Jews and French Quebecers recounts a saga of intense interest for the whole of Canada, let alone societies elsewhere. This work, now translated into English, represents the viewpoints of two friends from differing cultural and religious traditions. One is a French Quebecer and a Christian; the other is Jewish and also calls Quebec his home. Both men are bilingual.
Jacques Langlais and David Rome examine the merging — through alterations of close co-operation and socio-political clashes — of two Quebec ethno-cultural communities: one French, already rooted in the land of Quebec and its religio-cultural tradition; the other, Jewish, migrating from Europe through the last two centuries, equally rooted in its Jewish-Yiddish tradition.
In Quebec both communities have learned to build and live together as well as to share their respective cultural heritages. This remarkable experience, two hundred years of intercultural co-vivance, in a world fraught with ethnic tensions serves as a model for both Canada and other countries.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 179-187
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.4/004924
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 0889209987 9780889207363
- LCCN
- F1055.J5
- LCCN Item number
- L3613 1991eb
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- CaOOP
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- 1 electronic text (xxii, 187 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101408 (OCoLC)243571219 (CaOOCEL)402503
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- Jews and French Quebecers
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Preface to the English Translation 12
- The Ultramontane Influence 14
- Confederation 16
- The Quiet Revolution 16
- Preface to the Original French Version 20
- Relatives, Partners and Neighbours 21
- Decades of Rupture 22
- Post-War Liberations 22
- I. Early Jewish Presence in Quebec, 1627-1882 24
- Travel in New France Prohibited 25
- The First Jewish Families 27
- The First English Sephardic Community 30
- Early Contributions to Political History 34
- The Jews and the War in Quebec 39
- Growth of the First Congregation: The de Solas 43
- The 1882 Reform 44
- The Associations: Emergence of a New Judaism 46
- II. The Great Yiddish Migration, 1880-1940 48
- From Shtetl to America 48
- Insertion into Quebec 52
- Early Challenges 61
- III. The Reaction of French Quebec, 1880-1945 76
- A New Phenomenon: Anti-Semitism 76
- Precursors in Quebec 84
- Jewish Schools 93
- Anti-Semitism in the 1930s 107
- IV. The Quiet Revolution of Jewish Quebecers, 1945-76 134
- Cultural Revolution 135
- Economic Emancipation 140
- Church and Synagogue in Quebec 145
- Religious Crisis 150
- Arrival of the French-Speaking Jews 154
- The 1976 Crisis 161
- New Community Spirit 165
- V. Where Is the Jewish Community Headed? 168
- The Challenge of Continuity 168
- Quebec Today 169
- The Ambivalence of Nationalism in the 1970s 170
- Exodus of Jewish Youth? 171
- From Ethnocentric to Cultural Nationalism 172
- The Future Belongs to Quebecers 173
- Chronology. The Jews in Quebec 176
- Notes 184
- Bibliography 202
