Join us for a fascinating glimpse into Montreal’s Hasidic community through Outremont and Mile-End, neighbourhoods that used to be home to the vast majority of Montreal’s Jews in the first part of the twentieth century. Today, the leafy, tony neighbourhood hosts dozens of Hasidic groups and their synagogues. Led by Dr. Steven Lapidus, this tour will illuminate Montreal’s Hasidic history through a tour of its institutions.

The tour will begin in front of the Museum located at 5220 Boul. Saint-Laurent, and will conclude in front of the Mordecai Richler Library, located at 5434 ave. du Parc.

Steven Lapidus, Ph.D., is a Montreal-based scholar of the history of Orthodox Judaism, with a focus on North American Hasidism. A former co-curator at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, he has published articles and book chapters in both English and French on Canadian Jewish history and the Hasidic experience in Canada. For over twenty years, he has taught courses in Jewish history and culture, western religions, and cross-cultural experiences in religion, primarily at Concordia University, where he received his doctorate, as well as at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, université de Montréal, and McGill University. As a long-time resident of Mile-End, his current professional engagements involve working with the borough of Outremont on improving communal relations.