Here is What's Happening at the JHCWC
Panel Presentation: Argentine Jews in Winnipeg
Evelyn Hecht, Iael Besendorf, Dr. Jorge Nallim, Hernan Popper
Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Temple Shalom, 1077 Grant. Admission $5.00
Evelyn Hecht will focus on the role of the Jewish Federation in the recruitment of Argentinean Jews. Iael Besendorf will address issues pertaining to adaptation and integration, Hernan Popper, who immigrated to Winnipeg in 2003 will offer a first person account of the transition from Argentina to Winnipeg, while Dr. Jorge Nallim will provide an overview of the history of Jews in Argentina and factors contributing to their emigration.
The History of Jewish Farm Settlements in Western Canada
by Prof. Theodore Friedgut of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Kanee Foyer, Asper Campus.
This will be the first in the Switzer-Cooperstock lecture series.
Jewish Cemetery Project Volunteers Needed for Phase III: It is 10 years since
the initial photography project of 15,000 headstones in Manitoba. Now it's time for a major update, and time as well to digitze our photographs and get them online. We need your
help, everything from digital photographers to trusty assistants to data entry to Hebrew/Yiddish translators.
Expanding Our Archives
This is an ever-ongoing activity of the JHC, but is once again being actively acted on by our Archives and Acquisitions Committee. The JHC will preserve your family's collections and artifacts as they pertain to the Jewish history of Western Canada.
Coming of Age - The Jews of Manitoba
The JHC is pleased to be working with noted author Allan Levine on a book chronicling the history of the Jewish people of Manitoba. The project is well underway with research being conducted daily. We anticipate a release date of late 2008.
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The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada
Our new hallway display cases are being designed. Soon our displayed will be viewed by thousands of people every week.
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Our Digitization Project
Plans are underway to digitize all our material and make it available from our website.
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The Garment Industry in ManitobaA major exhibit, curated by Stan Carbone.
To be on display at a downtown Winnipeg location during the spring of 2009.
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If you would like more information about any of our programs or projects, please .
Let us present a glimpse into our future ...
Throughout the last year the JHC has been moving towards a future very different from its past. It is "reinventing" itself, determining how to
maintain, augment, and add to the multitude of services it provides, how to make its activities more widely known and its materials more widely available, how to increase its
support in the community, and how to exhibit its collection in the most effective and visible ways. The JHC has availed itself of the expertise of professionals in materials
digitization, archival records management, and in exhibit design.
What you'll see
The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada will be transformed into a visually dynamic environment offering viewers in-depth
information about topics and ideas integral to the understanding of our community.
Three large windows and one large exhibit case are proposed for installation at the front of the former Museum space, and five large windows will be
installed along the west wall of the Elaine and Percy Goldberg Family Walkway which leads from the Asper Campus lobby through to the Shenkarow Family Administration Centre, the site
of the offices of several Jewish community organizations on Campus. The east wall of the Walkway will become a photographic gallery. Themes planned for the windows are: Judaism and
Israel from both secular and religious perspectives; immigration; genealogy and family histories; the world of work; organizational life; cultural life; political life; and war. The
windows and Walkway will be well lit and wired for electronic use; viewers will, for example, be able to listen to oral history interviews and to search a computer database while
viewing a window. The materials in the exhibits will be displayed on a rotating basis.
The Holocaust museum will remain where it is, but its iconic box-car doors will be relocated to open from the Goldberg Walkway. Additional drawers of Holocaust materials from
Manitoba survivors will be created.
Additional exhibit cases and kiosks will be found in the Campus entry rotunda and along Main Street, displays will be developed specific to the
organizations located in the Shenkarow Centre, and an exhibit on sports and another on education will be placed at the Rady Centre and the Gray Academy of Jewish Education,
respectively.
Digitization
The material in our collection is reflective of the social history of lives and events in the Jewish community over more than a century. In order to
help us present this material, we will be digitizing the entire collection, and making it available on-line. This means that our photographs, Jewish newspapers, cemetery
information, oral histories, manuscripts, Yiddish music collections, and films will all be available to anyone-anywhere-any time by means of a computer search. In addition, the
artifacts in the collection will be digitally photographed so that they, too, can be accessed on-line.

See our series of 5 articles, written in the Spring of 2006 by Susan Turner,
telling the history, activities, and future plans of the Jewish Heritage Centre (pdf file 2740
KB).
Preserving the Past. A Gift to the Future
DVD of: Mr Justice Samuel Freedman Exhibit and Opening
This DVD is available for $25 from the JHC Office.
Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg 1905-1960

Following up on our very successful Radicalism Conference, we have produced a book of papers
from the Conference. This first-of-its-kind documentation of local Manitoba Jewish Radicalism is part of the JHC's Jewish Life and Times series. See our Radicalism Conference page for more details and the complete Table of Contents.
Price: $15 JHC members, $20 non-members.
The JHC Activity Book 2003
This combined archival document / day-timer / prize journal was a project to both fundraise, and to make interesting and useful heritage materials
available to the general public. It contains snapshots documenting Jewish Education in Winnipeg and is still available for $15 or a donation of your choice. Want to know more about it?
Entertainment Books
Entertainment books are available at the JHCWC office. Cost $32.00 per book. Our society gets a percentage of all proceeds. Entertainment books are
also available via the Internet. You may order an Entertainment Book via: http://www.entertainment.com and enter our
number 91872. We will get credit for any books ordered. The book will be mailed to you.
Tribute Cards
Remember the Jewish Heritage Centre the next time you want to send out a commemorative card for a special occasion or in memory of a family member
or acquaintance.
Call: (204) 477-7460
Our Musical Heritage Project Book
"100 Years of Jewish Musicians and Music in Winnipeg" is still available from the , as well as synagogue gift shops in Winnipeg, the Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre and McNally Robinson's Grant Park Location. Available online for $19.95 plus shipping from McNally Robinson.
Join Us!
Paid membership is the lifeblood of our organization. It shows that you are committed in helping to preserve, promote and present the tangible and
visible records of our Jewish heritage. Your membership support strengthens our position in applying for grants from funding agencies and in raising additional funds in the
community. Please join us!
Without our history, we have no future.
Together, we can ensure our heritage is preserved -
the greatest gift we can give to future generations.

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