Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience

Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience

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In This Definitive And Meticulously Researched Account Of The Jewish Experience In Canada, Award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Allan Levine Documents A Story That Is Rich, Accessible, Often Surprising, And Epic In Its Scope. Relying On An Abundance Of Primary Sources And First-hand Documentation And Interviews, Seeking The Fabled City Chronicles The Successes And Failures, The Obstacles Overcome And Those Not Conquered, Of A Historic Journey And The People Who Travelled It. Seeking The Fabled City Is A Story That Unfolds Over 250 Years--from The Decade After The Conquest Of New France In 1759, When Small Numbers Of Sephardic Jews Of Spanish And Portuguese Descent Arrived In British North America, Through The Great Wave Of Russian And Eastern European Jewish Immigration At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, To The Present, In Which Canada's Large Jewish Community, No Longer Hindered By The Anti-semitism Of The Past, Is Free To Flourish. This Is A Chronicle Of A People That Takes Place At Hundreds Of Locales Across The Country--mainly In The Large Urban Centres Of Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, And Winnipeg, But Also In West Coast And Maritime Villages And Tiny Prairie Towns--in A Riveting Drama With A Cast Of Thousands.--


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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart

Author : Levine, Allan

Language : English

Edition : Illustrated

Published :2018-10-30

Number Of Pages : 512

Binding : Hardcover

ISBN-10 : 077104805X

ISBN-13 : 9780771048050

Item weight : 1.63 lb

Dimensions : 1.18 in x 6.54 in x 9.37 in

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