From Yiddish to 'Yiddishkeit': A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal's Yiddish Culture

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Title
From Yiddish to 'Yiddishkeit': A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal's Yiddish Culture
Abstract
A study of the secular Jewish culture which surrounded A.M. Klein (1909-1972) during his formative and mature years (1930s and 1940s) as a poet and writer. Among the contemporary Yiddish-speaking Montreal poets who influenced Klein was J.I. Segal (1896-1954). The author points out that Klein's roots in Yiddish Montreal and his identification with Segal were a major source of inspiration in his attempt to synthesize Yiddish and English culture in a futile desire to arrest Jewish assimilation in North America. The author argues that Klein's sense of failure at being ignored by the Jewish public, on whose behalf he had attempted this synthesis, likely aggravated his growing alienation in his last years and contributed to his tragic silence after 1954.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 19
Issue
no. 2
Pages
66-81
Date
Summer 1984
Language
en
Citation
Fuerstenberg, Adam. “From Yiddish to ‘Yiddishkeit’: A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal’s Yiddish Culture.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1984): 66–81.
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