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    The Ever-Dying People?
    Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective

    Robert Brym (Edited by), Randal F. Schnoor (Edited by)

    9781487528768

    Hardback, published 4 April 2023

    384 pages, 16 b&w figures, 50 b&w tables
    23.4 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.66 kg

    Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of identifiable sociological and historical forces, some of which breathe life into Jewish communities, including Canada’s.

    Bringing together leading Canadian and international scholars, The Ever-Dying People? provides a landmark report on Canadian Jewry based on recent surveys, censuses, and other contemporary data sources from Canada and around the world. This collection compares Canada’s Jews with other Canadian ethnic and religious groups and with Jewish communities in other diaspora countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. It also sheds light on social divisions within Canadian Jewry: across cities, sub-ethnic groups, denominations, genders, economic strata, and political orientations. These bases of comparison usefully explain variation in a wide range of sociological phenomena, including ethnic identity, religiosity, acculturation, intermarriage, discrimination, economic achievement, and educational attainment.

    Part One. Introduction: Profiles of Canadian Jewish life

    1. An Ever-Dying People? Some Advantages of Comparative Analysis
    Robert Brym and Randal F. Schnoor

    2. Canadian Jewry since World War II
    Richard Menkis and Harold Troper

    3. Demographic Overview
    Charles Shahar

    4. Antisemitism in Canada
    Morton Weinfeld

    5. The Centrality of Jewish Education in Canada
    Randal F. Schnoor

    Part Two. Comparing Categories of Canadian Jews

    6. Twelve Degrees of Jewish Identity
    Robert Brym and Feng Hou

    7. Jewish Residential Patterns and Identity
    Joshua Harold

    8. Immigrant and Non-immigrant Household Income
    Naomi Lightman

    9. Comparing Montreal and Toronto
    Ira Robinson

    10. Experiencing Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Toronto
    Marina Morgenstern

    11. Attitudes and Activism Concerning Israel
    Elizabeth Moorhouse-Stein

    Part Three. Comparing Canadian Jews and Other Canadians

    12. From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question
    Abdolmohammad Kazemipur

    13. Jews and the Christian Goliath
    Reginald Bibby

    14. Are the Chinese Canada’s New Jews?
    Feng Hou and Robert Brym

    15. Jews and Métis in Canada: Ethnic Mobility and the Politics of Counting
    David S. Koffman and Paul L. Gareau

    16. Jewish Intellectual Exceptionalism? Ethnic Diversity in the University of Toronto’s School of Medicine
    Jordan Chad and Robert Brym

    Part Four. Comparing Jews in Canada and Other Countries

    17. Jewish Demography and Identity in Canada and Eight Other Countries
    Sergio DellaPergola

    18. Intermarriage in Canada and the United States: Déjà vu or Different?
    Fern Chertok and Matthew A. Brookner

    19. Qualifying the Leading Theory of Diaspora Jewry: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Canada and the United States
    Robert Brym, Anna Slavina, and Rhonda Lenton

    20. Perceptions and Realities of Antisemitism: Canadian, British, and French Jews
    Daniel Staetsky

    21. Marriage and Mobility of Moroccan Jews in Montreal and Paris
    Martin Messika and Yolande Cohen

    22. Jewish Engagement in Canada and Australia
    Adina Bankier-Karp

    Conclusion

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