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Hannah Srour-Zackon
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Archivist at Shaar Hashomayim 🇨🇦's 2nd oldest synagogue | VP Development Association of Jewish Libraries | Canadian Jewish History | #JewishStudies | MI Archives + Book History UofT | Book columnist at the Canadian Jewish News
#JewishBookMonth100 display at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, featuring books about the synagogue, and books by members of our community 📚

@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #JewishBookMonth
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A 1st edition of Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry "The Spice-Box of Earth" (1961). The book is dedicated to the memory of his grandmother Mrs. Lyon (Rachel) Cohen and the memory of his grandfather Rabbi Solomon Klinitsky

#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Don't panic Passover isn't any time soon!

The Canadian Haggadah edited/compiled by Rabbi Adam Scheier Richard Marceau is just another of the amazing books in the Shaar's collections. Perhaps a great addition to your Seder table!

#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Did you know that Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat zt"l wrote the definitive history of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal? This book is a comprehensive and incredible window into the history of Canada's second oldest synagogue

#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is the first day of #JewishBookMonth100!

📷Shaar librarian Libbie Bernfeld in November 1955 with a Jewish Book Month display

Throughout the month I'll be sharing some of the amazing and fascinating books in Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's collections

#JewishBookMonth
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Complete Sephardi Mahzor for High Holidays, "The House of the Wealthy Man, Uri Halevi". Printed in Amsterdam, 1679.

#RoshHashanah

(Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
6/ This Rosh Hashanah Card, when completely unfolded, shows the full mosaic of the delegates to the second Zionist Congress

(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
5/ As it turns out, the card is full of photos of great Jewish figures and images of Jewish history, both contemporary and past (who/what can you spot?)
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
4/ We next get a longer message, this time a poem in Yiddish, with photos of the Hebrew poets Menahem Mendel Dolitzki and Yehudah Leib Gordon
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
2/ The first pages open to reveal a simple Happy New Year message in English and Yiddish, along with a image depicting "Das Schofarblasen" (Shofar blowing)
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
1/ This 1898 Rosh Hashanah card at first glance seems beautiful, though small. But when unfurled, it is packed with unbelievable gems, including a mosaic of delegates to the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel

A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card

#RoshHashanah
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
6/ This Rosh Hashanah Card, when completely unfolded, shows the full mosaic of the delegates to the second Zionist Congress

(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
5/ As it turns out, the card is full of photos of great Jewish figures and images of Jewish history, both contemporary and past (who/what can you spot?)
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
4/ We next get a longer message, this time a poem in Yiddish, with photos of the Hebrew poets Menahem Mendel Dolitzki and Yehudah Leib Gordon
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
2/ The first pages open to reveal a simple Happy New Year message in English and Yiddish, along with a image depicting "Das Schofarblasen" (Shofar blowing)
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
1929 and 1924 pamphlets for special consecration services for girls. These were published by the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early evolution of what would eventually (much later) become the bat mitzvah
August 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
As listed in the Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue supplement!
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
✨Help me find Expo 67 historical material✨

I'm looking for a film "Expo 67—Pavilion of Judaism: A view of the Ages" script by Moses Rowell. It was listed in a 1968 Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue. The Shaar archives is interested in finding this for an upcoming project!
August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Leonard Cohen's birth announcement in the Shaar Hashomayim bulletin (September 28, 1934 issue). Simply identified as "the gift of a son" to Mr. And Mrs. Nathan B. Cohen, as the bulletin would've gone to print before he had his Brit Milah!

#LeonardCohen
July 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Next a fascinating presentation from Dr. Gisele Levy, the retired Librarian/Historical Archive Director at the Centro Bibliografico of Rome on the history of the library, and its collecting efforts which began in the 1990s in both the library and archive #AJLCon25
June 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We begin Session 1A: Global Jewish Archives I! First up is Esthy Klein, the Library Director at Har Etzion Yeshiva
and Herzog College on the integrated Yeshiva-College Library. The library has over 100k+ volumes and one of the largest in Israel! #AJLCon25
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We're launching something really exciting this week at the Shaar Hashomayim Museum & Archives. It's a project we've been working on for 2 years and are excited to finally be able to share it. Watch this space for more for more info 👀
June 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What an incredible experience at the Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica seminar @uoft.bsky.social @fisherlibrary.bsky.social, my sincerest thanks to the instructors and organizers. I can't wait to put these new skills to work with the Shaar's collection!
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM