Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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REVIEW: Barry L. Stiefel and Hernan Tesler-Mabé, eds., "Neither in Dark Speeches Nor In Similitudes: Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews"
No full textThe New Anti-Semitism and Diasporic Liminality: Jewish Identity from France to Montreal
Get PDFThrough a case study approach, 40 French Jews were interviewed revealing their primary reason for leaving France and resettling in Montreal was the continuous threat associated with the new anti-Semitism. The focus for many who participated in this research was the anti-Jewish sentiment in France and the result of being in a liminal diasporic state of feeling as though they belong elsewhere, possibly in France, to where they want to return, or moving on to other destinations. Multiple centred Jewish and Francophone identities were themes that emerged throughout the interviews
REVIEW: Chantal Ringuet and Gerard Rabinovitch, "Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen"; and Aubrey Glazer, "Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond"
No full textREVIEW: Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo Ditommaso, eds., "History, Memory, and Jewish Identity"
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She Also Served: Bringing to Light the Contributions of the Canadian Jewish Servicewomen of World War II
Get PDFWriting on Jews in the Canadian forces focuses on the contributions of Jewish men with little or no acknowledgement of the service of Jewish women. Similarly, scholarship on Canadian women in the military forces of the Second World War is virtually silent on Jewish women’s contributions, and anthologies of servicewomen’s experiences rarely include the accounts of Jewish servicewomen. This article gives voice to the important role played by Jewish women in the Canadian Second World War forces and highlights how the military experience of these Jewish women was uniquely shaped by their gender and ethnicity
REVIEW:Paul Gifford, "From Generation to Generation: Jewish Edmontonians as Heritage Builders"
No full textCanadian Jewish Heritage Material Repositories/ Liste de référence de tous les dépôts du patrimoine juif du Canada
Get PDFSuffering & Sovereignty: Recent Canadian Jewish Interest in Indigenous People and Issues
Get PDFThis essay analyzes ways that Canadians Jews have been engaging with Indigenous people and issues since the turn of the millennium. It argues that communal Jewish interest in Indigenous issues developed in the wake of the Ahenakew affair in 2002, and then grew in breadth and depth after the launch of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2008. The expansion of Jewish engagement in Indigenous matters bespeaks newfound mobilizations by Canadian Jews in the identity politics of ethnic/religious coalition building, toward multiple and sometimes competing ends, two of which are particularly salient: suffering and sovereignty. While the sufferings of the Jewish people and Indigenous peoples have been inexactly mapped onto one another, the attachments that many Canadian Jews have to the legacies of oppression, resistance, and recovery have profoundly shaped their eagerness to contemplate and engage Indigenous issues in particularly Jewish ways. Jewish engagements with First Nations also focus on the idea of “indigeneity” for the rhetorical power it may provide in debates about Israel as a colonial, post-colonial, or anti-colonial state. Canadian Jews to champion liberal support of First Nations, Jewish conversations around Indigenous suffering, heritage honour, and reconciliation have also foregrounded a set of tense questions about the
extent to which Canadian Jews are and have been implicated in colonialism writ large, and about how Canadian Jews can or should best respond to its legacies. The two themes, suffering and sovereignty, are intertwined in a dynamic and unresolved tension, with one theme (suffering) inherently grappling with powerlessness, and the other (sovereignty), inherently grappling with power