Irena Karshenbaum | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Irena Karshenbaum

Irena Karshenbaum is a writer, historian and heritage advocate. She founded and served as president of The Little Synagogue on the Prairie Project Society that found, bought, moved, restored one of the last surviving prairie synagogues — the 1916 Montefiore Institute — and gifted it to Calgary’s Heritage Park Historical Village in 2009, the first synagogue to be included in the permanent collection of any living history museum in Canada. She has written stories and essays on history, heritage, books, travel and culture for the Calgary Herald, the National Post, Heritage Toronto, Canadian Jewish News and other publications, and given talks on history through Historic Calgary Week, Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, among others.

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