The Ever-Dying People? : : Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Robert Brym, Randal F. Schnoor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bankier-Karp, Adina,; Bibby, Reginald W.,; Brookner, Matthew A.,; Brym, Robert,; Chad, Jordan A.,; Chertok, Fern,; Cohen, Yolande,; Dellapergola, Sergio,; Gareau, Paul L.,; Harold, 1Joshua,; Hou, Feng,; Kazemipur, Abdolmohammad,; Koffman, David S.,; Lenton, Rhonda,; Lightman, Naomi,; Menkis, Richard,; Messika, Martin,; Moorhouse-Stein, Elizabeth,; Morgenshtern, Marina,; Robinson, Ira,; Schnoor, Randal F.,; Shahar, Charles,; Slavina, Anna,; Staetsky, L. Daniel,; Troper, Harold,; Weinfeld, Morton,
• HerausgeberIn: Brym, Robert,; Schnoor, Randal F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 16 b&w figures, 50 b&w tables

Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of identifiable sociological and historical forces, some of which breathe life into Jewish communities, including Canada’s. Bringing together leading Canadian and international scholars, The Ever-Dying People? provides a landmark report on Canadian Jewry based on recent surveys, censuses, and other contemporary data sources from Canada and around the world. This collection compares Canada’s Jews with other Canadian ethnic and religious groups and with Jewish communities in other diaspora countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. It also sheds light on social divisions within Canadian Jewry: across cities, sub-ethnic groups, denominations, genders, economic strata, and political orientations. These bases of comparison usefully explain variation in a wide range of sociological phenomena, including ethnic identity, religiosity, acculturation, intermarriage, discrimination, economic achievement, and educational attainment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Part A. Introduction: Profiles of Canadian Jewish Life -- 1 The Ever-Dying People? Some Advantages of Comparative Analysis -- 2 Canadian Jewry since the Second World War -- 3 Demographic Overview -- 4 Antisemitism in Canada -- 5 The Centrality of Jewish Education in Canada -- Part B. Comparing Canadian Jews across Social Characteristics -- 6 Twelve Degrees of Jewish Identity -- 7 Jewish Residential Patterns and Identity -- 8 Immigrant and Non-immigrant Household Income -- 9 Comparing Montreal and Toronto -- 10 Experiencing Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Toronto -- 11 Attitudes and Activism concerning Israel -- Part C. Comparing Canadian Jews and Other Canadians -- 12 From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question -- 13 Jews and the Christian Goliath -- 14 Are the Chinese Canada’s New Jews? -- 15 Jews and Métis in Canada: Ethnic Mobility and the Politics of Counting -- 16 Jewish Intellectual Exceptionalism? Ethnic Representation at the University of Toronto Medical School -- Part D. Comparing Jews in Canada and Other Countries -- 17 Jewish Demography and Identity in Nine Countries -- 18 Intermarriage in Canada and the United States: Déjà Vu or Different? -- 19 Qualifying the Leading Theory of Diaspora Jewry: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Canada and the United States -- 20 Perceptions and Realities of Antisemitism: Canadian, British, and French Jews -- 21 Marriage and Mobility of Moroccan Jews in Montreal and Paris -- 22 Jewish Engagement in Canada and Australia -- List of Contributors -- Index