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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University. However, Seeley's struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health revolution still resonates.

Social reformers --- Reformers --- Mental health --- 1950s. --- 1960s. --- Canadian Education. --- Canadian Jewish history. --- Canadian Jews. --- Canadian social science. --- Education. --- Eugenics. --- Historiography. --- Home Children. --- Jewish History. --- John R Friedeberg Seeley. --- Mental Health Movement. --- Mental Health. --- Pop Sociologist. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Sociology. --- Suicide in the Military. --- Toronto Star. --- academic biographies. --- anti-Semitism. --- antisemitism in Canada. --- antisemitism. --- social science. --- Seeley, John R. --- Mental health. --- York University (Toronto, Ont.) --- Friedeberg-Seeley, John R. --- Toronto (Ont.). --- Université York --- York University --- York University (Downsview, Ont.) --- York University (North York, Ont.)

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Creating the Chupah assesses the role of Canadian Zionist organizations in the drive for communal unity within Canadian Jewry in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Two strands of Zionism, represented respectively by the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada and Poale Zion, were often in conflicts that reflected greater disputes. The book also describes Zionist activities within the larger spectrum of Canadian Jewish life. Montreal was at the time the "capital" of Canadian Jewry, but the Jewish communities of Toronto and Winnipeg also played a significant role in these events. Srebrnik here makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Zionism and twentieth-century Jewish life in Canada.

Zionism --- Jews --- Jews, Canadian. --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Canadian Jews --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers--Po'alei Zion. --- Canada --- Ethnic relations --- History --- Alṿelṭlikher Yudisher sotsyalisṭisher arbayṭerferband Poyle-Tsiyen --- Poale-Zion --- Poʻale Tsiyon --- Berit ha-ʻolamit ha-sotsyalisṭit shel ha-poʻalim ha-Yehudiyim Poʻale-Tsiyon --- Alṿelṭlikher Yidisher sotsyalisṭisher arbayṭer ferband Poyle-Tsiyen --- World Socialist Union of Jewish Laborers Poʻale Zion --- Alṿelṭlikher Idisher sotsyalisṭisher arbayṭer-farband Poyle-Tsiyen --- World Confederation of Poale Zion --- פועלי ציון --- פועלי-ציון (לינקע) --- World Union of Poalei Zion--Hitachdut --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- Καναδάς --- Канада --- קאנאדע --- קנדה --- كندا --- کانادا --- カナダ --- 加拿大 --- 캐나다 --- Lower Canada --- Upper Canada --- Kaineḍā