23. Jews in English Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Section I: In Time: Canada’s Jews and Their History
5. 1. Jews and New France 13
6. 2. Struggles and Successes: The Beginnings of Jewish Life in Canada in the Eighteenth Century 21
7. 3. The Golden Century?: Jews in Nineteenth-Century British North America 29
8. 4. East European Jewish Migration and its Impact: Farming Colonies across Canada 39
9. 5. Communities and Conflicts: East European Jewish Immigrants in Ontario and Quebec from the Late 1800s through the 1930s 52
10. 6. In Search of Unity: Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Canadian Jewish Congress to 1945 75
11. 7. Post-War Canadian Jewry 93
12. Section II: In Space: Jews in Contemporary Canada
13. 8. The Jews of Canada: A Demographic Profile 121
14. 9. The Politics of Canadian Jewish Life 133
15. 10. Atlantic Canada 149
16. 11. Jewish Life in Montreal 152
17. 12. Sephardi Jews in Montreal 168
18. 13. Steps Forward and Steps Backward: Toronto Jewry at the Beginning of the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century 184
19. 14. Jewish Life in Ontario Outside of the Metropolis 215
20. 15. Winnipeg 241
21. 16. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the North 245
22. 17. Vancouver 263
23. Section III: In Spirit: The Religious and Cultural Expressions of Canadian Jews
24. 18. Orthodox Judaism 277
25. 19. Hasidim in Canada 282
26. 20. Reform Judaism in Canada 294
27. 21. Conservative Judaism, and its Challengers From the Left (Reconstructionism and Renewal) and Right 308
28. 22. Yiddish 343
29. 23. Jews in English Literature 361
30. 24. Jews in French Literature 412
31. 25. Jews in Canadian Art 422
32. 26. Canadian Jewish Studies since 1999: The State of the Field 451
33. General Bibliography 468
34. Glossary 471
35. Contributors 476
36. Index 483