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CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44053
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Date
- [1700-2002].
- Scope and Content
- The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archiva…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Scope and Content
- The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archival holdings are comprised of an extensive collection of photographic and textual records, including a photographic collection documenting Jewish life in Canada and Europe, and textual records of institutional and personal provenance, comprised of correspondence, synagogue bulletins and other papers, official acts, and birth and wedding certificates. The Archives houses video and audio interviews with congregation members and staff as well as recordings of public lectures. The Shaar Hashomayim Archives also houses minute books, birth, marriage, and death registers of Montreal Jewry from 1857. Researchers wishing to learn more details about the minutes and registers portions of the collection must contact the synagogue directly. The Library holdings include a Judaic rare book collection. The Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives holdings are thematically divided into four categories of information: Archives, Decorative arts, Fine Arts, and Human History. The Archives division includes Prints and drawings, Manuscripts, Films and videos, Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual records, as well as Artifacts pertaining to Canadian Jewish life. The Decorative Arts collection includes Moroccan and Ethiopian Jewish folk art, American Jewish folk art, European Jewish folk art, ceramics, porcelain, pottery, glass, metalwork, silverwork, goldwork, textiles, and tapestries. The Fine Arts collection includes oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestry, sculpture, watercolor, lithographs, diverse collections of Jewish artists covering a range of subjects, i.e. Holocaust, portraiture, Biblical renditions etc. The Human History collection is related to Jewish communal and religious life in Canada and includes archaeological objects, ceremonial objects, costumes and accessories, currency, furniture and furnishings, household objects and domestic technology, film, photographs, video, manuscripts, medals, memorabilia, religious and liturgical objects.
- Date
- [1700-2002].
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- History / Biographical
- The Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, which is the second oldest synagogue in Canada as well as the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue, was founded in Montreal in 1846 by English, German and Polish Jews. Having been members of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, they decided that they wanted to be able to attend Ashkenazi services. Thus, the congregation began its life in a rented room on St. James Street, and after several moves, it obtained land at Kensington Avenue and Côte St. Antoine in Westmount in 1920. This new synagogue was completed in 1922, and the congregation has worshipped at this location ever since. Throughout its early history, the congregation continued to have ties with the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, but in 1918 the name Congregation Shaar Hashomayim was incorporated and it in turn separated from the former. After the Second World War a school was added to the congregation and because so many families had joined the synagogue it was further expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative.Additional historical information about the Congregation can be seen in the attached PDF document (5179K.)
- Notes
- General note:The items shown on this website were digitized in 2001 for the Canadian Jewish Virtual Museum and Archives project (CJVMA) funded by CHIN (The Canadian Heritage Information Network). They were previously displayed on a website located at www.cjvma.org. All the displayed items from this collection are copyright the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Documents
Images
Constitution and By-Laws of the Women's Auxiliary of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44054
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:5 1/4" x W:4 1/8" : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 1
- Date
- November 1924
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:5 1/4" x W:4 1/8" : English
- Date
- November 1924
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 1
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Includes officers of 1924 and 9 articles of the Sisterhood Constitution.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Lazarus Cohen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44055
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:11" x W:8.5"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 2
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:11" x W:8.5"
- Other Title Information
- Portrait
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 2
- Creator
- Artist: Miss Seiden
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Lazarus Cohen, President of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, 1896-1901 and 1907-1914. Photograph of a painting by Miss Seiden.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
The Gondoliers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44056
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:8 3/4" x W:5 7/8" : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 5
- Date
- November 7, 1925
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:8 3/4" x W:5 7/8" : English
- Other Title Information
- Program
- Date
- November 7, 1925
- Publication
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 5
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Choral Society presentation of "The Gondoliers." Includes advertisments of Montreal businesses. 40 pages.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Correspondence from Temple Emanu-El to Mrs. M.N. Fineberg, President of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Choral Society
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44057
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:11" x W:8.5" : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 6
- Date
- November 8, 1925
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:11" x W:8.5" : English
- Other Title Information
- Letter
- Date
- November 8, 1925
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 6
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Letter of thanks from Temple Emanu-El to Mrs. M. N. Fineberg also congratulating the Choral Society's performance of "The Gondoliers."
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Correspondence from Rabbi Julius Berger to Mrs. M.N. Fineberg, President of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Choral Society.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44058
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:8 5/16" x W:5 7/16" : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 8
- Date
- November 10, 1925
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:8 5/16" x W:5 7/16" : English
- Other Title Information
- Letter
- Date
- November 10, 1925
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 8
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Letter of thanks from Rabbi Julius Berger to Mrs. M. N. Fineberg, President of the Choral Society, thanking her for invitations she sent him to the performance of "The Gondoliers."
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Lazarus Cohen, Dr. Louis Finkelstein, and Rabbi Herman Abramowitz
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44059
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:5 1/4" x W:3 3/4"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 9
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:5 1/4" x W:3 3/4"
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 9
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Studio portrait; matting includes "From the Studio of William Notman and Son, Phillips Square, Montreal."
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
A Bronfman family wedding
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44060
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:8" x W:10"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 12
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:8" x W:10"
- Other Title Information
- Group Portrait
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 12
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Lyon Cohen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44061
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:4" x W:3"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 13
- Date
- [ca. 1904-1932]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:4" x W:3"
- Date
- [ca. 1904-1932]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 13
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Lyon Cohen, President of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, 1904 - 1907, succeeded by his father, Lazarus Cohen, 1907 - 1914 and President again from 1914 - 1932.
- Places
- Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Mrs. Rachel (Friedman) Cohen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44062
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:5" x W:4 1/8"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 14
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:5" x W:4 1/8"
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 14
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Nee Rachel Friedman, January 8, 1842.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
English, German and Polish Congregation on St. Constant Street, Montreal, Quebec
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44063
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:9 7/16" x W:7 3/8"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 15
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w ; Ht:9 7/16" x W:7 3/8"
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 15
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Front view of the synagogue on St. Constant St. (now du Bullion) in Montreal. The Congregation moved to McGill College Avenue in 1886, where it was renamed Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (The Gate of Heaven).
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Meeting of Choral Society of Shaar Hashomayim Treasurer's Report
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44064
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:13 3/4' x W:8 1/2"
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 16
- Date
- October 27, 1925
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document ; Ht:13 3/4' x W:8 1/2"
- Other Title Information
- Minutes
- Date
- October 27, 1925
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 16
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Correspondence from Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, to Mr. S. W. Jacobs
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44065
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 19
- Date
- April 21, 1916
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : English
- Other Title Information
- Letter
- Date
- April 21, 1916
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 19
- Notes
- Request from Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister from 1896 to 1911, to Mr. S.W. Jacobs to act as counsel for Kyte and for the opposition before the Meredith-Duff Commission. Sender's address: House of Commons, Ottawa. Recipient's address: 83 Craig Street West, Montreal, Quebec.
- Places
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Hebrew School Graduation
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44066
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 25
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Other Title Information
- Group Portrait
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 25
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Engagement in honour of Moses Brown and Sadie Freedman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44067
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : b&w ; Ht:17.5 cm x W:23.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 27
- Date
- April 1921
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : b&w ; Ht:17.5 cm x W:23.5 cm
- Date
- April 1921
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 27
- Creator
- Photographer: Unknown
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 14 Durocher Street, Montreal - Far left: Hiram Wolf Freedman, Mrs. Abraham Ansel Levin. Seated left to right: Rabbi Herman Abramowitz, Mrs. Teresa Abramowitz, Chaim Weizmann, Abraham Ansel Levin, Vera Weizmann, Mr. A.J. Freiman, Mrs. A.J. Freiman, Benzion Mossinson.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim diploma granted to David Lester Abramovitz
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44068
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : English and Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 28
- Date
- June 7, 1931
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Document : English and Hebrew
- Other Title Information
- Diploma
- Date
- June 7, 1931
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 28
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Diploma from Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Religious School for satisfactory completion of courses of study in the Jewish religion, in Biblical and post-Biblical history, Bible, Jewish current events and Hebrew, granted to David Lester Abramowitz. Signed by Rabbi and Superintendent Herman Abramowitz (David's father), President Lyon Cohen, and Chairman Joseph Levinson.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Wedding: Leba Livingstone and Dr. Moses N. Fineberg
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44069
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 29
- Date
- May 16, 1922
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Date
- May 16, 1922
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 29
- Notes
- Left to Right: Mrs. Leo (Sophie Lipnitz) Livingstone, Mrs. Herbert (Eva Friedman) Vineberg, Mrs. Arthur I. (Teresa Samuel) Livingstone, Miss Gladys Livingstone, Mrs. Bertram (Ruth Livingstone) Jacobs. Children: David Solomon, Constance Friedman, Lewis Fineberg. May 16,1922.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Sanctuary
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44070
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 32
- Date
- [ca. 1880-1920]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : b&w
- Date
- [ca. 1880-1920]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 32
- Notes
- The Congregation Shaar Hashomayim sanctuary decorated for a wedding. Showing a chuppah (wedding canopy) in the centre.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Shaar Hashomayim's Junior Congregation
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44071
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : colour
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 33
- Date
- [ca. 1980]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : colour
- Date
- [ca. 1980]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 33
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Shaar Executives at Coat of Arms ceremony at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44072
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : colour
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 36
- Date
- October 18, 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : colour
- Date
- October 18, 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 36
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim members from left to right: Sheila Finestone MP, Monroe Abbey, Clarence Schneiderman. Sylvia Schneiderman, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, Mrs. B.J. Finestone, Bernard J. Finestone CD. Presentation of a Coat of Arms to the Shaar Hashomayim in honour of its 150th Anniversary year, in 1996.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
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