Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Foreword xvii
5. Foreword xix
6. Preface xxi
7. Acknowledgments xxiii
8. The Early Days of Montreal Jewry 3
9. The Origins of the Shaar 17
10. The Community and the Congregation in the 1870s to 1890s 28
11. The Synagogue Service and the Leadership in the 1880s and 1890s 47
12. The Early Abramowitz Years: To the First World War 59
13. The First World War Years 71
14. To Kensington and Cote St-Antoine: Events of the 1920s 81
15. The Years of Great Growth 98
16. The Last Abramowitz Decade: From the 1930s to the 1940s 116
17. The Second World War 131
18. The Centennial Year 142
19. The Montreal Jewish Community in the Post-War Years 154
20. The First Years of the Shuchat Rabbinate: From the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s 170
21. Congregational Diversity 189
22. Anniversaries, Camp Ramah, and Religious Developments in the Later 1950s 205
23. Ongoing Projects: The Home Study Groups, the Talmud Study Group, and the Charity Funds 225
24. Bursting at the Seams: The Early 1960s 234
25. The Day-School Crisis 250
26. In the Throes of a Building Expansion: The Late 1960s 255
27. Transitions 265
28. Confrontation in the Synagogue 270
29. A New Decade—A New Beginning: The Early 1970s 277
30. The Young and the Old: The Second Half of the 1970s 300
31. The Young and the Old Continued 319
32. The Rabbi and the Community 333
33. The Pavilion of Judaism at Expo ’67 343
34. The Shaar Israel Project 353
35. The Jewish Introduction Service 364
36. The Shaar and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America 369
37. Highlights of the Eighties 373
38. Rabbis, Cantors, and Others 391
39. Does Shaar Hashomayim Have an Ideology? 409
40. Rabbi Shuchat Retires 414
41. The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 423
42. Epilogue: Rabbi Shuchat’s Concluding Thoughts 434
43. Postscript 443
44. Appendix A 445
45. Appendix B 446
46. Appendix C 448
47. Appendix D 449
48. Appendix E 450
49. Appendix F 451
50. Appendix G 452
51. Appendix H 453
52. Appendix I 454
53. Illustration Credits 455
54. Index 457