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

• VerfasserIn: Tulchinsky, Gerald,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)

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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART ONE. Beginnings, 1768-1890
• 1. Foundations in the Colonial Era
• 2. Pedlars and Settlers on the Urban Frontiers
• 3. Victorian Montreal and Western Settlement
• PART TWO. Emergence of a National Community, 1890-1919
• 4. Travails of Urbanization
• 5. 'Corner of Pain and Anguish'
• 6. Zionism, Protest, and Reform
• PART THREE. Between the Wars, 1919-1939
• 7. Jewish Geography of the 1920s and 1930s
• 8. Clothing and Politics
• 9. The Politics of Marginality
• PART FOUR. The Second World War and Beyond, 1940-2008
• 11. Into Battle
• 12. Post-war Readjustments
• 13. Jewish Ethnicity in Multicultural Canada, 1960-1980
• 14. Complexities and Uncertainties
• Epilogue: Oyfn Veg (On the Road)
• Appendix: Jewish Population of Major Canadian Cities, 1891-2001
• Notes
• A Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources
• Index