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Canadian Jews make up a significant percentage of student body of Canada's leading higher education institutions. For instance at the University of Toronto, Canadian Jews account for 5% of the student body, over 5 times the proportion of Jews in Canada. [100] The Jewish community in Canada is among the country's most educated groups.
The first settlers came to Canada much earlier in 1880. Canada was in need of immigrants and Jews from Russia and other countries fitted the bill. Initially the community established temporary synagogues in rented houses. [5] However, the first congregation of Jews had begun in 1880 when a tiny group of Jewish migrants formed together. [6]
Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France. [5] [6] As of 2021, Statistics Canada listed 335,295 Jews in Canada. [7] [8] This total would account for approximately 1.4% of the Canadian population.
Canadian Jewish Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal and an official publication of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. [1] [2] Established in 1993, the journal covers research on all aspects of the Canadian Jewish experience. The journal was published annually from 1993 to 2019. [3] It has appeared biannually since 2019.
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The history of the Jews in Vancouver (also: Greater Vancouver and Metro Vancouver) in British Columbia, Canada has been noted since the mid-19th century. Early Jewish settlers were isolated from established Jewish institutions and communities in eastern Canada and the United States.
The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, 1768, is the oldest congregation in Canada, with Jewish settlement in Montreal dating to around 1758/60. [1] Jews had settled in Halifax by 1750, making it the very first Jewish community in what is now Canada, but organized Jewish life there left little by way of records and may have faded away from the 1820s through the 1860s, [2] when the ...
One of the first Jews in Canada, in 1768 Hart became a founding member of Canada's first synagogue; Shearith Israel, the Sephardic synagogue in Montreal. He was an Ashkenazi Jew who spoke and wrote fluent Jiddisch-Deutsch (Jewish-German, related to Yiddish), but at that time, most of the British Jews were of Sephardic descent and ritual.