1937 – 1946

Jewish volunteers to the Canadian Armed Forces...

 
1937 – 1946

17,000 Canadian Jews, nearly half of whom...

 
1937 – 1946

Jewish community agencies launched an urgent appeal to....

 
1937 – 1946

Jewish community agencies launched an urgent appeal to....

 
1937 – 1946

Jewish community agencies launched an urgent appeal to....

 
1937 – 1946

Jewish community agencies launched an urgent appeal to....

 
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196 Canadian Jewish soldiers collect decorations for bravery after World War II.

 
1937 – 1946

Holocaust survivors were in desperate need of relief and resettlement...

 
1937 – 1946

In 1941, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies...

 
1937 – 1946

Hunger relief is provided to Jewish orphans in Eastern Europe.

 
1937 – 1946

A Jewish refugee receives vocational training...

 
1937 – 1946

How Federation allocated its funds in 1941.

 
1937 – 1946

Two young boys sit in rocking chairs at the...

 
1937 – 1946

A garment workers’ strike, most likely the International...

 
1937 – 1946

Children in the Jewish Public Library reading room.

 
1937 – 1946

"The Organizer" was the Joint Council Cloak & Dressmaker Union...

 
1937 – 1946

Students from Jewish People's School at play in Mount Royal Park.

 
1937 – 1946

The YMHA Provincial Juvenile Baseball...

 
1937 – 1946

Allan Sherwin, descendant of Montreal community leader...

 
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1946: As war veterans poured into universities in great numbers, the B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation, offering Jewish cultural and other student services, became a beneficiary of Combined Jewish Appeal.

 
1937 – 1946

Children of the Glazer family, the largest Jewish family in Montreal at the time, 1945.

 
1937 – 1946

A Workmen's Circle School, including famed Yiddish poet Ida Maze, November 1942.

 
1937 – 1946

Recent Jewish immigrants from Portugal celebrate...

 
1937 – 1946

Overseas Passover relief sent from Montreal...

 
1937 – 1946

A Canadian Jewish Serviceman gives out...

 
1937 – 1946

Canadian Jewish Servicemen celebrate the first Seder...

 
1937 – 1946

The opening of the Duluth location of JPS, 1942.

Leadership

1933-1950 - Samuel Bronfman, C.C.
1937 - S.L. Mendelson, QC
1938 - Jackson H. Marks
1939 - Jack A. Klein, OBE
1940 - E.E Workman
1941 - Allan Bronfman
1942 - Monroe Abbey, QC
1943 - Philip Garfinkle
1944 - William Gittes
1945 - Edward Barkoff
1946 - Bernard Marks
1937 - 1939 - Rosa Singer
1940 - 1943 - Rhoda Leopold
1944 - 1947 - Ethel Klein