October 2019
William Darfler
The first Jewish family moved to Brantford, Ontario in 1881. By the 1960s the community peaked at 150 families and at the turn of the last century there were only 28 families left. Gerald Tulchinsky, the leading scholar of Canadian Jewish history, saw this as a…
Slawomir Grunberg beamed as he looked out at the Hamilton audience after a screening of his film “Karski and the Lords of Humanity.”
Tzvia Devor doesn’t remember choosing to pursue art. She just always knew it was what she wanted to do.
Dr. May Cohen is a member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her life has been chronicled in an award-winning new documentary, “The Gender Lady: The Fabulous May Cohen.”
Anna Shternsis could scarcely have imagined that her brief encounter with a librarian at the National Library of Ukraine back in the early 2000s would see her play a pivotal role in resurrecting the voices of a lost generation.
