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Joe and Inez Zelikovitz fonds

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Ottawa Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
1912-2013 (indexed as 1912–2013)
Level
fonds
Scope & content
Fonds consists of four series: family and extended family, early life and sports career, business, and philanthropy and memberships. Material consists of textual records, including correspondence, event invitations and programs, certificates, licenses, magazine entries, and newspaper clips. It also includes ephemera, including plaques, awards, prayer books, tallis bags, handbags, medallions, a pocketwatch, kiddush cups, a kippah, shoemaking tools, 868 photographs. Box 1: File 1: Misc. Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish Documents, 1869-1912 File 2: Russian Diploma and Travel Permit, 1888-1913 File 3: Yiddish Cards,1893 File 4: Sarah and Morris Zelikovitz Correspondence, 1906-1960 File 5: Morris and Sarah Zelikovitz Ketubah,1912 File 6: Invitations, cards, souvenirs, 1912-2007 File 7: Misc. Family Records, 1926-1972 File 8: Zelikovitz Family Report Cards, 1928-1937 File 9: Newspaper Clippings, 1933-1940 File 10: Joe Zelikovitz Correspondence, 1933-1965 File 11: Hannah Zelikovitz and Sol Miller, 1935-1950 File 12: Israel Zelikovitz, 1938-1942 File 13: Sarah and Morris Paul Zelikovitz Naturalization Certificates, 1940 File 14: William Zelikovitz, Lillian Waisberg and children, 1941-1967 File 15: Viedrah Family material (cousins), 1945 / 1952 File 16: Belle Zelikovitz and Mitchell Randall and Children, 1947 File 17: Sarah and Morris Zelikovitz Correspondence, 1948-1967 File 18: Obituary and sympathy cards for Samuel Cohen, October 1952 File 19: Joshua Zelikovitz, 1952 File 20: Abe, Molly, and Leon Zelikovitz, 1954-1962 File 21: Israel Zelikovitz Family correspondence, 1954-1958 File 22: Last Will and Testament of Sarah Zelikovitz, October 26, 1956 File 23: Abe Zelikovitz Family Correspondence, 1956-1958 File 24: Beth Shalom Congregation correspondence, 1958-1964 File 25: Hannah Zelikovitz and family correspondence, 1959-1964 File 26: Bella Zelikovitz and family correspondence, 1959-1966 File 27: Biographical info, 1959-1999 File 28: Misc. Newspaper Clippings, 1960-2004 File 29: Various wedding and Bar Mitzvah Booklets, 1966-1984 File 30: Estate of Henrietta Weiss and Real Estate, 1969-1976 File 31: Correspondence, 1974-1999 File 32: Abe Zelikovitz, 1983 File 33: Lisgar Sports team photos, 1928-1932 File 34: Pocket watch and Medallion, 1931-1936 File 35: St. Patrick College Basketball Articles, 1933 File 36: Ottawa Rough Riders, 1936-1956 File 37: Football Newspaper Clippings, 1980 File 38: Ottawa Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1987 Box 2: Artifacts (needs updating) Agudath Achim 40 years of membership kiddush cups (2) Plaque "Celebrating the 200th leaf o the tree of life of the Perley Rideau", Inez Zelikovitz Silver covered Siddur Book: Building a better hospital Book: Box 3: File 1: Football Article photocopies, 1990 File 2: Correspondence regarding Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame project, 1999-2001 File 3: Canadian Football Hall of Fame Nomination papers, 1999-2006 File 4: Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame Induction, 2001-2002 File 5: Lisgar Collegiate, 2002 File 6: Parry St. Lot 16, 1905-1984 File 7: Samuel Cohen, 1907-1938 File 8: Engagement Contract, 1912 File 9: Misc. Business Material, 1912-1966 File 10: Wholesale Leather Store, 1920-1940 File 11: Correspondence regarding Business, 1935-1989 File 12: Ottawa Hebrew Free Loan Association, 1943-1967 File 13: Zelikovitz Leathers Ltd., 1944-1987 File 14: Maude Lake Gold Mine, 1946 [RESTRICTED] File 15: Leathers items, 1956-1961 File 16: Receipts, 1965-1966 File 17: Land indentures between Inez Zelikovitz and her sisters, 1969-1971 File 18: Sale of Zelikovitz Leathers Inc., 1987-1988 File 19: Agudath Achim, 1913-1956 File 20: Adath Jeshurun and Agudath Achim Merger, 1956 File 21: State of Israel Bonds, 1957-1963 File 22: Henrietta Weiss Honourary Luncheon and Israel Fashion Show, 1959 File 23: Hadassah-Wizo, 1961-2011 File 24: Jewish National Fund, 1963-1968 File 25: Men's Zionist Society of Ottawa, 1964-1965 File 26: Charity Receipts, 1966-1988 File 27: Hillel Lodge, 1966-2004 File 28: Programs, flyers, publications, 1985-2007 File 29: Correspondence: Donations and Philanthropy, 1989-2001 File 30: Congregation Beth Shalom certificates, 1991-1993 1. Fonds contains restrictions. 2. Material donated by Inez Zelikovitz, July 29, 1999, and a large accrual after the death of Inez, December, 2013. 3. Family history taken from Inez Zelikovitz, July 28, 1999. WEISS Inez Zelikovitz is the daughter of Barney and Henrietta Weiss. Her sisters include: Pauline Hochberg, Tessie (Mrs. Max Zelikovitz), Beatrice, and Lillian (lived in Montreal). Inez was born in Ottawa 1917. First lived in Roxborough Building and then moved to Rideau Street. She married Joe Zelikovitz in 1940. Her father Barney arrived in Canada from Russia when he was 5 years old. “He lived in Quebec City and spoke French fluently and English poorly”. Her mother Henrietta Sklar went to school in Brooklyn. Her parents met in New York, married, and first lived in Quebec City. When they moved to Ottawa, the Weiss family had a confectionary store on Elgin Street, followed by a delicatessen at 221 Rideau Street. In later years, Mrs. Weiss was the business as her father was ill, a diabetic. Initially, Barney Weiss was almost “an early employment bureau”. He helped immigrants to get work. Barney Weiss knew everyone from Prime Minister Mackenzie King downwards to Parisenne Photographer where Hugo Levendel got his first job. Barney Weiss supported B’nai B’rith. JOE ZELIKOVITZ (1914-1998) Joe Zelikovitz was born in Ottawa, son of Morris and Sarah Zelikovitz. Sarah was the only child of Samuel Cohen. Joe’s family included Abraham (Abe), William, Joseph, Hannah and Bella. After Joe’s sporting life, he became a salesman in the family business and was always on the road in Ontario and Quebec. He had two girls in the office. After Inez and Joe were married, she would go on some of his trips and “sit in the car and wait”. They were “close, always together”. SAMUEL COHEN Samuel Cohen was born in Russia. He arrived in Ottawa when his daughter Sarah was five or six years of age during the early years of the 20th century (in a 1952 Ottawa Citizen obituary it states that he arrived in Ottawa in 1892). He started the shoe leather and shoe findings business which was a wholesale business. S. Cohen & Son. The Son part was actually Morris Zelikovitz, his son-in-law. Samuel Cohen had no written English and spoke the language brokenly. He kept all his books in Yiddish. He was located first on Rideau Street, then Bank and Hopewell. Both Samuel Cohen and Morris Zelikovitz arrived in Ottawa during the first decade of the 20th century (not listed in the 1901 census, and yet sending out a 1912 wedding invitation). Married to Fannie. They lived at 289 York Street. Samuel died at age 87 in 1952. WILLIAM ZELIKOVITZ William's older brother Joe was his idol. He married Lillian Waisberg whom he met in a dress shop. They lived in Northern Ontario and then moved to Sudbury. They had three children together - Martin Zelikovitz, Sheryl Zelikovitz and Joel Zelikovitz. He was going into the shoe findings business but ended up selling shoes as a travelling salesman between Sudbury and North Bay. $35 when Joe and Inez got married*?? (*Archivist's note, not fully understood) Willie aged during the War. He had black hair but the experience turned his hair white. YESHUA ZELIKOVITZ (MOSHE PINCHAS ZELIKOVITZ?) (MOSES ZELIKOVITZ?) Not much is known of Yeshua, but a letter found in the Zelikovitz collection states that he was living here in Ottawa at the time that the corner stone was being laid for the Agudath Achim synagogue. He wrote his son Morris, whom he refers to as "Moshe Zoel", and invites him to come from Deep River, Connecticut, where he is living, to Ottawa, while insisting he should have "no trouble" doing so. In the Zelikovitz 2013 accrual there was a JNF certificate made out for a Moshe Pinchas Zelikovitz by Morris Zelikovitz in Moshe's memory. Moshe is listed as having passed away on July 31, 1968. Moshe and Yeshua could be the same individual? In the Joe and Inez Zelicovitz material, in the "Invitations and Souvenirs" file, there in an invitation for the marriage of Morris and Sarah that lists Morris' parents as Mr. and Mrs. J. Zelikowitz (with a W). Another item in the Zelicovitz material is a "Facts of Arrival" card written out to a "Moses Selikowitz", age 19, born in Russia, arrived on the SS Pennsylvania on July 13, 1905. Permanent admission. There is an address on the bottom of the card for a Joseph Cohen, 32 Thawmuth St., Providence, Rhode Island. HANNAH (MILLER) ZELIKOVITZ Hannah married Sol Miller of NY. They had two sons, Seth Miller and Jay Miller. MAX ZELIKOVITZ Max married Tessie Weiss and they had a daughter, Enid Lynn, who married Sydney Bultz in 1968 at Beth Shalom synagogue. Max and Tessie had a son, Joshua Zelikovitz. BELLA (ZELIKOVITZ) RANDALL Bella married Mitchell Randall, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Randall, in 1947. They had three children together, Garry Randall, Felice Randall and Sheldon Randall. ABE ZELIKOVITZ (ABRAHAM) Brother of Joe. Husband to Molly Zelikovitz. Father of Pia Zelikovitz (m. to a "Mel"), Reta Mae Zelikovitz, Leon Zelikovitz, Zelda Zelikovitz, Martin Zelikovitz and Evan Zelikovitz. Lived in Nova Scotia but also spent a lot of time in Sarasota, Florida. Known as a quiet philanthropist.
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