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Na'amat Pioneer Women, Ottawa Council fonds

fonds1938-O0032

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Ottawa Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
1938- (indexed as 1938)
Level
fonds
Extent
7 boxes of textual records, telephone directories and 16 photographs
Scope & content
Fonds consists of minutes, correspondence (1948-1950, 1971-1988, 1991-2000), souvenir booklets (1949-2000), newsletters (1957 - 2000), news clippings (1958 - 2000), financial records (1952, 1957, 1990), membership lists (1968-1988), Na’amat programs, a mock-up of the Silver Anniversary Edition of the Ottawa Jewish Telephone Directory (1951), 10 B&W photographs, old telephone directories. BOX LIST: BOX 1 - Aministration, Correspondence, Financial, Cards and Certificates [Partially Restricted] Correspondence: Kinnereth - 1948-1950; Correspondence: General - 1980-1987; [Restricted] Correspondence: General - 1970-1978; Correspondence: General - 1980-1984; Correspondence: General - 1985-1986; Correspondence: General - 1987-1988; Correspondence: General - 1991-2003; Certificates: Contains a Canada Friendship Forest commemorating 21 trees planted in Israel in honour of the Golda Meir Group of Pioneer Women in Bebe Idelson Forest - 1971, and an Award Certificate for Ann Pepper of the Golda Meir Chapter for dedication - 1974; Cards: Contains various blank cards produced by Na'amat, "Spiritual Adoption" cards and pamphlets, Na'amat "Friend for Life" forms, a plastic folder with images of two small children along with a certificate stating their "spiritual adoption" and placement in a Child Care Home in Israel for one year; Fundraising Materials; Receipts and Cheque Stubs; Financial Records: Chana Szenes - 1967-1990; Bank Statements - 1983-1984. Files contain financial records for the Ottawa Council, Chana Senesh and Golda Meir. Ottawa Council records include temporary receipt books, bills, bank books, cancelled cheques for 1983; cheque register - 1980-1986; quota sheets - 1980-1982, 1985-1986; financial reports - 1982-1988; receipt records - 1980-1987; two sample cheques - 1982, 1986 (Sample cheques maintained to indicate signing officers). Chana Senesh records include disbursement and receipt records - 1967-1990 and financial reports - 1975-1976, 1987-1989. Golda Meir records are temporary receipt books - 1980-1981. Financial Records Council: Miscellaneous; Donors List: Spiritual Adopt a Child; [Restricted] BOX 2 - History, Minutes, Administration Artifacts: Envelope of Anna Pepper's Na'amat pins; History: Founding of Pioneer Women in Ottawa. Brief history of activities and names of officers of different groups between 1938 and 1973. Handwritten; History: Pioneer Women Ottawa's Kinnereth Branch - 1946-1966; History: Souvenir Booklets. File contains: Annual souvenir program, Annual donor dinner - 1949, Silver Jubilee book: Pioneer Women 25th anniversary [published by Ottawa Pioneer Women, 1950], Annual souvenir program, Pioneer Women's Organization of Ottawa - 1952, Fourth triennial convention, Pioneer Women, Ottawa - 1975 (includes passport, luncheon ticket, closing banquet program and menu), This is your life on flashback - 1963 (by Miriam Paghis, Mrs Kauffman, Miriam Goldstein, Sally Schneider, Zelaine Shinder and Dvora Browns). Administration: Minutes, Golda Meir (Yiddish) - 1965-1968; Administration: Minutes, Golda Meir (Translations from Yiddish) - 1965-1968; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1946-1953; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1953-1954; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1954-1955; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1955-1956; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1956-1957; Administration: Minutes, Kinnereth - 1958-1962 (1970 minutes of Kinnereth destroyed, some sent to National Office Archives in Montreal); Administration: Minutes, Chana Szenesh - 1973-1974, 1984-1987; Administration: Minutes, Otzma - 2004; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 1965-1970; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 1971-1976; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 1977-1988; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 1990-1993; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 1994-1999; Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Council of Ottawa - 2000-2005; Administration: Membership Lists - 1977-2004 (with gaps); Reports - 1957-1976; Reports - 1981-2003; Ottawa City Report for Na'amat Canada National Board Meetings - 1997-2002; BOX 3 - Programs, Newsletters, Resource Materials, Invitations, Clippings, Periodicals Administration: Minutes, Pioneer Women's Organization of Canada - 1974; Zelaine Shinder's Speeches (handwritten); Presentations by Sonia Viner (handwritten) - 1958-1971 (with gaps); Programs: Invitations, Notices, Fliers - 1960's-1980's; Programs: Invitations, Programs - 1990-2005; Programs: Invitations, Notices, Otzma Chapter - 2005; Programs: 14th Triennial Convention - 2005; Programs: Donok Dinner - 1975, 1976; Programs: Plays. "The successors of Hannah", arranged by Dina Shalom, Ottawa Council. "The plight of the cultural chairman", written by Jean Harrison, Dagania Group, Pioneer Women's Organization of Montreal. "The twentieth anniversary of Pioneer Women in Ottawa", arranged by Sophie Katz - 1958. "Life in ancient Persia", an original skit written by Sonia Viner, Dvora Browns, Miriam Paghis and Freda Shwatrzman for Ottawa Pioneer Women. "I want to join", a playlet by Layah Borod - 1974; Programs: Skits from the Sonia Viner collection; Programs: Forum on Medical Intervention, Dilemma for the 90's. Correspondence of Lillian Laks for the forum. Moderated by Bernard Starkman - 1992; Programs: Women's Seder, Na’amat Otzma’s 4th annual women's seder prepared by Kayla Estrin, Jenny Shinder and Ilana Albert-Novic using the Women’s Hagaddah by E. M. Broner an the Ma’yan Passover Hagaddah - 2000-2004; Programs: What's Cooking with Israeli Wine? - 1971; Programs: 75th Anniversary Candlelighting Ceremony, Written and directed by Layah Surchin Borod - 2000; Programs: Building Project of Pioneer Women Na'Amat, Givatayim - 1987; Clippings: Articles about the 20th anniversary party of Pioneer Women in Ottawa - 1958; Honouring Anna Pepper, a Pioneer founder - 1968; Silver anniversary of Ottawa Jewish Reference Telephone Directory - 1976; Photocopies of Pioneer Women (in the US) - 1980, and other events; Newsletters: Achshav - 1990-2008 (with gaps); Newsletters: Pioneer Women's Bulletin - 1957-1972; Newsletters: 1974-2010; Resource Materials: Israel Publications; Resource Materials: Pioneer Women, New York; Resource Materials: Pioneer Women, Canada; Resource Materials: Pioneer Women, Canada - 1990's; Resource Materials: Periodicals, Pioneer Women; Resource Materials: Periodicals, Pioneer Women of Canada; Resource Materials: Periodicals, Convention Issues; Resource Materials: Periodicals, Na'amat Notes; Resource Materials: Periodicals; Resource Materials: Pamphlet, Get to know Na'amat Canada; BOX 4 - Series: Telephone Directores Artifact: Sonia Viner's "Cash Book". Contains a write-up by Sonia exaplining the purpose of the book; Artifact: Six handwritten ledgers containing information on people, their advertisements purchased and number of telephone directories purchased; Telephone: Financial Records (two files). Includes advertising account books, individual subscriptions for the telephone directories 1951-1958, printing bills 1973-1977, financial statements 1953, 1972,1980; Telephone: Correspondence. Includes a letter typed by Sonia Viner introducing the first copy of the telephone directory and other letters concerning the publication and distribution of the directories - 1951-1982 (with gaps); Telephone: Silver Anniversary Mock-up (3 files). Files contain the mock-up for the publication of the 1975 telephone directory along with notes and correspondence for changes in business and personal entries - 1975; Telephone: History of the Directory. Handwritten by Sonia Viner - 1982; Telephone: 50th Anniversary of the Directory Pamphlet. Contains a "Milestones" list - 2001; Telephone Directory Listing Cards. Three cards post marked 1969, five cards postmarked 1974; BOX 5 - Series: Telephone Directories Directories are reference books of members of the Ottawa Jewish community with addresses and telephone numbers, community services and primarily Ottawa businesses. It is published annually. The Labour Zionist Council of Ottawa, the first publisher, was joined by Pioneer Women in 1955. The Histadrut League and Pioneer Women Na'amat were publishers between 1970 and 1987. Na'amat published the directory from 1988 onwards. Harry Shinder and Sonia Viner were the founders of the 1st edition. Ottawa was the first Jewish community in Canada to publish a telephone directory and the idea was introduced by Mrs. Max Baylin. The title changed from the Jewish Reference Book and Telephone Directory in 1951 to the Ottawa Jewish Reference Book and Telephone Directory in 1952, and other variations over the years. Ottawa Jewish Telephone Directory - 1951-1982 (1953 missing); BOX 6 - Series: Telephone Directories Ottawa Jewish Telephone Directory - 1983-2000; BOX 7 - Series: Telephone Directories Ottawa Jewish Telephone Directories - 2001-2023 ; 1. As of 2001, Chana Senesh, Aviva and Otzma were active chapters. 2. Photographs 4-026, 4-027, 4-032, 4-152, 4-165, 4-166, 4-252, 4-254, 4-256, 4-257 are described in the photograph database. 3. Copies of telephone directory added annually. 4. 1953 and 1969 telephone directory are missing and assumed unpublished. 5. Pins donated by Esther Ages (as of March, 2008, placed with Esther and Matt Ages fonds). 6. 14 pins donated by Anna Pepper 7. Telephone directories transferred to the archives annually. 8. Two copies of 1952, 1963, 1974, 1984 and 1991 retained to support policy of collecting two copies of one year in each decade. 9. Mrs. Anna Pepper was a strong supporter of Pioneer Women and served in several capacities including Advisory to Ottawa Pioneer Women, National Board Member, Honourary Histadrut Chairman of Women’s Division. Mrs. Miriam Paghis, at the time a young Pioneer Women’s member, recalls Anna Pepper as a “great fund raiser - no one could raise money as she could.” Mrs. Pepper was a member of the Golda Meir group, extremely active and loved the organization according to Ethel Malek.
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Correspondence about individual donations restricted for 35 years. Donor dinner lists for Anna Pepper, 1980, Sylvia Shinder scholarship fund, 1980, donor dinner, 1985, and Spiritual adoption lists restricted for 35 years.
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