Canadian Book Exposes Anti-Semitic Past: ‘None Is Too Many’

Prof. Irving Abella (Pictured above). He Co-authored a book with Prof. Troper. The book gives an account of the Canadian Anti-Semitic Policies.   BORIS SPREMO/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES.

TORONTO — In 1983, the Canadian professors Irving Abella and Harold Troper published None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948, which took its title from a senior Canadian official’s response, in 1945, to a journalist’s question. Asked how many European Jewish refugees Canada should accept, the official said: “None is too many.”

To commemorate the volume’s 40th anniversary, New Jewish Press—a University of Toronto Press imprint—released a new edition of what it calls “one of the most important books in Canadian history,” noted the analyst.