TY  - GEN
T1  - Alice in Shandehland : scandal and scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz murder case
T2  - McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
A1  - Halpern, Monda M., 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Montreal Quebec
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn914189073
AB  - By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to settle the thing. Words flew, a brawl erupted, and Jack was shot and killed. The tragedy marked the start of a sensational legal case that captured Ottawa headlines, with the prominent jeweller facing the gallows. Through a detailed examination of newspaper coverage, interviews with family and community members, and evocative archival photographs, Monda Halpern's Alice in Shandehland reconstructs a long-silenced murder case in Depression-era Canada. Halpern contends that despite his crime, Ben Edelson was the object of far less contempt than his adulterous wife whose shandeh - Yiddish for shame or disgrace - seemed indefensible. While Alice endured the censure of both the Jewish community and the courtroom, Ben's middle-class respectability and the betrayal he suffered earned him favoured standing and, ultimately, legal exoneration. Revealing the tensions around ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and class, Alice in Shandehland explores the divergent reputations of Ben and Alice Edelson within a growing but insular and tenuous Jewish community, and within a dominant culture that embraced male success and valour during the emasculating 1930s.
OP  - 276
CN  - HV6535.C33 O88 2015eb
SN  - 9780773583375
SN  - 0773583378
SN  - 077354559X
SN  - 9780773545595
SN  - 9780773583405
SN  - 0773583408
KW  - Edelson, Ben : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Horwitz, Jack, : -1931 : Death and burial.
KW  - Edelson, Alice.
KW  - Edelson, Ben : Procès, instances, etc.
KW  - Horwitz, Jack, : -1931 : Mort et sépulture.
KW  - Horwitz, Jack, : -1931
KW  - Trials (Murder) : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Adultery : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Sex scandals : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Jews : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Jewelers : Ontario : Ottawa : Case studies.
KW  - Procès (Meurtre) : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - Adultère : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - Scandales sexuels : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - Triangle (Relations humaines) : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - Juifs : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - Bijoutiers : Ontario : Ottawa : Études de cas.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology.
KW  - Death and burial of a person
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Jewelers
KW  - Jews
KW  - Sex scandals
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Ontario : Ottawa
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc.
ER  -