"How Montreal's Yiddish community ensured its lasting cultural importance and influence."--WorldCat.

Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.

Starting with the first steps on Canadian soil in the eighteenth century to the present day, Faces in the Crowd introduces the reader to the people and personal

Jews seeking a new life in Canada faced problems beyond those of other immigrants. Farm colonists often lived in communities too small to afford a rabbi or ritu

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to