The gate of Heaven
Subtitle: the story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, 1846-1996
By: Wilfred Shuchat
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (Montréal, Quebec) -- History; Jews -- Quebec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
Description: "Rabbi Shuchat tells of the emergence of Shaar Hashomayim as a congregation separate from the older Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, the generation-long tension between the two congregations, and the rebellion that produced the Temple Emanu-El.

He describes how the struggle for Jewish educational rights ultimately produced a real public school system in Quebec as well as other unsung achievements of Montreal Jewry - the Board of Jewish Ministers, the de Sola Club, the Religious Welfare Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Pavilion at Expo '67, and the Jewish Introduction Service."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index