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Congregation Emanu-El fonds
CA JHS A.2012.004 · Fonds · 1851-2012

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.

Congregation Emanu-El
CA JHS A.2012.015 · Fonds · ca. 1930-2011

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Beth Israel including: textual records; photographs; moving images; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 18 series: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs; Weddings and marriages; Jewish Divorce (Get); Deaths and cemetery; Ritual Committee; Publications; Financial Statements; Birth (brit milah and baby naming); Conversions; Beth Israel – Schools; 75th Anniversary; Staff administration; Building: Renovation, maintenance and construction; High Holidays; Congregation Beth Israel Board of Directors; Synagogue administration; Beth Israel Women’s League / Sisterhood; and Photographs, audio-visual and scrapbooks.

Congregation Beth Israel
CA JHS A.2012.017, A.2013.018 · Fonds · 1862-1864

Fonds consists of material documenting early BC Jewish history. Fonds is arranged into two series: Congregation Emanu-El manuscripts; and Letters from Abraham Blackman to his brother Morris, Jewish merchants in colonial British Columbia.

Keenlyside, John
CA JHS A.2014.007 · Fonds · 1911, 1920-1921

The fonds consists of a series of love-letters written between Morris Soskin and Rose Hyams. These letters were written in 1921 between Vancouver (where Morris lived) and Montreal (where Rose lived).

Soskin (family)
CA JHS MS-0059 · Fonds · 1862-1945

The fonds consists of consists of 6 boxes. Boxes 1 and 2 contain correspondence, bills and receipts, pamphlets, papers relating to the Hebrew burial grounds and general accounts. Box 3 contains minute books and account books. Box 4 contains account books. [The account book from 1893 was not filmed.] Box 5 contains a register of births, marriages and deaths and Box 6 contains records related to the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. [Also available on microfilm.]

Congregation Emmanuel of Victoria
Seidelman schooling
CA JHS A.2009.003-002-Oversized · File · 1907 - ?
Part of Seidelman family fonds

This file contains a certificate for Harry Seidelman, congratulating him on his attendance at Macdonald Public School. The certificate is dated June 17, 1907.

Fonds · [ca. 1858-2000]

The collection consists of documents and photographs intentionally assembled collection of discrete items documenting the following areas: the occupational pursuits of B.C. and Yukon Jewry; the organized religious life of Jews in B.C.; leisure activities; and the membership and good works of organizations formed to aid and represent the Jewish community, such as the National Council of Jewish Women. There is also a wide range of individual and family portraits, and photographs of headstones.