Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media Hardcover Book 2015

Hardcover Book 2015

Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape

The characters defined by this dual consciousness constitute a new kind of protagonist: a distinctively Jewish scapegrace whom Udel denominates the polit or refugee

with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject

and whose unprecedented career itself

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media Hardcover Book 2015In 1931, ninety nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil, Rebecca Margolis shows that the city's vibrant Yiddish culture is the legacy of a driven group of the city's Jews who devoted themselves to the revitalization of the Jewish community, creating a