Ester Reiter speaking on A Future Without Hate or Need in Montreal
The Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and The Museum of Jewish Montreal present a celebration of the A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity—their identity as Jews—with their internationalist class politics.