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This book compares Canada’s Jews with other Canadian ethnic and religious groups and with Jewish communities in other diaspora countries, offering insights into the ethnic identity, values, behaviour, and likely future of Jews in Canada.
List of contents
Part One. Introduction: Profiles of Canadian Jewish life
1. An Ever-Dying People? Some Advantages of Comparative Analysis
Robert Brym and Randal F. Schnoor
2. Canadian Jewry since World War II
Richard Menkis and Harold Troper
3. Demographic Overview
Charles Shahar
4. Antisemitism in Canada
Morton Weinfeld
5. The Centrality of Jewish Education in Canada
Randal F. Schnoor
Part Two. Comparing Categories of Canadian Jews
6. Twelve Degrees of Jewish Identity
Robert Brym and Feng Hou
7. Jewish Residential Patterns and Identity
Joshua Harold
8. Immigrant and Non-immigrant Household Income
Naomi Lightman
9. Comparing Montreal and Toronto
Ira Robinson
10. Experiencing Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Toronto
Marina Morgenstern
11. Attitudes and Activism Concerning Israel
Elizabeth Moorhouse-Stein
Part Three. Comparing Canadian Jews and Other Canadians
12. From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question
Abdolmohammad Kazemipur
13. Jews and the Christian Goliath
Reginald Bibby
14. Are the Chinese Canada’s New Jews?
Feng Hou and Robert Brym
15. Jews and Métis in Canada: Ethnic Mobility and the Politics of Counting
David S. Koffman and Paul L. Gareau
16. Jewish Intellectual Exceptionalism? Ethnic Diversity in the University of Toronto’s School of Medicine
Jordan Chad and Robert Brym
Part Four. Comparing Jews in Canada and Other Countries
17. Jewish Demography and Identity in Canada and Eight Other Countries
Sergio DellaPergola
18. Intermarriage in Canada and the United States: Déjà vu or Different?
Fern Chertok and Matthew A. Brookner
19. Qualifying the Leading Theory of Diaspora Jewry: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Canada and the United States
Robert Brym, Anna Slavina, and Rhonda Lenton
20. Perceptions and Realities of Antisemitism: Canadian, British, and French Jews
Daniel Staetsky
21. Marriage and Mobility of Moroccan Jews in Montreal and Paris
Martin Messika and Yolande Cohen
22. Jewish Engagement in Canada and Australia
Adina Bankier-Karp
Conclusion
About the author
Edited by Robert Brym and Randal F. Schnoor
Summary
This book compares Canada’s Jews with other Canadian ethnic and religious groups and with Jewish communities in other diaspora countries, offering insights into the ethnic identity, values, behaviour, and likely future of Jews in Canada.
