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

"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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shuchat, Wilfred
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FOREWORD
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 The Early Days of Montreal Jewry
  • 2 The Origins of the Shaar
  • 3 The Community and the Congregation in the 1870s to 1890s
  • 4 The Synagogue Service and the Leadership in the 1880s and 1890s
  • 5 The Early Abramowitz Years: To the First World War
  • 6 The First World War Years
  • 7 To Kensington and Cote St-Antoine: Events of the 1920s
  • 8 The Years of Great Growth
  • 9 The Last Abramowitz Decade: From the 1930s to the 1940s
  • 10 The Second World War
  • 11 The Centennial Year12 The Montreal Jewish Community in the Post-War Years
  • 13 The First Years of the Shuchat Rabbinate: From the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s
  • 14 Congregational Diversity
  • 15 Anniversaries, Camp Ramah, and Religious Developments in the Later 1950s
  • 16 Ongoing Projects: The Home Study Groups, the Talmud Study Group, and the Charity Funds
  • 17 Bursting at the Seams: The Early 1960s
  • 18 The Day-School Crisis
  • 19 In the Throes of a Building Expansion: The Late 1960s
  • 20 Transitions
  • 21 Confrontation in the Synagogue
  • 22 A New Decade
  • A New Beginning: The Early 1970s23 The Young and the Old: The Second Half of the 1970s
  • 24 The Young and the Old Continued
  • 25 The Rabbi and the Community
  • 26 The Pavilion of Judaism at Expo '67
  • 27 The Shaar Israel Project
  • 28 The Jewish Introduction Service
  • 29 The Shaar and the Jewish Theological Seminary
  • 30 Highlights of the Eighties
  • 31 Rabbis, Cantors, and Others
  • 32 Does Shaar Hashomayim Have an Ideology?
  • 33 Rabbi Shuchat Retires
  • 34 The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary
  • EPILOGUE: Rabbi Shuchat's Concluding ThoughtsPOSTSCRIPT
  • APPENDIX A: The Reorganizational Meeting of 12 September 1858
  • APPENDIX B: Congregation Presidents, 1860-1995
  • APPENDIX C: Sisterhood Presidents, 1921-1993
  • APPENDIX D: Men's Association Presidents, 1949-1994
  • APPENDIX E: Junior Congregation Presidents, 1928-1976
  • APPENDIX F: Congregants Who Lost Their Lives in War
  • APPENDIX G: Congregational Officers and Members of the Order of the British Empire, the Order of Canada, and the Ordre National du Quebec
  • APPENDIX H: Simchat Torah Honourees, 5716-5760APPENDIX I: Sisterhood Torah Fund Honourees 1963-1994
  • ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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