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How Did Montreal Become a Home for Hasidic Jews?
- June 30, 2026
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How Did Montreal Become a Home for Haredi and Hasidic Jews?
Join us for a live Zoom conversation (in Yiddish) with
Prof. Steven (Shmuel) Lapidus
In this conversation, we will trace the path from Eastern European immigrants to the Hasidic streets of today’s Mile End and Outremont. We will talk about an old world in a new country, about community and boundaries, neighbors, languages, and the city, and what Hasidic life looks like specifically in Montreal. A conversation about shtreimels on Park Avenue, forgotten rebbes, kashrus battles, synagogues, shops, and how a Hasidic Yiddish world took shape between French and English in Montreal.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
West Coast: 10:00 AM
East Coast: 1:00 PM
London: 18:00
Paris: 19:00
Israel: 20:00
The conversation will be in Yiddish.
Once you’ve registered, you will receive the Zoom link by email from Eventbrite. If you don’t see it, please check your spam folder, or contact us at eli@leagueforyiddish.org
Prof. Lapidus is a noted scholar of Canadian Jewish history, with a particular focus on the Orthodox and Hasidic communities in Montreal. In his doctoral work, he examined Montreal’s Jewish Community Council (Vaad Ha’ir) in the twentieth century, and he has written extensively about rabbis, Hasidic rebbes, kashrut, Hasidim, and the life of the Haredi community in the city. He teaches at Concordia University and is affiliated as a researcher with the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and McGill University.
- June 30, 2026
- online