History of the Jews in Quebec - Brossura

Anctil, Pierre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0776629484 ISBN 13: 9780776629483

Casa editrice: Univ of Ottawa Pr, 2021

Riassunto

Over the four centuries discussed, the Jews of Quebec realized that they belonged to a unique society in North America. Their commitment to defend their rights and their extensive contributions to numerous sectors of activity have fostered the development of a Quebec enhanced by diverse identities.

Quebec Judaism in its Montreal incarnation took a long time and successive waves of migration from various regions to take root. This work recounts these different contributions throughout the years and the cultural context that encouraged the emergence in Montreal of a Judaism like no other in North America.

This is the first overview of a historical narrative that began during the French Regime and continued, through many twists and turns, until the turn of the twenty-first century.

The fruit of over thirty years of research conducted in several seldom consulted archives, it paints a complete picture of the highly unique journey Jews undertook in Quebec, a journey that is still largely unknown today.

Published in English.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Judith Weisz Woodsworth est professeure de traduction au Département d’études françaises de l’Université Concordia. En plus d’avoir fait paraître de nombreuses études sur la traductologie et l’histoire de la traduction, elle a traduit des romans des écrivains québécois Pierre Nepveu et Abla Farhoud. Judith Weisz Woodsworth is Professor of Translation Studies in the Département d’études françaises at Concordia University. She has published widely on the history and theory of translation and has translated novels by Quebec authors Pierre Nepveu and Abla Farhoud. Pierre Anctil est professeur titulaire au Département d’histoire de l’Université d’Ottawa, où il enseigne l’histoire canadienne contemporaine et l’histoire juive au Canada. Auteur primé, il est membre de la Société Royale du Canada depuis 2012. Il a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur l’histoire de la communauté juive de Montréal et sur les débats actuels sur le pluralisme culturel au Canada. Quelques titres récents en anglais: Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (2017) et A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People: Voices in Le Devoir’s Editorials, 1910–1947 (2019), tous deux publiés aux Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa. Pierre Anctil is an award-winning author, a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2012 and a full professor at the Department of History of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches contemporary Canadian history and Canadian Jewish history. He has written at length on the history of Montreal’s Jewish community and on the current debates on cultural pluralism in Canada. His most recent English-language titles are Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (2017) and A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People: Voices in Le Devoir’s Editorials, 1910–1947 (2019), both at the University of Ottawa Press.

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This book focuses on Quebec society and the City of Montreal as sites of a distinct Jewish identity, which stands out from Jewish identities as they have evolved elsewhere in Canada. The approach is unique in that it makes use of French and Yiddish sources, which are copious in the case of Montreal’s Jewish population. One of the characteristics of this field of research is that it requires a command of several languages and dialects and a deep understanding of the different religious traditions that came into contact with one another over a long period of time. The history of Montreal Jews is striking in that it highlights the role of the city as a crossroads at which successive generations of immigrants have converged.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Ottawa Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0776629484
• ISBN 13: 9780776629483
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 461
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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