Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Chapbook (bound by staples). 51 Pages. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, rubbing to edges, crease to back top corner. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT: This is a very, very casual account of the Jewish element in the theatre history of Toronto, written in 1956 at the request of the Committee for Centennial Celebration, created by the Canadian Jewish Congress to mark a century of community life in the Queen City. On September 7, 1856 16 persons of the Jewish faith met in the home of one of them, A. G. Asher, to establish group worship, a manner of devotion originated by their race in bib-lical times. Under the leadership of Lewis Samuel, the father of the distinguished Dr. Sigmund Samuel, they organized the Sons of Israel Synagogue in a rented room above Coombe's drug store at Yonge and Richmond Streets. What motivated them was the approach of the High Holidays. Their love of the Lord shone no less brightly because the Scrolls of the Law had been borrowed from their brethren of an older Canadian Jewish community, Montreal. In 1876 the congregation, by then the Holy Blossom, moved into the first Toronto structure erected as a synagogue. It stood on Richmond Street, just east of Victoria, on the same spot where the famed Shea's Victoria Theatre, demolished in the _-liner of 1956, had its stage for 46 years. Toronto has quite a few Jewish grandfathers with happy memories of that location, after and before it be-came a theatre.