14 exhibits found
1924-1925
A very public struggle within Montreal’s Jewish community, the kosher bread boycott of January 1925 grabbed headlines in the mainstream newspapers of Quebec and Ontario....
1915-1918
From the time of his arrival in Canada in 1907, this populist Orthodox rabbi cut a controversial figure in Montreal’s Jewish community. Born in 1878...
1906-1911
Born in Bukovina (part of Romania) in 1876, Hirsch Hershman immigrated to Montreal in 1902, quickly becoming a fixture of the Jewish political, cultural, and...
1913-1932
Lyon Cohen (1868–1937), business tycoon and community leader, was born in Poland. As a child, he moved with his family to Ontario and later to...