(Traduction à venir) In 1969, École Maïmonide, the brainchild of Moroccan Jewish parents, became the first Jewish day school in Canada with French-language instruction. Named after the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher and theologian, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or Maimonides, the school’s curriculum combines secular and Jewish studies, with an emphasis on…
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(Traduction à venir) In 1969, École Maïmonide, the brainchild of Moroccan Jewish parents, became the first Jewish day school in Canada with French-language instruction. Named after the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher and theologian, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or Maimonides, the school’s curriculum combines secular and Jewish studies, with an emphasis on…
(Traduction à venir) In 1969, École Maïmonide, the brainchild of Moroccan Jewish parents, became the first Jewish day school in Canada with French-language instruction. Named after the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher and theologian, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or Maimonides, the school’s curriculum combines secular and Jewish studies, with an emphasis on…
A famed Yiddish writer, who wrote under the pseudonym Melech Ravitch, Zekharye-Khone Bergner was born in Radymno, eastern Galicia, in 1893. He received a mostly secular education, with Polish and German the main languages spoken at home. At age 15, Ravitch became involved in the movement to preserve Yiddish as…
The Jewish Public Library (JPL) or Yidishe Folks Bibliotek has been a cultural hub for the advancement of Jewish learning, communal life, and Yiddish literature since 1914. Its emergence reflected the increasing popularity of public libraries, the strengthening of Yiddish literary culture locally and internationally, and the consolidation of Montreal’s…