Please join the OJA for a special event celebrating Jewish life in the Manor. Gather with neighbourhood family and friends, meet our Manor exhibition storytellers, reminisce, and share your Manor story!

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Please join the OJA for a special event celebrating Jewish life in the Manor. Gather with neighbourhood family and friends, meet our Manor exhibition storytellers, reminisce, and share your Manor story!

Special guest: “Manor Girl” Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail columnist and author of the memoir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust Once Removed.

The Manor Block Party
Sunday, May 28 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Leah Posluns Theatre, Prosserman JCC, 4588 Bathurst Street

Presented with the exhibition The Manor, on view at the Prosserman JCC.

Please RSVP by May 19

Marsha Lederman was born in Toronto to two Holocaust survivors and raised in Bathurst Manor. Now living in Vancouver, Marsha is an author and award-winning journalist who has been with the Globe and Mail since 2007, previously as its western arts correspondent and now as a columnist. Her memoir, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed, was published by McClelland & Stewart last year and is a national bestseller.

Hosted by the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Prosserman JCC

Sponsored by the Wynn Family Charitable Foundation & UJA’s Kultura Collective

Presented by:

A Kultura Collective Member

In Partnership with:

Prosserman JCC

Start Date: May 28, 2023

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Midtown Toronto

Leah Posluns Theatre, Prosserman JCC, 4588 Bathurst Street

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Free

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