setName:"Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds" found 14 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Interior of Petigorsky's shoe store

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 1-698-05

Date: [ca. 1915]

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Date: [ca. 1915]

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 1-698-05

Storage Location: vault

Conservation: 1. Original is scratched and of poor quality

Acquisition Source: Estelle Gunner

Notes: Oscar Petigorsky and a female clerk are in the store.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Delegates to the 11th Zionist Convention, Goel Tzedek synagogue, University Avenue, Toronto

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 4-249

Date: 1910

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Date: 1910

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 4-249

Creator: L. J. Turofsky, Toronto

Physical Condition: Photograph is quite faded and soiled.

Conservation: States on card that the original photo is soiled and is to be restored.

Acquisition Source: Mrs. Leon Petigorsky

Notes: Included: Clarence de Sola (sixth from left with hat in hand), Moishe Gelber, Lillian Freiman (fifth row from front, fourth from left ?) and A. J. Freiman (second row from top, second from right).

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 1 box of records, 3 photograph albums, B&W photographs (2 boxes)

Fonds No.: I0183

Date: 1917, 1949-1999

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of Oscar Petigorsky, Sam Petigorsky, Ann Petigorsky, David Leon Petigorsky biographical information; Petigorsky Ltd. Leather and Shoe Findings documents; Sam Petigorsky’s World War II enlistment material along with artifacts, certificates, correspondence and invitations of Sam Pe…

Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 1 box of records, 3 photograph albums, B&W photographs (2 boxes)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of Oscar Petigorsky, Sam Petigorsky, Ann Petigorsky, David Leon Petigorsky biographical information; Petigorsky Ltd. Leather and Shoe Findings documents; Sam Petigorsky’s World War II enlistment material along with artifacts, certificates, correspondence and invitations of Sam Petigorsky. Fonds also consists of a file on the Petigorsky house at 25 Stewart Street and a copy of the Jewish Daily Eagle dated 1932. It contains French, English and Yiddish articles commemorating the Centenary of Jewish Emancipation in Canada (see 1-1006).

Date: 1917, 1949-1999

Fonds No.: I0183

Storage Location: Certificates in OS Mixed Box 5

History / Biographical: Oscar Petigorsky (b. 1881 - d.1970 ) was born in southern Russia near the Black Sea. He was the son of Mordecai (d. april 1921) and Esther Petigorsky (d. August 26, 1931) and received his education in cheder and the Yeshiva. He arrived in Ottawa in 1904 and worked in a variety of jobs before establishing Petigorsky Ltd. Leather and Shoe Findings, 21-23 York Street, By Ward Market, Ottawa which sold supplies to shoe makers. Oscar Petigorsky married Nina Cheigowsky and had seven children. Duborah (died at one year), Anne (b.January 16, 1907 - d. December 2, 1983), Leon (b. 1908 - d. 1964), Joseph (b. 190-? - d.1991), Minnie (b. 1911 - d. 2005), Samuel (b. 1915 - d. 2005), Lena (b. 1919 - d. 2005), Ceceli (b. 1920) He was very active in community affairs, serving as President of Machzikei Hadas Congregation between 1934-1935 and again in 1938-1939. He was also a founder of the Ottawa Hebrew Benefit Society and involved with early United Palestine Appeals. Nina Petigorsky was a strong supporter of Ottawa Hadassah Wizo. His principal community activity centred around the Ottawa Chevra Kadisha. Sam Petigorsky followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Chevra Kadisha around 1960 and retired as gabbai rishon in 1997. Sam was born in Ottawa and remembers being one of the last to receive his bar mitzvah in the first Machzikei Hadas Synagogue on Murray Street. He attended Lisgar Collegiate, followed by a B.A. Degree (with honours) at St Patrick College in 1935. Sam served in World War II for a short time in the Royal Canadian Air Force and subsequently was a travelling representative for Petigorsky Ltd. He lived much of his life in a house built by his father with a Magen David (Star of David) in the gable end of his Sandy Hill home at 25 Stewart Street, Ottawa. Joseph married Miriam Polowin (d. January 17, 2000). They did not have children. Lena married Sydeny Schecter and had two children, Estelle and Melvyn. Ceceli married Nathan Tenenbaum and had three children, Brenda, Jeffrey, and [David]. The family moved to Detroit.

Notes: 1. World War II material and file on 25 Stewart Street donated by Estelle Gunner. 2. Donated by Sam Petigorsky through Shirley Berman and Dawn Logan 3. Oscar Petigorsky family used “i” in their surname. Oscar’s brother, Leon, used “e” in the family surname. 4. The only Jewish classmate of Sam Petigorsky at St. Patrick College was Bennie Steinberg.

Related Material: Related material in Petigorsky Ltd.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Interior of Petigorsky's shoe store

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 1-698-07

Date: [ca. 1920]

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [ca. 1920]

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 1-698-07

Storage Location: vault

Acquisition Source: Estelle Gunner

Notes: Oscar Petigorsky on right, Unknown man could be Tobias (Tevya) Petigorsky, Oscar's brother.; Store was located at 253 Rideau Street.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Photograph of Oscar Petigorsky's home at 25 Stewart Street

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 1-698-06

Date: [ca. 1925]

1 image

Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [ca. 1925]

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 1-698-06

Storage Location: vault

Creator: Parisian Photograph Studio, 288 Dalhousie Street

Conservation: 1. Original is scratched and of poor quality

Acquisition Source: Estelle Gunner

Notes: This house has a large star of David set into white stucco on the front of the house on the peak of the facade.; Oscar Petigorsky with his children on steps.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Tobia (Tevya) Petigorsky's store

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 1-698-03

Date: [ca. 1935]

1 image

Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [ca. 1935]

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 1-698-03

Storage Location: vault

Acquisition Source: Estelle Gunner

Notes: Address is 212 (?) street. Photo shows shoe shine bench and inventory of hockey equipment.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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A copy of the Jewish Daily Eagle

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: Colour

Fonds No.: I0183; OJA 1-1006

Date: 1932

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Collection: Oscar Petigorsky Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: Colour

Date: 1932

Fonds No.: I0183

Item No.: OJA 1-1006

Storage Location: OS Mixed Box 7

Physical Condition: 1. Booklet is in very poor condition, paper is very brittle and acidic, many losses. 2. Binding is coming loose, last few pages are loose. 3. Soiled.