YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Esther Kuznitz eBook Canadian Soil is the story A tour de force Canadian Soil is the story of how a minority culture was transplanted and transformed Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti Semitism Cecile Esther Kuznitz tells for the first time the compelling story of how these scholars built a world renowned institution despite dire poverty and anti Semitism