Beginning with the first Jewish settler, Moses David, the important role that Windsor Jews played in the development of Ontario’s south is mirrored in this 200-year chronicle. the founding pioneer families transformed their Eastern European shtetl into a North American settlement; many individuals were involved in establishing synagogues, schools, and an organized communal structure in spite of divergent religious, political, and economic interests. Modernity and the growing influences of Zionism and Conservative/Reform Judaism challenged the traditional and leftist leanings of the community’s founders. From the outset, Jews were represented in city council, actively involved in communal organizations, and appointed to judicial posts. While its Jewish population was small, Windsor boasted Canada’s first Jewish Cabinet members, provincially and federally, in David Croll and Herb Gray. As the new millennium approached, jews faced shrinking numbers, forcing major consolidations in order to ensure their survival.
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Jonathan V. Plaut. The Jews of Windsor, 1790-1990
THE JEWS OF WINDSOR. 1790–1990
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Foreword. Dr. Larry Kulisek
Introduction
Chapter 1. Moses David: Windsor’s First Jewish Settler
Chapter 2. The Earliest Jews Who Choose Windsor
Chapter 3. A Community Takes Root
Chapter 4. Widening the Horizon
Chapter 5. Good Times/Bad Times
Chapter 6. The Honourable David A. Croll: Profile of a Public Servent
Chapter 7. War and Peace
Chapter 8. The Stollman Era
Chapter 9. Reform Judaism Arrives
Chapter 10. Consolidation and Realignment
Chapter 11. The Right Honourable Herb Gray: Windsor’s Prime Statesman
Chapter 12. The Bicentennial of Windsor Jewish Life
Chapter 13. Toward the Twenty-first Century and Beyond
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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THE JEWS OF WINDSOR
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Moses also was well acquainted with James Henry, another Detroit merchant. Active in politics, he also was the judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, serving it as commissioner as well. Moses wrote to him on January 30, 1809, requesting help in settling the aforementioned James May’s account, which he agreed to do.65 Again on June 25, 1812, Moses wrote to Henry, this time asking him to remit the payment he had promised to make on an overdue draft issued in Philadelphia. Enclosed with that letter was the ledger page of Henry’s account with Moses, which clearly showed the diversity of his business dealings. Covering the period between November 1809 and June 24, 1812, Moses apparently had supplied Henry with such items as a “tea kettle, maid’s hose, table cloths, book, calfskin, flour, drawing knife, and nails.”66
Even though Moses David continued to engage in business with prominent Americans, businessmen as well as political figures, he remained loyal to Great Britain. Anxious to come to her aid, should he be required to do so, he became a captain in the Northeast Regiment, Essex County Militia on May 22, 1807.67 The company under his command included one lieutenant, an ensign, a sergeant, twenty-two privates, twenty-two arms, and sixty-six rounds of ammunition. On June 4, 1807, his name appeared together with those of other officers, in the papers of his former business associate John Askin, who meanwhile had become a colonel.68
