The following is an abridgement of a talk that Bill Gladstone gave to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)…
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Landsmanshaft and Jewish mutual benefit societies of Toronto
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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…
Quirky novel set in Bathurst Manor
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From the Canadian Jewish News, April 5, 2014 Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, by Stuart Ross (ECW Press) I hadn’t heard of…
TORONTO SAGES: Prominent rabbis of blessed memory
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TORONTO SAGES is a booklet compiled and published in 2004 by Mayer S. Abramowitz, a grandson of Toronto cantor Nosson…
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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…
Toronto’s oldest building gives way, modern structure to rise (1911)
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Frame Store on South Side of King Street between Yonge and Bay Is Being Torn Down — Quebec Bank Will Erect…
Benjamin Brown: Restoring an architect’s legacy
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From Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Toronto architect Benjamin Brown (1890-1974) designed many elegant edifices across the city, including the…
Praise & Admiration for Toronto Police (1903)
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TORONTO POLICEMEN ARE MODELS OF POLITENESS Their Clubs Are Merely Ornamental, But They Manage to Enforce the Laws – How a Police…
Exhibition Of 1889 Only One He Missed
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Ex-Alderman Edward Galley Has Been Going to Them Since the Year 1852 HOW C.N.E. HAS GROWN SINCE THE EARLY DAYS…
Street directory of Toronto’s “Ward” — 1913
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Photo: Section of the Ward, ca 1910s, from Louisa & Albert Streets at lower left, the Armouries at centre, and…
Review of ‘Toronto: Biography of A City’ (Allan Levine)
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Ambitious in scope and masterful in execution, Allan Levine’s panoramic portrait of our city from its beginnings to the present…
Toronto City Council, 1907
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The illustration appeared in the Toronto Star on January 15, 1907, as the city welcomed a new city council into…
Torontonians who have vanished (1913)
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Torontonians who have vanished to the four corners of the globe From the Toronto Star Weekly, November 29, 1913 By…
‘Old’ City Hall has lovely interior
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This beautiful and huge stained glass window was made for Toronto’s then-new City Hall at Queen and Bay streets when…
Judische Familienforschung: World’s first Jewish genealogy society?
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by Henry Wellisch In the early 1920s Dr. Arthur Czellitzer, a Berlin ophthalmologist, founded the Gesellschaft fur Judische Familien Forschung, the “Society for Jewish Family Research.” It is now recognized as the world’s first society dedicated to Jewish genealogy in the modern era. The society had regular meetings in Berlin and published a newsletter entitled, Mitteilunngen…
The oldest family tree in the world
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 24, 2004 You may not find Dr. Neil Rosenstein’s new book listed on national best-seller lists, but the noted genealogist — with his tongue halfway in his cheek — compares it to the popular thriller “The Da Vinci Code.” Both books, the noted American genealogist and surgeon said, deal in…
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 Cemetery, Toronto’s oldest Jewish cemetery. George Sorblum, Toronto’s “unknown soldier,” died in 1919 but his family only learned what happened to him in 2007. * * * From the Toronto Star, November 7, 1936 Some…
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 Go, she realized that the seeds of two different projects — one a fictional manuscript, the other a closely allied memoir — were struggling for dominance within her mind. Giving priority to the novel, she…
Two views of Bristol house, 1911 & 2014
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Angell and Janey Lester (nee Alexander) were living in this house at 4 Radnor Rd., Bristol, in 1911 when this photo was taken. Janey is standing outside the house holding her infant son, Lionel Lester, with her four-year-old daughter, Ida, standing in front. Janey’s younger sister, twelve-year-old Dora Alexander, stands beside them in the dark…
