Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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Transculture et judéité dans Don Juan et les moulins à vent de Pierre Lasry
Get PDFDans le roman Don Juan et les moulins à vents (2008) de Pierre Lasry, la réécriture des mythes européens recoupe la culture québécoise, l’intertexte biblique, le hassidisme et la civi-lisation amérindienne. Le détournement des valeurs culturelles produit le métissage propre à l’écriture migrante, la rencontre de la judéité et des autres cultures aboutissant à une «culture translationnelle» (Sherry Simon, 1998) basée sur la diversité sociale et ethnique et dévoyant les repères du passé. À travers les personnages de Wise et Naomi, la conjugaison au mas-culin et au féminin des figures de l’hidalgo et du Marrane intronise une fable subversive de l’hybridité culturelle
REVIEW: Michael Mandel, "The Jewish Hour: The Golden Age of Toronto Yiddish Radio Show and Newspaper"
No full textOccupation and 20 ans après: Representing Jewish Dissent in Montreal, 1967-1977
Get PDFTwo NFB documentaries, Bill Reid’s Occupation (1970) and Jacques Bensimon’s 20 ans après (1977) offer an opportunity to reflect on the diverse politics of Montreal Jews during and following Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Reading these films together, I argue that Montreal Jewish artists and activists should be considered in relation to the complex local and international politics of postcolonial dissent that marked the late 1960s and early 1970s, and that their experiences defy the narrow confines of a ‘third solitude'
Opening Closed Doors: Revisiting the Canadian Immigration Record (1933-1945)
Get PDFSince the publication of None is Too Many, it has been generally accepted that less than 5,000 Jews entered Canada from 1933 to 1945. This study examines statistical data compiled by Louis Rosenberg to demonstrate this heretofore accepted figure is incorrect. Additionally, it establishes that Jewish proportional representation amongst Canadian immigrant arrivals increased during the 1930s and into the early 1940s as Jews attempted to leave Nazi-occupied territories. These findings call for a reassessment of the accepted discourse concerning Canada’s immigration activities during the Depression and the Second World War as they challenge the notion of a closed door policy
REVIEW: Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp"
No full textREVIEW: Hasia R. Diner, "Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way"
No full textFriends with Benefits: Leon Koerner and Frederick Charles Blair, 1939-1959
Get PDFDue to the strict immigration measures developed and enforced by Frederick Charles Blair,
director of the Immigration Branch 1936-1943, Canada had the poorest record for admittance
of Jewish refugees during WWII. Blair’s letters to various government officials are quoted
extensively in None Is Too Many, and have been perceived to reveal his intrinsic distaste for
Jews. That Blair, like many among the Canadian elite, was an antisemite is hard to refute.
And yet his relationship with Jewish-refugee and lumber-baron Leon Koerner begs closer
examination of what it meant to be an antisemite in Canada during the WWII era. Hailing
from an industrialist upper-middle-class Jewish family from Czechoslovakia, Koerner was
able to use his expertise in the forest industry to persuade the upper echelons of the Canadian
government to ignore his Jewish origins and to allow himself and members of his extended
family entry into Canada. Despite Blair’s negative predisposition towards Jews, from the
time of Koerner’s arrival into Canada until Blair’s death in 1959, the two men maintained a
friendly correspondence. This article elucidates the nuances of gentile antisemitism prevalent
among members Canada’s elite by examining the relationship between F.C. Blair and Leon
Koerner, as documented by letters dated 1939-1959