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Volume 3, Number 3 ISSN 1715-6467 March 2008 Volume 3, Number 3 ISSN 1715-6467 March 2008 TO CATCH YOUR EYE Jewish Genealogical Society Throughout her career as an award-winning freelance writer, of Montreal photographer and filmmaker, Louise Abbott has repeatedly demonstrated her skill in presenting the history and contemporary Founded 1995 life of Canadians to her many readers and viewers. Her Member of the documentaries and photographic exhibitions are as eagerly awaited International Association of as her books and articles. Jewish Genealogical Societies We welcome Louise to the pages of Montreal Forum as she Web Site describes the poignant and positive story of the Jewish community http://www.jgs-montreal.org of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Mailing Address In our next article, we cross the Atlantic with longtime JGS- 5599 Edgemore Ave, Côte St Luc, Montreal member, Annette Colton, as she threads her way through Montreal, Canada H4W 1V4 those parts of the Ukraine where her ancestors once lived. We share Hot Line: 514-484-0969 her joy as she discovers connections with the past. President…………..…Stanley Diamond Remember in our last issue we had an article by Janice Rosen [email protected] 514-484-0100 about a group of Jews who settled “down on the farm” in Western Canada? In this issue, Janice is joined by Willie Glaser to tell more Programme…………....…Merle Kastner delightful stories of Jewish farmers, this time in Ste-Sophie, [email protected] 514-735-4739 Quebec. Membership…..…..…………..Jerry Zell Now it is time for a teaser. The many readers who enjoyed and [email protected] 514-486-2171 learned from the article by Alan Greenberg last September on Database Manager Canadian census records will be happy to know that in June he will & Webmaster………..….Alan Greenberg be sharing with us a piece on finding Jewish burials. Those who are [email protected] 514-483-3853 intrigued by Jewish mysticism will also find the article of interest. Editor…………………..…..Anne Joseph And finally, let me assure you that Stanley Diamond will return to [email protected] 514-487-1214 our pages in June with another of his insightful columns. Anne Joseph 1 Volume 3, Number 3 MONTREAL FORUM March 2008 PROGRAMMING THE LAST JEWS OF SHERBROOKE Address all enquiries to Merle Kastner by Louise Abbott [email protected] or phone our Hot Line – 514-484-0969 All events at the Gelber Centre unless otherwise specified ------------------------ MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES Monday 17 March at 7.30pm Victor Armony: “Travelling to the Ukraine with a Little Silver Spoon in my Pocket” Tuesday 29 April Annual Research Circle: Three members will Former Agudath Achim Synagogue present their latest research news. The story of the once thriving Jewish community of Tuesday 6 May at 7.30pm (Shaare Zion) Sherbrooke, Quebec, has been well captured in Gary Frohlich: “Our Heritage & Our Health: words and photographs by Louise Abbott. We warmly Genetic Conditions among the Ashkenazim” welcome her contribution to our pages. Born in Montreal and now living in the Eastern Townships, Monday 12 May at 7.30pm Louise is an award-winning writer, photographer Jill Culiner: “Finding Home: In the Footsteps and filmmaker. This article, which first appeared in of the Jewish Rusgeyers (Wayfarers)” The Montreal Gazette on 7 April 2001, won the ------------------------ Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism given by the Professional Writers SUNDAY FAMILY TREE WORKSHOPS Association of Canada. It was reprinted in Quebec 10am to noon at the Jewish Public Library, Heritage News in December 2007. 5151 Côte Ste Catherine Road, Montreal 2nd March As we stood at the gate of the Jewish cemetery, th 6 April Daniel (“Danny”) Heilig cinched the belt of his 4th May overcoat and then tugged on his tweed hat to keep it from blowing away. It was a chilly, wet day in early November. Most of the leaves from TABLE OF CONTENTS the tall, moss-covered maples lay in a sodden mat on the ground. But one faded orange Page straggler had caught on the cemetery fence and kept slapping against the chain links, unwilling, To Catch your Eye------------ 1 Programming------------------ 2 it seems, to join the dead. The Last Jews of Sherbrooke by Louise Abbott----------- 2 When Jews gather in Sherbrooke these days, it is Personal Journey into History to mourn. The graveyard on du Souvenir has by Annette Colton---------- 7 become their main connection to an era that has A Tale of Two Willies Jewish Farming in Ste-Sophie passed, to a community that has disappeared. by Janice Rosen Vinebergs ... Gillmans ... Budnings ... Cohens ... and Willie Glaser---------- 10 Echenbergs ... Greens ... Smiths ... Levinsons ... Montreal – In Days Gone By Weinsteins. As we walked through the grounds Jewish Cemeteries in Three Rivers--------------- 14 high on a hill overlooking the city, Danny pointed out headstones and occasionally 2 Volume 3, Number 3 MONTREAL FORUM March 2008 wiped away the drizzle that formed a fine mist quickly added. “But not as close,” Claire on his glasses. Now eighty-six, he had been a concluded. friend, colleague, or relative of many of the deceased. Even before pograms caused them to flee the shtetls of Russia and other Eastern European “My late uncle and aunt,” he gestured. Ben and nations en masse in the late 1800s, Jews had Rose Cohen raised Danny after his mother’s settled in various locales in the Eastern death; he was just ten when he left Montreal to Townships. The greatest number took up live with them. “Claire’s mother,” he gestured residence in the commercial centre of again. Claire is Danny’s wife, who was waiting Sherbrooke. for us in the car at the cemetery entrance. Her mother was a Polish-born Jew who had settled in An advocate named Reuben Hart arrived first; New York but chosen to spend eternity close to he was listed in the 1863 census. By 1881 her daughter. twenty Jews were registered. They continued to arrive throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Danny’s We saw small headstones of lichen-spotted uncle Ben founded the B. Cohen Corporation in white marble that dated from nearly a century 1887; he dealt in scrap metal, rags, and animal ago and larger headstones of polished black bones, hides, and furs. “Farmers and trappers granite from more recent years. We also saw one would bring in raw furs, which were sold to coat grave that had been freshly dug. Danny manufacturers,” Danny said. explained that a monument would eventually be placed, and then family and friends would gather In a pattern that repeated itself all over North for an official unveiling and mourners’ kaddish, America, Jewish newcomers often worked or prayer. initially as peddlers. “They would take a pack and some merchandise and go out into the Like Danny and Claire, the woman who had countryside with a horse and cart,” Claire died had once been part of a small, but thriving, explained. “They would sell their goods, make a Jewish community. Only a handful of Jews slight profit, and buy more merchandise. They remain. As one of them, Danny had offered to had nothing but innate intelligence, a great deal escort me to the cemetery and then drive me of ambition, the desire to survive, and a sense of around the city to show me where Jewish charity---an ability to give part of what they had inhabitants used to live, work, and worship. to relatives to help them.” While he locked the gate, I looked up at the As they prospered, most of these itinerant wrought-iron arch above it. It bore a Star of salesmen opened clothing stores, furniture David and the words “Congregation of Agudath stores, or other retail businesses on Wellington Achim Cemetery.” in downtown Sherbrooke. For several decades, Jews owned almost half of the stores on this This burial ground in Sherbrooke’s east end has street. been vandalized in recent years. But back in the car, the Heiligs emphasized that the desecration By 1907 the Jewish community had grown large was a regrettable, but isolated, incident: the local enough to engage a rabbi, obtain a charter for Jewish community had traditionally experienced their congregation and rent quarters for services tolerance and goodwill. “We always had a very and other activities. After we had wended our comfortable relationship with the English way from the cemetery and crossed the St. people,” Claire said, “Well, also with the Francis River, Danny slowed down at Dufferin French, we had a very good entente,” Danny and Frontenac. “That corner had the building that housed our first little place of worship.” 3 Volume 3, Number 3 MONTREAL FORUM March 2008 Originally an anglophone stronghold, We stopped in front of a neo-classical brick Sherbrooke had witnessed a demographic shift building with white pillars on Montreal Street. by the turn of the twentieth century; French Now a French Pentecostal church, it was erected Canadians had come to constitute the majority of in 1920 as the Agudath Achim Synagogue and the residents. Nonetheless, English-speaking served families not only from Sherbrooke, but locals remained economically and politically also from outlying towns like Coaticook, powerful, and it was with them that Jewish Drummondville, Lake Megantic, and Thetford citizens aligned themselves. Jews usually started Mines. off in leased living quarters close to their shops. When they could afford it, they moved into the While the congregation was nominally Orthodox, secular Jewish institutions dominated synagogue life: B’nai B’rith, Hadassah, Hebrew Ladies’ Aid. A cheder, or elementary Hebrew school, was held after regular school classes and on Sunday mornings. By 1921 the number of Jews in Sherbrooke had reached 265 in an overall population of 23,660. A wave of Jewish immigrants arrived that year and the next.
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