{"product_id":"no-better-home-jews-canada-and-the-sense-of-belonging-paperback-softback-9781487523572","title":"No Better Home?; Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487523572","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNo Better Home?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid S. Koffman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487523572\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eNo Better Home? \u003c\/i\u003etakes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of \"home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 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. \u003ci\u003eNo Better Home?\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, \"Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?\" \u003cbr\u003eDavid S. Koffman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection One. Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003eMorton Weinfeld\u003cbr\u003e2. Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World\u003cbr\u003eHasia R. Diner\u003cbr\u003e3. \"To Guarantee Their Own Self-Government in All Matters of Their National Life\": Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins\u003cbr\u003eof Canadian Multiculturalism\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Veidlinger\u003cbr\u003e4. Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture\u003cbr\u003eKalman Weiser\u003cbr\u003e5. Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003eRandal F. Schnoor\u003cbr\u003e6. The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish–Indigenous Encounters\u003cbr\u003eDavid S. Koffman \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection Two. Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Crossing in\/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs\u003cbr\u003eMia Spiro\u003cbr\u003e8. The \"Nu World\" of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein\u0026amp;#x2019;s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors\u003cbr\u003eRuth Panofsky\u003cbr\u003e9. Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto\u0026amp;#x2019;s First Jewish Mayor 147 Harold Troper\u003cbr\u003e10. By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory\u003cbr\u003eIra Robinson\u003cbr\u003e11. In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience\u003cbr\u003eRichard Menkis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection Three. Reflections: Personal Stories, Language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time\u003cbr\u003eNorman Ravvin\u003cbr\u003e13. Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950–1967\u003cbr\u003eJudith R. Baskin\u003cbr\u003e14. Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian-American European Jewish Historian\u003cbr\u003eLois C. Dubin\u003cbr\u003e15. Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew\u003cbr\u003eYolande Cohen\u003cbr\u003e16. Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial\u003cbr\u003eJack Kugelmass\u003cbr\u003e17. In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Margolis\u003cbr\u003e18. Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History\u003cbr\u003ePierre Anctil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePostscript. Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life\u003cbr\u003eDavid Weinfeld\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595603374360,"sku":"9781487523572","price":20.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/no-better-home-jews-canada-and-the-sense-of-belonging-paperback-softback-9781487523572","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}