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Sidney Sarkin : Un destin juif canadien
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Sidney Sarkin : Un destin juif canadien
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Born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, in 1903, the son of wealthy Jewish parents, Sidney Sarkin became a prominent union organizer and executive member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America after moving to Montreal in 1920. An active communist, Sarkin was interred in Camp Petawawa for several months during the Second World War, one of many trade union leaders who were targeted by the Canadian government, the RCMP and Quebec’s communist-targeting ‘Red Squad’ under the War Measures Act. Sarkin started in the needle trade in Montreal as a sweeper in a cousin's shop, and retired as a master tailor’s cutter in 1967. He went on to publish his memoirs in Yiddish. He died in 1985.
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Kanade, di Goldene Medine? : Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la litterature et la culture juives canadiennes
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Leiden, The Netherlands & Boston, MA
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Brill
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2019
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218-229
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fr
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978-90-04-37940-4
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Robin, Régine. “Sidney Sarkin : Un destin juif canadien.” In Kanade, di Goldene Medine? : Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la litterature et la culture juives canadiennes, edited by Krzysztof Majer, Justyna Fruzińska, Józef Kwaterko, and Norman Ravvin, 218–229. Leiden, The Netherlands & Boston, MA: Brill, 2019.
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