A History of Antisemitism in Canada [[electronic resource] /] / Ira Robinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155153703321
• Autore: Robinson Ira <1951-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2015]; Ottawa, Ontario : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-77112-168-8; 1-77112-167-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4071
• Soggetti: Antisemitism - Canada - History; Electronic books.; Canada Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. Introduction -- 1. Defining antisemitism : Jews and non-Jews in historical perspective -- 2. Jews in medieval and early modern France and England -- part II. Canada and the Jews : early encounters (1759-1914) -- 3. Jews in the consciousness of Canadians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 4. The Jewish problem comes to Canada -- part III. Jews and Canadian society (1914-1945) -- 5. Social and institutional antisemitism -- 6. The spectre of Europe: Communism and Nazism -- part IV. Postwar Canada (1945-present) -- 7. Canada and antisemitism in the second half of the twentieth century -- 8. The Holocaust and its deniers -- 9. Zionism and Israel -- 10. Perspectives on antisemitism in twenty-first century Canada.
• Sommario/riassunto: This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light of history and considers particularly the influence of antisemitism on the social, religious, and political history of the Canadian Jewish community. A ; History of Antisemitism in Canada builds on the foundation of numerous studies on antisemitism in general and on antisemitism in Canada in particular, as well as on the growing body of scholarship in Canadian Jewish studies. It attempts to understand the impact of antisemitism on Canada as a whole and is the first comprehensive account of antisemitism and its effect on the Jewish community of Canada. The book will be valuable to students and scholars not only of Canadian Jewish studies and Canadian ethnic studies but of Canadian history.