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Sefer Torah

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Item

Date:

[before 1768].

Reference:

Volume number: 8

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4274159

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Shearith Israel fonds (Montreal, Quebec)

Sefer Torah
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Date(s):

[before 1768].

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

1 scroll of textual records

Language of material:

Hebrew

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Item consists of a Sephardic Sefer Torah scroll, belonging to the Shearith Israel congregation in Montreal.

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Custodial history:

This Torah was presented to the Shearith Israel congregation (Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue) in Montreal in 1768 by members of the Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, England. Its origins are not clear, but it may have been created in North Africa in the 17th or 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Title: Sefer Torah - To the Congregation Shearith Israel. The National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1995.01.01 - 1997.05.01, Exhibition Title: The Spanish and Portuguese Sefer Torah. The National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1981.02.23 - 1994.08.01, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 1: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1997.05.14-1998.01.31, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 2: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.03.01 - 1998.09.30, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 3: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.11.10 - 1999.11.30, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 4: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2000.03.22 - 2000.12.31

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Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]
Restricted for preservation reasons.

Volume [MG8 G 67] 8

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

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