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Rethinking Adrien Arcand in Historical Context
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Rethinking Adrien Arcand in Historical Context
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The editor describes a spring 2024 forum that brought together three historians—Pierre Anctil, Simon-Pierre Lacasse, and Tyler Wentzell—for a reassessment of Adrien Arcand, the self-styled “führer canadien” and fascist agitator active in Quebec from the late 1920s to the 1960s. This forum originated as a live panel discussion presented at the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies’ Annual Conference at McGill University, chaired by Richard Menkis. The editor found the discussion riveting and thought it would work well in written form so that the perspectives—the harmonies and differences—could be available to readers interested in Canadian Jewish history, in the history of Quebec, the politics of difference in Canada, and in the interdisciplinary field of antisemitism studies. To that end, the forum was comprised of three short essays, and three responses. Pierre Anctil examined Arcand’s portrayal in Montreal’s Yiddish press in the inter war years; Lacasse traced the postwar Jewish community’s monitoring and eventual marginalization of Arcand in Quebec; and Wentzell analyzed two Toronto English-language newspapers’ depictions of Arcand in the 1930s.
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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Autumn 2025
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Vol. 43
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129-155
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en
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Anctil, Pierre, Simon-Pierre Lacasse, and Tyler Wentzell. “Rethinking Adrien Arcand in Historical Context.” Edited by David S. Koffman. Translated by Valentina Gaddi. Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 43 (Autumn 2025): 129–155. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cjs/2025-v43-cjs010609/1123645ar.pdf.
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