Pierre Anctil: 2 books
A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People
Voices in Le Devoir's Editorials, 1910-1947
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Noted historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive into editorials devoted to Jews and Judaism in Quebec’s daily Le Devoir in the first half of the twentieth century. Long one of the most discussed historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history, these editorials are of great significance as they...
Jacob Isaac Segal
A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Finalist, 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks), Translation category
Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along...