No better home? : Jews, Canada, and the sense of belonging / edited by David S. Koffman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koffman, David S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Canada--Social conditions.

Jews.

Jews--Canada--Social life and customs.

Jews--Canada--Identity.

Jews--Canada--Intellectual life.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews--Social conditions.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Intellectual life.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Canada.

Physical Description:

vii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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. Index 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: No better home?

ISBN:

1487504896

9781487504892

1487523572

9781487523572

OCLC:

1146556681

Publisher Number:

99986539461