Weaving together themes of loss, memory, community, and urban landscapes, BACK RIVER contemplates what is forgotten, and how it can be remembered. Sonia Bazar’s body of work presented in BACK RIVER is named for Montreal’s oldest standalone Jewish burial site: the Back River Cemetery. Established in the 1880s in the…
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Flashpoint: the Queer Case of the Naches and the Temple Beth Sholom By Max Holzberg In this excerpt from the forthcoming zine on the history Naches, Max Holzberg explores a flashpoint event that illustrates the queer activist group’s efforts towards acceptance by Jewish institutions in Montreal. Through archival research and…
Connecting Two Communities: A History of Montreal’s Chinatown By Maka Ta, Terry Chiu and Diamond Yao Documenting Montreal’s Chinatown on lower Saint Laurent Boulevard and its origins as a Jewish quarter, this zine tells the story of the longstanding affinity between the Jewish and Chinese communities of Montreal and…
