From the Toronto Star Weekly, June 13, 1914 “It is a great mistake,” said a local pawnbroker, “to imagine that…
Toronto
Toronto’s ‘400’ Sometimes Visit Pawnbrokers (1914)
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Archaeology of Toronto’s ‘Ward’
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The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life, edited by Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, Tatum Taylor, and John Lorinc. (Coach…
Toronto City Guide befits a great city
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Toronto Architecture: A City Guide (McClelland & Stewart) From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2018 In 1985, when architectural journalist…
OJA exhibit pays homage to Benjamin Brown
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From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2016 “Location, location, location,” they say, are the three most important things in real…
Infuriated Toronto Youths Riot Over Showing of Swastika (1933)
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Police Rushed to Willowvale Park After Ball Game to Restore Order From The Montreal Gazette, August 17, 1933 Toronto August 16…
Saving the Babies of Toronto’s Poor—Pure Milk Depots Doing Grand Work (1911)
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From the Toronto Star Weekly, August 26 1911 Enterprise of the Household Economic Association Has Achieved Wonderful Results—Little Ones so…
Toronto had 3,000 cars in 1911 (Star Weekly)
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Hamilton man owned first motor in Canada J.C. Eaton of Toronto Bought the Second – Wonderful Development of the…
Christian missions proselytized Jews in ‘the Ward’
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From the Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Having recently marked its 25th anniversary, the organization Jews for Judaism continues to counter…
Is Toronto Troubled by ‘Too Much Sunday’? (1914)
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Above: Some 3,500 Torontonians protested at Massey Hall when City Council refused to allow the use of slides at High Park…
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Landsmanshaft and Jewish mutual benefit societies of Toronto
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The following is an abridgement of a talk that Bill Gladstone gave to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)…
Michael Blume, Toronto’s first Jewish pharmacist (1866)
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From The Jewish Standard, April 1, 1966 The author, in an earlier article, wrote of the career of Mr. Charles…
Cecil Street Reunion: former shul receives plaque
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Back in 1938, two Jewish boys posed for a photo on the steps of Toronto’s Ostrovtzer Synagogue on…
Toronto’s Jewish ‘Unknown Soldier’ from WWI
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◊ An item in the Toronto Star from 1936 explains a certain inscription on a tombstone found at the Pape Avenue…
Obit: Elazar (Louis) Rotenberg, ran steamship agency (d.1936)
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From the Jewish Standard, January 1937 The most remarkable thing about the late Mr. Elazar (Louis) Rotenberg, who died on…
Review: Alison Pick’s Between Gods
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Seven years ago, as Toronto author Alison Pick began researching and writing what would become her prize-winning novel Far to…
Growing Up on Dundas Street, by Ben Kayfetz
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From Growing Up Jewish: Canadians tell their own stories (1997) My earlier recollection goesback to the very early 1920s,…
Excerpt: ‘The Rise of the Toronto Jewish Community’
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The following passages have been excerpted from The Rise of the Toronto Jewish Community, by Shmuel Mayer Shapiro (1877-1958), the…
Love turns to murder on Adelaide Street (1914)
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◊ The following articles describe a tragedy that unfolded in Toronto’s Jewish district on Adelaide Street West near Spadina in…
Incident in Opatow (Poland)
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August 2018 We arrived in Opatow in early evening and I took my bags upstairs to my hotel room, which directly overlooked the city gate. The next day as we looked around, I thought of the many Torontonians whose parents and grandparents had left the town before the war, and the many more Jews from “Apt” (at least 7,000) who perished…
My return to Konin (Poland)
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August 2018 The moment I stepped out of the car, I realized that this was the first time a member of my family had been back in our ancestral town in more than 130 years. I was in Konin, in the Lodz district of Poland, the town where my paternal ancestors had lived for generations…
Mary Berg and the Warsaw Ghetto
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Four years ago, a Pennsylvanian antiques collector purchased a trove of old scrapbooks and photo albums at an estate sale in the town of Red Lion, Pa. The cache, which included hundreds of photographs including some taken in the Warsaw Ghetto between 1940 and 1943, cost only $10. Discovering that the material was related to…
Jewish Soldiers of World War One
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The number of Jews who fought in the First World War has always been difficult to tally because Jews fought on both sides and in multiple armies involved in the conflict. On the Allied side, at least 500,000 Jews served in the Russian Army, about 250,000 served in the United States Army, roughly 50,000 in…
A ‘robust, new’ history of Jews in Canada
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Seeking the Fabled City: the Canadian Jewish Experience, by Allan Levine (McClelland & Stewart) Proficient, prolific, and preternaturally talented, Winnipeg-based historian Allan Levine has produced a robust new history of the Jewish experience in Canada that seems both compelling and fresh. Seeking the Fabled City — the title comes from a line by the late…
