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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
My Life at Cheder
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Relates the author's memories of the traditional Jewish children's school '(cheder)' in Toronto where he studied Hebrew, Yiddish, and Judaism for over six years beginning in 1924. [B. Rivers]Keywords: BiographiesTorontoKayfetz BenJewsYear of publication: 1989Export options:On Community Relations in Ontario in the 1940s
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A personal memoir of a member of the Canadian Jewish Congress that recounts the efforts to gain political support from Premier Leslie Frost for the passage of a fair employment law in Ontario that ...Keywords: BiographiesKayfetz BenJewsLabour LawYear of publication: 1994Export options:The Christie Pits Riot: a Case Study in the Dynamics of Ethnic Violence - Toronto, August 16, 1933
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A violent riot in which Jews and anti-Semites clashed in a Toronto softball park culminated a series of incidents involving the provocative use of the swastika symbol by young gentiles.Keywords: TorontoJewsAnti-SemitismYear of publication: 1985Export options:The Toronto Yiddish Press
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Describes the history of Yiddish newspapers in Toronto, Ontario.Keywords: TorontoNewspapersJewsYiddishYear of publication: 1983Export options: