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Communal
249 items found
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Hyman Leibovitch – Midway Photo Play
At the outset of World War I, Hyman Leibovitch was an eighteen-year-old cabinetmaker with “golden hands” and an ambitious plan to take his talent to...
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Jennie Zelda Litvack – L. Holstein & Company
Born in Warsaw’s Jewish district in 1910, Zelda Switzman arrived in Montreal in 1925 and eventually became “Jennie Litvack”. With the help of another emigrating...
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Sidney Sarkin – Sam Hart & Company
Born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, to a wealthy family in 1903, Sidney Sarkin became a prominent union organizer and executive member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
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Ena Ship – Jacobs Building
In 1928 Ena Ship (née Tenhouse) left her small town in Ukraine to come to Canada, where she was paid three dollars a week –...
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Norman Massey – Parkley Clothes
Fleeing police surveillance, “fascist terror and hopelessness”, a Polish revolutionary in his twenties, Norman Massey (a nom de plume for Noach Puterman), arrived in Montreal...
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Rose Esterson – ILGWU
Rose Esterson’s immigration to Montreal was impelled by the extraordinary number of loved ones she lost to violent deaths in Eastern Europe. Her father, brother...
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Maimie Pinzer – Montreal Mission for Friendless Girls
(Traduction à venir) May “Maimie” Pinzer (1885–1940) was an American prostitute and social worker who lived in Montreal from 1913 to 1918. “Maimie”—who may have...
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Maimie Pinzer – Residence
(Traduction à venir) May “Maimie” Pinzer (1885–1940) was an American prostitute and social worker who lived in Montreal from 1913 to 1918. “Maimie”—who may have...
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Jewish Vocational Services – Sheltered Workshop
From 1945 to 2002, Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) was an agency that provided career training, job placement and professional development services for the diverse Jewish...