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21 - Across the Border: Canadian Jewish Writing

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Hana Wirth-Nesher
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Tel-Aviv University
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Like the U.S., Canada absorbed significant numbers of Jewish immigrants, including a mass Eastern European immigration that was Yiddish speaking and working class. Jewish Canadian literature emerged out of three distinct generations: Yiddish in the 1910s, English in the 1940s, and French in the 1960s. This chapter examines two pioneering authors in each language who achieved critical success in Canada: J. I. Segal and Chava Rosenfarb in Yiddish, A. M. Klein and Adele Wiseman in English, and Naim Kattan and Régine Robin in French. Canada's Anglo-Jewish authors and poets of the twentieth century played a formative role in the creation of a tradition of Canadian literature and are some of the country's leading writers. Canada's Yiddish writers were at the forefront of international Yiddish activity into the first decade of the twenty-first century. Like Kattan, Robin was multilingual, and was able to move freely among cultures. At the same time, her displacement as a post-Holocaust Jew resonates throughout her work.
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Print publication year: 2015

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