Title Canada's Jews : a people's journey / Gerald Tulchinsky

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 630 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimile, portraits Contents Foundations in the colonial era -- Pedlars and settlers on the urban frontiers -- Victorian Montreal and western settlement -- Travails of urbanization -- 'Corner of pain and anguish' -- Zionism, protest, and reform -- Jewish geography of the 1920s and 1930s -- Clothing and politics -- The politics of marginality -- 'Not complex or sophisticated' : interwar Zionism -- Into battle -- Post-war readjustments -- Jewish ethnicity in multicultural Canada, 1960-1980 -- Complexities and uncertainties Summary "The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada underwent the transformative experience of separating from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality." "Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky describes the struggle against antisemitism and the search for a livelihood among the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-606) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jews -- Canada -- History Antisemitism -- Canada -- History HISTORY -- Canada -- General. HISTORY -- Jewish. Antisemitism Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Jews Joden. SUBJECT Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History Canada -- Ethnic relations Subject Canada Canada. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933- Taking root Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933- Branching out LC no. 2008275475 ISBN 9781442687486 1442687487 9781442691131 1442691131

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