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« Contre tous les youpins du monde » : la ville de Québec au temps de l’antisémitisme (1890–1914)
Get PDFIn 1912, Charles Maurras mentioned in the Parisian publication l’Action française “the importance of anti-Semitism in Quebec City.” A city founded on a strong ethno-linguistic duality, Quebec City’s character changed considerably at the turn of the 20th century. Industrialization, immigration, the predominant conception of the nation-state and the magisterium of the Church upset a city that seemed to be experiencing a difficult transition. Ridden with anxiety, a certain elite is attacking a vulnerable minority on a daily basis. Thus a noisy anti-Semitism takes shape, regularly feeding a chimerical representation of the Jew which, by the effect of imbalance between reality and the imaginary, between truth and lies, generates nocuous tensions.En 1912, Charles Maurras mentionne dans l’Action française de Paris « l’importance de l’antisémitisme à Québec ». Ville fondée sur une forte dualité ethno-linguistique, Québec voit au tournant du XXe siècle son visage changer considérablement. L’industrialisation, l’immigration, la conception prédominante de l’État nation et le Magistère de l’Église bousculent une Cité qui paraît mal vivre la transition. Rongée par l’angoisse, une certaine élite s’en prend alors quotidiennement à une minorité vulnérable. Ainsi prend forme un antisémitisme tapageur nourrissant régulièrement une représentation chimérique du Juif et qui, par effet de déséquilibre entre la réalité et l’imaginaire, entre le vrai et le leurre, génère de funestes tensions
Review: Arthur Ross, "Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930"
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Review: Hugues Theoret. "La presse canadienne-francaise et l'extreme droite europeenne 1918-1945"
No full text“There were cries of joy, some of sorrow”: Canadian Jewish Soldiers and Early Encounters with Survivors
Get PDFA close study of the early contacts between Canadian Jewish soldiers and survivors reveals many of the features largely associated only with the “liberation” of the camps in 1945. Already in 1944, in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, Canadian soldiers had encountered evidence of the Holocaust, especially the stories of deportations, deprivation and loss told by Jews emerging from hiding. Many soldiers heard the stories, were deeply affected by them, and reached out to the survivors and wrote about their experiences to family members. Some accounts of these encounters appeared in the Canadian Jewish press. These accounts fed into a homefront discourse and strategy, encouraged by the Canadian Jewish Congress, which sought to demonstrate to both Jews and non-Jews the role of Canadian Jews in the war effort and the need to help European Jewry
REVIEW: Roberto Perin. "The Many Rooms of This House: Diversity and Toronto’s Places of Worship Since 1840"
No full textModern Orthodoxy in the Forties
Get PDFThis article examines trends in Modern Orthodoxy in North America in the 1940s. Canadian and American Orthodox rabbis and laypeople belonged to the same organizations, such as the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinic Council of America (RCA). The major Orthodox rabbinic seminaries were located in the United States, and many Canadian rabbis were trained there. One of the issues the article addresses is Modern Orthodoxy’s issues with Traditional Orthodoxy, which - while newer on the scene in the 1940s - was beginning to make its mark. Orthodox leaders also took an active role in the war effort; the role of Orthodoxy was enhanced on the American scene by the contributions that the RCA made in the area of military chaplaincy. Orthodox leaders also took on a major role in the attempt to rescue European Jewry. Finally, just as there was a new role for America in Modern Orthodoxy, there was a new role for Zionism and Eretz Yisrael
