161 exhibits found
1940-1943
Le Camp I de l’Île-aux-Noix ouvre ses portes le 15 juillet 1940 alors qu’arrivent 273 réfugiés juifs. Un ancien prisonnier se souvient que, aux yeux...
1925-1948
Ingénieur, journaliste et un des premiers historiens de la communauté juive du Canada, Martin Wolff (1881-1948) est né le 16 décembre 1881 à Francfort-sur-le-Main, en...
1940-1943
Île-aux-Noix is a small island on the Richelieu River, southwest of Montréal, and the site of historic military fortifications. It was once home to Camp...
1995-1995
Yakhdav, (1992-2004) meaning “together” in Hebrew, was a group created in the 1990s to provide a community space for Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Jews in...
1925-1948
Martin Wolff (1881-1948) was an engineer, journalist, and an early community historian of Canada’s Jews. Born on December 16, 1881, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Wolff was...
1963-2011
Historic outline Nosach Ha’ari is often referred to as Nosach Ha’ari South to distinguish it from a synagogue by the same name on Jeanne Mance,...
1934-1940
Hasidism, a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, developed in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century as a spiritual response to overly meticulous religious practices. Sects quickly...
1907-1909
Sholem Lamdan was a poultry shochet (butcher) whose prosecution and ultimate imprisonment for illegally slaughtering chickens in his St. Dominique Street home attracted local attention...
1941-1942
Hasidism, a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, developed in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century as a spiritual response to overly meticulous religious practices. Sects quickly...
1943-1944
Hasidism, a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, developed in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century as a spiritual response to overly meticulous religious practices. Sects quickly...