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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records related to the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society. It is divided into 11 series: Administrative records, Meeting Minutes, Financial records, Correspondence, Services and Programs, Speakers, Those Pesky Weeds, Lowertown Tour, A Common Thread, the Ottawa Jewish Archives, and I…

Collection: Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 9 boxes of multiple media

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records related to the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society. It is divided into 11 series: Administrative records, Meeting Minutes, Financial records, Correspondence, Services and Programs, Speakers, Those Pesky Weeds, Lowertown Tour, A Common Thread, the Ottawa Jewish Archives, and Interviews. As the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society's mandate is to preserve and promote the history of Ottawa's Jewish community, its fonds includes relevant historical material regarding Ottawa's Jewish history. Box 1: File 1: Early History - Descriptions File 2: Admin - Early History and Proposals File 3: Constitution File 4: Minutes and Annual reports, 1966 File 5: Minutes and Annual reports, 1969-1979 File 6: Minutes and Annual reports, 1980-1989 File 7: Minutes and Annual reports, 1990-1995 File 8: Board of Director Minutes, 1996 File 9: Board of Director Minutes, 1997 File 10: Board of Director Minutes, 1997 File 11: Board of Director Minutes, 1998 File 12: Board of Director Minutes, 1998 File 13: Board of Director Minutes, 1999 File 14: Board of Director Minutes, 2000 File 15: Board of Director Minutes, 2001-2002 File 16: Board of Director Minutes, 2003 File 17: Board of Director Minutes, 2004 File 18: Board of Director Minutes, 2006-2007 File 19: Board of Director Minutes, 2010 File 20: Annual reports, 1999 File 21: AGM October 27, 2005 Box 2: Financial ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED File 1: Financial [RESTRICTED] File 2: Budget, 1993-1994 [RESTRICTED] File 3: Canada Customs and Revenue Agency [RESTRICTED] File 4: Admin - Charitable Organization [RESTRICTED] File 5: Ledger, 1987-1994 [RESTRICTED] File 6: Financial Statements and Analysis, 1975-1995 [RESTRICTED] File 7: Requests for Grants, 1997-1998 [RESTRICTED] File 8: Financial Statements and Analysis, 1996-2002 [RESTRICTED] File 9: Investments, 1991-1998 [RESTRICTED] File 10: Term Certificate Ontario Savings, 2001-2002 [RESTRICTED] File 11: Province of Ontario - Operating Account [RESTRICTED] File 12: Desgardins Bank Term Deposit Receipts, 2003-2005 [RESTRICTED] File 13: Carlofsky Estate [RESTRICTED] File 14: Estate of Lenn Flesher [RESTRICTED] File 15: Levendel Estate [RESTRICTED] File 16: Shenkman Estate [RESTRICTED] File 17: Shenkman Estate cont. [RESTRICTED] File 18: Wortmann Estate [RESTRICTED] File 19: Zelikovitz [RESTRICTED] File 20: Fund Raising, 1998 [RESTRICTED] File 21: Requests for fund, 1999 [RESTRICTED] File 22: Heartwood House [RESTRICTED] File 23: Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation, 1980-1997 [RESTRICTED] File 24: Donations [RESTRICTED] File 25: Financial Statements, 2003-2005 [RESTRICTED] File 26: Submissions to multiple AppealsCommittee, 1998-2008 [RESTRICTED] File 27: Arthur Drache, 2003 [RESTRICTED] File 28: Purchase of Cevra Kadisha Chapel, Report by OJHS [RESTRICTED] File 29: Wall of Honour [RESTRICTED] File 30: Elliott Gluck re: Goldie Robert's Exceptional war effort, 1998 [RESTRICTED] Box 3: Financial Cont. ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED File 1: Grants - Secretary of State, History and Archives Project, 1974 [RESTRICTED] File 2: Grants - Secretary of State, Journey into our Heritage Exhibition, 1979 [RESTRICTED] File 3: Grants - Secretary of State, History and Archives Project, 1976 [RESTRICTED] File 4: Grants - Wintario, Fil Project, 1977 [RESTRICTED] File 5: Grants - Secretary of State, Journey into our Heritage, Financial [RESTRICTED] File 6: Grants - Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communication, youth employment, 1984 [RESTRICTED] File 7: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, 1986, Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir [RESTRICTED] File 8: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction, Jewish Communit Centre of Ottawa, Hillel Academy, 1987-1990 [RESTRICTED] File 9: Grants - Ontario historical Society Paper Legacy, 1988-1989 [RESTRICTED] File 10: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction, Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir (1962-1970), Ottawa Talmud Torah (1966-1976), Ottawa Modern Jewish /Schol, (1954-1977), 1990-1991 [RESTRICTED] File 11: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Conservation equipment, 1992 [RESTRICTED] File 12: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction Grant, Agudath Israel Congregation, 1990-1991 [RESTRICTED] File 13: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction, Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir (1978-1983), 1992-1993 [RESTRICTED] File 14: Grants - City of Ottawa, Ottawa Jewish Bulletin and Review, 1991 [RESTRICTED] File 15: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Conservation - fire proof door, 1991-1992 [RESTRICTED] File 16: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Guide to the Collection, 1992-1993 [RESTRICTED] File 17: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Conservation of Photographic negatives, 1993-1994 [RESTRICTED] File 18: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction Grant, Labour Zionist Council of Ottawa, 1993/1994 [RESTRICTED] File 19: Grants - City of Ottawa, Pamphlet, 1994 [RESTRICTED] File 20: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Preservation, Freiman certificates, 1994 [RESTRICTED] File 21: Grants - Canadian Council of Archives, Backlog Reduction, Control of Holdings Program, 1994 [RESTRICTED] File 22: Human Resoures Grant for an Archival summer student, 1997 [RESTRICTED] File 23: Bronfman Founation, 1998-2000 [RESTRICTED] File 24: Grant - Cultural Assistance Program, City of Ottawa, 2001 [RESTRICTED] File 25: Grant Applications, Historica, 2001 [RESTRICTED] File 26: Historica Foundation Application, 2001 [RESTRICTED] File 27: Award Program to Schools Grant [RESTRICTED] File 28: Jacob Freedman Memorial Award and Others [RESTRICTED] Box 4: Correspondence File 1: Correspondence, 1966, 1969-1974 File 2: Correspondence, 1975 File 3: Correspondence, 1976 File 4: Correspondence, 1977 File 5: Correspondence, 1978, 1979 File 6: Correspondence, 1980-1982 File 7: Correspondence, 1983-1985 File 8: Correspondence, 1986-1989 File 9: Correspondence, 1990-1991 File 10: Correspondence, 1992-1993 File 11: Correspondence, 1994-1995 File 12: Correspondence, 1996 File 13: Correspondence, 1997 File 14: Correspondence, 1998-2004 File 15: Correspondence, 2010 Box 5: Correspondence Cont. File 1: National Archives of Canada, 1968-1994 File 2: Outreach, 1975-1997 File 3: Canadian Jewish Historical Societies, 1976-1998 File 4: Multicultural History Society of Canada, 1977-1991 File 5: Learned Societies, 1981-1982 File 6: Sorel Gwartzman File 7: Ontario Council of Archives, 1990-1996 File 8: Algonquin College Archives Technician Program, 1991-1998 File 9: Lawrence Freedman, Gdalyah Rosenfeld, 1997-2002 File 10: Holocaust Project, 2004-2007 Box 6: Admin File 1: Personnel, 1972-2002 File 2: Memberships, 1965-1971 File 3: Memberships File 4: Membership Lists and Correspondence, 1985-1991 File 5: Membership Lists and Correspondence, 1992-2003 File 6: Digitization of Ottawa Jewish Bulletin File 7: Research Material Shirley Berman File 8: Plaque in Honour of OJHS File 9: Temple Israel 40th Anniversary File 10: Taping of Eulogies Box 7: Services and Programs File 1: Requests for services, 1973-1979 File 2: Requests for services, 1980-1989 File 3: Requests for services, 1990-1997 File 4: Requests for services, Canadian Congress Datebook File 5: Journey into our Heritage, Student Compositions File 6: Journey into our Heritage, Correspondence, 1978-1979 File 7: Newsletters, 1986-1991 File 8: Newsletters, 1992-1998 File 9: Newsletters, 1999-2002 File 10: Newsletters, 2003-2008 File 11: Newsletters, 2011-2012 File 12: News articles and Flyers, 1975 File 13: Jewish War Veterans Box 8: Services and Programs File 1: History and Archives Week, February 9-16, 1975 File 2: Exhibits: Arts Alive, 1975 File 3: Exhibits: Looking Back - the Jewish Community in Ottawa, 1977, Heritage Gallery, Ottawa File 4: Exhibits: Small ones, New Year's Exhibit, Hoffman Exhibit, 1978, De Castro Pentateuch File 5: Exhibits: Yestertear, 1981, Ottawa City Hall File 6: Coat of Many Colours, 1986-1994 File 7: Exhibits: In Tribute to Scandinavia, 1985, JCC File 8: Commonwealth Jewish Exhibits, 1986 File 9: Exhibits: David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973, 4 locations, Ottawa, 1986-1987 File 10: Billings Bridge, 1987, 1988 File 11: The Image Maker, Hugo Levendel, 1989 File 12: Paper Legacy, 1989 File 13: Beth Shalom Centennial, 1989 File 14: Celebrating the Legislative Building Centennial, 1998 Box 9: Speaker Series File 1: Judge Jacie Horwitz Vignettes, 1988 File 2: Speakers Correspondence, 1975-1979 File 3: Speakers Correspondence, 1980-1990 File 4: Speakers Correspondence, 1990-1996 File 5: Speakers Correspondence, 1997 File 6: Speakers, 1991-1992 File 7: Joe Feller in Florida, 1994 File 8: Molot, Zelikovitz Families, Sheila Mandel, Bill Shenkman, 1996 File 9: Sheila Mandel - the Zelikovitz Family, 1996 File 10: Speakers - Elliott Gluck, 1996 File 11: Speakers - Lionel Metrick, 1996, 2000 File 12: Speakers: Jerrold Landau, Cheryl Jaffee, 1997 File 13: Speakers - Debbie Baylin, 1997 File 14: Dr. Jack Jedwab, Oct. 26, 1997 File 15: Moses Bilsky, May 11, 1998 File 16: Speaker - Peter Meggs, From Conversion to Conversation, May 7, 1998 File 17: From Conversion to Conversation, Research, Peter Meggs File 18: The Establishment of Reform Judaism in Ottawa, Bill Dawson, 1998 File 19: Carole Anders, 1998 File 20: Moses Bilsky: A Life well lived, 1999 File 21: Betsy Rigal, 1999 File 22: Speaker: Israel Shinder, 2001 File 23: Charles Wiseman, 2001 File 24: Barry Cantor, 2001 File 25: Sylva Gelber, 2001 File 26: Lowertown Retrospective, 2002 File 27: Albert Rivers, 2002 File 28: Joseph Lieff, 2002 File 29: Process for Speaker Meetings, 2003 File 30: May - Oct 2003, Freiman, Lithwick, Rosenfeld, Kimmel File 31: Bertram Loeb, 2004; Appotive, 2004 File 32: Stephen Appotive - Appotive family, 2004 File 33: Ethel Taylor's Billing's Bridge, 2002 File 34: 2005 - Abelson, Viner, Polowin File 35: Mirsky, 2006 File 36: Adele Sidney, Goldstein family history, 2007 File 37: History of Ottawa Scrap Metal/ Elliott Levitan, 2008 File 38: Diane Koven, Marcia Aronson, Alan Rachow, 2009-2010 File 39: Speaker - Lynn Cohen, 2010 Box 10: Those Pesky Weeds File 1: Grants - City of Ottawa, Those Pesky Weeds, 1991 File 2: Correspondence, 1992-1994 File 3: Book Orders, 1992 File 4: Consignments: Books Stores, 1992 File 5: Reprint of book cover, 1992 Box 11: Book File 1: Costs, Writers, Contracts File 2: Submissions to Mac re: Book, 2003 File 3: Donor Information, 2000-2003 File 4: Financial, 2000-2004 File 5: Thelma Steinman 2003 File 6: Inez Zelikovitz, 1998-1999 File 7: Pledges Box 12: A Common Thread File 1: Montreal Jewish Publication Soociety File 2: Outlines File 3: Vaad Minutes File 4: Interview Agreements File 5: Drafts, 2005 File 6: Interview notes File 7: Ottawa Jewish History File 8: R.K. Goldberg's notes File 9: G. May notes File 10: The Book: Author's Writings File 11: H. Hadaya notes File 12: Author notes File 13: Time Line topics File 14: Eugene Rothman File 15: Editorial Committee File 16: Book Committee, 2004 File 17: Book Contracts File 18: Photographs copyright clearance File 19: Manuscripts for 'The Book' File 20: Committee File 21: Joe King File 22: Anna's file File 23: A Common Thread book launch - Sylvia Kershman Box 13: Archives File 1: Loans File 2: Acquisitions National Archives, 1995-1996 File 3: Acquisitions, 1970-1979 Box 14: Archives Cont. File 1: Archives Committee meeting minutes, 1998-2005 File 2: Archivse Opening, 1998 File 3: Admin: Transfer of Archives, 1997-2000 File 4: Cemetery Plan, 2005 File 5: Archives Financial Plan, 1998-2004 File 6: Human Resources, 1987-2001 File 7: Joint Project, Lowy Collection, 2004 File 8: Oral History Interviews, 1975 File 9: Archives Mission Statement, 2001-2002 File 10: Needs Assessment, 1997 File 11: Young Canada Works Plan Box 15: Vaad File 1: Vaad Correspondence - Bellman - Farber File 2: OJHS and Vaad File 3: Vaad Presentation Box 16: File 1: Lowertown Tour, Albert River, 1992 File 2: Draft Scripts, 2001 File 3: Final Script, 2001 File 4: Publicity, 2001 File 5: Maps, 2001 File 6: Photos, 2001 File 7: Hillel Lodge Tour, 2003 File 8: Lowertown Heritage Project, 2013

Date: 1966-2017

Fonds No.: O0045

History / Biographical: The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society was founded in 1966, but did not become active until 1971. In 1969, a History and Archives Committee was established under the Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir. Beginning in the early 1970’s both groups began to actively collect and preserve the general archival material of the Jewish community of Ottawa. In May 1974, the History and Archives Committee merged with the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society. Initially the OJHS did not serve as an archival repository; rather it served as a collecting agency for records, depositing the bulk of their holdings with the Public Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada). The OJHS was first chaired by Max Bookman, followed by Dr. Abram Slone, who assumed the chair position in an acting role until Michael Freedman was appointed in 1970. Mrs. Celia Bookman was secretary. Mr. Hy Hochberg was the Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir co-coordinator. In 1971, a small room was set aside at the Jewish Community Centre at 151 Chapel Street where material was identified and organized before deposit with the Public Archives of Canada. In the spring of 1984, the Society received an office and a larger storage space in the JCC. Sid Green became the next chairman in 1974, followed by Hugo Levendel on July 9, 1980; Ben Karp on August 27, 1986; Lawrence Freedman on April 27, 1992, John Holzman, August 2006; Ian Sadinsky, February 2011. Anna Bilsky, 2016 and current President Teri Levine, 2018. The Historical Society’s primary purpose was to collect, preserve and make available for use the documents and archival material of the Jewish community in Ottawa; a mission that would become the basis for the mandate of the Ottawa Jewish Archives. Shirley Berman was appointed Archivist by the Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir in 1972, a role which she maintained until her retirement in the fall of 1998. In this role Mrs. Berman and the OJHS saved important documents, collected and copied early photographs, and recorded oral histories. These materials would become the foundation of the Ottawa Jewish Archives collections. On October 7, 1998, the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa, under Barbara Farber’s term as President, assumed responsibility for the Ottawa Jewish Archives. With the interest and support of the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society, Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir, Archives Association of Ontario, and a loyal group of volunteers, the Ottawa Jewish Archives was able to expand, publicize its activities and gradually organize the holdings according to archival standards. In the fall of 1999, the Ottawa Jewish Archives moved to its new location in the Jewish Community Centre in the Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building in the west end of Ottawa. Archival facilities are modern with convenient shelving in a new vault. The Society’s transfer was completed by October 2000. In 2004, the OJHS began recording eulogies at funerals and donating copies to the Ottawa Jewish Archives and the family of the deceased. The first eulogy was recorded on July 27, 2004 at the funeral of Hy Soloway. The archives operated under the direction of Dawn Logan from 1999 - 2008. Marcia Rak was Assistant Archivist from 1999 - 2007, followed by Laurie Dougherty from 2007 - 2008. In January 2009, Laurie Dougherty became archivist upon Dawn Logan's retirement. Laurie left the position in July 2012. Emily Leonoff was archivist from August 2012 to August 2014. Saara Mortensen was Archivist from September 2014 - 2018. Zoe Thurmston was archivist from 2018 - 2019. The present archivist, Teigan Goldsmith, began in November 2019. Elaine Brodsky was Secretary until January 2021. Teigan Goldsmith became Executive Director in January 2021.

Custodial History: Files came from several sources at various times including Lawrence Freedman, John Holzman and Elaine Brodsky - secretary of the OJHS until 2021.

Notes: 1. Ongoing accruals expected. 2. Gap in minutes between 1966 and 1969 are a result of no activity, not a loss of records. (S. Berman - 2010).

Access Restrictions: Restrictions apply to personnel folder in Correspondence Series and Financial Series. Access is granted to OJHS Board only.

Related Material: Ottawa Jewish Archives fonds

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives