History of Ottawa's Jewish Community
A selected list of books and articles about the Ottawa Jewish community is provided below.

Aranov, Saul I. Unpublished manuscript. Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Arnoni, M.H. The first Jewish settlers of Ottawa. In: Grossman, Vladimir. Canadian Jewish
year book, vol. 2. Montreal: Canadian Jewish Year Book Reg'd., 1940. Pp. 115�120.

Berman, Shirley. Ottawa. In: Pathways to the present: Canadian Jewry and Canadian
Jewish Congress. Toronto: Canadian Jewish Congress, 1986. Pp. 50�56.

Bilsky, Anna. A common thread: a history of the Jews of Ottawa.
Renfrew, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, 2009. 264 p.

Bookman, Max. Excerpts from �A history of the Jew in Canada�s capital�. In: Gottesman,
Eli. Canadian Jewish reference book and directory, 1963. Montreal: Jewish Institute of
Higher Research, Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada, 1963. Pp. 387�405.

Eker, Glen. Jews resident in Ontario according to the 1851 to 1901 censuses of Canada.
Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 2002.

Jewish War Veterans of Canada. Ottawa Post. There I was�: a collection of
reminiscences by members of the Ottawa Jewish community who served in World War
II. Ottawa: Ottawa Post of the Jewish War Veterans and the Ottawa Jewish Historical
Society, [1999].

Kimmel, David. Bertha (Rosenthal) Lehman In: Dictionary of Canadian biography, v. 15

Roodman, Herman S. The Ottawa Jewish community : looking back, an historical
chronicle of our community for the years 1857�1987, 5617�5747. Ottawa, 1989.

Stone, Gerald. Ottawa. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2007. Vol. 15, Pp. 516-17.