Best of
Social-Issues
1983
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression
Lisa Schoenfielder - 1983
"Shadow does it all... It may be the most important work of feminist theory published this year."--Lammas Review
None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948
Irving Abella - 1983
Detailing the country's refusal to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1948, it is an immensely bleak and discomfiting story - and one that was largely unknown before the book's publication.Irving Abella and Harold Troper's retelling of this episode is a harrowing read not easily forgotten: its power is such that, 'a manuscript copy helped convince Ron Atkey, Minister of Employment and Immigration in Joe Clark's government, to grant 50,000 "boat people" asylum in Canada in 1979, during the Southeast Asian refugee crisis' (Robin Roger, The Literary Review of Canada). None Is Too Many will undoubtedly continue to serve as a potent reminder of the fragility of tolerance, even in a country where it is held as one of our highest values.