Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community

Pp. 24-29 relate the opposition of the French Canadians of Lower Canada (later Quebec) to the election of Ezekiel Hart, a Jew, to the Legislative Assembly in 1807-08; the election was repealed under the pretext that Hart could not take the oath upon the Gospels. Pp. 61-80 deal with the R.G. Dun and Co. credit report of 1852, which listed defamatory characteristics for all but one Jewish businessmen in Montreal and Toronto. Pp. 96-101 give an overview of the antisemitic politics in Russia in the late 19th century. Pp. 147-150 show the antisemitic reactions of the French Canadian press in Montreal to the Dreyfus case. Ch. 12 (pp. 231-254), "Is It Good for the Jews?", discusses antisemitism in Canada in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, particularly the ideas of Goldwin Smith; pp. 250-253 deal with the Plamondon case in 1910-13 in Quebec City.