Journal in Yiddish looks at Montreal

 

Yesterday, Sept. 8, a book by English professor Marvin Butovsky and Ode Garfinkle was launched at the Jewish Public Library.

The book, which was widely and favorably reviewed, is The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, 1950-1982: The Struggle for Yiddishkeit (McGill-Queen’s UP).

Zipper, a Yiddish author and principal of the Jewish Peretz Schools, was a seminal figure in Montreal’s Jewish community, and his journals provide a valuable account of its development.

The Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies is offering a new course called Literature and the Holocaust. For more information, please contact Norman Ravvin, Department of Religion, at ext. 2065. On Sept. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m., the Institute will sponsor a lecture by guest speaker Claudia Braude, “The Jewish Presence in South Africa.”