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In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930, introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. Most studies of the early North American rabbinate focus on only one rabbi. Here, though, Robinson carefully examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal "turf." He has diligently researched the unpublished source material these men, generally forgotten to history, left behind. Their writing offers a valuable glimpse at some of the struggles and challenges they faced in their own community, as well as those faced by Canadian Jewish society as a whole in the early twentieth century. Robinson introduces the reader to such leaders as Rabbi Hirsh Cohen, a fixture in the Jewish community of Montreal from 1901 through the late 1940s, Rabbi Simon Glazer, Cohen's main rival for the chief rabbinate, and revolutionary thinker Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg. The issues they faced, such as the Kosher meat wars of the 1920s, and the institutions they created, most notably the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, were factors of fundamental importance for the development of the second-largest Jewish community in Canada.

Rabbis --- Orthodox Judaism --- Jews, East European --- Jews --- History

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Delves into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. This title introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. It examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal 'turf'.

Rabbis --- Orthodox Judaism --- Jews, East European --- Judaism --- Biography. --- History

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Delves into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. This title introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. It examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal 'turf'.

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Between the 1860s & the early 1920s, more than 2,000,000 Jews moved from Eastern Europe to the US while smaller groups moved to other destinations, such as Western Europe, Palestine, & South Africa. During & after the First World War hundreds of thousands of Jews were permanently displaced across Eastern Europe. Migration restrictions that were imposed after 1914, especially in the US, prevented most from reaching safe havens, & an unknown but substantial number of Jews perished during the Holocaust - as they had been displaced in Eastern Europe years before they were deported to ghettos & killing sites. Even after the Holocaust, tens of thousands of Jewish survivors were stranded in permanent transit for many years. 'Between Borders' tells & contextualizes the stories of these Jewish migrants & refugees before & after the First World War.

Jews, East European --- Jews, East European --- Migrations --- History --- Migrations --- History --- Europe, Eastern --- Europe, Eastern --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Emigration and immigration --- History

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Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modern.

Jews, East European --- Jews --- East European Jews --- Intellectual life. --- Germany --- Ethnic relations.