Neither in dark speeches nor in similitudes : reflections and refractions between Canadian and American Jews / Barry L. Stiefel and Hernan Tesler-Mabé, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiefel, Barry, author, editor.

Tesler-Mabé, Hernan, 1973- author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Canada--History.

Jews.

Canada.

History.

Jews--United States--History.

United States.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 223 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, charts ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who compare and contrast the experience of Jews in Canada and the United States along a chronological spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present). Problematizing national orthodoxies and prevailing understandings, the contributors to this important volume show how factors such as religious observance, immigration, language, geography, national cultures, community values, and even illness shaped the Jewish communities on either side of our common border, as well as how those communities grew to differ - or not - as a consequence. This collection equips Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars to broaden their examination and ask new questions, as well as answer old questions based on fresh comparative data. Book jacket.

Contents:

The value of Canadian Jewish history to the American Jewish historian, and vice versa : another look / Jonathan D. Sarna

Traversing the 49th parallel : the Jewish experience prior to 1867 / Susan Landau-Chark

Re-evaluating Jew or Juif? Jewish community and life in Franco heritage North America before ca. 1920 / Barry L. Stiefel

Planting the seed of identity : the contributions of the early Jewish farmers of North America / Howard Gontovnick

Bacon, beans, and a fine dish of "ditto" : commonalities in early Jewish life and religiosity along the Pacific West Coast / Lillooet Nördlinger McDonnell

They who control the time : the Orthodox alliance of Abraham De Sola and Jacques Judah Lyons and the nineteenth-century Jewish calendar / Zev Eleff

Finding a rabbi for Quebec City : the interplay between an American rabbinate and a Canadian congregation / Ira Robinson

"Chasing the cure" on both sides of the border : Jewish tuberculosis sanatoriums in Denver and Montreal / Jeanne Abrams

Performing Jewish?: Heinz Unger, Gustav Mahler, and the musical strains of German-Jewish identity in Canada and the United States / Hernan Tesler-Mabe

East meets West : Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Canada and the United States / Kelly Amanda Train.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Sarna, Jonathan D. Value of Canadian Jewish history to the American Jewish historian, and vice versa.

Other Format:

Neither in dark speeches nor in similitudes.

ISBN:

9781771122313

1771122315

OCLC:

951847984