Interview with Yosef Wosk, interviewed by Carol Herbert. Yosef speaks about his family’s history in Ukraine and Russia and how pogroms and anti-Semitism led to their immigration to Vancouver, Canada. Yosef discusses his father’s beginnings in Vancouver and the growth of the Wosk business as peddlers in the furniture business, primarily in South Granville. He talks about his upbringing and relationship to his family and their immense presence in both the Jewish and business community. He speaks about his lengthy education at numerous secular institutions and rabbinic schooling at two Yeshivas and with scholars in North America and Israel. Yosef discusses his career as a rabbi in North America and his directing of interdisciplinary programs at Simon Fraser University.
Interview with Yamila Chikiar. Interviewed by Kristina Kapitza for the Feeding Community podcast and The Scribe, 2018. Yamila talks about the mishmash of culture in the foods she ate growing up, her background in baking, and her Vancouver-based restaurant, Café FortyOne.
Photograph depicts the collapse site of the original Second Narrows Bridge after it was hit by "Pacific Gatherer".
White bridge pier labeled "21" in middle of image; wreckage of bridge deck pushed to right of pier; ship's bow to left of bridge; small vessel in front of bow, angled right, named "LORNE"; electrical tower in far right of image.
Photograph depicts the collapse site of the original Second Narrows Bridge after it was hit by "Pacific Gatherer".
White bridge pier labeled "21" in middle of image; wreckage of bridge deck pushed to right of pier; ship's bow to left of bridge; small vessel in front of bow, named "LORNE"; mountains in background, barely visible through fog.
Photograph depicts four men presenting to an audience of high school students in a library. Written on verso: "P. 13 - 3 x 3 3/4" crop. Mar 29 1974. Who is a Jew student assembly."
Photograph depicts three boys at a table in a class room. Written on the verso: "'We Three' at kindergarten - 5 yr olds Hebrew Academy activity class." Caption on bottom of copy from the JWB, not original photo, reads, "Budding Artists (or draftsmen, or doctors, or lawyers, or...) enjoying crayoning in their kindergarten activities class."
