Starting with the first steps on Canadian soil in the eighteenth century to the present day, Faces in the Crowd introduces the reader to the people and personalities who made up the Canadian Jewish experience, from the Jewish roots of the NHL’s Ross trophy to Leonard Cohen and all the rabbis, artists, writers, and politicians in between. Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom and experience at the heart of the Canadian Jewish community, Franklin Bialystok adds new research, unique insights, and, best of all, memorable stories to the history of the Jews in Canada.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Who Are the Jews?
Part One: Foundations, 1760–1900
1. Creating a Community: The Jews of Quebec
2. The Jews of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Ontario
Part Two: Building a Community, 1900–1945
3. The Great Migration
4. Yiddish Canada
5. Organizations
6. Reformers, Radicals, Rogues
7. Antisemitism
Part Three: The Community Matures, 1945–2000
8. Into the Mainstream
9. Confronting History: 1945–1967
10. Filling the Void: 1967–1985
11. Continuity and Consensus: 1985–2000
12. Faith, Culture, Scholarship, and Politics: 1945–2000
13. The Jewish Diaspora Comes to Bathurst Street
Part Four: Canada’s Jews since 2000
14. The Ascent of Diversity in the New Millennium
Epilogue: "Hallelujah"
Appendix: Faces in the Crowd
