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LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.

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Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Fonds No.
I0079
Date
1935-1998.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harv…
Collection
LORD READING LAW SOCIETY.
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 2.3 metres of textual records. - Env. 235 photographs. - 1 artefact.
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1998. Correspondence, 1935-2010. Membership list [1955]-1985, 2010. Minutes, 1952-1989, 2010. Financial records [1953-1989]. Plan (Diagram) of a courthouse by N.L. Rappaport, Jan. 31, 1962. Booklet, list of lawyers of the Province of Quebec, 1955-1956. 2 booklets; The Harvard Law School Research for Israel's Legal Development, 1952, 1953. Black Binder with complete minutes from 1952 to 1966. Booklet of the concert by OSMONT, Ochestre Symphonique de la Montérégie, for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, 1998. Booklet from the Congregation Dorshei Emet 'Celebrating 36 years of Jewish Renewal,' 1996. Booklet; Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge, 'Program of Study', 1979. 4 notorized copies of the Hart family (2 marriage certificates and 2 death certificates), 1959 (Originals 1843-1857). Minutes of the Montreal Hebrew Free Loan Association (copy), 1911. Diploma from Hebrew University of Jerusalem given to the Lord Reading Law Society, 1979. 2 booklets of the Lord Reading Law Society's 50th anniversary, 1998. 8 photos. 1 Baseball cap. Added in 2012 and 2014: 2009 templates of prenuptial contracts for Jewish couples, with accompanying correspondence via printed e-mails; membership lists and dues contracts; dinner meeting and Montefiore Club event information, Bureau de Quebec conference materials; internal and external correspondence, including some in the form of printed e-mails; meeting agendas and minutes; By-laws; News clippings. Correspondance 2009-2010 on subjects such as Jewish prenuptial agreements, Jewish holidays, Haiti, Bill 94, Young Bar, Notaries Cle. Hanukah and New Year's cards; flyers; photographs (9) with associated correspondence and guest list for student dinner 2009; Photographs (21 with duplicates) of dinner for Allan M. Stein, 2010; 119 photographs of one or more dinner events, one possibly with Lucien Bouchard, CD of 44 small images plus duplicates, titled 'LRLS Season 2005-2006' (428 K); album containing 43 colour photographs.Books: Gottesman, Dr. Eli. Who's Who in Canadian Jewry; 1967. Montreal; Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada; [1965].Joseph, Anne. Heritage of a Patriarch: A Fresh Look at Nine of Canada's Earliest Jewish Families. Sillery; Les Editions du Septentrion, 1995.Langlais, Jacques and David Rome. Jews & French Quebecers : Two Hundred Years of Shared History/ translated by Barbara Young. Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.
Date
1935-1998.
Fonds No.
I0079
History / Biographical
The Lord Reading Law Society was founded as a vehicle for lawyers of the Jewish faith "both as a study group and as a representative body." The Society was named after Rufus Daniel Isaacs, a British jurist who later became Lord Reading. The political and social climate of the late 1930s and early 1940s was the impetus for the creation of Society. The Society first formalized its structure in 1948 and has been meeting regularly since then. The first president was the late Mr. Justice Benjamin Robinson. Originally the Society was known as the Reading Society. It changed its name to the Reading Society of Montreal on September 25, 1952. It is not certain exactly when the society changed its name to the Lord Reading Law Society, possibly in 1958.
Custodial History
The collection was donated by Morton Bessner in 3 increments.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P00/01, P12/11, P14/09.Location of originals :The books are stored in the Library.General note :In the collection there are 4 original copies of marriage certificates and death certificates of the Hart Family.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book

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Collection
FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0060
Date
1920-1981.
Scope and Content
Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author S…
Collection
FRIEDMAN, Norman H. = Jewish Boy Scouts and personal Guest Book
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
0.31 metres of textual records. - 7 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Scouting medals, award, plaque, whistle. Minutes. Jewish scouting booklets. Scout exhibition program. Artefacts: 4 scout medals, framed; 1 plaque with stand; 1 award statuette; 1 scout whistle. Personal guest book and cross-index spanning 52 years (1925-1977) and includes the signatures of author Stephen Leacock, operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, operatic soprano Pauline Donalda, poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, cartoonist Terry Mosher, and poet Irving Layton.
Date
1920-1981.
Fonds No.
P0060
History / Biographical
Montreal businessman Norman Friedman was chairman of the Jewish Advisory Committee of the Boy Scouts Association and assistant regional commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association. Friedman and his wife Rose were both life governors of the Jewish General Hospital, and he was also an honorary governor of the Montreal General Hospital. The Friedmans entertained frequently in their home, as documented in their guest book. Norman Friedman died in Montreal in 1981.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations :P85/14.Related groups of records :Irving Berlin collection, A.M. Machlovitch photographs in PC1/L.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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STEIN, Mania Brodsky

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn251
Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0145
Date
1922-1986.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and busin…
Collection
STEIN, Mania Brodsky
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
1 metres of textual records. - 12 photographs. - 86 artefacts.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of 3 boxes (1 m) containing approximately 2,500 letters, 86 postcards, and 12 photographs. The correspondence dates from the 1920s up to the 1980s (letters and envelopes with stamps, postcards, and cards). There are also a small number of receipts, invitations, and business cards. The majority of the correspondence comes from family members and friends in the former USSR, including letters postmarked from Moscow, Kiev, and Riga. Some correspondence was sent within Canada (Toronto, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts), or from the USA (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio), Israel (receipts and acknowledgment letters from charitable organizations) and a DP camp in US-occupied Germany. One small file contains some of Julius Stein's papers and correspondence including letters from the Canadian government regarding his citizenship. While there is a small amount of English-language correspondence, the majority of the letters are handwritten in Russian and Yiddish. An initial assessment completed when the collection was donated notes that the content deals largely with the domestic life of Brodsky-Stein's family and friends in the USSR. Further research by scholars of Yiddish and Russian is needed to obtain more detailed information on the content of most of the correspondence, however it can be assumed that the letters, including envelopes and stamps, would be of interest to researchers interested in the lived experience of Jewish families in the USSR during the 20th century.
Date
1922-1986.
Fonds No.
P0145
History / Biographical
Mania Brodsky Stein (Mania Brodsky/ M. Stein/Mary Stone) was born March 15, 1900 in Uman, Kiev, then part of Russia. Brodsky-Stein emigrated from the former USSR to Canada in the 1920s, along with her brother J. (Jacob/Yaacov) Brodsky, settling in Montreal, Québec. She was married to Julius Stein (born May 3, 1901 in Cologne, Germany, died in 1948, Montreal, Québec). She maintained correspondence with family in the USSR until her death in Montreal in 1986. The collection was donated to the Archives by her son, Henry Stone. A summary from a Yiddish-language profile in the New York paper Der Algemeiner Journal by Jacob Rabinovitch, June 22, 1984, page 12 states: Miriam Stein was a religious woman, well known in the Jewish community for her charitable works/philanthropy, though she was not one to seek recognition. As a young woman in the 1920s, she worked as a housekeeper in other observant religious households. During the post-war period she had a large house on Park Avenue in Montreal, which was open to all. She focused her efforts on new immigrants to North America, particularly young religious men who had trouble finding work due to religious practices such as being unable to work on the sabbath, a number of whom, including individuals who went on to become rabbis, would later remember her support.
Custodial History
The correspondence was kept by Mania Brodsky Stein, as she received them from the 1920s until the 1980s. The collection was donated to the Archives in 1986 by her son, Henry Stone, after her death.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P86/14.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Ilizarov, Asaf

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn284
Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0183
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du H…
Collection
ILIZAROV, Asaf
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
object
Physical Description
Env. 1 metres of textual records. - Env. 2723 photographs. - Env. 42 notebooks. - 7 artefacts.
Scope and Content
Le fonds d'archives se compose de documentation sur Ie créateur, de correspondances professionnelles avec de différentes universités canadiennes, ainsi que des plans des cours qui a donnés. Le fonds témoigne des lettres entre "The Royal Canadien Legion", I'ambassadeur du Canada et Ie directeur du HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) à Rome. La collection comprend des documents qui tiennent des renseignements personnels et sur sa famille, de I'autobiographie, des textes qui demontrent ses vues politiques, des échanges personnels, des certificats de droit d'auteure, des agendas et des albums des photographies correspondant à chacun de ses voyages avec la discription, des cartes d'affaire, des coupures de presse, des cartes et des objets professionnels et personnels. De plus, Ie fonds comprend beaucoup de photographies (dont 992 negatives), de sa vie personnelle et de ses activités professionnelles.The document portion of this fonds is made up of biographical material about its creator, of professional correspondence with different academics, and of lesson plans. The fonds includes letters exchanged with the Royal Canadian Legion, the ambassador of Canada and the manager of HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) in Rome. It includes documents containing personal and biographical information about lIizarov and his family, autobiographical writings, texts which show his political views, personal exchanges, copyright certifications, agenda books, business cards, and press clippings. The photographic portion of the fonds (of which 992 are negatives) includes photograph albums corresponding to each of his trips, photographs of his personal life, and many photographs of his professional and political activities. This portion of the fonds also includes a few professional and personal artifacts.
Date
[ca.1934-1994].
Fonds No.
P0183
History / Biographical
Asaf lIizarov est né à Bakou, URSS, Ie 6 mars 1922. En 1945, il a été admis au " Military University of the Ministry of Defence" et à la fin de ses études, iI est devenu traducteur de la langue russe, arabe, persane, turque, anglaise et francaise. Au URSS, entre 1957 et 1975, Asaf lIizarov a été engagé comme l'interprète officiel dans les conferences internationales, surtout pour les élégations des pays arabes. Le 28 septembre 1975, il a quitté I'URSS pour venir à Vienne (Autriche). De 1975-1976, il a enseigné I'anglais à Rome. En 1976, il est arrive au Canada. En 1980, Asaf lIizarov a reçu sa citoyenneté canadienne. À Ottawa, il a était professeur de la langue russe à l'école des Forces armées canadiennes. De plus, iI a participé dans des organisations publiques et professionnelles : Ie Canada-Israël Cultural Fondation, the Royal Canadian Legion. II était un linguiste se spécialisant dans I'enseignement de langues, la traduction et la terminologie d'interprétation. Ses intérêts incluent la Soviétologie, les problèmes actuels dans Ie Moyen-Orient, et la position des Juifs dans les pays Soviétiques. Asaf lIizarov was born in Baku, USSR, on March 6th, 1922. In 1945, he was accepted into the Military University of the Ministry of Defence, and at the end of his studies, he became a translator of Russian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English and French. In USSR, in 1957-1975, Asaf lIizarov was hired as the official interpreter of an international conference, especially for the delegations of the Arab countries. On September 28th, 1975, he left USSR to come to Vienna (Austria). From 1975 to 1976, he taught English in Rome. In 1976, he arrived in Canada. In 1980, Ilizarov received Canadian citizenship. In Ottawa, he was professor of the Russian language at the Canadian Armed Forces school. In addition, he participated in public and professional organisations: the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Royal Canadian Legion. He was a linguist, specialising in language education, translation and terminology of interpretation. His interests included Sovietology, current problems in the Middle East, and the situation of Jews in Soviet countries.
Custodial History
Le fonds d'archives Ilisarov, Asaf a été transférée en 2001 des Archives nationales du Canada par contrat de donation signé par le directeur de la division des manuscrits aux Archives nationales du Canada. The collection was transferred from the National Archives of Canada. The donor of these material is Mrs. Jackie Gordon, the widow of Robert S. Gordon, who was director of the manuscript division at the National Archives for many years.
Notes
Physical description: Les documents en général sont en bon étant. Certaines photographies sont très fragiles et collées sur un papier, des coupures de presse acides et jaunies.Conservation: Les documents qui portent des renseignements nominatifs sont accessibles 100 ans après leur date de création.Accompanying material: Some documents with biographical information on Asaf lIizarov.Alpha-numeric designations: P01/10, MC P0183, PC P0183.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ABER, Ita

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Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0184
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organiza…
Collection
ABER, Ita
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
object
moving images
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organization of Canada 1949-1950. Material on the Jewish Child's Day Appeal. Clippings and ephemera re: Zionism, Child's Day, and actor William Shatner, a former Montrealer. 9 Photos of Montreal scenes. Material about Montreal's Talmud Torah, Jewish Artists at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Additions 2001: 2 photos (snapshots) of Camp Hashomer Hadati in Bronte, Ontario, Hebrew textbook and prayer book dated 1979, photo of a 9th-grade class of Baron Byng High School including Ita Aber, Clippings, 2 Videos. Additions post 2001 (passim): Articles written by Ita Aber, information about her artwork and recent exhibitions. Addition 2015: Autobiographical audio interview of Ita Herscovitch Aber recorded in New York January 9, 2015 by Renata Stein; WAV file, 56 minutes, provided on CD. Transcript of interview, done by her daughter Mindy Aber Barad via email correspondence from Israel, 30 pages. Themes covered in the interview include her early life in Montreal, art education at Baron Byng high school with teacher Ann Savage, religious background, mother's involvement in charitable efforts such as the Milk Fund, help given to a German Jewish internee and a Jewish refugee, Ita Aber's work for the Israeli consulate in Montreal in the early 1950s, her establishment in New York circa 1953, her career as a textile artist, encounters with Martin Luther King, and Judy Chicago, art groups such as the Pomegranate Guild, Jewish motifs in artwork.
Date
[ca. 1930]-2015.
Fonds No.
P0184
History / Biographical
Ita Aber was born in Montreal, in 1932 and grew up in a family dedicated to Zionist and charitable causes. She later moved to New York, where she made her name as an artist. As described in a 2001 article; "Ita Aber is an artist who delights in unconventional formats that provide unique and startling insights into Jewish Life. Her work is found in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the fabric arts, which is by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber, the fabric arts explode in scale to include the diverse skills of embroidering, beadwork, sewing, appliqué, silkscreen, jewelry design, weaving, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. The stunning range of her talents is reflected in the vast array of work and Judaic objects she has produced, from wall hangings, jewelry, and sculpture to Torah covers, etrog boxes, and Purim masks." Ita Aber is also known as a conservator of textiles, an art historian, a curator, teacher, and the author of The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and Contemporary designs (Scribner 1979).
Custodial History
This collection was donated by Mrs. Ita Aber.
Notes
Alpha-numeric designations: P01/12, P93/08, and subsequent additions (ongoing to P15/04.). Associated material: Clippings by and about Canadian-born journalist Sam Orbaum (1956-2002), a Jerusalem Post humour columnist (donated by Ita Aber and filed under his name.) General note: The biography is from an article published in The Artists Proof, Spring 2001.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ANNETTE WOLFF

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn542
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 3 artefacts.
Fonds No.
P0220; D
Date
1919-1991.
Scope and Content
This series includes Annette's letters to family members from 1919 to 1991 as well as correspondence from friends worldwide. Diary and travel calendars span the years 1929 to 2005, and there is also extensive travel memorabilia, among them luggage tags and ships' stationery and newsletters. Mostly …
Collection
THE JOSEPH AND WOLFF FAMILY COLLECTION
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual record
object
Physical Description
Env. 0.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 3 artefacts.
Scope and Content
This series includes Annette's letters to family members from 1919 to 1991 as well as correspondence from friends worldwide. Diary and travel calendars span the years 1929 to 2005, and there is also extensive travel memorabilia, among them luggage tags and ships' stationery and newsletters. Mostly undated farewell cards, greeting cards and birthday cards to her are among the series, which includes a 75th birthday certificate signed by Brian Mulroney, then Canada's Prime Minister. The series also includes items from Annette's early years, such as Westmount elementary and high school report cards, her vaccination certificate, school notebooks and drawings, as well as letters from the Joseph and Wolff summer vacation home in St. Patrick, Quebec. One finds correspondence concerning her work as a counsellor at the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) fresh air camp in 1932. Included in this file are a camper's licence test and a 1926 Canadian National Railway camp craft booklet. Annette's leadership of the Shaar Hashomayim girl guide troop is also recorded here. The series contains a 1938 Girl Guides rally brochure, a sea ranger test card, and a Scout and Guide memorial service brochure for Baden-Powell. Annette Wolff's employment correspondence is collected here, as are numerous press clips on her life and accomplishments. For example, an article appeared on Annette Wolff in the 1992 "Dental Practice" entitled "Was she the first [dental] hygienist in U.K.?"During World War II, Annette maintained correspondence with soldiers overseas. Their letters are here included along with several POW envelopes. Of further interest are Annette Wolff's World War II ration book, an army mailing label, and materials pertaining to the Jewish branch of the Canadian Red Cross. One also finds war-time correspondence from Mina Kocherthaler, a young German-Jewish refugee who was brought to England under the sponsorship of Annette and Sarah Wolff, who were living in England during the war.An original 1930 edition of the Joseph family's annual Purim newsletter The Moon is included, as are Annette's yearly contributions to the newsletter which are often humorous and always informative as to the Joseph family history. Her numerous plays, essays, poems and speeches are here included as well. Various papers on Canadiana and the Commonwealth's royal family - both of keen interest to Annette - can be found in this series. Correspondence, press and window display information for the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry are here found, as Annette was involved in the preparations and planning for the 1959 event. Other papers relate to Annette's involvement with the Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian Jewish Historical Society, the German Benevolent Society, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, England's Jewish Historical Society, the Last Post Fund, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogues in London, Montreal and New York, and the World Ship Society.Also included in this series are envelopes and cancelled stamps from the 1930s to 1984.
Date
1919-1991.
Fonds No.
P0220
Series No.
D
History / Biographical
Annette Wolff (born 1911) graduated as a dental hygienist from the Forsyth Dental Infirmary in Boston in 1931. She was employed in a variety of capacities in her adult life, including work for the telephone exchange in London, England; the Inspection Board of the U.K. and Canada; and the Canadian National Research Council Atomic Energy Research Lab. Annette was deeply interested in documenting the history of her family and synagogue, the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (Shearith Israel) of Montreal. Notably, she devoted considerable attention to transcribing and researching the Abraham Joseph diary. She also wrote extensively on other historical topics and was often called upon to speak to various organizations about her research. She was a prolific writer of letters, essays, poems and plays. Annette Wolff was a lover of all things naval, travelling extensively by ship to Europe and Bermuda, and was the founding member of the Montreal branch of the World Ship Society. Annette was the quintessential chronicler and keeper of all things large and small, which has resulted in a broad array of collected papers. She died in November 2012.
Notes
General note: This series is of great value to historians in numerous fields, journalists, authors, philatelists, and ship travel aficionados.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Shabbat Candlesticks

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Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:34.5 cm x W:11.9 cm (base)
Fonds No.
SH-01; 89
Date
1908
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:34.5 cm x W:11.9 cm (base)
Date
1908
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
89
Creator
Artist: B. Henneberg
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Silver Shabbat candlesticks decorated with Star of David and foliage designs on a square base. Includes marks under base and on side of base "B. Heneberg Warszawa 1908 Y.A.T.M. No. 1984."
Places
Warsaw, Poland, Poland
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Silver Spice Box

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Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:25.5 cm x W:6 cm (base)
Fonds No.
SH-01; 90
Date
[ca. 1840-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:25.5 cm x W:6 cm (base)
Date
[ca. 1840-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
90
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Silver spice box with five flags used for the Havdallah service.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Seder Plate

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Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Pottery : pink and blue : Hebrew
Fonds No.
SH-01; 99
Date
1927
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Pottery : pink and blue : Hebrew
Date
1927
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
99
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
A special plate containing symbolic foods used by Jews during the Passover seder. Each of the six items arranged on the plate have special significance to the retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, which is the focus of this ritual meal. This plate was donated by Abraham and Vita Weintraub.
Places
Hungary
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Kiddush cup (251)

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Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : silver ; Ht:7.2 cm x W:approx. 5 cm : Hebrew
Fonds No.
SH-01; 105
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : silver ; Ht:7.2 cm x W:approx. 5 cm : Hebrew
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
105
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
Small silver Kiddush cup with Hebrew inscription: "L'chvod Shabbat Kadosh"; repousse silver
Places
Unknown
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Spice Box

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Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:17 cm x W:approx. 5 cm
Fonds No.
SH-01; 106
Date
[ca. 1887]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:17 cm x W:approx. 5 cm
Date
[ca. 1887]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
106
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Filigree; hallmarked "1887"; small latch
Places
Unknown
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Spice Box

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44096
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:17.7 cm x W:4.6 cm (base)
Fonds No.
SH-01; 107
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:17.7 cm x W:4.6 cm (base)
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
107
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Spice tower for Havdallah service; filigree; small latch
Places
Unknown
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Wooden Spice Box

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44097
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Olive wood ; Ht:18.6 cm x W:approx. 4.3 cm : Hebrew
Fonds No.
SH-01; 108
Date
[ca. 1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Olive wood ; Ht:18.6 cm x W:approx. 4.3 cm : Hebrew
Date
[ca. 1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
108
Physical Condition
Very good
Places
Unknown
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Silver Spice Box

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44098
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:18.9 cm x W:6.1 cm
Fonds No.
SH-01; 109
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver ; Ht:18.9 cm x W:6.1 cm
Date
[ca. 1800-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
109
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
Georgian sugar shaker used as spice box; hallmarked
Places
Unknown
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Laver

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44103
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact
Fonds No.
SH-01; 138
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
138
Notes
Laver used in synagogue for priestly blessing.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Moses Brown's Top Hat

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44104
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Beaver : black ; Ht:5 1/2" x W:10" x De:11"
Fonds No.
SH-01; 144
Date
[ca. 1960]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Beaver : black ; Ht:5 1/2" x W:10" x De:11"
Date
[ca. 1960]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
144
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
The top hat is worn by members of the Executive at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Moses Brown was the Congregation's Parnass (senior synagogue official).
Places
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Mezuzah

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44106
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact
Fonds No.
SH-01; 158
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
158
Physical Condition
Fair
Notes
Mezuzah (Heb. literally "doorpost") refers to one of the 613 commandments in Judaism which requires that a small parchment (klaf) inscribed with two sections from the Torah's Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13-21) be affixed to each doorpost and gate in a Jewish home and business. A small case or box typically covers the parchment.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Shofar and Talit

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44167
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact ; Ht:30 cm (approx.) x W:6 cm (approx.) : Hebrew
Fonds No.
SH-01; 389
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact ; Ht:30 cm (approx.) x W:6 cm (approx.) : Hebrew
Date
[ca. 1700-1900]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
389
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
Shofar with Hebrew inscription of the prayers recited at the blowing of the Shofar in synagogue. Hand-loomed talit donated by Rosalie Finestone.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Circumcision Tools

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44168
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver, mother-of-pearl, steel
Fonds No.
SH-01; 390
Date
[ca. 1850]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver, mother-of-pearl, steel
Date
[ca. 1850]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
390
Physical Condition
Very good
Notes
This complete set includes pearl-handle knife, scissors and holder in original case lined with velvet. Initials "W.S." on cover. Presented by Mr. Ollendorff to Mr. Wolf Sternberg of Montreal. Permanent loan by Edward A. Schretter, Nyack, New York, great-grandson of Mr. Wolf Sternberg. Probably the oldest circumcision set in Canada.
Places
Germany (probable origin)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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Scroll of Esther

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44181
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver case with handle, cast, originally gilded filigree with semi-precious stones, garnets and turquoise : Scroll: blue, red, gold, green, yellow ; Ht:24 cm (case), 7 cm (scroll) : Hebrew
Fonds No.
SH-01; 451
Date
[ca. 1920]
Collection
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Artifact : Silver case with handle, cast, originally gilded filigree with semi-precious stones, garnets and turquoise : Scroll: blue, red, gold, green, yellow ; Ht:24 cm (case), 7 cm (scroll) : Hebrew
Date
[ca. 1920]
Fonds No.
SH-01
Item No.
451
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Antique "megillah"- Scroll of Esther - illustrated and illuminated with 19 panels, each headed with peacock pattern cherubs, interspersed with musical instruments and mythical creatures.
Places
Case - Near East; scroll - Palestine
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
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