Chronology of Canadian Jewish History
Author : Louis Rosenberg
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Canada
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Author : Louis Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Canada
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Author : Louis Rosenberg
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Louis Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Shulamis Yellin
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Jews
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Author : Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780874516098
Jews seeking a new life in Canada faced problems beyond those of other immigrants. Farm colonists often lived in communities too small to afford a rabbi or ritual slaughterer, or even to form a minyan for worship. In French Canada, Protestant and Catholic school boards battled over who was responsible for educating Jewish children. In the cities, the socialist philosophies of Jews fleeing the poverty and oppression of Europe were anathema to aggressive New World capitalists. And when suspicion or resentment arose, there was always someone to revive the old antisemitic slurs and myths. Taking Root is the meticulously researched record of how Canadian Jewry coped with these obstacles, and flourished despite them. The book covers the 160 years from the beginnings of the community in the 1760s to the end of the First World War, including the great European upheavals that forever changed the lives of the Jews of Eastern Europe and their migration to Canada. Canada's Jews took root in a nation with a distinctive history, political structure, and cultural diversity Gerald Tulchinsky weaves the threads of Canadian Jewish history into the wider Canadian fabric, and shows how the unique character of this history reflects the political, economic, and social development of the country. Drawing on letters, synagogue records, diaries, newspapers, and biographies, as well as a host of archival sources, Tulchinsky makes Taking Root not just a historical account, but a very personal one.
Author : Benjamin G. Sack
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1965
Category : History
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Author : Pierre Anctil
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0776629506
The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world. The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which they have worked to fashion. The dedication with which they have defended their rights and their extensive achievements in multiple sectors of activity have helped foster diversity in Quebec. This work recounts the different contributions Jews have made over the years, along with the cultural context that encouraged the emergence in Montreal of a Jewish community like no other in North America. This is the first overview of a history that began during the French Regime and continued, through many twists and turns, up to the turn of the twenty-first century.
Author : Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802093868
Canada's Jews covers the 240-year period from the beginnings of the Jewish community in the 1760s to the present day, illuminating the golden chain of Jewish tradition, religion, language, economy, and history as established and renewed in the northern lands.
Author : Benjamin G. Sack
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : Irving Abella
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 148751669X
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category) Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books [This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior Canadian official who, in the midst of a rambling, off-the-record discussion with journalists in 1945, was asked how many Jews would be allowed into Canada after the war … ‘None,’ he said, ‘is too many.’ From the Preface One of the most significant studies of Canadian history ever written, None Is Too Many conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society. Detailing the country’s refusal to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1948, it is an immensely bleak and discomfiting story – and one that was largely unknown before the book’s publication. Irving Abella and Harold Troper’s retelling of this episode is a harrowing read not easily forgotten: its power is such that, ‘a manuscript copy helped convince Ron Atkey, Minister of Employment and Immigration in Joe Clark’s government, to grant 50,000 “boat people” asylum in Canada in 1979, during the Southeast Asian refugee crisis’ (Robin Roger, The Literary Review of Canada). None Is Too Many will undoubtedly continue to serve as a potent reminder of the fragility of tolerance, even in a country where it is held as one of our highest values.