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Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952
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Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952
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The author examines the humanitarian internationalism of the Montreal-based Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) between 1938 and 1952. Throughout the Second Worls War, the JLC sent aid to European resistance movements, and in its aftermath participated in the “garment workers’ schemes,” (aka the Taylors' Project), a series of immigration projects that resettled thousands of displaced persons in Canada. Undertaken independently by the Jewish-Canadian community, with the assistance of trade unions, the projects worked to overcome tight border restrictions and early Cold War realpolitik. The author notes that in doing so, the JLC united Jewish institutions, trade unionists, social democrats, and anti-fascists across Europe and North America. It also acted in a pivotal moment in the evolution of Canada’s refugee system and domestic attitudes toward racism. As such, the author concludes, the JLC’s history is a microcosm for the shifting nature of relations between Jews, Canada, and the left writ large.
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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Vol. 30
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12-40
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2020
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en
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Chanco, Christopher. “Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952.” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 30 (2020): 12–40. https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40182/36422.
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