To the world around her, Judy Feld Carr was a mother of six, a musicologist, and a synagogue president in Toronto. Clandestinely, she was a one-woman secret organization, who succeeded in enabling 3,2...
Joyce Borenstein's sweet animated adaptation of a Hebrew fable about a man who travels to a far land to find fortune packs a typically wry and ironic punch. A moral tale for our time.
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The Holocaust is a drug, suggests this gorgeous and moving animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Poignant, funny and visually inventive, Ann Marie Fleming’s bit...
A young boy, growing up in Montreal, is forced to confront mortality when faced with the illness of his beloved grandmother. Carolyn Leaf lovingly adapts Mordecai Richler’s poignant short story in...
Ellen Burka was a typical young girl in prewar Amsterdam. After the Nazis occupied the city, she and her family were deported to Westerbork and Theresienstadt, where she met her future husband. After ...
Ever wonder who the Isabel Bader Theatre was named for? Here is the answer. Isabel and Dr. Alfred Bader’s love began with a chance meeting aboard a ship from Quebec to London. Despite insurmountable o...
Featuring the music of Socalled, Theodore Bikel and Sans Pression, this whimsical and bittersweet short mixes a traditional Yiddish ballad with rap and puppetry.
Old-time residents of Cadieux, de Bullion, "upper" and "lower" St. Dominique St. etc., share their stories of pogroms in Russia and first days in Canada - home life, childhood games, youthful idealism...
Various Montrealers, including Harry Gulkin (producer of Lies My Father Told Me), the late philanthropist Maxwell Cummings, and poet / writer Irving Layton, offer up reminiscences about their city dur...
