This collection of a journalist's writings for the Canadian Jewish newspaper "Keneder Adler" from the 1920s-1940s offers a vivid evocation of Jewish life during the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the stock market crash of 1929, and the events leading up to World War II and the Holocaust.
For the first time, this captivating classic on Jewish immigrant life in Montreal (1900-1920) is available in English. Immigrant life, class divisions, the first socialists, the first Jewish bookstore, Canadian life, the press, art and business, Yiddish vaudeville, politics and citizenship, Jewish soldiers, writers, the poor, and religious ...
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by
Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke (Foreword by)