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Pierre Anctil

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.

Books by Pierre Anctil

Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871–2021

Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille

History of the Jews in Quebec

Quebec in the Mid-Sixties

À Québec au cœur des années 1960

A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People

Jacob Isaac Segal

Saint-Laurent, Montreal's Main

New Readings of Yiddish Montreal - Traduire le Montréal yiddish

Through the Eyes of the Eagle

Un Homme Grand

Un Homme Grand