setName:"Young People’s League fonds" found 4 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a 1932 membership card, a 1930 news letter, 1933, 1934, 1937 theatre programs, notices of meetings, programs and correspondence, 1947-1951.

Collection: Young People’s League fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2 files. -- 3 photographs.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a 1932 membership card, a 1930 news letter, 1933, 1934, 1937 theatre programs, notices of meetings, programs and correspondence, 1947-1951.

Date: 1930 1937, 1947-1951

Fonds No.: O0063

Storage Location: Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: The Young People’s League began with the name Young People’s League of the Synagogues of Ottawa and then changed to Young People’s League of the Jewish Community of Ottawa. It was one of several groups dedicated to the Jewish youth of Ottawa. Young People's League (Y.P.L.) met twice monthly, on Sunday evenings in the Talmud Torah hall for dances, theatre, music, debates, speeches, etc. The Young People's League began in 1929 with Dr. Samuel Mirsky as the founding president. Other presidents included Dr. Charles Spiro, David Wolochow, Harold Shenkman, Harry Sigler, Bertram Loeb, Michael Greenberg, John Mirsky, Hy Soloway, Maurice Wright, Philip Stuchen, Ethel Petegorsky, Donald Snipper. It was directed to the “over 21's” and programming was both social and cultural. The Ottawa Jewish Bulletin of January 1941 reported that Y.P.L's Music Appreciation Group regularly drew an average of 50 people to its meetings held in the Vestry Rooms of the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. World War II interrupted a very active organization. It reorganized after 1945 and continued into the early 1950s.

Notes: 1. Material gathered from Nap Kapinsky fonds, Adath Jeshurun Congregation fonds, and Jewish Community Council of Ottawa fonds. Youth Committee and Jewish Theatre Guild fonds.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Young People's League Purim Play.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn105542

Collection: Young People’s League fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: O0063; OJA 4-053

Date: 1927

1 image

Collection: Young People’s League fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1927

Fonds No.: O0063

Item No.: OJA 4-053

Storage Location: vault

Creator: Hands Studio, Ottawa

Notes: L-R: Front row; Nat Wolfe, Dr. Sam Mirsky, Rabbi Nathan Kollin, Doris Cohen-Torontow, Cantor Joseph Rabin, Arnold Katz, and Harry (Harold) Goldman. Back row; Meyer Drazin, Sam Epstein, Harold Shenkman, Bert Katz, Harold Coplan, Martin K. Levinson, and William Braverman. This photograph was taken at the Institute, which served as a Jewish centre and youth facility. It was a small building at the back of the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. When the synagogue was being renovated in 1920 services were held at the Institute. Sam Epstein's Bar Mitzvah was held there in 1920.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

The police arrive in "A Full House".

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn105374

Collection: Young People’s League fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: O0063; OJA 7-076-01

Date: March 1934

1 image

Collection: Young People’s League fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: March 1934

Fonds No.: O0063

Item No.: OJA 7-076-01

Creator: Yousuf Karsh

Notes: L-R: Eddie Wolfe, Sammy Raport, Herbert Lecovin, Sol Torontow, Bill Monson, Ernie Edelstein and Harold Shenkman. "A Full House" was presented by the Young People's League (YPL).