Photograph depicts (left to right) Alec Jackson and Nachum Glatzer at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Written on verso: B'nai B'rith Adult Jewish Education annual meeting.
Photograph depicts three men studying a manuscript. Original article in the Jewish Western Bulletin September 16, 1976: Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (left), President Ephraim Katzir of Israel (centre), and D. Menahem Schmelzer, Seminary librarian, study a manuscript during President Katzir's visit to the Seminary and its library. Written on the verso: "P. 8 - 2 x 4. Sep 16 1976. Jewish Theological Seminary. Chancellor Gerson Cohen. 110."
Photograph depicts five men standing together. Written on the verso: "Jewish Theological Seminary. 2 cols page 1 'Seminary honors...' 50%. Senator David A. [Groll], Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen, Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Dr. [Stuart L.] Rosenberg, Lester B. [Peskow]. Oct 1968."
Photograph depicts five women at the National Women's League convention in New York. Charna Plottel, President of the Pacific Northwest Branch, is second from the left.
Photograph depicts passengers on board the deck of the SS Queen Mary in New York in October, 1936. Morris Soskin is near the center of the photograph, standing alone and pointing with his right finger.
Oral history interview with Ruth (nee Baruch) Phillips was born in Poland in 1927. The family left Poland in the 1930's due to pogroms and growing antisemitism. Ruth's father moved the family to Vancouver in 1934 to become the principal at Talmud Torah. Ruth’s Husband, Maran Peter Phillips, ran a fish packer for Queen Charlotte Fish.
Oral history interview with Barbara Weiser, born in 1946 in Quebec. She worked for Eaton's and a number of other companies as a Buyer, travelling across Canada. She is a prolific writer and researcher, having published 4 books / papers on the Jewish community with focuses on Synagogues and Holocaust memorials.