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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of historical articles written by Shirley Berman, a copy of Those Pesky Weeds edited by Shirley Berman, texts for talks and slide presentations, family information and a cassette tape recorder used during her time as OJA archivist (donated by son), and a card given to Esther (Teri) …

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of historical articles written by Shirley Berman, a copy of Those Pesky Weeds edited by Shirley Berman, texts for talks and slide presentations, family information and a cassette tape recorder used during her time as OJA archivist (donated by son), and a card given to Esther (Teri) Levine shortly before her passing. Box 1 File 1: Shirley Berman honoured by OJHS, 1998 File 2: Articles File 3: Talks, Slide presentations File 4: Lowy Collection File 5: News clippings File 6: Milestones File 7: Correspondence File 8: Correspondence: Camadian Jewish Congess, 1985-1986 File 9: Invitations File 10: Business cards File 11: Endowment agreement: Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation File 12: Resume File 13: Shier Berman File 14: David Berman Topographics File 15: Towards the Establishment of Ethnic Archives 1 certificate of compeltion for an Archives course, 1983 Box 2: 1 audio cassette recorder used by Shirley during her itme as Archivist

History / Biographical: Shirley was born in Toronto, 1930, daughter of Baruch (Benjamin) and Helena (Freedman) Hettler. Shirley and Shier Berman met in Toronto through their shared Zionist youth interests in Habonim. They married on May 24, 1951 in Toronto and shortly afterwards spent a year in New York to lead a Zionist youth movement called Habonim. They returned to Toronto in 1953 when Shier began his post-graduate work at University of Toronto. Shirley arrived in Ottawa in 1957, with her husband, when Shier commenced work at the National Research Council. They had two children, David and Reeva. Shirley's adult education included courses at Carleton University and a special archival training course with the National Archives of Canada, 1983. She became the Executive Secretary of the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society in 1972 and held that position until 1998. Simultaneously, Shirley began collecting the history of the Ottawa Jewish Community and founded the Ottawa Jewish Archives. Shirley was always active in Zionist causes within the Ottawa Jewish community. She was a member of Pioneer Women and reactivated Habonim-Dror in Ottawa in 1961.

Custodial History: Material collected by Shirley Berman and individual items deposited.

Related Material: Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds, Habonim-Dror fonds