Bibliography and Links
Places to check your families' information and to suggest Stories updates, etc.
- Ancestry.com: Jewish Community of Sherbrooke Quebec 1850 - 1990. Ancestry.com website where you can add stories updates etc. This is coordinated by Corinne Mitchel. This is the site with the primary data that is transfered to the TNG below site every few months...
- Geneaology of the Sherbooke Jewish Families, 1860-1990 (TNG site) . A private website run by dean echenberg where Sherbrooke family data can also be checked.
- Discussion Group for the Jewish Community of Sherbrooke
- Chabad of Sherbrooke: Rabbi Moishe and Miriam Notik, Co-Directors
- Agudath Achim Sherbrooke
- "Ostropol on the St. Francis: The Jewish Community of Sherbrooke," by Michael Benazon,
- Canadian Jewish Heritage Network "Sherbrooke"
- Sherbrooke - IAJGS Cemetery Project
- SOCIÉTÉ D’HISTOIRE DE SHERBROOKE Archives
Other Sherbrooke Geneaology Sites
- Echenberg family
- Geni.com: Jewish Community of Sherbrooke Quebec
- Youtube: Launch of Echenberg Book that took place at Sherbrooke Museum on May 26, 2022
- Launch of a book on the history of the Sherbrooke Jewish community
Other Canadian Geneaology Sites
- JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF MONTREAL.
- Canadian Jewish Congress ArchivesLinks to Websites of other Canadian Jewish Archives and museums
- Indexing the Jewish Vital Records of Quebec 1841 - 1942
Bibliography
(To locate copies of the books listed in the following Bibliography, do a Google search)
- ♦Jews and French Quebecers:Two Hundred Years of Shared History
- Authors: Jacques Langlais, David Rome; Translator: Barbara Young
- ♦Searching for Justice: An Autobiography (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
- Author: Fred Kaufman
- ♦Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II (Footprints Series) (Volume 1)
- Author: Walter Igersheimer
- ♦Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II
- Author: Mark Lynton
- ♦Deemed suspect: A wartime blunder
- Author: Eric Koch
More than 80 members of the Echenberg family migrated to Sherbrooke near the turn of the 20th century. They all came from a remarkably similar small town called Ostropol in what was then the Russian Empire and now is a part of Ukraine. In Sherbrooke, they and other migrants from Ostropol were able to replicate much of the shtetl life they had left in the Old Country and very quickly began to thrive.
Using the archives of the Russian Empire we tell the story of the family from the early 1700s, through the years of the Russian Naming Edit of 1804 when the family chose the name, then through 19th century Russia when the family expanded and flourished in the Jewish shtetl of Ostropol.
Beginning in the 1880s the family began to migrate. They tried out various places in the new world from New York to frontier towns like Denver before eventually choosing Sherbrooke. Like many similar smaller Jewish communities in North America they thrived.
By mid-century, among the many Jewish-owned stores on the main commercial street of Sherbrooke, five carried the name Echenberg. Then, as the 20th century came to a close and the older generations died off, the younger generations moved to larger cities. Eventually, the synagogue was sold and only the cemetery remained.
We tell the story of this cycle that occurred in hundreds of similar small-town Jewish communities of North America, through the details of one large family, The Echenbergs of Sherbrooke and Ostropol.
The English and French language books that tell this story are listed here.
- ♦The Echenbergs of Sherbrooke and Ostropol: A Tale of Two Shtetls
- Authors: Dean F. Echenberg, Deborah Glassman; Myron Echenberg, Ruth Echenberg Tannenbaum; Preface: Pierre Anctil
- ♦Les Echenberg de Sherbrooke et d’Ostropol: Une histoire de deux « shtetls » (French Edition)
- Authors: Dean F. Echenberg, Deborah Glassman; Myron Echenberg, Ruth Echenberg Tannenbaum; Preface: Pierre Anctil
