Father Jacques Langlais was from the Holy Cross Congregation. He was the founder, in 1963, of the Monchainin Center (which became the Intercultural Institute of Montréal in 1990) and its director from 1963 to 1970. He dedicated his life to interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
Table of Contents for
Jews and French Quebecers: Two Hundred Years of Shared History, by Jacques
Langlais and David Rome, translated by Barbara Young
Foreword
Preface to the English Translation
The Ultramontane Influence
Confederation
The Quiet Revolution
Preface to the Original French Version
Relatives, Partners and Neighbours
Decades of Rupture
Post-War Liberations
I. Early Jewish Presence in Quebec, 1627-1882
Travel in New France Prohibited
The First Jewish Families
The First English Sephardic Community
Early Contributions to Political History
The Jews and the War in Quebec
Growth of the First Congregation: The de Solas
The 1882 Reform
The Associations: Emergence of a New Judaism
II. The Great Yiddish Migration, 1880-1940
From Shtetl to America
Insertion into Quebec
Early Challenges
III. The Reaction of French Quebec, 1880-1945
A New Phenomenon: Anti-Semitism
Precursors in Quebec
Jewish Schools
Anti-Semitism in the 1930s
IV. The Quiet Revolution of Jewish Quebecers, 1945-76
Cultural Revolution
Economic Emancipation
Church and Synagogue in Quebec
Religious Crisis
Arrival of the French-Speaking Jews
The 1976 Crisis
New Community Spirit
V. Where Is the Jewish Community Headed?
The Challenge of Continuity
Quebec Today
The Ambivalence of Nationalism in the 1970s
Exodus of Jewish Youth?
From Ethnocentric to Cultural Nationalism
The Future Belongs to Quebecers
Chronology: The Jews in Quebec
Notes
Bibliography
