Join us this year at Historic Calgary Week for an exciting walking tour. Harry Sanders will be our guide to the early Jewish presence in Calgary. His illustrated tour will highlight locations and stories important to the community from the 1880s to the end of...
March 29, 2017 7:00 pm
Calgary JCC
We are delighted to join with the Calgary Council of Christians and Jews to present Rabbi Mark Glickman of Temple B'nai Tikvah for a talk about his book Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah. In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic –...
Welcome to the Canada 150 tour test page. Hopefully the only people reading this are involved in the Building Community Tour project. As the name implies, it is intended to test things out, before publishing our actual tour. If you have found this page in...
Sunday March 26, May 7, May 28 and June 25 7:00-9:00pm
Temple B'nai Tikvah: 900 47 Ave SW (West Door)
Following the success of the Genealogy sessions offered last year, our Chair of Genealogy, Ken Drabinsky, has decided to offer a series of free, drop-in workshops on Sundays throughout the year. These will be more informal sessions with group and one-on-one discussion in which Ken...
Our Southern Alberta Jewish Veterans of World War I & II Database has been significantly enhanced through a project completed thanks to grant funding from Veterans Affairs Canada. At the end of 2015, JHSSA received a Veterans Affairs grant to review service files held by Library...
Ken Drabinsky, our board's Genealogy chair, is once again offering winter workshops in partnership with Temple B'nai Tikvah. These will be open workshops to assist people with their family trees using Online resources. Workshops will take place on the last Sunday of the month starting in...
Thanks to a grant from the Government of Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program, the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta Archives Backlog project is under way! Each organization, institution and individual/family included in our holdings is represented by a “fonds”. Working fonds by fonds through our...
From August 7-12, 2016, Jewish genealogists from all over the world will gather is Seattle for the 36th IAJGS International Conference. There are currently 325 different events scheduled, with a wide variety of topics and styles, tying in to this year's general theme of "The Wandering Jew." For more information,...
August 1, 2016 2:00pm
Fort Calgary Burnswest Theatre
Calgary Songs- From the Hysterical to the Historical This year, JHSSA is pleased to co-sponsor the wrap up event for Historic Calgary Week. Calgary songster, poet and historian, Paul Finkleman will perform a lively, family friendly mix of original material, highlighting the colourful characters and events of...
Once again, we hope to acknowledge those in our community who have celebrated their 80th birthday in the past year at our AGM on October 28, 2019. Please contact us if you have any names to add to our list of honourees. (photo shows honourees at our...