Introduction to Yiddish

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Museum of Jewish Montreal is excited to announce the return of our long-anticipated Yiddish language classes! In partnership with the Jewish Public Library and led by instructors Sheila Witt and Eli Benedict, this 12-week introductory course will be focused on Yiddish language, as well as literature and song. It's the...

Red Light Tour

1111 Boulevard Saint-Laurent Montreal 1111 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Join us for our last Red Light Tour of 2024 with Karen Herland! Come learn about Montreal's historic Red Light District and its most infamous figures. Sex work, especially in its most visible forms, tends to be recognized as a problem, requiring intervention and eradication. As a major transportation hub...

Exploring Hasidic Montreal: A Walking Tour

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

Join us for a fascinating glimpse into Montreal’s Hasidic community through Outremont and Mile-End, neighbourhoods that used to be home to the vast majority of Montreal’s Jews in the first part of the twentieth century. Today, the leafy neighbourhood hosts dozens of Hasidic groups and their synagogues. Led by Dr. Steven...

A Pickling Workshop: Stories of Food Preservation

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

How can our food preservation practices connect us to one another? Can food preservation teach us anything about food justice, and vice versa? Join us to take part in the Jewish tradition of pickling with an interactive workshop co-hosted by Mazon Canada and The Wandering Chew. Kat Romanow (Co-Founder, The Wandering Chew) will...

Léa Roback: A Life in Translation | Book Launch and Discussion

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

On November 21, please join us at the Museum of Jewish Montreal with special guests for the launch of Le roman de Léa, a novel on the life of the trailblazing Jewish activist Léa Roback (1903-2000). Roback worked and lived in French and English, moving between activist communities and cultures. On the...