Communal solidarity : Jewish immigration, settlement, and social welfare in Winnipeg, 1882-1930 /

Communal solidarity : Jewish immigration, settlement, and social welfare in Winnipeg, 1882-1930 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ross, Arthur L. (Arthur Larry), author.
Imprint:	Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in immigration and culture ; 16 Studies in immigration and culture ; 16.
Subject:	Jews -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 19th century. Jews -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Jews -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Jews -- Services for -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 19th century. Jews -- Services for -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century. Community life -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 19th century. Community life -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century. Immigrants -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 19th century. Immigrants -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century. Community life. Immigrants. Jews. Jews -- Services for. Jews -- Social conditions. Manitoba -- Winnipeg. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12283448

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ISBN:	9780887555770 0887555772 0887555756 9780887555756 9780887558375 0887558372
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of communal solidarity that dealt with the pervasive problem of economic insecurity by providing financial relief to their members. The organization of mutual aid societies accelerated the development of a vibrant secular public sphere in Winnipeg's Jewish community in which decisions about the provision of social welfare were decided democratically based on the authority and participation of the people. "Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg's Jewish Community, 1882-1930" looks at the development of Winnipeg's Jewish community and the network of institutions and organizations they established to provide income assistance, health care, institutional care for children and the elderly, and immigrant aid to reunite families. Communal solidarity enabled the Jewish community to establish and sustain a system of social welfare that assisted thousands of immigrants to adjust to an often inhospitable city and build new lives in Canada. Arthur Ross's study of the formation of Winnipeg's Jewish community is not only the first history of the societies, institutions, and organizations Jewish immigrants created, it reveals how communal solidarity shaped their understanding of community life and the way decisions should be made about their collective future."--
Other form:	Print version: Ross, Arthur L. (Arthur Larry). Communal solidarity. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019 0887558372 9780887558375

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Summary:	Arthur Ross's study of the formation of Winnipeg's Jewish community is not only the first history of the societies, institutions, and organizations Jewish immigrants created, it reveals how communal solidarity shaped their understanding of community life and the way decisions should be made about their collective future.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780887555770 0887555772 0887555756 9780887555756 9780887558375 0887558372