Bring your laptop or tablet for hands-on sessions on digital skills including Microsoft Word documents, photo editing and sharing, file management and Google Suite. FREE.
Tu 2:00 – 3:30pm
Sep 10, 17, 24, Nov 5, 12, 19
RSVP 604-257-5181 or library@jccgv.bc.ca
Friends of the Library Campaign 2019 raised over $42,000! Your contributions provide essential funding for collection development and program prep. Thank you for your support!
No experience required, just a passion for books. Join the lively discussions, whether you have read the book or not. FREE
Th 1:00pm
Sep 26 Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
Oct 24 Mouth of Truth by Lilian Boraks Nemetz
Nov 28 The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Dec 19 The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom
NEW Expressive Art Series
Bonnie Nish, published poet and director of Pandora’s Poetry Collective will facilitate a series of themed workshops for adults who want to explore their creative side. All welcome. Registration required. By donation.
Th 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Oct 24, 31, Nov 7, 14
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Meet your Ghost Writer
Need some help putting your thoughts, ideas, emotions into words? Have a letter you need help composing or a memory you would like to record for posterity? Interested in writing your own eulogy? Get skilled help from Judi, our library volunteer. Confidential, fun and therapeutic. FREE.
Meet Judi and hear how she can help you
Th Sep 12 10:30 am
By appointment, or drop in
Every other We Sep 18-Dec 11 at 1:30 pm
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Techie Help
Need help in filling out online forms, setting up your eReader & more? Bring your device and get hands-on training.
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Shirley Stein’s News & Views
Current affairs discussion group facilitated by volunteer Daniel Elezam.
We 10:30am -12:30pm
no session Oct 2, 9, 16
$2 drop-in donation benefits the Library
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The Travelling Storyteller
Our librarian Helen reads stories and leads discussions at the Snider Campus for Jewish Seniors. Contact the library for details.
Baby Storytime with librarian Helen Pinsky (0-36 mo)
Stories, rhymes, songs and fingerplays for parents and caregivers with babies and tots. Focus on Jewish themes and holidays. RSVP by Wednesday. FREE.
Th 11:30am – 12:00pm
Sep 12 – Dec 19
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Sunday Family Storytime
Su 11:00 – 11:30am
Sep 15, 29, Oct 13, 27,
Nov 10, 24, Dec 8, 22
We are accepting gently used books for sale at our Used Book Sales. Please bring your books to the library. No encyclopedias, foreign language books, magazines, damaged or mildewy book please.
EBOOK & AUDIO BOOK COLLECTIONS click here…
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ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA Please use your Library Card # starting with “P___________” click to log in…
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Generously sponsored by Yosef Wosk.
Free Genealogy Help at the library
Stephen Falk from the Jewish Genealogical Society is available to assist you in researching your family history.
PLEASE RSVP to library@jccgv.bc.ca
or 604-257-5181.
Ancestors in the attic: making family memorabilia into history
by Karen Foy. Published 2012
Discover your roots: 52 brilliant ideas for exploring your family and local history
by Paul Blake and Maggie Loughran. Published 2011
Family photographs and how to date them
by Jayne Shrimpton. Published 2015
Genealogy
by George G. Morgan (Series: How to Do Everything.) Published 2014
Tracing your ancestors: a guide for family historians
by Simon Fowler. Published 2012
Tracing your Jewish ancestors: a guide for family historians
by Rosemary Wenzerul. Published 2012
Writing a non-boring family history
by Hazel Edwards. Published 2012
Writing your family history: a practical guide
by Deborah Cass. Published 2012
The Jewish Genealogical Society of BC
The Isaac Waldman Library gratefully acknowledges the support and collaboration of the JGSBC in developing the library’s genealogy program. Please visit their website for an extensive list of resources and upcoming events.
Jackson, Buzzy. Shaking the family tree : Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist. 2010.
929.1072 JAC 2010
Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC. New routes to your roots: Jewish genealogy and research in Eastern Europe. 1995.
929.1072 NEW 1995
Kurzweil, Arthur. From generation to generation : how to trace your Jewish genealogy and family history. 1994
929.1 KUR 1994
Kurzweil, Arthur. My generations : a course in Jewish family history. 1983.
929. 1072 KUR 1983
Rottenberg, Dan. Finding our fathers : a guidebook to Jewish genealogy. 1977.
929.1 ROT 1977
Zubatsky, David S. Jewish genealogy : a sourcebook of family histories and genealogies. 1984. 929.1 ZUB 1984 REF
2ND FLOOR – Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver
950 W.41st Avenue
Sun: 10:00am-3:00pm
Mon/Tue/Thu: 10:00am-6:00pm
Wed: 10am-8pm
Fri/Sat: closed
604-257-5181 or email: library@jccgv.bc.ca
JCC members and all paid program participants are entitled to a free library card. Please register in the library.
A perfect place to take a break and read newspapers from across Canada, NewYork, and Israel. We carry the Jewish Post, Canadian Jewish News, Winnipeg Jewish Post & more. Our magazines cover Jewish topics from current events to travel in Israel. Our collection includes Forward, Jerusalem Report, Eretz, Moment, Commentary and many other interesting journals.
Purchase and inscribe a book in honour of someone special. Call 257-5111 or visit the JCC Front Desk.
Call 257-5111 or visit the JCC Front Desk.
Donations may be made to the Library and a special plaque will be inscribed. For information please call the librarian at 604-257-5111 ext. 249.
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Collections
The Insult
2017
The Insult is a Lebanese film, directed by Ziad Doueiri, nominated for best foreign-language film at the 90th Academy Awards. The film’s roots lie deep in Lebanese politics, centering around a fracas between a Lebanese Christian auto mechanic named Tony (Adel Karam) and the Palestinian refugee Yasser (Kamel El Basha) who enters his life. Its execution is pure melodrama flash and high courtroom drama (B. Hertz, The Globe and Mail, 25/1/2018).
A trivial, personal conflict explodes into something much larger, a drama that consumes a city and a nation. Eventually, the courts are involved. Memories of past atrocities are dredged up, and Lebanon’s civil war, which officially ended in 1990, seems on the verge of erupting all over again. The Insult is a fascinating history lesson. It is also a reminder that resentment and hatred don’t necessarily recede when the fighting stops. People have long memories, and so do groups whose identities rest in part on seeing one another as enemies (A.O. Scott, NYTimes, 10/1/2018).
The grace and precision of the performances, not only Mr. Karam and Mr. El Basha’s, but also those of the actors playing the colleagues, advocates, surprise witnesses and bureaucrats, push against the director’s fondness for grand statements and obvious ironies. This is an honest assessment of the never-ending conflict between decency and cruelty that rages in every nation, neighbourhood and heart.
In Arabic with a little Hebrew, English subtitles.
Review by Dolores Luber