Tolerance.ca® - Articles and Essays by Victor Teboul, Tolerance.ca Editor

Articles and Essays by Victor Teboul, Tolerance.ca Editor

By Victor Teboul

Ph.D., Université de Montréal, Editor, Tolerance.ca®

Victor Teboul is a writer and the publisher of Tolerance.ca ®, The Tolerance Webzine, which he founded in 2002 to promote a critical discourse on tolerance and diversity. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

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Victor 's recent presentation ''Accommodating Bedfellows : Montreal's Jewish Community and Quebec's Intellectual Elite'' is posted HERE.

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Articles in this column

Essays on Quebec nationalism and the Jews (1976 - 1985)

In 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In the midst of this crisis, Victor Teboul’s Mythe et images du Juif au Québec had just been published and it exposed a negative portrayal of Jews in Quebec’s most well-read novels and history books. The book had a strong impact on the Jewish leadership and created some controversy among Quebec’s francophone intellectual elite. (Full Story)

Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitan Heritage

How does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook by Egyptian-born author and Tolerance.ca Editor Victor Teboul writes about his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s ordeal following the 1956 Suez Crisis and the expulsion of Egypt’s Jewish community. (Full Story)

Radio-Canada's Quebec navel-gazing. What about CBC's coverage of Quebec ?

By Victor Teboul, Ph.D., Université de Montréal, Editor, Tolerance.ca®

According to a a study by a Carleton University researcher, which sampled 2010 newscasts of Radio-Canada's Le Telejournal, 42 per cent of the coverage focused on Quebec, a third dealt with international news and just 20 per cent covered Canadian "national" news. But what about the CBC and its own coverage of Québec? (Full Story)