Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, “Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?” 1
4. SECTION ONE Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians
5. 1 A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective 19
6. 2 Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World 33
7. 3 “To Guarantee Their Own Self- Government in All Matters of Their National Life”: Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism 41
8. 4 Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture 56
9. 5 Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective 70
10. 6 The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish–Indigenous Encounters 81
11. SECTION TWO Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations
12. 7 Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs 117
13. 8 The “Nu World” of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors 135
14. 9 Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto’s First Jewish Mayor 147
15. 10 By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory 161
16. 11 In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience 177
17. SECTION THREE Reflections: Personal Stories, Language
18. 12 Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time 191
19. 13 Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950–1967 201
20. 14 Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian- American European Jewish Historian 217
21. 15 Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew 234
22. 16 Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial 244
23. 17 In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today 261
24. 18 Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History 284
25. POSTSCRIPT Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life 297
26. Contributors 311