Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes

Weiser, Barbara

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A Canadian Designer Creates Mantles for the Prophet Scrolls at Holy Blossom Temple

Goodman, Donna

Montreal Synagogue Sisterhoods (1900-1949): A Unique Organization

Ringuet, Chantal

Identités mosaïques. Entretiens sur l'identité culturelle des Québécois juifs (Francis Dupuis-Déry et Julie Châteauvert (dir.))

Lerner, Eve

Sacred Ground on de la Savane: Montreal's Baron de Hirsh Cemetery (Danny Kucharsky)

Lapidus, Steven

The Jewish Community Council of Montreal: A National Kehilah or a Local Sectarian Organization?

Herman, Dana

"An Affair to Remember": The Outremont Dispute of 1988

Robinson, Ira

The Golem: a New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories (Joachim Neugroschel); The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague (Yudl Rosenberg)

Croteau, Jean-Philippe

Le Mode de nomination des commissaires à la PBSCCM et la communauté juive : confessionnalité et démocratisation (1906-1931)

Anctil, Pierre

GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM ON QUEBEC /
CANADIAN JEWISH STUDIES
COLLOQUE ÉTUDIANT SUR LES ÉTUDES JUIVES
QUÉBÉCOISES / CANADIENNES 
Introduction
On November 9, 2004, the Institut Québécois d’études sur la
culture juive (IQECJ), in cooperation with the Concordia
University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and the
Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives, held a unique
bilingual graduate student colloquium to highlight the creative
research of students in Montreal universities in the field of
Quebec / Canadian Jewish Studies. This event took place in the
Atrium of Concordia University’s Samuel Bronfman Building in
Montreal, which formerly housed the headquarters of Canadian
Jewish Congress. Twelve graduate students from the four major
universities of Montreal (Concordia, McGill, Université du
Québec à Montréal, and Université de Montréal) took part in
this colloquium. Nine of them submitted papers published in this
collection. The three other presenters were Geneviève Couture,
Université de Montréal, who presented a paper entitled: « Refugiés
et prisonniers de guerre à Sherbrooke : I er camp d’internement
Newington, 1940-1946»;Jean-Luc Bédard, Université de Montréal,
« La sépharadité parmi les jeunes juifs de Montréal d’origine
marocaine » and Howard Gontovnick, Concordia University,
“What is the Distinguishing Factor that Gives a City its Jewish
Character? Exploring Côte Saint-Luc, Québec.”
Founded in 1987 by Canadian Jewish Congress
archivist David Rome and Father Jacques Langlais, the IQECJ
pursued the twin goal of transmitting the historical and cultural
heritage of the Montreal Jewish community, and of stimulating
research in this field through the preservation of documentary
and archival sources. Of particular interest to the two founders
1
was the fostering of dialogue in this field between researchers
primarily oriented toward Jewish studies and those whose main
focus of interest was the study of francophone Quebec. In 1986,
when Rome and Langlais published their seminal study, Juifs et
Québécois français: 200 ans d’histoire commune, research and
teaching in this area was hardly to be found in any of the
Montreal universities. Furthermore, relatively little information
reached the general public concerning the scope and impor-
tance of Montreal Jewish history in the study of key twentieth
century Quebec issues, such as the school question, the devel-
opment of industrial unions, and the impact of immigration on
the Island of Montreal. 
As this special issue of Canadian Jewish Studies amply
demonstrates, a new generation of Quebec researchers is now
emerging that approaches the field of Canadian Jewish Studies
with both confidence and intense interest. The variety and
complexity of the subjects presented in this collection also
attests to the fact that these young, talented researchers are
immersing themselves in the rich and complex archival collec-
tions available in both Jewish and non-Jewish institutions, and
producing studies in both English and French.
This broadening of the field of Quebec / Canadian
Jewish Studies is attracting scholars, many of whom, in earlier
historical contexts, would not have been aware of the impor-
tance of including Jews and Judaism in their scholarly
explorations. New fields are now emerging that include areas
very little explored until recently: Montreal’s Yiddish heritage,
the role of women in synagogues, and varieties of Jewish 
adaptation to Canada. The internal structuring of the Montreal
Jewish community, the impact of the Holocaust on
Francophone literary writing, and recent intercommunity
tensions in Outremont have also found their way into the acad-
emy as subjects of inquiry and reflection.  Many other issues,
certainly, that have yet to be defined and exploited, will doubt-
less become the research objectives of this newly emerging
cohort of academic researchers. 
Ira Robinson, Concordia University 
Pierre Anctil, Université d’Ottawa 
2 Ira Robinson & Pierre Anctil


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Margolis, Rebecca

The Yiddish Press in Montreal, 1900-1945

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