Who Gets In
eBook - ePub

Who Gets In

An Immigration Story

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Who Gets In

An Immigration Story

About this book

An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man's battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies. In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to escape persecution and the rise of Nazism in the hopes of starting a new life for himself and his family. Like countless others who made this journey from "non-preferred" countries, Eisenstein was only granted entry because he claimed to be single, starting his new life with a lie. He trusted that his wife and children would be able to follow after he had gained legal entry and found work. For years, he was given two choices: remain in North America alone, or return home to Poland to be with his family. Born from years of archival research, Who Gets In is author Norman Ravvin's deeply personal family memoir, telling the story of his grandfather's resolute struggle against xenophobic and anti-Semitic government policies. Ravvin also provides a shocking exposé of the true character of nation-building in Canada and directly challenges its reputation as a benevolent, tolerant, and multicultural country.

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Table of contents

  1. Part
  2. ONE
  3. Another Ship, Another Time
  4. Leaving
  5. “Pure Russian, Jew, German”
  6. Oh, Ottawa
  7. Go West, Slowly West, Knowing Nothing at All
  8. Coming Forward, from Radzanów
  9. Dysart, Saskatchewan, Capital of the Forgotten West
  10. The Bennett Years
  11. The Immigration Files: The Heart of the Matter
  12. At Hirsch on the Southeastern Borderlands
  13. How to Become a Character in a Canadian Novel
  14. The Immigration Path, Dark and Twisted
  15. Enter the Great Lady
  16. The Train I Ride
  17. Going to the Archives
  18. You Come from Far Away: The Danzig Story
  19. Last Thoughts upon Leaving
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Sources Cited and Consulted
  22. Illustration Credits