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 thousands of 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.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-315) and index
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- 971.27/43004924
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- 23
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Introduction 10
- Chapter 1: Jewish Life in the Pale of Settlement 16
- Chapter 2: Social Welfare and Communal Governance 32
- Chapter 3: Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Winnipeg 48
- Chapter 4: Government Charitable Assistance and the Emergence of Jewish Social Welfare 90
- Chapter 5: Communal Charity, Mutual Aid, and International Relief 118
- Chapter 6: Winnipeg’s Jewish Social Welfare Institutions 158
- Chapter 7: “Opening the Door”: The Western Division of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society 206
- Conclusion 248
- Acknowledgements 254
- Notes 256
- Bibliography 312
- Illustration Credits 325
- Index 326