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'A Goodly Tent of Jacob, and the Canadian Home Beautiful': The Jewish Public Library in the Civic Sphere during the 1950s
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'A Goodly Tent of Jacob, and the Canadian Home Beautiful': The Jewish Public Library in the Civic Sphere during the 1950s
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An examination of Montreal's Jewish Public Library as a locus of public assembly and civic engagement. The author discusses four discrete events relating to the library during the first half of the 1950s: the sod-turning ceremony for the new library building at the corner of Esplanade and Mont-Royal on February 11, 1951; the cornerstone laying ceremony on October 19, 1952; the library building's dedication on October 4, 1953; and the inauguration of the Bronfman Collection of Jewish Canadiana on June 13, 1954. The author points out that these four public events and the coverage they received in the local press evince the subtle tensions that prevailed between English and French Quebec during this period, and enabled the Jewish Public Library to serve as a platform for the articulation of shifting official attitudes toward immigration, bilingualism, multiculturalism, and Canadian cultural nationalism during the first postwar decade.
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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Vol. 22
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54-86
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2014
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en
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Baker, Zachary M. “‘A Goodly Tent of Jacob, and the Canadian Home Beautiful’: The Jewish Public Library in the Civic Sphere during the 1950s.” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 22 (2014): 54–86. http://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/39641/35916.
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