Introduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, “Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?”
David S. Koffman
Section One. Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians
1. A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective
Morton Weinfeld
2. Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World
Hasia R. Diner
3. “To Guarantee Their Own Self-Government in All Matters of Their National Life”: Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins
of Canadian Multiculturalism
Jeffrey Veidlinger
4. Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture
Kalman Weiser
5. Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective
Randal F. Schnoor
6. The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish–Indigenous Encounters
David S. Koffman
Section Two. Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations
7. Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Mia Spiro
8. The “Nu World” of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Ruth Panofsky
9. Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto’s First Jewish Mayor 147 Harold Troper
10. By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory
Ira Robinson
11. In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience
Richard Menkis
Section Three. Reflections: Personal Stories, Language
12. Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time
Norman Ravvin
13. Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950–1967
Judith R. Baskin
14. Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian-American European Jewish Historian
Lois C. Dubin
15. Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew
Yolande Cohen
16. Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial
Jack Kugelmass
17. In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today
Rebecca Margolis
18. Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History
Pierre Anctil
Postscript. Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life
David Weinfeld
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