United Talmud Torahs of Montreal
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Montreal, Quebec Canada |
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| Type | Private Jewish day school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Jewish |
| Established | 1896 |
| President | Adam Weinstock |
| Director | Dr. Laurence Kutler Ellie Grumberg |
| Grades | K-11 |
| Website | www |
United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (Hebrew: בתי תלמוד תורה) is a private coed Jewish day school system that includes an elementary (United Talmud Torah) and a high school (Herzliah High School), located in the Snowdon neighbourhood of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in Montreal, Quebec. Its high school is known as Herzliah High School (Hebrew: הרצליה). Herzliah and United Talmud Torah's campus in the Saint-Laurent borough (known as the Beutel campus) was closed down and consolidated with the Snowdon campus in 2011. Two additional elementary school campuses existed in the Côte Saint-Luc neighbourhood and Chomedey, but were closed down and merged with the other branches.
Founded in 1896 by Rabbi M.A. Ashinsky, classes initially were taught in the Yiddish language, later in Hebrew. The first class had but twenty students, all of them boys (girls were first admitted only in 1911), and one teacher. In 1903, Talmud Torah School was housed in its own building for the first time.
In 1917, six individual Talmud Torah schools merged as the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal. Ground was broken in 1930 for the first new building of the school, financed by a fundraising initiative with major community support; the building was erected on the corner of Saint-Joseph Boulevard and Jeanne-Mance Street in the Mile End neighbourhood. Over 1,300 students were enrolled.
The high school was opened in 1946 and the first classes were held with Melech Magid, who had been a teacher and principal with the United Talmud Torah schools since the early 1920s as the full-time Educational Director.
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