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The Marius-Barbeau Documentation Center is happy to be partners with The Canadian Museum of Civilisation in its project « Marius Barbeau, a Canadian hero and his period 1883-1969 ».

We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through Canadian Culture Online.

On that site, Heritage Canada displays a sampling from a wealth of documents relating the history of the two dance companies.

Hassidic Wedding

Hassidic Wedding
Hassidic Wedding

(photographie : Ormsby K. Ford)
Choreography : Moshiko Alevy (Tel Aviv)
While Eastern Europeans and French-Canadians joined forces to exploit the land of Western Canada, the Hasidim were settling in Montreal …

Hassidic Wedding
Hassidic Wedding

(photographie : Ormsby K. Ford)
... establishing there one of the world’s important centers of Yiddish culture and thus enriching Canada’s as well as Montreal’s cultural heritage.

Hassidic Wedding
Hassidic Wedding

(photographie : Ormsby K. Ford)
Promised to each other by their parents since childhood, the bride and groom-to-be meet for the first time.

Hassidic Wedding
Hassidic Wedding

The Hasidim sect originated more than two hundred years ago in the Jewish ghettoes of Krakow.
The men’s dance is followed by the preparation of the bride, the meeting of the bride and groom and the wedding feast.