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c2008., University of Toronto Press Call No: 971.004 T917c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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1990., Lester & Orpen Dennys Call No: 971.004 A141c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2010., Wilfrid Laurier University Press Call No: 331.7 B535i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Life writing series
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1999., McArthur & Co. Call No: 940.5318 A647L Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Canadian Jewish history2020., LSI Publications Call No: NEW 971 L837n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Northern Lights: A Canadian Jewish History, chronicles the history of Canadian Jewry, offering a lens into Jewish Canada's yesterday and peeking into tomorrow. It offers current thoughts about what Jewish Canadians have been doing throughout the community's history, what they have contributed to Canada, and what Canada has given to them. Top commentators tell large stories in small spaces for historical overview and personal insight in one swoop. Photographs and news clippings paint a Canadian Jewish mural that is wide, deep, and fascinating. In tapping noted and accomplished Canadian writers and journalists from diverse fields and Canadian geographies, Northern Lights: A Canadian Jewish History presents a set of snapshots of our people's history in this country, an interpretation of Canadian Jewish narrative through the lens of its most important publication. It is a deep and heartfelt study of the people, events, and achievements that have helped to make the Canadian Jewish community what it is today. Since 1960, the Canadian Jewish News (CJN) has documented the story of Jewish Canada, winning international awards and outflanking larger more corporate publications. The CJN has developed one of the longest digital reaches of any Jewish community periodical while still annually publishing 100 weekly issues of the newspaper in hard copy. We commissioned new essays from Canadian Jewish writers who are experts in their fields. Their range of focus takes in the social and political achievements of Jewish citizens, the cultural and intellectual footprints of Jewish thinkers and artists, and the beautiful partnership that exists between Jews and this country. This collection is a collaboration between the CJN and The Lola Stein Institute.
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-- Tragedy of the MS St. Louis2016., General, Nimbus Publishing Call No: 940.5318 L418s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake and after several days in limbo in Havana's harbour, the ship's captain turned back for Europe. Canadian and American activists petitioned their governments to accept the refugees on humanitarian grounds, but to no avail. On its return, the ship would distribute its passengers among European countries, and over the course of the war, an estimated 250 would die in the Nazi-run concentration camps. Illustrated with photos and sidebar features on the voyage, glimpses into the lives of passengers, a look at Canada<U+2019>s postwar refugee policy, and memorials dedicated to preserving the story of this tragic event in Canadian immigration history. Author Allison Lawlor worked as a reported for several daily papers in Ontario before moving to Nova Scotia in 2003. She lives in Prospect, Nova Scotia.
