Irving Abella, Historian Who Wrote on Canada’s Refusal of Jewish Refugees, Dead at 82

Irving Abella, centre, and Harold Troper accept the Toronto Jewish Cultural Council Writer's Award for None is Too Many, with Meyer Feldman, right, in this May 27, 1985 handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO - Courtesy of the Ontario Jewish Archives

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.