Maurice Amiel Interview
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75017
- Collection
- Jewish Public Library Oral History Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic record : digital ; 599 MB + transcription
- Fonds No.
- 1287; OH_00001
- Date
- April/ 11/ 2012
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with retired architect and professor Maurice Amiel by Information and Library Technologies student E. Edouard, April 11, 2012. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes d…
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic record : digital ; 599 MB + transcription
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with retired architect and professor Maurice Amiel by Information and Library Technologies student E. Edouard, April 11, 2012. This interview was made as part of the Jewish Public Library Archives commitment to documenting the history of Jewish Montreal. Major themes discussed are: the forced departure of Egyptian Jews in the wake of the 1956 Suez Crisis, his memories of the immigration of his family to Canada, France and the United States and his personnal experience of those events.
- Responsibility
- Esther Edouard
- Date
- April/ 11/ 2012
- Fonds No.
- 1287
- Item No.
- OH_00001
- Storage Location
- JPL-A
- Creator
- Jewish Public Library Archives
- History / Biographical
- See transcription
- Language
- French
- Notes
- An approx. 5 min., French video extract of the interview is available on You Tube.
- Transcription of the interview is available in French.
- Recording is available in .wav format.
- Interview participants: Shannon Hodge, Sonia Boulanger and Chantal Côté
- Transcription by Esther Edouard
- Lenght of the interview: 59 minutes 25 seconds.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright may apply
- Name Access
- Amiel, Maurice, 1940-
- Subjects
- Amiel, Maurice, 1940-
- Suez Canal (Egypt).
- Immigrants, Egyptian - Canada
- Immigrants, Egyptian - United States
- Immigrants, Egyptian - France
- Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
- Alexandria (Egypt)
- Jews - Egypt - Alexandria
- Sephardim - Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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