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New Context, New Arrivals, 1945–1960

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From: History of the Jews in Quebec

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This chapter examines the postwar period, which marked a critical break with the past and the unfolding of a new world for Montreal Jewry. It looks at linguistic and cultural movements within the Quebec Jewish community, postwar trauma, Israel’s declaration of independence and Canadian Jews, communism and Canadian Jews, the postwar period and new social and economic opportunities for the Montreal Jewish population, the community’s movements across the island of Montreal, linguistic traditions and movements, and Holocaust survivors in Montreal, among other topics.

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Pierre Anctil

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.