41 exhibits found
1950-1959
Chayale (or Khayele) Grober (1905-1964) was an actress, theatre director, and acting teacher who left a distinct mark on Montreal’s theatre scene. Of Russian origin,...
1941-1941
Chayale (or Khayele) Grober (1905-1964) was an actress, theatre director, and acting teacher who left a distinct mark on Montreal’s theatre scene. Of Russian origin,...
1939-1940
Chayale (or Khayele) Grober (1905-1964) was an actress, theatre director, and acting teacher who left a distinct mark on Montreal’s theatre scene. Of Russian origin,...
1941-1942
Chayale (or Khayele) Grober (1905-1964) was an actress, theatre director, and acting teacher who left a distinct mark on Montreal’s theatre scene. Of Russian origin,...
1946-1966
Audio: Hazzan Eugene Goldberger sings "A Prayer," a song in Yiddish. Hazzan Eugene Goldberger was born in former Czechoslovakia, the descendant of five generations of...
1947-1955
Audio: Hazzan Joshua Rosenzweig sings "Tzadik Hashem" from the S’lichot Service with the B'nai Jacob choir. S’lichot are prayers of forgiveness generally recited in the...
1931-1932
During the 1930s, Alex Bernard led a French Canadian folk band that played on Montreal’s CKAC radio station every week. Every summer, he and his...
1944-1959
Audio: Hazzan Goodman (Bill) Aronson sings "Va’ani T’filati" (And I Am My Prayer), a declaration made by King David in Psalms, recited before reading the...
1934-1934
Audio: Stephanie Schwartz, Research Director of IMJM narrates Hazzan Shloimele's story. Perhaps Montreal’s youngest-ever cantor, Shloimele rescued a synagogue from bankruptcy with the power of...
1884-1887
Formed in 1880, the Montefiore Club was established by a group of young Jewish men, aged fifteen to twenty-three, in response to a growing need...