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The gate of heaven : the story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996 / Wilfred Shuchat.

By: Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773568662 (electronic bk.)
  • 0773568662 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gate of heavenDDC classification:
  • 296.8/32/0971428 22
LOC classification:
  • BM229.W47 S58 2000eb
Online resources: Review: "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.
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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.

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