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THE CANADIAN JEWISH OUTLOOK ANTHOLOGY

Henry Rosenthal and Cathy Berson.
Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 1988.
381pp., paper, $14.95.
ISBN 0-919573-67-3. cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-919573-68-1. CIP.


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Jews-Canada.


Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up

Reviewed by Joan McGraw.

Volume 17 Number 1
1989 January


The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology is a sampler of the rich intellectual fare offered the readers of that magazine (in 1986 renamed Outlook: Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine ) in its first twenty-five years of publication as "the only Anglo-Jewish pro-socialist magazine in Canada."

The content, nearly one hundred articles, editorials, reviews, profiles, graphics, poems, salutes to honoured members of the community, etc., is grouped under the following headings: "The Canadian Jewish Experience," "Secular Humanism," "Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust." "Peace and Disarmament " "Israel and the Middle East," "Yiddish Literature," "Culture," 'Women," and "Canadian Political Issues and Jews on the Left."

The articles offer a retrospective view of the thinking, concerns and comments of a powerful and influential ethnic community over a quarter century of stirring times on topics and issues that now, as then, fill the headlines of the world's newspapers.

Well-written and extremely readable, thought-provoking material for many a profitable debate and discussion for students of political history, labour studies, and Canadian Jewish social and political history.


Joan McGraw, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, ON.
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