Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media with particular attention to the

with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject

and whose unprecedented career itself

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Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape

The characters defined by this dual consciousness constitute a new kind of protagonist: a distinctively Jewish scapegrace whom Udel denominates the polit or refugee

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media with particular attention to theIn 1931, ninety nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil, Rebecca Margolis shows that the city's vibrant Yiddish culture is the legacy of a driven group of the city's Jews who devoted themselves to the revitalization of the Jewish community, creating a