How can exploring a family archive transform our understanding of the collective present? The Past Is Before You by Montreal-born artist Arnie Lipsey explores this question by considering how memories can be examined, reimagined and even uplifted, shedding new light on the artist’s personal history. An exercise in catharsis, Lipsey’s paintings...
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, tiny neighbourhood hosts dozens of Hasidic groups and their synagogues. Led by...
🌈 Come celebrate Pride, family style! 🌈 On Sunday, August 4, the Museum of Jewish Montreal and Queer Moms Nite Out are teaming up to throw a bagel brunch with a side of tie-dye for kids of all ages. Bring your own white cotton items to dye, or make a funky rainbow bandana to rock throughout...
Join us for our Red Light Tour 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 and port city,...
Come celebrate Tu B'Av – the Jewish day of love – by learning how to make your own love potion! The workshop will celebrate the ancestral plant traditions and recipes associated with Tu B’Av, a holiday that comes in late summer, during the grape harvest, and has traditionally been a...
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...
On August 28, we're excited to be bringing KlezKanada’s legendary KlezKabaret out of the mountains and into the city at the Museum of Jewish Montreal! From the eccentric to the beautiful, we welcome the gamut of performance possibilities. Here’s your chance to show off the new material you’ve been working on,...
On September 5, join our curatorial team for a guided tour of The Past Is Before You by Arnie Lipsey. If you’re curious to learn more about Lipsey’s process, or to hear the stories behind the 18 paintings on view in our gallery, this is an excellent opportunity to gain deeper insight...
How does a place become more meaningful once it's left behind? How do we make sense of memories that are not entirely our own? On September 10, please join us for The Places Before You, a writing workshop and guided exhibition tour. Rooted in notions of place, identity, and the diaspora,...
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...
*** Please note that we are no longer accepting students to our Yiddish class. *** 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...
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...
Join us for a special French edition of our historical walking tour, Making Their Mark! From the late twentieth century to the 1950s, the Plateau was the epicentre of Jewish life in Montreal, as tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe immigrated to the neighbourhood. Discover how they worked,...
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...
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...
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...
After a five-year hiatus, we’re thrilled to be bringing back our Hanukkah Market on December 15th! In the meantime, we’re seeking vendors to sell their goods at the market. If you’re an artist, ceramicist, baker, jeweller, designer, or a creative of any type, we’d love to hear from you. We...
theatre dybbuk and the Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) proudly present the inaugural Canadian performance of The Merchant of Venice (Annotated), or In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad. Written and directed by Aaron Henne and developed with the ensemble of theatre dybbuk, this performance considers William Shakespeare's classic work, The...
theatre dybbuk and the Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) proudly present the inaugurual Canadian performance of Dracula (Annotated), based on Bram Stoker's classic novel. How do long-held prejudicial beliefs show up in a popular novel from England written at the turn of the 20th century, and in what ways do those beliefs...
theatre dybbuk and the Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) proudly present the Canadian premiere of The Villainy You Teach, a performance art piece inspired by a Shakespearian text. The character of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has long been a source of debate. Some have argued that his is an antisemitic...
