The Great Jewish Migration, 1900–1919
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From: History of the Jews in Quebec
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This chapter examines early Eastern European and Jewish immigration to Quebec (and specifically Montreal), the reasons why Jewish immigrants to Canada were concentrated in Montreal, Canada’s openness to mass immigration during this period, the Russian Revolution and its impacts on the Jewish community, the newspaper the Adler, and various cultural developments in Quebec’s Jewish community during this period, 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.
