Journals Of Yaakov Zipper 1950 1982

Author : Yaakov Zipper
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571558
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journals of Yaakov Zipper, 1950-1982 written by Yaakov Zipper and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-04-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer, lecturer, and community activist, Zipper was principal of the Jewish Peretz School from the 1920s until his death. His life was dedicated to keeping both the Yiddish language and the school alive - and every day of his existence, according to his journals, was a struggle to achieve those goals. While written as a personal diary, in truth this is the story of the sad but inevitable death of Yiddish Montreal.

Author : Yaʻaḳov Ziper
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, 1950-1982 written by Yaʻaḳov Ziper and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his death at age eighty-three, it was discovered that for over three decades Yaacov Zipper had kept a journal. Replete with compelling character sketches of many of Montreal's Jewish leaders, most of whom Zipper seems to have disliked, his diary provides a personal account of Montreal's post-war years. A writer, lecturer, and community activist, Zipper was principal of the Jewish Peretz School from the 1920s until his death. His life was dedicated to keeping both the Yiddish language and the school alive - and every day of his existence, according to his journals, was a struggle to achieve those goals. While written as a personal diary, in truth this is the story of the sad but inevitable death of Yiddish Montreal. Providing a first-hand account of the Yiddish speaking immigrants who gave Montreal its unique vibrancy, the journals offer an invaluable description of an era that saw the community transformed from a raw immigrant population clustered in the working-class neighbourhoods along "the Main' to a largely English-speaking society living in the new middle-class districts in the western reaches of the city. Zipper's commentary provides important insights on the passing of cultural Yiddishkeit and its replacement by what he saw as vacuous religiosity and empty materialism.

Author : Jean Lettofsky
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490783237
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Judaism and Jewish Education in Honor of Dr. Lifsa B. Schachter written by Jean Lettofsky and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays in honor of the life and work of Dr. Lifsa Schachter . The contributors span a broad range of Dr. Schachter's 50-year involvement in Jewish education and scholarship. The three major foci of the volume--Bible, Hebrew, and Jewish education--reflect the three major arenas of her work. Within each of these areas, the essays encompass Dr. Schachter's commitment to thoughtful reflection (theory) and competent and creative implementation (practice). Also included are several essays by Dr. Schachter as well as reflections from Lifsa's students and colleagues on her contribution to their personal and professional growth.

Author : Ernest B. Gilman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653069
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium written by Ernest B. Gilman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman’s book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century—Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick—all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Gilman addresses both the formative influence of the sanatorium on the writers’ work and the culture of an institution in which, before the days of antibiotics, writing was encouraged as a form of therapy. He argues that each writer produced a significant body of work during his recovery, itself an experience that profoundly influenced the course of his subsequent literary career. Seeking to recover the "imaginary" of the sanatorium as a scene of writing by doctors and patients, Gilman explores the historical connection between tuberculosis treatment and the written word. Through a close analysis of Yiddish poems, and translations of these writers, Gilman sheds light on how essential writing and literature were to the sanatorium experience. All three poets wrote under the shadow of death. Their works are distinctive, but their most urgent concerns are shared: strangers in a strange land, suffering, displacement, acculturation, and, inevitably, what it means to be a Jew.

Author : Judith Weisz Woodsworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000449424
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation and the Global City written by Judith Weisz Woodsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation and the Global City showcases fresh perspectives on translation in a global context, drawing on case studies from Montreal and other multilingual cosmopolitan cities to examine the historical, sociological and cultural factors underpinning the travel of languages, ideas and cultures across borders. Building on the "spatial turn" in translation studies, the book adopts a bridge metaphor to explore the complexities of translational spaces and the ways in which translation acts can both unite and divide in the global city. The collection initiates the discussion with a focus on the Canadian context and specifically the city of Montreal, where historical circumstances, public policy and shifting language politics have led to a burgeoning translation industry. It goes on to address issues of translation in other regions and cities of the world, generating new insights and opening avenues for further research into the relations between languages and cultures. This volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in translation studies, especially those with an interest in translation theory and the sociology of translation.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228015510
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yiddish Lives On written by Rebecca Margolis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Author : Pierre Anctil
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 077662573X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob Isaac Segal written by Pierre Anctil and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with the numerous essays and articles he penned, embodied both a rich literary tradition and the modernism of his day. Pierre Anctil has written so much more than a biography. For the first time, Segal’s poetic production is referenced, translated and rigorously analyzed, and includes over 100 pages of appendices, shedding light on the artistic, spiritual, cultural and historical importance of his oeuvre. By introducing the reader to the poet’s work through previously unpublished translations, Anctil demonstrates that in many respects it reflects the history of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in North America from Russia, the Ukraine and Poland at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the tragic experiences of Jewish intellectual refugees of the interwar period. This admirably written, sweeping yet subtle, work will appeal both to scholars and to a broader audience. The original French version was awarded the prestigious 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Author : Ira Robinson
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381862
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbis and Their Community written by Ira Robinson and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, author Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community.

Author : Fradle Freidenreich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passionate Pioneers written by Fradle Freidenreich and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD contains ... "Camp and shuln songs / performed by Shmulik Alpert [and others]."--CD label.

Author : Pierre Anctil
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 2760316637
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Readings of Yiddish Montreal - Traduire le Montréal yiddish written by Pierre Anctil and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts collected in this volume unveil the practice and the methods of the translators and scholars who contributed to the reemergence of Yiddish in contemporary Canada. Each of the personalities discussed enlarged the historical position and interpreted various aspects of the Yiddish language in Montreal that until recently remained obscure or inaccessible. -- Les textes rassemblés dans ce volume tentent de lever le voile sur la démarche et les méthodes des traducteurs et chercheurs qui ont contribué à la réémergence du yiddish dans le Canada contemporain. Ces traducteurs et chercheurs ont élargi l’assise historique et interprété de nombreux aspects de la langue yiddish à Montréal, aspects qui jusque-là demeuraient obscurs et inaccessibles.