Thursday April 7, 2011
Dr. Norman Ravvin will introduce Harold Troper at the Jewish Public Library for a lecture sponsored by the Tauben Family Foundation of the JPL.
In his lecture, Harold Troper, author of The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s, will recall how events of the 1960s – the Quiet Revolution, the election of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, the 1967 Six Day War and the birth of the Soviet Jewry campaign – dramatically altered the organized Canadian Jewish community agenda and remade what it meant to be a Jew in Canada. Harold Troper is an author and historian at the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the University of Toronto. Among his acclaimed books is the co-authored None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948.