It has been thirty years since the publication of Irving Abella and
Harold Troper's seminal work None is Too Many, which documented the
official barriers that kept Jewish immigrants and refugees out of
Canada in the shadow of the Second World War. The book won critical
acclaim, but a haunting question remained: Why did Canada act as it
did in the 1930s and 1940s? Answering this question requires a
deeper understanding of the attitudes, ideas, and information that
circulated in Canadian society during this period. How much did
Canadians know at the time about the horrors unfolding against the
Jews of Europe? Where did their information come from? And how did
they respond, on both public and institutional levels, to the
events that marked Hitler's march to power: the 1935 Nuremberg Race
Laws, the 1936 Olympics, Kristallnacht, and the crisis of the MS St
Louis? The contributors to this collection - scholars of
international repute - turn to the wider public sphere for answers:
to the media, the world of literature, the university campus, the
realm of international sport, and networks of community activism.
Their findings reveal that the persecutions and atrocities taking
place in Nazi Germany inspired a range of responses from ordinary
Canadians, from indifference to outrage to quiet acquiescence. It
is challenging to recreate the mindset of more than seventy years
ago. Yet this collection takes up that challenge, digging deeper
into archives, records, and testimonies that can offer fresh
interpretations of this dark period. The answer to the question
"why?" begins here. Contributors include: Doris Bergen, Chancellor
Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of
Toronto, Richard Menkis, Department of History, University of
British Columbia; Harold Troper, Department of Theory and Policy
Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto; Amanda Grzyb,
Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western
Ontario; Rebecca Margolis, Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies,
University of Ottawa; Michael Brown, Department of Languages,
Literatures and Lingustics, York University; Norman Ravvin,
Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University; and
James Walker, Department of History, University of Waterloo.
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