Nazi Germany, Canadian responses : confronting antisemitism in the shadow of war / edited by L. Ruth Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, L. Ruth, Author.

Contributor:

Klein, Ruth, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Antisemitism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Foreign public opinion, Canadian.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Press coverage--Canada.

Jewish refugees--Government policy--Canada.

Jewish refugees.

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

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.

Contents:

Social death and international isolation : Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Doris L. Bergen

Racial laws vs. Olympic aspirations in the Anglo-Canadian Press of fall 1935 / Richard Menkis and Harold Troper

From Kristallnacht to the MS St Louis tragedy : Canadian press coverage of Nazi prosecution of the Jews and the Newish refugee crisis, September 1938 to August 1939 / Amanda Grzyb

A review of the Yiddish media : response of the Jewish immigrant community in Canada / Rebecca Margolis

On campus in the thirties : antipathy, support, and indifference / Michael Brown

The war and before : responses in mainstream Canadian literary life / Norman Ravvin

Claiming equality for Canadian Jewry : the struggle for inclusion, 1930-1945 / James Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780773587373

0773587373

9780773540187

0773540180

OCLC:

812837249