********************** r FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL I ONE WEEK ONLY...EXPIRES 7-8-99 FREE HOT DOGS Best's Kosher The Water Independence Day (July 4) and Canada Day ewish presence in American and Canadian history. e Jewish population in Canada. His test, Branching Out: The "innsformation of the Canadian Jewish o m munity (Stoddart; $27.95), looks at z1 - 1920s - '90s. It is a sequel to Taking !oot: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish hi , ' ommunity, which chronicles the years rom the late 1760s-1920. "Small-town Jewish communities had ne shul and tended to be Orthodox ecause that was the immigrants' way," e author says. "Canada did not have a .rge number of German immigrants, so Aere was no strong support for the eform movement. The community :e p t to the more traditional." Tulchinsky moved into his books h GERALD 11.1LCHINSICI ;, Author o. wr.arktrftelos27tini IQ* ,.., ( rom an interest as an economic histori- n. While looking into the development f the clothing manufacturing industry n Montreal, the professor realized that he story was, to a large extent, a Jewish tory because the big players — manu- acturers and the labor sector — con- ained very large percentages of Jews. "The story was not just economic," r fulchinsky says. "It involved immigra- tion, settlement and political activity nd mushroomed from there. To do his books, Tulchinsky visited Canadian archives around the country nd went to other archives in England, The United States and Israel. He focused on important themes and personalities land the impact of British and French influences as the Jewish population grew to its current 360,000, just over 1 percent of the country's population. "The Canadian Jewish community always has been distinctive because the Canadian context was different," Tulchinsky comments. "The population is o\ ,Twhelmingly British and French. Wh:.c the United States is a repubL " with a separate national personality, Canada has associated itself with the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Canadian Jewish community has not been challenged to be Canadians as the American Jewish community has been challenged to be Americans." These different national attitudes set different takes on Zionism. While support for Israel in the United States posed a question of dual loyalty, sup- port for Israel did not result in a simi- lar loyalty issue in Canada. Educational issues in Canada also were distinct. "Jews in Quebec, where the vast majority of Jews in Canada lived until 1920, faced a context unlike any they faced in North America," the author notes. "Under Canadian law, two separate school systems were estab- lished — French Catholic and the Protestant minority. When the Jewish population began to arrive in large numbers, there was no public system for them." The Jewish community had to create its own network of schools. Tulchinsky did not anticipate that his research would show how involved the Canadian- Jewish Congress would become in recruiting Jews into the military, and he writes about service personnel during World War II and the activities of Jewish chaplains. The Bronfman family, one of the most influential after becoming wealthy through the liquor business, looms large throughout the book. Louis Rasminsky, a former governor of the Bank of Canada whose position is somewhat comparable to that of Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Board, also is discussed. Tulchinsky ultimately describes how diffuse the Jewish community in Canada has become and calls it a community of communities." The Canadian Jewish Congress and the Zionists have diminished positions. Throughout the book, there are short readings and poems. "I think that poetry expresses the soul of the human experience," says Tulchinsky, who has presented academic papers at Michigan State University. 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