"Honorary Protestants"

2015 book by David Fraser Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 David Fraser English 2015 "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 is a 2015 non-fiction book by David Fraser, published by University of Toronto Press. It is about the ways Jewish residents of Montreal negotiated the K-12 educational environment in the city; in the time period scope of the book, public schools were either Catholic or Protestant and divided into school districts along those lines instead of along linguistic lines. The title originates from a statement in A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 about how Jewish K-12 students typically attended Protestant schools by custom.MacLeod, p. 199. Background David Fraser works for the University of Nottingham as a professor, with his field being law and social theory.Binder, p. 960. Content August 2025 The book has fourteen chapters:Fraser David https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvg251p0 Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 2015 University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-3048-2 10.3138/j.ctvg251p0.2 Introduction: Constituting Law, Constituting Justice in the Jewish School Question Invoking Equality, Invoking Legality: Jews Constituting Their Canadian Identity Schools, Taxes, Jews, Catholics (and Protestants): The Origins of the Jewish School Question Jews and Roman Catholics, School Taxes and Protestants: The First Jewish School Question Taxes, the Rabbi, and the Schoolboy: Section 93 and the Pinsler Case Promises, Promises: “Honorary Protestants” in Protestant Schools Jews, Protestants, and Taxes (Again): The Jewish School Question in the 1920s Jews, Protestants, Roman Catholics, and the Law: The Jewish School Question Goes to Court Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics: Two Crises and the Jewish School Question, 1928–1931 The Protestant Jews of Ste Sophie and La Macaza: Constituting School and Community in Rural Quebec Outremont and Beyond: The Jewish School Question Moves West Hampstead and Beyond: From the Ghetto to Citizenship and Equality under Law’s Shadow TMR, St Laurent, Côte Saint-Luc: Democracy, Law, and the End of the Jewish School Question Constituting Canada and the Jewish School Question in Montreal, fin The book has information on Jewish Canadians trying to get rights to for education and representation on boards of trustees of school districts.Di Mascio, p. 2. Reception August 2025 Jory Binder, a Juris Doctor candidate of Osgoode Hall Law School, wrote that the "contextual stance on the rule of law" is the primary "contribution" of the work, and that the historical developments are "skilfully" explained.Binder, p. 961. Anthony Di Masco of Bishop's University described the book as "a valuable new contribution to" its field.Di Masco, p. 3. David S. Koffman of York University wrote that of what the book covers, the "scholarship is meticulous and unassailable"; Koffman stated that he wished that the book covered some other related aspects.Koffman, p. 146. Roderick MacLeod, who co-wrote A Meeting of the People, argued that "Honorary Protestants" has "the lack of a sense of human agency" - that is, not showing how individuals felt/acted, as its "real shortcoming", and MacLeod also criticized "errors and confusing passages".MacLeod, p. 204. MacLeod did not like how he perceived the use of the title "Honorary Protestants" as being "sarcastically" done.Fraser, p. 199. See also History of the Jews in Montreal References Binder Jory https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3164&context=ohlj "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 by David Fraser Osgoode Hall Law Journal August 2017 54 3 959–966 10.60082/2817-5069.3164 Di Mascio Anthony https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/hic/article/view/69198/53542 David Fraser, "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997. Reviewed by Anthony Di Mascio History of Intellectual Culture University of Calgary 2016 11 1 1–3 - Profile Koffman David S. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/668861/pdf Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867–1997 by David Fraser (review) University of Toronto Quarterly August 2017 86 3 145–146 10.3138/utq.86.3.145 Project MUSE subscription https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/39974/36180 MacLeod Roderick REVIEW: David Fraser, ""Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997" Canadian Jewish Studies December 2016 24 199–204 Notes Further reading Poutanen Mary Anne "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 Historical Studies in Education 2016 28 2 153 External links Honorary Protestants - University of Toronto Press Honorary Protestants - Available on JSTOR Honorary Protestants - Available on Project MUSE Category:University of Toronto Press books Category:2015 non-fiction books Category:Education in Montreal Category:Jews and Judaism in Montreal Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title