A journey to Saskatchewan’s Jewish past

[Locutus]

There was a feeling that prosperity was around the corner.

This was meant to be an answer to a Zionist Homeland, an alternative to Uganda. 652,000 square kilometers of frozen soil in the remote province of Saskatchewan, Canada, awaited the mass migration of Jews who wanted to flee from the pogroms of the last century – but only a few actually arrived. A journey to a failed Promised Land somewhere on the borders of Canada and the United States.

“If your Jews had arrived here in their masses, our land could have been smothered in money, it would have been a mecca of world banking; a gold mine,” local gentiles had said to Leonard Goldman.

Goldman swallowed the poor attempt at humor and chose to ignore the unsubtle hint of a supposed magical connection between Jews and cash, but to me he dares to say “you could have done miracles here. To contribute a great deal to this wonderful land.”


We are a country with a great deal of natural resources, oil, trustworthy people. You could have enjoyed a great deal of stability had you lived here.

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A journey to Saskatchewan’s Jewish past - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post

 

[darkbeaver]

Saskatchewan, is the middle of no where why in fu ck would anyone go there? OK even I object to the anti semitism inherant in the offfer, Anglo Saxon monsters.

I just read an article about Chinas Jewish past. A great past. An imperial past.

 

[petros]

My grandmother's family came, homesteaded, built the property according to the Act ans sold out to set up a five and dime, sold that off moved to Winnipeg to set up a pawn shop and scrap metal business. The pawnshop is still run by my second cousin.

Cool article. I'm printing it.

 

[Nuggler]

"Zangwill found an ally in Winston Churchill, the British deputy minister for the Colonies, who said, “The plan has spirit, energy and the ability to be implemented – I will do everything in my power to bring it about.”

Wasn't Winny a tad anti-Semitic.

Ah, never mind. I'll google or Yahoo it.

 

[Ludlow]

Been wondering recently how many Sephardic Jews came to the Americas during the times of the Inquisition.

 

[gopher]

Been wondering recently how many Sephardic Jews came to the Americas during the times of the Inquisition.

Conversos came mostly to Latin America by the tens of thousands. Others settled in Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and the Southwest.


Sephardim.com Names Search Engine


Many of those names are very common today all throughout the USA and Latin America. Many of these people believe themselves to be Cristiano viejo rancio but are, in fact, of Sefardic origin.