Portraits of members of the Spanish
and Portuguese Congregation of Montreal: from families
who were among the first Jewish immigrants to Canada.
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1937 photo of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium
of St-Agathe, Quebec. Founded in 1913, this palatially-proportioned
institution served as a fresh air rest home for Jewish
sufferers of tuberculosis.
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Montreal, 1924: Rabbi Abraham Isaac
Kook, on a visit to Canada, was met by a delegation
of Montreal Jewish community leaders.
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Ground breaking for the Jewish General
Hospital in Montreal in 1930.
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Montreal Jewish theatre group outside
the Monument Nationale theatre on St. Lawrence Boulevard
in 1914.
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A group of Jewish Servicemen, W W
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Jewish refugees arriving in Halifax,
1921. Small boy 3rd from right is the late Jewish
historian David Rome.
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The 2nd Canadian Jewish Congress
Plenary, in 1934, which revived CJC after the pause
following its founding conference in 1919.
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An anti-Semitic sign in rural Quebec
in the 1930s.
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Ontario Jewish farmers, refugees
from Hitler, are profiled in this 1939 photo and caption.
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Montreal, 1941:A World War II recruitment
office geared to enlisting Jewish soldiers.
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CJC Director Saul Hayes at an Ottawa
government office, lobbying for more refugee admissions
to Canada, 1944.
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Two year old Jewish refugee Alexis
Kanner arrived in Montreal on the Serpa Pinto in April
1944. He is now a filmmaker in California.
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These Jewish refugees, some of the
very few who were allowed to immigrate in 1944, attended
a Montreal Passover seder immediately after their
arrival.
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CJC General Secretary H. M. Caiserman
returns to Canada after completing his fact-finding
mission to Poland immediately following the end of
World War II.
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This box of matzo-meal was sent by
CJC's relief committee to the Jewish survivors of
Czechoslovakia following World War II.
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Montreal 1948: Some of the more than
1000 Jewish orphans brought to Canada by CJC after
World War II.
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1943: Children playing chess at Neighborhood
House, a social centre funded by the Montreal Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies.
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Montreal, May 1948: Jewish communities
across Canada held rallies such as this to celebrate
the founding of the State of Israel.
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An Israeil bond drive in Montreal
in the 1950s.
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1951: Poet A.M. Klein, right) with
CJC President Monroe Abbey, and Saul Hayes, upon their
publication of The Second Scroll.
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Jerusalem, 1956: Canadian and Israeli
Jewish leaders meeting: (l-r) Dr. Dov Joseph, General
E.L.M. Burns, chief of the U.N. Truce Supervision
Organization, CJC President Samuel Bronfman, Finance
Minister Levi Eshkol
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Montreal 1953: An early protest meeting against
antisemitism in Russian and satellite countries, Monroe
Abbey speaking.
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Winnipeg, circa 1975: The inauguration
of Warsaw Ghetto Avenue. l-r: Rabbi Louis Berkel,
Joe Wilder, Saul Leszc, on ladder: René Toupin (of
the NDP), Harold Buchwald, Phil Waldman, Councillor
Abe Yanovsky, Rabbi Lawrence Nesis.
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1960s: An early Warsaw Ghetto commemoration.
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Havdalah at Hillel house.
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A replica of the temple in the Israeli
pavilion at Expo 67.
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Prime Minister Trudeau meets with
Hayes and other CJC executives.
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Jewish MP Irwin Cotler meets with
Premier René Levesque.
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A demonstration protesting the judicial
persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.
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1973: A group of North African Jewish
immigrants arrive at Montreal's Dorval airoport.
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Montreal, 1980s: A demonstration
in from of the Lebanese consulate protesting guerrilla
attacks on Israel.
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1990s: A demonstration for the rights
of Syrian Jews to emigrate.
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Rabbi Hadani of Ethiopia meets with
the CJC to discuss the plight of Ethiopian Jews.
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Ottawa, 1990s: Rabbi Reuven Poupko
of Montreal leads a pro-Israel rally in front of the
parliament building in Ottawa.
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Montreal, 1990s: A demonstration
to raise awareness of Nazi war criminals who have
still not been brought to justice.
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