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Shuchat, Wilfred.

The gate of heaven : the story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996 / Wilfred Shuchat. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) : illustrations.

Includes index.

"Rabbi Shuchat tells of the emergence of Shaar Hashomayim as a congregation separate from the older Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, the generation-long tension between the two congregations, and the rebellion that produced the Temple Emanu-El. He describes how the struggle for Jewish educational rights ultimately produced a real public school system in Quebec as well as other unsung achievements of Montreal Jewry - the Board of Jewish Ministers, the de Sola Club, the Religious Welfare Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Pavilion at Expo '67, and the Jewish Introduction Service."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9780773568662 (electronic bk.) 0773568662 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (Westmount, Québec)--History.
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (Westmount, Québec)
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (Montréal, Québec)--Histoire.
Montreal / Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (Westmount, Québec)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History.--Québec (Province)--Westmount
Juifs--Histoire.--Québec (Province)--Montréal
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
RELIGION / Judaism / General

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Westmount (Québec)--Ethnic relations.
Juden.
Montréal.
Québec--Westmount.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BM229.W47 / S58 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 296.8/32/0971428