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...
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...
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...
