Jewish Roots Canadian Soil

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585893
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil written by Rebecca Margolis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century, Margolis explores the lives and works of activists, writers, scholars, performers, and organizations that fuelled a still-thriving community. She also considers the foundations and development of Yiddish cultural life in Montreal in its interaction with broader issues of diasporic Jewish culture. An illuminating look at the ways in which Yiddish culture was maintained in North America, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil is the story of how a minority culture was transplanted and transformed.

Author : Bialystok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442604414
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Bialystok and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.

Author : Franklin Bialystok
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442604441
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Franklin Bialystok and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the first steps on Canadian soil in the eighteenth century to the present day, Faces in the Crowd introduces the reader to the people and personalities who made up the Canadian Jewish experience, from the Jewish roots of the NHL’s Ross trophy to Leonard Cohen and all the rabbis, artists, writers, and politicians in between. Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom and experience at the heart of the Canadian Jewish community, Franklin Bialystok adds new research, unique insights, and, best of all, memorable stories to the history of the Jews in Canada.

Author : Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874516098
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Root written by Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews seeking a new life in Canada faced problems beyond those of other immigrants. Farm colonists often lived in communities too small to afford a rabbi or ritual slaughterer, or even to form a minyan for worship. In French Canada, Protestant and Catholic school boards battled over who was responsible for educating Jewish children. In the cities, the socialist philosophies of Jews fleeing the poverty and oppression of Europe were anathema to aggressive New World capitalists. And when suspicion or resentment arose, there was always someone to revive the old antisemitic slurs and myths. Taking Root is the meticulously researched record of how Canadian Jewry coped with these obstacles, and flourished despite them. The book covers the 160 years from the beginnings of the community in the 1760s to the end of the First World War, including the great European upheavals that forever changed the lives of the Jews of Eastern Europe and their migration to Canada. Canada's Jews took root in a nation with a distinctive history, political structure, and cultural diversity Gerald Tulchinsky weaves the threads of Canadian Jewish history into the wider Canadian fabric, and shows how the unique character of this history reflects the political, economic, and social development of the country. Drawing on letters, synagogue records, diaries, newspapers, and biographies, as well as a host of archival sources, Tulchinsky makes Taking Root not just a historical account, but a very personal one.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228015510
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yiddish Lives On written by Rebecca Margolis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Author : David Koffman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531117
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Better Home? written by David Koffman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home." Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity.

Author : Patrick Mannion
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077355405X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Land of Dreams written by Patrick Mannion and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three port cities, home to diverse Irish populations in different stages of development and in different national contexts, provide a fascinating setting for a study of intergenerational ethnicity. Mannion traces how Irishness could, at certain points, form the basis of a strong, cohesive identity among Catholics of Irish descent, while at other times it faded into the background. Although there was a consistent, often romantic gaze across the Atlantic to the old land, many of the organizations that helped mediate large-scale public engagement with the affairs of Ireland – especially Irish nationalist associations – spread from further west on the North American mainland. Irish ethnicity did not, therefore, develop in isolation, but rather as a result of a complex interplay of local, regional, national, and transnational networks. This volume shows that despite a growing generational distance, Ireland remained “a land of dreams” for many immigrants and their descendants. They were connected to a transnational Irish diaspora well into the twentieth century.

Author : Ira Robinson
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renewing Our Days written by Ira Robinson and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interaction between Judaism and the modern state, relations between Jews and the larger Quebec community, differences within the Jewish community, and the distinctive literary voice of Montreal Jewish writers.

Author : Jack Lipinsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773538453
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imposing Their Will written by Jack Lipinsky and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginnings of one of the most organized ethnic communities in North America.

Author : Faydra Shapiro
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575863
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Jewish Roots written by Faydra Shapiro and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are encouraged for their presumed value in combating assimilation and a loss of Jewish culture. Faydra Shapiro suggests that their real success may lie elsewhere.