Communal Solidarity

Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg's Jewish Community, 1882-1930
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-88755-837-5
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Studies in Immigration and Culture

Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of communal solidarity that dealt with the pervasive problem of economic insecurity by providing financial relief to their members. The organization of mutual aid societies accelerated the development of a vibrant secular public sphere in Winnipeg's Jewish community in which decisions about the provision of social welfare were decided democratically based on the authority and participation of the people. Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg's Jewish Community, 1882-1930 looks at the development of Winnipeg's Jewish community and the network of institutions and organizations they established to provide income assistance, health care, institutional care for children and the elderly, and immigrant aid to reunite families. Communal solidarity enabled the Jewish community to establish and sustain a system of social welfare that assisted thousandsof immigrants to adjust to an often inhospitable city and build new lives in Canada. Arthur Ross's study of the formation of Winnipeg's Jewish community is not only the first history of the societies, institutions, and organizations Jewish immigrants created, it reveals how communal solidarity shaped their understanding of community life and the way decisions should be made about their collective future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, Arthur

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction
- Ch. 1 Jewish Life in the Pale of Settlement
- Ch. 2 Social Welfare and Communal Governance
- Ch. 3 Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Winnipeg
- Ch. 4 Government Charitable Assistance and the Emergence of Jewish Social Welfare
- Ch. 5 Communal Charity, Mutual Aid, and International Relief
- Ch. 6 Winnipeg's Jewish Social Welfare Institutions
- Ch. 7 “Opening the Door”: The Western Division of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Ross was born and raised in Winnipeg's North End, the historic centre of Jewish, communal solidarity. He is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Ryerson University.