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Antisemitism 

Thoughts on French and Catholic Anti-Semitism 

The Winnipeg Jewish Community in the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939: Anti-Semitism and Politics 

When Anti-Semitism Bowed to Sportsmanship: Rubinstein and the Czar's Policemen 

The Christie Pits Riot: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Ethnic Violence — Toronto, August 16, 1933 

Atlantic Canada 

In the Beginning: A Brief History of Jews in Atlantic Canada 

British Columbia 

The Founding and Restoration of Canada’s Oldest Surviving Synagogue: A Different Jewish History 

Pioneer Jewish Merchants of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 

British Columbia’s Provincial Archives and the Province’s Jews 

Education 

The Political Consequences of the Jewish School Question, Montreal, 1925-1933 

A Meshamud at the University of Toronto 

The Defense of Identity: Ida Siegel and the Jews of Toronto Versus the Assimilation Attempts of the Public School and its Allies, 1900-1920 

Bringing Order to Chaos: The Centralization of Jewish Education in Toronto 

The Jews and the Public Education System: The Students' Strike over the "Flag Fight" in Toronto after the First World War 

Historiography 

A Look at Jewish Canadiana 

Immigration 

Jewish Immigration to Western Canada in the 1880's 

The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part 1 

The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part 2 

The Politics of Refugee Immigration: The Pro-Refugee Lobby and the Interned Refugees, 1940-1944 

The Apprenticeship of an Executive Director: M. A. Solkin, A. J. Paull, and the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada 

Medicine 

How "Numerus Clausus" was Ended in the Manitoba Medical School 

Hiram Nahum Vineberg, 1857–1945 

Stories of and About Goldbloom, Goldblatt, Greenspan, and Gross: "The Four G's" of the McGill Medicine Class of 1916 

Bishop’s Medical Faculty, 1871-1905: Its Jewish Dean Aaron Hart David, and its Jewish Students 

Ontario 

The Rise and Decline of a Toronto Synagogue: Congregation Beth Am 

Human Rights Laws in Ontario: The Role of the Jewish Community 

The Brantford Jewish Community, 1881-1911 

The Jews of Kingston: A Comparative Study of Organized and Non-Affiliated Jews (a Preliminary Report) 

The Toronto Yiddish Press 

The Christie Pits Riot: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Ethnic Violence — Toronto, August 16, 1933 

Human Rights Laws in Ontario: The Role of the Jewish Community 

The Defense of Identity: Ida Siegel and the Jews of Toronto Versus the Assimilation Attempts of the Public School and its Allies, 1900-1920 

Anatomy of a Failed Strike: The T. Eaton Co. Lockout of Clockmakers ,1912 

Bringing Order to Chaos: The Centralization of Jewish Education in Toronto 

The Jews and the Public Education System: The Students' Strike over the "Flag Fight" in Toronto after the First World War 

Political Activity 

Ezekiel Hart and the Oath Problem in the Assembly of Lower Canada 

Canadian Jewry and their Struggle for an Exemption in the Federal Lord's Day Act of 1906, Part 1 

Canadian Jewry and their Struggle for an Exemption in the Federal Lord's Day Act of 1906, Part 2 

Saul Hayes: A Tribute 

The Winnipeg Jewish Community in the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939: Anti-Semitism and Politics 

The Poet and the Tycoon: The Relationship between A. M. Klein and Samuel Bronfman 

The Prehistory of the Founding of the Canadian Jewish Congress 

Prairies 

Manitoba Jewish History: Early Times 

Jewish Immigration to Western Canada in the 1880's 

Jewish Religious Leadership in Winnipeg, 1900–1963 

Notes on Some of the First Jews West of Ontario 

Communal Problem Solving: The Winnipeg "VA'AD HA'IR," 1946 

The Jewish Farm Settlements of Saskatchewan: From "New Jerusalem" to Edenbridge 

The Winnipeg Jewish Community in the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939: Anti-Semitism and Politics 

Continuity and Change: The Jewish Experience in Winnipeg’s North End, 1900–1914 

The Plans and Efforts of the Jews of Winnipeg to Purchase Land and to Establish an Agricultural Settlement in Palestine before World War One 

Sonnenfeld—Elements of Survival and Success of a Jewish Farming Community on the Prairies, 1905–1939 

Winnipeg Tales 

Pre-Confederation Canada 

Enter the Jew 

Hermann Landau's Canadian Dream 

Ezekiel Hart and the Oath Problem in the Assembly of Lower Canada 

Quebec 

The Political Consequences of the Jewish School Question, Montreal, 1925-1933 

From Heterogeneity to Consensus: The Jewish Community of Montreal 

Thoughts on French and Catholic Anti-Semitism 

Are the Jews of Quebec an Endangered Species? 

“Our Distant Brethren": Alexander Harkavy on Montreal Jews, 1888 

The Jew of St. Denis: An Introduction 

“You are in Canada Now": Zvi Hirsch Masliansky on Montreal Jews, 1898 

Synagogues & Religious Life 

The Rise and Decline of a Toronto Synagogue: Congregation Beth Am 

Jewish Religious Leadership in Winnipeg, 1900–1963 

Ezekiel Hart and the Oath Problem in the Assembly of Lower Canada 

Canadian Jewry and their Struggle for an Exemption in the Federal Lord's Day Act of 1906, Part 1 

Canadian Jewry and their Struggle for an Exemption in the Federal Lord's Day Act of 1906, Part 2 

Communal Problem Solving: The Winnipeg "VA'AD HA'IR," 1946 

The Founding and Restoration of Canada’s Oldest Surviving Synagogue: A Different Jewish History 

United States 

The Canadian Connections of an American Jew: The Case of Mordecai Noah 

The Value of Canadian Jewish History to the American Jewish Historian and Vice-Versa 

“Our Distant Brethren": Alexander Harkavy on Montreal Jews, 1888 

“You are in Canada Now": Zvi Hirsch Masliansky on Montreal Jews, 1898 

Women 

Volunteers for a Dream 

WWI & the Holocaust 

The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part 1 

The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, Part 2 

The European Holocaust: Who Knew What and When, the Canadian Aspect 

"The Agony of Israel": Watson Kirkconnel and Canadian Jewry 

The Politics of Refugee Immigration: The Pro-Refugee Lobby and the Interned Refugees, 1940-1944 

The United Church and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era, 1933-1945 

The Church of England in Canada and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era

Yiddish

The Toronto Yiddish Press 

“Our Distant Brethren": Alexander Harkavy on Montreal Jews, 1888 

“You are in Canada Now": Zvi Hirsch Masliansky on Montreal Jews, 1898 

Zionism, Israel & the Middle East 

The Plans and Efforts of the Jews of Winnipeg to Purchase Land and to Establish an Agricultural Settlement in Palestine before World War One 

"Illegal" Corvettes: Canadian Blockade Runners to Palestine, 1946-1949 

Canada, the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 

Interest Groups and Foreign Policy Making: Canada and Palestine, 1946–1948 

Canada and the Middle East Question at the United Nations