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Jewish-Canadian Authors
This is a list of key History of the Jews in Canada, Jewish Canadian authors, with an article and critical history to follow. A * Irving Abella (historian) * Mona Adilman, Mona Elaine Adilman (poet) * Ted Allan (novelist, poet, screenwriter, playwright) * Barbara Amiel (journalist) * Lisa Appignanesi (journalist and novelist) B * Ben Barry (entrepreneur and author) * Saul Bellow (Canadian-born American novelist) * David Bezmozgis (novelist and short story writer) * Monique Bosco (novelist, poet, journalist) C * Leonard Cohen (poet, novelist, songwriter) * Matt Cohen (writer), Matt Cohen (novelist) D * Cory Doctorow (science fiction writer) E * Rebecca Eckler (journalist) * Howard Engel (mystery novelist, memoirist) F * Ken Finkleman (screenwriter) * Diane Flacks (playwright) * Golda Fried (novelist, poet) * Martin Friedland (law writer) * David Frum (journalist) * Linda Frum (journalist) G * Gabriella Goliger (novelist) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Jews In Canada
The history of the Jews in Canada goes back to the 1700s. Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France. In the 2021 census, 335,295 people reported their religion as Jewish, accounting for 0.9% of the Canadian population. Some estimates have placed the enlarged number of Jews, such as those who may be culturally or ethnically Jewish, though not necessarily religiously, at more than 400,000 people, or approximately 1.4% of the Canadian population. The Jewish community in Canada is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented and include Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and Bene Israel. Converts to Judaism also comprise the Jewish-Canadian community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though they are a small minority, they ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golda Fried
Golda Fried (born 17 November 1972) is a Canadian/American poet, short story writer, novelist and teacher. Biography Raised in Toronto, Canada and later graduated from York Mills Collegiate Institute, she received her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Film and Communications and her masters in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University, both in Montreal. In 1993, she received third prize in poetry for the Student Writing Awards from ''Books in Canada''. While living in Montreal, she was involved in many spoken word events including the Lollapalooza festival in 1994. Also, in 1994 she won The Chester Macnaghten Prize in Creative Writing from McGill University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in ''Prism international, Broken Pencil, Blood and Aphorisms, Sub-terrain, Fish piss, Matrix, the Moosehead Anthology''. Her collection of stories, ''Darkness Then a Blown Kiss'', was published in 1998 and was listed as one of the ten best books of the year by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Homel
David Homel (born 1952) is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator.Ian McGillis"Montreal's David Homel counsels self-forgiveness in new memoir" ''Montreal Gazette'', April 23, 2021. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for ''Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?'', his translation of Dany Laferrière's ''Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?'', and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for ''Fairy Ring'', their translation of Martine Desjardins (writer), Martine Desjardins' ''Le Cercle de Clara''. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Homel moved to Canada in 1975, first taking a master's at the University of Toronto before settling in Montreal in 1980.Janice Kennedy, "A Novel Love; Two writers live happily ever after - together". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 7, 1988. He is married to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simma Holt
Simma Holt (née Milner, March 27, 1922 – January 23, 2015) was a Canadian journalist, author, and the first Jewish woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Before entering politics, she had a 30-year career at ''The Vancouver Sun'' newspaper as a reporter, feature writer, and columnist. Early life and education Born in Vegreville, Alberta as Simma Milner, the sixth of eight children, Holt received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with majors in English and psychology, in 1944 from the University of Manitoba. Journalism Her interest in journalism began as a child when the sole operator of the Vegriville Observer would welcome her observing his production of the paper. Partly due to male students at the University of Manitoba participating in the Second World War, Holt became the first female managing editor of the student newspaper ''The Manitoban'' and university correspondent for the ''Winnipeg Free Press''. On D-Day, her first day using the machine, Holt mistakenl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Heilman
Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum (December 1, 1928 – May 1, 2011 age 83), referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, was one of the surviving prisoners from Auschwitz who plotted to blow up the crematoria. She, along with her elder sister ( Estusia) and other women, smuggled gunpowder out of the Union munitions factory. They were then able to pass it from insider to insider until it reached the ''Sonderkommando''. The women involved in the gunpowder smuggling chain include Roza Robota (who had direct contact with the men of the Sonderkommando), Ala Gertner, Regina Safirsztajn, Rose Grunapfel Meth, Hadassa Zlotnicka, Marta Bindiger, Genia Fischer, and Inge Frank, among others. Early life Anna's parents, Jakub and Rebeka Wajcblum, were both deaf. She was born on December 1, 1928, into a middle-class assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. She had two older sisters, Sabina and Estusia. All three children had normal hearing and they had a nanny when they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Hategan
Elisa Hategan (born December 17, 1974), formerly known as Elisse Hategan, is a Romanian-Canadian author, freelance journalist, and antiracist activist. As a teenager she was a member and spokesperson for the Heritage Front, a now-defunct white supremacist organization in Canada. She broke with the group and testified against them in court, and has been credited for contributing to the organization's demise. Early life and education Hategan was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1974. When she was 11 years old, she emigrated to Canada with her father, joining her mother who had moved to Canada earlier. Her father returned to Romania, where he died in 1988, leaving Elisa with her mother in Toronto, where they lived in the Regent Park neighborhood. She grew up in poverty and was a victim of domestic violence. Hategan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Ottawa in 1999 with a degree in criminology and psychology. Involvement with the Heritage Front She was recruited by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library And Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; ) is the federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is the 16th largest library in the world. The LAC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. LAC traces its origins to the Dominion Archives, formed in 1872, and the National Library of Canada, formed in 1953. The former was later renamed as the Public Archives of Canada in 1912, and the National Archives of Canada in 1987. In 2004, the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada were merged to form Library and Archives Canada. History Predecessors The Dominion Archives was founded in 1872 as a division within the Department of Agriculture tasked with acquiring and transcribing documents related to Canadian history. In 1912, the division was transformed into an autonomous organization, Public Archives of Canada, with the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yale Harrison
Charles Yale Harrison (16 June 1898 – 17 March 1954) was a Canadian-American writer and journalist, best known for his 1930 anti-war novella ''Generals Die in Bed''. Background Charles Yale Harrison was born in 1898 in Philadelphia and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where at age 15 he wrote his first short story. Career At age sixteen he took an entry-level job with the ''Montreal Star'' newspaper. Harrison's journalistic career was pre-empted, however, when he enlisted with the 244th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1917 to fight in World War I. After several months in a reserve battalion in England, Harrison transferred to the Royal Montreal Regiment and was sent to the Western Front. The climax of Harrison's war experience came on 8 August 1918 when he participated in the first day of the Battle of Amiens. Harrison was wounded in the foot and spent the rest of the war recuperating, before returning to Montreal. During the 1920s, Harrison ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet. Biography Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA). In 1961, John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press published Gotlieb's first collection of poems, the pamphlet ''Who Knows One'' Her first novel, the science-fiction tale ''Sunburst'', was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel ''A Judgement of Dragons''. The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel. Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in Toronto, Ontario. Bibliography Science fiction novels *''Sunburst''. New York: Fawcett, 1964. *''Birthstones''. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007. Dahlgren *''O Master Caliban!'' New York: Harper and Row, 1976. *''Heart of Red Iron''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Starcat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Gold
Nora Gold is a Canadian author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net. Previously, she was an associate professor of social work. Early life and education Gold grew up in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lynn Lubin Gold, a teacher of English literature at Dawson College. Gold holds a bachelor of social work from McGill University and a master's degree and doctorate in social work from the University of Toronto. She received seven funded research grants, including two from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and two from the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies for international Canada-Israel collaborations. Career Literary Gold's first book, ''Marrow and Other Stories'', was released in 1998 by Warwick Publishing. It received a Canadian Jewish Book Award, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was praised by Alice Munro. In 2014, Dundurn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noam Gonick
Noam Gonick, (born March 20, 1973) is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker and artist.Ingrid Randoja"Gonzo Gonick" ''Now (newspaper), Now'', May 31, 2021. His films include ''Hey, Happy!'', ''Stryker (2004 film), Stryker'', ''Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight'' and ''To Russia with Love (2014 film), To Russia with Love''. His work deals with homosexuality, social exclusion, dystopia and utopia. Background Gonick was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1970. His father, Cy Gonick, is an economist and former member of the Manitoba Legislature."Citizen raising Cain". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', February 20, 2005. Gonick graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto. He edited ''Ride, Queer, Ride'' (1997) a collection of writings on and by filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. In 2007, he was made the youngest inductee to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has been on the board at the Plug-In Institute of the Contemporary Arts. Film and television Gonick's first film was the 1997 short ''1919'', a histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Goliger
Gabriella Goliger (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was co-winner of the Journey Prize in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published three books: ''Song of Ascent'' in 2001, ''Girl Unwrapped'' in 2010, which won the Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and ''Eva Salomon's War'', which was published in 2018 and received praise from novelists Joan Thomas and Francis Itani."Biography" Gabriella Goliger Official Website, October 15, 2018. She is Jewish. Goliger also won the Prism International Award in 1993, and was a finalist for the again in 1995. She has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
