205 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....
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....
1933-1939
“Les midinettes” were girls and young women who laboured in Montreal’s gruelling garment industry in the early twentieth century; the name, a French contraction of...
1930-1933
Adrien Arcand (1899-1967) was the undisputed leader of the Quebec fascist political movement, and an ardent antisemite. Fashioning himself as the “Canadian führer”, Arcand used...
1934-1934
Adrien Arcand (1899-1967) was the undisputed leader of the Quebec fascist political movement, and an ardent antisemite. Fashioning himself as the “Canadian führer”, Arcand used...
1929-1931
Adrien Arcand (1899-1967) was the undisputed leader of the Quebec fascist political movement, and an ardent antisemite. Fashioning himself as the “Canadian führer”, Arcand used...
1932-1933
Adrien Arcand (1899-1967) was the undisputed leader of the Quebec fascist political movement, and an ardent antisemite. Fashioning himself as the “Canadian führer”, Arcand used...
1929-1939
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...
1940-1957
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...
1968-1973
Manuel Gilman Batshaw (surnommé « Manny ») est généralement reconnu comme « l’architecte de la communauté juive de Montréal ». De 1968 à 1980, il...