Ira Robinson 
Canada’s Jews 
In Time, Space and Spirit

Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish communities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly the United States) while simultaneously functioning as a distinct society, Canada’s Jewish community holds great interest for scholars, exercising a measurable influence on the culture and politics of World Jewry. Consisting of a series of essays written by experts in their respective fields, Canada’s Jews is a topical encyclopaedia, covering a wide variety of topics, from history and religion to the intellectual and cultural contributions of Canada’s Jews. An indispensable reference book for both laypeople and for scholars of Jewish and Canadian studies.

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Preface. I. In Time: Canada ’s Jews and Their History. 1. Jews and New France. 2. Jewish beginnings under the British (eighteenth century). 3. Jews in British North America (nineteenth century). 4. Eastern European Jewish immigration and its impact: Farming Colonies and the West. 5. Eastern European Jewish immigration and its impact: Quebec and Ontario ; Jewish labor. 6. Jews and the Political and Social Life of Canada (to 1945): anti-Semitism; Zionism; Canadian Jewish Congress. 7. Jews in Postwar Canada: Holocaust survivors, Sephardim, Russians and Israelis, Federations and Communal Governance. II. In Space: a Survey of Jews in Contemporary Canada. 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. 3. Vancouver. 4. Winnipeg. 5. Maritimes. 6. Central Canada (not including Toronto and Montreal ). 7. Prairies (not including Winnipeg ). 8. West and North (not including Vancouver ). III. In Spirit: the Religious and Cultural Expressions of Canadian Jews. A. Religious. 1. Ashkenazic Orthodox: Hasidic, Modern, Kashrut. 2. Sephardic. 3. Non-Orthodox: Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform. B. Languages, Literatures and Cultures. 1. Yiddish. 2. Jews in Canadian literature. 3. Jews in Quebec literature. 4. Canadian Jewish Studies. Conclusion. For further reading. List of contributors. Index.

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Ira Robinson is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, where has taught since 1979. He has written, edited, and translated seventeen books, including Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters, which won the Kenneth Smilen Award for Judaica non-fiction; Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century, which won a Toronto Jewish Book Award; Moses Cordovero’s Introduction to Kabbala: An Annotated Translation of His Or Ne’erav; Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930, which won a J.I. Segal Prize; A History of Antisemitism in Canada; History, Memory, and Jewish Identity, and, most recently, Les Juifs Hassidiques de Montréal (2019). He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and past president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. He is the 2013 winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.