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Interview of Eddie Duke by Marlene Gamble July, 2003

When the synagogue was being rebuilt we took out the theatre seats and we had beautiful wooden pews made for the synagogue. And there were only so many of those that could be accommodated in uh, Toronto at the time, in this chapel but there were still some extra ones left and believe it or not the extra ones were bought by the, the Pentecostal, not Pentecostal, there is a church on, on uh Main Street - uh, Donations were made by various Jewish people in town to pay for a pew. And those were built and there was a little brass tablet on each pew. And what they did, they took those tablets off and they mounted them on a plaque. And that plaque hangs in that synagogue at Beth Tikvah. (Marlene remarked, "Oh, very nice.") Including my father's name, cause he had donated a pew.