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Making and Breaking Bread in Jewish Montreal: 1920-1940
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Making and Breaking Bread in Jewish Montreal: 1920-1940
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| Abstract |
An exploration of trade unionism and consumer activism in Montreal Jewish bakeries between 1920 and 1940. The author argues that the Jewish bakeries of inter-war Montreal were sites of ethnicity in the rapidly changing immigrants' world. Here the annual rhythm of traditional communal life was beaten out on the street, as the bakeshops stepped up their pace before the High Holidays in the fall, and closed for a Passover hiatus in the spring when the eating of leaven was proscribed by religious law. The author examines how Canadian historians have used the concept of "space and culture" to probe Jewish Montreal; explores the dynamics of the bread trade in the city and how the discourses of class and of ethnicity played out in the conflicts of the interwar period; and looks at the thirty-fifth Jubilee Journal of the Jewish Bakers' Union as a source of popular ideology emanating from this environment.
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Master's Thesis
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2003
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145p.
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en
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Lerner, Eve. “Making and Breaking Bread in Jewish Montreal: 1920-1940.” Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2003. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMG/TC-QMG-1980.pdf.
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