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Stolperstein for Rudi Terhoch in Velen-Ramsdorf, a Jewish survivor in Canada. About 17,000 Jewish Canadians served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II. [45] Major Ben Dunkelman of the Queen's Own Rifles regiment was a soldier in the campaigns of 1944–45 in northwest Europe, highly decorated for his courage and ability under fire.
In the 19th century, most Jews from Montreal were of British Sephardic origins, and Montreal did not have a German-Jewish elite that other communities had. [5]Bernard Spolsky, author of The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History, stated that "Yiddish was the dominant language of the Jewish community of Montreal".
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.
History of the Jews in Quebec won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation at the 2022 Governor General's Awards. [1] The book was selected by a three-person peer assessment committee, and the award was granted by the Canada Council for the Arts, which is normally presented by the Governor General of Canada at a ceremony held at Rideau Hall. [2]
Jewish immigration to Canada heavily increased between 1850 and 1939 with the rise of anti-Semitism and pogroms in Eastern Europe. [2] The first Jewish immigrants who settled in Ottawa arrived between 1857 and 1889. [3] "The Jewish population of Ottawa doubled its size approximately five times between 1901 and 1911". [4]
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.
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 ...
Toronto's Jewish community is the most populous and one of the oldest in the country, forming a significant part of the history of the Jews in Canada.It numbered about 240,000 in the 2001 census, having overtaken Montreal in the 1970s.