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ABER, Ita
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn285
- 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
Images
An exquisitely decorated document presented to Archibald and Lillian Freiman upon their founding of the Ottawa Talmud Torah School.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106149
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-977-02
- Date
- 1924
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- 1924
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-977-02
- Physical Condition
- 1. A great deal of dark staining along the right hand edge of the piece.
- Notes
- 1. The document is stored in Oversized Documents Box 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
An exquisitely decorated parchment document presented to Mr. and Mrs. Freiman on their silver wedding anniversary by the Ukranian War Orphans.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106148
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-977-01
- Date
- 1928
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- 1928
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-977-01
- Physical Condition
- 1. A great deal of dark staining along the right hand edge of the piece.
- Notes
- 1. The document is stored in Oversized Douments Box 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A birth certificate for an unknown individual written in possibly a mix of German and Polish.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106166
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-11
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-11
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A certificate on parchment declaring Archibald J. Freiman a Grand Masters Mason.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106141
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-975
- Date
- 1904
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- 1904
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-975
- Storage Location
- Located in OS Mixed Box 15
- Physical Condition
- 1. Very cockled.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Hand-written letters, one in Hebrew and three in English, possibly pertaining to the building of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106158
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-03
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-03
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Hand-written letters, one in Hebrew and three in English, possibly pertaining to the building of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106159
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-04
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-04
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Hand-written letters, one in Hebrew and three in English, possibly pertaining to the building of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106160
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-05
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-05
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Hand-written letters, one in Hebrew and three in English, possibly pertaining to the building of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106161
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-06
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- July 4, 1895
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-06
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A Jewish National Fund certificate given on the occasion of the marriage between Dorothy Freiman and Bernard Alexandor.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106142
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-976
- Date
- 1932
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- 1932
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-976
- Notes
- 1. Certificate is store in Oversized Documents Box 3 in the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Large book presented to Lillian Freiman to commemorate her 50th birthday.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106022
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 book
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-944-01
- Date
- 1935
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 book
- Date
- 1935
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-944-01
- Physical Condition
- In very good condition. Slight yellowing of the pages.
- Notes
- Book is quite large and beautifully made. it is housed in a custom-made, carved wooden box with the Hebrew letters "lamed" and "fey" (for Lillian Freiman) set within a Magen David (Star of David) in the centre. The book's every page is hand painted with water colour and contains the handwritten names of almost every member of Hadassah groups within Canada. Some names are the person's own signature while others are written out for them. There even includes pages with the signatures of children. The book is organized into provinces (moving from East to West) with the towns and cities in alphabetical order.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Maroon beret with yellow emblem gifted to Lillian Freiman by the Royal Canadian Legion.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107513
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-1210
- Date
- May, 1939
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Date
- May, 1939
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1210
- Storage Location
- vault
- Notes
- 1. The beret and the letter accompanying it are kept in BOX 2 of the Lillian and Archibald Freiman collection within the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A marriage certificate written possibly in a mix of German and Polish.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106167
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-12
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-12
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Montreal Yiddish newspaper, one page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106156
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-01
- Date
- June, 1912
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- June, 1912
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-01
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Montreal Yiddish newspaper, one page - Back of page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106157
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-02
- Date
- June, 1912
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- June, 1912
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-02
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Photographs of Jewish Pogrom Orphans of Ukrania, saved and brought to Canada in year 1920-21 through the efforts of Mrs. A.J. Freiman.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107668
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album ; 130 photographs : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0021; 1-1224
- Date
- 1920-1921
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album ; 130 photographs : b&w
- Parallel Title
- Jewish War Orphans of Ukraine Album
- Date
- 1920-1921
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- 1-1224
- Physical Condition
- Album is fragile, please refer to the album's digital surogate.
- Notes
- This 77 page photograph album was a gift to Mrs. Freiman's son, Lawrence Freiman, on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah by Mr. Harry Hershman. In 1920 a campaign was launched in Montreal to bring immigrant orphans from the Ukraine to Canada. These were children who had lost their parents in the bloody pogroms of 1919. Ottawa's Lillian Freiman took charge of this project. She convened a conference of the city's Jewish community leaders where it was decided to bring over as many orphans as possible, she then traveled to cities across Canada to make an appeal on the orphans behalf. During this time she also worked to plan the campaign with Montreal's Harry Hershman, a representative of the People's Relief Committee and a prominent member of the Jewish War Orphans' Committee of Canada. Together, with the support of the committees, they succeeded in settling 146 Ukrainian war orphans in Canadian homes in 1921. That this was done through the offices of a few dedicated Jews, and by agency of an ethnic constituency held at arm’s length from the Canadian community at large, presents a revealing dimension of Canada’s immigration and social history — a dimension that has yet to be acknowledged outside ethnic circles.
- Subjects
- orphan
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Sheet from The Daily Eagle, Yiddish newspaper printed in Montreal - Back page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106162
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-07
- Date
- June 30, 1912
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- June 30, 1912
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-07
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Sheet from The Daily Eagle, Yiddish newspaper printed in Montreal - Front page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106163
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-08
- Date
- June 30, 1912
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- June 30, 1912
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-08
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A sheet from "The Jewish Standard" - Back page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106165
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-10
- Date
- January 5, 1934
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- January 5, 1934
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-10
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A sheet from "The Jewish Standard" - Front page.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106164
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Fonds No.
- I0021; OJA 1-980-09
- Date
- January 5, 1934
- Collection
- Archibald and Lillian Freiman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Colour
- Date
- January 5, 1934
- Fonds No.
- I0021
- Item No.
- OJA 1-980-09
- Notes
- 1. Part of the group of documents de-accessioned from Library and Archives - MG 28 V.16. 2. Stored in large blue folder in special collections area of the vault.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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