Heritage – Yerusha Summer 2012 Sivan 5772 Volume 14, No. 3 HERITAGEHERITAGE www.jahsena.ca The Journal of THE JEWISH ARCHIVES & HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF & NORTHERN

Inside: Mandel Bloomfield

Jews in AZA ca. 1973 Professional Sports page 4

Sparkie Milner page 10

Jewish Street Names in Edmonton page 12

Hold the date: Thursday, July 5th Bus Tour Back Row L-R: Dan Kauffman, Gary Lyons, Steve Kushner, David Kauffman, Phil Rosensweig, Mark Rozenberg, Bruce Mintz, Neil Kredentser, Marshall Shoctor. of Jewish Second Row: L-R: David Bernstein, Norm Hanson, Danny Warhaft, Perry Hendin, David Edmonton Zimmer, David Warhaft. 2 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012 hwry HERITAGEHERITAGE From the President, The Journal of the Jewish by Jini Vogel Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Summer, 2012 Alberta

President Jini Vogel Archivist & Editor orking with organizations pictures, documents or artifacts that Debby Shoctor Wcan often be very disappoint- reflect our members from all parts of Treasurer ing. You certainly hear about the the world. The Jewish community Howard Davidow oversights and mistakes and rarely in Edmonton and Northern Alberta hear about the good stuff. Well I am is a melting pot and that is what Secretary delighted to tell you that all of us at gives us our unified strength. So no Hal Simons Jahsena are thrilled to hear from matter where you were born (yes, Vice Presidents so many of our members in support even Calgary!) if you live here in Judy Goldsand of our Quarterly magazine “Heritage”. Edmonton or Northern Alberta we Miriam Rabinovitch We hear from members who no are interested in you!!! Members-at-Large longer live here or who are no longer The importance of capturing active in the community, linking us historical moments in our community Dr. Manuel Friedman, Mel Wyne, Caroline Ullman, together. Each issue is a labour of came home to me this year during the Phil Lister, love. Our Archivist Debby Shoctor Holocaust Memorial service at the Dr. George Goldsand, is the driving force behind the issues. legislature grounds. The previous Doreen Jampolsky, Ron Bercov She locates writers, does research, year Dasha Zottenberg (of blessed edits and often puts the stamps on memory) once again took the micro- Past-President the envelopes. We are always looking phone and sang the Partisan song of Dan Kauffman for themes for the issues so please call the Polish underground. Her voice Founding President or e-mail the office if you have sugges- was full of passion and dedication and Uri Rosenzweig tions. We can always use more writers there was not a dry eye in the house. and source materials. Thankfully one of the attendees, Frida Graphic Design Several times this past year, I spoke Pesin, had the foresight to record PageMaster to people in the community about Dasha’s song in 2011. This year we recording their life stories. Some back had only the recording. What a payoff Mailing Address off saying they were not born here…. for the Archives and thank you, Frida! JAHSENA, 7200-156 St., but when questioned how long they Have a great summer and watch the Edmonton, Alberta, T5R 1X3 have lived here, they answer 10, 15 mail for some exciting JAHSENA or 35 years. One even said 70 years! events . Telephone: (780) 489-2809 You do not have to have been born Jini Vogel, Fax: (780) 481-1854 here to have a history in our commu- President, Email: [email protected] nity. We are very interested in stories, JAHSENA Website: www.jahsena.ca. HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 3 JAHSENA Welcomes Dr. Eva Olsson n Sunday, May 18th, JAHSENA Hungary, one of six children in a poor Owelcomed Holocaust Survivor and Hasidic family. On May 15, 1944, she speaker Dr. Eva Olsson in a joint program and her family were taken away, then co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of ended up in several Concentration Camps, Edmonton. Mrs. Olsson was in Alberta including Auschwitz, which she man- speaking to local school groups, including aged to survive. She then went to live in at the annual Holocaust Symposium Sweden, where she met her husband, and for Grade 12 students sponsored by they ultimately immigrated to , the Education Committee of the Jewish , where she has lived ever since. Federation of Edmonton. About 60 Her books, “Unlocking the doors: A people attended the Sunday night event. Woman’s Struggle Against Intolerance” Mrs. Olsson was very well-received, and and “Remembering Forever: A Journey talked about her experiences growing up of Darkness & Light,” are available for Dr. Eva Olsson and JAHSENA in an Orthodox Jewish family in Szatmar, purchase online at www.eveolsson.ca. President Jini Vogel, Shoctor photo.

JAHSENA Completes Digitization of DONATION Oral History Holdings CARDS JAHSENA has donation he Board of Directors and Staff of office for researchers. In addition, we are cards with historic pictures on JAHSENA (The Jewish Archives still working on creating summary guides T them available for purchase. and Historical Foundation of Edmonton for these interviews, so that researchers and Northern Alberta) are pleased to will find it easier to access the specific Mark your special simchas announce that we have completed the information which they may be looking by sending a donation to digitization of 90% of our Oral History for. JAHSENA. Contact the office collection of approximately 200 interviews In the future, we will be using digital for more details at: 780-489- with Edmontonians and others of Jewish equipment such as digital video cams and 2809. We have received the origin. This project was completed thanks I-pods to record the history of our elders. following donations: to a grant from the Archives Society This will make it much easier to preserve Sympathy of Alberta with funds made available this information for the future, allow easy To the family of Prof. Gerald Gall, from from the Alberta Historic Resources access for our researchers, and transmis- the Board of JAHSENA. Foundation and the National Archival sion of information via the internet. Development Program of the Canadian JAHSENA is very grateful to the Mazel Tov Council of Archives. National Archival Development Program, To Tessa Gregson on her birthday, from This $7000 grant allowed JAHSENA the Archives Society of Alberta and to the Rick & Nikki Vogel. to digitize our magnetic tape interviews Alberta Historic Research Foundation To Max Dolgoy on his 100th Birthday, to make them more easily accessible to and the Provincial Archives of Alberta from the Board of JAHSENA users, as well as giving them a longer life. for their help with this important project. Magnetic cassette tape has become an At the time of this writing, we had just obsolete technology, so it was imperative been informed of the termination of the NEW MEMBERS that we migrate these interviews to digital $1.7 million annual National Archival JAHSENA would like to welcome the following new members: format or they would be lost forever. With Development Program (NADP) by the the help of the Provincial Archives of Federal Government and Library and Steven & Talya Shafir, Edmonton, AB Alberta’s Archives Service Centre, we were Archives Canada. This is a terrible blow Dr. Rosalie Rubin Shadlyn, Toronto, ON able to use the expertise of staff members to the Canadian archival community. We Jean & Aaron Oshry, Edmonton, AB Terry O’Riordan and Tom Bernier to urge all supporters of archives to write Leo Superstein, Edmonton, AB translate these tapes to digital format. letters to their local MPs protesting these Lea Neaman, Edmonton, AB They are now available in the JAHSENA cuts. Bernice Milner, Edmonton, AB 4 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012 Edmonton’s Jewish Community and Professional Sports By Paula E. Kirman ewish people and professional sports are Jnot often associated in most people’s minds. While there may be local, amateur and other teams in the community, jokes are often made about the dearth of Jews involved with professional sports. While many of the people featured here are sports team founders or owners, a number are also professional (or Army & Navy Baseball Team, sponsored by Harry Cohen. Left rear: Albert Superstein; Right Rear: accomplished) athletes. The variety of the kinds Tiger Goldstick. JAHSENA Archives photo. of sports is also notable. ’s St. Louis Blues Liberty Grand. in 1983, selling it in 1986 for $19 million. In his spare Harry Ornest was a successful sports Ornest also bought the time, David enjoys entrepreneur. Born on June 30, 1923, League team in 1988. spending time Ornest grew up in Edmonton and had He sold the team in 1991 (for $5 million with his wife, been a minor-league hockey referee in the to Bruce McNall, , and the Stacey, and their AHL as well as a linesman in the NHL. late actor ), then in 1996 was three children, As well, he played in minor baseball in the part of a ten-man group who purchased Jesse, Josh, and mid ‘40s for teams in Tacoma and Albany. the B.C. Lions. He also became the deputy Geri. David , JAHSENA photo. He also invested in several minor-league managing director and the largest share- and Stacey are sports clubs. As he grew his fortune, he holder in Hollywood Park, a California also involved in Toronto’s philanthropic realized his dream of owning a major horse racing track. Originally from community. They have endowed a chair league sports franchise. He purchased the Edmonton, Ornest lived in Beverly Hills, at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children California. He died on July 21, 1998 at the named the “David and Stacey Cynamon age of 75. He had been married to his wife, Clinical Scholar in Pediatric Neuroscience Ruth, for 46 years and was also survived Endowment Fund”, renovated and named by his daughters Laura and Cindy, sons the 10th floor post-natal unit at Mount Mike and Maury, and his brother, Leo. Sinai Hospital, and made gifts to the UJA The Harry Ornest Memorial Award in and the Edmonton Jewish Foundation. Sports Journalism exists at the University David currently sits on the Board of the of Notre Dame and is awarded annually to Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust and is a journalism student there interested in a also a member of the Board of Directors career in sports journalism. of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation. David Cynamon The Cynamons have funded innova- David was born in Edmonton, the tive educational initiatives, such as the son of Henry and Lil Cynamon. An avid Wernham and West Centre for Learning sportsman who has completed 4 triathlons, at Upper Canada College, summer camps David is also co-owner of the CFL’s for underprivileged children, and arts Harry Ornest & Joe Gordon, 1943, JAHSENA Toronto Argonauts, as well as co-owner of organizations, including the CNIB camp Archives photo. one of Canada’s top banquet facilities, the at Lake Joseph. HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 5

The Cynamons have been passionate Silverman explains. “He wanted to know Avenue. He later in their support for Atidim (Hebrew for if I would like to buy a Triple A baseball went into business “futures”), an organization that supports team. Since I am a baseball fan and played a himself establish- high-potential adolescents, army conscripts, lot of baseball in high school I also became ing the Steakloft and young adults from underprivileged excited. Dennis Job, the owner of the Restaurant on communities, living mostly in the outly- Ogden Utah Triple A franchise, was going ing areas of mainstream Israel. Recently, broke and needed to sell.” and owning Hy’s continuing their drive to embolden Israeli He continues: “Mel and I climbed into Steakloft on Rice youth, they opened a recreation centre in my airplane and I flew to Ogden. We met Howard Way. Mitch Klimove, the northern part of Israel, the Cynamon Dennis at the ball park. There was a game Klimove was supplied photo. Youth Centre at Shimshit. David and that afternoon between Ogden and Salt the president of the in Stacey have also improved the lives of Lake. It was a very hot afternoon. We 1974 and 1975. He was Vice President of children in Israel through the creation and hammered the details of the purchase Allarco which owned the team at the time. renovation of three inner city schools and on some hot dog napkins and we all signed However, the company sold the club the a park. In November 2007, David was the agreement. We were to come back to next year, which ended Klimove’s involve- honoured by the B’nai Brith Foundation for Edmonton and have a formal agreement ment with it. Still, Klimove kept his hand an Award of Merit. prepared by a lawyer and I was to place the in the sports world. Along with Albert Tiger Goldstick purchase price into escrow. The documents Superstein, Klimove helped manage the Although he was were prepared and the $350,000 was placed career of professional boxer Al Ford in the never a professional into Escrow and the documents were sent ‘70s, as well as a number of other fighters athlete or owned via courier to Dennis Job’s lawyer.” who were top ranked in the world like a sports team, the However, the story takes a dramatic Georgie Dunn and Billy McGrandle. Ford late Tiger Goldstick twist. “They [the documents] arrived back was ranked third in the world, and Klimove will forever be in Edmonton a week later with some very and Superstein led him to 43 straight wins. associated with onerous changes, one being that he would However, despite Ford’s success, the men sports in Edmonton move to Edmonton and manage the team. ended up selling his contract to someone because of his sports This was never part of the discussions and else because they were losing money from broadcasting on I was not prepared to hire Dennis Job to be having to turn down fights. Ford’s career CTV. He played and the bat boy, never mind being the manager. eventually fizzled because his lack of disci- coached football and I told Mel that I was going to back out of pline did not leave him in good condition to baseball and won the deal. Mel asked me if we could find keep fighting. a Navy Wrestling someone else to take our position and I sug- Klimove was also involved in professional Championship belt. gested that we speak to horse racing. He partnered with Bory Tiger Goldstick, He also promoted who owned the Oilers and the Drillers. Margolus, who owned Elmbrook Farms, JAHSENA photo. taking part in sports Peter agreed to buy the option for the but had horses of his own. In addition to to children by organizing donations of team from us and he did bring the team to his sports-related activities, Klimove was equipment every year. Edmonton. Mel did stay on with the team the only foreigner ever granted a license by as manager but not before they settled a law Abe Silverman the state of Nevada to build a hotel (acting suit with Dennis Job.” on behalf of Allarco). Allarco built the Silverman was partly responsible for The Trappers team was ultimately hotel, but it was sold before it was opened. bringing the baseball purchased from the bank by the Edmonton He also served in the air force in 1943- team to Edmonton. Eskimos for one million dollars. The 1947 as a wireless operator. His overseas “Sometime dur- Eskimos organization sold the team five posting was in Goose Bay Labrador, ing the summer years later for 10 million US dollars. which didn’t belong to Canada at the time. of 1980, Mel Brother Ralph Klimove won the Provincial Kowalchuk, who Mitch Klimove wrestling championship in 1951 and was was selling ads Born to Sam and Minnie Klimove in offered a full scholarship to Arizona State in the Free Press 1926, Mitch grew up on 95th Street and University. However, according to Mel Prairie Farmer, attended Alex Taylor School as a child. His Wyne, his mother said that Jewish boys came to me with Abe Silverman, parents were the owners of Klimove’s store don’t go away to play games, so he didn’t go. some excitement,” JAHSENA photo. in the Gibson Block Building on Jasper Continued on page 6 6 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012

edmonton jews in sports for pre-season baseball predictions, asking Moe Lieberman Continued from page 5 who he thought would win the World Born in Toronto Series,” says Leo Superstein, nephew. in the late 1800s, Albert Superstein Superstein passed away on June 2, 2011. Moses Isaac “Moe” Superstein played Lieberman first in Edmonton with a team sponsored by worked as a land Edmonton Motors. He played with the Born into surveyor, then Edmonton Cubs in the early to mid-’40s, a drugstore came to Alberta and prior to that, with the Army and Navy family which he in turn built to article as a Cardinals in the late ‘30s. Harry Ornest Moe Lieberman, lawyer. He was was on the same team at the same time. into an empire JAHSENA Archives photo. called to the bar in Superstein was also a noted boxing pro- (Katz’s company 1917 and married his wife Emily Sereth moter, who was Mitch Klimove’s associate. owns the Rexall pharmacies), Katz in 1918. The couple had two children, “He was good at promoting the sport,” says supplied photo. Daryl Katz, Ethel and Sam. Lieberman had a lasting Klimove. “I arranged all the matches and is best known legacy in Edmonton’s sports scene play- everything else and he was more in the as the owner of the Edmonton Oilers ing quarterback for the U of A Golden publicity end of it.” and Oil Kings hockey teams, as well Bears (even though he never attended the Superstein was also an excellent hockey as the Edmonton Capitols -A ). He played with the player who was drafted by the New York baseball team. Katz was born in 1961 in Edmonton Eskimos from 1919 to 1921, Rangers also in the mid-‘40s, although Edmonton, the son of pharmacist Barry and became the team’s manager in 1922. he never actually played with the team. Katz and Ida Fishman of Calgary. He Later, he became a referee, then President He did go to their training camp, where attended Talmud Torah, Jasper Place of the Western Canadian Football an incident made him rethink his hockey High School, and the U of A, earning a League. Finally, he became president of career. “He was rooming with another Bachelor of Arts (1982) and a law degree the Eskimos, during which time the team professional player on the team,” says (1985). He founded his own company, won two Grey Cups in 1955 and 1956. Klimove, who would not reveal the name Katz Group Inc., in the early ‘90s, taking Lieberman was inducted into the Football of the player. “One night this player went over around 1800 retail drug stores in the Hall of Fame in 1973 and named a mem- into their room and was intoxicated. He U.S. and Canada by 2008. That same year, ber of the Alberta and Edmonton Sports threw Albert’s bed out of the window. he purchased the Edmonton Oilers from Halls of Fame in 1974. The Eskimos cre- Albert came into the room to find his bed the Edmonton Investors Group for $200 ated a scholarship in his name, to be given hanging on the marquee. Albert got upset million. He is one of the 500 most wealthy to a high school student entering university and came home.” people in Canada. who demonstrates both academic and foot- Besides sports, Superstein worked ball talent. In the community, Lieberman with his brothers in several businesses was involved with the Edmonton Little – Edmonton Produce (poultry and egg Theatre and the Royal Alexandra Hospital. wholesaler) and the Rex and Riviera He was named King’s Counsel in 1935 Hotels. He was also a member of Beth and received a Human Relations award Israel Synagogue. Still, he continued to be from the Canadian Council of Christians associated with the world of sports. “He and Jews. He was also very involved in was quite often interviewed by the Journal the Jewish community with B’nai Brith, Beth Shalom Synagogue, and the Talmud Torah. Lieberman died in 1985.

Mandel family, Shoctor photo. Allan Klein Stephen Mandel Klein was born in November of 1921 in Poland, where his family owned an Mandel is currently the Mayor of inn. After being robbed by bandits several Edmonton, but some may not know that times (his father nearly being killed in he also owned a hockey team in Tucson. one incident), the family decided to move He invested in the Tucson Gila Monsters, to Montreal, where his mother had two Albert Superstein (far right) and Sugar Ray part of the West Coast Hockey League, in sisters. The family eventually made its Leonard, JAHSENA Archives photo. 1998. HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 7

way west to Vegreville, which had 23 Jewish families and a synagogue at the time. Klein’s father, Jacob, served as can- tor. The Jewish baker in Vegreville, Emil Wener, played hockey for the Vegreville intermediate hockey team, and at age 15 Klein joined the Vegreville intermediate hockey team playing with adults. In 1937 the Vegreville Junior team was beaten in the provincial finals by Medicine Hat. The following year, Klein played on the Vegreville junior team, beating Lethbridge in the Provincial Junior finals. Klein was named the star of the series. Coleman, Alberta had a semi-pro senior hockey team which made Klein a written offer to join their team. However, Klein’s father did not permit this, and instead Klein entered the University of Manitoba in the fall of 1940 for the pre-dental program. While in , Klein played for the Winnipeg Monarchs junior hockey team and occasionally for the University of Manitoba hockey team. He quit the 1952 Edmonton Eskimos with directors Shoctor, Lieberman and Singer, JAHSENA Archives photo Monarchs and played for the St. James (later to become director of Jewish Family “We played in two national champion- Canadians, an easier commute. His team Services in Edmonton), on December 26, ships: one in Edmonton against Hamilton lost the provincial finals to Portage La 1946. The couple adopted two children and one in Windsor, Ontario against Prairie. (Earl and Bonny) and divorced in the late Windsor. I regret to tell you we lost both After meeting wounded soldiers and ‘60s. He married Lucille Grey of Viking in games,” he recalls. In 1952, he was voted military instructors who had returned 1972 and moved to St. Albert, where he the most valuable player in the league. to Canada, Klein decided to become a played pick-up hockey. After his career as a player was over, doctor instead of a dentist. In the fall of Syd Bercov Bercov was asked if he was interested in 1946, he entered the Faculty of Science at “Sports was my life as a kid,” says Syd officiating in football. Indeed, he was. Manitoba. He graduated in the spring of Bercov, who played hockey up to the Beginning in the mid to late ‘50s, Bercov 1947 and entered the Faculty of Medicine juvenile level and tournament baseball officiated in minor league football at the that fall. Klein played hockey for the as a child, followed by being an all-star junior, college, and high school levels for University of Manitoba and in 1946-47 he player in high school, later play- approximately three years. He then was was the U of M Athlete of the Year. Eddie ing at the university level with the U of A invited to officiate in the CFL, which he Shore, the coach of the , saw Golden Bears. did for about 30 years until the late '70s, Klein play and asked him to try out for Some of Bercov’s greatest athletic including working at five games. the team, but by then Klein had decided to achievements were in junior football. In addition to officiating football, Bercov become a doctor. Still, Klein played hockey Junior football, for those who don’t know, also coached a high school basketball team for the U of M every year the whole time follows high school and involves athletes at Garneau High School. he was in medical school. After graduating, from ages 18-21.It is the highest amateur Despite his accomplishments as a refer- he set up a general practice in Viking, league before turning professional in ee, it was only a side hobby to Bercov’s law Alberta where he made another contribu- Canada. Bercov played junior football in career. In fact, he was in law school when tion to the hockey world: Klein was the Edmonton for three years: one year with he began officiating. “It was professional attending physician who delivered each the Maples Leafs and two years with the in the sense that I got paid, but was not of the six Sutter brothers, all of whom Wildcats, playing the quarterback position enough to make a living,” Bercov explains. became players in the NHL. while also punting and kicking field goals. Klein married Queena Esther Wershof Continued on page 8 8 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012

edmonton jews in sports lot of time volunteering in the Edmonton became the Continued from page 7 Jewish Community, serving on the Boards first-ever gold Ron Bercov of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton, medal winner the Beth Israel Synagogue, The Jewish for a Canadian Ron Bercov has Senior’s Drop-in Centre, JAHSENA and woman at the a rather colourful as President of the Talmud Torah. Maccabi Games history as a bas- in Tel Aviv at the ketball referee. His Alan Lyons age of 14. She resume includes Lyons was a won silver in the Janna Promislow, refereeing games at competitive ten- supplied photo. 200m backstroke the highest level of nis player in the at the 1983 Pan-American Maccabi men’s and women’s 1950s. He started games in San Paulo, Brazil. She competed university teams. out in Juniors in Ron Bercov, supplied photo. nationally and internationally and still He refereed the his early teens, holds provincial age group records in the National Women’s championship in 1978 and won various 11 and 12 girl’s LC 200 individual medley and on the men’s side of things refereed the Edmonton and Alan Lyons, supplied photo. and 100 freestyle. Promislow earned her Canada West finals during the same time Alberta Junior BA at the U of A, her LLB from the period. In addition, Bercov refereed several Tennis Championships. He went on to University of Victoria and was called to National Wheelchair Championships and play on the U of A tennis team. Originally the Bar of Alberta in 1999. After practic- various provincial high school champion- from Edmonton, Lyons moved back to the ing law in the Northwest Territories she ships. city in 1994 after a career as a lawyer with pursued graduate work at Osgoode Hall Bercov got involved in refereeing bas- the Federal Department of Justice and as Law School, . She served ketball informally in high school, taking a diplomat in the Foreign Service for 30 as the Executive Director of the Centre part in intramural games. Things got more years. However, tennis remained a large for Constitutional Studies at the U of A’s serious when he returned to Edmonton part of his life. Whenever he returned to Faculty of Law in 2004-2005 and is cur- after completing graduate school at the Edmonton, he would play at the Royal rently a professor in the Faculty of Law at California Institute of Technology. He was Glenora Club. Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, approached by Herb McLachlan, who was Ron Ghitter BC. his Physical Education professor at the Ghitter was University of Alberta where Bercov was born in Calgary Michael Oshry taking a Mathematics degree. McLachlan on August 22, Michael Oshry later became dean of the Faculty of 1935. He received competed in fenc- Physical Education. At McLachlan’s his Bachelor of ing at a national prompting, Bercov became part of the Law degree In level, winning Basketball Referee Association. 1959 from the a few regional Bercov has also refereed at some more University of tournaments and Ron Ghitter, supplied photo. offbeat kinds of sporting events. He was Alberta. After a Bronze in the a referee at a game between teams from career in law he went into politics, serving Western Canadian Michael Oshry, supplied photo. mainland China and Athletes in Action (a two terms as an MLA for Calgary-Buffalo, Championships, Christian touring ministry). His referee ending in 1979. Ghitter was appointed to and the National Championships in 1990. partner was also from mainland China and the Senate in 1993 and sat as a Progressive He qualified for Canada for the 1993 could not speak a word of English. More Conservative. He was Chair of the Senate Maccabi Games in Israel, winning bronze. recently, Bercov refereed games during the Standing Committee on Energy, the In addition, he played in the Edmonton World Masters when they were held here Environment and Natural Resources from Jewish Hockey League (EJHL) for a while, in Edmonton in 2005. He refereed the 1996-1999 and resigned in 2000. Ghitter winning a scoring title one year, and Goalie championship game in the 65 and over age was also an avid tennis player who often of the Year in another year after switching group category. “Lithuania beat Australia,” competed against Alan Lyons and part- positions. He has also played in the local he says, laughing. nered with him in doubles in junior tennis Jewish baseball league for many years, Like his brother Syd, Ron had another tournaments in Alberta. winning the Golden Glove and highest batting average. Oshry is a co-founder career – as a Mathematics Professor at Janna Promislow of FIRMA Foreign Exchange (formerly the University of Alberta. He also spent a An accomplished swimmer, Promislow HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 9

Globex Foreign Exchange Corporation), U.S. in the 1940s and ‘50s. For more about among the founders of the post-war where he is President and CEO. The Sparkie Milner, see our sidebar pg 10. Edmonton Eskimos and had a pre and company has offices in four countries and Zane Feldman post game show on the station CJCA. currently sponsors a team in the Jewish Feldman was Henry, who was known as “The fan’s fan,” baseball league. Oshry is a former director one of the original died in 1980. of HILLEL and is married to Alissia owners of the Rick Vogel Horwitz. They have two children, Jacob Edmonton Oilers. Rick Vogel is an and Isabel. Feldman was the athlete who exem- Harry Cohen son of Russian plifies triumph Harry Cohen was the brother of Samuel immigrants who over adversity. Joseph Cohen, who founded the Army and came to Edmonton His left foot was Navy chain of discount department stores. from Winnipeg Zane Feldman, amputated below supplied photo. Harry Cohen was instrumental in opening in the late ‘40s. the knee due to the stores in Edmonton, where he lived. He was a successful businessman who complications Rick Vogel, supplied photo. Until 1952, he sponsored the Army & built Crosstown Motor City into one of from a congenital Navy baseball teams that were part of the Canada’s biggest Chrysler dealerships. birth deformity. Despite this, he has com- Western Canada Baseball league, which Later, he partnered with Dr. Charles peted at the world-class level in triathlon. was a semi-professional Prairie league. Allard, creating an empire of hotels, The ITU added a Physically Challenged Teams included the Subs, Cardinals, and restaurants, media, and the Edmonton (PC) category in the mid ‘90s, and Vogel Merchants. Oil Kings. A founder and Governor of qualified for the National team by win- Jody Schloss the , Feldman ning the PC category at the Canadian then co-founded the Edmonton Oilers. Championships. He won a Bronze He and his partners sold the Oilers long medal at the 1997 ITU World Triathlon before the team’s heyday in Championships held in Perth, Australia. the 1980s. He also was instrumental in the “I qualified, again, in 2001, and got 6th at building of the Coliseum (now the ITU World Triathlon Championships Rexall Place). The Zane Feldman trophy which were held in Edmonton,” he says. is awarded annually to the most valuable Vogel was also an accomplished athlete player on the Oilers. Feldman was known prior to his amputation. “I played Bantam as a community philanthropist, supporting AA football, downhill ski raced, and played a variety of organizations and causes, and high school basketball and volleyball. My Jody Schloss and Inspector Rebus, was president of Beth Israel Synagogue in main sport was track and field as a high supplied photo. 1995. He died in April of 2003 at the age jumper. I won the City and Provincial gold Originally from Edmonton, Schloss of 80. medal in grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. I now lives in Ontario, where she was in a Millie & Henry Singer set city records every year and my grade 7 record, set in 1975, still stands. I was the car crash that killed her best friend, put A lifelong Edmontonian, Millie first high school high jumper in Alberta her in a coma for three months, and took Podersky Singer was born in 1922. From to jump 2 meters (6’ 6 3/4”). I won the away her ability to walk. In spite of these a family with four children, Singer won Junior Olympics (held in Kelowna) in the incredible obstacles, she is now a member the Alberta Junior Golf Championship late '70s. I competed at the 1981 Maccabi of Canada’s Paralympic equestrian team. at the Highlands Golf Course, which did Games in Tel Aviv and got 6th place.” Schloss has been riding horses since she not allow Jews at the time, when she was Born and raised in Edmonton, Vogel was 11 and trains almost every day. She 16, followed years later by several club still competes in triathlon at a recreational even moved closer to her horse stables, championships. She also opened the first level, as well as playing basketball, hockey, into a retirement home where she has Baby store in Edmonton, located on Jasper and downhill skiing. Rick is married to befriended the other residents, most of Avenue next to the Strand Theatre. She Nikki and they have two sons. He moved whom are twice her age. married Henry Singer on March 2, 1941, to South Florida in 1999 but returned to Sparkie Milner who later became an icon in menswear, Edmonton in 2006 and is co-owner of Samson Benjamin “Sparkie” Milner with a clothing store still by family Davies Park Executive Search, a retainer- played amateur baseball and semi-pro- members. With Joe Shoctor and Moe based executive search firm with offices in fessional hockey in Edmonton and in the Lieberman, Henry Singer was prominent Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. 10 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012

his wife, Bernice Flaxman. Because he played hockey in the U.S., he served in the American Army Corps, recreation division, Sparkie Milner: and played hockey for them, and later for From the Baseball the Veterans of Foreign Wars hockey team. Another part of Sparkie’s colourful early Diamond to the Circus life involved being a barker and working and Back Again the concessions during the summer with the circus presented by Royal American Shows. Sparkie spent the summers tour- amson Benjamin “Sparkie” Milner was ing with the circus, travelling through Sborn in Vegreville in 1927. The second Edmonton and Winnipeg and then youngest of six children, his family moved through the southern United States. He to Edmonton when he was a small child. did this for nine years, from the early Sparkie got his nickname while a baseball 1950s. This was during the off-season player in the 1940s with the American from hockey. He would also take time off amateur team Los Angeles Monarchs, from his regular job, which in those days because when he slid into second base it was working as a salesman selling every- was observed that sparks flew out of the thing from cars to shoes. In the 1960s, he sand. Sparkie had also played baseball in became a boxing and wrestling promoter Edmonton with the Army & Navy team and a Jewish men’s amateur team. Sparkie Milner, 1946-’47 Edmonton Canadians, After baseball, Sparkie began a hockey JAHSENA Archives photo. career by playing goalie in a semi-profes- sional league for the Edmonton Canadians Phoenix, Wichita, Kansas with the Boeing in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s. He played Comets, and in Great Falls, Montana throughout the U.S. in Los Angeles, where he lived for a while after marrying

Sparkie and the Viking Giant, 1948, JAHSENA Sparkie Milner and Royal American Shows, JAHSENA Archives photo. Archives photo. HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 11

Sparkie Milner playing for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (bottom right), JAHSENA Archives photo.

with Benny Grabow in Saskatoon. stayed active. One of his biggest accom- The Milners belong to Beth Israel After returning to Edmonton in the plishments was developing an organization Synagogue. Bernice is very involved with late ‘50s, Milner worked with the City called ERAH (Edmonton Recreation Na’amat. of Edmonton Parks and Recreation Association for the Handicapped) which Department. He retired from that in the provided help for the handicapped. “He late ‘70s due to health issues. Still, he made a lot of hospital calls and arranged to get equipment for people who needed wheelchairs,” says Bernice. While the orga- nization no longer exists, it helped a lot of people during its time. Sparkie and Bernice were married in 1955. Bernice is from Winnipeg. The cou- ple met when Bernice came to Edmonton to visit her sisters, one of whom was already married. She attended a dance with her sister, and the girls decided to switch partners. At that point, Sparkie became her date and future husband. The couple have two boys: Marty, who is a plumbing and gas inspector in Edmonton, and Randy in Vancouver, who is a corporate lawyer. Their two grand- children, Anna, aged 19, and Daniel, aged 22 also live in Vancouver. Their grand- daughter Anna recently won a scholarship to Hebrew University in Israel, and their grandson went to Israel this May with Sparkie and Gordon Gordienko, the wrestler. Birthright. Sparkie’s March 1956 debut. JAHSENA Archives JAHSENA Archives photo. photo. 12 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012 Edmonton Streets Honour Jewish Community Members By Debby Shoctor This Summer, to help in his business as a dry goods Grande Prairie and Ft. McMurray grew a street will be supplier for country stores in Northern to those populations, then built his hotels. named in honour Saskatchewan. While he was working, he In 1951 Eugene bought his first of Eugene Pechet stayed at North Battleford’s Auditorium hotel in Edmonton, The Yale, and he z’l, builder of the Hotel, the only nearby accommodation was off and running. The next hotel Mayfield Hotel that had full private bathrooms. He was the Highway Motor Hotel in East and Conference saved his money and purchased the hotel Edmonton, then the old Corona, which Centre, and in 1944. This was the first of 25 hotels he dismantled and rebuilt. Eugene was founder of Stage that he would own in Western Canada. a “hands on” guy, working with the Eugene Pechet z’l, West Theatre. The At this time, most hotel owners had ques- architects on all his hotels inputting his supplied photo. naming will take tionable reputations and were known for ideas – some worked, some didn’t. place on Thursday July 19th at 11:30 am. focusing mainly on their hotel beer par- In the 1960s, he constructed a number The street, which is near Mayfield Rd lours while neglecting other hotel ameni- of Park Hotels (in Dawson Creek, High and 166A St., will be called Gene Pechet ties. Pechet was determined to change Prairie, and Grande Prairie), and took Way. that and developed a more-rounded hotel over ownership of the Bonaventure Motor Eugene “Gene” Pechet was an entre- experience. Within a decade, he opened Hotel, Highway Motor Inn, Edmonton preneur and hotelier. He owned 25 the North Country, the first modern Inn, and Yale Hotel in Edmonton. The hotels over the course of his life and was motel along the Alaska Highway. His Edmonton Inn was revolutionary in its responsible for the construction of the hotels soon became a common fixture on architecture for the time. Mayfield Inn and Stage West Theatre the highway north of Calgary, and their However, the most well-known of Restaurant. Although he only grew to be presence encouraged travel in the north. Pechet’s projects, the Mayfield Inn, 5’8”, he was a man with big dreams and In 1948 Eugene married Rose Simkins was built in 1974. As he explained in the determination to see them through. from Thorsby and they began their life an Edmonton Journal interview, “The Gene’s father, Mayer Pechet was together in Edmonton. Their first home economy was changing and people had born September 6, 1877 in Bucharest, was the upstairs at Liskears, on 93rd St more leisure hours. A hotel would Romania. In 1902 he married Marie & 107 Ave. They lived there until 1951 have to be more than just a watering Weisler, (1886-1972) and that year when they bought their first home on trough – it would have to be a full-facility they immigrated to Canada along with 114th street. recreation area.” In order to offer these Marie’s mother, Leibe Herscovitz Weisler, When the Alaska Highway was being types of amenities, he needed space, so where they settled on a Baron de Hirsch built, Eugene realized that there would he decided to develop in an industrial colony near Lipton, Saskatchewan. Mayer be a lot of Americans on the project so area outside of the city’s core. It was a bit opened a tinsmith shop in town, and built he built hotels every 250 miles along the of a risk, especially since the hotel cost the town meeting hall. Eventually, the highway, but the Americans didn’t come more than $5 million to build, but this family settled in Edmonton. Mayer and in the numbers that he expected. The paid off; soon after the hotel opened, it Marie had eleven children by 1922. hotels turned a modest profit and gradu- boasted a 98% occupancy rate. Much of Eugene Pechet was born in 1917 in ally, he sold them off, one by one, realizing the hotel’s success was due to its reputable Lipton, Saskatchewan. When he was a small gain in his initial investment. fitness and dining facilities, as well as its 16, he traveled north to work for the The interesting thing about being a covered courtyard, the first of its kind in Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. proprietor of a hotel at that time was that Edmonton. at Goldfield mine. This opportunity the Liquor Boards controlled the sale of Setting another record, the Mayfield made him realize the potential that the alcoholic beverages. In order to receive a Inn became the site of Alberta’s first northern region had to offer. license to sell liquor, the population had dinner theatre, the Stage West Theatre Within a few years, his uncle hired him to exceed 3,500. So, Eugene waited until Restaurant. It was also the first non- HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 13

subsidized theatre in the nation. The The following are other streets named roadways. There will also be improved idea of putting a dinner theatre in a hotel after Jewish Edmontonians: landscaping at that intersection and street quickly caught on throughout Western Goldstick Park furniture. The combination of their names Canada and the United States. 101 Ave. and 44 St., est. 1984 onto the same pole is fitting as both Another interesting fact about Rabbi Hyman Goldstick (1882-1978), attended Victoria High School at the same the Mayfield Inn is that Pechet self- Edmonton’s first Rabbi, and his Edmonton time and also played on the basketball manufactured the bricks for the building, born son, Cecil “Tiger’ Goldstick, were team together, and of course were both using fly ash – the pollutant by-product prominent members of the religious and involved in the film and television industry. from burning coal. There was a coal plant sporting communities. Latvian-born Rabbi Arthur Hiller was born in Edmonton near Lake Wabamun, so he built a brick Goldstick came to Edmonton in 1906 to in 1923 and graduated from Victoria factory on the lake. This was one of the assume the spiritual leadership of the city’s Composite High School. After serving in early examples of environmental control Jewish community. In 1912, he moved to the Royal Canadian Air Force during the in business. Edson and served as Mayor, town council- Second World War and graduating from Up until this point, many Albertan lor and school board member. the University of Toronto with a Master’s businessmen had to rely on eastern bank- One of four children born to Hyman Degree in Psychology, Mr. Hiller began ers for financial support in their business and Bessie Goldstick, Tiger served with working in Canadian film and television ventures. In 1984, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Navy in WWII and with CBC. In the mid-1950s, he left the business mogul Charles Allard (and the held the navy lightweight wrestling cham- CBC and went to the United States to help of some American and Hong Kong pionship belt for three consecutive years. work in American television. Mr. Hiller investors), Pechet established the Bank See pg 5 for more on Tiger. directed episodes of several prominent of Alberta, now known as Canadian television shows before directing his first Western Bank. This new bank offered feature film in 1957. Since 1957, Mr. more financial independence for the Hiller has directed over 35 feature length West. films including Love Story (1970), The In 1997, the province gave Pechet the Americanization of Emily (1964), and The Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award, a Babe (1992). Mr. Hiller served two terms testament to his impact on Edmonton’s as the President of the Directors Guild development and business community. of America, four terms as President of Perhaps one of the most substantial Arthur Hiller, Top left, and Leslie Nielson, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and effects that he had was his contribution bottom second from left. Victoria High School Sciences, and is a member of the National to the growing immigrant population. Basketball photo, 1942, Victoria High School Film Preservation Board of the Library Archives. Although most people in the hotel of Congress. In 2002, the Academy of business employed mainly immigrants, Arthur Hiller Way Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present- Pechet would go out on a limb for those Behind Victoria Composite High School, ed Arthur Hiller with the Jean Hersholt th th he hired. It was common for him to sign 104 St. North of 108 Ave. Humanitarian Award at the 74th Academy bank notes that would enable his employ- Located right beside Victoria Composite Awards. Also in 2002, Mr. Hiller was hon- ees to apply for loans to purchase cars or High School, his Alma Mater, Arthur oured as the Edmonton Hadassah-WIZO homes, and he was eager to help them Hiller Way was dedicated in 2005 to Man of the Year. Mr. Hiller is married to settle into a Canadian lifestyle. honour the Edmonton-born Hollywood Gwen Pechet, sister of Eugene Pechet, and On August 23, 2008, he suffered a Director. Unfortunately, the present LRT lives in Beverly Hills, California. construction has temporarily removed heart attack and passed away at his home. Kline Crescent He is survived by his second wife, Pat; Arthur Hiller Way from the Edmonton North of Kirkwood Avenue, west of 34th his children, Lynn and Howard, and streetscape. After construction is com- St. a number of grandchildren and step- pleted, the portion that was named in his H.B. Kline and his son Irving ran grandchildren. Howard and some of the honour will still be accessible by car but a Jewelry store out of the old Capitol grandchildren have taken on the family will also be part of a multi-use trail that Theatre on Jasper Avenue. Irving studied business to ensure that Pechet’s legacy will run alongside the LRT line. The sign to become an optometrist and eventually continues. will be moved to the intersection so both took over from his father, H.B. selling Arthur Hiller Way and Leslie Nielsen With files from the City of Edmonton jewelry and eyeglasses. H.B. was born Naming Committee and Fall Heritage, Way will be located on the same upgraded Continued on page 14 2006. light pole but aligned to their respective 14 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012

street names arrival in Canada, Wershof Road Continued from page 13 they studied South of Wedgewood Blvd., East of Weaver in Russia, and immigrated first to medicine at the Dr. Montreal, where Irving was born, then University of Dr. Eli Wershof on to Edmonton, where he and his Alberta graduat- (b. 1896) came descendants set up shop. He was the first ing in ca. 1929 to Canada from person in Edmonton to offer jewellery and 1932 respec- Lithuania in 1905, for credit. A replica of his store opened at tively. During the first residing in Ottawa, then the new Capitol Theatre building in Fort Second World War, the Drs. Winnipeg, and Edmonton Park during the summer of Weinlos served finally settling in 2012. overseas in the Edmonton where The Wershof brothers, Shoctor Alley Canadian Army he was the first 1934. JAHSENA Archives Portion of 101A Ave. East of 99th St. and Medical Corps Jewish doctor. photo. South of the . as majors. Dr. He graduated in Medicine in 1917 from Joe Shoctor Morris Weinlos Brothers Harry & Morris the University of Manitoba, and started his (1922-2001) was founded the Weinlos, 1943. JAHSENA practice in Edmonton in 1922. He was a the executive pro- Weinlos Clinic Archives photo. Grand Master of the Order of Oddfellows ducer and founder in 1957 and served as the Chief of Staff at and Past President of the Edmonton B’nai of the Citadel the Misericordia Hospital. Harry served as Brith Lodge. He was a member of the Edmonton Academy of Medicine and the St. Theatre, founded the senior surgeon there and was the phy- John Ambulance Association, Vice-President in 1965. It is an sician for the Home for Ex-Serviceman’s Children. of the Zionist Organization of Canada and “alley,” not a Street, was the first President of Edmonton Zionist Joe Shoctor, JAHSENA Dr. Morris Weinlos was an ardent at Joe’s suggestion, Council and an Honourary Vice President of Archives photo. Zionist, heading the Edmonton Zionist which alludes to the Zionist Organization of Canada. He was Council and was co-chair of the Israel his experiences as a New York producer at Edmonton Chairman of Friends of Bar-Ilan Bonds and UJA campaigns. He was also the Schubert Theatre on Schubert Alley in University. He was one of the co-honourees active in the Edmonton community serving the Big Apple. Born in Edmonton, Shoctor of the first Negev Dinner held in Edmonton as president of the Beth Israel Synagogue graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1954. Dr. Wershof served as an officer in and as an Edmonton City Councilman Law degree from the University of Alberta the Canadian Medical Corps in World War I. for 11 years. He was on the boards of the and was admitted to the Bar in 1947. In His brother, Dr. Max Wershof, served as the Edmonton Exhibition Association, the 1960 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel, Canadian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Edmonton Symphony Society and the the youngest lawyer in Alberta to receive Hungary. Mrs. Charlotte (Lottie) Wershof University of Alberta Hospital, and served (1902-1998) was the founding President of that designation. Between 1965 and 1970, as President of the John Howard Society, he produced shows on and off Broadway, the Jewish National Fund in Edmonton, a United Way and the Zionist Council of past President and life-member of Edmonton and later exclusively at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton. In 1946, he married Merle Hadassah-WIZO, and served as Vice- which became the largest regional theatre Laskin. The Weinlosses had three daugh- President of Emunah/Mizrachi Edmonton complex in the country. He received many ters, Lynn, Honey, and Valerie. In 1958, Chapter. A nurse by training, Mrs. Wershof honours, including the Order of Canada Morris and Merle Weinlos were Negev was also the President of the Victorian Order (1986), the Alberta Order of Excellence Dinner honourees. The area of Weinlos of Nurses, Edmonton Chapter, ca. 1961. Mrs. (1990) and the Great Canadian Award in Millwoods in southeast Edmonton is Wershof died ca. 1998. The Wershofs had (1992), as well as an Honourary Doctorate named after Dr. Morris Weinlos and Dr. three children: Queena, Naomi (Kassie), and of Laws from the University of Alberta Harry Weinlos. Morris died in 1980. Cecil Wershof. Queena Esther Wershof, mar- (1981). Harry was a member of the Junior ried Allan Klein December 26, 1946 (see pg. Weinlos Park, Chamber of Commersce and the Alberta 6). She became a Social Worker and served as Neighbourhood Red Cross, and on the boards of the Executive Director of Jewish Family Services. 23rd Ave. to 34th Ave., Mill Woods Road United Way and Community Chest. In Eli and Charlotte had ten grandchildren. Dr. East west to 50th St. 1960 Harry received an Outstanding Wershof died in July, 1973. Morris Weinlos was born in Austria in Citizenship Award. For more on Dr. Sources: Naming Edmonton: from Aida 1902 and came to Canada with his family, Harry, see Heritage/Yerusha Summer, to Zoe, City of Edmonton: 2004, University including brother Harry, in 1921. After 2008 of Alberta Press. City of Edmonton Naming Committee, JAHSENA Archives. HERITAGE • summer 2012 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca 15 Broadcast Media: Jewish Edmontonians in Radio, Television, and Film Part Three: Film By Paula E. Kirman fter part three of our year-long series Studies for his BA and MA at Concordia awards. In 2008, he co-founded Canadian Aon local Jewish people in broadcast University in Montreal. His first internship Cinema Editors (C.C.E.), a professional media was published in January, more was with CFRN here in Edmonton. Snider association for editors across Canada, of names of those involved in film were has been involved with a number of film which he is now President. The organiza- brought to our attention. projects as a writer, director, and editor. He tion has over 150 members in Toronto and Sonya Jampolsky recently completed writing and directing Vancouver “I look forward to editing until I’m 90,” he says. Paul lives in Toronto with Originally a short animation for the National Film his wife, Galina. from Edmonton, Board called The Basketball Game, and is Jampolsky is the trying to finish an independent documen- tary he is co-directing called , about Vice President, Foosers More Radio Personalities Development Canadian superstar fooseball players. He is also editing a new documentary directed with Ocean We covered radio in part one of the Entertainment by Anne Wheeler and a Food Network television series called Eat St., about mobile Broadcast Media series, and names we in Halifax. She missed are still coming in! has been in that food trucks. Several of his other recent position since accomplishments include Liberia 77, a Earl Warren 2006 but worked Sonya Jampolsky, documentary film he co-wrote and edited Born Earl Warren Segal in Regina in with the company Supplied photo. which is being featured in TIME.com’s 1933, Warren had a career in radio that led before then, directing its first documentary, Lightbox and Bear 71, an interactive NFB him to numerous cities, with a short stint in documentary he co-edited, premiering at Minyan on the Mira. As well, she has Edmonton. He got started with News CKY worked extensively in film and television the Sundance Film Festival. As well, Savage, in Winnipeg in the late ‘40s. In Edmonton, as a writer, director, and producer for a short film about residential schools that he was the host of the show House of networks such as CBC, CTV, the Life Snider edited, won the 2011 Genie Award Warre n on CFRN in 1961, then went on Network, Discovery Health, IFC, and for Best Live Action Short Drama. Snider to host the show at CFRB in Toronto from Comedy Central. At Ocean Entertainment, currently lives in Vancouver with his wife 1961 to 1983. From 1983 to 1984 he was Jampolsky oversees the creation of new Galit. The couple recently had their first with CING-FM in Burlington, Ontario. projects. She also teaches in the film child, a daughter named Leora. Finally, he hosted Saturday Seniors and department at the Nova Scotia College of Paul Winestock House of Warren at CHWO in Oakville, Art and Design and is past president of the Paul is the son Ontario from 1984-2002. Warren died in Nova Scotia Film and Television Producer’s of Sue and Alvin October of 2002. Association. Winestock. He Laura Ornest Brenda Lieberman graduated in Film Laura is the daughter of the late Harry Lieberman is Studies from Ornest, who is featured in the sports article the Film Festival Queen’s University, appearing in this issue of the newsletter. Programmer for and moved to Laura Ornest’s career encompasses both Toronto to pursue both the Calgary radio and television. She is currently a his career. After International Film reporter at KNX Los Angles (a position years of working in Paul Winestock, Supplied Festival and the Ornest has held since 1995). Her career various aspects of photo. Calgary Underground has also included being a documentary post-production, he Film Festival. She Brenda Lieberman, producer for E! Entertainment; a producer helped create the Supplied photo. began editing. His work includes various of the O.J. Simpson trial for CNN; a free- latter, and also volunteered for eight years as TV series and features, including Nero lance sports reporter for ESPN; the 11 p.m. for A&E, , the programmer for the Fairy Tales Gay and Wolfe Little Mosque on the Prairie sportscaster, host of the weekend sports , and . He has Lesbian Film Festival in Calgary. In 2009, Less Than Kind The Border talk show, and host of Reach for the Top she was named a “Top 40 Under 40” in the also edited documentaries such as Toxic with CBC TV in Vancouver; a sportscaster and magazine Avenue Calgary. Trespass Captain Bligh Conspiracy and CFL sideline reporter with CKNW for Channel 4 in England, and currently New Westminster in the 1980s; and the Hart Snider is working on Undercover Boss Canada. Assistant GM of the Vancouver Canadians The son of Dr. Earle and Ruth Snider, Amongst his accomplishments, Winestock baseball team. Ornest has received several Hart studied Communications and Media has won two Director’s Guild of Canada Golden Mike Awards for her work. 16 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.jahsena.ca HERITAGE • summer 2012

JAHSENA Recent Acquisitions

These items have recently found their way into the archives, and are 16 books concerning the history of Jews in Canada, donated by the estate available for research purposes: of Abe Arnold of Winnipeg. For complete list, contact the office. 10 cm of text and 1 photo, donated by Ed Mickelson. 1 set of blueprints, 50 cm. text relating to Talmud Torah school, donated by Norman Hanson. 2 cm. text, concerning Dr. Joe Bugis, donated by Linda Silverman. 4 photos and 2 bound volumes, donated by Mel Wyne and Phyllis 1 photo of a Jewish theatre group in Edmonton, ca. 1935, donated by Nurgitz. Earl Parker. 12 photos of Talmud Torah donated by Mona Rosenberg. Correction: “ A tallith and bag, a set of tefillin and a girtle (ceremonial belt); five holocaust posters from Kracow, donated by Rachel and Fred 5 cm. misc. text donated by Stephanie Hendin. Garfunkel. The artifacts were kept concealed by Fred’s grandfather, Autobiographical sketch, donated by Ruth Katz. Naftali Wolf, during his internment in a concentration camp in Gurs, France. The posters were collected by Rachel after the war in Kracow.” Obituary of Manfred Beck, donated by Rosemary Kitay.

1 DVD, 1-16 mm film, 2-8 mm films, 2 Beta video cassettes, 1 ¾ inch The Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta is video cassette, 1 cassette tape, 20 cm. text, relating to Mitzvah Day, the always looking for new donations. If you have any personal papers, photographs, Nobleman family, the Maccabi games, the Alberta Order of Excellence negatives, books, audio-visual recordings or other items relating to the history of and a cancer support group, donated by Francie Nobleman. the Jewish community of Edmonton and Northern Alberta that you would like 12 photos of Albert Superstein and various sports teams, donated by Leo preserved for generations to come, please contact our office at (780) 489-2809. Superstein. On Display At the JCC… On the Web… Currently on display at the JCC you will find an Check out the Archives Society of Alberta Exhibit prepared for exhibit of items from the Talmud Torah, in honour of Archives Week 2011, entitled “Early Colour Photography”, its 100th Anniversary. If you would like to donate a at www.archivesalberta.org. You will find five photos from book, document or a piece of memorabilia to add to our collection, one of which, a photo of Calgary from 1928, our collection, call 780-489-2809. Please stop by is featured in a new 2012 calendar. Also check out the Peter the JCC and view these items on display opposite the Owen exhibit online at the same website under “Letters from office in the glass display case. the Trunk.” Old issues of our newsletter, Heritage/Yerusha are

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