Whether it was good corned beef, a new pair of shoes, tires for the family car, a mink stole or printed invitations for that special family event, everything a family could want was once available from a Jewish merchant in downtown Hamilton.
The Hebrew type used to print Hamilton’s only Yiddish-language newspaper will be displayed at the University of Toronto’s Massey Library.
Steven Brock
August 2011
Over the years many shops and stores have come and gone across the Hamilton Jewish landscape. Among the legends of this town is the story of Sam, Lily and the rest of the Buchalter family whose Dream Home Furniture Store outfitted so many of the homes in the ar…
Wendy Schneider
Hamilton Jewish News
August 2010
It was a wholly unexpected but welcome discovery. The revelation that in the 1930s, there had been a locally published Yiddish language newspaper was exciting news to the creators of the Jewish Hamilton Project. Further investigation brou…
Steven Brock
Hamilton Jewish News
August 2010
David Goldberg, circa 1940
As you walk through the grounds of any Canadian military cemetery, you come upon Òrow-on-rowÓ of uniform headstones, each one indistinguishable from the previous, or the next, except for the name and date inscribe…
