronto, Ont.)
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Source
Archival Accessions
Level
Item
ID
Item 5027
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
5027
Material Format
graphic material
Date
30 Dec. 1962
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of Joe Berman and Harold Green examining a building model for Temple Sinai's new school building.
Notes
Graphic Artists.
Name Access
Berman, Joe
Green, Harold
Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
Synagogues
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Accession Number
1990-1-5
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 5028
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
5028
Material Format
graphic material
Date
30 Dec. 1962
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of the Temple Sinai building model for the new school.
Notes
Photo by Graphic Artists.
Name Access
Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
Synagogues
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Accession Number
1990-1-5
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 5029
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
5029
Material Format
graphic material
Date
30 Dec. 1962
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of several men and one woman standing behind a model of the proposed Temple Sinai School.Second from left: Harry Pollock. Third from right: Harold Green.
Notes
Photo by Graphic Artists.
Name Access
Green, Harold
Pollock, Harry
Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
Synagogues
Places
Toronto (Ont.)
Accession Number
1990-1-5
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 948
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
948
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[195-]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of Shaarei Shomayim School students and the teacher, Mr. Novak.
Subjects
Schools
Repro Restriction
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
Accession Number
1975-12-1
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 6130
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
6130
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[1912?]
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of students and teachers of the Jewish National Radical School in Toronto at City Hall.
Subjects
Portraits, Group
Schools
Students
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
1995-1-5
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4285
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4285
Material Format
graphic material
Date
5 Dec. 1921
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
Notes
Photo by Modern Studio, 452 Queen St. W.
Name Access
Winchevsky, Morris, 1856-1932
Subjects
Children
Schools
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
1985-3-6
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4230
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4230
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1911
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
Notes
For identification see accession record.
Name Access
National Radical School (Toronto, Ont.)
Subjects
Schools
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
1986-4-1
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4416
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4416
Material Format
graphic material
Date
December 1985
Physical Description
1 photograph
Scope and Content
Rabbi Danny Gottlieb of Temple Har Zion placing mezuzah.
Students, left to right: Jodi Wolfe; Ariela Guttman; Ezra Title.
Dr. David Cohen (director of Leo Baeck) on left and Rabbi Arthur Bielfeld of Temple Emanuel also present.
Notes
Photo by Graphic Artists.
Subjects
Mezuzah
Schools
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
Toronto (Ont.)
Accession Number
1986-12-3
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 1212
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
1212
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1917
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 11 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of students standing on the front steps of the McCaul Street School in Toronto.
Name Access
McCaul Street School
Subjects
Portraits, Group
Schools
Students
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
1977-1-5
1983-10-1
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4018
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4018
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1953
Physical Description
1 photograph
Scope and Content
Left to right: Marilyn Kirshenblatt; Helen Alspector; Renee Hackman.
Subjects
Schools
Places
Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)
Accession Number
1986-3-6
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 2894
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
2894
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1933
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
Scope and Content
This photograph depicts from left to right: Chaver Zerubauel; Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Menachovsky, standing in front of Borochov Shul.
Name Access
Borochov School
Menachovsky, Moshe
Zerubauel, Chaver
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
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
Major Street (Toronto, Ont.)
Accession Number
1981-4-6
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4019
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4019
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[1955 or 1956]
Physical Description
1 photograph
Notes
General: "Mitl shule" is a Yiddish term that refers to a type of Jewish elementary school that was commonly found in eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
General: For identification see back of photo.
Subjects
Schools
Students
Teachers
Places
Lippincott Street (Toronto, Ont.)
Accession Number
1986-3-6
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 703
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
703
Material Format
graphic material
Date
Nov. 1975
Physical Description
2 photographs : (1 negative)
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of the exterior of the Ulpanot Orot Girls' School.
Name Access
Ulpanot Orot Girls' School
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
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
Vaughan (Ont.)
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 704
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
704
Material Format
graphic material
Date
Nov. 1975
Physical Description
2 photographs : (1 negative)
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of the exterior of the Ulpanot Orot Girls' School.
Name Access
Ulpanot Orot Girls' School
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
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
Vaughan (Ont.)
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 1016
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
1016
Material Format
graphic material
Date
Sep. 1976
Physical Description
2 photographs : (1 negative)
Name Access
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
Places
Neptune Drive (Toronto, Ont.)
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 1018
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
1018
Material Format
graphic material
Date
Sep. 1976
Physical Description
2 photographs : (1 negative)
Name Access
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
Places
Neptune Drive (Toronto, Ont.)
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
Community Relations Committee series
Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
Level
File
ID
Fonds 17; Series 5-3; File 149
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
Community Relations Committee series
Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
Level
File
Fonds
17
Series
5-3
File
149
Material Format
textual record
Date
1986, 1991
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of correspondence and one report regarding the teaching of the Merchant of Venice in Ontario schools.
Notes
Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
Name Access
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice
Subjects
Drama
Schools
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Isaac Matenko fonds
Level
Fonds
ID
Fonds 89
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Isaac Matenko fonds
Level
Fonds
Fonds
89
Material Format
graphic material
textual record
Date
1911-1971, predominant 1911-1935
Physical Description
6 cm of textual records
17 photographs
Admin History/Bio
Isaac Matenko (1874–1960) was a founder, teacher, and principal of the I. L. Peretz School. He worked tirelessly to preserve and promote secular Jewish culture and the Yiddish language in Toronto. He was also a prominent member of local Jewish organizations, such as the Socialist-Territorialist Club and the Yiddish Kultur Gesellshaft.
Isaac was born on 1 February 1874 in the town of Makariv, located in the Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. He married Elke Yelia Moshkevitch (1878–19 November 1953) on 4 August 1900 in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro). They immigrated from czarist Russia to Toronto in 1906, passing first through New York with their two children, Percy (30 June 1901–May 1987) and Theodore (1903–1906, died of measles at Ellis Island), and Yelia’s three sisters, Dvora, Bracha, and Celia, and Isaac’s younger half-brother, Paul Frumhartz. They had two more children after arriving: Abraham (14 August 1908–October 24, 1989) and Shoshana (Sue) (1911–2001). Although he had been a teacher in Russia, Isaac worked as an operator in a cloak factory in Toronto, where he was instrumental in forming the union (likely the Cloakmakers’ Union of Toronto, which later affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union).
As a child, Isaac received a traditional Jewish education. This, combined with his self-taught secular education and the teachings of Yiddish nationalist Dr. Chaim Zhitlovski, informed his future career and philosophies. He was described as an idealist by his friends, whose dedication to Yiddish culture and language motivated him to bring this knowledge to a younger generation.
On 11 July 1911, Isaac and his fellow Socialist-Territorialist members established the Toronto Yiddish National-Radical School. By 1916, it had been taken over by the Workmen’s Circle and renamed the I. L. Peretz School, after the well-known Yiddish author and playwright. The school began in a rented room at the Zionist Institute on Simcoe Street, moving to larger locations on Richmond Street West, then Beverley Street as it grew. Eventually, several more branches opened, such as the Maria Street school that Isaac was affiliated with. He taught at the school for free in the evenings after working during the day in a shop. His brother Paul was also a founding teacher at the school.
Isaac was described by family, friends, and community members as a passionate teacher with an iron will. He was well-versed in Jewish knowledge, with a desire to pass it on to a younger generation and his fellow union members. He remained involved in the school and in teaching, even after retirement. He died on 2 June 1960 at the age of eighty-six.
Custodial History
These records were donated to the OJA by Sue Levy, daughter of Isaac Matenko.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of records documenting Isaac Matenko's involvement with the Workmen's Circle and other Jewish organizations. Included are photographs, programmes, certificates, I. L. Peretz School jubilee books, a songbook, a yearbook, articles, and newsclippings.
Fonds has been arranged into one series for the Workmen's Circle. There are also two files attached to the fonds-level. The records are described at the series and file-level, with some item-level descriptions.
Name Access
Arbeiter Ring
Arbeiter Ring Schools
Arbeter Ring
Camp Yungvelt
Frumhartz, Paul
I.L. Peretz
Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
Matenko, Percy
National Radical School
Peretz Shule
Workman's Circle
Workmen's Circle
Subjects
Schools
Teachers
Yiddish language
Related Material
For additional Workmen's Circle records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1980-2-2, 1983-6-3, 1984-10-1, 1986-4-1, 1992-1-2, 1997-2-1, 1998-3-32, 2004-5-41, 2004-5-105, and fonds 30.
For additional Camp Yungvelt records, see: accessions 1979-4-4, 1986-4-1, 1991-12-4, 1993-6-6, 1999-5-1, 2004-5-37, 2005-6-4, 2006-12-3, photographs # 2964, # 4014, # 6021, MG2N1K, Benjamin Brown fonds 49, and Dorothy Dworkin Fonds 10 (item 14).
Creator
Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
Accession Number
1987-11-4
1991-4-2
2007-5-3
2007-6-28
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Ethel Mehr fonds
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 68; Item 31
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Ethel Mehr fonds
Level
Item
Fonds
68
Item
31
Material Format
graphic material
Date
1919
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
This item is a photograph of the exterior of Bishop Strachan School. There are several people pictured standing in a field covered with snow.
Name Access
Bishop Strachan School
Subjects
Architecture
Schools
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
1988-12-3
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
ID
Item 4083
Source
Archival Descriptions
Level
Item
Item
4083
Material Format
graphic material
Date
[193-]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
This item is a photograph of a Jewish school in Poland. The photograph depicts the students and teachers of the school assembled in front of it. The photograph was sent to Sarah Low of Peterborough, Ontario.
Subjects
Portraits, Group
Schools
Students
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
Poland
Accession Number
1978-7-12
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Gilbert Studios fonds
Jewish community events series
Level
Item
ID
Fonds 37; Series 7; Item 5
Source
Archival Descriptions
Part Of
Gilbert Studios fonds
Jewish community events series
Level
Item
Fonds
37
Series
7
Item
5
Material Format
graphic material
Date
November 1970
Physical Description
1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
Admin History/Bio
Eitz Chaim school was founded by a group of boys who were concerned about the education of the Jewish youth. Some of the founding members included: Itsheh Meyer, Sam Korolnek; and Samuel and Louis Cooper. Together, with a few other boys, they started a small gathering in the Bes Medrash Shul on Elm Street in 1914. The official founding date for the Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim School was in 1915, with the move to temporary quarters on Chestnut Street, and eventually moving to the newly rennovated building on D'Arcy Street in 1917.
Scope and Content
Photograph is of a dedication ceremony at the Eitz Chaim School in Toronto.
In attendance were: Phil Givens (far left), Rabbi Itche Meyer Korolnek & Mrs. Korolnek (2nd & 3rd from left), and Joe Tanenbaum (standing behind the Korolnek's).
Name Access
Eitz Chaim School
Givens, Philip, 1922-1995
Korolnek, Rabbi Itche Meyer
Tanenbaum, Joe
Subjects
Dedication services
Portraits, Group
Schools
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.
Source
Archival Descriptions