119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy

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🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Historian Gil Troy joins the podcast to trace the remarkable story of Canadian Jewry, from its post-war flourishing in Montreal and Toronto to its current crisis of rising antisemitism and violence. We confront the “Europeanization” of Canada, the polite face of rising antisemitism, and what happens when a decent society stops defending its Jewish minority.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to a new episode of Ask Haviv Anything.
0:08.6	I'm thrilled today to have Professor Gil Troy with us, a leading historian of the United States,
0:14.4	an American presidential historian and also of Zionism. He's a senior fellow at the JPPI, the Jewish People Policy Institute,
0:22.8	which is a think tank about Jewish issues of the Jewish people in Jerusalem.
0:27.9	He's a distinguished scholar in North American history at McGill University.
0:31.6	He's the author of many books, I think eight at last count, on history.
0:38.3	Is that right?
0:39.3	No, about 15, but it's okay.
0:40.9	About 15.
0:41.7	Well, I think there's eight on my shelf.
0:44.3	That means I have more to buy.
0:47.2	Including about Zionism, he has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,
0:52.3	the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Hill, the Jewish Journal commentary.
0:56.3	Did I miss one?
0:57.3	It's all good.
0:58.3	I missed a few.
0:59.3	And he is a sought-after historian and teacher.
1:03.1	And today we're going to take this time with Gil to dive deeper into the history of Canadian
1:10.1	Jewry. We've done an episode on that. Wow, did we get
1:13.9	emails? There is an incredible tension in Canadian Jury that we immediately saw in the responses.
1:21.3	And they were really rich and good and interesting and important responses. And we're going to
1:25.6	keep talking about Canadian Jury because Canadian Jury are going through a very difficult time right now. And And we're going to keep talking about Canadian juror because Canadian
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