TY - JOUR AU - Jones, Faith PY - 1998/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Between Suspicion and Censure: Attitudes towards the Jewish Left in Postwar Vancouver JF - Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes JA - CJS VL - 6 IS - 0 SE - Articles / Articles DO - 10.25071/1916-0925.19832 UR - https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/19832 SP - AB - This article examines relations between the Vancouver PeretzInstitute (VPI, a secular, Yiddish-based organization), theUnited Jewish People’s Order (UJPO, a political group withclose ties to the Communist Party of Canada), and Vancouver’smainstream Jewish community during the 1950s. Begun in themid-1940s, as Vancouver’s Jewish population was growing, theVPI and the Vancouver branches of the UJPO at first experiencedlittle hostility and much active support from the largerJewish community. In the early 1950s, under the pressures ofanti-communist fervour then sweeping the United States andCanada, Canadian Jewish Congress expelled the UJPO nationally.Later, Vancouver’s Jewish community expelled the UJPOfrom local umbrella organizations and from use of communityresources. At the same time, the VPI, seen as not sufficientlyreligious or Zionist, was denied funding through the UnitedJewish Appeal. The article looks at these events, and considersthe continuation of strained relations between the parties tothe dispute. ER -