Overview
- Summary
- "By examining the years immediately following World War II, Franklin Bialystok shows that Canadian Jews were not psychologically equipped to comprehend the enormity of the Holocaust. Unable to grasp the extent of the atrocities that had occurred in a world that was not theirs, Canadian Jews were not prepared to empathize with the survivors and a chasm between the groups developed and widened in the next two decades. Bialystok demonstrates how the efflorescence of marginal but vicious antisemitism in Canada in the 1960s, in combination with more potent antisemitic outrages internationally and the threat to Israel's existence, led Canadian Jews to an interest in the Holocaust. Eventually, with the politicization of the survivors and the maturation of the post-war generation of Canadian Jews in the 1980s, the memory of the Holocaust became a pillar of ethnic identity."--BOOK JACKET.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
©2000 - Locale
- Canada
- Contents
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Introduction: A community of memory
"The warm safety of North America": The Holocaust and Canadian Jews in the 1930s and 1940s
Greener and Gayle: The Arrival of Survivors in the Late 1940s
"Europe's ghosts in Canadian living rooms: The Canadian Jewish Community in the 1950s
"The disease of anti-Semitism has again become active": The Community and the Hate-Mongers in the Early 1960s
"A cleavage in the community": The Toronto Jewish Community in the 1960s
"The Jewish Emptiness": Confronting the Holocaust in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
"Were things that bad?" The Holocaust Enters Community Memory
"A crucible for the community": The Landmark Events of 1985
Conclusion: The Holocaust is not Joseph. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317) and index.
Introduction: A community of memory -- "The warm safety of North America": The Holocaust and Canadian Jews in the 1930s and 1940s -- Greener and Gayle: The Arrival of Survivors in the Late 1940s -- "Europe's ghosts in Canadian living rooms: The Canadian Jewish Community in the 1950s -- "The disease of anti-Semitism has again become active": The Community and the Hate-Mongers in the Early 1960s -- "A cleavage in the community": The Toronto Jewish Community in the 1960s -- "The Jewish Emptiness": Confronting the Holocaust in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- "Were things that bad?" The Holocaust Enters Community Memory -- "A crucible for the community": The Landmark Events of 1985 -- Conclusion: The Holocaust is not Joseph.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
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- ISBN
- 0773520651
9780773520653 - Physical Description
- xiv, 327 pages ; 24 cm
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