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Philip: I don’t know too much about the congregation of the White Shul, but I do remember that Abe Weiss
belonged to the White Shul. His father, something about the Weiss family, two of them, I … I can’t
picture ever seeing the man yet there was brothers and sisters.
Peter: What was like, why was there two shuls? What I mean is was there any actual real difference between
the two of them?
Philip: No they’re both orthodox shuls. Both orthodox shuls. I’d say the population was…
Yeah, I know the Red Shul was a full shul. I don’t know if they had as much fun in there as we
had in there, but probably... you know. And I don’t really know other than I think Abe Weiss,
the only one that I know that the family, or the person went to the White Shul. I don’t know too
much about that.
And then there was Korzenstein
A bill for dues in arrears
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On July 23, 2008, Mortimer Constantine confirmed in an email that those photos are of the White Shul. He
also wrote:
My grandfather was Noah Avrum Fishman. He came to Canada from a small villiage near Kiev.
He was a furrier by trade, and was also the Cantor at the White Shul.
Some of the members of the Shul were;
Sam Kligman
Rosenfeld who founder a very successful meat packing firm, Mel-Rose Packers.
Letosky. who were butchers and lived on Papineau. [Letofsky?]
The Sambath family who lived on Papineau
The Lutsky family who owned a Pharmacy on Papineau
The Gersberg family on Papineau Street
The Glassberg familly on Papineau
The Acomsky family who owned a 5 to 1.00 store at the corner of Papineau and Beaubien [Yakumsky?]
The Mattorin family who operated a beauty salon on Papineau just south of Beaubien
The Percher family who lived directly across from me on Papineau. They owned a Junk Yard.
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