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Abraham Shaffer fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101265

Collection: Abraham Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file; 1 framed certificate

Fonds No.: I0009

Date: 1932

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of biographical material; 1 framed document commemorating the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer, June 1922, presented by the Board of Directors of Ottawa Talmud Torah (4-724).

Collection: Abraham Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file; 1 framed certificate

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of biographical material; 1 framed document commemorating the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer, June 1922, presented by the Board of Directors of Ottawa Talmud Torah (4-724).

Date: 1932

Fonds No.: I0009

Storage Location: A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: Abraham Shaffer was born in Albany, NY in 1885, son of Samuel Shaffer (b. date unknown - d. 1917) and Mushah Shaffer (b. date unknown - d. 1923). Samuel Shaffer immigrated to New York from Russia. After landing at Ellis Island he settled in Albany and became an agent for a soda water manufacturer. He travelled to Ottawa several times during the summers and while visiting boarded with Jewish families. He eventually moved his family to Gigues Street and worked as a peddler. As a young man, Abraham went to work for an uncle in Brooklyn who was in the bookbinding business, where he was tasked with applying gold leaf to books. In Brooklyn he met Mary Baslaw and they married in 1907. Mary’s family operated a small grocery business without refrigeration. The shop operated long hours. Mary, who by then had two small sons, Irving and Harold, was also working in the family business and became very run down. Abraham and Mary decided to leave Brooklyn and move to Canada and spent a winter in Buckingham, Quebec, before settling in Ottawa. They would have a daughter Beatrice, and two more sons, Milton and Sheldon. In February, 1911 they opened Shaffer's clothing shop on Dalhousie Street. Shortly afterwards they relocated the shop to Rideau Street as Mary realised shops on Rideau saw more business. Eventually they expanded to include 143 to 147 and 147 1/2 Rideau. The store remained there until it closed in 1967.

Notes: Biographical notes on Abraham Shaffer taken from Milton, in Florida, on the phone, February 3, 2003. He added that the Shaffer's lived over the store and Abraham played classical piano.

Related Material: Shaffer's Ltd. and Harold Shaffer fonds

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Abraham Shmuel Dubitsky Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31785

Collection: Abraham Shmuel Dubitsky Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 5cm of textual records

Fonds No.: 1107

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of two files containing Hebrew and Yiddish writings and correspondence of Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Dubitsky. File 1 is labelled "Writings, 1928-1939" and File 2 is labelled "Varia, 1928-1939." A hand-written English item list is included in the fonds.

Collection: Abraham Shmuel Dubitsky Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 5cm of textual records

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of two files containing Hebrew and Yiddish writings and correspondence of Rabbi Abraham Shmuel Dubitsky. File 1 is labelled "Writings, 1928-1939" and File 2 is labelled "Varia, 1928-1939." A hand-written English item list is included in the fonds.

Fonds No.: 1107

Storage Location: JPL

Physical Condition: Fragile documents handwritten on low-quality paper

Language: Yiddish; Hebrew; English; German

Name Access: Dubitsky, Abraham Shmuel; Dubitsky, Samuel

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album Jewish Legion I

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33497

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00009

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00009

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Access Restrictions: Some restriction laws may apply

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion A

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33482

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of multiple records

Fonds No.: 1257; 00001

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of multiple records

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00001

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Arons, Jack to Chaitm, Benjamin.

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion B

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33484

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00002

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00002

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Cheifetz, Leon to Feldman, Jack.

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion C

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Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00003

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00003

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Fenkell, Charles G. to Gordon, Myer

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33481

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 9 files of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1257

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 9 files of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1257

Storage Location: Ctn.001

History / Biographical: The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established by the British Army as the 38th and 39th Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War, in Palestine who fought for the liberation of Erez Israel [region] from the Turkish rule. It was formed when Britain began his war against the Ottoman Turks. At the same time, Zionist [A Jewish political movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a sovereign Jewish homeland in Palestine.] around the world saw an opportunity to promote the idea of a Jewish National Homeland in Palestine; therefore, some Jewish people raised the idea of the formation of a Jewish unit that would participate to conquer Palestine. At the beginning of the war, the British government opposed the participation of such as group of people in Palestine, but in 1917 ultimately, the formation of a Jewish regiment was officially announced. The Legion also named the Zion Mule Corps, made up Jewish from different countries such as Britain, Russia, the United States and Canada, served on the Gallipoli front in 1915-1916, and also in the Jordan Valley in 1918. The Jewish Legion was a unique regiment who had been awarded, in the late 1919, a distinctive cap badge; a menorah. After the war, some of the members returned to their respective countries while others settled in Palestine to realize their Zionist aspirations.

Language: English

Access Restrictions: Some privacy restrictions may apply

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion D

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33488

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00004

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00004

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Gorsky, H. to Joseph, Bernard

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion E

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33490

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00005

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00005

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Kates, Robert to Levin, Ali

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion F

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33492

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00006

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00006

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Lewis R. to Pruzansky, Jacob

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion G

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Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00007

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00007

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Raiser, Myer to Sokolov, Hyman

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Album of Jewish Legion H

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33495

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257; 00008

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records and photographs

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00008

Storage Location: Container 1

Language: English

Notes: From Solomon, Alexander to Yuditzky, Max

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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Personnel; Jewish people

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Arons, Jack.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33499

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: Item

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Fonds No.: 1257; 00001; 1257_001_1_1

1 image

Collection: Album of Jewish Legion Collection

Description Level: Item

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 broadsheet + 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm

Fonds No.: 1257

File No.: 00001

Item No.: 1257_001_1_1

Storage Location: Container 1

Material Details: Paper

Language: English

Notes: Member of the first group of legionnaires from Toronto. Served as instructor in 40 Bn Royal Fusiliers. After demobilization returned to Toronto and, entered catering business. Born on March 21, 1895 in Braila, Roumania.