Honorary Protestants

The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997

David Fraser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

536 Seiten

2015
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-3048-2 (ISBN)

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When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary Protestants,” based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities. In the face of the constitution’s exclusionary language, all parties gave their compromise a legal form which was frankly unconstitutional, but unavoidable if Jewish children were to have access to public schools. Bargaining in the shadow of the law, they made their own constitution long before the formal constitutional amendment of 1997 finally put an end to the issue.

In Honorary Protestants, David Fraser presents the first legal history of the Jewish school question in Montreal. Based on extensive archival research, it highlights the complex evolution of concepts of rights, citizenship, and identity, negotiated outside the strict legal boundaries of the constitution.

David Fraser is a professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Constituting Law, Constituting Justice in the Jewish School Question
Chapter 2: Invoking Equality, Invoking Legality: Jews Constituting Their Canadian Identity
Chapter 3: Schools, Taxes, Jews, Catholics (and Protestants): The Origins of the Jewish School Question
Chapter 4: Jews and Roman Catholics, School Taxes and Protestants: The First Jewish School Question
Chapter 5: Taxes, the Rabbi and the Schoolboy: S 93 and the Pinsler Case
Chapter 6: Promises, Promises: “Honorary Protestants” in Protestant Schools
Chapter 7: Jews, Protestants, and Taxes (Again): The Jewish School Question in the 1920s
Chapter 8: Jews, Protestants, Roman Catholics, and the Law: The Jewish School Question Goes to Court
Chapter 9: Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics: Two Crises, and the Jewish School Question, 1928–31
Chapter 10: The Protestant Jews of Ste. Sophie and La Macaza: Constituting School and Community in Rural Quebec
Chapter 11: Outremont and Beyond: The Jewish School Question Moves West
Chapter 12: Hampstead and Beyond: From the Ghetto to Citizenship and Equality under Law’s Shadow
Chapter 13: TMR, St. Laurent, CÔte Saint-Luc: Democracy, Law, and the End of the Jewish School Question
Chapter 14: Constituting Canada and the Jewish School Question in Montreal

Reihe/Serie	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 244 mm
Gewicht	920 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4426-3048-5 / 1442630485
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-3048-2 / 9781442630482
Zustand	Neuware