Accession Number

1998-3-2

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

25 slides : col. ; 35 mm

Date

1978

Scope and Content

This accession consists of slides documenting Doris Fleishman's musical show at Bayview Villa in August of 1978. The images depict residents of the Villa dancing, playing musical instruments and watching the review.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1993-11-4

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of texual records

Date

1943

Scope and Content

This accession consists of one postcard to the War Efforts Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, dated Nov. 2, 1943, signed David ?, RCAF, India Command, expressing thanks for receiving a message of cheer from Canada during the war.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Moscoe, Sydney

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-2-6

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records (1 v.)

Date

1958-1984

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the minute book of Congregation Anshe Minsk with entries written in Yiddish.

Descriptive Notes

Language note: Yiddish

Subjects

Synagogues

Name Access

Anshei Minsk Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1976-5-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1943-1944

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records relating to the work of the JPRC Summer Resorts Sub-Committee, which Hart D. Wintrob chaired. Material includes advice offered to Jews on appropriate behaviour at resorts frequented by non-Jews and efforts to have "Gentiles only" signs removed from resorts and other businesses. Also included is a list of JPRC members from which the members of the subcommitte were chosen and an agenda for a meeting of this group.

Subjects

Antisemitism

Resorts

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Ontario

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-6-10

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

ca. 60 cm of textual records

Date

1962-1986

Scope and Content

Accession consists of meeting minutes for National JCRC (1986) and for CJC central region's Executive committee. Also included are Toronto Jewish Congress officers and Executive Committee minutes and minutes of the Holocaust Remembrance Committee. Also included are programs, correspondence, and meeting minutes documenting CJC central region's Warsaw Ghetto memorial events (1962-1972).

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-6-12

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3.3 m of textual records

Date

[ca. 1970]-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the records created or accumulated by the Committee for Yiddish, which operated under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and later, the Toronto Jewish Congress (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto).

Use Conditions

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Name Access

Committee for Yiddish (Toronto, Ont.)

Toronto Jewish Congress

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-16

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm

Date

1992

Scope and Content

This accession consists of a photograph of the annual UJA Federation meeting. Steve Ain and Alan Offman appear in the photograph.

Use Conditions

UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-25

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

5 photographs

Date

[between 1980 and 1987]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs documenting the Toronto Jewish Congress Social Planning Committee's Institute on the Elderly and other activities / events.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-60

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1931-1944

Scope and Content

This accession consists of Pant Makers Union minutes in a notebook written in Yiddish and a 1931 issue of a Yiddish publication "Der Kamf".

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-123

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1979

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting the activities of the Community Action for Israel Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and the role of Rabbi Harvey Fields as Chairman. Included are memos, correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, list of committee members, press releases, newspaper clippings, and a seminar program. As well there are a few letters to Stephen Speisman, Director of the Ontario Jewish Archives from individuals in small Jewish communities in Ontario.

Administrative History

The Community Action Committee for Israel was constituted on March 1978. Rabbi Harvey Fields served congregations in Boston, New Jersey, and Holy blossom Temple in Toronto before becoming the senior rabbi of the Wiltshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles from 1985-2003. He passed away on January 23, 2014 at the age of 78.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-140

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder textual records

Date

1968-1979

Scope and Content

Accession consists of meeting minutes and correspondence related to the annual Ben Sadowski Award.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-59

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

186 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Date

1974-1977

Scope and Content

Accession consists of correspondence and photographs pertaining to the First Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1977 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.Identified individuals in the photos include Charles Bronfman, Bora Laskin, Judge Syd Harris, Rene levesque, Premier of Quebec, Monroe Abbey, Saul Hayes, and Donald Carr.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-5-80

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

23 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 15 cm

Date

[ca. 1947]-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

This accession consists of the Peretz Shule graduating class, late 1940s and photographs of an unidentified annual meeting, probably involving UJA Toronto.Identified in the meeting photogrphs are Roseanne and Steve Ain, Donald Carr, Gerald Sheff, and Ron Appleby.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2004-11-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

60 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records created by the Yiddish Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Toronto Jewish Congress.

Use Conditions

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

1979-9-8

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

April 1977-March 1978

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one Information Bulletin on Soviet Jewry (vol. 3, issue 4) and two Communique (No. 10, No. 21), both produced by the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry.

Subjects

Human rights

Name Access

Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2005-11-9

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1934-1956

Scope and Content

Accession consists of historical material collected by the CJC Central Region Centenary Committee or Historical Committee (both committee names appear in the file). These materials include several CJC Ontario Division documents dating from 1934. The bulk of the accession consists of reports of interviews conducted in 1956 with members of Holy Blossom as part of a Holy Blossom Centennial research project.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2006-2-3

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 item : 58 x 43 cm

Date

1 Mar. 1950

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a proclamation to the Jewish community of Toronto by the Committee of Rabbis urging all individuals and organizations to dedicate the period of March 5th to June 30th as U.J.A. months and the importance in helping rebuild and resettle Israel.

The rabbis who signed the proclamation included Rabbis: Abraham L. Feinberg; Abraham Kelman; Dr. David Ochs; Norman Shapiro; Abraham A. Price; Reuben Slonim; David Monson; Erwin Schild; and Judah Washer.

Name Access

Feinberg, Abraham L., 1899-

Kelman, Abraham.

Ochs, Dr. David.

Shapiro, Norman.

Price, Abraham A., 1900-1994

Slonim, Reuben.

Monson, David.

Schild, Erwin

Washer, Judah.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2006-3-6

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1.8 m of textual records

Date

[195-]-[196-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records created by Sydney Harris in his role with the CJC's Joint Community Relations Committee.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2006-3-9 [Processed]

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

2.4 m of textual records

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records related to the CJC's Joint Community Relations Committee. Some of the records appear to have originated from Ben Kayfetz.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2007-6-14

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Date

[ca. 1900]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one group photo of the first Zionist meeting in Toronto.

Subjects

Zionism

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2008-2-2

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

13 cm of textual records

Date

1988-1990

Scope and Content

This accession consists of material related to a Jewish community survey of Toronto, developed and administered by the Toronto Jewish Congress' Planning and Allocations Committee. The records include correspondence, primary originating from and sent to, Jay Broadbar-Nemzer, as well as reports, budgetary records and statistical data.

Administrative History

The Community Planning and Allocations Committee was a committee under the auspices of the Toronto Jewish Congress, which was responsible for awarding financial grants to chosen community organizations and projects. They were involved in the selection and allocation processes. As well, the oversaw the demographic studies, undertaken to provide Congress with better social planning policies and implementation strategies.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2008-3-6

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

4 June 1992

Scope and Content

Accession consists of an invitation to the 13th anniversary meeting of the organization which became known as the Yiddish Vinkl.

Custodial History

Invitation document originally sent to and property of group member David Greenspan, deceased husband of OJA donor Lisa Newman Greenspan.

Administrative History

The Yiddish Vinkl was an informal Toronto Yiddish-speaking dinner-club formed in 1980. Among the group’s original founders were well-know Toronto Jewish community leaders Ben Kayfetz and Bill Stern. Its first dinner meeting was held at Simpson’s Arcadian Court restaurant on 4 June 1980. Later venues included the Essex Park Hotel, the Lipa Green Building, Old Ed’s restaurant, and Toronto City Hall. The group, which currently had about sixty members as of 2008, now meets monthly at the Free Time Café. Between ten and twenty-five members attend each meeting.

Descriptive Notes

Document was removed from glass-covered metal frame in which it arrived, but maintained within acid-free cardboard mounting. Administrative history details supplied by Ethel Cooper, Coordinator, Committee for Yiddish.

Subjects

Clubs

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2008-8-27

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

8 cm of textual records

Date

2003-2007

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records of the UJA Federation Strategic Planning Committee. Contents include meeting agendas, meeting minutes, drafts of initatives, meeting summaries, presentation material for Steven Cohen, and conference documentation. Also included is a binder compiled by Robin Gofine that contains information on the Koffler Centre of the Arts.

Use Conditions

UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2009-5-5

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

3.3 m of textual records

Date

2001-2003

Scope and Content

This accession consists of the files of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Regions' Community Relations Committee. Included are meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, incidence reports and complaints, interventions, newsclippings and a small amount of other reference material.

Custodial History

The records were created and used by Len Rudner, former director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region Community Relations Committee. They were donated to the Archives by the CJC's executive assistant, Cindy Osheroff on 4 May, 2009.

Use Conditions

Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2009-6-5

Material Format

graphic material

sound recording

moving images

textual record

object

Physical Description

187 photographs : b&w and col. ; 24 x 20 cm or smaller

20 audiocassettes

10 videocassettes

1 folder of textual records

1 object

Date

[193-]-2006

Scope and Content

Accession consists predominantly of records collected by Bess Shockett in her work with UJA Federation's Committee for Yiddish and Friends of Yiddish. The accession also contains some personal family records. The photographs document programmes of the Committee for Yiddish in the late 1980s and 1990s, including an outdoor Yiddish concert, several International Conferences of Yiddish Clubs (1995, 1998, 1999), Sunday morning Yiddish classes, and a 1993 Hanukah concert. There are also three photographs of the New Fraternal Jewish Association and its celebration of J. B. Salsberg's eightieth birthday in 1980. The videocassettes contain recordings of other events including a storytelling workshop, Purim Mystery Night, a farewell for Miriam Waddington and several Sof Vokh (weekend retreat) programmes of 1993.

The twenty cassette tapes feature panel discussions, lectures and interviews, including "Yiddish education," "Yiddish and the Media," "Yiddish and the Younger Generation," "Yiddish and the Performing Arts," and "Yiddish Language and Translation." There are several interviews with Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, as well as two Toronto Yiddish concerts. Other tapes contain radio interviews with [Aaron?] Lansky; "Chava Rosenfarb--Book Fair", 1988; "Plenary reports and presentations"; and an episode of the program The Forward Hour on Peretz Miransky, an influential Polish writer in the inter-war years.

Personal records in the accession consist of family snapshots dating from the 1930s and 1940s. These were taken in Israel and include images of farming, landscapes, travel, a canal, groups of people, city buildings, and processions. These photos all have Yiddish writing on the back. There is one formal portrait, ca. 1890s, of an elderly Jewish man. As well, there is a folder of original and photocopied poetry (in Yiddish) written by a Jack Shockett.

Accession also includes a Yiddish typewriter, in case, that Bess used in the late 1960s/early 1970s when the Committee for Yiddish was under Congress.

Custodial History

Records were entrusted to the estate of Bess Shockett after her death, and given to her Committee for Yiddish colleague Ethel Cooper, who brought them to the archives.

Administrative History

Bess Shockett was born in the Ukraine in 1919. Her father, Solomon Maltin, was the mayor of the town and helped establish a number of Jewish community institutions. He and his wife had two sons along with Bess: Sam and Ben. In 1925, the family moved to Montreal. As an adolescent, Bess became very active in the Jewish community and joined the United Jewish People's Order. She helped organize a union for workers in the knitting industry and later did the same for fur workers. She also travelled to Winnipeg to organize a laundry workers union. She met her husband, Barry Shockett, in Toronto and they married in 1952 and had three children: Michael, Elka and Eric. Bess eventually became very active in the Toronto Jewish community, particularly in regards to supporting and launching several innovative Yiddish programs. She staffed the office of CJC's Committee for Yiddish in its early years, and was Director from 1974 to 1989. She helped found the Friends of Yiddish in 1985 and served as executive vice-president until her death on August 27, 2007.

Descriptive Notes

There is little written material; what there is (captions and poetry) is mostly in Yiddish; some captions are in English.

Subjects

Committees

Yiddish language

Name Access

Committee for Yiddish (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2010-7-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1.2 m of textual material

Date

1990-2006

Scope and Content

The records in this accession include: Executive Committee records such as agendas, minutes and reports (1995-2001); Board of Directors records (1995-2003); AGM records (1990-2006); and annual budget materials (1995-2004).

Use Conditions

UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.

Descriptive Notes

Related material note: also see the following accessions for related material: 1993-6/3, 1994-5/1, 1995-7/1, 1996-2/1, 1996-9/2, 2004-6/9, 2009-12/10.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2011-11-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm

Date

[193-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one photograph of a Camp Naivelt group, taken indoors. Pictured is Wolf (centre, standing) and Chana (centre seated with glasses) Berger, the parents of the donor.

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.

Name Access

Camp Naivelt

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2012-6-2

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

30 cm of textual records

24 photographs : b&w and col. ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Date

1991-2002

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the activities of the Jewish Theatre Committee. Included is correspondence, press releases, theatre programs and handbills, scripts, meeting minutes and agendas and photographs of members of the committee.

Custodial History

The records were in the possession of Ralph Wintrob, chair of the Jewish Theatre Committee during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Administrative History

The Jewish Theatre Committee was founded in 1984 as a standing committee of the Toronto Jewish Cultural Council of the Toronto Jewish Congress. Its goal was to promote dramatic activities as a medium of Jewish cultural programming by encourageing new theatre groups, offering guidance in Jewish drama programming, to promote and develop new talent and scripts, and to work towards a Jewish Drama Festival. In 1984, a series of developmental workshops resulted in the formation of the Medina Theatre Ensemble, which presented creative theatrical programmes of Jewish content. The committee also organized workshops, school programmes, symposiums, lectures and readings and a yearly playwriting competition. The Jewish Theatre Committee disbanded sometime in the early 2000s.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2012-9-5

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

45 cm of textual records

Date

2003-2009

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual records related to the operations and activities of the Committee for Yiddish. Included are meeting minutes, correspondence, programming material, publicity material, budgetary and financial records, material related to special events and tributes and Yiddish educational and instructional records.

Custodial History

The records were in the file cabinets once used by Ethel Cooper, the former UJA Federation staff person responsible for the Committee for Yiddish. They were donated to the OJA by Barbara Barak in September 2012, after assuming the role as UJA Federation staff liason.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2014-5-4

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

4 photograph albums

ca. 450 photographs : b&w and col. (ca. 260 negatives) ; 36 x 30 cm and smaller

3 cm of textual records

Date

[ca. 1963]-[ca. 1995]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of graphic material and textual records documenting Canadian Young Judaea. Included are photographic albums, loose photographs, clippings, photographic contact sheets and negatives, and textual records, including meeting minutes, correspondences, etc. All of the items relate to Ontario-based Jewish summer camps such as Camp Solelim and Camp Biluim, as well as to Canadian Young Judaea.

Custodial History

Records came via Josefa Michaelson, c/o Canadian Young Judaea

Subjects

Nonprofit organizations

Children

Camps

Name Access

Canadian Young Judaea

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2014-5-5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

moving images

Physical Description

ca. 30 cm of textual records and other material

Date

1996-2010, predominant 2004-2009

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual, graphic and audio-visual material created and accumulated by UJA Federation's Creative Department. Included are DVDs and VHS tapes containing annual campaign videos, tommorrow campaign videos and footage, as well as footage of other events, such as an Israel Emergency Campaign event. Also included is a binder of CDs containing photos of various events, such as, Walk with Israel, Book of Life, Holocaust Education Week, Annual General Meetings and Major Gifts events. There are also binders containing invitations, flyers and other promotional material for a variety of events related to campaign, the Israel Emergency Campaign, leadership development, Impact Toronto and the Walk with Israel. Finally, accession also includes one binder of meeting minutes for UJA Federation's Pension Plan Committee (2005-2010).

Custodial History

Material was located in the Creative Department and transferred to the OJA during the department's move to another office.

Use Conditions

UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.

Descriptive Notes

Physical description note: includes ca. 40 DVDs, ca. 30 CDs, and ca. 8 videocassettes (VHS)

Use Conditions note: UJA Federation records are closed for 10 years from date of creation.

Name Access

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2014-8-16

Material Format

textual record

sound recording

Physical Description

ca. 20 cm textual records

1 audio cassette

Date

[19--]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of files related to the musical careers of musicians and composers including John Weinzweig, Nathan Appleby, Cantor Norman Summers, and Boris Charloff. Materials include audio cassettes, sheet music, concert programmes, correspondence, and lyrics.

Custodial History

Found in storage with donor unknown, presumed to have been left in music room of Latner Jewish Public Library.

Subjects

Musicians

Name Access

Appleby, Nathan

Charloff, Boris

Summers, Norman

Weinzweig, John

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-6-7

Material Format

multiple media

Physical Description

30 cm of textual records and other material

Date

1964-2003

Scope and Content

Accession consists of Canadian Jewish Congress Joint Community Relations Committee files pertaining to incidents of antisemitism in Canada. Files include examples of material distributed by neo-Nazi groups, clippings documenting hate crimes trials and antisemitism in scholarship, and JCRC correspondence.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Antisemitism

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-9-8

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1950-1953

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a letter from Rabbi Slonim convening a meeting and minutes of meetings of the Rabbinical Welfare Committee over the period.

Custodial History

There is no information on the aquisition of the documents. However, the first letter in the textual records is from Rabbi Reuben Slonim and his name is included on all of the documents in the textual record.

Administrative History

The purpose of the Rabbinical Welfate Committee was (quoting from a document dated March 22, 1950) 'to consider matters that are strictly religious in nature. In matters of a community or public relations nature, the Committee will work closely with Congress.'

Subjects

Committees

Meetings

Religion

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Toronto, Ont.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2015-9-9

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1941-1942

Scope and Content

Accession consists of minutes of meetings of the War Efforts Committee, various newspapers from the USA (The Sentinel) and Canada (Army Week) and a Jewish Calendar for Men in the Canadian Armed Forces (1941-1942).

Custodial History

There is no information on the acquisition of this material.

Administrative History

One of the main roles of the committee was to raise funds from Jewish communities across Canada for the purchase and donation of furniture. According to a document 'Special bulletin on Furnishing project', Congress is the only organization supplying furniture under an agreement with the Department of National Defence. The Chairman of the committee was Gurston Allen of Toronto.

Subjects

Canada--Armed Forces

Meetings

World War, 1939-1945

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, War Efforts Committee

Allen, Gurston

Places

Toronto, Ont.

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-6-3

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 book

Date

1950-1955

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one minute book for the Lagover Sick Benefit Society. The minutes were recorded by Yonah (Joseph) Winemaker, who was the society's secretary.

Custodial History

The donor inherited the book from her father, Yonah Winemaker.

Descriptive Notes

LANGUAGE NOTE: Yiddish

Subjects

Societies

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2020-10-2

Material Format

sound recording

Physical Description

3 audio discs : 78 rpm, vinyl (10 inch disc) + record set album (26 x 30 cm)

Date

[194-?]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of the first recording by the Jewish Folk Choir. Included in the record set are two of three Jewish Folk Choir disc recordings. These recordings were conducted by Emil Gartner and produced by Torch Record Company, 687 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada.

Disc 1 side A, "Smol Y'min", (Left, Right!), Song of the Haganah. Disc 1, side B, Reb Dovidl - Humoresque" Jewish Folksong arranged by Zilberts.

Disc 2, side A "Biro-Bidjaner Freilechs", Song of Joy (Text: Feffer, Music:Polansky). Disc 2, side B, "Palestinian Nights", Shirley Newman, Soprano.

The inside front cover provides a historical sketch of Toronto's Jewish Folk Choir and conductor Emil Gartner.

The inside back cover lists lyrics to songs in Yiddish with English translations. The songs listed include "Songs of the Blacksmith," "No! No! Our People Shall Never Perish," "Reb Dovidl--Humoresque," "Smol Y'min," "Biro-Bidjaner Freilechs" and "Palestinian Nights."

In addition, there is a vinyl recording produced by Banner Records Inc. featuring Molly Picon, accompanied by Abe Ellstein and Orchestra. Side A, "Pinky's in a Pickle", side B "Die Veldt is a Theatre."

Use Conditions

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Subjects

Choirs (Music)

Name Access

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

12 Jun. 1942

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of members of the Office[rs] Committee of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, taken at their annual conference in Toronto. The members are identified on the front of the photograph.

Notes

General: Photograph was acquired on 21 June 1974.

Name Access

Jewish National Workers Alliance

Subjects

Committees

Congresses and conventions

Portraits, Group

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.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Admin History/Bio

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in the United States in 1900 by amalgamating seven local unions. The ILGWU was dominated by the Jewish and Italian immigrants who worked in the garment industries. The union was formed to protect their interests. In the early years it was troubled by politics, but still continued to grow. In Canada, the Toronto Cloakmakers Union became affilitated with the ILGWU in 1911, which was two years after their official formation.

Scope and Content

Item is a black-and-white photograph of the General Strike Committee of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in 1934.

Name Access

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Magerman, A

Subjects

Committees

Labor unions

Portraits, Group

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.

Physical Condition

Good.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

70

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1974

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item consists of a photograph taken of the CJC Central Region Archives Exhibition Committee at the Kiever Synagogue in 1974. Committee members include from left to right: Stephen Speisman, Susan Cohen, Cyrel Troster, Bess Shockett, Susan Geller, and Martin Mendelow.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress. Central Region

Subjects

Archives

Committees

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

424

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 Jun. 1974

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Committees

Places

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

499

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the CJC Committee for Jewish Music Month in Kitchener, Ontario

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Subjects

Committees

Jews--Music

Repro Restriction

Credit Kitchener-Waterloo Record

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

Kitchener (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

549

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1930

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the Toronto Executive Committee of the Mozirer Young Women's Club

Notes

From the Mozirer S.B.S. Silver Anniversary Book (B.G.K.).

Name Access

Mozirer Young Women's Club

Subjects

Clubs

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.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

619

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Dec. 1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Notes

Negative: 2:5:18A.

Acquired 1975.

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress

Kiever Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Meetings

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

625

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Herlick, Lilly

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Speeches, addresses, etc

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

626

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Lieff, Abraham

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Speeches, addresses, etc

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

631

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Phillips, Nathan, 1892-1976

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Politicians

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

632

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Toronto Hebrew Free Loan

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Immigrants--Canada

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

633

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Toronto Hebrew Free Loan

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Speeches, addresses, etc

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

634

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1975

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Name Access

Toronto Hebrew Free Loan

Subjects

Anniversaries

Charities

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions