[BCMA] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Jewish Museum exhibits Richmond's Jewish Heritage

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Exhibition

June 5, 2011

 

Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia exhibits Richmond's Jewish
Heritage 

 

The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia exhibits Richmond's
Jewish heritage at the Richmond Public Library. The exhibit is located
in the Ben and Esther Dayson Reading Lounge, located on the 2nd floor of
the Richmond (Brighouse) Main Branch.  On display from June 5, 2011 to
December 23, 2011. Admission is free.

 

Celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Richmond, BC, the exhibit
includes photographs from the Nemetz Jewish Community Archives and
artifacts from the Jewish Historical Society of BC. The exhibit details
the history of early Jewish settlement in Richmond, the establishment of
the Richmond Country Club and Richmond Jewish community life today.

 

By the 1890s, there were three Jewish storekeepers servicing the
Steveston area: Simon Petersky, Israel Rubinowitz and Henry Sisson.
Simon Petersky, a Russian immigrant, had homesteaded in 1884 at a first
Jewish farm colony in Saskatchewan, called New Jerusalem. When the
colony failed, he took a train out to Vancouver, where he established S.
Petersky & Co. The Steveston outlet, named the Vancouver General Store,
was the largest in the village, stocking groceries and provisions,
tobaccos and cigars, temperance beer and gents' furnishings.

 

By 1971, citing a need for suitable Jewish education for their children,
60 families met to organize a Hebrew school and formed the
Richmond/Delta Jewish Community Association. Today, the City of Richmond
boasts a kosher bakery, a kosher butcher, four Synagogues and the
Richmond Jewish Day School. Today, approximately 5,000 Jewish people
reside in the Richmond area.

 

Richmond Public Library Brighouse (Main) Branch 

100-7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, B.C. V6Y 1R8

Hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 am - 9:30 pm. Sat, Sun 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

 

The exhibit is made possible by the Ben & Esther Dayson Charitable
Foundation.

 

For more information, contact the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC at 
info at jewishmuseum.ca or call (604)257-5199. 

 

The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia, as governed by the
Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia, is the preeminent and
authoritative body for the collection and sharing of community memory of
Jewish life in British Columbia. 

 

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Media Contact:

Molly Winston, Education Coordinator

Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia

(604) 257-5199 | mwinston at jewishmuseum.ca

 

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