Social Studies 2024: Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s year in 9 vibe shifts
Campus protest encampments, political challah baking, shiksappeal gets revived—and six more from the year that was.
Montreal’s Jewish community helps create a Uyghur translation of Viktor Frankl’s famous Holocaust memoir
‘It’s a must-read for our community,’ says a Canadian Uyghur leader.
Fiction on Soviet Jewish life and Canada during the Holocaust win 2021 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards
Two books of fiction with strong Jewish themes won 2021 Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Literary Awards, which recognize the best recent works in English by authors in the province. Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel received the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and Room For One More by Monique Polak took […]
Obituary: Iraqi-born writer Naim Kattan brought cultures together in Quebec
Identity, exile and the search for belonging and love were frequent themes in his writing.
Montreal’s Yiddish literary heritage celebrated in a podcast from Blue Met
Listeners are taken through the streets where writers once thrived.
New zine celebrates nuances of Jewish identity
“We are not interested in running a website or blog.”
POETRY: An Excerpt from ‘Radiant Shards’
Hoda, an obese Jewish girl turned sex worker, services the boys and men of North End Winnipeg during the first half of the 20th century.
Taube: Was Agatha Christie an anti-Semite?
Unfortunately, there’s always been a questionable element to Christie’s writing.
Troy: The two men who embodied the Jewish future
Gil Troy writes about the legacies of Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat and Amos Oz.
PJ Library expands to include older children
PJ Library, the popular program that gives away free Jewish books for children, has been expanded to include older kids aged nine to 11.
