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What My Mother Taught Me: The Construction of Canadian Jewish Womanhood in Montreal, 1945-1980
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What My Mother Taught Me: The Construction of Canadian Jewish Womanhood in Montreal, 1945-1980
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The author argues that from the late 1940s to the late 1970s, the Jewish community of Montreal underwent a series of changes that significantly altered its character. She contends that while increasing numbers of Jews from all over the world began arriving in Montreal during this period, the city's established Jewish elites reacted by creating and then entrenching a new cultural orthodoxy based on their own practices and values. She maintains that Jewish women were fundamental to this process, as both objects of the new cultural discourse as well as active participants. Understanding the process through which a "Jewish community of Montreal" group was created requires a consideration of both public and private ethnic signifiers, so an analysis of the construction of gender norms for Jewish women is key. The author tracks these fractured dialogues through an analysis of currents of thought and discussion among Jewish individuals living in Montreal between 1945 and 1980.
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PhD dissertation
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University of Victoria
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Victoria, BC
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2011
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en
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Eidinger, Andrea Ellen. “What My Mother Taught Me: The Construction of Canadian Jewish Womanhood in Montreal, 1945-1980.” PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2011. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/BVIV/TC-BVIV-3750.pdf.
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