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Jews as Symbols and Reality in Multicultural Canada

April 15, 2011 | Prof. Julien Bauer

The growth of Canada's Jewish population has followed the pattern of Canada's development: a shift from east to west. Until the mid-twentieth century, Montreal was the center of Canadian Jewish life; today that role is played by Toronto. About half of Canada's Jews reside in Toronto, a quarter in Montreal, and the rest in smaller communities such as Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Canadian Jewry Today: Portrait of a Community in the Process of Change

September 15, 2006 | Prof. Ira Robinson

The Canadian Jewish community is now one of the more significant contemporary diaspora Jewish communities, numbering approximately 364,000. It is one of the few communities that is growing demographically. The most important trend in Canadian Jewry in the past decades is the rise of Toronto to preeminent status in terms of Jewish population and the concomitant decline of Montreal.

The Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Montreal: Models and Dilemmas of Ethnic Match

November 1, 1996 | Prof. Morton Weinfeld

The Foundation Documents of the Jewish Community Council (Vaad Ha’Ir) of Montreal

October 20, 1996