Ira Robinson

A History of Antisemitism in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

State-of-the-art account of the phenomenon builds on the foundation of numerous previous studies on antisemitism, and on antisemitism in Canada in particular. Attempts to understand the many ways in which antisemitism has impacted Canada as a whole, and examines most especially its influence on the development of Canada's Jewish community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781771121668
• ISBN-10: 1771121661
• Artikelnr.: 43033698

Autorenporträt

Ira Robinson is chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has taught at Concordia since 1979 and was chair of its Department of Religion. He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies and past president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for A History of Antisemitism in Canada by Ira Robinson
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1 Defining Antisemitism: Jews and Non-Jews in Historical
Perspective
Chapter 2 Jews in the Cultures of the Medieval and Early Modern French and
English
Part II: Canada and the Jews: Early Encounters (1759-1914)
Chapter 3 Jews in the Consciousness of Canadians in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 4 The Jewish Problem Comes to Canada
Part III: Jews and Canadian Society (1914-1945)
Chapter 5 Social and Institutional Antisemitism in Canada
Chapter 6 The Spectre of Europe: Nazism and Communism
Part IV: Postwar Canada (1945-present)
Chapter 7 Canada and Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Twentieth
Century
Chapter 8 The Holocaust and Its Deniers
Chapter 9 Zionism and Israel
Chapter 10 Perspectives on Antisemitism in Twenty-First-Century Canada
Notes
Bibliography
Index