The Ever-Dying People? : : Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 16 b&w figures, 50 b&w tables
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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

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