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No Better Home? : Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging / ed. by David Koffman.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487531102
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, "Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?" -- SECTION ONE Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians -- 1 A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective -- 2 Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World -- 3 "To Guarantee Their Own Self- Government in All Matters of Their National Life": Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism -- 4 Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture -- 5 Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective -- 6 The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish-Indigenous Encounters -- SECTION TWO Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations -- 7 Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs -- 8 The "Nu World" of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors -- 9 Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto's First Jewish Mayor -- 10 By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory -- 11 In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience -- SECTION THREE Reflections: Personal Stories, Language -- 12 Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time -- 13 Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950-1967 -- 14 Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian- American European Jewish Historian -- 15 Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew -- 16 Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial -- 17 In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today -- 18 Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History -- POSTSCRIPT Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life -- Contributors |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
| Language Note: | In English. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) |
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| Subject: | Jews > Canada > Identity. Jews > Canada > Intellectual life. Jews > Canada > Social conditions. Jews > Canada > Social life and customs. HISTORY / Canada / General. |
