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David Roels

Oral history interview with photographer David Roels; done for preparation for the Fred Schiffer exhibit, "Fred Schiffer: Lives in Photos" (2015).

Fred Schiffer Photography fonds

  • CA JMABC A.1999.021
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1938-1999

Fonds consists of approximately 100,000 photographs and 1 metre of textual records and artifacts. Fonds is arranged into three series: English period; Argentinian period; and Vancouver period.

Schiffer, Fred

Mordechai Edel

Oral History Interview with Mordechai (Robert) Edel for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Daniella Givon. Edel was born in England in 1949, but describes the life stories of him and his family spanning across Europe, North America and within Israel. These stories include his family's experience with the Holocaust and his growing up Jewish; they also detail his many professions before becoming an artist including musician or hazzan, hairdresser, and photographer. Edel's primary medium of art is oil painting which is in the impressionist style, and constantly informed by his Jewish faith and heritage. Edel tells anecdotes of some of the people he's met through his art within Canada and abroad, and his most memorable commissions along the way.

Ronnie Tessler

Oral interview with Ronnie Tessler. Interviewed by Gene Gerber. Tessler was born in 1944 in Saskatchewan. She speaks about growing up in Winnipeg, her family, her photography, and her contributions to the Jewish community through her work with Louis Brier, Soviet Jewry Advocacy and Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.

Shaira (SD) Holman

Interview with Shaira SD Holman 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. SD identifies themself overall as queer, but also as a butch dyke and genderqueer. SD talks about being raised as a secular and cultural Jew. SD talks about growing up in LA to a single parent and eventually moving to Rock Creek, BC becoming a cowboy on the countryside. SD shares about being ‘out’ as queer in high school and eventually going to Emily Carr for arts upon moving to Vancouver. SD talks about not feeling at home in Vancouver’s Jewish community as compared with the working class Jews in LA or their Jewish leatherdyke community in San Francisco. SD talks about their late wife Catherine, and how they were each others’ sanctuary where Catherine was encouraging to their arts endeavors. SD talks about the Pride in Arts Society, and creating the Queer Arts Festival. SD also talks about opening the SUM Gallery as a place for queer artists to be themselves and kickstarting queer recognition in Vancouver's arts scene. SD closes by giving the advice that life is not a sprint, but a marathon; to keep learning, and remember the history that comes before you.