The Keneder Adler and Yiddish community life in Montreal, 1944

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The Keneder Adler and Yiddish community life in Montreal, 1944
Abstract
Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung (1912-1998) became a towering religious and literary figure in the Montreal Jewish community following his immigration to the city in 1941 and during a time when Yiddish functioned as the city's Jewish lingua franca. In 1944, Montreal's Yiddish-language newspaper, The Kinder Adler, both serialized Rabbi Hirschprung's memoir, Fun Natsishen Yomertol: Zikhroynes fun a Polit (later translated into English From the Nazi Vale of Tears: Memoirs of a Refugee) and printed it in book form. The author offers a snapshot of this rapidly changing Montreal community of 1944 through a close study of its Yiddish newspaper, including coverage of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, community responses, and new local community educational initiatives.
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 27
Pages
115-124
Date
2019
Language
en
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Margolis, Rebecca. “The Keneder Adler and Yiddish Community Life in Montreal, 1944.” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 27 (2019): 115–124. https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40107/36292.
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