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Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response.(Review) (book review)
American Review of Canadian Studies, December, 2000 by Hoover, Dennis R.
Janine Stingel. Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xv + 280 pp. $39.95 cloth.
Exhibit A in the Canadian West's display case of populist movements is the Social Credit party. Like other Depression-era manifestations of populism, Social Credit was antielitist, reserving a special animus for economic elites. But, as Janine Stingel reminds us, this was NOT the whole story. From its very beginnings in Alberta in the 1930s a core faction of Social Credit was also antiSemitic. This blemish ...
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