2026
Montreal's Jewish artists at the Visual Arts Collection
On January 13, 2026, the ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï Visual Arts Collection and the Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students welcomed students, staff, and faculty a special guided tour focused on the Jewish Painters of Montreal, a remarkable group of artists who helped shape the city’s cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century.
2024
Provenance and the Orphans of Offenbach
For Jewish texts, the genealogy of ownership has been subject to both the careful chronicling of ownership and vagaries like the theft of millions of books by the Nazis during the Holocaust. After the war, the Offenbach Archival Depot was tasked with repatriating three million looted books. Some libraries were returned to their caretakers in their entirety but not in those cases where libraries had been destroyed. The Jewish Public Library received the largest donation from Offenbach in Canada through a deal brokered by the Canadian Jewish Congress. By contrast, the Judaica Collections at ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s Rare Books and Special Collections were donated either through the families of the original collectors or in some cases through the intervention of ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s faculty.
