Irving Abella, historian who wrote on Canada's refusal of Jewish refugees, dead at 82

Historian Irving Abella, the co-author of a seminal book on the Canadian government’s refusal to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, has died. Abella died on Sunday, the day after his 82nd birthday, after a long illness.

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