The Canadian Jewish Year Book for 1939-1940 was published here today under the editorship of Vladimir Grossman, author and journalist.
The volume, paper-bound and containing 352 page, includes articles on the history of Canadian Jewry, biographies of prominent Canadian Jews, a survey of world Jewry by Jacob Lestchinsky, statistical tables and a chronological record of Jewish world developments in the past year. One chapter is devoted to a survey of Jewish agricultural achievements in the United States.
The Jewish population of Canada, as of the 1931 census, is listed as 155,351, or 1.51 per cent of the total. More than 120,000 of this number reside in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. Twelve Jewish publications are listed, five of them Yiddish, including two dailies, and seven Anglo-Jewish.
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