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Prairie Jewish settlers: John C. Lehr, ‘Rabbi Eliezer Gruber’s Jewish Agricultural Settlement Schemes in Manitoba’, Prairie History, 10, 2023, pp. 20-32

23May23

Excerpt: The most imposing mausoleum in Winnipeg’s Shaarey Zedek cemetery is dedicated to a Rabbi virtually unknown within the wider Jewish community. Eliezer (spelled variously as Elezor, Leizer, Leiser, Alezor, or Eleizer) Gruber was a Jewish leader and settlement entrepreneur who, at the turn of the last century, played a significant role in founding Manitoba’s first Jewish agricultural settlement.


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