Tulchinsky shows that Salsberg, and many of his contemporaries, supported the Jewish Left both because of its commitment to social justice and its role in preserving secular Jewish culture through the medium of Yiddish. Their support for the cpc and the ussr was also inspired by both class and ethnic loyalties. Such great hopes explain the bitterness and disillusionment felt by many Jews once they learned that not only were the Bolsheviks not committed to helping Soviet Jews to maintain their distinct ethnic identity, but some of their leaders were anti-Semites, quite willing on occasion to exploit anti-Semitism to shift the blame for Soviet problems onto the Jews.
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In , for example, he was briefly expelled from the party for resisting its bolshevization. Soon, however, he submitted to party discipline.
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Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. Detailing Salsberg's time as an influential Toronto alderman and member of the Ontario legislature, the book also examines his dramatic break with communism and his embrace of a new career in journalism. Tulchinsky employs historical sources not used before to explain how Salsberg's family life and surrounding religious and social milieu influenced his evolution as a Zionist, an important labour union leader, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and a prominent member of Toronto's Jewish community.
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Although this book is really for a select number of people interested I can highly recommend this book. He spoke their language, fought for them when no one else would, and seemed to know everyone. He was the classic ethnic politician. There was scarcely a national issue in the twentieth century in which JB did not play a pivotal part.
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And as Tulchinsky points out, his ideological positions often changed dramatically. But so did Canadian society, and Salsberg was constantly struggling to reconcile his Communism with policies that he knew were necessary to advance the interests of workers, Jews, blacks, and others he cared about but that were often contrary to party ideology. It was a struggle he ultimately lost, and he resigned from the party in the s and devoted the rest of his life to Jewish cultural activities and campaigning for Israel. His is a fascinating story, and Tulchinsky is up to it.
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As the author of several books and articles on Canadian Jewry, he was the perfect choice to tackle the biography of one man whose life mirrors the immigrant Jewish experience in Canada in the last century. Yet this did not prevent him from undertaking unforgiveable acts of deception.
He is probably right. This book is an important reminder of why, to two generations of Toronto Jews, Salsberg was a folk hero. They saw him as their champion.