Faces in the Crowd : The Jews of Canada / Franklin Bialystok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bialystok, Franklin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Canada--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Structure

Acknowledgments

Part A: Foundations, 1760–1900

1 Creating a Community: The Jews of Quebec

2 The Jews of the Atlantic, Pacifc, Ontario, and the Prairies

Part B: Building a Community, 1900–1945

The author’s maternal grandparents: Razel and Yehoshua Rosenbaum, Warsaw c. 1910, victims of the Holocaust Source: Franklin Bialystok

3 The Great Migration

4 Yiddish Canada

5 Organizations

6 The Socio-Political Landscape: Workers, Liberals, Reformers, Radicals, Rogues

7 “The Line Must Be Drawn Somewhere”: Shades of Antisemitism in Canada, 1760–1945

Part C: The Community Matures, 1945–2000

Arrival of immigrants Source: Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives

8 “Into the Mainstream”: From Immigrants to Canadians

9 Confronting History, 1945–1985

10 Consensus and Continuity, 1985–2000

11 The Jewish Diaspora Settles on Bathurst Street

Part D: Canada’s Jews since 2000

12 The Ascent of Diversity in the New Millennium

Epilogue: “Hallelujah”

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-0444-1

1-4426-0443-3

OCLC:

1289314844