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(opens in a new tab) Eva Raby: Programming and Innovations at the Jewish Public Library (opens in a new tab) Eva Raby: Reflections on Montreal's Yiddish Literary Scene (opens in a new tab) Ezra Soiferman: Documentary Films and Street Photography in Montreal and Beyond (opens in a new tab) Farla Cohen: A PhD Story (opens in a new tab) Farla Cohen: The Shatner Family's Legacy (opens in a new tab) From the Tigris to the St. Lawrence: Sandra Benjamin Part 1 (opens in a new tab) From the Tigris to the St. Lawrence: Sandra Benjamin Part 2 (opens in a new tab) Gaby Niloff: Canada-bound (opens in a new tab) Georgette Bensimon: D’Agadir à Montréal / From Agadir to Montreal : histoires d’immigration / immigration stories (1/2) (opens in a new tab) Georgette Bensimon: À la recherche d’une identité juive / In search of a Jewish identity (2/2) (opens in a new tab) Gladys Mooallem: From Baghdad to Tel Aviv: Part 1 (opens in a new tab) Gladys Mooallem: From Baghdad to Tel Aviv: Part 2 (opens in a new tab) Hannah / Nataly (opens in a new tab) Hannah Sirota's Journey from Siberia to Montreal (opens in a new tab) Harry Hurwitz: Wartime Memories from the Canadian Navy (opens in a new tab) Harry Oberman: Kosher Butchers and the Meat Business in Montreal (opens in a new tab) Harry Rajchgot: Reflecting on the Holocaust through Authorship (opens in a new tab) Hart Fishman and the Snowdon Deli (opens in a new tab) Helen Scharf: Immigrating from Poland to Montreal, Involvement in the Jewish Community, and Reflections on Life (opens in a new tab) Henry Samel: Stories of Survival (opens in a new tab) Herman Unger's Job History in Montreal (opens in a new tab) Herman Unger's Social Life in Montreal (opens in a new tab) How We First Met (Part I): Eudice Bauer Shares her Parents’ Love Story (opens in a new tab) How we First Met (Part II): Eudice Bauer Shares her own love story (opens in a new tab) Interview of Dr. Phil Gold (opens in a new tab) Interview of Gloria Goodman Hoppenheim Wolff (opens in a new tab) Interview with Ghitta Caiserman (opens in a new tab) Irving Wolfe Leads a Tour Around St. Laurent (opens in a new tab) Jacqueline Gruia-Gray's Romania (opens in a new tab) Janet Bitton Reflects on Judaica, Music, and Community at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (opens in a new tab) John Elias on his Baseball Career and Grand Slam Baseball School (opens in a new tab) Joshua Levy: The Three Times I Met Leonard Cohen (opens in a new tab) Joël Brami: quand judéité et quête identitaire se confondent (opens in a new tab) Judy Gordon: Four Hundred Brothers and Sisters (opens in a new tab) Kay Wolofsky: Memories of Unionizing Discord (opens in a new tab) Kitty Hoffman's Improbable Journey to Montreal (opens in a new tab) Kitty Hoffman's Montreal Upbringing (opens in a new tab) La Belle Époque (opens in a new tab) Leila Mustachi: Memories from the Keneder Adler (opens in a new tab) Leslie's Story (opens in a new tab) Lily Dangoor: Memories of leaving Iraq (opens in a new tab) Marvin Sharpe Discusses Childhood in Montreal and St. Catharines, the Importance of Jewish Identity and Chesed (opens in a new tab) Mary and Len Warshaw's Childhood in Montreal (opens in a new tab) Maxwell Handelman (opens in a new tab) Memories of Esther Hoffman's Ladies Ready-to-Wear Shop (opens in a new tab) Memories of the Merchants of The Main and Mount Royal (opens in a new tab) Memories of the painter Norman Leibovitch (opens in a new tab) Merle Kastner: S.L. 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