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A history of antisemitism in Canada

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  • Author: Robinson, Ira
    Contributor: Rosen, Dan
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    2015
    Summary:

    A History of Antisemitism in Canada presents a state-of-the-art account of the phenomenon. It builds on the foundation of numerous previous studies on antisemitism in general and on antisemitism in Canada in particular, and builds on the growing body of scholarship in Canadian Jewish studies. It attempts to understand the ways in which antisemitism has impacted Canada as a whole, and examines most especially its influence on the development of Canada's Jewish community. The book gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints them with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding historical relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light of history and, most particularly, considers the influence of antisemitism on the social, religious, and political history of the Canadian Jewish community.

    Contents:
    • Part I. Introduction
    • 1. Defining antisemitism : Jews and non-Jews in historical perspective
    • 2. Jews in medieval and early modern France and England
    • part II. Canada and the Jews : early encounters (1759-1914)
    • 3. Jews in the consciousness of Canadians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
    • 4. The Jewish problem comes to Canada
    • part III. Jews and Canadian society (1914-1945)
    • 5. Social and institutional antisemitism
    • 6. The spectre of Europe: Communism and Nazism
    • part IV. Postwar Canada (1945-present)
    • 7. Canada and antisemitism in the second half of the twentieth century
    • 8. The Holocaust and its deniers
    • 9. Zionism and Israel
    • 10. Perspectives on antisemitism in twenty-first century Canada.
    Original Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771121675, 9781771121682, 1771121688, 9781771125314