The "Malestrom" at Christie Pits: Jewish Masculinity and the Toronto Riot of 1933
The night of August 16, 1933 witnessed one of the most brutal riots in Canadian history. When Nazi sympathizers waved a swastika flag at a baseball game in Toronto’s Christie Pits park, Jewish players and spectators retaliated. For the next six hours, thousands of Jewish and gentile teenage boys at...
Main Author: | Monda Halpern |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries
2019-12-01
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Series: | Canadian Jewish Studies |
Online Access: | https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40141 |
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