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A History of Antisemitism in Canada

Ira Robinson (Author)

9781771121668

Paperback / softback, published 30 August 2015

300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg

This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light of history and considers particularly the influence of antisemitism on the social, religious, and political history of the Canadian Jewish community. 

A History of Antisemitism in Canada builds on the foundation of numerous studies on antisemitism in general and on antisemitism in Canada in particular, as well as on the growing body of scholarship in Canadian Jewish studies. It attempts to understand the impact of antisemitism on Canada as a whole and is the first comprehensive account of antisemitism and its effect on the Jewish community of Canada. The book will be valuable to students and scholars not only of Canadian Jewish studies and Canadian ethnic studies but of Canadian history.

Table of Contents for A History of Antisemitism in Canada by Ira Robinson

  • Preface
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Defining Antisemitism: Jews and Non-Jews in Historical Perspective
  • Chapter 2 Jews in the Cultures of the Medieval and Early Modern French and English
  • Part II: Canada and the Jews: Early Encounters (1759-1914)
  • Chapter 3 Jews in the Consciousness of Canadians in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Chapter 4 The Jewish Problem Comes to Canada
  • Part III: Jews and Canadian Society (1914-1945)
  • Chapter 5 Social and Institutional Antisemitism in Canada
  • Chapter 6 The Spectre of Europe: Nazism and Communism
  • Part IV: Postwar Canada (1945-present)
  • Chapter 7 Canada and Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 8 The Holocaust and Its Deniers
  • Chapter 9 Zionism and Israel
  • Chapter 10 Perspectives on Antisemitism in Twenty-First-Century Canada
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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