Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction to New Edition
Preface
Acknowledgement

1. Where They Could Not Enter
2. The Line Must Be Drawn Somewhere
3. Der Feter Yiuv ist bei uns
4. The Children Who Never Came
5. Ottawa or Bermuda? A Refugee Conference
6. In the Free and Civilized World
7. One Wailing Cry
8. A Pleasant Voyage
9. Conclusion
10. Epilogue

Afterword

Note on Sources
Notes
Index

About the Author

Irving Abella was the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and professor emeritus of history at York University.

Harold Troper is professor emeritus of education and history at the University of Toronto.

Richard Menkis is an associate professor in the Departments of History and Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor with Norman Ravvin of the Canadian Jewish Studies Reader.

David S. Koffman is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and an associate professor in the Department of History at York University.

Reviews

“A brilliant work of history.” - Leonard Dinnerstein (The Globe and Mail) “Irving Abella and Harold Troper have done a superb job of unearthing this sorry chapter in our hidden history. The general outlines were dimly known before, but by exhaustively pursuing primary sources they have documented the details with chilling precision.” - William French (The Globe and Mail) “[A] heart-rending book.” - Carol Goar (The Toronto Star) “An exceedingly powerful and detailed examination of the application of an illiberal immigration policy by an equally illiberal government so as to exclude from this country the oppressed, persecuted Jews...Abella and Troper have produced an enormously vigorous and diligently prepared description and analysis of what must be the most inhumane period in the history of Canadian immigration policy.” - Gerald E. Dirks (Canadian Journal of Political Science) “The definitive study of our pre-war treatment of Jews.” - Bob Harvey (Canadian Journal of Political Science) "If Canada and particularly its immigration policies now indeed live up to its positive image, this book was an important catalyst of the change. It remains as relevant as it was years ago." - Walter D. Kamphoefner (Society for German-American Studies)