Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Anctil, Pierre, author.

Title A reluctant welcome for Jewish people : voices in Le Devoir's editorials, 1910-1947 / by Pierre Anctil ; translated by Tõnu Onu
Published Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2019

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 364 pages)
Series Canadian studies
Canadian studies (Ottawa, Ontario)
Contents Immigration to Canada (1913-1930) -- Jewish immigration to Canada (1910-1929) -- Jewish immigration to Canada (1933-1943) -- Nazi Germany (1933-1937) -- Anti-Semitism in Europe (1937-1938) -- Kristallnacht (1938) -- The holocaust (1943-1945) -- Anti-Semitism in Canada (1931-1933) -- Le devoir and the Canadian Jewish Congress (1934) -- "Buy from your own" (1934-1939) -- The "detrimental" influence of Jews in Montreal (1926-1936) -- The Jews and Montreal schools (1914-1930) -- Observance of Sunday (1933-1934) -- The success of Jews in Montreal (1930-1946) -- Public health in Montreal (1925-1927) -- Persecution of Jews, persecution of Catholics (1929-1933) -- Palestine under the British mandate (1929-1930) -- A national home for the Jewish people in Palestine (1937-1939)
Summary "Le Devoir's position with respect to the Montreal Jewish community and Judaism more broadly has been one of the most discussed historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history. Indeed, the editorials published by Le Devoir are of great historiographical significance, as they are representative of the reaction of the nationalist Francophone elite to the Jewish presence in Montreal, to German Nazi State anti-Semitism and to the Shoah. A number of works written by English-speaking authors describe Le Devoir as a typical example of French Canada's ideological stance of defensiveness during the 1930s and its inclination to adopt a hostile position towards Jews. However, until now, no serious study has been carried out to support or refute this thesis. Pierre Anctil proposes a new reading of the editorials published in the pages of Le Devoir from 1910 to 1947-- from the founding of the newspaper by Henri Bourassa until the death of its second director, Georges Pelletier. During that time, approximately 200 editorials--or two percent of the total number of editorials--were devoted to Jews and Judaism. Anctil selected 60 of these for inclusion in this book and provides insightful commentary on each one. From this collection of editorials and accompanying in-depth analysis, it is finally possible to obtain a clearer idea of what anti-Semitism looked like in Le Devoir and by extension in Quebec society."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of: À chacun ses Juifs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 17, 2019)
SUBJECT Devoir (Montréal, Québec) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80146277
Devoir (Montréal, Québec) fast
Subject Jews -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
Editorials -- Québec (Province)
Antisemitism in the press -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
Antisemitism in the press
Editorials
Jews
Social conditions
SUBJECT Québec (Province) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Québec
Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0776627961
9780776627977
077662797X
9780776627984
0776627988
9780776627960
Other Titles Chacun ses Juifs. English
OTHER TI Container of (work): Devoir (Montréal, Québec). Selections