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Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: muliple media

Fonds No.: I0006

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of newsclipping about Dora and Abraham Lithwick as well as various Lithwick family members; a family tree of the descendants of Naphtulah Hertz Lithwick and Ester Bayla Lerner; a book of Daily Prayers presented to Harold Lithwick on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah, September 11, 194…

Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: muliple media

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of newsclipping about Dora and Abraham Lithwick as well as various Lithwick family members; a family tree of the descendants of Naphtulah Hertz Lithwick and Ester Bayla Lerner; a book of Daily Prayers presented to Harold Lithwick on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah, September 11, 1948, Audio interview with Dora Lithwick, 1974; Audio interview with Sidney Lithwick, 2007; photographs.

Fonds No.: I0006

Storage Location: A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: Abraham Lithwick (b. 1897 Ritziv, Russia - d. 1953 Ottawa) and Dora (Rosenberg) Lithwick (b. 1897 Rovno, Ukraine - d. January 30, 1980 Ottawa) arrived in Ottawa on July 8, 1921. They were among the large group of immigrants that fled Russia and its programs in the early 1920's. They operated, Lithwick's, a wholesale and retail store in the Byward Market for 12 years. In 1937, the entire family left Ottawa for Melbourne, Australia where Dora’s father, brothers and uncles had immigrated. Because of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, they returned to Ottawa 15 weeks after their initial departure. Another reason was the unexpected aspect that the Lithwicks would be starting again as immigrants in Australia and learning a new set of rules and regulations for business. Upon their return, Abraham Lithwick turned to real estate and became more involved in the Jewish community. He died in 1953 after a short illness. Shortly after, Dora Lithwick began working toward establishing a home for elderly Jewish people. In 1963, the sod was turned for Hillel Lodge on Wurtemburg Street. Dora Lithwick was a founder and first President of the Ottawa Jewish Home for the Aged. In 1975, she was instrumental in having a religious chapel added to the home and it carried the name Abraham and Dora Lithwick Beth Midrash.

Notes: 1. Dora’s father in Australia was working in real estate. 2. Interview with Dora Lithwick gives an excellent overview of shop life during the depression in Ottawa.

Related Material: Related material in Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds, Barry Lithwick speech, and a frequently reproduced photograph of Dora and Abraham Lithwick standing in front of their By Ward Market store in the Hugo Levendel fonds.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Abraham and Dora Lithwick in front of Lithwick's grocery store at 34 Byward Market Square.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 2-036

Date: [193-?]

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [193-?]

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 2-036

Storage Location: G.3.4

Creator: Hugo Levendel Parisienne Photographers

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Abraham Lithwick in Rovno, Poland.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-417

Date: 1918

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1918

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-417

Acquisition Source: Sari Lithwick Green

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Audio interview of Mrs. Dora Lithwick by grandson Kalman Green (Sarah Lithwick's son.)

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Fonds No.: I0006

Date: April 1974

Scope and Content: Kalman asks Dora (Rosenberg) Lithwick (b. 1897) about her life from her earliest memories in Russia to her immigration to Ottawa, Canada as a married woman in 1923. She tells her detailed story in a lively, heavily accented voice. She recalls how hard they worked building up their grocery business …

Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Scope and Content: Kalman asks Dora (Rosenberg) Lithwick (b. 1897) about her life from her earliest memories in Russia to her immigration to Ottawa, Canada as a married woman in 1923. She tells her detailed story in a lively, heavily accented voice. She recalls how hard they worked building up their grocery business in the market and explained that they were worn out by 1937. They decided to sell the business and move to Australia to be with her father and brothers and start a new life. However, life for a newcomer was more difficult than they imagined and after just one month they decided to return to Ottawa where they began investing in real estate. The recording ends with a story of how they purchased a property on Bank Street using a pedlar as an agent during the depression.

Responsibility: Kalman Green

Date: April 1974

Fonds No.: I0006

Creator: Kalman Green

Notes: 1. Two tapes (Sides A - D) 2. Duration: Approximately 2 hours 3. Location: Various fonds box.

Name Access: Kalman Green

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Audio interview with Sidney Lithwick

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 2 cassette tapes

Fonds No.: I0006

Date: January 13, 2007

Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 2 cassette tapes

Responsibility: Interviewed by Stanley Lithwick

Date: January 13, 2007

Fonds No.: I0006

Name Access: Stanley Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records

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Collection: CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.

Fonds No.: I0106

Date: 1858-2015.

Scope and Content: The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and schoo…

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Collection: CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.

Scope and Content: The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and school ledgers, other ledgers and financial records and synagogue Bulletins (bound and unbound.) In addition to the administrative documentation there is a wealth of nominative information about congregation members which could be of genealogical and sociological interest. There are numerous books and files of Minutes, including: Board of Trustees minutes 1955-1960; Board Minutes 1960-1995; Executive minutes, 1920, 1946-1951, 1969-1976, and 1979-2009; "ACM" 1974-1983; Woman's auxiliary youth minutes, 1952-1956; and Youth committee minutes 1952-1956.A large part of the fonds consists of Membership and Holiday Seating Plan books, dating from 1918-1980 (some of the years are written as Hebrew dates.) These books usually include names, addresses, seat numbers, their cost, and remarks. Some years contain separate sections, such as membership without seats, cemetary plot sales, school membership, and assembly hall seat membership bookings. Some books include loose papers containing information on bookings gains and losses, overcrowding, concessions granted, correspondence for seat renewals and requests. The Cemetery records include Plans (maps) of the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery plots in 2 long black books that record spaces allotted to individuals from 1902-1989. The Cemetery books duplicate much of the same content, but vary in handwritten notes and years covered; one finishes in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s. There is also a folder of cemetery titles (1910-1972). Five wide brown books contain cemetery plans for part of Shaar Hashoymayim Cemetery, dated January 15, 1954. Four of are nearly duplicates, with minor variations. The other varies more and features "S"s in the plots.There is also a ledger without its cover recording memorial observances by family members 1930s-1969?, which includes death dates and Hebrew names. There is documentation on Hall Rentals by the Men's Association, along with their minutes, some correspondence, event programs, other miscellany. and 7 photographs (1949-1955). Other Rental records in the collection list the event type, name of booker, number of guests, costs and remarks. Documents for rentals rates and holiday restrictions are also contained in these books (1966-1977 and 1986-1990).Also: Hebrew Sunday School records, including lists of students and teachers, class attendance reports, student discipline and daily weather reports, 1946-1957; and Hebrew Young Ladies Sewing Society, minutes of meetings, 1917-1927. Synagogue bulletins are present in a near complete series from 1928-2010, with the exception of vols. XI-XII for 1937-1939.There are various financial ledgers dating from 1911-1982, among them Cashbook 1911-1918; School ledger 1938-1946; Financial ledger 1950-1955.Added in June 2013: Printed legal documents for a name change for the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and the incorporation of the B'nai Jacob synagogue (both 1890), and the incorporation of the Temple Emanu-El (1883), old news clippings about the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and Jewish Montreal, original letters from Moses Montefiore in London, England, payment booklet for the Shomrim Laboker congregation printed in 1905 and used between 1908-1937, 3 original prints of Rabbi Abraham de Sola's booklet Behemoth Hatevoth (1853), and various ephemeral documents pertaining to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, including an invitation to the cornerstone laying of their Stanley Street building, two order of Service handouts, and a notice of a Masonic meeting. All the documents received in this group are in very fragile condition.

Date: 1858-2015.

Fonds No.: I0106

History / Biographical: In 1846, members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and other Montreal Jews decided that they wanted Ashkenazi synagogue services. They therefore formed the Corporation of English, German and Polish Jews which was modelled on a British synagogue. The congregation rented space, then constructed its first building on St. Constant Street. In 1875, the congregation almost amalgamated with the Spanish and Portuguese to form one large synagogue in the west end of the city, but this was not successful. After several other moves, and the adoption of the name Shaar Hashomayim in 1917, land was purchased in 1920 in Westmount and the new building completed in 1922. A school was added after the Second World War, and the building was expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative. It is the second oldest synagogue in Canada, and the oldest Ashkenazi one.

Custodial History: The initial donation was made in 2012 by the Administrative Director of the congregation, during a time of renovations to the vault where the papers and ledgers had been stored. In June 2013 five centimetres of old documents formerly from the Shaar Hashomayim Museum were donated by the volunteer in charge of the museum and archives collection. These items were de-accessioned from the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum at the discretion of the museum personnel because they refer to other synagogues.

Notes: Alpha-numeric designations: P12/ 14, P13/11.Associated material: Shaar Hashomayim synagogue files accumulated in the CJC collection, series ZH.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

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Family of Shammai Lithwick and Hinda Lithwick.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-418

Date: [192-?]

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [192-?]

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-418

Acquisition Source: Rose Lithwick

Notes: L-R: Standing; Irving Lithwick, Reva (Riva) Lithwick, Arnold Lithwick, Lova Lithwick. Seated: Shammai Lithwick (b. December 29, 1875 Izaslav, Russia - d. January 4, 1964 Ottawa), Hinda Lithwick (d. October 20, 1879 Rovno, Ukraine - d. unknown), Shammai and Hinda were married in 1903 in Rovno. Photograph was taken in Leningrad in the mid 1920's.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Guests and family at the bar mitzvah of Norton (Naftali Hertz) Lithwick.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-424

Date: 1950

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1950

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-424

Acquisition Source: Rose Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Lithwick family portrait.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-410

Date: 1912

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1912

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-410

Acquisition Source: Sari Lithwick Green

Notes: L-R: Shifka, Abraham Lithwick, Shaul Isaac Litvak (seated) and Necha Lithwick. (Shaul Isaac and Necha Lithwick are the parents of Abraham Lithwick and the grandparents of Sari Lithwick Green.)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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The Lithwick Family seated on a park bench.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-415

Date: July 8, 1937

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: July 8, 1937

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-415

Acquisition Source: Sari Lithwick Green

Notes: Seated L-R: Mrs. Ballon, Sari (Lithwick) Green, Dora Lithwick and Abraham Lithwick. Children are Sid Lithwick, Harold and Norman. Couple standing are unidentified.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Manya and Max Lithwick.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-413

Date: ca. 1915

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: ca. 1915

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-413

History / Biographical: Moshe Zalman Lithwick (Max) and Manya Greenberg were married in Moscow, Russia, in 1915. This may be their wedding photograph.

Acquisition Source: Irwin Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Moshe and Faige Blair with their family in Chelm, Poland.

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0006; OJA 1-436

Date: 1925

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Collection: Abraham and Dora Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1925

Fonds No.: I0006

Item No.: OJA 1-436

Acquisition Source: Ellen Lithwick

Notes: L-R: Faige Blair, Ellen (Chiah) Blair, Sam (Simche) Blair, Hanna Blair, Chanah Blair, Moshe Blair. (All members of the family, except for Sam and Ellen (Mrs. Irving Lithwick), perished in the Holocaust.)