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INDEX TO
CANADIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
VOLUMES 1 - 10 (1977-1988)

Compiled by Rachel S. Levitan

Adapted from:
Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes, Volume 1 (1993)

[Note: The Canadian Jewish Historical Society Journal was the predecessor of Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes]

Tables of contents

Index of authors

Subjects

List of books reviewed, according to author

 

TABLES OF CONTENTS

Volume 1 Number 1 April 1977

1. Sefton, Victor. “And You Shall Tell it to Your Children.” 1, 1: 1-2.

2. Rome, David. “The Political Consequences of the Jewish School Question, Montreal, 1925-1933.” 1, 1: 3-15.

3. Jaenen, Cornelius J. “Thoughts on French and Catholic Anti-Semitism.” 1, 1: 16-23.

4. Hayes, Saul. “Are Jews of Quebec an Endangered Species?” 1, 1: 24-34.

5. Kayfetz, B.G. “A Look at Jewish Canadiana.” 1, 1: 35-42.

6. Kurelek, William and Abraham Arnold. Jewish Life in Canada. Reviewed by Stephen Speisman. 1, 1: 43-47.

7. Sack, B.G. Canadian Jews -- Early in This Century. Reviewed by Stephen Speisman. 1, 1: 48-50.

8. The Constitution of the Jewish Historical Society of Canada. 1, 1: 50-53.

 

Volume 1 Number 2 October 1977

9. Chiel, Arthur A. “Manitoba Jewish History -- Early Times.” 1, 2: 55-74.

10. Barsky, Percy. “How ‘Numerus Clausus’ was Ended in the Manitoba Medical School.” 1, 2: 75-81.

11. Arnold, Abraham J. “Jewish Immigration to Western Canada in the 1880s.” 1, 2: 82-96.

12. Meirovich, Harvey. “The Rise and Decline of a Toronto Synagogue: Congregation Beth Am.” 1, 2: 97-113.

13. Rottenberg, Dan. Finding Our Fathers; a Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. Reviewed by Brian Land. 1, 2: 114-116.

14. Torgov, Morley. A Good Place to Come From. Toronto: Lester and Orpen, 1976 Reviewed by Adam Fuerstenberg. 1, 2: 117-120.

15. Sefton, Victor. “Jewish Historical Society of Canada.-- Report of 1977 Activities.” 1, 2: 121-123.

 

Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 1978

16. Draper, Paula Jean. “The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part I.” 2, 1: 1-38.

17. Herstein, Harvey. “Jewish Religious Leadership in Winnipeg, 1900-1963.” 2, 1: 39-53.

18. Miller, Evelyn. “Enter the Jew.” 2, 1: 54-69.

19. Rome, David. “Notes on Some of the First Jews West of Ontario.” 2, 1: 70-75.

20. Dunkelman, Ben. Dual Allegiance, An Autobiography. Reviewed by.Eugene Rothman. 2, 1: 76-79.

 

Volume 2 Number 2 Fall 1978

21. Draper, Paula Jean. “The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part II.” 2, 2: 80-112.

22. Chiel, Arthur A. “Hermann Laundau’s Canadian Dream.” 2, 2: 113-120.

23. Sefton, Victor W. “The European Holocaust -- Who Knew What and When -- The Canadian Aspect.” 2, 2: 121-133.

24. Jewish Historical Societies and Archival Institutions in Canada. 2, 2: 134-136.

25. News From Across Canada. 2, 2: 137-139.

26. Index: Volumes 1 and 2. 2, 2: 140-144.

 

Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 1979

27. Ballon, Harry C. and Samuel C. Ballon. “Hiram Nahum Vineberg, 1857-1845.” 3, 1: 1-9.

28. Arnold, Abraham J. “Ezekiel Hart and The Oath Problem In the Assembly of Lower Canada.” 3, 1: 10-26.

29. Indig, Sheldon. “Canadian Jewry and Their Struggle For An Exemption In The Federal Lord’s Day Act of 1906, Part I.” 3, 1: 27-56.

30. Leonoff, Cyril. Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls. Reviewed by B.G. Kayfetz. 3, 1: 57-60.

 

Volume 3 Number 2 Fall 1979

31. Indig, Sheldon. “Canadian Jewry and Their Struggle For An Exemption In The Federal Lord’s Day Act of 1906, Part II.” 3, 2: 61-114.

32. Sarna, Jonathan D. “The Canadian Connections of An American Jew: The Case of Moredecai M. Noah.” 3, 2: 115-129.

 

Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 1980

33. Kayfetz, Ben. “Saul Hayes -- A Tribute.” 4, 1: 1-3.

34. Stern, Moshe S. “Communal Problem Solving: The Winnipeg ‘Va’ad Ha’Ir, 1946.” 4, 1: 4-24.

35. Arnold, Abraham J. “The Jewish Farm Settlements Of Saskatchewan: From ‘New Jerusalem’ to Edenbridge.” 4, 1: 25-43.

36. Trachtenberg, Henry. “The Winnipeg Jewish Community In The Inter-War Period, 1919-1939: Anti-Semitism and Politics.” 4, 1: 44-70.

37. Usiskin, Roz. “Continuity and Change: The Jewish Experience in Winnipeg’s North End, 1900-1914.” 4, 1: 71-94.

38. Speisman, Stephen A. The Jews of Toronto: A History To 1937. Reviewed by J.M.S. Careless. 4, 1: 95-98.

 

Volume 4 Number 2 Fall 1980

39. Sohn, Herbert A. “Human Rights Laws in Ontario: The Role of the Jewish Community.” 4, 2: 99-116.

40. Bauer, Julien. “From Heterogeneity to Consensus: The Jewish Community of Montreal.” 4, 2: 117-126.

41. Miller, Evelyn. “Our Roots: The Evolution of Today’s Jewish Community.” 4, 2: 127-132.

42. Gutkin, Harry. Journey Into Our Heritage. Reviewed by Stephen A. Speisman. 4, 2: 133-135.

43. Index: Volumes 3 and 4. 4, 2: 136-147.

 

Volume 5 Number 1 Spring 1981

44. Katz, Yossi. “The Plans and Efforts of the Jews of Winnipeg to Purchase Land and to Establish an Agricultural Settlement in Palestine before World War One.” 5, 1: 1-16.

45. Sarna, Jonathan D. “The Value of Canadian Jewish History to the American Jewish Historian and vice-versa.” 5, 1: 17-22.

46. Stern, Sadie. “The Brantford Jewish Community, 1881-1911.” 5, 1: 23-30.

47. Koch, Erich. Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder. Reviewed by Rabbi Erwin Schild. 5, 1: 31-44.

48. Paris, Erna. Jews: An Account of Their Experience in Canada. Reviewed by Stuart Schoenfeld. 5, 1: 45-48.

 

Volume 5 Number 2 Fall 1981

49. Fuerstenberg, Adam G. “The Poet and the Tycoon: The Relationship Between A.M. Klein and Samuel Bronfman.” 5, 2: 49-69.

50. Starkman, Mel. “A Meshumad at the University of Toronto.” 5, 2: 70-90.

51. Lazar, M.M. and Sheva Medjuck. “In the Beginning: A Brief History of Jews in Atlantic Canada.” 5, 2: 91-108.

 

Volume 6 Number 1 Spring 1982

52. Bercuson, David J. “‘Illegal’ Corvettes: Canadian Blockade Runners to Palestine, 1946-1949.” 6, 1: 3-16.

53. Segall, Harold N. “Stories Of and About Goldbloom, Goldblatt, Greenspan and Gross: ‘The Four G’s’ of the McGill Medicine Class of 1916.” 6, 1: 17-32.

54. Feldman, Anna. “Sonnenfeld -- Elements of Survival and Success of a Jewish Farming Community on the Prairies, 1905-1939.” 6, 1: 33-53.

55. Kayfetz, B.G. Correspondence. 6, 1: 54-56.

 

Volume 6 Number 2 Fall 1982

56. Lipinsky, Jack. “‘The Agony of Israel’: Watson Kirkconnel and Canadian Jewry.” 6, 2: 57-72.

57. Milner, Elizabeth Hearn. “Bishop’s Medical Faculty 1871-1905: Its Jewish Dean, Aaron Hart David, and its Jewish Students.” 6, 2: 73-86.

58. Meyer, Marion E. “The Jews of Kingston: A Comparative Study of Organized and Non-Affiliated Jews (A Preliminary Report).” 6, 2: 87-101.

59. Index: Volumes 5 and 6. 6, 2: 101-109.

 

Volume 7 Number 1 Spring 1983

60. Tischler, Fred. “Canada, The Middle East and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” 7, 1: 1-25.

61. Goldberg, David H. “Interest Groups and Foreign Policy Making: Canada and Palestine, 1946-1948.” 7, 1: 26-38.

62. Kayfetz, Ben. “The Toronto Yiddish Press.” 7, 1: 39-54.

63. Abella, Irving and Harold Troper. None is Too Many. Reviewed by Robert Bothwell. 7, 1: 55-57.

 

Volume 7 Number 2 Fall 1983

64. Sarna, Jonathan D. “‘Our Distant Brethren’: Alexander Harkavy on Montreal, 1888.” 7, 2: 58-73.

65. Draper, Paula Jean. “The Politics of Refugee Immigration: The Pro-Refugee Lobby and the Interned Refugees, 1940-1944.” 7, 2: 74-88.

66. Chiel, Arthur A. “When Anti-Semitism bowed to Sportsmanship: Rubinstein and the Czar’s Policemen.” 7, 2: 89-92.

67. Chiel, Arthur A. “Winnipeg Tales.” 7, 2: 93-99.

 

Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 1984

68. Levin, Martin. “The Founding and Restoration of Canada’s Oldest Surviving Synagogue: A Different Jewish History.” 8, 1: 1-11.

69. Leonoff, Cyril Edel. “Pioneer Jewish Merchants of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.” 8, 1: 12-43.

70. Castle, Geoffrey. “British Columbia’s Provincial Archives and the Province’s Jews.” 8, 1: 44-52.

 

Volume 8 Number 2 Fall 1984

71. Davies, Alan and Marilyn Felcher Nefsky. “The United Church and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945.” 8, 2: 55-72.

72. Nefsky, Judith. “The Prehistory of the Founding of the Canadian Jewish Congress, 1897-1919.” 8, 2: 73-84.

73. Mann, Harvey. “The Jew of St. Denis: An Introduction.” 8, 2: 85-89.

74. Index: Volumes 7 and 8. 8, 2: 90-95.

 

Volume 9 Number 1 Spring 1985

75. Levitt, Cyril and William Shaffir. “The Christie Pits Riot: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Ethnic Violence -- Toronto, August 16, 1933.” 9, 1: 2-30.

76. Zola, Gary P. “‘You are in Canada now’: Zvi Hirsch Masliansky on Montreal Jews, 1898.” 9, 1: 31-40.

77. Pennacchio, Luigi G. “The Defense of Identity: Ida Siegel and the Jews of Toronto Versus the Assimilation Attempts of the Public School and its Allies, 1900-1920.” 9, 1: 41-60.

78. Meyer, Marion. The Jews of Kingston: A Microcosm of Canadian Jewry? Reviewed by Stuart Schoenfeld. 9, 1: 61-64.

 

Volume 9 Number 2 Fall 1985

79. Lipinsky, Jack. “The Apprenticeship of an Executive Director: M. A. Solkin, A. J. Paull, and the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada.” 9, 2: 67-82.

80. Bauer, Julien. “Canada and the Middle East Question at the United Nations.” 9, 2: 83-92.

81. Gelman, Susan. “Anatomy of a Failed Strike: The T. Eaton Co. Lockout of Clockmakers, 1912.” 9, 2: 93-119.

 

Volume 10 Number 1 Fall 1988

82. Davies, Alan and Marilyn Felcher Nefsky. “The Church of England in Canada and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era, 1933-1945.” 10, 1: 1-19.

83. Schlesinger, Rachel. “Volunteers for a Dream.” 10, 1: 20-33.

84. Raben, Harvey A. “Bringing Order to Chaos: The Centralization of Jewish Education in Toronto.” 10, 1: 34-45.

85. Shamai, Shmuel. “The Jews and the Public Education System: The Students’ Strike Over the ‘Flag Fight’ in Toronto after the First World War.” 10, 1: 46-53.

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INDEX OF AUTHORS (includes authors of reviews)

Arnold, Abraham J.: 11, 28, 35
Ballon, Harry C.: 27
Ballon, Samuel C.: 27
Barsky, Percy: 10
Bauer, Julien: 40, 80
Bercuson, David J.: 52
Bothwell, Robert: 63
Careless, J.M.S.: 38
Castle, Geoffrey: 70
Chiel, Arthur A.: 9, 22, 66, 67
Davies, Alan: 71, 82
Draper, Paula Jean: 16, 21, 65
Feldman, Anna: 54
Fuerstenberg, Adam G.: 14, 49
Gelman, Susan: 81
Goldberg, David H.: 61
Hayes, Saul: 4
Herstein, Harvey: 17
Indig, Sheldon: 29, 31
Jaenen, Cornelius J.: 3
Katz, Yossi: 44
Kayfetz, B.G.: 5, 30, 33, 62
Land, Brian: 13
Lazar, M.M.: 51
Leonoff, Cyril Edel: 69
Levin, Martin: 68
Levitt, Cyril : 75
Lipinsky, Jack: 56, 79
Mann, Harvey: 73
Medjuck, Sheva: 51
Meirovich, Harvey: 12
Meyer, Marion E.: 58
Miller, Evelyn: 18, 41
Milner, Elizabeth Hearn: 57
Nefsky, Judith: 72
Nefsky, Marilyn Felcher: 71, 82
Pennacchio, Luigi G.: 77
Raben, Harvey A.: 84
Rome, David: 2, 19
Rothman, Eugene: 20
Sarna, Jonathan D.: 32, 45, 64
Schild, Rabbi Erwin: 47
Schlesinger, Rachel: 83
Schoenfeld, Stuart: 48, 78
Sefton, Victor W.: 1, 15, 23
Segall, Harold N.: 53
Shaffir, William: 75
Shamai, Shmuel: 85
Sohn, Herbert A.: 39
Speisman, Stephen A.: 42, 6, 7
Starkman, Mel: 50
Stern, Moshe S.: 34
Stren, Sadie: 46
Tischler, Fred: 60
Trachtenberg, Henry: 36
Usiskin, Roz: 37
Zola, Gary P.: 76

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SUBJECTS

Anti-Semitism and Jewish-Christian relations: 3, 36, 28, 56, 66, 71, 82.

Atlantic Canada: 51

British Columbia: 68, 69, 70

Education: 2, 77, 84, 85

Historiography, Historical Societies and Archives: 15, 24, 32, 45, 70

Holocaust: 23, 71, 82

Human and Civil Rights: 10, 29, 31, 39, 75, 81

Immigration and Refugees: 11, 16, 21, 22, 65, 76, 79

Israel/Palestine (see also Zionism): 44, 52, 60, 61, 80

Manitoba: 9, 10

Montreal: 2, 40, 53, 64, 73, 76

Ontario: 19, 39, 46, 58, 78

Religious and Community Institutions and Leadership: 12, 17, 33, 34, 68, 72, 79, 83

Toronto: 12, 50, 62, 74, 77, 84, 85

Western Canada: 11, 35, 54

Winnipeg: 17, 34, 36, 37, 44, 67

Zionism (see also Israel/Palestine): 83, 85

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BOOKS REVIEWED (according to author of book)

Abella, Irving and Harold Troper. None is Too Many. Reviewed by Robert Bothwell. 63

Dunkelman, Ben. Dual Allegiance, An Autobiography. Reviewed by.Eugene Rothman. 20

Gutkin, Harry. Journey Into Our Heritage. Reviewed by Stephen A. Speisman. 42

Koch, Erich. Deemed Suspect-- A Wartime Blunder. Reviewed by Rabbi Erwin Schild. 47

Kurelek, William and Abraham Arnold. Jewish Life in Canada. Reviewed by Stephen Speisman. 6

Leonoff, Cyril. Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls. Reviewed by B.G. Kayfetz. 30

Meyer, Marion. The Jews of Kingston: A Microcosm of Canadian Jewry? Reviewed by Stuart Schoenfeld. 78

Paris, Erna . Jews: An Account of Their Experience in Canada. Reviewed by Stuart Schoenfeld. 48

Rottenberg, Dan. Finding Our Fathers; a Guidebook to Jewish Geneology. Reviewed by Brian Land. 13

Sack, B.G. Canadian Jews -- Early in This Century. Reviewed by Stephen Speisman. 7

Speisman, Stephen A. The Jews of Toronto: A History To 1937. Reviewed by J.M.S. Careless. 38

Torgov, Morley. A Good Place to Come From. Reviewed by Adam Fuerstenberg. 14