Creating the chupah : the Zionist movement and the drive for Jewish communal unity in Canada, 1898-1921 /

Creating the chupah : the Zionist movement and the drive for Jewish communal unity in Canada, 1898-1921 / Henry Felix Srebrnik.

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"Creating the Chupah assesses the role of Canadian Zionist organizations in the drive for communal unity within Canadian Jewry in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Two strands of Zionism, represented respectively by the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada and Poale Zion, wer...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Srebrnik, Henry Felix
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Series:Jewish identities in post modern society.
Subjects:
Zionism > Canada.
Jews > Canada.
Jews, Canadian.
Jews.
Zionism.
Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: preliminary remarks about Canada's Jewish community
  • A general outline of Canadian Jewry to 1921
  • The infrastructure of Canadian Jewry: the establishment of schools, newspapers, and agricultural settlements
  • General Zionism in Canada before the First World War
  • Labour Zionism in Canda, 1905-1914: the Poale Zion
  • The First World War: divisions within Canadian Jewry, 1914-1917
  • The coaliscing of the two streams and the formation of the Jewish Legion, 1917-1919
  • The Canadian Jewish Congress of 1919
  • Conclusion: the consolidation of Zionist leadership and the end of immigration, 1919-1921.

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