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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 19
- Camp Kindervelt/Camp Unzer Collection 1
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records 2
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Archives 1
- GUBBAY HELFER, Sharon 3
- HARRIS, Eiran 9
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection 1
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show. 17
- Lea Roback Fonds 6
- Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen. 2
- Shloime Perel = Early Radio Centre-ville Jewish Digest recordings 1
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02) 24
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Subject
- Antisemitism 4
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The burning of the chametz before Passover
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44509
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Audio recording : English : duration: 30 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 801
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Audio recording : English : duration: 30 seconds
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 801
- Notes
- Audio clip of Rabbi Barry Gelman discussing the symbolic burning of leavened food (chametz) in preparation for Passover.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
The burning of the chametz before Passover
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tg_s_TVbsp8Cantorial singing
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44511
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : sound recording : Hebrew : duration: 45 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 805
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : sound recording : Hebrew : duration: 45 seconds
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 805
- Notes
- Audio clip of a cantor singing a portion of the Jewish liturgy. The associated image shows Cantor Sidney Dworkin of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Cantorial singing
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CgdTP8EBOLUTribute to Shanghai lecture at the Temple Emanu-El, Westmount, featuring Sidi Shernovsky-Terner, a Montreal Jewish refugee from Shanghai, and Rabbi Leigh Lerner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49067
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1659-45
- Date
- September 7, 2000
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- September 7, 2000
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1659-45
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Excerpts from this recording appear in a 2020 Canadian Jewish Archives video montage called 'Jewish Life in Shanghai'.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Tribute to Shanghai lecture at the Temple Emanu-El, Westmount, featuring Sidi Shernovsky-Terner, a Montreal Jewish refugee from Shanghai, and Rabbi Leigh Lerner
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p2LC53h40_4JEDEIKIN, Leon, Montreal, speaking about his childhood in Shanghai
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48999
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1625-44
- Date
- April 16, 1999
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- April 16, 1999
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1625-44
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Excerpts from this recording appear in a 2020 Canadian Jewish Archives video montage called 'Jewish Life in Shanghai'.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
JEDEIKIN, Leon, Montreal, speaking about his childhood in Shanghai
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p2LC53h40_4WOLFF, Annette/ Wartime biography in the U.K. and Canada, secret work in civil service
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50112
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- tape 5
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1631-44
- Date
- July 30, 1999
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- tape 5
- Date
- July 30, 1999
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1631-44
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Eiran Harris. In a 12 minute excerpt from this 90 minute recording, Annette Wolff describes her experience as an operator at the London Telephone Exchange during the lead up to and early years of World War II, as well as her part in the capture of a German spy.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
WOLFF, Annette/ Wartime biography in the U.K. and Canada, secret work in civil service
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gA06NyWoeU0Interview with Lea Roback
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31751
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Fonds No.
- 1243; 1; 00306
- Date
- 1996
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Date
- 1996
- Fonds No.
- 1243
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00306
- Storage Location
- 2-3B
- Container 12
- Creator
- Harris, E.
- Language
- English
- Acquisition Source
- Lea Roback
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Finding Aid
- Audio content summary available
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Emigration and immigration.
- Nazi Germany
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
- Communist Party of Canada
- Communism
- Textile industry -- Canada.
- Labour unions
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Pesotta, Rose
- Shane, Bernard
- Rose, Fred
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
YouTube
Interview with Lea Roback
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KMWRppX703YCHOUEKE, Lolly, Montreal, Childhood in Shanghai
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48868
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1458-40
- Date
- September 2, 1996
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- September 2, 1996
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1458-40
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Excerpts from this recording appear in a 2020 Canadian Jewish Archives video montage called 'Jewish Life in Shanghai'.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
CHOUEKE, Lolly, Montreal, Childhood in Shanghai
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p2LC53h40_4Martz, Fraidie, Vancouver author 'Open Your Hearts', Jewish War Orphans, WWII
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90219
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1460-40
- Date
- Nov. 15, 1996
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- Nov. 15, 1996
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1460-40
- Notes
- 1996 interview by Leslie Lutsky for the radio show Jewish Digest. Fraidie Martz talks about her book, Open Your Hearts : The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada, on their arrival and integration into Canadian society. A 6 minute excerpt from this 18 minute interview is available for viewing on YouTube. Digitized as WAV and WMA, March 11, 2020.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Martz, Fraidie, Vancouver author 'Open Your Hearts', Jewish War Orphans, WWII
https://www.youtube.com/embed/748BN4TG76A
New Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44506
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 313
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 313
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- A video showing the 14 needlepoint Torah covers that were made by women from the Shaar Hashomayim in honour of the synagogue’s 150th anniversary. The covers were made for a Jewish artists competition organized by Mrs. Millie Lande.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
New Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJRnbik1mvA
Presentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44507
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 315
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 315
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- In this video the Shaar Hashomayim receives a coat of arms.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Presentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tjzDMBSzkkAEISEN, Wendy, Toronto, author of COUNT US IN: The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews, A Canadian Perspective
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48781
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1403-39
- Date
- May 5, 1995
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- May 5, 1995
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1403-39
- Notes
- 20 minute interview by Leslie Lutsky for Radio Centreville. In a six and a half minute excerpt, Wendy Eisen speaks about the activity of the Group of 35 and her 1995 book about the history of the Soviet Jewry movement in Canada. The complete interview is available in digital format (WAV and WMA).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
EISEN, Wendy, Toronto, author of COUNT US IN: The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews, A Canadian Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/embed/o2mOk67dxr8XU XIN Prof. Nanjing, Jewish community of Shanghai
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48809
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1423-39
- Date
- October 20, 1995
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- October 20, 1995
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1423-39
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Excerpts from this recording appear in a 2020 Canadian Jewish Archives video montage called 'Jewish Life in Shanghai'.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
XU XIN Prof. Nanjing, Jewish community of Shanghai
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p2LC53h40_4BROOK, Evelyn, Chair, Coalition of Jewish Women for the Get, an advocacy group for women blocked from obtaining a Jewish divorce
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48719
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1353-37
- Date
- February 25, 1994
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- February 25, 1994
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1353-37
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Digitized as WAV and WMA, Oct. 2016. In this short interview (5 min. 47 seconds), Evelyn Brook discusses the plight of Agunot (women whose husbands refuse to grant a Jewish divorce), and her organization's work helping these women obtain their Get certificates.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
BROOK, Evelyn, Chair, Coalition of Jewish Women for the Get, an advocacy group for women blocked from obtaining a Jewish divorce
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xibz68kLySMROME, David, Relationship between Jews and Quebecers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48570
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1280-35
- Date
- February 11, 1992
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- February 11, 1992
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1280-35
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. David Rome tells how he came to write Juifs et Québécois français - Jews and French Quebecers, with Father Jacques Langlais. Digitized as WAV and WMA in Feb. 2015, SE 026.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
ROME, David, Relationship between Jews and Quebecers
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NzTBa4WbNqIInterview with Sophie Bissonnette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31754
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- 1243; 1; 00309
- Date
- 1991
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1991
- Fonds No.
- 1243
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00309
- Storage Location
- 2-4F
- Container 12
- Creator
- Radio Centreville
- Language
- French
- Acquisition Source
- Lea Roback
- Notes
- About film "Des lumieres dans la Grande Noirceur"
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Finding Aid
- Audio content summary available
- Name Access
- Radio Centreville
- Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
- Subjects
- Montreal (Quebec) -- Jews
- Women
- Women's Studies
- Antisemitism
- Folk music
- Music.
- Communism
- Quebec (Province)
- Places
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
YouTube
Interview with Sophie Bissonnette
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lpwDIXwp70ISIMKOVER, Beatrice, Jewish childhood in Granby
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48437
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1121-30
- Date
- October 12, 1989
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- October 12, 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1121-30
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Leslie Lutsky. Digitized July 10, 2017. In an 18 minute interview for Leslie Lutsky's radio show Jewish Digest, Beatrice Simkover speaks about family history and her Jewish childhood in Granby and Farnham, Quebec as well as her family's experiences elsewhere in the Eastern Townships
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
SIMKOVER, Beatrice, Jewish childhood in Granby
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6JXjkplcoNQLEAVITT, Dr. Joseph, re: War Orphans in 1921 - interview by Eiran Harris.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50072
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Copied WAV, SE 016-017
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1066-29
- Date
- January 16, 1989
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Copied WAV, SE 016-017
- Date
- January 16, 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1066-29
- Notes
- Oral history. This entire interview is digitally copied (SE 016-17). In a 4 minute excerpt from this 88 minute interview, Dr. Joseph Leavitt discusses the Ukrainian Jewish war orphans he helped bring over to Canada in 1921.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
LEAVITT, Dr. Joseph, re: War Orphans in 1921 - interview by Eiran Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DqCV4TYS1EASHILLER, Irving - autobiographical
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50087
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1095-29
- Date
- May 25, 1989
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- May 25, 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1095-29
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Eiran Harris. In a 6 minute excerpt, Mr. Shiller describes his relationship with the French language in his business and in his childhood. The entire interview is available at CJCCNA in WAV format.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
SHILLER, Irving - autobiographical
https://www.youtube.com/embed/BBEcpL99jFQROME, David - (tape 11) Canadian Jewish Congress history, Part 1 of 5
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50088
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1102
- Date
- 1989
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1102
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Eiran Harris. This cassette was digitized as WAV and WMA in February 2019. In the first 90 minutes Rome speaks of the factors leading to the founding of CJC and of its first years. A 6 minute excerpt from Part 1 is available online.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
ROME, David - (tape 11) Canadian Jewish Congress history, Part 1 of 5
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KUsyYo8xSwUROME, David (Eiran Harris interview tape 13) - Canadian Jewish Congress history Part 3
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89593
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1104
- Date
- 1989
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1104
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Eiran Harris. The audiocassette was digitized as WAV and WMA in February 2019. In this interview, David Rome discusses the period between the first and second CJC Plenary Assembly. A 5 minute excerpt is available online.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
ROME, David (Eiran Harris interview tape 13) - Canadian Jewish Congress history Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OYV_gcfmfXk
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