Exiles from nowhere : the Jews and the Canadian elite / Alan Mendelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendelson, Alan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Canada--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Canada--History--20th century.

Jews.

Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988.

Grant, George Parkin.

Immigrants.

History.

Canada--Intellectual life--20th century.

Canada.

Intellectual life.

Immigrants--Canada--History--20th century.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 412 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Montréal] : R. Brass Studio, 2008.

Contents:

Part 1 Goldwin Smith and Friends

1 Goldwin Smith's Jewish Wars 11

Sage of the Grange 11

Smith versus Disraeli 17

Goldwin Smith's Jewish Wars 21

Joseph Laister: Smith's Minister of Jewish Affairs 30

Laister Redivivus: George Freeman, Antisemite 49

Smith's Biographers 51

2 The Politicians: Henri Bourassa and Mackenzie King 55

Birth of a Friendship 55

Canada and South Africa: Jews as "Vampires on the Community" 57

A Change of Heart? 62

George Parkin Grant's Canadian Moment 63

Mackenzie King: Smith Mentors a Future Prime Minister 64

Mackenzie King's Good Neighbour Policy 67

The Charming Princess Cantacuzene and her Nemesis, Eleanor Roosevelt 70

Hitler's "Path to Peace and Progress" 72

Jousting with Chamberlain and Hitler 76

Indifference, Inaction, and Silence 79

Jewish Disloyalty: Recalling Goldwin Smith 87

A Saturday Matinee 90

Part 2 An Esteemed Canadian Family

3 The Grandfathers: George Monro Grant and Sir George Robert Parkin 93

George Monro Grant: "Too Private for Any Eye" 94

Principal Grant of Queen's University 95

Religions of the World 101

The Chinese as a Special Case 105

"Men of the Noblest Christian Character" 107

Sir George Robert Parkin and Rhodes's Vision 111

4 The Very Honourable Vincent Massey 117

Imperial Triumphalism at Oxford 120

Unparallel Lives: Mr. Massey Goes to Washington; Mr. Jacobs Stays Home 123

Cliveden and the Astors 130

Architect of Exclusion: Massey and the Jews of Europe 136

Mackenzie King on Vincent Massey 141

Postlude: Nepotism 143

5 Lament for a War 145

Youthful Idealism at Upper Canada College 145

Capturing the Imagination of the Young 147

Another Grant at Queen's 152

Oxford and Pacifism in Time of War 155

Two Oxford Mentors: Lionel Curtis and Arnold Toynbee 159

Neutrality, Appeasement, and Compromise 164

Sir Robert Vansittart, Implacable Foe of Nazism 175

6 In the Centre of the Crisis 177

Bermondsey 177

An Unnerving Lull: Ennui and Depression 180

"The Whole World Is Our Hospital" 186

Turning a Blind Eye 194

Part 3 George Grant's Intellectual Pantheon

7 Toynbee and Heidegger: Giants with Feet of Clay 199

Arnold Toynbee, Historian of the World 200

Toynbee for Undergraduates 202

Grant as Christian Triumphalist 206

Martin Heidegger Enters Grant's Pantheon 209

The Nazi Albatross 211

Heidegger Denazified 218

The Pearl in the Nazi Oystershell 225

8 Grant's "Darling Bastard": Louis-Ferdinand Celine 228

Celine and the Jews 236

(a) Celine's psychological need to "howl" 237

(b) Bifurcation: genius is exempt from ordinary rules 237

(c) Pleas of innocence 239

Grant in the Underworld 244

"The Mystery of the Jews" 249

Identifying with Celine 252

9 Simone Weil: Grant's "Saint" 255

Marcionites and Cathars 264

Weil's Denial of Her Heritage: Four Documents 266

The Jewishness of Simone Weil 273

10 Grant's Encounters with Jewish Intellectuals 280

A Flirtation with Leo Strauss 280

Athens and Jerusalem 283

Leonard Cohen and the Myth of the "Christian-Hating Jew" 288

The Man and the Mask 290

Beautiful Losers 297

Matt Cohen: Exile from Nowhere 300

George Grant: Friend and Enemy 304

Kindred Spirits: Matt Cohen and Joseph Roth 309

Epilogue: On Loving Our Own 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781896941554

1896941559

OCLC:

232367565