Full Description
Noted historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive into editorials devoted to Jews and Judaism in Quebec's daily Le Devoir in the first half of the twentieth century. Long one of the most discussed historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history, these editorials are of great 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.
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, some two hundred editorials were devoted to Jews and Judaism, of which Anctil has selected sixty for inclusion in this volume. Although many of the editorials conveyed the clearly anti-Semitic views of Le Devoir's editorialists and of Quebec society at large, a number of the editorials did express positive views of Jewish activities and accomplishments in Quebec society.
Readers will find this to be an in-depth analysis and nuanced treatment of an important aspect of Canadian Jewish history.
Published in English, translated from the original "À chacun ses juifs".
Contents
Translator's Note
Preface
Introduction
IMMIGRATION TO CANADA (1913-1930)
1. The Perils of Immigration
2. The Gazette and Immigration
3. We Pay Attention Finally, But Very Late...
JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO CANADA (1910-1929)
4. An Anti-national Policy
5. What Is Most Important
6. Twenty Years Too Many
JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO CANADA (1933-1943)
7. Mr. Jacobs Also...
8. A New Jewish Immigration?
9. Is Canada Building a Tower of Babel?
10. Post-war Problems and Decline in Anglo-Saxon Birth Rate
11. The Problem of Immigration and Anti-Quebec Animosity?
NAZI GERMANY (1933-1937)
12. As Dispatches Keep Arriving ...
13. Events in Germany
14. The Pope and Germany
15. In Hitler's Germany
ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE (1937-1938)
16. Anti-Semitism, a Growing Danger
17. Anti-Semitism in Central Europe
18. The Astonishment of Mr. Glass, Member from Toronto of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and Organizer of the Jewish Boycott of German Merchandise
KRISTALLNACHT (1938)
19. Demonstrations Against Hitler
20. The Enduring Question of Jewish Refugees
21. In the Case of the German Jews, the Star Talks Nonsense
22. To Everyone Their Own Jews
THE HOLOCAUST (1943-1945)
23. We Have Our Own Victims and Refugees of the War
24. A Judeo-American Brief at the Quebec Conference
25. The Campaign to Admit Refugees to Canada
26. Inhumane Dictatorships
ANTI-SEMITISM IN CANADA (1931-1933)
27. Lessons and Reflections
28. Only to Satisfy Mr. Bercovitch? No
29. The Brawls in Toronto
LE DEVOIR AND THE CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS (1934)
30. The Status of the Jewish Documents — The Responsibility of the Canadian Jewish Congress
31. The Father of Yellow Journalism Was the Jew Joseph Pulitzer
32. The Advertising Boycott and Jews
"BUY FROM YOUR OWN" (1934-1939)
33. Mr. Joseph Cohen and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste
34. Life Is in Disarray
35. We Need to Be Logical: Label the Merchant Just Like the Merchandise
THE "DETRIMENTAL" INFLUENCE OF JEWS IN MONTREAL (1926-1936)
36. A New "Scheme": Fairgrounds in Parc Maisonneuve
37. If That Is "French Art"
38. Cheating Does Return to Haunt Its Master — With Double Consequences
THE JEWS AND MONTREAL SCHOOLS (1914-1930)
39. Jews and Protestants at the Dissentient School Board
40. Montreal Schools
41. Under the Government's Thumb
42. Why Not a Postponement?
OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY (1933-1934)
43. The Observance of Sunday
44. Dotting the I's
THE SUCCESS OF JEWS IN MONTREAL (1930-1946)
45. Do Not Blame the Jews: Imitate Them
46. The Saint-Denis Speeches
47. The Jews as a Model
48. The Jews as a Model
49. The Fédération des OEuvres de Charité Must Exceed Its Goal
PUBLIC HEALTH IN MONTREAL (1925-1927)
50. Why Our Children Are Dying
51. Infant Mortality among Jews and among Christians
PERSECUTION OF JEWS, PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS (1929-1933)
52. Silence on Mexico, Protests for Palestine
53. The Attention Paid to Spanish Catholics and to Jews
PALESTINE UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE (1929-1930)
54. On Top of a Powder Keg
55. From Bombay to Jerusalem
56. The Palestine Question
A NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PALESTINE (1937-1939)
57. Jews, Arabs and the English
58. The Protestant Pastors of Lachine and Mr. Neville
Chamberlain
59. "We Should Tend to Our Own Affairs!"
60. The Palestine Question
Appendix 1 — List of editorials in Le Devoir on Jewish subjects,
1910-1947
Appendix 2 — List of editorialists who wrote on the subject of
Judaism on Le Devoir's pages and the Jewish presence in Canada, 1910-1947
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