Winnipeg Jews have made notable contributions in the field of politics as well as in the arts, sciences and professions. Filmed visits to some eateries highlight Jewish culinary specialties which are now an integral part of the Winnipeg scene.

Why do you think we honour generals and politicians as opposed to ordinary people who have benefited our communities, such as the Jewish community of Winnipeg?

Their story begins with the first Jewish settlers who fled European persecution around the turn of the century and founded a Jewish community in Winnipeg. Over the years they developed a strong tradition of scholarship, with generous contributions to the arts, business, the professions. This film opens at a fashionable hundred-dollar-a-plate testimonial dinner in a Winnipeg synagogue, then turns to reminiscences and anecdotes from a wide cross-section of people, including television personality David Steinberg, singer Judy Lander, and alderman Joseph Zuken, Q.C.