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#13b: Tribute to Canadian Jewry; Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

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Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Fonds No.: I0099

Date: 2001

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Date: 2001

Fonds No.: I0099

Notes: Cassette 2/2; Tribute was held at the Rabbinical Assembly Convention; Rabbi Reuven Hammer, Manual Batshaw, Judy Feld Carr, Honourable Mr. Justice Abraham Lieff, Professor Irwin Cotler.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

58 audio cassettes containing narration by Abe Lieff.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106723

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Fonds No.: I0099

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: sound recording

Fonds No.: I0099

Storage Location: vault

Notes: Abe Lieff narrated the various volumes (1-7) of his biography, Gathering Rosebuds; information pertaining to his 100th birthday; and Hy Bloom testimonial. Some cassettes state content, others do not; Donated by Abraham Lieff via his daughter Lois Lieff, February 2006 and May 2007 (10 and 10a); These tapes are contained in two boxes that are stored with textual material in the vault.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Eulogy of the Honourable Abraham Lieff at Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto.

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Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds No.: I0099

Date: February 13, 2007

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Date: February 13, 2007

Fonds No.: I0099

History / Biographical: LIEFF, Honourable Abraham H. Peacefully at Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday, February 12, 2007, exactly three weeks before his 104th birthday. Dearly beloved husband of the late Sadie Lazarovitz. Cherished father and friend of Miriam Lieff (Albert Goldberg) and Lois Lieff. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Bess and the late Milton Narod, Joe and Evelyn Lieff, Dorothy and the late Max Lieff, the late Louis and Jeanne Lieff, Hy and Pearl Lieff, Morris and Pearl Lieff. Adored Papa of Stephen Cohen and Pernille Rorth, Lisa Cohen, Sharon Cohen and Eric Barker, Ellin Bessner and John Friedlan, Brenda and Kenny Adessky. He had seven precious great-grandchildren whom he treasured and who treasured him: Gillian, Jacob, Alizah, Avery, Alexander, Noah, and Evan. At Beth Tzedec Synagogue, 1700 Bathurst Street, for service on Tuesday, February 13th at 12:00 p.m. Interment Ottawa Jewish Community Cemetery, Bank Street, Agudath Israel Section, in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 14th at 12:00 p.m. Shiva Wednesday and Thursday at the Minto Place Hotel, 433 Laurier Avenue, Ottawa and from Saturday night in Montreal at Lois' home. If desired, memorial donations may be made to Camp Ramah Canada, 416-789-2193 or Jewish National Fund of Canada, 416-638-7200.

Notes: Duration: 53 minutes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Hon. Mr. Abraham Lieff celebrating 100 years.

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Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 CD-ROM : col.

Fonds No.: I0099

Date: 2003

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 CD-ROM : col.

Date: 2003

Publication: Photographer Vince Talotta of the Toronto Star gave this CD to Judge Leiff as a birthday present.

Fonds No.: I0099

Storage Location: Multimedia Box 1

Notes: CD-ROM containing 79 images from Abe Lieff's 100th Birthday Party. Location: Multi Media Box 1; He is presented with a birthday cake, photographed with two different portraits and celebrating with friends, relatives and colleagues.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

DVD footage of the Hon. Mr. Abraham Lieff at Camp Ramah.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106837

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: moving images

Fonds No.: I0099

Date: 2004

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: moving images

Date: 2004

Fonds No.: I0099

Notes: Duration: 35 minutes; Lieff participates in a shabbat service and delivers a D'var Torah. He speaks to the campers about his fond memories of Camp Ramah. He tells them that the lessons he learned about ethics, at a cheder on Rideau street as a boy, prepared him to be a judge.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Honourable Judge Abraham Lieff.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn105399

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0099; OJA 1-898

Date: [ca. 1960]

1 image

Collection: Honourable Abraham H. Lieff fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [ca. 1960]

Fonds No.: I0099

Item No.: OJA 1-898

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Ottawa Jewish Cemeteries fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101215

Collection: Ottawa Jewish Cemeteries fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2m of records, plans and photographs

Fonds No.: O0042

Date: 1896 - 1995

Scope and Content: Fonds consists primarily of correspondence, reports, site development planning records and plans for the new Jewish cemetery, Osgoode township; and some inventories, plans, correspondence, minutes and rules and regulations for the first cemetery. File List: 1. Inventories. - 1896 - 1939. - 1 file…

Collection: Ottawa Jewish Cemeteries fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2m of records, plans and photographs

Scope and Content: Fonds consists primarily of correspondence, reports, site development planning records and plans for the new Jewish cemetery, Osgoode township; and some inventories, plans, correspondence, minutes and rules and regulations for the first cemetery. File List: 1. Inventories. - 1896 - 1939. - 1 file Partial lists of plot owners, death dates and names of deceased. 2. Cemetery Deeds. - 194?. - 1 file Cemetery deeds for plot owners from the Congregation Adath Jeshurun and Sons of Jacob Congregation. Also an offer to purchase a cemetery plot. Sample copies available. 3. Plans. - 1942 - 1990. - 15 rolled in tubes, some folded in files. A. Cemetery for Gloucester Township (Bank Street): - Plan showing subdivision for purposes of a cemetery, December 15, 1942 by N. B. Mac Rostie - Plan showing part of N 1/2 Lot 7, concession 4, Township of Gloucester for Jewish cemetery, Nov. 20, 1950 by Mac Rostie & Associates. - Ottawa Jewish community cemetery by Mac Rostie & Associates, August 3, 1951. - Plan showing part of Lot 8, concession 4, Township of Gloucester, August 24, 1960. - Plan showing names on lots (part of plan missing) - Ottawa Jewish Cemetery [comprehensive plan] prepared by I. Shinder, May 1988, with additions, May 1994. B. Plans for new cemetery, Osgoode Township include: - Reference plan of survey of part E 1/2, lot 15, concession. 3, township of Osgoode, 1973. - Proposed cemetery [Osgoode Township], part 1, lot 15, concession 3, rough outline, 1975? - Development area plan by D. W. Graham and Associates Ltd., August 1975, approved by Ontario Ministry of Consumer & Commercial Relations, April 15, 1976. - Development area one: layout plan, by D. W. Graham and Associates, August 1975, approved by Ontario Ministry of Consumer & Commercial Relations, July 15, 1976. - Congregation plans, by D. W. Graham and Associates: Section SA: Agudath Israel: 1270 plots Section SB: Beth Shalom: 1269 plots Section SC: Machzikei Hadas: 1247 plots Section SD: Young Israel of Ottawa: 1236 plots Section SE: Temple Israel: 1257 plots - Landscape concept plans by D. W. Graham and Associates: 6 plans for gates, botanical plants, tree plantings - Directions to new Jewish cemetery, Herbert Corners, 1976. - Site plan & details of well & high life pumps by Oliver Mangione McCalla & Associates Ltd., February 1977. - Irrigation plan for Agudath Israel section, 1990. 4. Minutes. - 1970 - 1991. - 1 file Minutes of the Cemetery Committee for Jewish Community Cemetery and agendas for meetings of the New Jewish Community Cemetery. 5. Memorandum of agreement. - 1943-1976 - 1 file. Memorandum of agreement among the congregations of Agudath Israel, Beth Shalom, Machzikei Hadas, Young Israel Of Ottawa, Temple Israel and the New Jewish Community Cemetery of Ottawa, Inc. Also guidelines, rules and regulations adopted by earlier cemetery committees. 6. Financial records. - 1950 - 1954, 1976. - 1 file. Statements of receipts and disbursements for 1950 - 1954, 1976, partial financial information for other years including prices of cemetery plot. 7. Correspondence. - 1966 - 1995 . - 5 cm. Files contain original letters received and copies of outgoing letters from committee chairmen, including Israel Shinder’s 1995 correspondence. Correspondence concerning the development of the new Jewish cemetery, including some statements of accounts between 1973 and 1977 is filed separately. 8. Government regulations. - 1966 - 1982. - 1 file Ontario regulations for requirements of the Cemeteries Act and Gloucester Township fence regulations. 9. Reports. - 1968, 1973 - 1979. - 1 file. Reports on the development of the New Jewish Cemetery, vandalism and Agudath Congregation cemetery representative, Henry Pass. 10. Memorial Service program. - 1971, 1979. - 1 file. Order of service for annual memorial service, Jewish Community, Metcalfe Highway. 11. Agreements of Purchase and Sale. - 1974 - 1 file File contains agreements for purchase of Osgoode site for new cemetery, lists of vacant lands examined and agreement of purchase and sale of M & M Florist, Highway #31, Township of Gloucester 12. Site Development Planning. - 1975 - 1976. - 1 file File contains development proposal for new cemetery by D. W. Graham & Associates Ltd. with fees; work progress report; tenders for gates; notes of the cemetery committee; budget for development; specifications for repairs to irrigation system. 13. Consecration exercises. - 1976. - 3 pages. Item is a program of consecration exercises and an inaugural speech for the new cemetery. 14. Clippings, 1976, 1985- 1986. - 1 file. Clippings from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin and review about the consecration of the New Jewish Community Cemetery. 15. Photographs. - 1975, 1977. - 11 b&w; 18 colour. Snapshots (without negatives) of Montreal cemeteries viewed by Search Committee, memorial service, Gloucester township and tree planting, new cemetery, Osgoode township. 16. Halachic rulings. - 1987. - 1 file. Rabbinical rulings about reinterment of human remains and documents for one request. 17. Death and Judaism. - 1989. - 1 item. Item is a Guide for death and burial in Adath Shalom congregation newsletter, May/June 1989. 18. Deed. - 1994. - 1 item. Item is a deed of purchase for first plot of cemetery land, dated May 18, 1893. Photocopy available. 19. Memorial fund. - 19--. - 1 page. Item is a form for making a contribution to a Memorial Fund for the purpose of honouring a deceased person.

Date: 1896 - 1995

Fonds No.: O0042

History / Biographical: The Jewish cemetery in Gloucester Township, off of the Metcalfe highway, opened in 1893 upon the founding of one of Ottawa's first Jewish congregation, Adath Jeshrun. The establishment, maintenance, and preservation of a Jewish burial ground was one of the central concerns of the congregation’s founders. Abraham Sugarman, John Dover, Abraham Spector and Benjamin Silver acted as trustees for the Congregation of Adath Jeshurun during the initial purchase of land for the purpose of establishing a burial ground. As the congregation, and Ottawa Jewish population, grew it became apparent that the grounds of the original cemetery would need to be expanded. It was during this period that a second congregation, Agudath Achim, was founded. In conjunction with Agudath Achim, the cemetery grounds were enlarged in 1907 under the guidance of Abraham Kert, an Ottawa merchant, acting in trust for the Hebrew United Brethren of Ottawa (Agudath Achim). By 1942 these two congregations were joined by B'nai Jacob and Machzikei Hadas in expanding the cemetery grounds. Responsibility for the allotment and sale of plots rested with each congregation until June 2008. Maintenance, capital expenditures and supervision is undertaken jointly by the Cemetery Committee. By the early 1970's, the need for a new cemetery arose with the congregations of Young Israel and Temple Israel having no sections of their own, along with the Agudath Israel Congregation having only a few plots remaining. The Congregations of Agudath Israel, Beth Shalom, Machzikei Hadas, Temple Israel and Young Israel formed the New Jewish Community Cemetery of Ottawa, Inc. in 1976 for the purpose of developing and administering the new cemetery location in Osgoode Township. Israel Shinder, chairman, and his cemetery committee of Hy Gould, Harry Hecht, Max Sternthall and Norman Tenenbaum provided the leadership. The land was consecrated on Sunday, October 31, 1976. Separate committees operated each cemetery until 2008. Representatives of six Ottawa congregations, and the community-at-large, met in July, 2008 to officially create a new corporation to be known as The Jewish Memorial Gardens. It administers Ottawa’s two Jewish cemeteries on Bank Street and in Osgoode to facilitate funeral arrangements. The board includes three community representatives appointed by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and one representative each from Agudath Israel, Beit Tikvah, Machzikei Hadas, Temple Israel and Young Israel. Beth Shalom is represented by three members on the board for the first five years, by two members for the next five years and then by one member in following years. In December 2008, JMG hired its first executive director, Shelley Fiennes.

Notes: 1. Title supplied from conversation with Israel Shinder, April 1994. 2. Acquired from Israel Shinder, 1993 and 2000. 3. No restrictions on access. 4. Other cemetery records located in individual congregation fonds; audio cassette collection under Israel Shinder; and Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir fonds, Standing Committee Series, Cemetery Committee.

Related Material: The following two publications provide a general history of the Jewish Cemeteries in Ottawa: 1. "The New Jewish Cemetery" in Osgoode Township. Prepared by The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 1990 ISBN 1-55116-7344 2. "The United Jewish Community Cemetery" (Bank Street), Prepared by The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 1997 ISBN 0-7779-0099-8