Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
77,1 (1987) 106-134
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Ukrainians Attitudes
;
Ukrainians Relations with Jews
;
War crime trials
;
Nazis History
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews, East European
;
Canada Emigration and immigration
;
Canada Ethnic relations
;
Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Discusses the incompatible historical narratives which shape the self-definition of the Ukrainian and Jewish polities - for Ukrainians the denial of a legitimate homeland, and for Jews the experience of the Holocaust - and explores the basis for their feeling that each was the cause of the other's suffering in Eastern Europe. Reviews efforts to improve relations between the two communities initiated in the 1970s, and also how the issue of Nazi war criminals in Canada derailed these attempts. Mentions the role of the Canadian Jewish Congress in both issues. Surveys attempts by Canadian Jewish groups in the 1950s-80s to effect a change in Canadian legislation to allow prosecution of Nazi war criminals, and reasons why the government refused any change until 1985 when the Deschênes Commission was established following instigation by Sol Littman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Note:
Another version appeared as "Jewish-Ukrainian relations in Canada since World War II and the Nazi war criminal issue" in "Antisemitism in Canada" (1992) 279-300. That version also appeared in "The Jews in Canada" (1993) 193-217 and in the many subsequent editions up to 2010.
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