Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille
Regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'UniversitÈ d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2022
- Category
- Social History, Jewish Studies, Regional Studies, Minority Studies
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- ISBN
- 9782760337534
- Publish Date
- Nov 2022
- List Price
- $31.99
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Quebec's Jewish community holds a unique political and cultural place in Canada and North America, which led to the creation of a Montreal Jewish identity distinct from those elsewhere in Canada and in the US. The post-war era to the mid 1970s saw decisive changes within the Quebec Jewish community, though it is not widely studied until now. In Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille analyzes this evolution, Quebec's sociopolitical debates and increasing contact with French-Canadian Quebecers influenced the ideological positioning of the Montreal Jewish community.
In a society largely split, on the confessional level, between Catholics and Protestants—the “two solitudes”—, Jewish activists fought for the recognition of their community and incited political players to think more broadly about what is referred to today as “togetherness.” Far from staying on the fringes of public and political spaces, several activists from the Montreal Jewish community spoke up and defended a developing Québécois society, one in which pluralism played an increasingly important role.
Preface by Pierre Anctil.
Special Citation, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards (2023)
This book is published in French.
About the authors
Simon-Pierre Lacasse's profile page
Pierre Anctil is an award-winning author, a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2012 and a full professor at the Department of History of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches contemporary Canadian history and Canadian Jewish history. He has written at length on the history of Montreal’s Jewish community and on the current debates on cultural pluralism in Canada. His most recent English-language titles are Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (2017) and A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People: Voices in Le Devoir’s Editorials, 1910–1947 (2019), both at the University of Ottawa Press.
Awards
- Winner, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards / Special Citation
Excerpt: Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille: Regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976 (by (author) Simon-Pierre Lacasse; series edited by Pierre Anctil)
« Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille invite le lecteur à envisager la période de la longue Révolution tranquille, de l’après-guerre jusqu’à l’élection du Parti québécois, du point de vue des activistes communautaires du Montréal juif. S’il est une proposition à découvrir les contributions de cette communauté à l’histoire québécoise, il permet aussi d’entrevoir la manière dont le Québec et le Canada français ont permis l’émergence d’une communauté juive singulière à Montréal. Le titre met de l’avant cette notion : il pourrait être insuffisant de parler des Juifs durant la Révolution tranquille, car la communauté est fortement issue de cette mouvance sociale et politique. »
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