Frank Marsh was born in Lamaline, a remote coastal village in Newfoundland, and came to touch the lives of many people in Ontario, and even in distant India, by dint of his professional vision and dedication. A rural school-teacher who founded Newfoundland’s Eastern College and then became the province’s assistant deputy minister of education, Marsh…
Month: December 2011
Review: Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories
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Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories, by David. S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Brent, is an updated edition, with substantial additions, of a two-volume bibliographic reference tool for genealogists that was published years ago. The revised work, published 1996, offers more than 22,000 entries pertaining to some 12,000 family names, culled from a variety of…
An encounter with David Cronenberg
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Twenty years ago this summer (i.e., the summer of 1974) this reporter was a 20-year-old film student at York University, who had been lucky enough to find some meager employment as a pre-production assistant for a $180,000-budget feature film being shot in Montreal. The working title was Orgy of the Blood Parasites, the director was…
Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family
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Yesterday, A Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family is a lovely reminiscence by Miriam Shomer Zunser, the American daughter of Yiddish novelist Nochim-Mayer Shaikevitsch. It was originally published in 1939 and a second edition, edited by Zunser’s granddaughter Emily Wortis Leider, was printed by Harper & Row in 1978. Zunser’s unself-conscious narrative focuses on various…
Name index for “Canadian Jewry: Prominent Jews of Canada”
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CANADIAN JEWRY: PROMINENT JEWS OF CANADA NAME INDEX Pages 1 to 59, Section A Pages 60 to 125, Section B Pages 126 to 191, Section C Pages 192 to 245, Section D Pages 246 to 305, Section E A Abramovitch, H., Dr. 265; Abramsky, Gussie 75; Abramsky, Harry 69; Abramsky, Joseph 191; Abramsky, Moses M. 74; Abramsky, Sam …
The Strange Case of Ben Hecht
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Eighty years ago this summer, in June 1931, New York publisher Covici Friede announced that A Jew in Love, a new novel by Ben Hecht (1894-1964), had been banned in Canada and in bookstores in Boston and other American cities. Anyone who opened the book — the front page of which described the Jewish protagonist…
Restoring Jewish heritage sites with Sam Gruber
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The first time Sam Gruber stepped inside the Tempel Synagogue in Krakow, Poland, he was “incredibly moved” by what he saw. Considered the lone surviving example of the great 19th-century synagogues of Poland, the sumptuously decorated Moorish-Gothic structure had been built as a Reform synagogue in 1862. It had been enlarged in 1892 and again…
