“L’Histoire du Québec, c’est aussi l’histoire des Juifs québécois”

L’historien Pierre Anctil vient de publier un livre magistral, rigoureux et passionnant dans lequel il retrace quatre siècles de vie juive au Québec —Histoire des Juifs du Québec (Éditions du Boréal). Un ouvrage qui fera date dans les annales historiographiques consacrées aux Juifs du Canada. “Les populations juives du Québec présentent aujourd’hui un positionnement unique qui […]
Our family stories

Do the names of our predecessors matter? What about their stories?
Celebrating the Balfour Declaration in pictures

Thanks to the Ontario Jewish Archives, we can see how the Jewish community of Ontario celebrated the Balfour Declaration. From this, we can extrapolate the joyous celebrations in Jewish communities around the world.
The forgotten history of what the Jews gained at the San Remo conference

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
Jews in Salonica, Jews in Shanghai: Book reviews

Bill Gladstone reviews Jewish Salonica by Devin E. Naar and Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews by Maisie J. Meyer.
Feature: Siegel was deeply involved in Toronto’s early community
Siegel was a tireless charitable organizer with an unstoppable ambition to improve the lot of the less fortunate and impressively a mother of six
The futility of war: Jewish soldiers of World War I
During World War I, from 1914-1918, approximately 2,700 Canadian Jews (and possibly more) served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, with about 1,200 seeing combat. Of those, an estimated 123 died in battle
Unearthing a gold mine of old treasures from the Forward
Editor Ezra Glinter has gone deep into the archives of New York’s famous Yiddish Forward newspaper, unearthing stories from days gone by
Collagist connects to Pompeii through the fall of a villain
John A. Schweitzer diminishes Hadrian by referring to the crumbling vestiges of Hadrian’s Wall in the title and in the content of his 2010 collage series Vallum Hadrianus.
Where you go, I shall go
Loyalty may be a troublesome concept for philosophers, but it has never been a question for Jews, writes Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz