History of the Jews in Quebec /

History of the Jews in Quebec /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Anctil, Pierre, author.
Uniform title:	Histoire des Juifs du Québec. English
Edition:	English edition.
Imprint:	[Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xx, 461 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 x 16 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Canadian studies Canadian studies (Ottawa, Ontario)
Subject:	Jews -- Québec (Province) -- History. Jews. Québec. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769712

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Other authors / contributors:	Woodsworth, Judith, translator.
ISBN:	9780776629483 9780776629513 0776629484 0776629514
Notes:	Translation of: Histoire des Juifs du Québec. Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-430) and index. Issued also in electronic formats. Translated from the French.
Summary:	"Over the four centuries discussed, the Jews of Quebec realized that they belonged to a unique society in North America. Their commitment to defend their rights and their extensive contributions to numerous sectors of activity have fostered the development of a Quebec enhanced by diverse identities. Quebec Judaism in its Montreal incarnation took a long time and successive waves of migration from various regions to take root. This work recounts these different contributions throughout the years and the cultural context that encouraged the emergence in Montreal of a Judaism like no other in North America. This is the first overview of a historical narrative that began during the French Regime and continued, through many twists and turns, until the turn of the twenty-first century. The fruit of over thirty years of research conducted in several seldom consulted archives, it paints a complete picture of the highly unique journey Jews undertook in Quebec, a journey that is still largely unknown today."--
Other form:	Online version: Anctil, Pierre. Histoire des Juifs du Québec. English. History of the Jews in Quebec. Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2021 0776629492 9780776629490

Table of Contents:

Forerunners and Founders, 1627-1900
The Great Jewish Migration, 1900-1919
The Interwar Years, 1919-1939
Turbulent Times, 1939-1945
New Context, New Arrivals, 1945-1960
Sephardim, Hasidim, and New Political Realities, 1960-1995
Contemporary Success Stories.