Toronto launch of A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Join Ester Reiter for the Toronto launch of A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada.
Due to limited space please RSVP to: [email protected]
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.
Ester Reiter offers us something utterly unique in Jewish and Canadian history: an intimate portrait, wonderfully illustrated with vintage photos, of the community of Jewish progressives: building institutions, promoting education and cooperation, and living their lives within wider society, seeking to encourage a more egalitarian world.
– Paul Buhle, retired Senior Lecturer, Brown University, editor of Jews and American Popular Culture, co-editor of the nonfiction comic art volume Yiddishkeit