In 1965, a Jewish couple residing in Venezuela contacted the Jewish Child Welfare Bureau (JCWB) of Montreal and inquired about the likelihood of adopting A jewish son or daughter. The JCWB declined their demand and told them that because of the little range Jewish kids entitled to use, they just put kiddies with permanent residents for the town. They attempted to entice the couple that is venezuelan follow young ones which were harder to put: mixed-race kids created to white Jewish moms and Black Canadian dads.
Montreal’s Jewish Child Welfare Bureau reflected the commonly held view in Jewish communities that reproductive intra-faith intercourse ended up being crucial to shoring up racial-religious boundaries and also to reproducing Jewish faith and ethnicity. Certainly, Jewish organizations like the JCWB regulated reproduction and reproductive results, including use, to be able to construct and protect Jewish identity in interracial and interethnic contexts.
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Interior shot of nursery, two nurses in masks looking after babies, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal circa 1935-1936. Continue reading “Intercourse involving the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and use in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community”