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The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45892
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- 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.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Deed of Sale from the representatives of the late Gabriel Cotte
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46496
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-23-1
- Date
- 1835
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1835
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-23-1
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Photograph showing a silver Yad (pointer). Legible date of donation on the Yad is 6th Sabbath 5616.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46756
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- 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.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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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
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- 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
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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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
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- 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.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Acquittance from Hugh Taylor to Spanish & Portuguese, #2967, November 24, 1862
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46185
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- 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
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Consecration of the New Synagogue (Stanley Street), August 31, 1890; facsimile of one-dollar note issued by the Canadian Jewish Bank (Hart's Bank)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46314
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-16-15
- Date
- 1890
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1890
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-16-15
- Archival / Genealogical
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Stanley Street synagogue interior (original)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46813
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; G; SP-01-G-34-23
- Date
- 1891
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1891
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- G
- File No.
- SP-01-G-34-23
- Archival / Genealogical
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Spanish and Portuguese Infants School - original photograph, mounted on cardboard, showing a group of children and their teacher.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46808
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; G; SP-01-G-34-19
- Date
- 1903
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1903
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- G
- File No.
- SP-01-G-34-19
- Notes
- Handwritten caption says "London, England".
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Two letters of group applications for membership in the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, with many signatures, February and September 1904
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46011
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; C; SP-01-C-7-21
- Date
- 1904
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1904
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- C
- File No.
- SP-01-C-7-21
- Notes
- Signatures include Isador and R.H. Blumenthal, H. Vosberg, A. Michaels, William Silverstone, Hyman Lightstone, Montefiore Joseph, V.S. Hart, Andrew V. Joseph, etc.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Water tax invoices
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46497
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-23-2
- Date
- 1909-1912
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1909-1912
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-23-2
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Ephemera, invitation cards to various events, sympathy acknowledgements and New Year cards
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46560
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-25-23
- Date
- 1910-1997
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1910-1997
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-25-23
- Notes
- Undated.
- Archival / Genealogical
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Deposit slips from Bank of Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46251
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-14-64
- Date
- 1913-1915
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1913-1915
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-14-64
- Archival / Genealogical
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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City Coal Company invoices
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46498
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-23-3
- Date
- 1913-1914
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1913-1914
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-23-3
- Archival / Genealogical
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Sample blanks of Ketubot (pre-nuptial agreements), in Aramaic; Marriage Certificate and Publication of Banns. One ketubah was printed in 1915; the marriage contract in 1937.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46295
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-15-42
- Date
- 1915, 1937
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1915, 1937
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-15-42
- Notes
- The ketubah is a unilateral agreement drawn by witnesses in accordance with Jewish civil law, in which they testify that the husband guarantees to his wife that he will meet certain minimum human and financial conditions of marriage, "as Jewish husbands are wont to do." It is not a ceremonial document of scripture or prayer. That is why it is written in Aramaic, the technical legal language of Talmudic law. (Definition source: Chabad.org.)
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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150th Anniversary booklet on history of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46544
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-25-7
- Date
- 1918
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1918
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-25-7
- Notes
- Soft-cover booklet. Author possibly Clarence de Sola. Inside front page signed Annette Pinto Ruth Wolff. Additional copies in Series I, Box 37, file 1 (the former Books 2 box )
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Original, handwritten letters of Rev. Meldola de Sola to Arnold Fineberg, congratulating him on his Bar Mitzvah, and to Mr. and Mrs. Fineberg on the same occasion
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46631
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-29-6
- Date
- January 6, 1918
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- January 6, 1918
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-29-6
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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History of the Corporation of Spanish & Portuguese Jews "Shearith Israel" of Montreal, Canada, by Clarence de Sola, published on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in the year 5679 - 1918.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46918
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- book
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; I; SP-01-I-37-1
- Date
- 1918
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Date
- 1918
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- I
- File No.
- SP-01-I-37-1
- Notes
- 1 damaged and 2 good copies. See also Box 25, file 7.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Correspondence 1923-1925: A-D
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46606
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-28-2
- Date
- 1923-1925
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1923-1925
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-28-2
- Notes
- Originally in brass ring binder. Front: "Correspondence and carbon copies dealt with." In alphabetical order.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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Financial statements for 1924-1928, 1932-1939, 1941-1945. Auditors used include P.S. Rosss and Sons, A. Rohrlich, Wricht and Kincan, and A.F. Fullerton.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn46515
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-23-20
- Date
- 1924-1945
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1924-1945
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-23-20
- Notes
- The 1936 statement's cover is signed by Capt. W. Sebag Montefiore.
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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