ABSTRACT
This chapter is a small segment of a comprehensive project. Of the twenty-two contemporary Canadian plays from the pen of Jewish writers, which I have so far come across, only a few, written by survivors, reveal an immediate connection with the Holocaust, while the majority have been written with the benefit of hindsight by second or third generation Canadian playwrights. There has been a remarkable development from documentations of what happened in Hitler’s time to reflections on the aftermath of the Holocaust and on Jewish life in Canada in our day and age. With reference to four plays, I will point to diverse facets of this development. For a start, however, some background information – in terms of a few dates and figures – would be useful.1
