01991cam a22003018i 4500 on1146556681 OCoLC ta 210219s2020 onc b 000 0 eng 1487523572 (pbk.) 9781487523572 (pbk.) 1487504896 (hbk.) 9781487504892 (hbk.) (OCoLC)1146556681 F1035.J5 N63 2020 No better home? : Jews, Canada, and the sense of belonging / edited by David S. Koffman. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2020. vii, 314 p. Includes bibliographical references. "This book begins with an audacious and unanswerable question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant diaspora for the Jews, compared to all other countries, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home." Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries; examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada; analyse specific historical moments and literary texts; reflect deeply personal histories; and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity."-- Jews Canada Social conditions. Jews Canada Social life and customs. Jews Canada Identity. Jews Canada Intellectual life. Canada Ethnic relations. Koffman, David S. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 F1035.J5 N63 2020 PNLIB21060789 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 975 975