Caption
Director of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, David Rome, at left, takes part in weekly adult discussion group that ponders Hebrew bible.
Date
April 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-3119
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Canada's unique Jewish Public Library in the downtown district of Montreal. This 10-year-old building is the third in the library's half-century history, is packed with literary treasures, priceless research material.
Date
April 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-2975
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Young Jewish lad, above, is happy with his book choice from children's section of well-stocked library.
Date
April 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-3155
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Saturday morning is time for children's storytelling session by library's director, Dora Wasserman. Library is open to all, seven days a week.
Date
April 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-3102
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
People of all creeds and races meet in the reading room of Jewish library to read foreign newspapers, glean information recorded in ages past, research for facts.
Date
September 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-7176
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Photostory #350: World Renowned Cultural Centre: Canada's Jewish Public Library
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
November 5, 1963
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Half a mile northeast from Montreal's great cross atop Mount Royal, in the heart of Canada's largest city, stands the 50-year-old Jewish Public Library. Supported by the Jewish community with additional backing from both the Province of Quebec and the City of Montreal, the library is unique in North America and one of the finest sources of Jewish reference material in the world. Its scores of thousands of books, hundreds of current periodicals and newspapers, are a focal point of Jewish culture and lore for Canada's 255,000 Jewish citizens -- half of whom live in Montreal -- and for the learned scholars from around the globe who come to research among its literary treasures. With doors open seven days a week to cater to 12,000 multi-lingual readers a month, Montreal's Jewish Library is a valuable contribution to the nation's varied heritage, is an open storehouse of modern and ancient thought from around the world.
