Placed Upon the Landscape, Casting Shadows: Jewish Canadian Monuments and Other Forms of Memory

Placed Upon the Landscape, Casting Shadows: Jewish Canadian Monuments and Other Forms of Memory

This essay explores monuments, including the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, and gravestones in Jewish cemeteries in Montreal and Vancouver. Alongside these sites it considers how Canadian Jewish literature presents possibilities for Jewish history and language to mark the Canadian landscape...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Norman Ravvin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries 2021-05-01
Series:	Canadian Jewish Studies
Online Access:	https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40212

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