- CA JMABC A.1999.001-7-2-13
- Stuk
- July 1968
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph depicts Alec Jackson and others posing with a newly received award at a convention in Phoenix in 1968.
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph depicts Alec Jackson and others posing with a newly received award at a convention in Phoenix in 1968.
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts (l-r) Elie Wiesel, Armand Hammer, and Blanca Roven Wintner at a Bar-Illan University convocation.
Caption: "Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel (left) was the keynote speaker at Bar-Ilan University's dinner and academic convocation in Los Angeles last week. With him are Armand Hammer, honorary dinner chairman, and Blanca Roven Wintner, vice president of the West Coast Friends of Bar-Ilan University. Mrs. Wintner was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university at the dinner, which was attended by 800 friends and supporters of BIU. 1/87."
Written on verso: Feb. 16, 1989 JWB.
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral interview with Nancy Halpern. Interviewed by Samantha Stokell for SLAIS Oral History class.
Nancy's father's family moved to Vancouver in 1906, when her father Norman Brown was less than six months old. She has stories of her own life in the Vancouver Jewish community and those of her grandparents and parents. She was involved in drama and theatre in the Vancouver and Spokane, WA areas, and worked as a librarian in Vancouver. She was also involved in creating the West Vancouver Jewish Community Association.
Nancy mentions her cousin's daughter, Barbara Liskov (née Huberman) from the States, a professor at MIT who was the first woman to graduate in Computer Science in the U.S., and who is a winner of the Turing Award.
San Diego - B. B. convention presenting Totem Pole to Jerry Bristol
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph depicts Alec Jackson (second from right) presenting Jerry Bristol (second from left) with a Totem Pole award at a B'nai B'rith convention in San Diego in 1970.
[Alec Jackson receiving award]
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph attached to scrapbook. It depicts Alec Jackson (left) being presented with an award at the 95th annual B'nai B'rith District Grand Lodge No. 4 convention in Seattle.
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph depicts Alec Jackson presenting awards to a group of unidentified men at a convention in Phoenix in 1968.
Ronald (Ron) and Brenda Appleton
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral interview with Ronald (Ron) and Brenda Appleton. Interviewed by Brianna Gormly for SLAIS Oral History class.
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Interview with Shira Macklin for On The Record: The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project in collaboration with JQT Vancouver. Interviewed by Carmel Tanaka via remote Zoom video call. Shira (she/her) is a Jewish lesbian woman, who was born in Estevan, SK and currently residing in Vancouver. Shira shares about her family origins in England and Russia, and growing up on the Canadian prairies. Shira tells the story behind how she realized she was a lesbian, coming out to her university aged children, and discovering lesbian community in Winnipeg. Shira talks about finding spirituality after experiencing a plane-jacking in India, which led her to the Diamond Approach spirituality school in Colorado and eventually Vancouver. Shira talks about her youth including education, awareness of the Holocaust and early investment in zionism. She talks about her relationship and career histories, and her involvement in Or Shalom. She reflects on women’s/lesbian Seders in Vancouver, and the relationship between the Jewish and queer communities.
Man wearing a Shriner hat with his face painted white wearing a sign around his neck
Colour Munshaw 35mm slide depicts a man wearing a Shriner hat with his face painted white wearing a sign around his neck that states: "Tired, Blood, Koko: Piula, Molowa, Luhi".
Note: colour adjusted on the jpg.
Part of B'nai B'rith fonds
Photograph depicts Alec Jackson being given an award at a convention in Phoenix in 1968.