![]() ![]() ![]() Because of the unexpectedly high attendance the food was soon depleted and three individuals…had to leave the hall and obtain more food from a nearby restaurant and make their way back through a furious crowd…Despite disruptions, the Arbayter Fraynd reported, “Thus the day, a day which can truly be called historic, passed in a festive manner.” On Yom Kippur afternoon tables with refreshments were set up. Speeches against religion were held, followed by discussion, joyous singing, and recitations. For the duration of Yom Kippur – the day of atonement, fasting, and repentance, the holiest day of the Jewish year – the ball featured “antireligious lectures, music, and refreshments.” Their more devout co-religionists were not amused: By early Yom Kippur morning, despite the angry mob outside, the hall was packed with people, and police were stationed in the street. ![]() She wrote that the short-lived anarchist tradition of the Yom Kippur Ball can be traced back to 1888, when a group of Jewish “free-thinkers” in London rented out a hall in the East End. ![]() Rebecca Margolis - professor at the University of Ottawa, author of the new book Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945, and a fact checker for this museum – wrote the definitive account of the 1905 Yom Kippur Ball in an article for the Canadian Jewish Studies Journal . ![]()
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