A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Ester Reiter
ISBN 10: 1771130164 ISBN 13: 9781771130165
Published by Between the Lines
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Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals.A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity their identity as Jews with their internationalist class politics.
About the Author: Ester Reiter is a professor emerita in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University. The research for this book was adapted by director Ruth Howard of Jumblies Theatre for a play calledOy di Velt (Oh the World) first performed at Camp Naivelt and then remounted at Mayworks in 2009. Reiter is the author ofMaking Fast Food: From the Frying Pan to the Fryer.
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Title: A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise ...
Publisher: Between the Lines
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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