返回Google圖書搜尋

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

出版	Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1987
ISBN	08890273079780889027305
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LCZ6AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A reconstruction of life in the North End of Winnipeg before World War II through interviews with 18 persons, children of Jewish immigrants, who achieved prominence in various fields. Mentions manifestations of antisemitism, such as restrictions in employment and in residential areas and after-school beatings of Jewish children by neighborhood gangs. Mentions the numerus clausus at Manitoba Medical College and the rejection of a Jewish student to represent the University of Manitoba Debating Union. also mentions the growth of fascism in the 1930s, with Brownshirt meetings held in rural districts around Winnipeg, and the marshalling of forces in opposition which resulted in the passage of the Manitoba Defamation Act, the first group libel law in Canada.