Shirley Berman fonds
- Collection
- Shirley Berman fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 box
- Fonds No.
- I0222
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of historical articles written by Shirley Berman, a copy of Those Pesky Weeds edited by Shirley Berman, texts for talks and slide presentations, family information and a cassette tape recorder used during her time as OJA archivist (donated by son), and a card given to Esther (Teri) …
- Collection
- Shirley Berman fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 box
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of historical articles written by Shirley Berman, a copy of Those Pesky Weeds edited by Shirley Berman, texts for talks and slide presentations, family information and a cassette tape recorder used during her time as OJA archivist (donated by son), and a card given to Esther (Teri) Levine shortly before her passing.
Box 1
File 1: Shirley Berman honoured by OJHS, 1998
File 2: Articles
File 3: Talks, Slide presentations
File 4: Lowy Collection
File 5: News clippings
File 6: Milestones
File 7: Correspondence
File 8: Correspondence: Camadian Jewish Congess, 1985-1986
File 9: Invitations
File 10: Business cards
File 11: Endowment agreement: Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation
File 12: Resume
File 13: Shier Berman
File 14: David Berman Topographics
File 15: Towards the Establishment of Ethnic Archives
1 certificate of compeltion for an Archives course, 1983
Box 2: 1 audio cassette recorder used by Shirley during her itme as Archivist
- Fonds No.
- I0222
- History / Biographical
- Shirley was born in Toronto, 1930, daughter of Baruch (Benjamin) and Helena (Freedman) Hettler. Shirley and Shier Berman met in Toronto through their shared Zionist youth interests in Habonim. They married on May 24, 1951 in Toronto and shortly afterwards spent a year in New York to lead a Zionist youth movement called Habonim. They returned to Toronto in 1953 when Shier began his post-graduate work at University of Toronto.
Shirley arrived in Ottawa in 1957, with her husband, when Shier commenced work at the National Research Council. They had two children, David and Reeva.
Shirley's adult education included courses at Carleton University and a special archival training course with the National Archives of Canada, 1983. She became the Executive Secretary of the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society in 1972 and held that position until 1998. Simultaneously, Shirley began collecting the history of the Ottawa Jewish Community and founded the Ottawa Jewish Archives.
Shirley was always active in Zionist causes within the Ottawa Jewish community. She was a member of Pioneer Women and reactivated Habonim-Dror in Ottawa in 1961.
- Custodial History
- Material collected by Shirley Berman and individual items deposited.
- Related Material
- Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds, Habonim-Dror fonds
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
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