Gerald Tulchinsky is an emeritus professor in the Department of Queen’s University. He is also the author of Canada’s Jews and a winner of both the J.I. Segal Award and the Toronto Jewish Book Award.

‘This intriguing and balanced account of a minority activist and politician in shaping Canada’s political culture in middle decades of the twentieth century will be of great interest to students of politics, the left, the labour movement, as well as ethnic and immigration history.’ - Carmela Patrias (Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014) Tulchinsky is a tremendous storyteller whose exceptional writing brings meaning and life to Salsberg and his impact on Canada. - Joel Ralph (Canada's History) Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment is an important book.- Ester Ritter (Canadian Dimension) This is an important reminder of why, to two generations of Toronto Jews, Salsberg was a folk hero… They saw him as their champion. His was a remarkable career, and this is a remarkable book, to be not simply read, but savoured.’- Irving Abella (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015) ‘Fascinating biography… Tulchinsky has provided a valuable and absorbing account of one of the most important and intriguing Jewish labour leaders in Canadian History.’- Ruth A Frager (Labour/Le Travail, vol 76: Fall 2015)

• Preface SpadinaChapter One: From Lagow to TorontoChapter Two: Party MaverickChapter Three: Labour Stalwart and Political NoviceChapter Four: “From a Human Point of View”Chapter Five: Family QuarrelChapter Six: Still Counselling OtherwiseAcknowledgementsNotes

Gerald Tulchinsky is an emeritus professor in the Department of Queen’s University. He is also the author of Canada’s Jews and a winner of both the J.I. Segal Award and the Toronto Jewish Book Award.

‘This intriguing and balanced account of a minority activist and politician in shaping Canada’s political culture in middle decades of the twentieth century will be of great interest to students of politics, the left, the labour movement, as well as ethnic and immigration history.’ - Carmela Patrias (Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014) Tulchinsky is a tremendous storyteller whose exceptional writing brings meaning and life to Salsberg and his impact on Canada. - Joel Ralph (Canada's History) Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment is an important book.- Ester Ritter (Canadian Dimension) This is an important reminder of why, to two generations of Toronto Jews, Salsberg was a folk hero… They saw him as their champion. His was a remarkable career, and this is a remarkable book, to be not simply read, but savoured.’- Irving Abella (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015) ‘Fascinating biography… Tulchinsky has provided a valuable and absorbing account of one of the most important and intriguing Jewish labour leaders in Canadian History.’- Ruth A Frager (Labour/Le Travail, vol 76: Fall 2015)

• Preface SpadinaChapter One: From Lagow to TorontoChapter Two: Party MaverickChapter Three: Labour Stalwart and Political NoviceChapter Four: “From a Human Point of View”Chapter Five: Family QuarrelChapter Six: Still Counselling OtherwiseAcknowledgementsNotes

Gerald Tulchinsky is an emeritus professor in the Department of Queen’s University. He is also the author of Canada’s Jews and a winner of both the J.I. Segal Award and the Toronto Jewish Book Award.

‘This intriguing and balanced account of a minority activist and politician in shaping Canada’s political culture in middle decades of the twentieth century will be of great interest to students of politics, the left, the labour movement, as well as ethnic and immigration history.’ - Carmela Patrias (Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014) Tulchinsky is a tremendous storyteller whose exceptional writing brings meaning and life to Salsberg and his impact on Canada. - Joel Ralph (Canada's History) Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment is an important book.- Ester Ritter (Canadian Dimension) This is an important reminder of why, to two generations of Toronto Jews, Salsberg was a folk hero… They saw him as their champion. His was a remarkable career, and this is a remarkable book, to be not simply read, but savoured.’- Irving Abella (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015) ‘Fascinating biography… Tulchinsky has provided a valuable and absorbing account of one of the most important and intriguing Jewish labour leaders in Canadian History.’- Ruth A Frager (Labour/Le Travail, vol 76: Fall 2015)

• Preface SpadinaChapter One: From Lagow to TorontoChapter Two: Party MaverickChapter Three: Labour Stalwart and Political NoviceChapter Four: “From a Human Point of View”Chapter Five: Family QuarrelChapter Six: Still Counselling OtherwiseAcknowledgementsNotes