Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937.This work examined the history of Jewish Toronto during its formative years and serves as the definitive work on that subject.In 1980, the City of Toronto recognized the importance of this work, honouring Stephen with its annual Book Award.Stephen founded the Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) in 1973 (the OJA formerly reported to the Canadian Jewish Congress's Ontario Region Office, but is now part of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto).The archives began on Beverley Street, where Stephen's office was located on the third floor and the records were stored in the room next to the furnace.It wasn't bright, spacious, or clean, but he made the best of it and acquired many important collections during that time.He also attracted many devoted volunteers, some of whom have been associated with the OJA for more than twenty-five years.In 1983, the archives moved to the newly constructed Lipa Green Building, located at Bathurst and Sheppard.Stephen was finally given a state-of-the art storage vault, and generous office and processing space, which more than accommodated his needs at the time.During his tenure as Director of the OJA, Stephen led the Sense of Spadina Tour, which has been operating for over thirty years.He would take participants on the ninety-minute walking tour of the Kensington Market area, where he regaled them with stories about old Jewish Toronto, bring ing the sights and sounds of that era to life.He also spent considerable effort building the OJA's holdings, acquiring records from over one hundred synagogues as well as architectural drawings, photographs documenting a wide array of individuals, organizations and events, and finally, audio and visual recordings.One of his pet projects was to establish a Jewish museum, since no Ontario or national museum of this kind existed.He subsequently acquired hundreds of artifacts and organized exhibits telling the story of Ontario's Jews, using both archival records as well as museum objects.Stephen was quite active in the Archives Association of Ontario, and its predecessor, the Ontario Archives Association.He was also a member of the
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.039 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".