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The Synagogues of Saint John

The home of the first Synagogue in Saint John (and the second in Atlantic Canada)
The original synagogue, Carleton St. 		There have been three waves of Jewish immigration to Canada. The second wave, which historians place between 1880 and 1930, was the one which had the greatest impact on Saint John history. The Ahavith Achim ("Brotherly Love") synagogue was only the second in all of the Atlantic provinces.
Tensions between Jews of differing social classes, between the well-off middle-class English Jews of the first wave and the poorer Eastern European Jews of the second, led to the establishment of a second synagogue, the Deutsche Shull ("German House of Worship"). The second synagogue in Saint John
 The second synagogue, Hazen St.


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