Chevra kadisha

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4 Archival description results for Chevra kadisha

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Barbara Halparin

Oral interview with Barbara Halparin. Interviewed by Catherine Bellamy for SLAIS Oral History class.
Mrs Halparin is a member of Temple Sholom and is very involved with their Hesed Community, and organisation that celebrates life cycle events, such as births, marriages, bar and bat mitzvahs, and deaths, as well as provides outreach services to those in need. She also volunteers her time with Chevrah Kadishah, a service that prepares bodies for burial in keeping with Jewish law or halacha. She was the first convert to Judaism to sit on the board of the women's Chevrah Kadishah in Vancouver. A large portion of the interview was set aside for discussing Jewish death and burial traditions and customs.

Cathy Netter Bregman

Oral interview with Cathy Netter Bregman. Interviewed by Saguna Shankar for SLAIS Oral History class.

A priority for the interview was to record Cathy Bregman's knowledge about traditions and beliefs related to the Jewish life cycle. In particular, the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia (JMABC) specified an interest in documenting the burial and funerary practises in the community. Other topics of interest to JMABC are stories about Jewish faith-based groups, activities, events, and interconnections between community leaders.

Reita Goldberg

Oral history interview with Reita Goldberg & her father Abe Gurevitch. Abe was a part of the Golden Age Club and was involved for fifty years in Chevra Kadisha.

Walter Gumprich

Oral interview with Walter Gumprich. Interviewed by Nikky McCarvill for SLAIS Oral History class.

Walter was born in Muenster Germany in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. He immigrated to Scotland with his family when he was six and a half, just two weeks before the outbreak of the second world war. As an adult, he moved to Saskatoon, Sask., where he lived with his life Lois and raised four children. He spent is career in the agricultural feed business and was involved in volunteer work with the Chevra Kadisha in Saskatoon.