In Defence of Yiddishkeit: The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, A Selection: 1950-1972

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Title
In Defence of Yiddishkeit: The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, A Selection: 1950-1972
Abstract
In late June 1950, Yaacov Zipper (1900-1982), noted Montreal Yiddish writer, principal of the city's Jewish Peretz Schools for over forty years and a leading figure in the social and cultural life of Jewish Montreal, resumed the practice of keeping a journal. From that date, with the exception of a three-year lapse in the mid-1950s, Zipper continued to write down his private thoughts, stopping six months before his death. The authors translated Zippers thirty-six journals from Yiddish to English, and their essay offers selected entries from the journals, presented according to three themes: educational issues, Zippers concerns as a writer, and entries of a personal nature, including eulogies and commemorations.
Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 9
Pages
124-154
Date
2001
Language
en
URL
Citation
Butovsky, Mervin, and Ode Garfinkle. “In Defence of Yiddishkeit: The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, A Selection: 1950-1972.” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes Vol. 9 (2001): 124–154. http://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/19929/18633.
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