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    DAVID J. BERCUSON. — Fools and Wise Men: The Rise and Fall of the One Big Union.

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    Presidential Address: Jews, Human Rights, and the Making of a New Canada

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    For the first half of the twentieth century, Canada was not a welcoming place for Jews. Xenophobia, nativism and anti-Semitism lay behind a wide range of quotas and restrictions that limited where Jews could live, be educated, work, or play. During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, Nazi propaganda, a search for economic scapegoats, fear of communism, religious hatreds, and a general concern about recent rapid immigration all contributed to the problem. Then in the late 1940s, Canadian Jewish leaders launched an offensive against discriminatory practices. Through a publicity campaign and other efforts, they gradually won allies in church and service groups, the Association of Civil Liberties, and the new Ontario premier, Leslie Frost. By the 1960s, mechanisms to protect minorities were in place and Canada had begun the process of repealing its racist immigration laws. Efforts of Jewish leaders in the human rights movement of the 1940s and 50s played a central role in improving the treatment of minorities in late twentieth-century Canada.Pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle, le Canada ne s'est pas montré très hospitalier envers les juifs. La xénophobie, le nativisme et l'antisémitisme ont sous-tendu l'instauration de toute une série de quotas et de restrictions qui limitaient les endroits où les juifs pouvaient vivre, s'instruire, travailler et jouer. Ont également alimenté ces politiques durant les années 1920, 1930 et 1940 la propagande nazie, la recherche d'un bouc émissaire de la crise économique, la peur du communisme, les haines religieuses et l'inquiétude généralisée suscitée par la récente arrivée massive d'immigrants. Vers la fin des années 1940, les leaders de la communauté juive canadienne lancèrent une offensive contre ces comportements discriminatoires. Ils recoururent à des campagnes publicitaires et à d'autres moyens pour graduellement se gagner l'appui de personnes actives au sein d'églises et de groupes d'aide sociale ; ils purent également compter sur l'Association of Civil Liberties et sur Leslie Frost, le nouveau premier ministre de l'Ontario. Au début des années 1960, ils avaient réussi à faire mettre en place des mécanismes pour protéger les minorités et le Canada avait commencé à abroger ses lois racistes sur l'immigration. Par leurs interventions dans le mouvement en faveur des droits de la personne des années 1940 et 1950, les leaders juifs contribuèrent de façon décisive à améliorer le traitement réservé aux minorités au Canada à la fin du XXe siècle

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    Canada is a peculiar nation. Peopled by immigrants, it is a country, paradoxically, which hates immigration. Every single public opinion survey over the past fifty years indicates that most Canadians – including by the way, most immigrants themselves – do not want any substantial increase in the number of people admitted to this country. This attitude may surprise Canadians, but historically it should not. It is one of our great national myths that Canada has a long history of welcoming refug..

    Whence They Came

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    Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off “offensive” peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not only kept the doors closed but also managed to find a way to get rid of some of those who managed to break through their carefully guarded barriers. Robert's important book explores a dark history with an honest and objective style

    Echange/Exchange

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