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Canada's Jews : a people's journey /

"The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations in the colonial era
  • Pedlars and settlers on the urban frontiers
  • Victorian Montreal and western settlement
  • Travails of urbanization
  • 'Corner of pain and anguish'
  • Zionism, protest, and reform
  • Jewish geography of the 1920s and 1930s
  • Clothing and politics
  • The politics of marginality
  • 'Not complex or sophisticated' : interwar Zionism
  • Into battle
  • Post-war readjustments
  • Jewish ethnicity in multicultural Canada, 1960-1980
  • Complexities and uncertainties.