dc.contributor.author	Robinson, Ira	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-24T15:19:05Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-24T15:19:05Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description	Co-published by the Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.	eng
dc.description.abstract	In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. Most studies of the early North American rabbinate focus on only one rabbi. Here, though, Robinson carefully examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal "turf." He has diligently researched the unpublished source material these men, generally forgotten to history, left behind. Their writing offers a valuable glimpse at some of the struggles and challenges they faced in their own community, as well as those faced by Canadian Jewish society as a whole in the early twentieth century. Robinson introduces the reader to such leaders as Rabbi Hirsh Cohen, a fixture in the Jewish community of Montreal from 1901 through the late 1940s, Rabbi Simon Glazer, Cohen's main rival for the chief rabbinate, and revolutionary thinker Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg. The issues they faced, such as the Kosher meat wars of the 1920s, and the institutions they created, most notably the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, were factors of fundamental importance for the development of the second-largest Jewish community in Canada.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Robinson, Ira, "Rabbis and their community: studies in the Eastern European Orthodox rabbinate in Montreal, 1896–1930". University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2007.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34623
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-681-1
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/49279
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Rabbis–Québec (Province)–Montréal– Biography	eng
dc.subject	Orthodox Judaism–Québec (Province)–Montréal–History–20th century	eng
dc.subject	Jews, East European–Québec (Province)–Montréal–Biography	eng
dc.subject	Jews–Québec (Province)–Montréal– History–20th century	eng
dc.title	Rabbis and their community: studies in the Eastern European Orthodox rabbinate in Montreal, 1896–1930	eng
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