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Absalom's Tomb in Jerusalem.

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Collection: Harold Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0093; OJA 21-018

Date: 1936

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Collection: Harold Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1936

Fonds No.: I0093

Item No.: OJA 21-018

Creator: Harold Shaffer

Notes: Taken by Harold Shaffer during a trip to Israel.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Harold Shaffer fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101310

Collection: Harold Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 21 cm. of textual records.

Fonds No.: I0093

Date: 1934-1939, 1979

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of an unpublished manuscript Child Harold’s Odessy, biographical material, newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin (August 10, 1979), Harold Shaffer textbooks entitled, "How to be a successful retailer in Canada", 1961, Fundamentals of retailing, 1965 and, "Independent ret…

Collection: Harold Shaffer fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 21 cm. of textual records.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of an unpublished manuscript Child Harold’s Odessy, biographical material, newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin (August 10, 1979), Harold Shaffer textbooks entitled, "How to be a successful retailer in Canada", 1961, Fundamentals of retailing, 1965 and, "Independent retailing: A money-making manual", 1976/ Harold Shaffer and Herbert Greenwald, essays on Zionism (1934, 1939), map of Israel, and two B&W photographs of a Bedouin taken in Palestine (1936).

Date: 1934-1939, 1979

Fonds No.: I0093

History / Biographical: Harold Shaffer (b. 1910 - d. 1979), son of Abraham and Mary (Baslaw), was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1910 and moved to Ottawa in his early childhood. He attended Lisgar Collegiate High School and received his B. Com from McGill University in Montreal. Harold worked a year as an accountant and then traveled for a year and a half abroad. He spent eleven months in Palestine in the mid 1930's and returned to Ottawa an ardent Zionist. He became associated with the Labor Zionist movement and formed the Israeli Forum. During this time he established a business on Bank Street and was also employed at Shaffers Ltd, his family's clothing business on Rideau Street. In 1955, Harold left Ottawa to teach retailing at Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto. In 1963, he was appointed Director of Sir George Williams School of Retailing in Montreal and was also associated with the University as assistant professor in the marketing department. During his academia career, Harold wrote many articles, published several books, spoke extensively and acted as a consultant in his field of retailing. Harold retired in 1975 and moved back to Ottawa. Upon his return he became involved in the Jewish Philosophical and Ethical Study Group, the Survey of the Jewish Aged in Ottawa, and the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society. Harold Shaffer married Frances Saunders (b. August 6, 1910, London, England - d. July 10, 2014, Ottawa). Harold and Frances had four children; Stanley (m. Sussana Uchatius), Rhea (m. Ted Wohl, d. 1981), Dorothy, and Jayeson (m. Dailaan Lovell). He died on June 5, 1979.

Notes: 1. Biography taken from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, August 10, 1979. 2. A Harold Shaffer Memorial Fund exists in the Jewish Community Foundation. 3. Photographs are located in the fonds. 4. Harold Shaffer textbooks donated by his widow, Frances Schaffer, July, 2002.