Hannah Srour-Zackon
@hsrourzackon.bsky.social
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
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #JewishBookMonth
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#JewishBookMonth100 display at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, featuring books about the synagogue, and books by members of our community 📚
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #JewishBookMonth
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #JewishBookMonth
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
#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
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
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
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
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
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
#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 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
#JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100
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
📷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
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
📷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
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)
#RoshHashanah
(Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 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)
#RoshHashanah
(Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)
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)
(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
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)
(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
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
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?)
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
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
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
3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild
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
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)
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
A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card
#RoshHashanah
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
A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card
#RoshHashanah
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)
(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 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)
(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)
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
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?)
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
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
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
3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild
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
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)
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
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
As listed in the Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue supplement!
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As listed in the Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue supplement!
✨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!
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
✨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!
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!
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
#LeonardCohen
July 3, 2025 at 3:56 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
#LeonardCohen
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
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
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
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 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
and Herzog College on the integrated Yeshiva-College Library. The library has over 100k+ volumes and one of the largest in Israel! #AJLCon25
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
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 👀
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
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!