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- Text of speech entitled The 170th Anniversary of "Shearith Israel" Congregation, Montreal (1758-1938), given by Martin Wolff, Esq., to a meeting of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society
Text of speech entitled The 170th Anniversary of "Shearith Israel" Congregation, Montreal (1758-1938), given by Martin Wolff, Esq., to a meeting of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society
fileMay 4, 1938SP-01-F-16-18
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- cjhn.caAs most of you will undoubtedly have read in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle of April 15th. the article by Rabbi Charles Bender where he discuses the first gathering of Jewish Citizens in Montreal when they met to organize themselves into a Congregation and were prepared to build a synagogue. They adopted Shearith Israel "Remnant of Israel" as the name of the congregation and as most of the members were descended from exiles from Spain and Portugal they adopted the historical Sephardic ritual.They first assembled for worship in a room or hall in St. James St and then after a few yers they built in 1777 the first Canadian Syn upon a lot of land belonging to David David, upon which he had given them the privilege of placing their sanctuary. The building was a low-walled ediface of stone, with a high red roof, and with a big whitewashed wall enclosing it. It stood on Notre Dame St. just at the head or junction of St. James St adjoining the present Court house and could be reached from either street. A Tablet erected by the Numismatic and Antiquarian Soc. now marks the site. In the corner stone of the building were deposited some coins brought from Spain and Portugal and also some thin brass plates perforated with the names of some of the founders. These were many years later moved to the corner stone of their Chenneville St. Building and later their contents were in their turn removed to the Stanley St corner stone, it was found that several of the relics deposited in the first building in 1777 were still in a good state of preservation.Shortly before the erection of their first building the Congregat bought a lot of land on St. Janvier St. in the vicinity of Dom Sq for a burial ground. The deed of purchase was dated 1775 and theRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
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