Batshaw Interview - I
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44651
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Large can containing 3 rolls (2 sync, 1 visual); English; 16 mm; 14 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-2
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Large can containing 3 rolls (2 sync, 1 visual); English; 16 mm; 14 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-2
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Director of Jewish Community Services Mr. Manuel Batshaw responds to numerous questions regarding the Sephardic Jewish community from North Africa and how they were received by Montreal's community and its leaders. Bensimon's questions suggest a real schism between the two communities and how they saw each other. Batshaw confides about some of the difficulties that both sides had to overcome for a better dialogue and responds to questions about the impact of Maimonides School built exclusively through Sephardic support, the francophone element as to how it effected changes at Jewish summer camps, and other related issues. Some of the sections of the visual interview are missing though the sound is in sync.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Bureaux JIAS (JIAS Offices)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44679
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 rolls (small) sync sound 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 12:47 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-29
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 rolls (small) sync sound 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 12:47 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-29
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Outs of footage from P-1060-27 with Jewish family at JIAS offices. In this material, other families are presented in voice-over sound with lots of images missing. In one sequence, a younger JIAS male counselor lists some of the services the new immigrants can access. They include, among others: housing information on leasing, a drop-in centre for women to help them adapt to new food, shopping, etc., summer camp for children, and information on various religious and secular public schools available for the children. There are also shots of the waiting room and other clients, a receptionist and an older and younger male counselor at work.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Casa Pedro
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44659
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Good condition. 2 rolls of sync and 1 cutaway roll; French; 16 mm; 34 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-10
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Good condition. 2 rolls of sync and 1 cutaway roll; French; 16 mm; 34 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-10
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- A group of 7 to 8 Moroccan Jewish men at Casa Pedro discuss the pros and cons of various aspects of their experiences in trying to integrate into Quebec society. Much joking. Some, more integrated than others, explain their firsthand accounts. They touch upon the taboo of intermarriage, the specific problems of being seen as Jews versus as Moroccans, the need to find a sense of belonging, comparisons with Ontario's Sephardic Jews who blended in with the English, and some unanswered questions about their place in Quebec, should it become independent. The sequence ends with their playing a video game and walking as a group down a street in the evening. Disappointing both in content and general comprehension, but one or two revealing details can be assumed from this collection of representative Moroccan men.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Circoncision (Circumcision)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44663
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- French & Hebrew; 16 mm; 7:29 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-14
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- French & Hebrew; 16 mm; 7:29 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-14
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Beautiful Moroccan chanting and Hebrew prayers of the minyan gathered for the circumcision. The baby is brought out in the customary long robe by the father and passed to the mohel, the man who will perform the procedure. As prayers continue, the camera zooms in on the tiny penis being prepared. Prayers continue without image and resume with Jacques Bensimon asking a French-Canadian woman for her impressions. Then people eating from a long table of food. Cutaway reel shows the mohel sterilizing his instruments, close-up of the baby, various guests and a bleached-blond woman, presumably the mother, feeding a baby bottle of milk to calm the child. The whole sequence is choppy. More footage of waiting guests, then leaving.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CKAC et après (CKAC and after)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44653
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 16 mm sync & non-sync material; French; 16 mm; 12.5 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-4
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 16 mm sync & non-sync material; French; 16 mm; 12.5 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-4
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- CKAC outs -- Lison Chocron, Raphael Mergui and Mathieu Rioux of CKAC. Bits and pieces of conversations with many responses cut off. Topics include: the founding of the Jewish community in Quebec, the work of AJCS, which founded the 23 Jewish community groups, Canadian Jewish Congress, the different histories of Ashkenazi and Oriental Jews, the working class background of most Sephardic Jews in Montreal -- this by Raphael Mergui, who contradicts Ms. Chocron's opinion of who constitutes the bulk of Oriental Jews.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CKAC et après - I (CKAC and after - I)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44670
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 A & B rolls; French; 16 mm; 40 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-1
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 A & B rolls; French; 16 mm; 40 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-1
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Lison Chocron and Raphael Mergui talk with Matthias Rioux on CKAC call-in radio show Quebec Aujourd'hui. Alternating with Ms. Chocron's fellow male activists/organizers of Sephardic origin as they critique the pros and cons of doing the show. Topics of discussion include: francophone Jews in Quebec, their failure to support Bill 22, Jewish stereotypes in Quebec presented by Rioux, minority status, marriage patterns of Sephardic Jews versus English Jews in Quebec, JIAS, Canadian Jewish Congress, and various activities and goals of francophone Jewish organizations, a short history of the first Jews to Quebec and their dilemma between Catholic and Protestant groups, social problems of adaptation and assimilation to the existing Jewish establishment and Quebec integration.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Congrès - Fédération
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44673
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large sync (A & B), 2 smaller (C), 1 small compilation 11 mm. (A & B); French; 16 mm; 22:3 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-23
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large sync (A & B), 2 smaller (C), 1 small compilation 11 mm. (A & B); French; 16 mm; 22:3 min.
- Date
- June 8, 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-23
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Most of this material is end or start marks for sync sound/camera shot during the Federation (see P-0160-21 and P-0160-22 for fuller clips of speakers). In this reel, there are glimpses of James Dahan, Raphael Mergui, Charles Delmar and re-elected president Elias Malka, who is honoured by the community and awarded a gift of thanks. Some motions are proposed and voted upon, and there still remains a sense of chaotic disagreement between various factions in the community and its speakers. In the smaller Roll 2, Elias Malka, the elected leader of Montreal's Sephardic community, and Raphael Mergui, sociologist and critic of the Jewish establishment, both give their take on the situation of Israel's Sephardim - neither position is in the final film.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Conversion – Mariage mixte (mixed marriage)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44658
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 medium-sized rolls of 16 mm sync sound; English, French, Hebrew; 16 mm; 18 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-9
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 medium-sized rolls of 16 mm sync sound; English, French, Hebrew; 16 mm; 18 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-9
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Bride-to-be Louise speaks with Rabbi Howard Joseph at the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue with regard to her upcoming marriage. Intercut with shots of her in his office. What is explained about the ceremony is then performed. The veiling of the bride after their signing of the marriage contract (ketubah), the two glasses of wine, the Hebrew ceremony, the guests being greeted by the new bride and groom. The name of the groom: Jacob Benabu.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Cours d’anglais (English course)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44681
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 large sync 16 mm. reels and small cutaway; French & Engish; 16 mm; 22:31 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-31
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 large sync 16 mm. reels and small cutaway; French & Engish; 16 mm; 22:31 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-31
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- New French Moroccan immigrants study English with teacher in a JIAS boardroom by repeating phrases and exchanging with teacher. A couple also are interviewed in the second half of the film on learning English, reactions to anti-Semitism, the Canadian Jewish experience in Montreal as seen by the two participants. An older woman watches them speak. Some segments of the interviews are missing - they talk about the Sephardic community in Montreal, JIAS, a comparison between the Quebec and Palestinian independence. Also an interview with the English teacher and her sense of the community. (Montreal Catholic School Commission pays for teachers, but JIAS also provides location and convenience for Jewish participants in the area.)
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Ecole Maimonides – avec et sans Lison (with and without Lison)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44657
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Sync material/large roll; French; 16 mm; 32:40 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-8
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Sync material/large roll; French; 16 mm; 32:40 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-8
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Lison Chocron and Sephardic children in school bus on way to Maimonides School. Shots in sequence include: arrival of children; inside a typical classroom as they sing a Hebrew song; hallways between classes; Chocron entering a classroom and talking to teacher about dietary confusion of children; the teacher teaching about Passover (Pesach); a sequence with older children learning French composition; a sequence in the lunchroom with children at tables opening their lunch boxes and eating; children in the playground with ropes, playing hopscotch, dancing in circles, and milling about in front of the school.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives