Bill Gladstone Genealogy
Bill Gladstone Genealogy
Main menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
  • Articles
  • Genealogy
  • Bookstore
  • Contact
Sub menu
  • Toronto Jewish Records
  • Search Births
  • Search Marriages
  • Search Deaths
  • Family Trees >>
    • Alexander
    • Worldwide GLICENSTEIN Tree
    • Glickstein-Gladstone
    • Glicenstein (Extended)
    • Interactive Rubinoff-Naftolin-Familytree
    • Rubinoff-Naftolin
    • Agudas Hamishpocha

Happy New Year 5774

by n-a • September 3, 2013

New-Years-titlecard

 

New-Years-ads-20sep1933s

Click on page to enlarge it

 

Tags:genealogy JEWISH TORONTO

Post navigation

← The sculptor Glicenstein and other Glicenstein ‘cousins’
Festival of Sukkot — McCaul Street style, 1952 →

Site-wide keyword search

From Our Archives

Bridging 90 years of Rubinoff-Naftolin history

by Bill Gladstone • December 22, 2011

Sometime between 1905 and 1908, my mother’s grandparents said goodbye to their parents and their village of Zhlobin, Belarus, and brought their children with them to Canada. For decades, although they were divided by a wide gulf of geography and history, family members sent letters in Yiddish back and forth between the Old World and…

Read more →

A sketch of artist Gerald Gladstone

by Bill Gladstone • November 29, 2011

Humanity’s future: will it be “earthbound” or “spacebound”? My uncle, the artist Gerald Gladstone, posed this question to me recently outside Yorkdale shopping centre in North York. We were standing in the parking lot near The Bay, beside one of his major works, a bronze colossus called Universal Man, which was installed there in late…

Read more →

Biography

Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

by Bill Gladstone • April 17, 2019

In his book Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, Montreal author Marc Raboy points out that Guglielmo Marconi was the Bill Gates or Steven Jobs of his day, and was the world’s first champion of and visionary for not just global wireless communications, but two-way global wireless communications. Although associated primarily with the development…

Read more →

OJA exhibit pays homage to Benjamin Brown

by Bill Gladstone • April 2, 2016

From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2016 “Location, location, location,” they say, are the three most important things in real estate. If so, the Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) has scored a wonderful coup by securing the Urbanspace Gallery in the majestic loft building at 401 Richmond Street West as the venue for an exhibition in…

Read more →

Toronto Panorama 1910

Kitty Wintrob, author of I’m Not Going Back

Tag Cloud (Select Category)

19th-century (74) American (138) anti-semitism (33) architecture (35) artist (14) Bible (17) biography (73) British (27) canada (255) crime & courts (46) essays (29) genealogy (133) Germany (13) ghetto (17) history (177) Holocaust (74) humour (12) Israel (59) jewish classic (29) JEWISH TORONTO (277) literary (117) medicine (14) memoir (65) Montreal (22) movies (49) music (22) non-fiction (109) novel (78) obit (91) Pale of Settlement (20) photography (11) playwright (8) poetry (16) Poland (30) politics (37) profile (76) religion (29) science (18) stage (13) stories (32) theatre (33) toronto (339) travel (78) wartime (46) Yiddish (67)

Site Menu

  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
  • Articles
  • Genealogy
  • Bookstore
  • Contact

Archives

Help Support This Site

If you have enjoyed visiting this site, please consider contributing $20 or more (sorry, no tax receipt available).
 

Donate Button with Credit Cards

July 2019 — we are currently rebuilding this website — please pardon any disruptions! Keep coming back!

Copyright © 2020 Bill Gladstone Genealogy. All Rights Reserved. The Magazine Premium Theme by bavotasan.com.

Pin It on Pinterest