Between the Wars Canadian Jews in Transition

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ISBN: 9781550651744 | 1550651749
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Copyright: 9/1/2004

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This collection of a journalist's writings for the Canadian Jewish newspaperKeneder Adlerfrom the 1920s1940s offers a vivid evocation of Jewish life during the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the stock market crash of 1929, and the events leading up to World War II and the Holocaust.

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TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION	9	(6)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	15	(2)
The First Cataclysm	17	(3)
Zionism and the First World War	20	(4)
The End of World War I	24	(4)
Economic and Cultural Prosperity	28	(3)
Uptowners and Downtowners	31	(3)
Organized Jewish Labour	34	(3)
Jewish Education	37	(4)
Problems of Religious Jews	41	(3)
Labour Zionism	44	(5)
Zionism after the Balfour Declaration	49	(3)
Religious Zionism	52	(3)
Controversies in the Community	55	(3)
The Crash of 1929	58	(3)
The First Warning from Germany	61	(4)
The Rise of Adolph Hitler	65	(3)
Militant Anti-Semitism	68	(2)
The Campaign Against the German Jews	70	(3)
The Jewish Question in the Superior Court	73	(3)
The Defence of the Talmud in the Legislature	76	(3)
Among Liberal Journalists	79	(3)
The Creation of the Second Jewish Congress	82	(3)
The Doctors' Strike against the Jews	85	(3)
Catholic Syndicates and Jewish Trade Unions	88	(3)
The Trial against Anti-Semitism in Ottawa	91	(3)
The Attack on the Quebec City Synagogue	94	(2)
A Stormy Election Campaign	96	(2)
An Anti-Semitic Meeting in a Church	98	(3)
Fascism vs. Democracy	101	(4)
After Kristallnacht	105	(3)
On the Eve of the Second World War	108	(3)
Canada's Role in the Second World War	111	(3)
Jews in the Canadian War Effort	114	(4)
Canadian Soldiers in the Role of Liberators	118	(3)
When Mikhoels and Feffer Visited Montreal	121	(3)
The First Jewish War Immigrants	124	(3)
When the Cataclysm Ended	127	(4)
Immigrant Tailors from the Camps	131	(4)
The Difficult Road to Freedom	135	(3)
The Historic Day	138	(2)
Canada and Israel	140	(3)
The Impact of Israel	143	(3)
Historic Jewish Anniversaries	146	(3)
Changes in Jewish Life	149	(6)
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION	155	(3)
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES TO THE TEXT	158	(15)
INDEX	173

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Between the Wars Canadian Jews in Transition

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