The extraordinary story of Eli Hyman first came to my attention with the following notice that appeared in the Toronto…
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Sad, extraordinary tale of a Jewish ‘miser’
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A Matzah Factory on Ontario Street
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One good thing about matzah is that even after the passage of many months, it often tastes no more stale…
‘Discriminating’ authors discuss problem of ‘too many Jews in Toronto’ (1912)
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Increase of Jewish Citizens Astounding From The Toronto Star Weekly, February 24, 1912 Is the problem—for a problem there assuredly…
Obit: Sarah Bloom (d. 1935)
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◊ Note: The following obituary was found on a single typewritten sheet, among the papers of Shmuel Meyer Shapiro, late…
Toronto’s May Day parades of yesteryear (1955)
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by Ben Lappin (from Commentary, 1955) Spadina Avenue, the main street of the needle trades in Toronto, looks very much…
Canadian Jews call for tighter borders (2001)
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2001 Canadian Jews are calling on their government to tighten its borders with the United…
From the DP Camps to Canada via the Tailor Project
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From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2015 In late 1947 and early 1948, representatives of the Canadian garment industry organized…
Book offers pieces by Kayfetz, Speisman on Toronto Jews (2013)
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Toronto publisher Now and Then Books’s latest title — Only Yesterday: Collected Pieces on the Jews of Toronto, by Benjamin…
David Eisen, the doctor who loved history
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Dr. David Eisen, Toronto’s first Jewish radiologist, was always intrigued with Jewish history. The youngest son of a Galician peddler…
Lewis Samuel arrived in Toronto in 1844
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by Dr. Stephen A Speisman Lewis Samuel, merchant and philanthropist, was born in 1827 at Kingston upon Hull, England. He…
Photo: Toronto Poalei Tsion Youth Club (1918)
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Here is a photo showing the youth group Poalei Tsion in Toronto, 1918, with names translated, below. Courtesy, Ontario Jewish…
Doing genealogy at the Ontario Jewish Archives
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from Canadian Jewish News (2015) When Cantor Bernard Wladowsky was lured from Chicago to Toronto in March 1912 to begin…
Memories of Good (Jewish) Eats on Eglinton & Downtown
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by Ellen Weiser If you’re a baby boomer, or more accurately, a Jewish Toronto baby boomer, undoubtedly you have fond…
Toronto’s Jews Think Big As Their Population Grows (2000)
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 24, 2000 (JTA) The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is trying to keep pace…
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The Toronto Olympic Games of 1838
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See map caption below by William D. Reid When Lord Durham, the Governor-General, refused to honor the contemplated autumn meet…
A notable mansion gave Castlefield Avenue its name
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Castlefield was a grand residence north of Toronto built in 1835 by James Hervey Price (1797–1882), a prominent Canadian attorney…
Did your Russian-Empire ancestors leave a RUSCAPA paper trail?
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About the Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company (RUSCAPA) The Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company, also known as RUSCAPA, was established in the…
Sephardic Jews in early Canada
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One of the most interesting and unusual items pertaining to the Jewish history of confederate and pre-confederate Canada is a…
Toronto’s colored population in 1908
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THIS appraisal of the lot of the colored population of Toronto in 1908 presents a fairly positive and upbeat portrait,…
Finest hardwood in Massey mansion — ‘nothing like it in the Dominion’
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From The Toronto Star Weekly, May 16, 1914 That well-known Toronto residence occupying the northeasterly corner of Jarvis street and…
Yehuda Elberg: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
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“A literary master living among us” is how the influential Globe and Mail newspaper described Montreal author Yehuda Elberg after…
Hester Street, still great after 50 years
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◊ Note: The film Hester Street came out in 1975 — so it is now 50 years old. The following…
When the KKK came to Oakville (1930)
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Special to The Star by Staff Reporter, Oakville, March 1, 1930 The Ku Klux Klan resorted to direct action for…
Elizabeth Taylor called ‘dangerous’ by Arabs (1960)
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From The Canadian Jewish News, December 2, 1960 Beirut, Lebanon – The turbulent Arab world was shaken by a new…
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…
Toronto murders recounted in ‘Devil in the White City’ (1893)
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In Devil in the White City, a riveting page-turner that reads like a murder mystery thriller, Erik Larson resurrects the…
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The Toronto Olympic Games of 1838
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See map caption below by William D. Reid When Lord Durham, the Governor-General, refused to honor the contemplated autumn meet…
A notable mansion gave Castlefield Avenue its name
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Castlefield was a grand residence north of Toronto built in 1835 by James Hervey Price (1797–1882), a prominent Canadian attorney…
Toronto’s colored population in 1908
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THIS appraisal of the lot of the colored population of Toronto in 1908 presents a fairly positive and upbeat portrait,…
Finest hardwood in Massey mansion — ‘nothing like it in the Dominion’
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From The Toronto Star Weekly, May 16, 1914 That well-known Toronto residence occupying the northeasterly corner of Jarvis street and…
Building at Yonge & Glengrove was innovative in 1931
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From the Toronto Telegram, Sept. 1 1931 As it looks today:
Toronto murders recounted in ‘Devil in the White City’ (1893)
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In Devil in the White City, a riveting page-turner that reads like a murder mystery thriller, Erik Larson resurrects the…
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Sephardic Jews in early Canada
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One of the most interesting and unusual items pertaining to the Jewish history of confederate and pre-confederate Canada is a…
Kishinev, 100 years later
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One hundred years ago this week (April 2003), reports reached the West from St. Petersburg of severe anti-Jewish riots that…
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…
Moses Montefiore, a man of his people
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His name was Moses; he was a leader of his people; he spent much time in Egypt and the desert;…
Encyclopedia Judaica: Jews had long history in Rafah
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From the Jewish Virtual Library (Encyclopedia Judaica) Rafah (Ar. Rafaḥ; Heb. Rafi’ah) is a town near the Mediterranean coast at…
