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History of the Jews in Canada / B.G. Sack ; translated by Ralph Novek.
Benjamin G. Sack
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No better home?
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"This book begins with an audacious and unanswerable question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant diaspora for the Jews, compared to all other countries, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home." Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries; examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada; analyse specific historical moments and literary texts; reflect deeply personal histories; and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity."-- Provided by publisher.
| Title |
No better home? : Jews, Canada, and the sense of belonging / edited by David S. Koffman. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Koffman, David S. (editor) |
| Publisher |
Toronto Buffalo : London : University of Toronto Press |
| Creation Date |
[2021] |
| Notes |
Issued also in electronic formats. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Content |
Introduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, “Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?” / David S. Koffman -- Section One. Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians. 1. A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective / Morton Weinfeld -- 2. Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World / Hasia R. Diner -- 3. “To Guarantee Their Own Self-Government in All Matters of Their National Life”: Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- 4. Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture / Kalman Weiser -- 5. Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective / Randal F. Schnoor -- 6. The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish–Indigenous Encounters / David S. Koffman -- Section Two. Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations. 7. Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs / Mia Spiro -- 8. The “Nu World” of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors / Ruth Panofsky -- 9. Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto’s First Jewish Mayor / Harold Troper -- 10. By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory / Ira Robinson -- 11. In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience / Richard Menkis -- Section Three. Reflections: Personal Stories, Language. 12. Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time / Norman Ravvin -- 13. Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950–1967 / Judith R. Baskin -- 14. Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian-American European Jewish Historian / Lois C. Dubin -- 15. Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew / Yolande Cohen -- 16. Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial / Jack Kugelmass -- 17. In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today / Rebecca Margolis -- 18. Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History / Pierre Anctil -- Postscript. Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life / David Weinfeld. |
| Extent |
vii, 314 pages : illustrations 23 cm |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997009707260005171 |
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