Please note, due to COVID-19, events listed on our Events Calendar may have been temporarily suspended. Please contact the hosting organizations to check their status.
Event viewing instructions:
1. You will see the events of the whole month, in small segments, in the colour of the organization, with the title of the event and the time,
2. Put your cursor on the event and you will see a small pop-up box with the name of the event, the time and price,
3. Now left double-click on the event itself: a full -page window will open, with all the information about the event. This window has a white background and black distinctive easy- to- see writing.
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For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com ) and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.
These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.
Discover the rich history of Vancouver’s early Jewish community by exploring the neighbourhood this community once called home. Meet the men and women who made a new home here, starting businesses and laying the foundations of a tight-knit community.
Join one of our expert guides for a tour of the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery. The recently restored Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery is the final resting place of over 450 members of our community, including many early pioneers. Sunday March 31, Sunday, June 16. Meet at 11 am at Jewish cemetery Gates, 37th & Fraser Street. $15 per person. Advanced registration required.
Join us for an informative and highly entertaining walk through the early history of our community.
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Contact us to reserve your spot: info@jewishmuseum.ca
http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/program/strathcona-gastown
Discover the rich history of Vancouver’s early Jewish community by exploring the neighbourhood this community once called home. Meet the men and women who made a new home here, starting businesses and laying the foundations of a tight-knit community.
Join one of our expert guides for a tour of the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery. The recently restored Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery is the final resting place of over 450 members of our community, including many early pioneers. Sunday March 31, Sunday, June 16. Meet at 11 am at Jewish cemetery Gates, 37th & Fraser Street. $15 per person. Advanced registration required.
Join us for an informative and highly entertaining walk through the early history of our community.
.
Contact us to reserve your spot: info@jewishmuseum.ca
http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/program/strathcona-gastown
Discover the rich history of Vancouver’s early Jewish community by exploring the neighbourhood this community once called home. Meet the men and women who made a new home here, starting businesses and laying the foundations of a tight-knit community.
Join one of our expert guides for a tour of the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery. The recently restored Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery is the final resting place of over 450 members of our community, including many early pioneers. Sunday March 31, Sunday, June 16. Meet at 11 am at Jewish cemetery Gates, 37th & Fraser Street. $15 per person. Advanced registration required.
Join us for an informative and highly entertaining walk through the early history of our community.
.
Contact us to reserve your spot: info@jewishmuseum.ca
http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/program/strathcona-gastown
Starting Times on each day: 10 am
Join us for an informative and highly entertaining walk through the early history of our community.
Contact us to reserve your spot: info@jewishmuseum.ca
http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/program/strathcona-gastown
Starting Times on each day: 11 am
Join us for an informative and highly entertaining walk through the early history of our community.
Contact us to reserve your spot: info@jewishmuseum.ca
http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/program/strathcona-gastown
Braai on the Beach: Celebrating traditional South African Cuisine.
The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC invites you to a very special dining event Join us on the shores of Locarno Beach for a sunset braai (traditional South African Barbecue) to wrap up the summer. We will be indulging in specialties of the Cape including Boerewors, Miele Pap, and Melktert.
Volunteers Needed: Please contact Michael if you’d be willing to help out: mschwartz@jewishmuseum.ca
All proceeds support the work of the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC.
The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival presents The Invisibles, a 2017 German docudrama following the lives of four Holocaust survivors.
Admission by donation.
Set in a Chinese Restaurant, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas presents an offbeat, irreverent musical documentary. An amazing tale of Jewish immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe in it.
Featuring the songs of Jewish songwriters, Irving Berlin, Mel Torme, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks.
Winner: Best Direction in a Documentary, Canadian Screen Awards
JSA – Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation Empowerment Series:
Learning About our Jewish Museum and Archives
Wednesday, March 27th at 11:00 a.m. on Zoom
Join us to meet Elana Wenner, Director of Programming and Development at JMA, who will share with us the history of this amazing organization, their initiatives and ways we can support keeping our legacy and history alive and well!
To join the Zoom meeting: CLICK HERE
Cosponsored by Peretz Centre and Jewish Museum and Archives
Elana Wenner, JMABC Director of Programming and Development
Elana is the Director of Programming and Development at the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC. She was born and raised in Vancouver, to a family with deep Canadian Jewish roots that date back to the 1930s in Vancouver and the1880s in Canada. She holds a BA in Jewish Studies from McGill University and an MA in Jewish Studies from Concordia University, with an MA thesis on the history and development of Jewish life and culture in Western Canada. Elana lives in Vancouver near Pacific Spirit Park, with her two young children and one aging cat. She enjoys outdoor activities, reading historical fiction, and engaging those around her in Jewish communal life through innovative and experiential modes of education.