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The Jews of North America / edited and introduced by Moses Rischin.

Title
The Jews of North America / edited and introduced by Moses Rischin.
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Rischin, Moses, 1925-2020
  • Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
Description
279 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, held at the University of Toronto April 24-26, 1983.
Subject
  • Jews > United States > History > Congresses
  • Jews > Canada > History > Congresses
  • United States > Ethnic relations > Congresses
  • Canada > Ethnic relations > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
Note
  • Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, held at the University of Toronto Apr. 24-26, 1983.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Jewish migrants en route from Europe to North America : traditions and realities / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Jews and Canadian immigration policy, 1900-1950 / Harold Troper -- Traditional institutions transplanted : the Hevra Kadisha in Europe and in America / Arthur A. Goren -- The folk culture of Jewish immigrant communities : research paradigms and directions / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Fiddler off the roof : Klezmer music as an ethnic musical style / Mark Slobin -- The construction of community : Jewish migration and ethnicity in the United States / Deborah Dash Moore -- Louis Wirth and American ethnic studies : the worldview of enlightened assimilationism, 1925-1950 / Fred Matthews -- Simon Dubnow and the nationalist interpretation of Jewish history / Robert M. Seltzer -- Ethnicity and freedom in the philosophy of Horace M. Kallen / William Toll -- Clarence de Sola and early Zionism in Canada, 1898-1920 / Gerald Tulchinsky -- The Zionist Lobby and Canada's Palestine Policy, 1941-1948 / David J. Bercuson -- The origins of organized National Jewish philanthropy in the United States, 1914-1939 / Marc Lee Raphael -- A tale of two communities : the growth and decline of small-town Jewish communities in Northern Ontario and Southwestern Louisiana / Gerald L. Gold -- Anti-semitism in Canada in the Interwar Years / Irving Abella -- A. M. Klein : the poet and his relations with French Quebec / Pierre Anctil.
ISBN
  • 0814318908
  • 0814318916 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^87010110^
OCLC
15792536
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library