Jews is a compassionate exploration of the lives of Jewish immigrants, their children, and their grandchildren from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing upon archival research and taped interviews, Erna Paris's account of the Jewish experience in Canada documents the half-remembered stories of immigration with new evidence. Jews tells how the larger events of world history profoundly affected the lives of those who immigrated and describes the struggle of the first generation to establish themselves. It is also about the conflict between generations as the elders held tenaciously to Old World values and traditions which their children did their best to reject. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the larger questions of cultural assimilation, of the struggle to hold on the richness of the past, and the ongoing process of incorporating the past into the present.

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"...quite simply the best book ever written about Canadian Jews."

— Larry Zolf, The Montreal Gazette

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Editions

CANADA: Macmillan of Canada, 1980, ISBN 0-7715-9574-3