Ebook: Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945

How Montreal's Yiddish community ensured its lasting cultural importance and influence.

In 1931, ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil