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Ben Dworkin Family fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101415
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- textual material ; 36 photographs : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Date
- 1913-2014 (1930-1945 predominant)
- Scope and Content
- Various photographs; a partial family tree; various newspaper clippings including editorials ("Cop Shop Talk") written by Ben Dworkin in the Ottawa Citizen; articles by Ben Dworkin published in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin; obituary of Ben Dworkin; Letter from Shirley Morris about her father; untrans…
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- textual material ; 36 photographs : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Various photographs; a partial family tree; various newspaper clippings including editorials ("Cop Shop Talk") written by Ben Dworkin in the Ottawa Citizen; articles by Ben Dworkin published in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin; obituary of Ben Dworkin; Letter from Shirley Morris about her father; untranslated letters written in Hebrew (dating back to 1913) which includes a brief summary of contents.
- Date
- 1913-2014 (1930-1945 predominant)
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Storage Location
- A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
- History / Biographical
- Abraham Dworkin was born in Russia in 1879 and died in Ottawa on April 13, 1951. He married Deborah Azmier who died June, 1922. Abraham's second wife was Fanny Saipe. Abraham and Deborah had eight children: Sarah, Ben (b. March 25, 1900 d. 1994, aged 94), Rose, Fay, Nel (also seen as Nell), Alex, Helen and Clara. Ben Dworkin was a public servant and reporter who wrote for multiple publications including the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin and Review. He was the crime reporter for the Citizen in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The Dworkin family is best known in Ottawa for their store, Dworkin Furs, which began in 1901. Its original location was at 256 Rideau St. The store closed in 2012 due to falling sales as fur went out of fashion, and it, along with Ottawa's Burkholder Furs, was purchased by Global Fur Inc. out of Montreal. The home itself likely should have been designated a heritage building with protected status but by May, 2014 the home was the last remaining house on that stretch of Rideau Street downtown and it was demolished to make way for a modern condominium building (the City specifically stated that it no longer fit the context of the rest of the street).
- Related Material
- Mark Abramson fonds
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Chana (Progosh) Dworkin with her children
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107169
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1044-02
- Date
- [194-?]
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [194-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1044-02
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- Photograph includes; Nell (Dworkin) Gold, Yetta Dworkin, Sarah Dworkin, Chana (Progosh) Dworkin, Leonard Dworkin, Ben Dworkin, and Sam Dworkin.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Couple
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn112047
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic film negative
- Fonds No.
- 10028; 1-028-01
- Scope and Content
- 1 black and white photographic film negative
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic film negative
- Scope and Content
- 1 black and white photographic film negative
- Fonds No.
- 10028
- Item No.
- 1-028-01
- Storage Location
- research room
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Employees of Dworkin's Grocery and Butcher Shop.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106114
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 2-004
- Date
- 1914
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1914
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 2-004
- Storage Location
- G.3.4
- Notes
- L-R: Mr. Hubert (butcher), Miss Ethel Harkness, Mr. Louis Dworkin, Mr. Sobcov. At this time, the grocery business was located at Percy and Arlington Street. Later, it moved to 492 Bank Street.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Gottdank family fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101192
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 box containing 2 photograph albums, loose photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbook misc. textual material
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Date
- 1905 - 1977
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, 2 albums, one scrapbook, news clippings and schedules of Esther and Jeanne’s vaudeville days and biographical material.
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 box containing 2 photograph albums, loose photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbook misc. textual material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, 2 albums, one scrapbook, news clippings and schedules of Esther and Jeanne’s vaudeville days and biographical material.
- Date
- 1905 - 1977
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- History / Biographical
- David and Rachel (Cohen) Gottdank were married in London, England. David and Rachel, along with their eldest daughter, Sarah and infant Esther (b. November 22, 1904 - d. 1988) emigrated to Ottawa sometime between 1905 and 1910. Jeanne (d. August 20, 2003), Arthur and Syd were all born in Ottawa. David died prematurely, in his early forties, in 1922 of tuberculosis. The three daughters commenced music lessons at an early age, Sarah playing the piano, Esther the cello and Jeanne the violin. When the family moved to Toronto, Esther began her career as a cellist by playing with a quartet in the orchestra pit for silent movies at Allen’s Danforth Theatre in the mid 1920s. In 1925 Esther gained a place as a cellist with the Chicago vaudeville troupe “The Roumanian Serenaders” which later became known as “The Slaves of Melody.” Jeanne similarly gained a place in the group upon the insistence of their mother, Rachel, that Esther not tour alone. The sisters changed their surname to Gordon when travelling with the road show and performing in cities and towns across the United States under the stage name "The Gordon Sisters." from 1925 to 1928. Jeanne left after two years and Esther continued on for another three years. The three sisters, Esther, Jeanne, and Sarah, continued their musical careers in Ottawa by participating in Ottawa Music Festivals, the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jewish Community Centre orchestra. Esther was a life member of Local 180, Ottawa-Hull District Federation of Musicians. Esther returned to Ottawa and worked briefly with the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in 1928 before commencing a job with the Income Tax Department of the Government of Canada. Esther married David Mirsky (d. 1983), nephew of Rev. Jacob Mirsky, in New York on January 19th, 1932. The couple's marriage was kept a secret so that Esther would not lose her job with the Government of Canada. David worked as a shoe salesman at A.J Freiman's Department Store before opening the Rideau Street Smoke Shop. In the 1940s, David opened D & H Cigar store with Harry Torontow which remained in business until the 1960s. Esther and David had a daughter, Deborah (b. November 1934), who married Dr. Herbert H. Cosman. At the age of 13, Jeanne played violin with the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra which is now the Ottawa Symphony. Jeanne Gottdank married Louis Lieff. They had four children: Hannah (Meyers), Mia (Bernard), Beryl (Frankel), and Bernard Lieff. Sarah married Harry Torontow. They had two children: David and Ray.
- Notes
- 1. Material donated by Deborah Mirsky Cosman, January, 2000. 2. Clippings in scrapbook are not attached to the pages 3. Sarah's children: David Torontow, Ray Toronto. Esther's children: Debbie Cosman. Jeanne's children: Hannah Myers, Mia Bernard, Beryl Frankel, Bernard Lieff. Information supplied by Joseph Lieff. 4.Joseph Lieff relates that Jeanne played violin with the Ottawa Philharmonic (age 13) which is now the Ottawa Symphony. In the early 1930s she and he sisters Sarah and Esther travelled with a large orchestra which was featured on the B. F. Keith circuit.
- Related Material
- Related material in Hon. Abraham H. Lieff fonds, Dr. Herbert H. Cosman fonds.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Gottdank family portrait.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103786
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0086; OJA 1-708-08
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Item No.
- OJA 1-708-08
- Storage Location
- Oversized Photograph Box 2
- Creator
- Castonguay, Ottawa
- Acquisition Source
- Deborah Mirsky Cosman
- Notes
- L-R: Syd Gottdank, David Gottdank (father), Sarah (Gottdank) Torontow, Arthur Gottdank, Rachel Leah (mother, nee Cohen) Gottdank, Esther (Gottdank) Mirsky, and Jeanne (Gottdank) Lieff. Syd Gottdank changed his last name to Gordon when he went into business. Esther Gottdank is Deborah Mirsky Cosman's mother.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Group Portrait of Dworkin Family.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107168
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1044-01
- Date
- [1945]
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [1945]
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1044-01
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- L-R: Back Row; (Aunt) Jean Progrosh, Lill Dworkin, Chana (Progrosh) Dworkin, Louis Dworkin, Nell (Dworkin) Gold, Pearl Gold. Middle Row; Leonard Dworkin, Susan Dworkin. Yetta Dworkin, Ben Gold, Marilyn Pascal. Bottom Row: Larry Dworkin.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Group Portrait of Dworkin Family Women.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107161
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1038
- Date
- [1945]
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [1945]
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1038
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- L-R: Nell (Dworkin) Gold, Jean Progosh, Lill Dworkin, Pearl Gold, Sarah Dworkin, Marilyn Pascal, Yetta (Dworkin) Yostipovich.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Group Portrait of the Dworkin Family.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107187
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1052-03
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1945
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1052-03
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- L-R: Standing; Alan Gold, Pearl Gold, Seated; Louis Dworkin holding Larry Gold, and Chana (Progosh) Dworkin holidng Joyce Gold. (Inscription on verso also notes that Joyce died in childhood.)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Harris and Cayla Mirsky.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103779
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0086; OJA 1-708-02
- Date
- 1939
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1939
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Item No.
- OJA 1-708-02
- Storage Location
- vault
- History / Biographical
- Harris and Cayla Mirsky are the parents of Louis, Libby (Moraff), Rose, Anne (Siegal), David and Laz. Cayla was a Gottdank.
- Acquisition Source
- Deborah Mirsky Cosman
- Notes
- Harris Mirsky conducted high holiday services at the Kingston Penitentiary. He also taught Hebrew and was a barber. (from conversation with Deborah Mirsky Cosman Nov. 2009). The Mirsky family lived at 117 Goulburn Ave., Ottawa
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Jeanne and Esther Gottdank with the Roumanian Serenaders.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103783
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0086; OJA 1-708-06
- Date
- 1927
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1927
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Item No.
- OJA 1-708-06
- Storage Location
- vault
- Creator
- Nicholas M. Boilla
- Acquisition Source
- Deborah Mirsky Cosman
- Notes
- L-R: Jeanne and Esther third and fourth. “The Roumanian Serenaders” was a vaudeville troup which later became know as “The Slaves of Melody”.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Jeanne (Gottdank) Lieff with her violin.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103785
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0086; OJA 1-708-07
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [192-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Item No.
- OJA 1-708-07
- Storage Location
- vault
- Physical Condition
- Scanned copy.
- Acquisition Source
- Deborah Mirsky Cosman
- Notes
- Jeanne was a professional violin player with the Roumanian Serenaders, a vaudeville troup, which later became know as the Slaves of Melody.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Jewish Community Centre Orchestra with Esther Mirsky playing the cello.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103782
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0086; OJA 1-708-05
- Date
- [196-?]
- Collection
- Gottdank family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [196-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0086
- Item No.
- OJA 1-708-05
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Deborah Mirsky Cosman
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Louis Dworkin and Chana (Progosh) Dworkin.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107160
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1036-03
- Date
- 1935
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1935
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1036-03
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- Inscription on photo indicates that it was taken in 1935.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Ethyl (Goldman) Dworkin.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106094
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-381
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [192-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-381
- Creator
- Pasens Photo Studios
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Mr. Louis Dworkin in his delivery wagon in front of his Grocery and Butcher Shop, Ottawa.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106106
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 2-003
- Date
- 1914
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1914
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 2-003
- Storage Location
- G.3.4
- Notes
- At this time, the grocery business was located at Percy and Arlington Street. Later, it moved to 492 Bank Street.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Dworkin with children
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn104247
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-802
- Date
- September 1945
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- September 1945
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-802
- Notes
- L-R: Standing; Ben Dworkin.Nell (Dworkin) Gold, Leonard Dworkin, Sarah Dworkin, Yetta (Dworkin) Yostipovich, Sam Dworkin, Seated; Louis Dworkin, and Chana (Progosh) Dworkin.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Nell and Sarah Dworkin at the beach.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107154
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1034
- Date
- 1928
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1928
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1034
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Notes
- Inscription on photograph states that it was taken at a beach on Woodroffe in 1928.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Photograph of the interior of Mr. Louis Dworkin's Grocery and Butcher Shop, Ottawa.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106107
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 2-318
- Date
- 1914?
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1914?
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 2-318
- Storage Location
- vault
- Physical Condition
- Photograph is mounted.
- Notes
- Dworkin's shop was located at 492 Bank Street.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Photo of Ben Dworkin, Ethel Goldman, and Sarah Dworkin.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107205
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0028; OJA 1-1063-02
- Date
- 1940
- Collection
- Ben Dworkin Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1940
- Fonds No.
- I0028
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1063-02
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Dworkin Family
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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