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A biography of communist Joseph Baruch Salsberg is presented. He was born in 1902 in Lagov, Poland and had immigrated to Canada in 1913 with his parents. In his 30-year career in the Labor-Progressive Party of Canada (LPP), he and several Jewish radicals propagated the notion that communism results in a better world and provides solution to several problems including the Jewish question. According to Salsberg, antisemitism is prevalent in the Soviet Union.
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The article reviews the book, "Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1990," by Valerie Knowles.
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This article reviews the book, "The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning, 1762-1914," by Robert A. Rockway.
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This article reviews the book, "Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor: The London Clothing Trades, 1860-1914," by James A. Schmiechen.
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Discusses the death of nine workers due to the flash fire at Phillips garment factory in Toronto on 20 January 1950, which resulted in a public inquiry. Concludes with six short poems in memory of the workers.
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Tulchinsky introduces this reprint of "From the American scene: May Day in Toronto," by Ben Lappin. Originally published in Commentary in May 1955. Lappin's article portrays the annual May Day celebration of Toronto's working-class Jewish community at a time of generational transition.
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This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community. His life trajectory mirrored many of the most significant transformations in Canadian political and social life in the twentieth century. Award-winning historian Gerald Tulchinsky traces Salsberg’s personal and professional journey – from his entrance into Toronto’s oppressive garment industry at age 14, which led to his becoming active in emerging trade unions, to his rise through the ranks of the Communist Party of Canada and the Workers’ Unity League. Detailing Salsberg’s time as an influential Toronto alderman and member of the Ontario legislature, the book also examines his dramatic break with communism and his embrace of a new career in journalism. Tulchinsky employs historical sources not used before to explain how Salsberg’s family life and surrounding religious and social milieu influenced his evolution as a Zionist, an important labour union leader, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and a prominent member of Toronto’s Jewish community. --Publisher's description
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This thesis purports to be a narrative account of the factors leading up to the building of the Lachine Canal and the problems dealt with, while it was under construction. In his research, the author found that sources, primary and secondary, bearing directly on the canal, were scarce. This may help to explain the inability to come to more definite conclusions concerning sorne matters raised here. Hugh G.J. Aitken's Welland Canal Company often served as a guidepost while this work was in progress. Although the author found it impossible to emulate that excellent study, it is hoped that this thesis will cast sorne light on an unexplored area of Canadian economie history.
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The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada underwent the transformative experience of separating from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality." "Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky describes the struggle against antisemitism and the search for a livelihood among the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion. --Publisher's description
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