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Print Price: $32.95

Format:
Paperback
456 pp.
No illustrations, 6" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195438895

Publication date:
April 2010

Imprint: OUP Canada


The Jews in Canada

Edited by Robert J. Brym, William Shaffir and Morton Weinfeld

Series : The Wynford Project

Ethnic groups in Canada may be successful, persecuted, cohesive, or endangered; only Canada's Jews appear to embody all of these characteristics simultaneously. Canadian Jewry is enduringly fascinating, worth knowing about because the community is an archetype of multiculturalism as it confronts the difficulties and advantages of ethnicity in the modern world. By examining the achievements of the community, and the challenge of its attempt to survive the exigencies of modern life, The Jews in Canada clarifies not only the evolution of Canada's Jewish community but also the evolution of ethnicity in Canadian society. The Wynford edition includes a comprehensive new introduction by the editors updating key findings for the twenty-first century.

Readership : Readers and researchers interested in the nature and social evolution of Canada's Jewish community and, more broadly, the evolution of ethnicity in Canadian society; courses in sociology departments on Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Judaism in Canada, Sociology of the Jews in North America; and courses in religious studies departments on History of Religion in Canada.

Introduction to the Wynford Edition by the Editors
Robert J. Brym: Preface
Part One: Canadian Jews in Comparative Perspective
Morton Weinfeld: Introduction
Gerald Tulchinsky: The Contours of Canadian Jewish History
Robert J. Brym: The Rise and Decline of Canadian Jewry?
Jay Brodbar-Nemzer, Steven M. Cohen, Allan Reitzes, Charles Shahar, and Gary Tobin: An Overview of the Canadian Jewish Community
Part Two: Anti-Semitism
Robert J. Brym: Introduction
Cyril Levitt and William Shaffir: The Swastika as Dramatic Symbol: A Case-Study of Ethnic Violence in Canada
Gabriel Weimann and Conrad Winn: Hate on Trial: The Zundel Affair, The Media, Public Opinion in Canada
Robert J. Brym and Rhonda Lenton: The Distribution of Anti-Semitism in Canada in 1984
Part Three: Culture
William Shaffir: Introduction
William Shaffir: Separation from the Mainstream in Canada: The Hassidic Community of Tash
Morton Weinfeld and Phyllis Zelkowitz: Reflections on the Jewish Polity and Jewish Education
Leo Davids: Yiddish in Canada: Picture and Prospects
Part Four: Intercommunal Relations
Morton Weinfeld: Introduction
Morton Weinfeld: The Jews of Quebec: An Overview
Harold Troper and Morton Weinfeld: Jewish-Ukranian Relations in Canada since World War II and the Emergence of the Nazi War Criminal Issue
Morton Weinfeld: The Ethnic Sub-Economy: Explication and Analysis of a Case Study of the Jews of Montreal
Robert J. Brym, Michael Gillespie, and A.R. Gillis: Anomie, Opportunity, and the Density of Ethnic Ties: Another View of Jewish Outmarriage in Canada
Part Five: Politics
Robert J. Brym: Introduction
Harold M. Waller: The Canadian Jewish Polity: Power and Leadership in the Jewish Community
Jean Laponce: Left of Centre? The Canadian Jewish Electorate, 1953-1983
David Taras and Morton Weinfeld: Continuity and Criticism: North American Jews in Israel
Part Six: The Family and the Changing Role of Jewish Women
Morton Weinfeld: Introduction
Leo Davids: Marital Status and Fertility Among Sub-Groups of Canadian Jews
Sheva Medjuck: If I Cannot Dance to It, It's Not My Revolution: Jewish Feminism in Canada Today
Carolyn Rosenthal: Aging in the Family Context: Are Jewish Families Different?
Part Seven: Minorities
William Shaffir: Introduction
Sheva Medjuck: Jewish Survival in Small Communities in Canada
Jim Torczyner: The Persistence of Invisible Poverty Among Jews in Canada
Jean-Claude Lasry: Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Montreal
Roberta L. Markus and Donald V. Schwartz: Soviet Jewish Émigrés in Toronto: Ethnic Self-Identity and Issues of Integration
Cyril Levitt and William Shaffir: Aliyah and Return Migration of Canadian Jews: Personal Accounts of Incentives and of Disappointed Hopes
Index
List of Contributors

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Robert J. Brym is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. William Shaffir is Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Morton Weinfeld is Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. All three have published widely in the sociology of Jewish communities.

French Canada in Transition - Everett Hughes
Introduction by Lorne Tepperman and Foreword by Nathan Keyfitz
I Brought the Ages Home - Charles T. Currelly
Minetown, Milltown, Railtown - Rex Lucas and Lorne Tepperman
Canadian Short Stories - Edited by Robert Weaver
Preface by William Toye
The Fraser - The late Bruce Hutchison
Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
Man's Emerging Mind - The late N. J. Berrill
No Passport - The late Eugene Cloutier
Translated by Joyce Marshall
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada - Evelyn Kallen
The Double Ghetto - Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
Corporate Power in a Globalizing World - William Carroll
Regions Apart - Edward Grabb and The late James Curtis
Wasting Away - Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
The Unknown Country - The late Bruce Hutchison and Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
Approaches to Politics - The late Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Translated by The late Ivon Owen, Foreward and Introduction by Ramsay Cook and Preface by The late Jacques Hébert

Special Features

  • First book to paint a comprehensive sociological portrait of Canada's Jewish community
  • Includes contributions by 27 top scholars
  • Analyzes the Jewish community's economic organization, history, political involvement, responses to anti-Semitism, and interactions with other ethnic communities
  • Includes a new introduction that brings readers fully up to date