Overview

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.

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Author:   David Fraser ,  The Osgoode Society
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9781442630482

ISBN 10:   1442630485
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   02 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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, Cote Saint-Luc: Democracy, Law, and the End of the Jewish School Question Chapter 14: Constituting Canada and the Jewish School Question in Montreal

Reviews

"‘With the appearance of Fraser’s Honorary Protestants, I can refer to a full legal history of the topic that is exhaustive in its attention to detail. The book is extensively researched and forcefully argued.’ -- Roderick MacLeod * Canadian Jewish Studies vol 24:2016 * ‘Honorary Protestants is an impeccably researched history of the tensions, contexts, and meanings of the struggles to delineate how, in what manner, and with which accommodations Jewish children were schooled in the Montreal public school system.’ -- David S. Koffman * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 86:03:2017 * ""Honorary Protestants is a valuable new contribution to educational history that should appeal to all historians in Canada interested in understanding the intricate links between law, policy, and the social realities of public schooling. Fraser’s study is a welcome addition to educational history, and has set new standards for research into the legal underpinnings of mass schooling. It will serve students and senior scholars well in the years to come."" -- Anthony Di Mascio, Bishop's University * History of Intellectual Culture, vol 11 1 *"

'With the appearance of Fraser's Honorary Protestants, I can refer to a full legal history of the topic that is exhaustive in its attention to detail. The book is extensively researched and forcefully argued.' -- Roderick MacLeod Canadian Jewish Studies vol 24:2016

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

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