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GIL KEZWER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
as their native tongue, and who,
uebec separatists claim
in a reflection of the larger An-
that Canada's French-
glo-French tensions, have felt
speaking province is a
discriminated against by Eng-
"distinct society" sepa-
lish-speaking Jews. There are
rate by language and culture
also 4,000 newcomers from the
from the rest of the nation.
former Soviet Union, 4,000 Is-
The reality is more complex.
raelis and even a few dozen
The province of 6.9-million peo-
Ethiopians.
ple is itself two parallel societies.
However, it is the 8,000 Yid-
The first is the homogenous
francophone, Ro-
man Catholic
majority, cen-
tered around the
provincial capi-
tal Quebec City.
The second is
Montreal, a cos-
mopolitan bilin-
gual English/
French metrop-
olis of 3 million
— including al-
most 97,000
Jews who also
defy easy cate-
gorization, and
who are subject
to an unhealthy
dose of xenopho-
bia and ethno-
centrism, if not
occasional out-
right anti-Semi-
tism.
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dish-speaking
Chasidim
who
the Council of Jewish Federa-
are often the focus of French
tion's 62nd annual General As-
Canadian irritation.
sembly opened in Montreal,
One settlement of Tascher
bringing about 3,000 lay and
Chasidim is cloistered in Bois-
professional leaders of North
briand, a rural colony beyond
American Jewry to a city where
the island of Montreal. Mem-
the growing strength of the sep-
bers of the other 11 sects — in-
aratists threatens Canada's uni-
cluding Lubavitch, Ger, Belz
ty and the future of the city's
and Vishnitz — live in several
still-vibrant Jewish communi-
once impoverished inner city
ty.
neighborhoods most Jews aban-
Religious prejudice com-
doned in a wave of postwar
pounded by the fractious lan-
affluence for distance English-
guage issue has caused some
speaking suburbs like Cote St.
French Quebecers to question
Luc, Chomedey and Dollard des
Jews' loyalty.
Ormeaux.
Most Montreal Jews are sec-
In the municipality of Out-
ond- and third-generation
remont, (population 24,500)
Ashkenazim of the sort written
Chasidim make up 11 percent
about by Mordecai Richler in
of the town. La Presse, a Mon-
his satirical, 1959 novel The Ap-
treal daily newspaper, ran a
prenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
front-page story in 1988 head-
Many are Holocaust survivors
lined, "Outremont se decouvre
and their descendants.
unproblemejuif " ("Outremont
But the community also in-
discovers a 'Jewish problem' ")
cludes 20,000 North African
in which the Chasidim were de-
Sephardim who speak French
scribed as a "bizarre minority"
Gil Keiser lives in Toronto and
with the men "in 'pigtails,' all in
writes widely about Jewish
black, like 'bogeymen,' " and the
issues.
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like onions."
A year later, a local politician
and one-time Quebec Libera-
tion Front terrorist attacked the
Belzer Chasidim for inviting
their leader, Rebbe Issachar
Dov Rokeach, for a visit that
overlapped with the celebration
of the Fete St. Jean Baptiste,
Quebec's national holiday.
However,
Chasidim are
not the only
Jews who upset
the French sep-
aratists. A re-
cent incident
proved that you
don't even have
to be Jewish to
be the object of
the ire.
Catholic
writer and polit-
ical scientist Es-
ther Delisle set
off a furor by ex-
posing the late
Abbe Lionel
Groulx — an
icon of Quebec
nationalists —
as an unrepen-
tant fascist ide-
ologue.
• '' •
In The Trai-

tor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism
and extremist right-wing na-
tionalism. in French Canada
from 1929-1939, Ms. Delisle
wrote that Groulx greatly ad-
mired Mussolini's Italy and
Hitler's Germany and advocat-
ed Nazi-like notions of racial
purity and anti-Semitism.
Despite her book, Mr. Groulx
remains a hero in Quebec. His
name graces a subway station
in Montreal, streets in various
towns and cities across the
province, a mountain and col-
lege buildings. "It's in poor
taste," Ms. Delisle says.
"There's no metro station in
Rome named after Mussolini."
A year earlier, Mr. Richler —
who's own Judaism is of a high-
ly assimilated sort — drew anti-
Semitic-tinged criticism with
his 1992 bestseller Oh Canada!
Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a. Di-
vided Country. The book blast-
ed Quebec society as tribalistic,
prompting several nationalist
politicians to demand that Mr.
Richler's diatribe be banned as
hate propaganda.

