par Victor TeboulPh.D. (Université de Montréal), Directeur, Tolerance.ca ®The following article appeared in Viewpoints, the Literary Supplement of the Canadian Jewish News, in May 1983. I had been appointed two years earlier to the position of Executive Director of the Canada-Israel Committee’s Quebec Bureau, the principal Canadian Israeli lobby group, following the publication of my essay Mythe et images du Juif au Québec.
The essay denounced misconceptions about Jews and about Israel among Quebec literati. My mandate was to promote Israel among the French-Canadian elite. The task was not easy and if I could find the time to write about my 5-year involvement in attempting to explain Israel and its actions to Quebec society (the war in Lebanon broke out during my mandate), it could be very revealing in terms of the Jewish community’s place in Quebec 
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par Victor TeboulPh.D. (Université de Montréal), Directeur, Tolerance.ca ®
Private Collection. Victor Teboul at UQAM's Symposium, May 2018.
Photo by Gunther Gamper. © Tolerance.ca Inc. Montreal Jews rely on non-Jewish academics, writers and filmmakers to present and even explain, in French, Jewish realities to the Quebecois public and within Francophone academia. The considerable number of publications on Jewish themes, both in fiction and non-fiction, written in French by non-Jews is certainly unequaled in the Francophone world and most likely in the West, contends writer Victor Teboul. But do these works encourage or dissuade critical assessment of Quebec and of Quebec–Jewish relations, asks Tolerance.ca’s editor, whose most recent book also questions Quebecois identity.
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par Victor TeboulPh.D. (Université de Montréal), Directeur, Tolerance.ca ®
The late Abba Ebban I have hosted several programs at Radio-Canada, namely a 13 part series on Israel's 40th Annivesary in which I had among my guests former Israel's ambassador to France, historian Elie Barnavi and the most famous of Israel's Foreign Ministers, Abba Ebban.
I was also the host and writer of a 14 part series on Quebec's Jewish Community in which the late premier of Quebec, René Lévesque granted me an hour long interview.
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Victor Teboul’s latest work Les Juifs du Québec : In Canada We Trust. Réflexion sur l’identité québécoise (L’ABC de l’Édition, paperback, $19,95; ebook, $9,95) explores Quebec’s history and argues that Jews and other minorities are absent from la Belle province’s memory because they do not share the French Canadians’ struggle to survive as a French-speaking nation.
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par Victor TeboulPh.D. (Université de Montréal), Directeur, Tolerance.ca ®
As a francophone from la Belle Province, I would like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) - and I mean specifically the English network of Radio-Canada - to cover more extensively Quebec. When I watch the news and other programs on the television network of the CBC, I feel as if Quebec has already separated from Canada.
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par Victor TeboulPh.D. (Université de Montréal), Directeur, Tolerance.ca ®
In December 1956, we left Alexandria along with a few thousand Egyptian-born Jews who held French and British passports, expelled from Egypt because of the Franco-British and Israeli campaign to discourage Nasser from nationalizing Egypt's own Suez Canal.
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A detailed list of my articles in The Gazette, can be found in Queen's University Library, HERE.
On Being a Jewish Writer in Quebec, Viewpoints (supplément littéraire du Canadian Jewish News), 26 mai 1983, p. 3.
Heavy hand of the elite hinders Quebec culture, The Gazette, 20 octobre 1978, p. 9.
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