The extraordinary story of Eli Hyman first came to my attention with the following notice that appeared in the Toronto…
Jewish Toronto
Sad, extraordinary tale of a Jewish ‘miser’
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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…
The CBC’s shame (1987)
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From the Canadian Jewish News (editorial), 1987 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Founded half a century…
Recent & Popular
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…
Review: Ride ’em Jewish Cowboy, by Hy Burstein
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From the Canadian Jewish News, January 13, 2005 Hy Burstein can’t quite explain his passion for riding horses, only that…
Nat Taylor, movie biz pioneer (1978)
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From The City Magazine (Toronto Star), 1978 Nat Taylor emits a throaty laugh and his eyes twinkle when he is…
Travel: Bird-watching in Eilat, Israel
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From The National Post, 2000 Dr. Reuven Yosef, one of Israel’s best-known ornithologists, has won a $25,000 (US) enterprise award…
William Fox: forgotten movie mogul
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Review of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, by Vanda Krefft…
More Jewish surnames (from Italy, France & Portugal)
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From Avotaynu, 2020 Book Review: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Italy, France and “Portuguese” Communities, by Alexander Beider. Like…
One More Reason Not to Vote Liberal: The SNC-Lavalin Affair
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Remember Jody Wilson-Raybould? She’s the former Trudeauvian Minister of Justice and Attorney-General who — incredible as it sounds — insisted…
One of Mengele’s experimental twins tells her story
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From the Canadian Jewish News, 1995 ◊ Note: This article is being republished this week as a reminder of the…
Some Famous Captures by Toronto Police (1903)
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Notorious Criminals Whom the Detectives Have Arrested at the Request of Distant Authorities From the Toronto Star, December 5, 1903…
Solomon Schecter and the Cairo Genizah
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A windowless, doorless chamber, set high up into the wall of an antiquated synagogue and accessible only by ladder, is…
Jordan Peterson’s journey to ‘We Who Wrestle with God’
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Book Review: We Who Wrestle With God (2024) Almost a decade ago, Jordan Peterson listened to his own “still, small…
MyHeritage to delete all Russian accounts
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MyHeritage, the large Israel-based family-tree and DNA genealogy service, announced that it was ceasing operations in Russia and that all…
Toronto
Farewell to the old Parliament Buildings (1902)
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From the Globe, October 27, 1902 A Centre of History: Frank Yeigh Conducts a Farewell Pilgrimage through old Parliament Buildings A…
Nat Taylor, movie biz pioneer (1978)
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From The City Magazine (Toronto Star), 1978 Nat Taylor emits a throaty laugh and his eyes twinkle when he is…
Some Famous Captures by Toronto Police (1903)
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Notorious Criminals Whom the Detectives Have Arrested at the Request of Distant Authorities From the Toronto Star, December 5, 1903…
My day in court; or, Every dog has his day
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From The Globe & Mail I am one of this city’s great silent army of working poor, and so my…
Garth Drabinsky in his glory days
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Garth Drabinsky was appalled that day in 1987 when he heard that publishers were about to bid at auction for…
Gas lights and radiant stars in Toronto’s old Grand Opera House
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THIS story, highlighting Toronto’s fabled old Grand Opera House on Adelaide Street, has been reprinted from the Toronto Telegram of…
History
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…
Obit: Solomon Schechter, foremost Jewish scholar (1915)
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Solomon Schecter and the Cairo Genizah
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A windowless, doorless chamber, set high up into the wall of an antiquated synagogue and accessible only by ladder, is…
Jewish coats of arms
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Originally appeared in The Canadian Jewish News The Rothschilds had one. The Disraelis had one. The Montefiore, Mocatta and Sassoon…
Report of 30,000 Jews massacred in Ukraine (1919)
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Report from the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, 1919 Ukraine, the Scene of Wholesale Murder Since Last November. Whole Communities Wiped Out.…
