1947-1947
Category: Communal
200 exhibits found
1947-1947
1947-1947
1914-1914
Hyman Leibovitch – Midway Photo Play
At the outset of World War I, Hyman Leibovitch was an eighteen-year-old cabinetmaker with “golden hands” and an ambitious plan to take his talent to...
1925-1926
Jennie Zelda Litvack – L. Holstein & Company
Born in Warsaw’s Jewish district in 1910, Zelda Switzman arrived in Montreal in 1925 and eventually became “Jennie Litvack”. With the help of another emigrating...
1925-1925
Sidney Sarkin – Sam Hart & Company
Born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, to a wealthy family in 1903, Sidney Sarkin became a prominent union organizer and executive member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
1934-1934
Ena Ship – Jacobs Building
In 1928 Ena Ship (née Tenhouse) left her small town in Ukraine to come to Canada, where she was paid three dollars a week –...
1937-1941
Norman Massey – Parkley Clothes
Fleeing police surveillance, “fascist terror and hopelessness”, a Polish revolutionary in his twenties, Norman Massey (a nom de plume for Noach Puterman), arrived in Montreal...
1933-1954
Rose Esterson – ILGWU
Rose Esterson’s immigration to Montreal was impelled by the extraordinary number of loved ones she lost to violent deaths in Eastern Europe. Her father, brother...
1901-1948
Baron de Hirsch Institute
The Baron de Hirsch Institute (BdHI) was the hub of Jewish social services in Montreal for more than 100 years. Founded in 1863 as the...
1974-1993
Jewish Family Services – Social Service Centre
Jewish Family Services (JFS) was a network of health and social services comprising two major agencies: the private Baron de Hirsch Institute (BdHI) and the...