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Minutes and earliest by-laws of the Spanish & Portuguese Congregation of Montreal, 1778-1779
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46307
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-16-8
- Date
- 1778-1779
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1778-1779
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-16-8
- Notes
- Photostat copies.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45892
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 14 metres of textual records. - 149 sound elements. - Env. 440 photographs. - 1 video. - 1 film. - 2 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - Env. 3 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Date
- 1791-2008.
- Scope and Content
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives contains the following catalogued series of documents: Architectural Plans for the Lemieux Street building (dating from 1940 and onwards), Synagogue Bulletins and other serial publications of the synagogue (1931-2008), legal documents and membership app…
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 14 metres of textual records. - 149 sound elements. - Env. 440 photographs. - 1 video. - 1 film. - 2 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - Env. 3 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives contains the following catalogued series of documents: Architectural Plans for the Lemieux Street building (dating from 1940 and onwards), Synagogue Bulletins and other serial publications of the synagogue (1931-2008), legal documents and membership application files (mostly restricted, due to their personal name information), liturgical music scores, Sisterhood papers, general Synagogue subject files (mostly pre-1995), photographs and audiovisual materials, and an inventoried cabinet housing life cycle record books (1919-1994), minute books (1832-1970), and other bound record books. The collection also includes an unprocessed series consisting of four boxes of recent minutes (for various boards and committees, on paper and on audiocassette) and three boxes of Synagogue Administration documents. These recent, unprocessed documents almost all date from post 1995. The Synagogue Archives also houses several dozen framed photographs and framed documents. Furthermore, many of the congregation's older Jewish ceremonial objects, as well as other historic artifacts and antique books, are considered by the Synagogue to be part of the Archives' collection, although they are not housed in the Archives space. Although not described in the present catalogue, the majority of these items were described in a previous catalogue prepared in 2009 by volunteers belonging to the Sisterhood.
- Date
- 1791-2008.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- History / Biographical
- The Corporation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews is the oldest Jewish institution in Montreal, in Quebec and in Canada, tracing its history back to the first Jewish settlers who began to arrive in 1760. The few families met for prayer in private homes until the Congregation was formally established in 1768. The first Synagogue building was located in Old Montreal and was the first non-Catholic house of worship built in the city. In 1838 the Congregation moved to Chenneville Street and in 1890 to a beautiful edifice on Stanley Street. Although these building were not preserved, the Congregation has carried with it many of the principal furnishings and artifacts from the early edifices. It has been housed in its fourth premises, in the Snowdon-Cotes des Neiges area of Montreal, since 1947. The Spanish-Portuguese tradition follows the rites and customs of those Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal beginning in 1492 who sought refuge in European lands. Other Sephardi (Spanish or Iberian) Jews left for Mediterranean, mostly Moslem, lands, becoming known as the Sephardi Oriental Jews. During the past fifty years many hundreds of families from these latter communities have come to Montreal and have joined the Congregation, reconnecting with their kin from whom they had been separated 500 years ago. Until the early 1960s the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue was the only Sephardi congregation in Montreal and in Canada. The Congregation today serves over 700 families who come from almost every country in the world in which Jews have ever lived. Four parallel services must be held in order to accommodate the two thousand people who wish to pray on the High Holydays. It is a multicultural community reflecting Montreal life and Canadian pluralism. Although established mainly by English speaking Jews, it has now become a bilingual community due to the arrival of numerous French-speaking families from North Africa and the Middle East. Through its attention to the present and to the past, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue demonstrates its commitment to be not only an active Jewish congregation but also an historic monument to Canadian and Quebec and Jewish life. (Adapted from a history written by Rabbi Howard S. Joseph. The full text is online at http://www.thespanish.org/about-us/.)
- Custodial History
- In the 1970s, recognizing the historical significance of the Congregation, the Public Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) requested that all the early documents and minute books be donated there. This was done in 1977. The Congregation presented its first Torah Scroll to the National Archives as well. The Archives collection currently housed at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue therefore consists primarily of documents dating from 1930 and later.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
Old Books and Synagogue publications.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45901
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- Env. 75 books. - 2 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; I
- Date
- 1791-1996.
- Scope and Content
- Although not strictly archival documents, these selected books are the oldest elements of the synagogue archives collection and most are related to the history of the synagogue. Their cataloguing system was devised by earlier volunteer workers at the synagogue and has not been altered for the prese…
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- Env. 75 books. - 2 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Although not strictly archival documents, these selected books are the oldest elements of the synagogue archives collection and most are related to the history of the synagogue. Their cataloguing system was devised by earlier volunteer workers at the synagogue and has not been altered for the present project.
- Date
- 1791-1996.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- I
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Prayer Book. "Form of Prayer for the Feast of Tabernacles Services According to the Customs of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews," translated by Davis Levi. Vol. IV. London, printed by W. Justins, 5552
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46936
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; I; SP-01-I-38-1
- Date
- 1791
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Date
- 1791
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- I
- File No.
- SP-01-I-38-1
- Notes
- The Hebrew year 5552 is equivalent to 1791-1792. This is Arthur D. Hart's personal copy, presented to the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Archives by Mrs. Arthur D. Hart. His name appears on the cover. Family data, e.g. marriage date of Samuel Hart and Emily Abe (1839), Harriot J. Hart are pasted in the book. The book is in poor condition.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Guidance book on ceremonies of the Jews entitled "Levi's Jewish Ceremony" by David Levi, London, 1800
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46937
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; I; SP-01-I-38-2
- Date
- 1800
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Date
- 1800
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- I
- File No.
- SP-01-I-38-2
- Notes
- In very poor condition. No cover. Includes chronological summary.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Life Cycle records, Minutes, and other bound Record books.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45900
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 1.3 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; H
- Date
- 1832-1999.
- Scope and Content
- Description (Scope and content): the earliest life cycle registers in this series date back to 1919 and the most recent at the time of cataloguing was from 1994. The minute books cover from 1832 to 1999, and the seating ledgers, recording High Holiday seat reservations, date from 1954 to 1973. The …
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 1.3 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Description (Scope and content): the earliest life cycle registers in this series date back to 1919 and the most recent at the time of cataloguing was from 1994. The minute books cover from 1832 to 1999, and the seating ledgers, recording High Holiday seat reservations, date from 1954 to 1973. The series also includes some old accounting ledgers, from 1924 to 1994. All these items are stored in a large cabinet, and thus their box number designation refers to this location.
- Date
- 1832-1999.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- H
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Annual general meeting minutes 1832-1846
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46895
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; H; SP-01-H-35-53
- Date
- 1832-1846
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1832-1846
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- H
- File No.
- SP-01-H-35-53
- Notes
- Hardcover book. This "box" is the large green cabinet. Shelf 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
General Synagogue subject files.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45898
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 7 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F
- Date
- 1835-2006.
- Scope and Content
- This series includes some materials from pre-1900, and for the most part ends in 1989. The majority of the records date from the 1930s through the 1960s. The documents in the earlier boxes of this portion of the collection were selected and described by Archives Committee volunteers over the course…
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 7 metres of textual records. - 1 artefact.
- Scope and Content
- This series includes some materials from pre-1900, and for the most part ends in 1989. The majority of the records date from the 1930s through the 1960s. The documents in the earlier boxes of this portion of the collection were selected and described by Archives Committee volunteers over the course of several years. They cover a wide range of subjects, and in general include the oldest documentary materials in the collection. In some cases, where the material in this series filled a gap in other series, such as bulletins or seating plans, material has been relocated from its original sequence in this series. The general synagogue files include materials such as fundraising documents from various Synagogue building campaigns. Selected accounting records from a metal cabinet containing unprocessed older financial and legal documents also forms part of this series, thereby providing glimpses into the physical functioning of the congregation over time.
- Date
- 1835-2006.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Deed of Sale from the representatives of the late Gabriel Cotte
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46496
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-23-1
- Date
- 1835
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1835
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-23-1
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Documents
Images
Text of correspondence from January 15 to July 5, 1839, between Abraham Hart, Jr., London, and A.H. David, Secretary, Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Montreal, on hiring Rev. D. Meldola as hazan and teacher.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46169
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-13-13
- Date
- 1839
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1839
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-13-13
- Notes
- Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Archives list photocopy. Correspondence includes proposed fee.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Spanish & Portuguese history manuscript, including Rev. Abraham de Sola partial manuscript and McGill University valedictory address
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46540
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-25-3
- Date
- 1847-1864
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1847-1864
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-25-3
- Notes
- Undated. Photocopies only.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Permanent Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1847-1994
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46894
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; H; SP-01-H-35-52
- Date
- 1847-1994
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1847-1994
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- H
- File No.
- SP-01-H-35-52
- Notes
- This "box" is the large green cabinet. Shelf 2.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Photograph showing a silver Yad (pointer). Legible date of donation on the Yad is 6th Sabbath 5616.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46756
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; G; SP-01-G-34-5; 2 (135)
- Date
- [ca. 1856]
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1856]
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- G
- File No.
- SP-01-G-34-5
- Item No.
- 2 (135)
- Notes
- Black and white. Detail re donation is etched on the Yad but not legible in the photo.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
Queen Victoria's letter dated March 13, 1856, granting permission to Abraham Joseph to serve as Quebec Vice-Consul for the King of Belgium
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46168
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-13-12
- Date
- March 13, 1856
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- March 13, 1856
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-13-12
- Notes
- Photocopy.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
Spanish & Portuguese by-laws 1857, 1886, 1904, 1921
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46597
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-27-12
- Date
- 1857, 1886, 1904, 1921
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1857, 1886, 1904, 1921
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-27-12
- Notes
- Booklet format. Includes "Special provisions relative to decorum - By-law Article XVI (undated).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Text of pages 191-228 copied from the "Minute Book I" of the Trustees meetings of the Spanish & Portuguese, January 4, 1859, to December 8, 1861
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46212
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-14-04
- Date
- 1859-1861
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1859-1861
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-14-04
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Certified letter signed by Rabbi Abraham de Sola. True text copied from the Registry of Death. Years: 1859, 1863
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46228
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-14-20
- Date
- 1859, 1863
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1859, 1863
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-14-20
- Notes
- Folder also contains original notes of Rabbi Abraham de Sola.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
Acquittance from Hugh Taylor to Spanish & Portuguese, #2967, November 24, 1862
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46185
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-13-26; 4
- Date
- November 24, 1862
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- November 24, 1862
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-13-26
- Item No.
- 4
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
Various Deeds of Loan and other legal documents, several of them itemized in detail
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47034
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-13-26
- Date
- 1862-1927
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1862-1927
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-13-26
- Notes
- All in one paper pouch, folded. Not all the deeds have been itemized.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Annual general meeting minutes 1865-1889
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46896
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; H; SP-01-H-35-54
- Date
- 1865-1889
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1865-1889
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- H
- File No.
- SP-01-H-35-54
- Notes
- Hardcover book. This "box" is the large green cabinet. Shelf 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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