Jul

20 2014

A Sense of Spadina Walking Tour of Historic Jewish Toronto

11:00AM - 12:30PM  

Kensington Market Area TBA

Contact Ontario Jewish Archives
ojainquiries@ujafed.org

Join a Walking Tour of Historic Jewish Toronto A Sense of Spadina is a project of the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, a department of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Travel back in time to an era when Kensington Market was a thriving Jewish village teeming with kosher bakeries, synagogues, and social clubs. The Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre has been offering A Sense of Spadina walking tour for over 40 years! On this tour, Jewish Toronto's past-biographies of its former inhabitants; the sounds; the smells; Yiddish language; religious, social, and political attitudes-is brought to life. Visits to the architectural gems that remain in the area today are supplemented by photographs from the holdings of the OJA as vivid reminders of a once vibrant community.

Sponsor: Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre

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