Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media annotated dissents

annotated dissents

was both extraordinary and in some ways typical: Marc Chagall

with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject

Jean Argos

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

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 by Rebecca Margolis non-media annotated dissentsIn 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