Canada's Jews: A People's Journey

by Gerald Tulchinsky

The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada itself underwent the transformative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802093868
• ISBN13: 9780802093868
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher