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Our Future. Powered by you. by BARB BABIJ, CEO, Hamilton Jewish Federation Moved by he town of Berdichev was why this stingy man was receiv- buzzing with the news ing so much respect and honour. of the death of a certain When the funeral was over, moral imperative very wealthy Jew. The people approached the rabbi and townspeopleT didn’t shed a tear; asked the reason for such a show for this man, who had been so SYRIAN REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP of honour to such a person. blessed in his life shared not a “No one knew him like I did,” IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY penny of his great wealth. The was his reply. “Everyone took rabbi of the town, the renowned and saintly Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, him to be a miser, but I came to however, was deeply grieved by discover his true character. Your the passing of the wealthy miser, assessment of the deceased was and even planned to attend his very wrong. He was no miser. On funeral. The townspeople were the contrary, he was a great and incredulous. However, because saintly person who practiced the the rabbi was attending, they too giving of charity on the highest decided to attend and discover level.”

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Members of Beth Jacob Synagogue’s Refugee Sponsorship Committee include those seated above: Back row, l to r, Yael Reznick DeMarco, Ahmad Musa, an interpreter from the Muslim Association of Hamilton ; Middle row, l to r, Judi Caplan, Elissa Press, Shelley Sender; Front row, l to r: Marvin Caplan, Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraeli and Laura Ludwin.

Story and photos by WENDY SCHNEIDER, the Hamilton Jewish News Federico Treguer, 20, who leads tours at Buenos Aires’s Jewish museum, represents the city’s thriving and pluralistic Jewish community. Photo by Wendy Schneider t was the photograph that changed everything. The image of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach that The Jews of Argentina appeared on the front page of newspapers throughout the country virtually The history of Argentina and its Jews reflects the complex overnight changed the way Canadians thought about the Syrian refugee and fascinating character of a country once envisioned as crisis last September. the new Jewish state while Russian and Eastern European ISuddenly, Canadians from across the country overrun by radical Islamists, for the most pogroms were raging, but whose traditions of liberalism and were galvanized into action, either offering part, the Jewish community is playing a leniency allowed for an influx of Nazi war criminals in the to volunteer or trying to find information significant role in bringing Syrian refugees to 1940s and 1950s. At least 250,000 Jews live in Argentina, about privately sponsoring a Syrian refugee. Canada, according to the Jewish Immigrant The plight of Syrian refugees has had Aid Society (JIAS), under whose auspices making it the seventh largest community in the world and the a particularly strong impact on Jewish some 35 Jewish organizations, including largest in Latin America. Its heart is the vibrant city of Buenos Canadians, many of whom see their own synagogues, schools, private groups and Aires, where Jews have played a prominent role in the arts, past reflected in the surge of mostly Muslim refugees fleeing war and tyranny in the individuals have submitted applications for journalism, commerce and politics throughout the ages. Middle East. While some have questioned private sponsorship. Here in Hamilton, two Exploring Buenos Aires through a uniquely Jewish lens is the the wisdom of taking in a population from synagogues and a book group are also doing their part. subject of our travel feature, found on page 22. a country that is both hostile to Israel and See MOVED BY MORAL IMPERATIVE page 7

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his wife of 68 years. the words to ‘Siman Tov U’Mazal Tov.” Above: A youthful looking Hanover with Helen, Tov during morning minyan; follwed by, “Here I am 90years of age and I don’t know all Yisraeli to the accompaniment of hand clapping and the singing of Siman Tov u’Mazel girl in my arms is a boy,” he said, about his impromptu dance with Rabbi Hillel Lavery- of the one-liner with these two quips: “I’m dancing with tears in my eyes because the to 1982. Asked how he felt about turning 90, Hanover proved that he is still the master “Mayor of theMorning,” Hanover was a fixture on CHML Radio’s morning show from 1945 in his honour at Beth Jacob last month. Known to generations of Hamiltonians as the Paul Hanover celebrated his 90th birthday at a Sunday morning breakfast organized

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9 HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS • APRIL 2016 10 HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS • APRIL 2016 Profile ORA MARKSTEIN to all who know her, Ora Markstein isindeed... allwhoknowto her, Markstein Ora andaninspiration tenacious Strong-willed, renewal. love, andspiritual loss, pain, of humanexperiences universal the represent pieces of herown Markstein’s hand, The work galleries. prestigious world’smost ofthe rooms the grace aseasily could just ShalomVillageapartment Markstein’s inOra ondisplay carvings stone The beautiful would be able to study with a master teacher. was by then demonstrating considerable musical talent, Eventually, the Marksteins moved to Holon where Igor, who age of a fellow Hungarian refugee and well known sculptor. began dabbling in clay and casting in plaster under the tutel from place to place. It was during this period that Markstein years and spent their first in the country moving viable living, Theworld. Marksteins found it very to eke out a difficult thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe and the Arab War,1948 Arab-Israeli it also had to absorb hundreds of as having to recover from the devastating effects of the economic crisis in the early years As well of statehood. Israel faced a deep with challenges. life was filled too, starting Ora’s art career. theatre director at Stratford, would be instrumental in kick Some 30 yearsJohn Hirsch. later, then a well known Hirsch, Marksteins befriended a 16-year-old orphan by the name of was destined to be providential, for it was there that the Igor, The was born in a German hospital. year in the camp in Germany, where they would stay for a year. Ora’s son, sponsored refugeeMarksteins would end up in a UN camp in Eastern Europe. The anti-Semitism violent post-war became a major destination for Jewish refugees fleeing in one of history’s great ironies, Germany and, limited, opportunities for displaced Jews wereemigration extremely there years were In the immediate post-war few options. with the birth of the State of Israel still two years away, were hardly 10 ” Jewish men for a minyan. return from at a wedding in which “there Bergen Belsen, The two were married just days after Ora’s own miraculous when Ora’s mother nursed him back to health after the war. sent into forced labour. Francis Markstein was near death man who captured her heart just four months before he was of her immediate family survived the war, as did the young and I woke up in Auschwitz,” she said. ment’s alliance with Nazi Germany. was shattered at the age of 15 with the Hungarian govern But Ora’s carefreea small city near Budapest. adolescence family in charmed lives in the warm embrace of a close-knit stein’s life. As children, she and her sister lived seemingly One A series that profiles our community’s most interesting people . The Marksteins stayed in Israel for 26 years until their In 1949 Ora and Francis reached but there finally Israel, Ora found life in Hungary after the war unbearable, but Somehow, Ora and every and against all odds, member I was just dreaming“I always say that until the Holocaust, Darkness and light have always coexisted in Ora Mark of a of - - - - Story and photo by Wendy Schneider, the Hamilton Jewish News Delaware Avenue that would set her career JCC, in motion. for a show at the arranging Ora’s greatest champion, family.into their lives like long-lost The latter would become I have will be alright. my best friends in Hamilton.” “Now,heard he said, they would be moving to Hamilton, you Whenof their arrival in Canada. their old friend John Hirsch school that brought the Marksteins to Hamilton within a year I felt so happy.”so elevated. just work.” “Youlooked at what she had done and said, don’t need me, Whenof blunt carving tools. he returned after an hour, he as he handed her a used piece of soapstone and a couple receive a scholarship at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. true to her word, arranged for Ora to and, you,” she said, reassured Rosenfield that medium, her. “I’m going to help put her hands on stone, nor could she ever afford to work in feel in stone!” When Ora replied that she had never even “But you exclaimed. areRosenfield thinking in stone! You of plaster casts she had made in Israel, her photographs at a dinner party,life. Ora met Rosenfield and after showing would mark a turning point in her sculptor Ethel Rosenfield Ora’s chance encounter with well known Polish Canadian In 1975,of it in Canada. they moved to Montreal, where son’s move to Illinois prompted them to try and make a go Curator Sarah Knelman Auschwitz.” impossible to write poetry after Adorno’s famous idea that “it is in Hungary, Theodor and defies experiences during the Holocaust faith in humanity after her painful Larry and Sharon Enkin would welcome the Marksteins It was a job offer at Beth Jacob Synagogue’s Hebrew “because said Ora, “I’m still crying when I think of it,” I felt class, her instructor said at Ora’s first “Make something,” Her legacy silently restores

ISRAEL AND AROUNDTHE WORLD QUALITY OFJEWISH LIFEINGREATER HAMILTON, PRESERVING AND STRENGTHENINGTHE Kind terrible memories, they haveterrible memories, made my life beautiful.” course but these have been a horrible ugly days that I have seen ... It’s always there of she replies. “Toafter the Holocaust,” try to get rid of all the and months of physical and emotional labour? life surrounded each piece the result by her work, of months heard “It’s almost as if they’re it again and again. alive.” “These Ora has arises, are Indeed, not inanimate objects.” pieces are illuminated by the late afternoon sun the thought here.” precious possessions “makes it possible for me to stay but the fact that she was able to bring along her most cult, Ora to move to Shalom Village. The transition has been diffi of Hamilton show, health challenges made it necessary for every possible way because he believed in my talent.” “He supported me, encouraged me. He helped me in said. 1991. poetry from Francis 45 languages into English, died in her beloved Francis had not lived to see it. sense of accomplishment was tempered by the fact that after Auschwitz.’” Adorno’s famous idea that ‘it is impossible to write poetry ences during the Holocaust in Hungary, Theodor and defies silently restores faith in humanity after her painful experi unwieldy slabs of stone into images of beauty. Her legacy shape of the sculpture slowly reveal itself, transforming alabaster in every colour, imaginable Markstein lets the by curator Sarah Knelman at the time when she wrote, scendent quality of her sculptures was beautifully captured The exhibit featuring Ora’s stone carvings. tran one-woman at the age of 83, the Art Gallery of Hamilton organized a tures sought out by collectors and galleries alike. In 2008, Over the next 30 years, Ora worked prolifically, her sculp Ora Marksteinatwww.hamiltonjewishnews.com. Watch WEB EXCLUSIVE “I made something that made it possible for me to live What does it mean to her to live days of her out the final As one’s breath is literally taken away by the way Ora’s In the eight years that have passed since the Art Gallery “Without him I would never have gotten anywhere,” she writer and accomplished linguist who translated A poet, At 83, Ora had reached the pinnacle of her career, but her “Carved by hand from blocks of soapstone, marble and One ofaKind online:Aninterviewwith balance in my life. With all the - - - - 11 HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS • APRIL 2016 12 HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS • APRIL 2016 Passover Feature 57. 56. 55. 54. 53. 52. 46. 45. 43. 42. 39. 38. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 28. 27. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 18. 17. 16. 15. 12. 7. 1. Across

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