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  • 标题:Negotiating Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Historiography: Arthur A. Chiel and The Jews of Manitoba: A Social History
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  • 作者:Richard Menkis
  • 期刊名称:Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
  • 印刷版ISSN:1916-0925
  • 出版年度:2002
  • 卷号:10
  • 出版社:Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
  • 摘要:In this paper, Richard Menkis analyzes the production and reception of the earliest scholarly monograph in Canadian Jewish history. By examining Chiel’s intellectual formation, Menkis suggests that in his early communal work Chiel consciously chose a positive attitude which sought to combat despair, and that he brought that sensibility to his historical writing. Menkis also examines the context of the production of the narrative, namely the re-conception of Manitoba as a polyethnic society and the interest in ethnic histories at the Manitoba Historical Society. One of the major emphases in the Society was to show the “contributions” of the ethnic groups, which reinforced Chiel’s inclination to ignore unhappy subjects, such as antisemitism. Although Chiel studied a number of factors in the development of the Jewish community, he also reproduced some of the “blind-spots” of other histories, especially the role of left-wing politics. Not surprisingly, he was harshly criticized by those who had been excised from the history. Chiel’s work is thus also a product of a postwar climate in which the government began to encourage the engagement of ethnic groups with the society at large, but on certain conditions.
  • 其他摘要:In this paper, Richard Menkis analyzes the production and reception of the earliest scholarly monograph in Canadian Jewish history. By examining Chiel’s intellectual formation, Menkis suggests that in his early communal work Chiel consciously chose a positive attitude which sought to combat despair, and that he brought that sensibility to his historical writing. Menkis also examines the context of the production of the narrative, namely the re-conception of Manitoba as a polyethnic society and the interest in ethnic histories at the Manitoba Historical Society. One of the major emphases in the Society was to show the “contributions” of the ethnic groups, which reinforced Chiel’s inclination to ignore unhappy subjects, such as antisemitism. Although Chiel studied a number of factors in the development of the Jewish community, he also reproduced some of the “blind-spots” of other histories, especially the role of left-wing politics. Not surprisingly, he was harshly criticized by those who had been excised from the history. Chiel’s work is thus also a product of a postwar climate in which the government began to encourage the engagement of ethnic groups with the society at large, but on certain conditions.
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