Ron Finegold 14Dec2011 Yiddish Book Center

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Internet Archive via Internet Archive (Montreal Jewish press, Keneder Adler imprints, Montreal views)

Creator

Yiddish Book Center (Lily)

Level

item (source: Video)

Scope & content

Ron Finegold, audio recording engineer and curator of notable recordings at Montreal's Jewish Public Library, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 13, 2011 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Quebec. Ron's father's side of the family came to Montreal as a group through the Jewish Colonization Program in South America. Ron's mother was born in 1896, and lived in Płoskirów, now known as Khmelnytskyi, in modern-day Ukraine, from 1914-1921. Ron's mother recounted the events leading up to and including the Petliura pogroms (hundreds of pogroms that occurred while Symon Petliura was Head of State of the Ukraine from 1919-1920), the resulting assassination of Petliura by Sholem-Schmuel Schwarzbard, a Jewish Russian anarchist, in Paris, and the subsequent trial. Ron's mother was able to leave Płoskirów in September of 1921, escaping to Lwów (also known as Lemberg) where they were able to secure Polish passports seven months later. From there, they were finally allowed to leave for Antwerp and subsequently take a ship to Quebec City. Ron's mother, grandmother, and older cousin arrived on Labour Day, the first Monday in September, 1921. Yiddish was the family's primary language until they switched to English when his siblings began school. Yiddish and Russian then became his parents’ secret languages. It wasn't until many years later that Ron was able to take a Yiddish course at the Jewish Public Library through McGill University. Ron then goes on to discuss the Jewish community in Montreal, and tells about kashrut certification (certification for food that is in keeping with Jewish dietary laws) and kosher butchers that his mother and the community patronized. Ron recounts one particular instance where his mother instinctively knew something was wrong with their regular butcher, so she switched to a newly-opened shop. Shortly afterward, the original shop lost its certification for selling non-kosher products, and the new shop remains in business until today.…

Location

• Jewish Public Library · landmark · confidence 80% · landmark:curated · found as “jewish public library”
• McGill University · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “mcgill university”

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Subjects

Advice; Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish learning; Other Jewish languages; Literature; Career and Professional Life; Education; Religion and ritual; Jewish holidays; Canada; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Roots/heritage; Jewish community (descriptions of place and social dynamics in a particular time); Family history; stories about ancestors; Hebrew; Other languages; Jewish community; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival and activism; Immigration; Migration; Press; Radio; Poetry; Ethnography; Jewish professions; Family traditions; Eastern Europe; Food and culinary traditions; Transmission; Rural; Urban; Assimilation; Jewish International Aid Society; JIAS; Montreal Jewish Public Library; JPL; Jewish Public Library; BPJPL; Park Avenue; Montreal; Laurier & Park; Parc Laurier; Parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier; Płoskirów; Khmelnytskyi; Ukraine; Côte Saint-Luc; Le Chamulet Lavalle; Snowden; Irving Layton; Saul Bellow; Bernard Malamud; A.M. Klein; Samuel Bronfman; Sholom Schwartzbard; Menahem Mendel Beilis; Symon Petliura; Abraham Joshua Heschel; Jewish Colonization Organization; JCO; Talmud Torah Day School; George Williams College; McGill University; Congregation Chevra Kadisha B'nai Jacob; The Chevra; B'nai Yacob; Nusach Ha'ari; Ahavath Shalom; Jewish Daily Forward; Kanader Odler; Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society; JAIAS; Seagram's Distillery; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; YIVO; Freemasons; Freemasonry; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Orthodoxy; Hasidism; Chasidism; Humanistic; Yiddishkeit; Conservative; Reform; Kibbutz

Language

English

Access & use

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/RonFinegold14dec2011YiddishBookCenter

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