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LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Fonds
No.: PR1177
TITLE: Edmonton Talmud Torah Fonds
CREATOR: Edmonton Talmud Torah
DATE RANGE: 1931- 1967
EXTENT: 196 photographs
ADMINISTRATIVE
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: The Edmonton Talmud Torah formed on December 22, 1922 in Edmonton, Alberta. Initially, students took classes in the basement of the Beth Israel Synagogue on 85th Street and Rowland Road after completing courses and public shool. In 1923, the Talmud Torah moved to a new building on 103rd Street, and shared the space with a community centre. In 1933, the Talmud Torah established the first Hebrew day school in Canada, offering grades 1 and 2. In 1952, the school moved to 133rd Street and 106th Avenue. In 1963, the school added a second wing and a gymnasium. In 1975, the Edmonton Talmud Torah partnered with Edmonton Public Schools. The Edmonton Public School Board agreed to fund the secular portion of the school day. The Board of Directors of the Talmud Torah assumed responsibility for the content and cost of the sacred elements of the program. In 1995, with the use of Stafford School, the Talmud Torah added a junior high program. In 1997, the Talmud Torah met its new program expansion with the erection of a new building. The Edmonton Talmud Torah meets provincial standards and allows children of any denomination to attend.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The fonds consists of photographs of the graduation class of the Talmud Torah dating from 1931- 1962, graduation programs dating from 1957-1967, photographs of the Talmud Torah exterior dating from 1943 and1962, class photographs dating from 1950’s, and various photographs of children attending the Talmud Torah dating from the 1940’s to the 1960’s.
ARRANGEMENT NOTE: Material arranged according to original order.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: For more information regarding individuals and Jewish activities in Edmonton, available at the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, please see: Rozenweig, Uriel. The First Century of Jewish Life in Edmonton and Northern Alberta 1893-1993. Edmonton: Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta, 2000. For more information on the Talmud Torah please see: Pascoe, Ronald M. Edmonton Talmud Torah: The First 75 Years: 1912- 1987. Edmonton: Edmonton Talmud Torah Society, 1988
RELATED RECORDS: For more material regarding individuals and Jewish activities in Edmonton, available at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, please see the Cory Felber fonds, Edmonton Talmud Torah fonds, Louis and Tryna Rudolph fonds, Howard and Ester Starkman fonds, and the Maurice Stochinsky fonds available at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
GENERAL NOTE: Information for the administrative history/biographical sourced from the Edmonton Talmud Torah website available at: http://talmud.epsb.ca/history.htm (Accessed May 15, 2007) The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A2466 and A2467, A10,242, A10, 245, A10,244, A10, 241, and in the fonds.
RELATED ITEMS: A10240 (Edmonton Free Hebrew School, Talmud Torah.)
A10241 (Edmonton Free Hebrew School, Talmud Torah.)
A10242 (Edmonton Free Hebrew School, Talmud Torah.)
A10243 (Edmonton Free Hebrew School, Talmud Torah.)
A10244 (Edmonton Free Hebrew School, Talmud Torah.)
A10245 (Junior Congregation, Mel Hurtig.)
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