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[Zaichyk] - Chava Wosk S.T. Women of Valour [Leeveben], receiving plaque at podium

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-39-L.13667
Item
[1979]

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts an unidentified man presenting an award to Chava Wosk .
Written on verso: Sept. 79. Oct. 4/79.

Young people with placards, BI Simchat Torah

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09748
Item
1971

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts three unidentified young women with protest posters.

Young boy carrying Torah Scroll [probably at his Bar Mitzvah]

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09738
Item
[1965]

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts a boy carrying the Torah Scroll with two unidentified men beside him.

Yosef Wosk

CA JMABC A.1971.001-20.20-06
Item
February 27, 2020

Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection

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.

Wilfred & Phyllis Solomon

CA JMABC A.1971.001-19.97-02
Item
May 6, 1997

Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection

Oral history interview with Wilfred - born in 1929 in New York - & Phyllis - born in 1929 in Massachusetts - Solomon. Wilfred was a chaplain in the United States Air Force and than a rabbi in Spokane. His wife Phyllis worked developing the Jewish Film Festival.