History of Antisemitism in Canada

Ira Robinson is chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has taught at Concordia since 1979 and was chair of its Department of Religion. He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies and past president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

• Table of Contents for A History of Antisemitism in Canada by Ira RobinsonPrefacePart I: IntroductionChapter 1 Defining Antisemitism: Jews and Non-Jews in Historical PerspectiveChapter 2 Jews in the Cultures of the Medieval and Early Modern French and EnglishPart II: Canada and the Jews: Early Encounters (1759-1914)Chapter 3 Jews in the Consciousness of Canadians in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesChapter 4 The Jewish Problem Comes to CanadaPart III: Jews and Canadian Society (1914-1945)Chapter 5 Social and Institutional Antisemitism in CanadaChapter 6 The Spectre of Europe: Nazism and CommunismPart IV: Postwar Canada (1945-present)Chapter 7 Canada and Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 8 The Holocaust and Its DeniersChapter 9 Zionism and IsraelChapter 10 Perspectives on Antisemitism in Twenty-First-Century CanadaNotesBibliographyIndex

A state-of-the-art account of antisemitism in Canada. Attempts to understand the many ways in which antisemitism has impacted Canada as a whole, and examines most especially its influence on the development of Canada's Jewish community. "...timely and intriguing," -- Blacklocks Reporter