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This article considers the history of the Reading Law Club, which Toronto’s Jewish lawyers established in 1947 in response to the exclusion of Jews from membership in the Lawyers Club of Toronto. It also discusses the Lady Reading Club, an association of the wives of Jewish lawyers that continued after the men’s club disbanded in the mid-1960s. The article explores the social and legal context in which the Clubs were established and the perseverance of Jewish lawyers in the face of Canadian society’s and the “elite” legal community’s efforts to exclude and marginalize them. The author also highlights the importance of community to Jewish lawyers’ success. Dans le present article, l’auteure se penche sur l’histoire du Reading Law Club, que les avocats juifs de Toronto ont fonde en 1947 apres avoir ete exclus du Lawyers Club de Toronto. L’auteure discute en outre du Lady Reading Club, l’association des epouses des avocats juifs, qui a poursuivi ses activites apres la dissolution du club masculin au milieu des annees 60. L’article aborde les contextes juridique et social dans lesquels ces clubs ont vu le jour et la perseverance des avocats juifs face aux tentatives de la societe canadienne et de l’« elite » de la communaute juridique de les exclure et de les marginaliser. L’auteure fait egalement ressortir l’importance de la collectivite dans le succes des avocats juifs.

‘A FORUM FOR DISCUSSION’ AND A PLACE OF RESPITE: JEWISH LAWYERS AND TORONTO’S READING LAW CLUB