Canada’s only Yiddish choir is the subject of an exhibit at B.C.’s Jewish Museum and Archives this month, as it celebrates both Jewish history month and the 50th anniversary of the museum’s creation. 

Engineer Cyril Leonoff and a small group of volunteers founded the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia, now the Vancouver-based Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., in 1971. Since then, their collection has grown to more than 900 interviews, hundreds of thousands of documents and more than 325,000 photos.