Delayed Impact : The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community, 1945-1985

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Delayed Impact : The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community, 1945-1985
Abstract
By examining the years immediately following the Second World War, the author shows that Canadian Jews were not psychologically equipped to comprehend the enormity of the Holocaust. Unable to grasp the extent of the atrocities that had occurred in a world that was not theirs, he points out that Canadian Jews were not prepared to empathize with the survivors and a chasm between the groups developed and widened in the next two decades. The author demonstrates how the efflorescence of marginal but vicious antisemitism in Canada in the 1960s, in combination with more potent antisemitic outrages internationally and the threat to Israel's existence, led Canadian Jews to an interest in the Holocaust. Eventually, he argues, with the politicization of the survivors and the maturation of the post-war generation of Canadian Jews in the 1980s, the memory of the Holocaust became a pillar of ethnic identity.
Place
Montreal and Kingston
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date
2000
# of Pages
xiv-327p.
Language
en
ISBN
0-7735-2065-1
Notes

A published version of the author's PhD dissertation of the same title, York University, Toronto, ON, 1997. xii-424p.

Citation
Bialystok, Franklin. Delayed Impact : The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community, 1945-1985. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.
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