- Ottawa Jewish Archives
- Cantor David Aptowitzer Family fonds
Cantor David Aptowitzer Family fonds
fonds1953-2013I0039
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- Held by
- Ottawa Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1953-2013 (indexed as 1953–2013)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- textual records
- Scope & content
- Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 1, bris 1 to 190 - September 1965 - September 1972; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 2, bris 191 to 858 - April 1973 - January 1986; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 3, bris 859 to 1444 - January 1986 - March 2000; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 4, bris 1445 to 1464 - July 2000 - July 2006; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Index Book (alphabetical); File 1 - Biographical Information, Wall, Lawrence. “Aptowitzer memoirs document lines of turmoil, survival.” The Bulletin of Agudath Israel Congregation, September- October 2007. File 2 - General Correspondence, 1960, 1968, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2010, 2013; File 3 - Agudath Israel Bulletins, 1953, 1965, 1976-1977, 1982, 1988-1989, 1994; File 4 - Agudath Israel Men's Club Rosh Hashanah Cards, 1964-1969, 1971; File 5 - News clippings, Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, 1952, 1977, 1982-1984, 1994, 2013; File 6 - Ephemera, includes programmes of events in which Cantor Aptowitzer participated, 1953,1958, 1960-1961, 1963, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1989, 2000, 2002; File 7 - Ephemera, includes programmes, invitations to events celebrating Cantor Aptowitzer, 1977, 1982, 1989, 1994; File 8 - Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner, 1997; File 9 - Ottawa Talmud Torah - Booklet, "A teenagers introduction to Judaism" by Rabbi Samuel Burstein - 1957; Yearbook, Ottawa Talmud Torah, 1968-1969; File 10 - Certificates of Circumcision, 5 examples, 1990s-2000s; File 11 - News clippings, articles on the topic of circumcision, various dates; File 12 - Pages from Reister of Marriage; File 13 - Rosh Hashannah Booklets - 1987-1990 1. Circumcision Register Books are organised chronologically by date of bris. Entries in the registers are numbered and include: child's English name and Hebrew name, date of birth, place of birth, date of bris, place of bris, and names of parents. 2. Circumcision Index Book, names listed alphabetically with corresponding bris number; 3. Agudath Israel Bulletins and Ottawa Jewish Bulletin's contain references to various events including Cantor David Aptowitzer's appointment as chazzan of Agudath Israel, his twenty-fifth, thirtieth and thirty-sixth anniversaries of service, his installation as honorary fellow of Cantors Institute, his retirement tribute, and he and Gita's move to Israel.
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- Genre / form
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- Harvested
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