Canadian Jewish history comes to life in the pages of ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Franklin Bialystok
I am a self-professed lover of Canadian Jewish history—a passion which set me on my career path as an archivist at Canada’s second-oldest synagogue, Montreal’s Shaar Hashomayim. Yet I often lament how little we as Canadian Jews—and indeed, the rest of Canada and the Jewish diaspora—know of our own history. Franklin Bialystok’s new book has […]
Obituary: Irving Abella, 82, was a Canadian historian who revealed why Canada kept Jews out during the Holocaust
![Irving Abella speaks at the launch of Jewish Heritage Month. [Leigh Brown photo]](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/abella.jpg)
The co-author of ’None is Too Many’ died July 3.
A historian who believes French Quebec’s attitude toward Jews is more nuanced than you think
Antisemitism was not endemic among francophone Quebecers in the period before the Second World War, Pierre Anctil argues in his newly translated History of the Jews in Quebec, taking issue with other historians’ depictions. “Contrary to the position articulated by Irving Abella and Harold Troper in None is Too Many, it would not be accurate […]
