Book of Life Stories

The Agudas Hamispoche — United Families Organization

Our family organization, the Agudas Hamispoche, was formed in 1928 by dozens of cousins from the Rubinoff, Naftolin and Arnoff families who came to Toronto from "White Russia" (now Belarus), beginning about 1905. Many treasured friends and in-laws were also "adopted into the mispoche" over t…

Morris Adams

I am a child of immigrants. My father, Zelig came from Zhitomir in Russia, and my mother, Annie from Pzemszyl in Galicia. They met in Toronto and were married in the early 1920's.

My father was a barber, and my mother a hand-sewer in a garment factory on Spadina Avenue. My sisters, Rita and…