LEADER 03494ctm a2200409Ia 4500001 40194 005 20240621144348.0 008 991123s1997 xx rbm 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm42880648 035 40194 043 n-cn--- 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM |dOCLCQ |dLHM 090 F1035.J5 |bB52 1997 100 1 Bialystok, Franklin. 245 10 Delayed impact : |bthe Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish community 1945-1985 / |cFranklin Bialystok. 264 0 |c1997. 300 xiii, 424 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1997. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-424). 520 The Holocaust was a seminal event in the twentieth century. Yet knowledge of the event in the western nations outside of Continental Europe remained limited until the 1960s. In Canada, the impact of the Holocaust in the Jewish community was delayed for a generation. This study asks two questions: what was the impact, and why was it delayed for a generation? The research shows that the community deemed that it was obligatory to eventually educate itself because of the centrality of the Holocaust in modern history, its overwhelming significance in Jewish history, and the role of Canada and its Jewish community during and immediately after the Nazi era. From the end of the war until 1960, however, this confrontation with the legacy of the Holocaust was avoided by most Canadian Jews. They were not psychologically prepared to deal with the event, nor were they attuned to the enormity of the loss that had occurred in a world that was not theirs. Moreover, the community was preoccupied with other priorities. This mood changed from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s because of the efflorescence of marginal but vicious antisemitism in Canada and by more potent racist and antisemitic outrages internationally. Concurrently, the Holocaust was emerging as a field of academic research, but more significantly as a theme in popular culture. In addition, the politicization of Holocaust survivors propelled interest leading to the institutionalization of the legacy of the event in the Canadian Jewish community. This was most evident in events that galvanized the community in 1985. This study relies upon two sets of sources: documents found in archives and private papers, and the author's interviews with selected individuals. The thesis is located in the field of post-war immigrant communities, but is also grounded in political history and is mindfull of the context of the international developments as they affected these developments. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e28 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 650 0 Jews |zCanada |xAttitudes. 650 0 Jews |zCanada |xHistory |y20th century. 655 7 Academic theses. |2lcgft 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=736561131&sid=5&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib40194/NN20442.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hF1035.J5 |iB52 1997 852 |bwww 852 |bebook