Vancouver

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2006.23.001a

Used at the Vancouver Manufacturing Umbrella Co. for steaming creases out of fabric used to make umbrellas.

Date: 
circa 1960s
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2006.25.001a

Men's sweater, Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) B'nai B'rith youth group. Owned by David Segal, active member of AZA Totem 646.

Date: 
1950s
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2006.25.001b

Men's sweater, Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) B'nai B'rith youth group. Owned by David Segal, active member of AZA Totem 646.

Date: 
1950s
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2006.25.011

An invitation to a confirmation celebration and dance at Gleneagles Golf and Country club in Vancouver. Confirmants listed were Marcia Kahn, Judy Freeman, Judy Greenberg, Fran Charkow, Bertie Lando, Irene Heller, Connie Friedberg, Toby Fouks, Myrna Margulius and Lorilee Mallek.

Date: 
1956
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2006.22.001

Max and Mandel Dodek immigrated from Poland to Canada in the mid-1920s and moved to Vancouver in the mid-1930s. They established

Date: 
circa 1960s
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2006.22.003

Used by Max Dodek of Max Dodek Fur Ltd. Tool used for pounding nails into and pulling nails out of skins.

Date: 
circa 1930s
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2006.10.001

This prayer book, called a machzor, is used during the High Holiday services of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Sam Hoffman, who i

Date: 
1911
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2006.12.001

This hanukiah was awarded to Phyliss and Irving Snider for the Phyliss and Irving Snider Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation

Date: 
1994
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2006.13.001a_b

A pair of small, black boxes that contain manuscripts of biblical texts are attached to the body by leather straps.

Date: 
20th century
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2006.18.003

Myer Franks' Masonic Apron. Since the 1960s, British Columbia's Jews have joined fraternal organizations that raise money for o

Date: 
Early to mid 20th century