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The Montreal Shtetl

Making Home After the Holocaust

Par (auteur) Zelda Abramson & John Lynch
Catégories: La Shoah, Des génocides et épurations ethniques, Événements et phénomènes historiques particuliers, Histoire, Histoire et archéologie, Migration, immigration et émigration, Enjeux sociaux et éthiques, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales
Éditeur: Between the Lines
Paperback : 9781771134040, 320 pages, Janvier 2019
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Table des matières

  1. Illustrations
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: The Research
  5. Chapter 2: The Context
  6. Chapter 3: No Way Home
  7. Chapter 4: The Narratives
  8. Chapter 5: Montreal and the Jewish Immigrants
  9. Chapter 6: The Narratives II
  10. Chapter 7: The Great Divides
  11. Chapter 8: The Narratives III
  12. Conclusion
  13. Chapter 9: Loose Threads
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. Interviewees
  16. Notes

La description

Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, this book presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montréal, where they encountered difficulties with work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped settlement experiences, the authors show the relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee immigration.

Récompenses

  • Short-listed, Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature 2020
  • Short-listed, J.I. Segal Award for the Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme 2020

Reviews

Abramson and Lynch tell a detailed and nuanced story of Holocaust survivors’ struggles to create new lives in Montreal during the first years after the genocide—a story that is typically overlooked or radically oversimplified. The wider contexts of Canadian immigration policy, social service agencies, and the history of Quebec’s Jewish community are grounded in the accounts of individual survivors. The result is a study that is compelling, informing, and deeply humane.

- Henry Greenspan, author of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony

The Montreal Shtetl is researched and written with great care and attention to detail. Filling a void in Holocaust survivor literature, it delivers a strikingly personal yet analytical account. Each sentence is heavy with emotion and understanding; a feeling that comes only from the sensitivity gained through lived experience, whether first hand or inherited. Truly a work of unique caliber.

- Jessica Zimmerman, Director of Archives, Jewish Public Library, Montreal

The Montreal Shtetl- Making Home After the Holocaust by Zelda Abramson and John Lynch should be read by anyone interested in immigration, Canadian history or post Holocaust Jewish experiences.This is a wonderful book. I liked everything about it!The interviews were a joy to read.

- The Reading Life