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UJPO's sections in Winnipeg and Toronto continue to engage in a wide variety of political and cultural activities. UJPO Toronto's social justice committee has been active in organizing campaigns and speakers on a wide range of issues including labour and refugee rights; anti-racism and allyship;
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has been active in reaching out to local Indigenous groups to promote Settler-Indigenous Solidarity. Continuing the organization's decades-long mission to promote Yiddish culture, UJPO-Toronto organizes a monthly drop-in singing group,
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were in the Morris Winchevsky Cultural Centre on de l'Esplanade Avenue from 1947 onwards. UJPO Montreal also operated the Morris Winchevsky Yiddish School on Villeneuve Street West and operated
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and Canadian Jewish Congress severed their relations with UJPO's Winchevsky Centre in Toronto after the organization hosted a panel discussion featuring, among other speakers,
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was known), became active in the UJPO and was elected National Secretary in 1964, a position he would hold until 1986. During the crisis resulting from the release of the
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In 1959 about one third of the UJPO's membership (including long-time leader J. B. Salsberg) left to start a new organization called the
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The now defunct Toronto Jewish Folk Choir held well attended concerts, several of which included long-time UJPO supporter and friend
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The Toronto branch of the UJPO was originally housed in the Jewish Workers' Cultural Centre on Brunswick Avenue, just north of
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Lambertson, Ross (Spring 2001). ""The Dresden Story": Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada".
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which holds classes at the 918 Bathurst; the drop-in singing group, Zing! Zing! Zing!, and the Yiddish learning group,
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Momryk, Myron (Autumn 2011). "Ignacy Witczak's Passport, Soviet Espionage and the Origins of the Cold War in Canada".
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At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, the UJPO had more than 2,500 members nationwide with branches established in
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organization, which used the building from 1951 until 1968, with the first floor being occupied by Glatt's, a
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LGBTQ rights and opposition to homophobia and transphobia; aboriginal land rights and indigenous justice;
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music. Another contribution to music made, indirectly, by the UJPO was the founding of the folk group
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and bombing of Gaza; the campaigns to prevent the prosecution and extradition of Canadian academic
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such as the Nitgedeiget. The UJPO headquarters included, as a unique feature, a second story
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Jerusalem on the Amur: Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951
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women withdrew from the Ring in 1923, forming the Jewish Working Women's League (
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On January 27, 1950, the group's Montreal headquarters were closed under the
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Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada
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for opposing German re-armament, not to be re-admitted until 1995.
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from 1962 until the 2010s. In 1951, the UJPO was expelled from the
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and a number of other prominent folk music figures including
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from which Soviet leaders would address the crowd below.
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Jewish advocacy and political organizations in Canada
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Toronto
Ontario
Yiddish
English
CPA
CSJO
IFSHJ
IISHJ
IJV Canada
JVP
ujpo.org
secular
socialist
Jewish
fraternal organization
Canada
Russian Revolution
Communist Party
Arbeiter Ring
Bolshevik
Communists
Montreal
Winnipeg
Hamilton
Niagara Falls
Calgary
Vancouver
Sholem Shtern
J. B. Salsberg

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