The Jewish People’s School of Montreal : A Memoir of One of North America’s First and Most Enduring Day Schools, and Where Those Kids Ended Up

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The Jewish People’s School of Montreal : A Memoir of One of North America’s First and Most Enduring Day Schools, and Where Those Kids Ended Up
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The Jewish People’s School of Montreal, colloquially known as the Yidishe Folks Shule, was founded as a supplementary school in 1914, and expanded into a full-fledged Jewish day school in 1928. The ideology of the school was secular and Zionist, and by the 1950s, when the author began attending the Jewish People's School, the curriculum for the most part followed that of Montreal's Protestant school board, teaching arithmetic, reading, composition, and Canadian history in English in the morning, along with Jewish subjects, including language instruction in Yiddish and Hebrew, Chumash (taught in Hebrew), Yiddish literature (taught in Yiddish), and Jewish history in the afternoon. The author looks back at the impact the school had on hers and her classmates lives, based on biographies of those who attended the 50th anniversary class reunion in 2013.
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Tablet Magazine
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July 24, 2019
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Morgentaler, Goldie. “The Jewish People’s School of Montreal : A Memoir of One of North America’s First and Most Enduring Day Schools, and Where Those Kids Ended Up.” Tablet Magazine. Last modified July 24, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/jewish-peoples-school-montreal.
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