None is too many : Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 / Irving Abella & Harold Troper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abella, Irving M., 1940-2022, author.

Troper, Harold Martin, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Canada--Politics and government.

Jews.

Jewish refugees--Canada.

Jewish refugees.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Politics and government.

Canada--Emigration and immigration.

Canada.

Emigration and immigration.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvii, 340 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Summary:

From the preface: "[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'." 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.

Contents:

1 Where they could not enter

2 The line must be drawn somewhere

3 Der feter yiuv ist bei uns

4 The children who never came

5 Ottawa or Bermuda? a refugee conference

6 In the free and civilized world

7 One wailing cry

8 A pleasant voyage

9 Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Holocaust, Winner, 1983

ISBN:

9781442614079

1442614072

OCLC:

801167351

Publisher Number:

99949971236