Monda Halpern - Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case

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McGill-Queens Studies in Ethnic History
Series One: Donald Harman Akenson, Editor

1 Irish Migrants in the Canadas
A New Approach
Bruce S. Elliott (Second edition, 2004)

2 Critical Years in Immigration
Canada and Australia Compared
Freda Hawkins (Second edition, 1991)

3 Italians in Toronto
Development of a National Identity, 18751935
John E. Zucchi

4 Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs
Essays in Honour of the Sesquicentennial of the Birth of Kr. Barons
Vaira Vikis-Freibergs

5 Johan Schroders Travels in Canada, 1863
Orm Overland

6 Class, Ethnicity, and Social Inequality
Christopher McAll

7 The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
The Maori, the British, and the New Zealand Wars
James Belich

8 White Canada Forever
Popular Attitudes and Public Policy toward Orientals in British Columbia
W. Peter Ward (Third edition, 2002)

9 The People of Glengarry
Highlanders in Transition, 17451820
Marianne McLean

10 Vancouvers Chinatown
Racial Discourse in Canada, 18751980
Kay J. Anderson

11 Best Left as Indians
Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 18401973
Ken Coates

12 Such Hardworking People
Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto
Franca Iacovetta

13 The Little Slaves of the Harp
Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York
John E. Zucchi

14 The Light of Nature and the Law of God
Antislavery in Ontario, 18331877
Allen P. Stouffer

15 Drum Songs
Glimpses of Dene History
Kerry Abel

16 Louis Rosenberg
Canadas Jews
(Reprint of 1939 original) Edited by Morton Weinfeld

17 A New Lease on Life
Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada
Catharine Anne Wilson

18 In Search of Paradise
The Odyssey of an Italian Family
Susan Gabori

19 Ethnicity in the Mainstream
Three Studies of English Canadian Culture in Ontario
Pauline Greenhill

20 Patriots and Proletarians
The Politicization of Hungarian Immigrants in Canada, 19231939
Carmela Patrias

21 The Four Quarters of the Night
The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
Tara Singh Bains and Hugh Johnston

22 Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism
Colonial Guyana, 18381900
Brian L. Moore

23 Search Out the Land
The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 17401867
Sheldon J. Godfrey and Judith C. Godfrey

24 The Development of Elites in Acadian
New Brunswick, 18611881
Sheila M. Andrew

25 Journey to Vaja
Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family
Elaine Kalman Naves

McGill-Queens Studies
in Ethnic History
Series Two: John Zucchi, Editor

1 Inside Ethnic Families
Three Generations of Portuguese-Canadians
Edite Noivo

2 A House of Words
Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory
Norman Ravvin

3 Oatmeal and the Catechism
Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec
Margaret Bennett

4 With Scarcely a Ripple
Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 18801920
Randy William Widdis

5 Creating Societies
Immigrant Lives in Canada
Dirk Hoerder

6 Social Discredit
Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response
Janine Stingel

7 Coalescence of Styles
The Ethnic Heritage of St John River Valley Regional Furniture, 17631851
Jane L. Cook

8 Brigh an Orain / A Story in Every Song
The Songs and Tales of Lauchie MacLellan
Translated and edited by John Shaw

9 Demography, State and Society
Irish Migration to Britain, 19211971
Enda Delaney

10 The West Indians of Costa Rica
Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority
Ronald N. Harpelle

11 Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 19391945
Bohdan S. Kordan

12 Tortillas and Tomatoes
Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
Tanya Basok

13 Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
John G. Gibson

14 Nationalism from the Margins
The Negotiation of Nationalism and Ethnic Identities among Italian Immigrants in Alberta and British Columbia
Patricia Wood

15 Colonization and Community
The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class
John Douglas Belshaw

16 Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War
Internment in Canada during the Great War
Bohdan S. Kordan

17 Like Our Mountains
A History of Armenians in Canada
Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill

18 Exiles and Islanders
The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island
Brendan OGrady

19 Ethnic Relations in Canada
Institutional Dynamics
Raymond Breton Edited by Jeffrey G. Reitz

20 A Kingdom of the Mind
The Scots Impact on the Development of Canada
Edited by Peter Rider and Heather McNabb

21 Vikings to U-Boats
The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador
Gerhard P. Bassler

22 Being Arab
Ethnic and Religious Identity Building among Second Generation Youth in Montreal
Paul Eid

23 From Peasants to Labourers
Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada
Vadim Kukushkin

24 Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities
Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Jane Errington

25 Jerusalem on the Amur
Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 19241951
Henry Felix Srebrnik

26 Irish Nationalism in Canada
Edited by David A. Wilson

27 Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime
Shaping Citizenship Policy, 19391945
Ivana Caccia

28 Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 19051945
Rebecca Margolis

29 Imposing Their Will
An Organizational History of Jewish Toronto, 19331948
Jack Lipinsky

30 Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 18151914
Donald H. Akenson

31 The Punjabis in British Columbia
Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar

32 Growing Up Canadian
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists
Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji

33 Between Raid and Rebellion
The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 18671916
William Jenkins

34 Unpacking the Kists
The Scots in New Zealand
Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking, and Jim McAloon

35 Building Nations from Diversity
Canadian and American Experience Compared
Garth Stevenson

36 Hurrah Revolutionaries
The Polish Canadian Communist Movement, 19181948
Patryk Polec

37 Alice in Shandehland
Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case
Monda Halpern

Scandal and Scorn
in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case

MONDA HALPERN

McGill-Queens University Press 2015

ISBN 9780773545595 (cloth)
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