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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 19
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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/tjzDMBSzkkA
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44508
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 320
- Date
- 2002
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Date
- 2002
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 320
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Interview with artist Terry Lightman, a long-time curator of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Library. Many of her works are shown in this video clip.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJtC9LLn6DQThe 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/CgdTP8EBOLU"Hayom T'amtzenu" by Cantor Nathan Mendelson
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44512
- Collection
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Compact Disc : Hebrew : duration: 25 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 820
- Date
- [ca. 1977]
- Collection
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Compact Disc : Hebrew : duration: 25 seconds
- Date
- [ca. 1977]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 820
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- An audio clip from "Hayom T'amtzenu", composed for the High Holidays by Cantor Nathan Mendelson. Performed by his son Cantor David Mendelson and the Congregatioin Shaar Hashomayim Choral Group.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
LEHMAN, Ruth Colton - speaking about the Ste. Sophie Jewish Community and her illustrated lecture 'From Shtetl to Parish'
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48400
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1074-1-29
- Date
- June 10, 1988
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- June 10, 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1074-1-29
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Leslie Lutsky, approximately 15 minutes long (the excerpted clip is approximately 10 minutes).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
LEHMAN, Ruth Colton - speaking about the Ste. Sophie Jewish Community and her illustrated lecture 'From Shtetl to Parish'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NKIjSiOHqQ0SIMKOVER, 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/6JXjkplcoNQROME, 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/NzTBa4WbNqIBROOK, 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/Xibz68kLySMEISEN, 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_4CHOUEKE, 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_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_4Tribute 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_4GORDON, Myer & Judy/ Toronto, co-ordinators of reunion Montefiore Hebrew Orphans
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49119
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1707-46
- Date
- August 9, 2001
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- August 9, 2001
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1707-46
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. In a five and a half minute excerpt, Myer speaks about life as an orphan and how the alumni came to have reunions for years afterwards.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
GORDON, Myer & Judy/ Toronto, co-ordinators of reunion Montefiore Hebrew Orphans
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OTB9phUAiPUBryna Wasserman, Montreal: Montreal International Yiddish Theatre festival June 17-25, 2009; Pirates of Penzance - Yiddish theatre presentation
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49465
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1923-52
- Date
- May 27, 2009
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- May 27, 2009
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1923-52
- Notes
- Interview by Leslie Lutsky. In a 5 minute excerpt from this 19 minute interview, Bryna Wasserman discusses the challenges of presenting Pirates of Penzance in Yiddish. The complete interview is available in digital format on request.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Bryna Wasserman, Montreal: Montreal International Yiddish Theatre festival June 17-25, 2009; Pirates of Penzance - Yiddish theatre presentation
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oUZmzUHOaCkROBACK, Lea - autobiography, interviewed by Eiran Harris
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50059
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- SC (audio-cassette) and WAV file on DVD
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 0715-18
- Date
- March 17, 1988
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- SC (audio-cassette) and WAV file on DVD
- Date
- March 17, 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 0715-18
- Notes
- Oral history. Digital copy made in WAV format Jan 6, 2010 - see SDVD030. In a 6 and a half minute excerpt from this 93 minute recording, Roback speaks in English, Yiddish and French about her early upbringing and Christian-Jewish relations.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
ROBACK, Lea - autobiography, interviewed by Eiran Harris
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8cSlMHrWPzQROBACK, Lea (Leah) - autobiography, Interview by E. Harris.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50060
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- SC and DVD
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 0716-18
- Date
- April 12, 1988
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- SC and DVD
- Date
- April 12, 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 0716-18
- Notes
- Oral history, approximately 92 minutes, continuing the narrative begun on tape SC 715. A digital copy, SDVD030, was made in WAV format on Jan 6, 2010. Roback speaks about her union work in Quebec in a 5 minute montage sampled from this recording as well as from clips from sound item 1243 00306 from the Jewish Public Library Archives.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
ROBACK, Lea (Leah) - autobiography, Interview by E. Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VFyK4ycvsesEthiopian Project - Alan ROSE, Stan CYTRYNBAUM
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50066
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1028-27
- Date
- August 10-16, 1988
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- August 10-16, 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1028-27
- Notes
- Interview by E. Harris. S. Cytrynbaum (excerpted) and A. Rose describe the project undertaken by Canadian Jewish Congress to aid in the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Canada. Portions of the recording have some confidentiality restrictions. Digitized as WAV and WMA Feb 2015, SDVD 046.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Ethiopian Project - Alan ROSE, Stan CYTRYNBAUM
https://www.youtube.com/embed/49Y9BQ4jt-w
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