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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The Museum of Jewish Montreal finds a new home in Leonard Cohen’s backyard
Description: The Museum of Jewish Montreal started out as a digital idea about 10 years ago. When Zev Moses started plotting historic sites of old Jewish Montreal, putting little stories about theses buildings and people on a website, he wanted to showcase the origins of what was, for 200 years, Canada’s largest Jewish community.
That concept morphed into a physical museum in 2016, right on Saint Laurent Boulevard. It hosted well-known walks, fascinating exhibitions, in-person classes, klezmer brunches and foodie events. Unfortunately, the pandemic put a halt to most of that.
A new landlord bought the museum's physical bu...