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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology

Greenstein, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0803221851
ISBN13: 9780803221857
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jun 1 2004
Pages: 233
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.74 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada brings together important and innovative works from modern Jewish writers living in Canada. This anthology presents a variety of male and female voices, both established and new, some translated from French or Yiddish. Caught between a conservative British tradition and an aggressive American influence with a long immigrant history, Canadian Jewish literature has charted a unique, intermediate course.

The largest community of Jewish writers in Canada can be found in Montreal, where a vibrant Yiddish culture has flourished, surrounded by a Francophone majority. Beginning with A. M. Klein and carrying through the works of Leonard Cohen and Mordecai Richler, Jewish writing in Montreal has adapted to changing political and linguistic pressures over the course of the twentieth century. A number of Jewish authors in this anthology write in French and are involved in translation--not just of language, but of cultural values as well.

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