Finding Aid
Judaica collection. First and Second accruals. – 1889-2010. – 56 cm of textual records and graphic material.
First Accrual. – 1898-2002. – 43.5 cm of textual records and graphic material.
Box 1:
Series 1
Personal documents. – 1920-1962. – 12.5 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of series. – The series contains documents of various kinds issued to a person; often they have photographs. Arrangement is by document type. See also financial documents in Box 4.
F.1 Bicycle license: issued to Girda Pergamenter by the Municipal Corporation of Jerusalem, 1937, with photograph, in Hebrew.
F.2 Company identification card: issued to David Skvirsky by the Palestine Electric Corp. Ltd., 1937, with photograph
F.3 Coupon books: two issued to Aron Elimelech Frankel, in Poland, 1926 and 1937; also one letter from Frankel, 1940
F.4 Health card: issued to Motek Wildfeuer by the Jewish Agency in Salcardo Camp, Austria, 1948, with photograph. Language is English, name of issuing agency does not appear on the document.
F.5 Immigration documents: issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Argentina, to Olga Gorisontova, 16 April 1920. On the verso is a handwritten note from the Argentine consul in Jerusalem, 22 June 1921, with photograph of Gorisontova and official stamps.
F.6 Immigration documents: issued by the Central Zionist Palestine Office in Warsaw, Poland, 27 Feb. 1938, giving permission for someone to go to Palestine. Document is in Hebrew.
Military:
F.7 Service record of a Jewish officer, Captain Bendersky Boris Zaharovich, covering the period 1932-1951. There are two photographs, one is pasted on the document, the other, much larger, is loose. Document appears to be in Russian.
F.8 Service record of Gerzou Henoch [?] a Jewish reservist, issued in 1932 in Warsaw, Poland.
F.9 Road/Rail Pass: issued to Jacob Brodsky, by the Commanding Forces in Palestine, with photograph, 26 April 1939
F.10 Road/Rail Pass: issued to Joel Tabor, by the Commanding Forces in Palestine, with photograph, 19 May 1939.
F.11 Curfew Pass: issued to David Toporovsky, 15 August 1939 by the Commanding Forces in Palestine, with photograph.
F.12 Promotion: issued to Fyla Elevich Lipis, a Lativian Jew in the USSR Army, to the rank of General, 1944. It is signed by six other generals.
F.13 Pay book: issued to Sgt. Yefim Israel Usiskin by the USSR Army, in 1946 (stamped on cover), with photograph. The date 1948 appears on the inside cover.
F.14 Exit certificate: issued to Carl Heine, allowing him to leave Camp Westerbork, 18 June 1945, by the military authorities in charge of the camp.
F.15 Jewish Legion membership card: issued to Rachel Gordon, in Tel-Aviv, in 1946
F.16 Passport: issued to Bril Avram, a businessman in1938, by Romania (King Carol II), 1938, with photograph of Avram as well as his wife and children. Avram’s place of residence is Haifa.
F.17 Passport (British passport Palestine): issued to Haim Gross, a farmer in Tiberias on 16 July 1930, with photograph
F.18 Passport (interim): issued to Heiman Rubin by Israel, 4 June 1950, with photograph
F.19 Police registration form: issued to Chaim Podchlebnik of Wartbruken, Poland, identifying him as Jewish. The questions on the form are in German and Polish; it contains Rubin’s fingerprint as well as a stamp with the Nazi swastika, and a Star of David stamp. The date of issue is not on the form.
F.20 Police, certificate of discharge: issued to Ebert Abraham, 1 April 1944, by the Palestine Police Force.
Registration forms: the following two forms are identical, completed by different people. Both Jewish men resided in Lemberg, also known as Lviv, now in Urkraine. Questions are posed in German, Ukrainian and Polish. Both forms are stamped with the Star of David.
F.21 Ignas Kund, registered 7 March 1942, with photograph. There is a second smaller form in this file, issued in Krakow, Poland, which appears not related.
F.22 Benjamin Seider, registered 16 March 1942, with photograph
F.23 Repatriation certificate: issued to Armin Vogel, 28 August 1945, by the Slovak National Council for Social Solcitude [sic], allowing Vogel to go to Prievidza, Slovakia
Railway documents
F.24 Railway identification card: issued to Moric Katin in Lithuania, in 1927, with photograph
F.25 Licence: issued to Nachum Drori by the Palestine Railways (Ports Authority) to work in the port of Haifa, 5 July 1945, with photograph
F.26 School certificate: issued to a female student in 1940 in Kiev, Ukraine, with photograph; language, probably Russian or possibly Ukranian
Trade Union documents
F.27 Hungarian Trade Union membership: issued to Ference Stettner, in Budapest, Hungary, 10 Nov. 1925. Stettner was apparently identified as a Jewish member.
F.28 Workers Union membership signed by D. Ben-Gurion: issued on 21 March 1935 to a worker in Palestine; his name appears in Hebrew and has been translated as Mr. Zusselman. He was born in 1915. The names of his parents, Elia and Shoshana are also given in the document. Closing stamp is dated 1963.
F.29 Histadrut membership: issued in 1939 to a worker in Palestine; his name is given in Hebrew and has been translated as Dr. Karseni, with photograph. He was born in 1902.The date 1959 is stamped inside the permit book.
F.30 Eretz-Israel trade union card: issued on 22 November 1962 to a worker in Palestine; his name is given in Hebrew and has been translated as Chaim Yitzkh, with photograph. He was born in 1917.
F.31 University identification document: issued to Karel Klein on 22 Nov. 1935, a student at Karlova University in Prague, with photograph. Document is in Czech and Latin. The date of 30 Nov. 1946 is also on the document.
Other
F.32 A notebook stamped “K.L. Buchenwald”, 26 May 1945, issued to prisoner number 630. The notebook appears to have been mainly used for messages from fellow inmates.
Box 2:
Series 2
Correspondence. – 1898-1980. – 6.5 cm of textual records and graphic materials. – Title based on content of series. – These postcards and letters were found with and inside the covers listed in Box 3. They were removed from there because they contain text. The exception is the collection of documents regarding the Norman family – it was not part of the covers group.
F.1 Norman family documents. They documents mainly concern his mother Jadwiga Norman (nee Kejsman), 1945-1980. Includes photographs of documents; photocopies and originals.
Chronological arrangement begins.
F.2 Postcard sent to Franz Mouch [?] in Vienna, pmk. 31 Oct. 1898; card depicts Christ in Jerusalem
F.3 Postcard sent from Krakau, Poland to Jaffa, Palestine; written 12 June 1899, pmk. 23 June 1899; card depicts Krakowa
F.4 Postcard sent by Michele Batarse to Augusto Gaudenzi in Rome; written in Bethlehem on 13 Nov. 1899
F.5 Postcard sent by L.L. Kahane in Jerusalem to J. Kollman in Holland; written on 22 Jan. 1900; request for payment
F.6 Postcard sent by Annie R.C. Wainwright in Jerusalem to Mr. Tschumi in Lausanne, Switzerland, pmk. 21 May 1990; written on 20 May 1990; re shipment of “their things”
F.7 Postcard sent from the Austrian Post Office in Jaffa to Bohemia in 1901
F.8 Postcard sent from Jerusalem to Könisberg, Germany; pmk. 1902; language, Yiddish
F.9 Postcard sent from Neuhausen, Switzerland to Jaffa; pmk. 10 April 1904; card depicts Rheinfall bei Schaffhausen
F.10 Postcard sent from the Austrian Post Office in Jerusalem to David Yudilowitz in Alexandria; language, Hebrew; pmk. 10 Jan. 1907
F.11 Postcard sent from Beirut to G.G. in Paris; pmk. 3 July 1908; card depicts the street inside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem
F.12 Postcard sent from Rabbi Meier [?] in Jerusalem to Sara Feierstein in Brooklyn, N.Y.; pmk. 1926
F.13 Postcard sent from the Belgium Congo by G. Manderville of Ypres, Belgium to Sidney Kenyon in Palestine; pmk. 28 Jan. 1929; card depicts four men on a ship
F.14 Lettercard sent from Haifa to Felix Krakauer, also in Haifa; pmk. 1933; language is mostly English, signature of sender in Hebrew translated as Sarah. There is one sentence of German in the lettercard.
F.15 Postcard sent from Vienna to Palestine; written 30 Aug. 1935, pmk. 31 Aug. 1935
F.16 Postcard sent from Poland to Gunter Seelig in Tel-Aviv; pmk. 16 Nov. 1938
F.17 Letter from Ernest [last name illegible] in Jerusalem to Joseph Pollak [?] in Tel-Aviv, 7 Feb. 1939; language is German
F.18 Postcard from G.H. Aarau, Switzerland to M.W. Lorcher in Jerusalem; pmk. 2 March 1940; front of card has a printed poem and a linocut
F.19 Postcard from Zurich, Switzerland to Arnold Rahn in Palestine; pmk. 25 March 1940
F.20 Postcard from Vilnius, Lithuania to Michale in Tel-Aviv; pmk. 6 Dec. 1940
F.21 Postcard from I. Preiss in Jerusalem to Millie Lanxnev in New York; pmk. 12 April 1941; language is English
F.22 Letter from M.A. Michaelowsky, Advocate, Tel-Aviv, 1942; only printed letterhead is in English
F.23 Letter from M. Hallo serving with the British Army to Esther Rapp, Tel-Aviv, 15 May 1944; letter is in German
F.24 Postcard sent inside Palestine; pmk. 14 March 1942; addressed in Hebrew to Sarah in Tel-Aviv, although the text of the message is in Italian
F.25 Postcard sent from Russia to Tel-Aviv; pmk. 12 March 1945; language identified as Yiddish
F.26 Letter, 25 July 1946 sent express from Tel-Aviv; typed carbon in Hebrew. Appears to be a high school notification to a student.
F.27 Postcard of the Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary where many Zionists delegates stayed; sent to Hajnik Vilmosuruack [?] in Budapest; pmk. 8 Nov. 1947
F.28 Letter from Eugene L. Cohen in Canada to Ansel Garfin in Tel-Aviv; pmk 29 Dec. 1948
F.29 Postcard mailed in Hakirya in 1949; although not addressed to anyone it has some Hebrew text on the verso
F.30 Letter typed on Legation of Israel letterhead, 31 August 1953, sent registered mail; the text of the letter is in Hebrew. It is addressed to a Mrs. S. Noir [?] in Tel Aviv from Tzui Givon.
F.31 Greeting card, United Nations Emergency Force Gaza Strip, n.d. contains a personal messaged from Ted to the Boyle Family, n.d.
Box 3:
Series 3
Covers. – [18-?] – [19--]. 12.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
Notes on covers:
There are approximately 400 of them which have been arranged into country of origin. Sellers’ information is tucked inside the envelopes. If envelope sealed, in the information is clipped to it. Some covers had no sellers’ information. Each cover was checked for correspondence inside; these have been removed and are described in Box 2. Dates are approximate; insufficient time to check each postmark.
Arrangement is by country of origin.
Argentina
Austria
Belgium
Belgium Congo
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Colombia
Czechoslovakia
Danzig
Denmark
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Iraq
Italy
Israel
Jordan
Kenya
Lebanon
Lithuania
Mexico
Mozambique
Netherlands
Netherlands—Indie
Palestine (4 files)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Sarawak
Singapore
Spain
Syria
Switzerland
Uganda
United States
Yugoslavia
File of covers with no obvious Jewish connection; still in plastic jackets
Box 4
Series 4
Printed materials, realia, financial documents. – 1910-2002. – 12.5 cm of textual records and graphic material. – 2 items of realia, 1 photograph. – Title based on content of series.
Realia
Tin charity box, Blessing for the Sabbath. Used in the 1960s to collect money for the Yeshiva. Text printed on the box is in both Hebrew and Yiddish (not in a file)
F.1 Jewish Union enamel pin from Saxony, 1920s. Language ??
Leaflets (arrangement is chronological)
F.2 Leaflet “Last Lamentations”, re pogrom in Kishenev, Romania (now in Moldava), 1903; contains a drawing of a rabbi and a skull. Language: Yiddish.
F.3 Leaflet issued by the Eretz-Israel Workers Party, 20 April 1936
F.4 Leaflet enclosed in Ha-aretz newspaper, Palestine, 1930
F.5 Leaflet for the Free Loan Fund ozar Hachessed, with mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. Koretz in the U.S., pmk. 16 March 1932; languages: English and Hebrew
F.6 Leaflet for United Aged Home Hoshave Sekenim, Jerusalem, with mailing envelope addressed to D.S. Klein, pmk. 9 September 1932
F.7 Leaflet by Michael Foot, “Sentence of Haman”, reprinted from the Evening Standard, n.d. but ca. 1941
F.8 Anti-communist, anti-semitic leaflet from World War II, language Ukranian [?]
F.9 Leaflet, Tel-Aviv P.T.A. re needy children, March [1941]; language Hebrew
F.10 Leaflet, obituary for a killed hero, Palestine 1944; language Hebrew
F.11 Leaflet, Nester Factory Political, [1940s]; language Hebrew
F.12 Leaflet, V.R. Haifa Workers, [1940s]; language Hebrew
F.13 Leaflet issued by Lehi with obituaries of fallen members, 1945, Palestine; language Hebrew
F.14 Leaflet, “In Memoriam … Four Martyred Heroes”, issued by the Palestine Resistance Committee, New York, n.d.
F.15 Leaflet, “Our Arab Brothers”, issued by the Stern Group (Lehi), n.d.; languages, Hebrew and Arabic; n.d.
F.16 Leaflet addressed to the people of Rishon LeZion; language Hebrew; n.d.
F.17 Leaflet “Combattants pour la liberté d’Israel”, issued by Groupe Stern, 7 March
F.18 Leaflet re the plans for parcelling Palestine; language Hebrew, n.d.
F.19 Leaflet, “Thank you, Dear God! – Dachau, 1945; Toronto 2002”; contains “What was it like for a child in our concentration camps?”, a poem by George L. Scott; signed by Scott to Morris Norman.
F.20 Poster, Synagogue Haga in Tel-Aviv; languages Hebrew and English; n.d. but ca. 1940
F.21 Poster, United Film Service Palestine, Tel Aviv, “All This and Heaven Too”; 4 January 1942
F.22 Pamphlet, “Facts and Fables about the Jews”, issued by the Committee on Jewish-Gentile Relationships, Toronto, [1938]
F.23 Pamphlet, Jacques Fromental, Haléy,“Die Jüdin”, Hebrew play script; Leipzig, n.d.
F.24 Pamphlet, The Toronto Hebrew Benevolent Society, Constitution and By-Laws, 1999
Periodicals
F.25 Periodical, Vol. 1, no. 7 (Jerusalem, 26 Nov. 1920). Title and contents are in Hebrew. Title translated as “The Tower: The Land of Israel for the People of Israel”. Published by a Zionist political party.
F.26 Periodical, 11(91) 11 March 1948. Title and contents are in Hebrew; contains many photographs. Title is Histadrut, i.e. Hebrew Workers in Israel. Photographs concern the war of independence.
Oversize: Jewish Daily Eagle, 1932 Centennial Jubilee Edition commemorating the centenary of Jewish emancipation in Canada. Published in Montreal on 8 July 1932 in English, French and Yiddish. Copy is bound.
Financial documents (arrangement is chronological)
F.27 Workers’ Bank Ltd., Jaffa, share certificates and dividend coupons, 20 August 1922; languages English and Hebrew
F.28 Invoice for immigration fees, Eretz Israel office, Riga, stamped Palestine office, 25 August 1922; document is in Hebrew, stamp in English.
F.29 Invoice for immigration fees, Eretz Israel office, stamped Constantinople, 26 Oct. 1922; form is mostly in Hebrew with a bit of English.
F.30 Transfer of funds to Haya Hene in Ukraine using American Express, 1924; language is either Russian or Ukrainian
F.31 Palestine National Cinemas Ltd., share certificate; company was registered in Palestine on 19 March 1934. Languages: English and Arabic.
F.32 Palestine Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones. Receipt for 420 mils, 27 August 1940 with mailing envelope to Rudolf Kaufer in Tel-Aviv. Languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
F.33 Six uncirculated bonds, Egypt donation to Palestine, 1948; language Arabic
Coupons and ration books
F.34 Kupon, 1941-42, Polish; apparently from the Jewish ghetto of Siedlce
F.35 Four coupons for food, Listopod, November 1942, each coupon has the Star of David on it; language Polish
F.36 Two ration cards, Palestine: one is for food, 1945-46; one is for sugar, 1942-43; languages, English and Arabic
Other documents
F.37 Cinema tickets from Shderoth, Migdalor, Ophir, Gan-Rena
F.38 Certificate, Relief Committee for the Jews in Yemen, [1928]; language Hebrew
F.39 JNF collection box document from Zloty and Grosny, 1936; languages, Hebrew and Yiddish
F.40 Lassirneinu Prisoners’ Welfare Society; 2 documents, 1948; language Hebrew
F.41 Map of the Jüdischer Friedhof cemetery in Berlin; two names of the deceased are written on the map – Pauline Moses and C. Klein with the location of their graves
F.42 Invitation to a United Jewish Appeal dinner for Prime Ministery Mulroney, 2 October 1986, Toronto
Postcard and Photograph
F.43 Colour postcard depicting the Citadel of Zion in Jerusalem; pmk 19 May, 1910
F.44 Photograph: National Council of Jewish Women, Exhibit of Sculpture for the Blind, Philadelphia, 1950s. Depicts three women with artwork.
Second accrual. 1889-2010. 12.5 cm of textual records and graphic material. 6 photographs.
Box 5
Correspondence, documents, and photographs:
F.1 United Jewish Butchers union, letter written in Lodz, Poland, 24 April 1926. The language is supposedly Yiddish.
F.2 Document, possibly a birth certificate, issued in Russia, containing two dates, 1889 and 1911. It was used as proof of age because it is stamped in English with an Old Age Security number. The document has been torn in half. It was found in the same plastic cover as a b&w photograph of a Jewish couple in traditional dress; the photograph is pasted on a grey board.
F.3 B&w photograph pasted on board of a couple. Written on the verso is Mr & Mrs. Joseph and Sarah Abrams, converts to Judism [sic]; n.d., 1900-1920?. Also written on the verso are the names of their children, as well as Syracuse, possibly Syracuse, New York.
F.4 Volleyball team b&w photographs: Mens Volleyball team House League champions, 1949-50, taken by Drummond; the photo is creased and torn and has been mended with tape. Y.M.H.A. Mens Volleyball Team taken by a Studio (name illegible), 1949-50; the mens team logo is a Y inside a Star of David inside a Canadian maple leaf. Womens Volleyball team, Y.W.H.A., 1949-50; logo contains a Canadian maple leaf. There are two sizes of this photograph, both are creased and one is torn.
F.5 Y.M.H.A. B.&P. Volleyball team champions, Province of Quebec, 1945-46. Each team member has a separate image with their names printed underneath. Caricature also appears. Pasted on board.
Periodicals:
F.6 Jewish Missionary Magazine, 3 issues: April, August September 1930 (vol. 10, nos. 112, 116, 117); New York Jewish Evangelical Society
F.7 Religious Voice of Labor, 26 March 1943; Zionist Religious Organization of Canada
Pamphlets and leaflets:
F.8 Jack Bernstein, The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel, 1984
F.9 Chabad of Midtown, pamphlet printed in English and Hebrew
F.10 David Eisen, Torontos Jewish Doctors (Toronto: Maimonides Medical Society of Ontario, Toronto Centennial Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, United Jewish Welfare Fund, 1960)
F.11 Folks Farein: three leaflets, all titled Folks Farein; dated 1914-1962, 1914-1963, 1914-1964. They document the work of Folks Farein in Ontario hospitals.
F.12 Zvi Gitelman, Soviety Immigrants in Israel (New York: Synagogue Council of America, 1972)
F.13 Jewish National Fund, 1901-1971 (Montreal: Jewish National Fund of Canada)
F.14 W.L. Mackenzie King (published anonymously), Toronto Jewery 60 Years Ago, (Toronto: Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region, December 1958; reprinted excerpt from the Toronto Mail and Empire, 25 September 1897
F.15 Rev. K.E. Khodadad, University Hebrew Scholar, Durham, England, The Passover in the Time of Christ (London: London Jews Society, 1909)
F.16 Herbert Kruckman, Our Sholem Aleichem (New York:, n.d.)
F.17 John M. Oesterreicher, The Brotherhood of Christian and Jews (Newark, N.J.: Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies, 1964)
F.18 Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction (Moscow: Novosh Press Agency, [1970])
F.19 The Story of the Jewish Community of Toronto, 1856-1957 (Toronto: Bureau of Jewish Education, 1957)
F.20 We Will Liquidate Israel President Nasser: Recent Arab Threats. (Jerusalem: Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1961)
F.21 Alfred H. Wiener, My Way to Life (Toronto: 1972)
Calendars:
F.22 Calendar, Jewish and Christian with notes; two items, one for 1933 and the other for 1935
F.23 Israel Art Calendar; three items, one for 1955-56, one for 1956-57, one for 1958-59
Congregations:
Adath Isreal, Downsview, Ont., Canada:
F.24 Dedication programme; High Holy Days; Adath Isreal Shofar, Vol. 1, no. 3, Sept. 1959
Beth Tzedec, Toronto, Ont., Canada:
F.25 Dedication programme, 1955; welcoming pamphlet, 1966; calendar, 1975; convention and convocation programmes, 18 May 1966
B,nai Israel, London, Ont.:
F.26 Congregation Bnai Israel, 1885-1960
Other:
F.27 Canada Forest illustrated certificate, five trees planted in memory of Hilda Weber, July 1961
F.28 Blue ribbon with paper tag in the shape of the Star of David with Zion printed on the star
Oversize materials:
Poster, Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront, 15th Anniversary, thus 2010
Certificate, tree planting in Palestine in memory of Norma Sacker, 8 June 1950, Montreal Junior Hadassah
