*** 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 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...