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Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds

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Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 file, 2 photographs : b&w
Fonds No.
I0002
Date
ca. 1971
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of news clippings; an advertisement for Rideau Plumbing and Heating; and 2 photographs.
Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 file, 2 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of news clippings; an advertisement for Rideau Plumbing and Heating; and 2 photographs.
Date
ca. 1971
Fonds No.
I0002
Storage Location
A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
Abe Palmer, son of Moshe and Rose Palmer, was born at Billings Bridge, Ottawa. When he was ten or eleven, the family moved to Ottawa and he attended Rideau Street Public School. Bertha Palmer was born in Navazibkoff, White Russia and came to Ottawa in 1927 as a young woman of 16 or 17 years of age with her senior matriculations and a fine singing voice. SHe was sponsored by her uncle Louis Leiken who had come to Ottawa in 1910 with her father, Joseph Leiken. Bertha Palmer became the first UJA Women's Division chair in 1972. Abe Palmer was a successful businessman. Early in his business life he had a partnership with his cousin Abraham Held, in a business called Rideau Plumbing and Heating Limited. Then he established a wholesale plumbing and heating business called Palmer’s Plumbing and Heating Supply Limited. He sold this business in the 1960's to a Calgary firm called Westburn Industries Ltd. He was a “mover and shaker” in that industry and was the Plumbing Division Chairman of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. The Palmers were always active and highly respected in the Ottawa Jewish community and were among the founders of the Ottawa Modern Jewish School. Abe served two terms as chairman of Israel Bonds in the late 1960's and was President of the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa from 1970-1972.
Notes
1. Family information from the Palmer’s daughter, Sunny Tavel, July, 2006. Her Uncle Louis and her grandfather Joseph Leiken came to Canada in 1910. Joseph died in 1914 and is buried in Ottawa. Bertha came with her sister-in-law Zena Leiken, and two nieces, Libby Katz of Ottawa and Ethel Kesler of Montreal. Zena, Libby and Ethel were sponsored by Harry Leiken. When Bertha arrived in Ottawa, she lived with her Uncle Louis.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David

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Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 7 metres of textual records. - Env. 35 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0251
Date
[1914-1991].
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the papers of Rabbi David Feuerwerker and his wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The collection was received in two increments, the first consisting of 15 boxes before arrangement. Subjects of these documents include correspondence, University of Montreal issues, research…
Collection
FEUERWERKER, Rabbi David
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
Env. 7 metres of textual records. - Env. 35 photographs.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the papers of Rabbi David Feuerwerker and his wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The collection was received in two increments, the first consisting of 15 boxes before arrangement. Subjects of these documents include correspondence, University of Montreal issues, research notes and copies of from archives used in preparation of writings on the emancipation of the Jews of France, documents about the Rabbi's involvement in the Montreal Va'ad Ha'ir, family and immigration-related papers. A few photographs of the rabbi's funeral were among these papers. Two boxes pertain specifically to the activities of the Rabbi's wife Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker. The second group of documents, received on June 11 and distributed into an additional 8 boxes, contains additional University of Montréal materials, and approximately 25 family photographs, among them Rabbi Feuerwerker as a child with his father and with his sisters, a wartime image from when he served as a French army chaplain (newsprint photo), pictures of Antoinette Feuerwerker with their daughters, and other pictures of the daughters (notably Natania, also pictured with her husband Gérard Étienne) , as well as a folder box of biographical documents about Rabbi Feuerwerker compiled at the time of his death. After cataloguing, the collection was divided into the following series: A) University of Montreal documents, B) Writings, C) Rabbinic activities D) Personal documents, E) Research notes, F) Correspondance and materials on diverse subjects, and G) Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker's papers.
Date
[1914-1991].
Fonds No.
P0251
History / Biographical
Born in Geneva in 1912 into a family of Hungarian Jewish origin, Rabbi Feuerwerker arrived in Montreal from France in the 1966 after a career in France which included serving as an army chaplain in the French army and participating in the Resistance during World War II, then serving as Chief Rabbi in Lyon, and later officiating in Neuilly-sur-Seine and Tournelles, near Paris, as well as teaching at the Sorbonne. In Montreal he was the first native Francophone rabbi associated with the Va'ad Ha'Ir of Montreal, and founded the first French language Jewish Studies program in Canada, at the University of Montreal. He also conducted religious services out of his home. His most well-known published work was about the emancipation of the Jews of France. Rabbi Feuerwerker died in Montreal on June 20, 1980 and was buried in Jerusalem. His wife Antoinette (Gluck) Feuerwerker was born in 1912, in Antwerp (Borgherout), Belgium. Before WWII she was a jurist with a degree from the University of Strasbourg, After they married in 1939, she worked with Rabbi Feuerwerker in the Resistance in France in WWII, and was involved in his research and counseling activities after the war. In Montreal she taught at College Français. Modern Orthodox (Ashkenazi) in orientation like her husband, after Rabbi Feuerwerker's death she kept his home synagogue (shtible) operating from 1980 to 2000 and served as its spiritual counselor. She died in February 2003, three years after moving to Israel.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Rabbi Feuerwerker's daughter, Natania Étienne-Feuerwerker (via Pierre Anctil)
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P15/11, MC 36.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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Portrait of Abe Palmer.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn104109
Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0002; OJA 1-753
Date
ca. 1971
Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
ca. 1971
Fonds No.
I0002
Item No.
OJA 1-753
Storage Location
vault
Creator
Newton Photographers, Ottawa
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Palmer

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Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0002; OJA 1-900
Date
1937-1938
Collection
Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
1937-1938
Fonds No.
I0002
Item No.
OJA 1-900
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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