Canada's Jews : A People's Journey / Gerald Tulchinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933- author.

Contributor:

Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Canada--History.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Canada--History.

Antisemitism.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--History.

Canada.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (663 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada underwent the transformative experience of separating from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality." "Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky describes the struggle against antisemitism and the search for a livelihood among the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion."--Jacket

Contents:

Foundations in the colonial era

Pedlars and settlers on the urban frontiers

Victorian Montreal and western settlement

Travails of urbanization

'Corner of pain and anguish'

Zionism, protest, and reform

Jewish geography of the 1920s and 1930s

Clothing and politics

The politics of marginality

'Not complex or sophisticated' : interwar Zionism

Into battle

Post-war readjustments

Jewish ethnicity in multicultural Canada, 1960-1980

Complexities and uncertainties.

Notes:

Based on the author's two books, Taking root and Branching out.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-606) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

Related Work:

Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933- Taking root.

Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933- Branching out.

ISBN:

1-4426-9113-1

1-4426-8748-7

OCLC:

608124772