Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada Inc.

Exhibit - Mr. Justice Samuel Freedman
Opening Tuesday, November 7, 2006
For the opening, there will be a Panel Discussion program, chaired by Jack London on Aspects of the Life of Samuel Freedman.
We are collecting your stories about Justice Samuel Freedman.

Kristallnacht
Community-Wide Program
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Berney Theatre, Asper Jewish Community Campus
This will be an illustrated talk by Shelley Faintuch on "Broken Glass: Modern Antisemitism Comes Full Circle." This is being presented by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg with the cooperation of the Holocaust Education Centre of the JHCWC and March of the Living.

The Asper Foundation Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program
Information Session on the 2007 trip
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Multi Purpose Room, Asper Jewish Community Campus
All grade 9 Jewish students not enrolled in the Gray Academy of Jewish Education are invited with their parents to attend this general information session about the program. Programming commences February 2007.

Booklet: Sir. Martin Gilbert
The text from Sir. Martin Gilbert's Kanee distinguished lecture from October 31, 2005 will be printed and distributed free to the public.

Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
Monday, April 30, 2007
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue
Dr. Lipstadt will be the speaker of our Kanee Distinguished Lecture for 2007. Dr. Lipstadt's book HISTORY ON TRIAL: MY DAY IN COURT WITH DAVID IRVING [Ecco/HarperCollins, 2005] is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist.. Her topic will be the story of the trial.

Our 6th Annual Holocaust Symposium
Thursday, May 10, 2007
University of Winnipeg
The Topic this year will be: "The Holocaust, Lessons Learned". High School teachers in Winnipeg who are interested in bringing their classes to the Symposium should contact Carla Divinsky, Holocaust Education Coordinator at cdivinsky@jhcwc.org

Other Major Projects in Planning:
Our Digitization Project, to preserve our archives and make it available online.
Jewish History of Manitoba: we are publishing a comprehensive new book on the subject.

If you would like more information about any of our programs or projects, please contact the JHCWC.

Let us present a glimpse into our future ...

Throughout the last year the JHC has been moving towards a future very different from its past. It is "reinventing" itself, determining how to maintain, augment, and add to the multitude of services it provides, how to make its activities more widely known and its materials more widely available, how to increase its support in the community, and how to exhibit its collection in the most effective and visible ways. The JHC has availed itself of the expertise of professionals in materials digitization, archival records management, and in exhibit design.

The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada will be transformed into a visually dynamic environment offering viewers in-depth information about topics and ideas integral to the understanding of our community.

Three large windows and one large exhibit case are proposed for installation at the front of the former Museum space, and five large windows will be installed along the west wall of the Elaine and Percy Goldberg Family Walkway which leads from the Asper Campus lobby through to the Shenkarow Family Administration Centre, the site of the offices of several Jewish community organizations on Campus. The east wall of the Walkway will become a photographic gallery. Themes planned for the windows are: Judaism and Israel from both secular and religious perspectives; immigration; genealogy and family histories; the world of work; organizational life; cultural life; political life; and war. The windows and Walkway will be well lit and wired for electronic use; viewers will, for example, be able to listen to oral history interviews and to search a computer database while viewing a window. The materials in the exhibits will be displayed on a rotating basis.

The Holocaust museum will remain where it is, but its iconic box-car doors will be relocated to open from the Goldberg Walkway. Additional drawers of Holocaust materials from Manitoba survivors will be created.

Additional exhibit cases and kiosks will be found in the Campus entry rotunda and along Main Street, displays will be developed specific to the organizations located in the Shenkarow Centre, and an exhibit on sports and another on education will be placed at the Rady Centre and the Gray Academy of Jewish Education, respectively.

The material in our collection is reflective of the social history of lives and events in the Jewish community over more than a century. In order to help us present this material, we will be digitizing the entire collection, and making it available on-line. This means that our photographs, Jewish newspapers, cemetery information, oral histories, manuscripts, Yiddish music collections, and films will all be available to anyone-anywhere-any time by means of a computer search. In addition, the artifacts in the collection will be digitally photographed so that they, too, can be accessed on-line.

See our series of 5 articles, written in the Spring of 2006 by Susan Turner,
telling the history, activities, and future plans of the Jewish Heritage Centre (pdf file 2740 KB).

Preserving the Past. A Gift to the Future

Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg 1905-1960

Following up on our very successful Radicalism Conference, we have produced a book of papers from the Conference. This first-of-its-kind documentation of local Manitoba Jewish Radicalism is part of the JHC's Jewish Life and Times series. See our Radicalism Conference page for more details and the complete Table of Contents.
Price: $15 JHC members, $20 non-members.

This combined archival document / day-timer / prize journal was a project to both fundraise, and to make interesting and useful heritage materials available to the general public. It contains snapshots documenting Jewish Education in Winnipeg and is still available for $15 or a donation of your choice. Want to know more about it?

Entertainment books are available at the JHCWC office. Cost $32.00 per book. Our society gets a percentage of all proceeds. Entertainment books are also available via the Internet. You may order an Entertainment Book via: http://www.entertainment.com and enter our number 91872. We will get credit for any books ordered. The book will be mailed to you.

Remember the Jewish Heritage Centre the next time you want to send out a commemorative card for a special occasion or in memory of a family member or acquaintance.
Call: (204) 477-7460

"100 Years of Jewish Musicians and Music in Winnipeg" is still available from the Jewish Heritage Centre, as well as synagogue gift shops in Winnipeg, the Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre and McNally Robinson's Grant Park Location. Available online for $19.95 plus shipping from McNally Robinson.

Paid membership is the lifeblood of our organization. It shows that you are committed in helping to preserve, promote and present the tangible and visible records of our Jewish heritage. Your membership support strengthens our position in applying for grants from funding agencies and in raising additional funds in the community. Please join us!

Without our history, we have no future.
Together, we can ensure our heritage is preserved -
the greatest gift we can give to future generations.

Here is What's Happening at the JHCWC

Let us present a glimpse into our future ...

Preserving the Past. A Gift to the Future