More like 'genealogy64404'

1201 records – page 1 of 61.

Cantor Moshe Kraus fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn112978
Collection
Cantor Moshe Kraus fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
electronic record
Physical Description
2 digital record
Fonds No.
I0310
Date
2023
Scope and Content
Fonds consist of two digital recordings of Cantor Moshe Kraus' funeral in Ottawa and Israel.
Collection
Cantor Moshe Kraus fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
electronic record
Physical Description
2 digital record
Scope and Content
Fonds consist of two digital recordings of Cantor Moshe Kraus' funeral in Ottawa and Israel.
Date
2023
Fonds No.
I0310
History / Biographical
Cantor Moshe Kraus was born August 15th, 1923, in Uzhhorord, a Czechoslovakian border town, now part of Ukraine. He was the eldest of nine children born to Myer and Henya Kraus. He and his family were Hasidic Jews. At the age of 8, his beautiful singing voice was discovered and he began singing at Shabbat services and giving concerts. He eventually went on to receive professional training at the Vienna Conservatory. He was there in November 1938 during Kristallnacht. At 18, Kraus was hired as the chief cantor of Sighet, a Hungarian town with five synagogues. As cantor, he led the community in prayer and song at every Jewish event. A young man named Elie Wiesel sang in his choir; the two would become lifelong friends. In 1942, at the age of 19, he became the chief cantor of Budapest, Hungary. In 1943, Kraus was deported to work in Bor labour camp, at a Serbian copper mine. He was there for nine months before being sent to a coal mining camp in southwestern Poland, Katowice. From there, he was shipped to Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany wheer he became prisoner A855. Kraus sang to lift people’s spirits and performed for his fellow prisoners, including those in the women’s barracks. Kraus was so weak that he couldn’t get out of bed by the time British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. He weighed just 35 kilograms. The last thing he remembers is a British soldier picking him up, and shouting, ‘Victory! Victory!” He woke up in hospital. After he recovered, Kraus went to work for a Jewish relief organization, then returned to Bucharest in search of his family. There he learned that his father, mother and five of his siblings had all been murdered by the Nazis. Despondent, Kraus moved to British-controlled Palestine and joined the Israeli army, where he learned to assemble and disassemble tanks. He was later asked to become the IDF’s first chief cantor. Kraus spoke six languages, Kraus and his wife moved to Ottawa in 1975, when he was hired as cantor at Congregation Beth Shalom. He retired as a full-time cantor in 1980, but continued to give concerts and was a regular feature at National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies and other special events. Cantor Moshe Kraus passed away at home on Monday, May 29, 2023 after a brief illness.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Biography, as written by donor.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89983
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00001
Date
2019
Scope and Content
Also contains family tree.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Also contains family tree.
Date
2019
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00001
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
Produced by donor, Jill Johnson, the wife of Sydney Brown's oldest son.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail

MS St. Louis

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn112212
Collection
MS St. Louis
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
item
Fonds No.
E0016
Date
November 2018
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one folder containing a metal pin commemorating the MS St. Louis (November 7, 2018) and an invitation to a live broadcast of the government’s statement of apology for the MS St. Louis incident, written in French and English
Collection
MS St. Louis
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
item
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one folder containing a metal pin commemorating the MS St. Louis (November 7, 2018) and an invitation to a live broadcast of the government’s statement of apology for the MS St. Louis incident, written in French and English
Date
November 2018
Fonds No.
E0016
History / Biographical
The MS St. Louis was a German diesel-powered transatlantic liner which was used as a luxury cruise ship for the Hamburg-America Line which regularly sailed from Hamburg to Halifax and New York. In 1939, the MS St. Louis was carrying over 900 German Jewish refugees when it was refused entry in Cuba, the United States and Canada and forced to return to Europe. The ship departed from Hamburg on May 13th, 1939, captained by Gustav Schroder. Most of the 937 passengers were Jewish, and were in possession of what they believed to be legal landing permits for Cuba which they planned to use temporarily before obtaining American visas. In reality, Cuban immigration official Benitez Gonzalez had used his position to sell illegitimate landing permits, which were nullified by the pro-fascist Cuban government amid rising anti-Semitism in Cuba while the MS St. Louis while completing its transatlantic crossing. When the ship arrived in Havana on May 27, 1939, it was not permitted to dock, and was eventually asked to leave Cuban waters with most of the passengers still on board. Captain Schroder, determined not to return his passengers to Germany, sailed around the coast of Florida in hopes that U.S. authorities would permit the refugees entry but instead the ship was trailed by the coast guard and not permitted to approach the shore. Despite appeals from sympathetic American citizens and organizations President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s government refused to allow the refugees to land, citing existing immigration guidelines. Halifax was the last port of asylum available in North America, and while Captain Schroder made no appeals directly to the Canadian government, as the ship’s plight became more widely known within Canada efforts were made to convince Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s government to allow them into the country. Leaders of the Canadian Jewish community made appeals to the government, and a group of 27 prominent Canadian citizens in Toronto led by clergyman and historian George Wrong signed a petition requesting that Prime Minister King provide sanctuary to the refugees. His government’s decision was that the refugees did not qualify as admissible immigrants under Canada’s immigration law, and on June 7th, 1939 Captain Schroder was forced to sail back to Europe where the passengers were dispersed to France, to Belgium, the Netherlands and England. Of the St. Louis passengers who returned to continental Europe, 254 of them died during the Holocaust. Economic hardship caused by the Great Depression as well as anti-Semitism from within Canada had caused Canada to further restrict its already restrictive immigration policies in the 1930s, which prioritized immigrants based on race, ethnicity, occupation and class and was biased against Jewish refugees. As a result, Canada allowed only 5000 Jewish refugees to settle in Canada between 1933 and 1948. Canada’s refusal of the MS St. Louis became a symbol for the country’s record of refusing Jewish refugees during the Second World War. On November 7th, 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered an apology for the federal government’s decision to deny entry to the MS St. Louis, and for the government’s antisemitic policies that denied entry to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. The apology also acknowledged the continuing existence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial in the twenty-first century. Some of the surviving passengers from the ship were present in the House of Commons during the apology, as was Nimrod Barkan, Israel’s ambassador to Canada.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Isaac and Mara Muzikansky fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107557
Collection
Isaac and Mara Muzikansky fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Audio-video recording, textual
Fonds No.
I0109
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: Isaac's remarks for OJHS and CBTO event - March 17 2015; Mara's remarks for OJHS and CBTO event - March 17 2015; References for "Isaac Muzikansky: From Russia to Ottawa" presentation; 10 photographs (digital) taken by Issie Scarowsky at the event - March 17, 2015; also in OJHS …
Collection
Isaac and Mara Muzikansky fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Audio-video recording, textual
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: Isaac's remarks for OJHS and CBTO event - March 17 2015; Mara's remarks for OJHS and CBTO event - March 17 2015; References for "Isaac Muzikansky: From Russia to Ottawa" presentation; 10 photographs (digital) taken by Issie Scarowsky at the event - March 17, 2015; also in OJHS fonds, DVD recording of the lecture "Isaac Muzikansky: From Russia to Ottawa" presented for the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society (OJHS) and congregation Beit Tikva of Ottawa (CBTO), on Tuesday March 17, 2015 - stored in multimedia box;
Fonds No.
I0109
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
See documents entitled Isaac and Mara's remarks respectively.
Custodial History
Isaac and Mara Muzikansky, Ottawa Jewish Historical Society
Notes
References for "Isaac Muzikansky: From Russia to Ottawa" presentation: Isaac’s website: www.isaacmuzikansky.com Links to Wikipedia page regarding the history of Jews in Russia and the four waves of immigration from Russia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia and http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gstudies/russia/lessons/backgd.htm Links to articles re: 1964 public demonstration in front of the Central Synagogue in Moscow: http://www.jta.org/1964/10/02/jewish-holidays/simchat-torah-shemini-atzeret/moscow-jews-celebrate-simchat-torah-in-public-demonstration http://www.jta.org/1965/10/20/jewish-holidays/simchat-torah-shemini-atzeret/moscow-jews-celebrate-simchat-torah-thousands-dance-outside-synagogue Link to Elie Wiesel’s book “The Jews of Silence”, describing in details the situation of Jews in the former Soviet Union, including the Simchat Torah celebrations in Moscow in 1960’s: http://www.kissin.dk/wiesel.html Link to Wikipedia page regarding Kishinev pogroms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom The Status of the Jews in the Soviet Union (passports, nationality): http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/23494/moshe-decter/the-status-of-the-jews-in-the-soviet-union Link to Stalin, Jews, Doctors’ Plot, Purim: http://unitedwithisrael.org/soviet-jews-saved-from-stalins-genocidal-plans-on-purim/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors'_plot Link to Wikipedia page regarding the Jackson – Vanik amendment, which allowed the Jews of Soviet Union to emigrate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%E2%80%93Vanik_amendment
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Jesse Levine fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107552
Collection
Jesse Levine fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Fonds No.
I0122
Date
August 6, 2013
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: One Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Levine passes his home test" by Pat Hickey, August 6, 2013.
Collection
Jesse Levine fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: One Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Levine passes his home test" by Pat Hickey, August 6, 2013.
Date
August 6, 2013
Fonds No.
I0122
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
Jesse Levine (born October 15, 1987) is an American-Canadian professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of World No. 69 on October 1, 2012. Levine represented the United States from 2007 to 2012, but has represented Canada since 2013. As a 13-year-old, in 2001 Levine won the U.S. Clay Court 14 Nationals singles championship, and as a 15-year-old he won the USTA boys' 16s doubles championship with his doubles partner. As a 17-year-old, he won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with his doubles partner. Playing one year of No. 1 singles as a freshman for the University of Florida in 2007, he lost only one match, finishing his career with a 24–1 record. Levine was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and grew up in Ottawa's Centrepointe neighborhood. Levine's father Nathan had played tennis for Penn State. Levine attended Hillel Academy of Ottawa. Off the court Levine keeps kosher at home, and he plays with a Star of David on his chain. He can read and write Hebrew. Levine, along with Dudi Sela, Shahar Pe'er, Sharon Fichman, and Camila Giorgi is one of a number of young Jewish tennis players who are highly ranked. "I have a lot of contact with the Israeli players, like Ram, Erlich, Sela, and Levy. They sometimes ask me when I will play for Israel in the Davis Cup", he said. He also appreciates the Jewish fans who cheer for him. At one tournament, they cheered and shouted out encouragement such as: "Come on, man, your opponent hasn't even had his bar mitzvah yet!" As a youth, Levine took tennis lessons at the Ottawa Athletic Club. He and his family moved to Florida in the US when he was 13 years old, because his younger brother Daniel suffers from ulcerative colitis and the year-round warm weather was much better for him. Levine currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida. He said in 2009 that he at that point considered himself "100% American", saying that if he were to play Davis Cup, it would be for the US.
Notes
1. File is located in the Individual Collections area of the vault.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107551
Collection
Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Fonds No.
I0057
Date
August 3, 2013
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Ottawa fertility doctor loses Order of Canada" by Andrea Hill, August 3, 2013.
Collection
Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Ottawa fertility doctor loses Order of Canada" by Andrea Hill, August 3, 2013.
Date
August 3, 2013
Fonds No.
I0057
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin is a Canadian gynaecologist and medical professor who was appointed into the Order of Canada in 1997 for having a “profound impact on both the biological and psycho-social aspects of women’s reproductive health.” He was removed from the Order on July 5, 2013. Barwin was born in South Africa. He attended Queen’s University in Northern Ireland to complete his Medical Degree, graduating in 1965. Though director of the High Risk Pregnancy Clinic and co-director of the Ottawa General Hospital's fertility clinic, Barwin left in 1984 because he was not a certified gynaecologist in Canada. He would then establish his own clinic, though still licenced as a general physician. He was the Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ottawa. He was also one of the founding members of Fertility Self-Help Group (ISSG), which later became the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada. He also founded Canadians for Choice and has been President since 2004. In addition, he was the President of the Canadian Fertility Society, the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and Planned Parenthood Ottawa. Despite practicing artificial insemination since 1973, he admitted to professional misconduct after four women were artificially inseminated with the wrong sperm. This would leave the offsprings unwilling ignorant of their male parentage which leaves crucial gaps in their genetic medical history. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario panel revoked his licence to practice for two months and was ruled to cover the $3,650 cost of the disciplinary proceedings. A review of the incidences could find no “evident” reasons for the error.
Notes
File is located in the Individual Collections area of the vault.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Jack Shapiro fonds.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107519
Collection
Jack Shapiro fonds.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 newsletter
Fonds No.
I0114
Date
2013
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one newsletter of the Lisgar Alumni Association - Volume 28, Issue 1, Spring 2013;
Collection
Jack Shapiro fonds.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 newsletter
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one newsletter of the Lisgar Alumni Association - Volume 28, Issue 1, Spring 2013;
Date
2013
Fonds No.
I0114
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
Jack Shapiro grew up in Lowertown and graduated from High School in 1962. In 1967 he married his wife Carol Sue. He completed a masters degree in education in 1981. Highlights of his teaching career include: acting as Vice Principal of Lisgar High School, 1987; promotion to the position of Principal of Continuing Education (Academic) in the Ottawa Board of Education, 1987; appointment to the position of principal of Rideau High School on St. Laurent Blvd, 1991-1992; principal of Lisgar until his retirement - 1994-1998; principal of The Ottawa Torah Institute after his retirement. Jack was active in Jewish community life, serving as a governors and one of the presidents of The Beth Shalom congregation, 1983; serving as organizational nominees for Beth Shalom -1984, 1985, 1989; league arbitrator, umpire, and pitcher in The Men’s Jewish softball league and other softball leagues – 1984. Additionally, he was the chairman of the Gala Cantorial Concert, 1991.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Jory Steinberg fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107550
Collection
Jory Steinberg fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Fonds No.
I0125
Date
July 21, 2012
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: One Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Rocking to Michael Jackson's beat" by Peter Robb, July 21, 2012.
Collection
Jory Steinberg fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Newspaper clipping
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: One Ottawa Citizen newspaper article "Rocking to Michael Jackson's beat" by Peter Robb, July 21, 2012.
Date
July 21, 2012
Fonds No.
I0125
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
Born in Ottawa, Ontario Jory Steinberg began singing at the age of 10. At the age of 10 she was cast in the lead roll of Young Cosette in the Canadian stage production of "Les Miserables" (Royal Alexandra Theatre/Toronto, and the National Arts Centre/Ottawa). As a child, she began a long list of television voiceovers for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Additionally, she has voiced many characters for Disney and Cinar. Jory quickly developed a reputation for delivering consistent performances that aroused audiences. She made appearances in numerable national football, baseball, and hockey games. She was chosen to be the "Canadian Youth Ambassador to Canada" where she performed for Queen Elizabeth II and was personally asked by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to escort the Queen on Canada's 125th Birthday Celebration. By age 14, Jory was writing her own songs and by 16, she had moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a recording career. Jory has written and recorded with some of the industry's most prolific songwriters and producers. Randy Jackson, Jorgen Eloffson, Dan Hill, Adam Messinger, Jeff Pescetto and David Foster just to name a few. Among her most successful projects was a single for the Sony motion picture soundtrack "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". Jory's soulful melodies and engaging lyrics have become two of her songwriting trademarks. They are a natural extension of her growth and self expression. Jory has been involved with several different charities over the years such as Variety Club, Salvation Army, and The Boys and Girls Clubs. Jory has developed a great interest in Autism research. After having had a personal experience with an autistic person where her singing voice touched the person's life "enough to make a change", she continues to explore that part of her range with apparently has a healing effect. Recently, Jory was featured in the movie "Flicka 2", singing her song "Save Yourself which will be featured on her upcoming album. More recently, Jory was featured as a lead/background vocalist on the TOTO 2010 European tour. Jory plays the guitar, piano, and violin and in her spare time can usually be found listening to music and creating it. Link to personal website: www.jorysmusic.com
Notes
1. File is located in the Individual Collections area of the vault.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

David A. Golden fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107532
Collection
David A. Golden fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records, 1 newspaper clipping
Fonds No.
I0047
Date
2012
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: A newspaper clipping: Brown, Dave. (2012, September 12). Telesat's success due to its Golden start. The Ottawa Citizen, p. B1, cont. B2.
Collection
David A. Golden fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 folder of textual records, 1 newspaper clipping
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: A newspaper clipping: Brown, Dave. (2012, September 12). Telesat's success due to its Golden start. The Ottawa Citizen, p. B1, cont. B2.
Date
2012
Fonds No.
I0047
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
David A. Golden (b.1920 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) lived much of his life in Ottawa and died in Victoria, British Columbia, on July 20 2012, at the age of 92. He was a lawyer and the first president of Telesat - a company which has been a leader in satellite communications since the birth of the industry. In 1972, the first Canadian satellite, Anik A1, was launched and became the first commercially operated domestic satellite in geostationary orbit. David Golden was the first person to make a telephone call from Ottawa to the far North - an area of the nation previously not serviceable by the microwave towers used by telephone companies up to that time. In 1980, Golden became chairman of the board of Telesat. At the beginning of World War II, Golden was planning to move to England as a Rhodes Scholar, but he instead joined the Canadian Army and spent much of the war as a prisoner of the Japanese. Postwar, he returned to Ottawa, joined the public service, and three years later was named the deputy minister of Defense Production. He left this post shortly after the controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He became chair of the Parliamentary Centre for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and served as chairman of the board for Carleton University and in 1969 began his career in satellite development. Golden was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and received honorary doctorates from Carleton University and the University of Manitoba. He was the guest of honor at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa in 2010, and received the John H. Chapman Award from the Canadian Space Program for his contributions to that field.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Interview with Sylvia Bronsther (nee Nathanson)

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107578
Collection
Sylvia and Bert Bronsther Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 DVD
Fonds No.
I0229
Date
November 3, 2011
Scope and Content
Sylvia discusses Jewish history of Lowertown with Laurie Dougherty.
Collection
Sylvia and Bert Bronsther Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1 DVD
Scope and Content
Sylvia discusses Jewish history of Lowertown with Laurie Dougherty.
Date
November 3, 2011
Fonds No.
I0229
Storage Location
Multimedia Box 1 under Individuals and Organizations
History / Biographical
Sylvia Nathanson (Bronsther) was the first Jewish female baby to be born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital on January 2, 1925. Bert Bronsther was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 23, 1925. He moved to Montreal with his mother when he was 11. It was his involvement with AZA that led him to Ottawa, where he went on a blind date, and met his future wife Sylvia Nathanson. While Bert was serving oversees during World War II, as a corporal and in the army service corps, Sylvia would send him cigarettes from Ottawa. He sold them on the black market and bought her a diamond in Amsterdam. He mailed her the diamond hidden in a pillow with $100 to have it set, which she did at Birks. Bert was discharged from the army on June 6, 1946 and they were married at Adath Jeshuran Synagogue on June 20, 1946. After the war, Bert worked at Molson Brewery and then held a clerk position with National Defense. He left the government to work in the business of Sylvia’s father, Sam’s Pawn Shop at 41 William Street. Bert, with Sylvia’s brother, eventually took over the business. Sylvia and Bert have two children, Phil and Carol Ann (Cowitz), both live in Ottawa. Sylvia is a member of the Sinai Chapter of Hadassah Wizo and an active member of AJA50+. Bert Bronsther died on December 12, 2010.
Notes
1. Duration: 50:28 minutes
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75975
Collection
SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.25 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0248
Date
2010.
Scope and Content
The donation consists of three typescript memoirs in prose poetry style: Bygone Daughters of a Lesser Fate: a poetic memoir, Ashes Left to Linger: a poetic search for closure, and Yesterday Runs Always Though It: Poetic reminiscences of my life and times, all authored by Sophie Soil. These poetic m…
Collection
SOIL, Sophie : Poetic memoirs of a child survivor
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Env. 0.25 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The donation consists of three typescript memoirs in prose poetry style: Bygone Daughters of a Lesser Fate: a poetic memoir, Ashes Left to Linger: a poetic search for closure, and Yesterday Runs Always Though It: Poetic reminiscences of my life and times, all authored by Sophie Soil. These poetic memoirs written by a child survivor illustrate the effects of war and post-traumatic stress on family relationships and the construction of memories. While the first two memoirs exist in printed form, the third, Yesterday Runs Always Though It: poetic reminiscences of my life and times is not yet published.
Date
2010.
Fonds No.
P0248
History / Biographical
Sophie Soil was born in 1935, in Iasi, Romania. After surviving the Holocaust and the Communist takeover, her family immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1948, following more than a year of being displaced persons in Hungary and Austria. She has been writing for more than twenty years. Mrs. Soil is an artist/ craftperson and is a widely-published poet in various books, magazine and periodicals. She has won many prizes for her work, among them two Pushcart nominations. She has two chapbooks published by Passion Among the Cacti Press and and two full collections published by Publish America. Her personal chronologies are written in freeform verse poignantly spinning autobiographical tales of her sometimes harsh and inconceivable childhood spent in those war-torn years and through the catastrophe that was the Holocaust. Mrs. Soil also holds herbalist and master herbalist degrees, and is a writer of alternative health material. She lives in Toronto with her husband of 61 years. (Source: author's bio., 2014)
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Sophie Soil on December 4, 2014
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P14/21 and ZB.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Less detail

Annual reports, 2010-2017.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89629
Collection
Hebrew Free Loan Association Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1394; 1; 00031
Date
2010-2017
Collection
Hebrew Free Loan Association Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Date
2010-2017
Fonds No.
1394
Series No.
1
File No.
00031
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Hebrew Free Loan Association
Physical Condition
Fair.
Language
English
Subjects
Hebrew Free Loan Association (Montreal)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail

Akiva School Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93497
Collection
Akiva School Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1349
Date
2010-2013
Scope and Content
Consists of the M'Dor le Dor/Generation to Generation projects completed by the grade five students of Akiva School.
Collection
Akiva School Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Scope and Content
Consists of the M'Dor le Dor/Generation to Generation projects completed by the grade five students of Akiva School.
Date
2010-2013
Fonds No.
1349
Storage Location
JPL
7-1F
History / Biographical
Akiva School is a private Montreal Jewish day school founded in 1968 by Rabbi Dr. David Hartman and a group of parents. The school's original location was at the Snowden YM-YWHA, located on the corner of Westbury and Cote Ste-Catherine. After moving from its Snowden location to the Beth El Synagogue in Town of Mount Royal, the school experienced several years of declining enrollment and budgetary restraints. In 1988, the school moved again, this time to the school building attached to the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue. A more central location, coupled with new leadership, stabilized the school and rapid growth soon followed. The school was founded on a vision of being a community that "inspires lifelong learning, religious growth, an enduring connection to the Jewish people and the State of Israel, and a commitment to making the world a better place." Akiva school offers education from kindergarten to grade six, following provincial curriculum as well as Judaic Studies (including Hebrew). A Section Francaise was added to the school to accomodate students who did not meet provincial elgibility requirements for an English school certificate. As of 2009, the school had an enrollment of 350 students.
Language
English
Hebrew
Custodial History
Regular accurals transferred from Akiva School directly to the Jewish Public Library Archives.
Subjects
Akiva School (Montreal, Quebec)
Education - Jews
Education, Elementary
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail

KASTNER, Merle : Family history.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn310
Collection
KASTNER, Merle : Family history.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.15 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0210
Date
2006 - 2012.
Scope and Content
Spiral-bound book The Kastner and Ostrov Family History Book, 2006. Spiral-bound book The Garbarski Family History and Genealogy, 2006. Addition 2007: Spiral-bound The Altman and Levitt Family History, 2007. Spiral-bound two Abramovitz-Gelbart family accounts complementing each other: My Family, an…
Collection
KASTNER, Merle : Family history.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.15 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Spiral-bound book The Kastner and Ostrov Family History Book, 2006. Spiral-bound book The Garbarski Family History and Genealogy, 2006. Addition 2007: Spiral-bound The Altman and Levitt Family History, 2007. Spiral-bound two Abramovitz-Gelbart family accounts complementing each other: My Family, an oral family history by Miriam Abramovitz Gelbart, recorded by M. Kastner in several interviews, and My Life Story, a handwritten account by Joe Gelbart, begun on May 1, completed on May 30, 1986. Addition 2008: Commemorative booklets for the opening of the Hebrew Educational Institute of Montreal on May 31, 1931, and the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue of Windsor, Ontario, on May 25, 1930, as well as a spiral-bound history of the Kussner family by Merle Kastner, 2007, containing family trees and illustrations of photos and documents from Montreal, Philadelphia and Bessarabia.Addition 2009: My Nathanson and Mendelssohn Family - Romania and Canada family history, illustrated. Addition 2010: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet My Denenberg - Goldberg Family, 2009. The Hart Family Book by Merle Kastner, February 2010.Addition 2011: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet by Merle Kastner My parents, Miriam and Morty Kastner, Loving Memories by their daughter, Merle Kastner, May 2011. My Kastner - Ostfeld family (about the families of Mayer Moshe and Shaindel Kastner, The Singer and Fox branch of the Altman family Addition 2012: Illustrated spiral bound self published booklet by Merle Kastner: My Kussner and Miller family, about family members who came from Bessarabia via USA to Ontario.
Date
2006 - 2012.
Fonds No.
P0210
History / Biographical
Merle Kastner is a Genealogy researcher and lecturer, and a writer of family history books. She also conducts seminars. She researches all facets of genealogy, including multiple projects, programming of lectures, workshops, and seminars, and formulating family history books. She maintains membership photo albums for a special interest group website and has collected and assembled group members' traditional and ethnic recipes, with accompanying photographs and personal stories and descriptions, for online recipe books.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Merle KASTNER starting on Feb. 21 and continuing to the present.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P07/03, P07/03 add, P08/05, P09/19, P11/05, P11/18, and P12/03.Associated material: P0207 - Nathanson family collection.General note: Family and immigration history.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Less detail

Kerzner Family fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101217
Collection
Kerzner Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
DVD, name tag, newspaper clipping and a t-shirt
Fonds No.
I0137
Date
2006
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: DVD, recording of the Kerzner Family Reunion; Ethel Kerzner's family reunion name tag; 1 newspaper clipping regarding the Kerzner family reunion; 1 Kerzner family reunion t-shirt; 1 small trophy, earned at the Jewish Community Centre Day Camp, c.1965 DVD, My name is Ethel Kerzn…
Collection
Kerzner Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
DVD, name tag, newspaper clipping and a t-shirt
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: DVD, recording of the Kerzner Family Reunion; Ethel Kerzner's family reunion name tag; 1 newspaper clipping regarding the Kerzner family reunion; 1 Kerzner family reunion t-shirt; 1 small trophy, earned at the Jewish Community Centre Day Camp, c.1965 DVD, My name is Ethel Kerzner, holoccaust survivor testimony, recorded January 25, 2015.
Date
2006
Fonds No.
I0137
Storage Location
vault
History / Biographical
The Kerzner Family fond consits primarily of items pertaining to the Kerzner family Reunion organized by Linda Kerzner for her mother-in-law Ethel Kerzner. Twenty-nine Argentinian family members flew to Ottawa for the July 27-August 5, 2006 event. The reunion was well organized and extremely successful.
Notes
1. Family reunion items donated by Linda Kerzner, 2006. 2. A Linda Hochberg cup earned at the Jewish Community Centre Day Camp, c.1965. 3. My name is Ethel Kerzner DVD was donated by Linda Kerzner, 2015.
Related Material
Related material in the Jewish Community Centre fonds includes Linda Hochberg’s 5 Day Camp crests and a copy of The Sound of Music presentation.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

Minto fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101318
Collection
Minto fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 book; textual records
Fonds No.
B0011
Date
2005 - 2011
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a book entitled "Minto: A tradition of Family Values: The First Fifty Years" by Wayne Skene, 2005; an article from the Ottawa Business Journal from November 29, 2010 entitled "Minto expands Florida footprint"; an article from the Ottawa Citizen from July 2, 2011 entitled "A hint o…
Collection
Minto fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 book; textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a book entitled "Minto: A tradition of Family Values: The First Fifty Years" by Wayne Skene, 2005; an article from the Ottawa Business Journal from November 29, 2010 entitled "Minto expands Florida footprint"; an article from the Ottawa Citizen from July 2, 2011 entitled "A hint of the past in a new future," which discusses the update and reinvention of Minto homes in the Bayshore area of Ottawa; a flyer for "The Emperor of Atlantis" a one act opera that was written by Viktor Ullman, with a libretto by Petr Kien, in the Theresienstadt concentration camp around 1943. The opera was sponsored by Minto in October, year unknown.
Date
2005 - 2011
Fonds No.
B0011
Storage Location
A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
The foundations of The Minto Group were laid in 1955 when four Ottawa brothers, Louis, Gilbert, Irving, and Lorry Greenberg, joined together to start a family owned real estate construction company called Mercury Homes. Before long, the sons of Roger and Rose Greenberg began building homes on different sites concurrently. To speed up the construction process, they developed an assembly line approach that was visionary for the times. Before long, the brothers had purchased their own mill, becoming the first builders in the Ottawa region to produce their own woodwork. In 1957, the company name was changed to Minto. Within three years, Minto was starting construction on seven quality houses a day with a 72-day completion schedulel; an unmatched standard for the time. Always a leader in design and construction excellence, Minto received the first of a long list of honours in 1962, when it won both national and regional awards in the Canadian Housing Design Council competition. By 1965, Minto had built more than 5,000 homes in Ottawa and was well on its way to becoming the region’s largest private landlord. In 1969, Minto introduced a new form of home ownership to Canada, the condominium, and built the first of many high-rise condominium projects in the Ottawa area. In the late 1970’s, Minto diversified its holdings and took a tremendous leap forward by expanding into Florida, where the company built almost 17,000 single family homes, condominiums, and rental units in Broward and Palm Beach counties. By 1986, Minto established a toe-hold in Toronto with the construction of Optima on the Park, a luxury condominium project in Scarborough. Two year later, Minto completed a second project, Minto Plaza, in Toronto's downtown, and was well on its way to becoming a leading area developer with an expanded portfolio of single family homes and high-rise projects. Meanwhile in downtown Ottawa, Minto transformed an empty parking lot into Minto Place; a city block size development consisting of two office towers, a 417 unit suite hotel and a two-level retail concourse. Minto Suite Hotel was a huge success and recipient of a CAA/AAA Four Diamond Rating. During this time, Minto made its first foray into green building, developing the prototype Innova House to showcase state-of-the-art technologies such as solar-generated electricity. The project eventually led to new and innovative approaches in construction so that by the mid 1990’s Minto was one of Canada’s largest home builders to offer R-2000 homes. Five decades after building its first home, Minto has grown into an integrated real estate development, construction and management company with operations in Ottawa, Toronto and Florida. To date, The Minto Group has built more than 67,000 new homes, manages more than 15,000 residential rental homes and apartments, and carries a commercial portfolio of more than 2.5 million square feet of office, retail and industrial space.
Related Material
Greenberg Family fonds.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn317
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Fonds No.
P0217
Date
2004-2007.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creatio…
Collection
WEISER, Barbara = Images of art in Jewish public spaces.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
2549 electronic images.
Scope and Content
As of October 2007 the collection consists of 2,549 JPEG images and a Filemaker Pro file of 2 MB, occupying a total of 788.3 MB of data space. The information in the Filemaker database usually consists of several views of a work of public art, along with information on its location, date of creation, artist?s name, approximate measurements, media used, and subject description. Information thus far has been gathered from synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish community buildings, in towns and cities of all the provinces of Canada, including numerous small communities as well as the major centres. Holocaust memorials are a developing feature of this collection.The data accompanying the photographs was imported from a Filemaker database residing on the donor's computer to a similarly structured database at CJCCCNA. The initial corpus of photographs was donated in increments on 9 CDs, with some supplementary images added by email. Additional data related to the images was donated by Weiser in Excel format or in text form, both of which have now been imported to Filemaker Pro. The entire corpus of images was copied to the CJCCCNA network drive and backed up on a Master DVD.The project is ongoing, with support from the Marvin A. Drimer Foundation.
Date
2004-2007.
Fonds No.
P0217
History / Biographical
Barbara Weiser has a Masters degree in Judaic Studies from Concordia. Her research consists of the study of Jewish art in synagogues and Jewish public buildings across Canada. She has donated her corpus of image material to serve as a databank at the CJCCC National Archives for the use of other researchers. It was also used as source of images for the website Canadian Jewish Museum and Archives (www.cjvma.org), which was coordinated by CJCCCNA from 2004-2010.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents

P0217-Weiser-Jewish-Art-in-Public-Spaces

Images
Less detail

Harris D. Gulko Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17188
Collection
Harris D. Gulko Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file textual material
Fonds No.
1122
Collection
Harris D. Gulko Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file textual material
Parallel Title
Biographia
Fonds No.
1122
Storage Location
7-5C
Creator
Gulko, Harirs
Language
English
Name Access
Gulko, Harris D.
Subjects
Gulko, Harris D.
Jewish National Fund
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail

Justice Stanley Kershman fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101210
Collection
Justice Stanley Kershman fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
3 files, 1 textile artifact
Fonds No.
I0132
Date
2004 - 2010
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of three files related to the career of Justice Stanley J. Kershman from bankruptcy lawyer to his appointment in 2007 to the Ontario Supreme Court: - First file consists of news clippings related to his career. - Second file consists of business material (brochures, letterhead, promo…
Collection
Justice Stanley Kershman fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
3 files, 1 textile artifact
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of three files related to the career of Justice Stanley J. Kershman from bankruptcy lawyer to his appointment in 2007 to the Ontario Supreme Court: - First file consists of news clippings related to his career. - Second file consists of business material (brochures, letterhead, promotional material for publications, a copy of Put Your Dept on a Diet, etc.) - Third file consists of material prepared for Justice Kershman's swearing in ceremony, March 27, 2007 including his acceptance speech. Judicial robe worn by Justice Kershman are also included in this fonds.
Date
2004 - 2010
Fonds No.
I0132
Storage Location
Robes in OS Mixed Box 4
History / Biographical
Stanley Kershman was born in 1952 and raised in Ottawa. He is the son of Sylvia Kershman and the late Harry Kershman. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Law School (1975) and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. Kershman has been referred to as “the media star of the local bar”, referring to his many appearances in the media as an expert on bankruptcy and insolvency. In February 1997, Kershman received a wooden plaque in appreciation of his outstanding presentation to the Credit Association of Ottawa. He published a popular consumer book entitled Put Your Debt On A Diet in 2004. On March 27, 2007, Kershman was sworn in at the Ottawa Courthouse as the 304th current sitting judge for the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario.
Custodial History
Records and robe donated in 2007 and 2010 by Stanley Kershman.
Notes
1. Robes dry cleaned in 2007. 2. Biographical material taken from Ottawa Jewish Bulletin article entitled “Renowned bankruptcy lawyer appointed judge, April 30, 2007. 3. Biographical material related to Kershman's early years is in Kershman Family fonds. 4. The Law Society of Upper Canada presented Stanley Kirshman with a plaque in recognition of his valuable contribution to Legal Eduation in Ottawa (undated). 5. Stanley Kirshman is a member The Credit Association of Ottawa. 6. In February 2005, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre awarded Stanley Kirshman for his dedicated service as a Board member. 7. Common Ground (law practice) was a member in good standing of the Ottawa Executives' Association (information taken from undated plaque).
Related Material
Related material in Sylvia and Harry Kershman family fonds.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail

BONDER, Abe = Photos.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn292
Collection
BONDER, Abe = Photos.
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds No.
P0191
Date
2003.
Scope and Content
Approximately 40 photos, mostly panoramic format, by Abe Bonder, of the Israel Independence rally in Confederation Square, Montreal, May 2003, and counter rallies by anti-Zionist Palestinian and Hasidic protesters.
Collection
BONDER, Abe = Photos.
Description Level
Fonds
Scope and Content
Approximately 40 photos, mostly panoramic format, by Abe Bonder, of the Israel Independence rally in Confederation Square, Montreal, May 2003, and counter rallies by anti-Zionist Palestinian and Hasidic protesters.
Date
2003.
Fonds No.
P0191
History / Biographical
Abe Bonder, known in Montreal as the founder of the bookstore Bonder's Books, was a volunteer at the Canadian Jewish Congress (Charities Committee) National Archives from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, often contributing newsclippings as well as these photographs. He also contrinbuted items related to his involvement in the Hachsharah farming movement in Canada in the late 1940s. The latter are stored in the Canadian Jewish Congress photo collection
Custodial History
The photos were donated by Abe Bonder.
Notes
P03/06.The Counter-rally photos depict rare images of the Montreal Chasidic community members, dressed in sackcloth for protest. The Photos are of exceptional quality.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Less detail

1201 records – page 1 of 61.